Academic Profile

Mapping, Navigation, and Intelligent Robotics

Welcome to the personal research page of Slawomir Sander (formerly Grzonka). Focus areas include autonomous quadrotors, SLAM, machine learning, and agricultural robotics.

Research Focus

  • Autonomous indoor and outdoor navigation
  • SLAM and state estimation
  • Vision-based robotics
  • Human Motion Tracking
  • Precision farming and agricultural robotics

Profile

This website documents scientific work from the period at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, especially in the context of the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group.

Note: publications before marriage were published under the name Slawomir Grzonka.

Publications

Publication Timeline

2016

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Effective Vision-Based Classification for Separating Sugar Beets and Weeds for Precision Farming

Journal of Field Robotics (JFR)

Philipp Lottes, Markus Hoeferlin, Slawomir Sander, Cyrill Stachniss

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An Effective Classification System for Separating Sugar Beets and Weeds for Precision Farming Applications

IEEE ICRA

Philipp Lottes, Markus Hoeferlin, Slawomir Sander, Martin Moter, Peter Schulze Lammers, Cyrill Stachniss

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Flourish - A robotic approach for automation in crop management

Workshop Computer-Bildanalyse und Unbemannte autonom fliegende Systeme in der Landwirtschaft

Frank Liebisch, Johannes Pfeifer, Raghav Khanna, Philipp Lottes, Cyrill Stachniss, Tillmann Falck, Slawomir Sander, Roland Siegwart, Achim Walter, Enric Galceran

2015

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AgriApps - An App-based Solution for Field-Robot-Based Agriculture

LAND. TECHNIK-AgEng

Christian Frese, Christian Frey, Felix Messmer, Kai Pfeiffer, Slawomir Sander, Daniel Di Marco, Maximilian Wenger, Amos Albert, Manuel Wopfner, Alexander Burkhardt, Siegfried Hochdorfer, Matthias Bittner, Johannes Bosch, Matthias Strobel

2014

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GNSS-based navigation for the multipurpose field robot platform BoniRob to measure soil properties

LAND. TECHNIK-AgEng

Matthias Göttinger, Christian Scholz, Kim Möller, Arno Ruckelshausen, Wolfram Strothmann, Stefan Hinck, Slawomir Grzonka

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RemoteFarming.1: Human-machine interaction for a field-robot-based weed control application in organic farming

International Conference on Machine Control and Guidance

Fabian Sellmann, Waldemar Bangert, Slawomir Grzonka, Martin Hänsel, Sebastian Haug, Arnd Kielhorn, Andreas Michaels, Kim Müller, Florian Rahe, Wolfram Strothmann, Dieter Trautz, Arno Ruckelshausen

2013

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Vision-Based Manipulation for Weed Control with an Autonomous Field Robot

LAND. TECHNIK-AgEng

Andreas Michaels, Sebastian Haug, Amos Albert, Slawomir Grzonka

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Field-Robot-Based Agriculture: "RemoteFarming.1" and "BoniRob-Apps"

LAND. TECHNIK-AgEng

Waldemar Bangert, Arnd Kielhorn, Florian Rahe, Amos Albert, Peter Biber, Slawomir Grzonka, Sebastian Haug, Andreas Michaels, Daniel Mentrup, Martin Hänsel, Daniel Kinski, Kim Müller, Arno Ruckelshausen, Christian Scholz, Fabian Sellmann, Wolfram Strothmann, Dieter Trautz

2012

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Activity-based Estimation of Human Trajectories

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Slawomir Grzonka, Andreas Karwath, Frederic Dijoux, Wolfram Burgard

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A Fully Autonomous Indoor Quadrotor

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Slawomir Grzonka, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard

2011

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Mapping, State Estimation, and Navigation for Quadrotors and Human-Worn Sensor Systems

PhD Thesis

Slawomir Grzonka

Wolfgang-Gentner-Award (Wolfgang-Gentner-Nachwuchsförderpreis)

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3D Place Recognition and Object Detection using a Small-Sized Quadrotor

RSS Workshop

Slawomir Grzonka, Bastian Steder, Wolfram Burgard

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Place Recognition in 3D Scans Using a Combination of Bag of Words and Point Feature based Relative Pose Estimation

IEEE/RSJ IROS

Bastian Steder, Michael Ruhnke, Slawomir Grzonka, Wolfram Burgard

2010

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Towards Palm-Size Autonomous Helicopters

International Conference and Exhibition on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Samir Bouabdallah, Christian Bermes, Slawomir Grzonka, Christiane Gimkiewicz, Alain Brenzikofer, Robert Hahn, Dario Schafroth, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard, Roland Siegwart

Best Conference Paper Award

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Mapping Indoor Environments Based on Human Activity

IEEE ICRA

Slawomir Grzonka, Frederic Dijoux, Andreas Karwath, Wolfram Burgard

Finalist Best Student Paper Award; Finalist Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics

2009

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Towards a Navigation System for Autonomous Indoor Flying

IEEE ICRA

Slawomir Grzonka, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard

Best Conference Paper Award

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Look-ahead Proposals for Robust Grid-based SLAM with Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters

International Journal of Robotics Research

Slawomir Grzonka, Christian Plagemann, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard

2008

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Towards a Fully Autonomous Indoor Helicopter

IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on Visual Guidance Systems

Slawomir Grzonka, Samir Bouabdallah, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard, Roland Siegwart

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Efficient People Tracking in Laser Range Data using a Multi-Hypothesis Leg-Tracker with Adaptive Occlusion Probabilities

IEEE ICRA

Kai O. Arras, Slawomir Grzonka, Matthias Luber, Wolfram Burgard

2007

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Efficient Estimation of Accurate Maximum Likelihood Maps in 3D

IEEE/RSJ IROS

Giorgio Grisetti, Slawomir Grzonka, Cyrill Stachniss, Patrick Pfaff, Wolfram Burgard

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Learning Maps in 3D using Attitude and Noisy Vision Sensors

IEEE/RSJ IROS

Bastian Steder, Giorgio Grisetti, Slawomir Grzonka, Cyrill Stachniss, Axel Rottmann, Wolfram Burgard

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Look-ahead Proposals for Robust Grid-based SLAM

Field and Service Robotics (FSR)

Slawomir Grzonka, Christian Plagemann, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard

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A Tree Parameterization for Efficiently Computing Maximum Likelihood Maps using Gradient Descent

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)

Giorgio Grisetti, Cyrill Stachniss, Slawomir Grzonka, Wolfram Burgard

2006

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Untersuchungen zur Genauigkeit von SLAM-Verfahren mit Partikel-Filtern

Master Thesis, University of Freiburg

Slawomir Grzonka

2005

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Kamerabasierte Lageschätzung eines autonomen Roboters mittels Partikelfiltern

Students Project, University of Freiburg

Slawomir Grzonka