Homepage of Roland Philippsen

I'm assistant professor in the Intelligent Systems Lab at Halmstad University in Sweden. I received my Ph.D. from EPFL, Switzerland, in 2005, for work on mobile robot path planning and obstacle avoidance. My expertise lies in interweaving reasoning, planning, and control. My current research interest lies in robots that take an active part in modifying their environment, while also pursuing applied research in intelligent vehicles. Some of the real-world robotics project I have contributed to are: tour-guide robots at the Swiss Expo.02, educational robots for the EPFL student contest 2001-2004, robotic actors for a theater play in 2005, a Cognitive Robot Companion in 2006, the PR2 of Willow Garage Inc, and the Meka robot of HCRL at UT Austin. I always try to push for robust open source software in this area, because I believe that autonomous robots can improve the lives of all humanity, provided we openly share knowledge and implementations.

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My two sourceforge accounts [poftwaresatent] [rphilippsen] or my [github] and [bitbucket] accounts are where most of my open-source code ends up...

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