Dr.-Ing. Tanja Katharina Kaiser

Postdoctoral researcher. University of Konstanz, Germany.

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I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the University Konstanz (Germany) in the Cyber-Physical Systems Group headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heiko Hamann and an affiliate member of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour. My research interests are swarm robotics, collective systems, evolutionary robotics, and ROS 2 for robot swarms.

In 2022, I defended my doctoral dissertation titled “The Predicting Swarm: Evolving Collective Behaviors for Robot Swarms by Minimizing Surprise” at the University of Lübeck (Germany). I was member of the Service Robotics Group headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heiko Hamann as part of the Institute of Computer Engineering.

Furthermore, I hold a M. Sc. degree in Computer Science of the Technical University Berlin (Germany) and a B. Sc. in Applied Computer Science of the Cooperative State University Baden-Wuerttemberg Stuttgart (Germany).

news

Dec 1, 2022 Our journal article “Innate Motivation for Robot Swarms by Minimizing Surprise: From Simple Simulations to Real-World Experiments” got published in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
Oct 1, 2022 I started a position as a postdoctoral researcher @ Universität Konstanz.
Aug 29, 2022 Today, I successfully defended my doctoral thesis.

selected publications

  1. Journal
    Innate Motivation for Robot Swarms by Minimizing Surprise: From Simple Simulations to Real-World Experiments
    Tanja Katharina Kaiser, and Heiko Hamann
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2022
  2. Conference
    ROS2SWARM - A ROS 2 Package for Swarm Robot Behaviors
    Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Marian Johannes Begemann, Tavia Plattenteich, Lars Schilling, Georg Schildbach, and Heiko Hamann
    In 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022