Dr.-Ing. Tanja Katharina Kaiser

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

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

Bib

@article{9813360,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Hamann, Heiko},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  title = {Innate Motivation for Robot Swarms by Minimizing Surprise: From Simple Simulations to Real-World Experiments},
  year = {2022},
  volume = {38},
  number = {6},
  pages = {3582-3601},
  doi = {10.1109/TRO.2022.3181004}
}

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

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{9812417,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Begemann, Marian Johannes and Plattenteich, Tavia and Schilling, Lars and Schildbach, Georg and Hamann, Heiko},
  booktitle = {2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  title = {ROS2SWARM - A ROS 2 Package for Swarm Robot Behaviors},
  year = {2022},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {6875-6881},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9812417},
}