Main research areas:

• Human-robot collaboration
• Proactive collision avoidance for collaborating robots
• Robot-supported environment observation and documentation

Further activities:

• WiSe 2024/25: Supervision of the exercise group for the lecture "Modeling and Control of Robotic Manipulators"
• WiSe 2024/25: Implementation of the elective practical course "Simulation and Control of Robotic Systems"
• Summer semester 2023: Supervision of the exercise group for the lecture "Mobile Robots"
• WiSe 2023/24: Supervision of the exercise group for the lecture "Modeling and Control of Robotic Manipulators"
• WiSe 2023/24: Implementation of the elective practical course "Simulation and Control of Robotic Systems"
• Summer semester 2024: Supervision of the exercise group for the lecture "Mobile Robots"

Conference contributions and presentations

2024

• Renz,H., K. Dargahi Nobari, M. Faizan, T.Bertram: "Does it Feel Safer? A Pilot Study on the Stress Levels of Humans for Varied Robot Control Strategies and Collaboration Scenarios", Human Systems Engineering and Design (IHSED 2024), 2024
• Renz, H., T. Bertram: "Efficient computation of a voxel-based environment model for real-time information distribution in robotics", IFToMM D-A-CH, 2024
• Renz, H., M. Krämer, T. Bertram: "Moving Horizon Planning for Human-Robot Interaction", 2024ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24), 2024

2023

• Renz, H., M. Krämer, T. Bertram: "Reduction of a human body model for real-time collision avoidance in human-robot collaboration", IFToMM D-A-CH, 2023
• Renz, H., M. Krämer, T. Bertram: "Comparing Human Motion Forecasts in Moving Horizon Trajectory Planning of Collaborative Robots",
  2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2023
• Renz, H., M. Krämer, T. Bertram: "Uncertainty Estimation for Predictive Collision Avoidance in Human-Robot Collaboration", 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2023