Udo Frese

Udo Frese
Born 1972
Germany
Residence Germany
Nationality German
Fields Robotics
Institutions DFKI Bremen
University of Bremen
Alma mater University of Paderborn
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Doctoral advisor Gerd Hirzinger

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Udo Frese is assistant professor at the University of Bremen and leads the group for real time computer vision. He is furthermore affiliated with the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen.

He received his Ph.D. degree from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg where he studied different aspects of the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. He developed two successful mapping system, namely TreeMap and Multi-Level Relaxation (MLR). Additionally, he is working in the field of safety algorithms for robots including areas such as collision avoidance.

Together with Cyrill Stachniss and Giorgio Grisetti he is a co-founder of the open source SLAM repository called OpenSLAM.org.

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