Research focus

• Data generation for automated driving
• Human machine interface for highly automated driving

Further activities

• Summer semester: exercise leader Mobile Robots
• Winter semester: exercise leader Scientific Programming in Matlab
• SoSe 2018: Supervision of the project group "360° Surround View Assistant"
• SoSe 2020: Supervision of the project group "Environment Perception for Automated Driving"
• Summer semester 2020: Supervision of the advanced seminar "Extrinsic Sensor Calibration"
• Summer semester 2021: Supervision of the project group "Creating a Close-To-Reality Simulation Environment for Automated Driving"

Conference contributions and presentations

2022

• Abdulaaty, O., Gregory Schroeder, Ahmed Hussein, Franz Albers, Torsten Bertram:"Real-time Depth Completion using Radar and Camera" 2022 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES) November 2022
• Albers, F., Torsten Bertram:"Gaze-Point Projection by Marker-based localization of Eye-Tracking Glasses for Examining Trust in Automated Vehicles" AmE 2022 - Automotive meets Electronics - 13th GMM Symposium September 2022

2020

• Hugenroth, A., F. Albers, M. Oeljeklaus, T. Bertram: Object Classification in the Fixation of a Car Driver, AmE 2020 - Automotive meets Electronics; 11th GMM-Symposium 10 - 11.03.2020
• Dargahi Nobari, K., K. Bartsch, F. Albers, T. Bertram: (2020). Driver State Regulation via Real-Time Neurofeedback in Partially Automated Driving. 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp.1-6, September 2020

2019

• Dargahi Nobari, K., F. Albers, J. Braun, T. Bertram: Driver-Vehicle-Interaction in a Control Loop, presented at Interdisciplinary Workshop Cognitive Systems, Duisburg, Germany,
  March 2019

2018

• Albers, F., C. De la Parra, J. Braun, F. Hoffmann and T. Bertram: Estimating the body pose of car drivers from depth images, Proceedings 28th Workshop Computational Intelligence, pp. 197-215
  November 2018

Journal and book contributions

2022

• Dargahi Nobari, K., Franz Albers, Katharina Bartsch, Jan Braun, Torsten Bertram:"Modeling driver-vehicle interaction in automated driving" Research in engineering January 2022

2021

• Albers, F., K. Dargahi Nobari, J. Braun, K. Bartsch, T. Bertram: Coordination of takeover maneuvers in highly automated driving under consideration of driver availability, Forschung im Ingenieurwesen 11.10.2021

2020

• Dargahi Nobari, K., F. Albers, K. Bartsch, T. Bertram: (2020). Online Feedback Control for Driver-Vehicle Interaction in Automated Driving. Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation, 159-165, July 2020

2018

• Albers, F., C. Rösmann, F. Hoffmann and T. Bertram: Online Trajectory Optimization and Navigation in Dynamic Environments, In: Robot Operating System (ROS) - The Complete Reference 3 (A. Koubaa, ed.), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer International Publishing, vol. 778, pp. 231-261
  July 2018

Software

2017

• Rösmann, C. and F. Albers: Dynamic Obstacle support for teb_local_planner, An optimal trajectory planner with distinctive topologies for mobile robots based on Timed-Elastic-Bands, available as a package for the Robot Operating System (ROS), September 2017

2016

• Rösmann, C. and F. Albers: costmap_converter, A ROS package that includes plugins and nodes to convert occupied costmap2d cells to primitive types, e.g., for trajectory optimization and motion prediction,
  October 2016

Student research projects / Bachelor's / Master's theses

• H. Wernéry:
  Automatisierte Ergänzung von Informationen zur Verdeckung in HD-Karten
  Bachelor thesis at the Chair of Control Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund, February 2022.
  Supervision: S. Schütte, F. Albers, T. Bertram
• O. Abdulaaty:
  Deep Learning-based Radar and Camera Fusion for Real-Time Depth Completion
  External Master's thesis at the Chair of Control Systems Engineering at Dortmund University of Technology in cooperation with IAV GmbH, August 2022.
  Supervision: F. Albers, T. Bertram
• T. P. Truong:
  Deep-learning-based extrinsic calibration between LIDAR and camera sensors
  Project work at the Chair of Control Systems Engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund, October 2021.
  Supervision: F. Albers, N. Stannartz, T. Bertram
• L. A. Scholz:
  Real-time capable object detection on embedded hardware
  Project work at the Chair of Control Systems Engineering at Dortmund University of Technology, July 2021.
  Supervision: F. Albers, N. Stannartz, T. Bertram
• M. Hani Slim
  Analysis of the Cognitive Workload of Drivers during Gaze-Triggered Takeover Scenarios in a Driving Simulator
  Master's thesis at the Chair of Control Systems Engineering at Dortmund University of Technology,
  April 2020.
  Supervision: F. Albers, K. Dargahi Nobari, T. Bertram
• M. Bischof:
  Estimation of the manual steering torque and steering input detection for a driving simulator,
  Bachelor's thesis at the Chair of Control Systems Engineering at Dortmund University of Technology,
  May 2019.
  Supervision: J. Braun, F. Albers, T. Bertram
• A. Hugenroth:
  Objektklassifikation in der Fixation des Fahrers,
  Masterthesis am Lehrstuhl für Regelungssystemtechnik der Technischen Universität Dortmund,
  October 2018.
  Supervision: F. Albers, M. Oeljeklaus, T. Bertram
• L. Zeng:
  Online Trajectory Planning for Mobile Robots with Dynamic Obstacles,
  Master's thesis at the Chair of Control Systems Engineering at Dortmund University of Technology,
  June 2018.
  Supervision: F. Albers, C. Rösmann, F. Hoffmann, T. Bertram
• C. De la Parra Aparicio:
  Driver Body Pose Estimation from Depth Images,
  Masterthesis am Lehrstuhl für Regelungssystemtechnik der Technischen Universität Dortmund,
  April 2018.
  Supervision: F. Albers, F. Hoffmann, T. Bertram