Tutorials

Mr. Pascal Dendl

Research Assistant, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Time: 9:30 - 11:00 am

Mr. Pascal has been working in the Robotics Research Lab of Dr. Karsten Berns where he works on 3D modelling and simulation in different projects. In his studies he specialized in Embedded Systems and Electrical Engineering.

His main experience is in creating and editing assets that are needed, as well as implementing their core functionality (e.g. make a car able to drive). He mainly used Blender to work on these assets and then export them into the Unreal Engine 4 where he further configured them to fit their needs.

He also worked on the simulation environments in the UE4, for example fill a factory building with different assets in order to bring them close to the real environment.

Mr. Qazi Hamza Jan

Research Assistant, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Time: 9:30 - 11:00 am

Qazi Hamza Jan joined Robotics-Research-Lab, Technical University of Kaiserslautern Germany as a PhD student. His research focuses on autonomous navigation using sensor fusion.

He did his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Bahria University, Islamabad (BUI). His final year project was "pure sine-wave inverter using motor-gen pair".

Later he did his masters in Electrical engineering from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) from 2013 to 2015. Topic of his thesis was "Visual Inertial Navigation for Odometry".

Mr. Hannan Ejaz Keen

Research Assistant, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Time: 3:30 - 5:30 pm

Mr. Hannan is a Doctoral student in Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Germany. His area of research is Path Planning and Mapping in Autonomous Vehicles over Rough Terrain.

Hannan received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 2013 from NFC IEFR, Faisalabad (UET Lahore, Pakistan). He designed an autonomous dust cleaning robot as senior year project under the supervision of Engr. Awais Anjum, upon which his project stood best senior project of the year. After completing his undergraduate degree, he joined University of Central Punjab (UCP) Lahore in 2014 as Lab Instructor.

He completed his Master’s degree in electrical engineering in 2016 from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He presented his research thesis under the supervision of Dr. Muhammad Tahir. His thesis topic was ‘Conflict Avoidance among multiple unmanned aircrafts using reinforcement learning’. After completing his Master, he rejoined UCP as Lecturer in Department of Computer Science.

Robotics Lab of Dr. Syed Atif Mehdi,

University of Central Punjab, Lahore

Time: 3:30 - 5:30 pm

Syed Atif Mehdi received his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan in the year 2001. For the Bachelor Project, he worked for 8 months at NetSol International in the year 2000 as an internee. After completing BS, he joined NetSol as a "Software Engineer". Afterwards, he completed his Master in Computer Science Degree with specialization in artificial intelligence from FAST National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He served as a lecturer at University of Management and Technology till 2007.

He was awarded scholarship by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan to pursue his PhD from Germany in the year 2007. He joined the Robotics Research Lab in October 2007 and completed his PhD in the year 2014. During his PhD, his focus was on learning the presence of an elderly person in the home environment using daily routine of the person. He worked as a Post-Doc in the group and was responsible for the development of an autonomous Oct-copter that could perform various inspection tasks. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Head of Robotics Group at University of Central Punjab.