Alois Christian Knoll

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Alois Knoll
Born (1961-03-19) 19 March 1961 (age 63)
Stuttgart, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Stuttgart
Technical University of Berlin
Bielefeld University
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics, AI
InstitutionsTechnical University of Munich

Alois Christian Knoll (born 19 March 1961 in Stuttgart) is German computer scientist and professor at the TUM Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is head of the Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Real-Time Systems and known for seminal contributions to Human–Robot-Interaction, Neurorobotics and Autonomous Systems.

Biography

Alois Knoll received his diploma in electrical engineering/communications engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1985. In 1988, he received his doctorate summa cum laude from the Technical University of Berlin. He was a member of the Department of Computer Science of the TU Berlin from 1985 to 1993 and received his habilitation in computer science in 1993. He was then appointed full professor at Bielefeld University, where he was the founding director of the Computer Engineering Group (Chair) until 2001.[1][failed verification] Between 2001 and 2004, he was a group leader and a member of the steering committee of the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems FhG-AIS.[2][failed verification] Since 2001, he has been a professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich.[3] In 2009, he was co-founder and from then on scientific director of the state research institute fortiss until 2018.[4] Between 2007 and 2009 he was a member of ISTAG, the Information Society Technologies Advisory Group, the he EU's highest ICT advisory committee. He was also a member of the ISTAG's subcommittee on Future and Emerging Technologies,[5] the working group that defined the European flagship projects[6] and a co-author of that group's initial report.[7] From 2011 to 2021, he was Program Principal Investigator at TUMCREATE[8] in Singapore and head of the Area-Interlinking Design Analysis group.[9] Between 2017 and 2021 he was a visiting professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE)[10] at Nanyang Technological University NTU in Singapore.[11] Since 2013, he has been leading the Neurorobotics subproject[12] of the European ICT flagship project Human Brain Project HBP and has led the development of the Neurorobotics Platform[13] of the HBP, which is part of EBRAINS,[14] the digital research infrastructure, created by the HBP. From 2019 to 2020, he was also Chief Digital Officer at Siemens Mobility Intelligent Traffic Systems.

Research

Knoll's substantial contributions to Human-Robot-Interaction include the development of concepts, theories and–for proving their engineering significance–real robot systems that allowed the fusion of human communication modalities, including natural language, speech, vision and finger pointing as well as gaze, in order to enable to robot to "cognize" and reason about the intention of the human. He also introduced user-studies to explore the effects of robot behavior on humans and on optimal human-robot cooperation patterns, but also to find out how insights from neuroscience can be used to make robots learn faster and how they can be designed to interact with humans in order to maximize efficient cooperation. This work paved the way for a great number of ensuing projects[15] dedicated to advanced human-robot cooperation heavily based on large sensor sets, sensor data fusion and advanced cognitive skills.

Specialising in the field of cognitive robotics and AI integration, he was a proposer/co-proposer of the biggest and most advanced research projects in Europe, has published more than 900 peer-reviewed papers, educated thousands of students, and supervised 80 PhD students to date. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals in the field, and he is editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Neurorobotics. Together with George A. Bekey, in 1999, he initiated the IEEE conference series on humanoid robotics and was the program chair of the first conference Humanoids2000.[16] With Toshio Fukuda[17] and others, he helped create the IEEE conference series on Cyborgs and Bionic systems.[18] He is also a Distinguished Lecturer in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.[19]

Selected publications

  • Yinlong Liu; Guang Chen; Alois Knoll (2020), "Globally Optimal Vertical Direction Estimation in Atlanta World", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: 1, arXiv:1904.12717, doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2020.3027047, PMID 32986545, S2CID 215786098
  • Alois Knoll; Christian Buckl; Karl-Josef Kuhn; Gernot Spiegelberg (2019), "The RACE Project: an Informatics-Driven Greenfield Approach to Future E/E-Architectures for Cars", Automotive Systems and Software Engineering: 171–195
  • Zhenshan Bing; Claus Meschede; Florian Röhrbein; Kai Huang; Alois Knoll (2018), "A Survey of Robotics Control Based on Learning-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks", Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 12: 1–22
  • Guang Chen; Zhenshan Bing; Florian Röhrbein; Jörg Conradt; Kai Huang; Long Cheng; Zhuangyi Jiang; Alois Knoll (2019), "Toward Brain-inspired Learning with the Neuromorphic Snake-like Robot and the Neurorobotic Platform", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems: 1–12
  • Alois Knoll; Marc-Oliver Gewaltig (2016), "Neurorobotics: a strategic pillar of the human brain project", Brain-Inspired Intelligent Robotics: The Intersection of Robotics and Neuroscience, Science/AAAS, pp. 25–34
  • Caixia Cai; Nikhil Somani; Alois Knoll (2016), "Orthogonal Image Features for Visual Servoing of a 6-DOF Manipulator with Uncalibrated Stereo Cameras" (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 32 (2): 452–461, doi:10.1109/TRO.2016.2535443, S2CID 11552476
  • Alexey Natekin; Alois Knoll (2013), "Gradient Boosting Machines, A Tutorial", Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 7: 1–21
  • Alois Knoll; Hermann Mayer; Christoph Staub; Robert Bauernschmitt (2012), "Selective automation and skill transfer in medical robotics: a demonstration on surgical knot tying" (PDF), International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 8 (4): 384–397, doi:10.1002/rcs.1419, PMID 22605676, S2CID 11194708
  • Markus Huber; Alois Knoll; Thomas Brandt; Stefan Glasauer (2009), "Handing Over a Cube: Spatial Features of Physical Joint-Action", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: 380–382
  • Giorgio Panin; Alois Knoll (2008), "Mutual Information-Based 3D Object Tracking", International Journal of Computer Vision, 78 (1): 107–118, doi:10.1007/s11263-007-0083-7, S2CID 11975483
  • Alois Knoll; Torsten Scherer; Iris Poggendorf; Dirk Lütkemeyer; Jürgen Lehmann (2004), "Flexible Automation of Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering Tasks", Biotechnology Progress, 20 (6): 1825–1835, doi:10.1021/bp049759v, PMID 15575718, S2CID 11620985
  • Jianwei Zhang; Alois Knoll (2003), "A two-arm situated artificial communicator for human-robot cooperative assembly" (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 50 (4): 651–658, doi:10.1109/TIE.2003.814767
  • Alois Knoll (2001), "Distributed contract networks of sensor agents with adaptive reconfiguration – modelling, simulation, implementation" (PDF), Journal of the Franklin Institute, 338: 669–705, doi:10.1016/S0016-0032(01)00019-9
  • Alois Knoll; B. Hildenbrandt; J. Zhang (1997), "Instructing cooperating assembly robots through situated dialogues in natural language", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: 888–894
  • Alois Knoll (1991), "Ultrasonic Holography Techniques for Localizing and Imaging Solid Objects", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 7 (4): 449–467, Bibcode:1991ITRA....7..449K, doi:10.1109/70.86076

References

  1. ^ "AG Technische Informatik". uni-bielefeld.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-06-07.
  2. ^ "Startseite - Fraunhofer IAIS". www.iais.fraunhofer.de.
  3. ^ "Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Alois Christian Knoll". in.tum.de.
  4. ^ "Alois Knoll - Publikationen". fortiss.org.
  5. ^ "Future & Emerging Technologies (FET)". Shaping Europe’s digital future - European Commission. November 14, 2014.
  6. ^ "FET Flagships". Shaping Europe’s digital future - European Commission. December 15, 2014.
  7. ^ European challenges and flagships 2020 and beyond. Publications Office of the European Union. December 20, 2013. ISBN 9789279138799.
  8. ^ "TUMCREATE Singapore". www.tum-create.edu.sg.
  9. ^ "Area-Interlinking Design Analysis".
  10. ^ "School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE)". School of Computer Science and Engineering.
  11. ^ "Adjunct/Visiting Faculty | School of Computer Science and Engineering | NTU Singapore". May 16, 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-05-16.
  12. ^ "Robots". www.humanbrainproject.eu.
  13. ^ "NRP - Neurorobotics". neurorobotics.net.
  14. ^ "EBRAINS - A key enabler to advance brain science". EBRAINS.
  15. ^ "Research - Informatik 6 -Lehrstuhl für Robotik, Künstliche Intelligenz und Echtzeitsysteme". www.in.tum.de.
  16. ^ "Humanoids2000 Site". ewh.ieee.org.
  17. ^ "Toshio Fukuda". www.toshiofukuda.org.
  18. ^ "CBS - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society". www.ieee-ras.org.
  19. ^ "Distinguished Lecturers - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society". www.ieee-ras.org.

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