Nicholas Correll

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Nikolaus Correll with a small swarm of robots

Nikolaus Correll (* 1977 in Munich , Germany) is a German robotics researcher and professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder . He is the founder and CTO of Robotic Materials Inc.

Life

After attending the Lessing Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and graduating from high school in 1997 and doing basic military service, Correll began studying electrical engineering at the Technical University of Munich . After completing his intermediate diploma in 2001, he moved to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , where he graduated in 2003 with a diploma. Correll spent a semester at Lunds Tekniska Hogsköla under Rolf Johansson and wrote his thesis at Caltech under Alcherio Martinoli and Joel Burdick .

Correll earned a Dr. és science in computer science in 2007 at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) under Alcherio Martinoli . Following his doctorate, Correll worked as a research assistant with Daniela Rus at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . In 2009, he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, and has been a life associate professor since 2017.

Correll was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and the NASA Early Career Faculty Fellowship in 2012. In 2016 he received the Provost Faculty Achievement Award . Correll is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

research

Correll's research focus is swarm robotics, swarm intelligence and self-organization of intelligent systems. Based on these concepts, Correll intelligently develops composite materials with integrated sensors, actuators and computers with the aim of supplementing the autonomy of robot systems, for which he has defined the term " Robotic Materials ".

Correll also deals with didactic issues in robotics and is the author of an open-source collaborative textbook Introduction to Autonomous Robots .

Correll's contributions to robotic materials have received international media coverage, notably from the Associated Press, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , and Popular Science .

Academic line

Two of Correll's former doctoral students have in turn started assistant professorships at American universities:

  • Erik Komendera, PhD 2014, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
  • Michael Otte, PhD 2011, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

Awards

  • Keynote speaker at the Int. Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), London, 2016
  • "Best Paper Award" of the 3rd Conference on System-integrated Intelligence (SysInt) , Paderborn, 2016
  • "Best Paper Award" of the Int. Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), Minneapolis, USA, 2006 and Dajeon, Korea, 2014
  • "NSF CAREER award" 2012
  • "NASA Early Career Faculty Fellowship" 2012
  • "Best Paper Award" of the Int. Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Osaka, Japan, 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ jon: Tenure list: June 2017. June 22, 2017, accessed on June 29, 2019 (English).
  2. ^ CAREER: Modeling and Design of Composite Swarming Behaviors
  3. ↑ Universities Go to Space: NASA Announces Early Career Faculty Space Tech Research Grants, August 14, 2012
  4. ↑ (Correll, Nikolaus J - 2016) - Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Pre-Tenure Faculty
  5. ^ Materials that Couple Sensing, Actuation, Computation, and Communication, CCC Innovative Great Ideas, November 2, 2015
  6. ^ MA McEvoy, N. Correll: Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation and communication . In: Science , 347 (6228)
  7. ^ N. Correll, R. Wing, D. Coleman: A One Year Introductory Robotics Curriculum for Computer Science Upperclassmen . In: IEEE Transactions on Education , 56 (1), pp. 54–60, 2013
  8. ↑ Introduction to Autonomous Robots. GitHub .com; accessed on January 14, 2017
  9. ^ N. Correll: Introduction to Autonomous Robots . amazon.com
  10. ^ Advances in Robotic Materials Stuck in Lab, March 20, 2015.
  11. ↑ Robots in swarms: The machine as a herd animal . In: NZZ , June 26, 2013.
  12. ^ Next-Generation Robots Offer Sophisticated Mobility, Manipulation, and Sensing Capabilities . In: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine , 30 (5), pp. 11-13.
  13. ↑ Autonomous Materials will let Future Robots Change Color and Shift Shape . In: Popular Science , March 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Correll, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German robotics researcher and professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany