Thomas Wiemann is currently a temporary professor for Autonomous Robotics at Osnabrück University. He received his doctorate degree (Dr. rer. nat) in 2013 and habilitated in 2020. His work focuses with the automatic generation of polygonal maps from point cloud data for robotic applications. His current research concentrates on making these methods applicable for large scale environments and multi sensor systems. The main focus of his work is to generate multi-modal maps that can be used on mobile robots in different contexts. That includes standard problems like localization and path planning as well as semantic interpretation of the input data for symbolic processing. For his master thesis he received the Karman Innovation Award at Osnabrück University in 2007. For his work on open source software he received the Intevation Free Software Award at Osnabrück University in 2014.
Contact
Address
Osnabrück University Institute of Computer Science Berghoffstraße 11 49090 Osnabrück
Office Hours
Whenever my door is open. Alternatively, email me for an appointment.
Phone
+49 (0)541 / 969 2438
Academic Record
Habilitation in Computer Science
Osnabrück University
Apr 2013 –
Oct 2020
Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science
Osnabrück University
Sep 2007 –
Apr 2013
M.Sc. in Physics and Computer Science
Osnabrück University
Sep 2005 –
Aug 2007
B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Science
Osnabrück University
Sep 2001 –
Aug 2005
Professional Career
Temporary Professor
University of Osnabrück, Autonomous Robotics
Oct 2020 –
today
Research Associate
University of Osnabrück, Knowledge Based Systems Group
Sep 2008 –
Sep 2020
Research Associate
Braunschweig University of Technology, Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks, Algorithms Group (Prof. Sandor Fekete)
Jan 2008 –
Jun 2008
DFG SPP 1307 (Algorithm Engineering) Project RoboRithmics: Algorithmische und praktische Methoden zur Steuerung eines autonomen Explorationsroboters
Research Assistant
University of Osnabrück, Knowledge Based Systems Group
Sep 2007 –
Dec 2007
Tutor C++ Programming
Research Associate (Secondary Employment)
N-transfer GmbH
Aug 2009 –
Apr 2011
Digital Cabin Model project in cooperation with Lufthansa Technik AG
External Lecturer (Secondary Employment)
Hochschule Osnabrück
Oct 2013 –
Mar 2014
Foundations of Programming (Grundlagen der Programmierung)
Sebastian Rahn, Philipp Gehricke, Can-Leon Petermöller, Eric Neumann, Philipp Schlinge, Leon Rabius, Henning Termühlen, Christopher Sieh, Marco Tassemeier, Thomas Wiemann, Mario Porrmann
Marc Eisoldt, Marcel Flottmann, Julian Gaal, Pascal Buschermöhle, Steffen Hinderink, Malte Hillmann, Adrian Nitschmann, Patrick Hoffmann, Thomas Wiemann, Mario Porrmann
This course gives an introduction in 2D and especially 3D sensor data processing and interpretation. Main topics are: Foundations of 3D sensor technology (camera calibration, stereo reconstruction, …
. This is one of the elective modules in the Bachelor program of computer science. Besides the fundamental concepts of data base systems, the course features a module about spatial databases and …
Exemplary Content
Data modelling
Different database types (Relational and Document-based)
Besides learning C/C++ the course focuses on teaching students practical software development with realistic application scenarios in the accompanying exercises. Since 2011, a two week programming lab …
Introduction to foundations of robotics like mapping, localization, and kinematics as well as motion planning. The course consists of a series of lectures combined with practical demonstrations and …
Exemplary Content
Overview over the basic topics related to robotics
Fundamental algorithms for classic problems like localization and path planning
The idea for this course came from the observation that the utilization of the University’s high performance cluster is below expectations. One reason is that the students are not specially trained …
In quite a few projects world-wide, 3D Mapping technology has been used for documenting historical buildings -- typically involving a massive amount of time and person power for both the data capture …
Das interdisziplinäre Forschungsprojekt SOILAssist befasst sich mit dem landwirtschaftlichen Bodenschutz bei der Befahrung von Ackerflächen und verfolgt das Ziel, negative Veränderungen der …