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Roland Brockers

Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 198-235

Pasadena, CA 91109

Member of:

347T - Aerial Mobility

Roland Brockers

Group Leader

Education

University of Paderborn, Germany

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2005
M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1999

Research Interests

Vision

Robotics

Tele-sensory robots for immersive human control

  • image analysis
  • stereoscopic depth reconstruction
  • biologically inspired visual control
  • visualization
  • modeling
  • Visually guided mobile robot systems
  • autonomous systems
  • distributed systems
  • learning systems
  • multi-sensory perception
  • human machine interaction
  • immersive interfaces

Publications

2022
  1. C. Brommer, A. Fornasier, M. Scheiber, J. Delaune, R. Brockers, J. Steinbrener, S. Weiss, "INSANE: Cross-domain UAV Data Sets with Increased Number of Sensors for developing Advanced and Novel Estimators," arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.09114, 01 October 2022.
  2. A. Dietsche, L. Ott, R. Siegwart, R. Brockers, "Visual Loop Closure Detection for a Future Mars Science Helicopter," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 12014-12021, 19 September 2022.
  3. P. Proença, J. Delaune, R. Brockers, "Optimizing Terrain Mapping and Landing Site Detection for Autonomous UAVs," 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 9668-9674, 23 May 2022.
  4. J. Delaune, J. Izraelevitz, S. Sirlin, D. Sternberg, L. Giersch, L. Tosi, E. Skyliyanskiy, L. Young, M. Mischna, S. Withrow-Maser, J. Mueller, J. Bowman, M. Wallance, H. Grip, L. Matthies, W. Johnson, M. Keennon, B. Pipenberg, H. Patel, C. Lim, M. Veismann, H. Cummings, S. Conley, T. Tzanetos, R. Brockers, A, Jain, D. Bayard, A. Chmielewski, O. Toupet, J. Burdick, M. Gharib, J. B. Balaram, "Mid-Air Helicopter Delivery at Mars Using a Jetpack," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-20, 05 March 2022.
  5. H. Grip, D. Conway, J. Lam, N. Williams, M. Golombek, R. Brockers, M. Mischna, M. Cacan, "Flying a Helicopter on Mars: How Ingenuity's Flights were Planned, Executed, and Analyzed," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-17, 05 March 2022.
  6. T. Tzanetos, J. Bapst, G. Kubiak, L. Tosi, S. Sirlin, R. Brockers, J. Delaune, H. Grip, L. Matthies, J. B. Balaram, S. Withrow-Maser, W. Johnson, L. Young, B. Pipenberg, "Future of Mars Rotorcraft - Mars Science Helicopter," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-16, 05 March 2022.
  7. R. Brockers, P. Proença, J. Delaune, J. Todd, L. Matthies, T. Tzanetos, J. B. Balaram, "On-board Absolute Localization Based on Orbital Imagery for a Future Mars Science Helicopter," 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-11, 05 March 2022.
2021
  1. P. Schoppmann, P. Proença, J. Delaune, M. Pantic, T. Hinzmann, L. Matthies, R. Siegwart, R. Brockers, "Multi-Resolution Elevation Mapping and Safe Landing Site Detection with Applications to Planetary Rotorcraft," 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 1990-1997, 27 September 2021.
  2. M. Scheiber, J. Delaune, S. Weiss, R. Brockers, "Mid-Air Range-Visual-Inertial Estimator Initialization for Micro Air Vehicles," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China, pp. 7613-7619, 30 May 2021.
  3. K. Oudrhiri, N. Rodriguez-Alvarez, Y. M. Yang, N. Lay, D. Buccino, D. Shin, R. Brockers, "Bistatic Radar Experiments with UAV: Qualification and Performance of a Miniaturized Instrument," 021 IEEE Aerospace Conference (50100), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-12, 06 March 2021.
  4. R. Brockers, J. Delaune, P. Porença, P. Schoppmann, M. Domnik, G. Kubiak, T. Tzanetos, "Autonomous Safe Landing Site Detection for a Future Mars Science Helicopter," 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference (50100), Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-8, 06 March 2021.
  5. J. Delaune, D. Bayard, R. Brockers, "Range-Visual-Inertial Odometry: Scale Observability Without Excitation," EEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 2421-2428, 11 February 2021.
2020
  1. C. Brommer, C. Bohm, J. Steinbrenerm R. Brockers, and R. Weiss, "Improved State Estimation in Distorted Magnetic Fields," 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 1007-1013, 01 August 2020.
  2. D. Drewry, D. Dutta, K. Mallick, W. Johnson, and R. Brockers, "Remote Quantification of Land Surface Temperature and Evapotranspiration Using Thermal Infrared Observations from Unmanned Aerial Systems," EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, p. 11804, 01 May 2020.
  3. Delaune, J., Brockers, R., Bayard, D.S., Dor, H., Hewitt, R., Sawoniewicz, J., Kubiak, G., Tzanetos, T., Matthies, L. and Balaram, J., "Extended Navigation Capabilities for a Future Mars Science Helicopter Concept," Accepted in IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, USA, pp. 1-10, 07 March 2020.
  4. D. Malyuta, C. Brommer, D. Hentzen, T. Stastny, R. Siegwart, R. Brockers, "Long-Duration Fully Autonomous Operation of Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Systems for Remote-Sensing Data Acquisition," Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 137-157, 01 January 2020.
2019
  1. D. Hentzen, T. Stastny, R. Siegwart, R. Brockers, "Disturbance Estimation and Rejection for High-Precision Multirotor Position Control," 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 2797-2804, 04 November 2019.
  2. M. Scheiber, J. Delaune, R. Brockers, and S. Weiss, "Visual-Inertial On-Board Throw-and-Go Initialization for Micro Air Vehicles," 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 6899-6905, 03 November 2019.
  3. H. Grip, J. Lam, D. Bayard, D. Conway, G. Singh, R. Brockers, J. Delaune, L. Matthies, C. Malpica, T. Brown, A. Jain, A. San Martin, and G. Merewether, "Flight Control System for NASA's Mars Helicopter," AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, pp. 1-20, 07 January 2019.
2018
  1. C. Brommer, D. Malyuta, D. Hentzen, and R. Brockers, "Long-Duration Autonomy for Small Rotorcraft UAS including Recharging," 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp.7252-7258, 01 October 2018.
2015
  1. V. Desaraju, N. Michael, M. Humenberger, R. Brockers, S. Weiss, J. Nash, and L. Matthies, "Vision-Based Landing Site Evaluation and Informed Optimal Trajectory Generation Toward Autonomous Rooftop Landing," Autonomous Robots, vol. 39, pp. 445-463, 26 July 2015.
2012
  1. R. Brockers, S. Susca, D. Zhu, L. Matthies, "Fully Self-Contained Vision-Aided Navigation and Landing of a Micro Air Vehicle Independent from External Sensor Inputs," Proc. of SPIE 8387, 01 January 2012.
2011
  1. B. Williams, N. Hudson, B. Tweddle, R. Brockers, L. Matthies, "Feature and Pose Constrained Visual Aided Inertial Navigation for Computationally Constrained Aerial Vehicles," Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2011), 01 January 2011.
  2. R. Brockers, P. Bouffard, J. Ma, L. Matthies, C. Tomlin, "Autonomous landing and ingress of micro-air-vehicles in urban environments based on monocular vision," Proc. of SPIE Vol. 8031, 01 January 2011.
2009
  1. R. Brockers, "Cooperative stereo matching with color-based adaptive local support," CAIP'09, LNCS 5702, pp. 1019-1027, 01 January 2009.
2005
  1. R. Brockers, M. Hund, B. Mertsching, "Stereo Matching with Occlusion Detection using Cost Relaxation," ICIP'05, III- 389-92, 01 January 2005.
2004
  1. R. Stemmer, R. Brockers, S. Drue, J. Thiem, "Comprehensive data acquisition for a telepresence application," SMC'04, pp. 5344- 5349 vol.6, 01 January 2004.