Research Assistant
Dipl.-Ing. Johannes Kühn
Technische Universität München
Lehrstuhl für Robotik und Systemintelligenz (Prof. Haddadin, Joint Appointment der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik und Fakultät für Informatik)
Postadresse
Postal:
Heßstr. 134
80797 München
- Tel.: +49 (89) 289 - 29416
- johannes.kuehn@tum.de
Personal background
I'm a PhD student here at RSI and previously was:
- a researcher at the Institute of Automatic Control, Leibniz Universität Hannover
- a student at Leibniz University of Hannover with major in electrical engineering
- a visiting student at Robert Bosch GmbH (CR/AEG) headquarters in Stuttgart
- a robotics intern at Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, California, USA
Fields of interests
- Physical Human Robot Interaction
- Reflex Control in Robotics and Prosthetics
- Human Motor and Reflex Control
- Synergy Control
- Modeling of Human Neuromechanics
Publications
- Observer-Extended Direct Method for Collision Monitoring in Robot Manipulators Using Proprioception and IMU Sensing. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5 (2), 2020, 954--961 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- Forward and Inverse Dynamics Modeling of Human Shoulder-Arm Musculoskeletal System with Scapulothoracic Constraint. Comput. Methods Biomech. Biomed. Engin., 2020 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- Joint velocity and acceleration estimation in serial chain rigid body and flexible joint manipulators. 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019 more… BibTeX
- Towards Semi-Autonomous and Soft-Robotics Enabled Upper-Limb Exoprosthetics: First Concepts and Robot-Based Emulation Prototype. International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2019, 2019 more… BibTeX
- Dynamics Simulation for an Upper-Limb Human-Exoskeleton Assistance System in a Latent-Space Controlled Tool Manipulation Task. IEEE International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), 2018 more… BibTeX
- Identification of Human Shoulder-Arm Kinematic and Muscular Synergies During Daily-Life Manipulation Tasks. 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2018, Enschede, The Netherlands, August 26-29, 2018, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- Forward and inverse dynamics modelling of human shoulder-arm musculoskeletal system with scapulothoracic constraint. submitted to Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2018 more… BibTeX
- Learning and Identification of human upper-limb muscle synergies in daily-life tasks with autoencoders. Accepted OTWorld Congress, 2018 more… BibTeX
- An Artificial Robot Nervous System To Teach Robots How To Feel Pain And Reflexively React To Potentially Damaging Contacts. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2 (1), 2017, 72-79 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
- Proprio- and Exteroceptive Reflexes for a Pneumatically Actuated Finger based on the artificial Robot Nervous System. ICRA 2017 all-day workshop on ``The robotic sense of touch: from sensing to understanding'', 2017 more… BibTeX
- Teleoperated Semi-Autonomous Control of the LWR and a Humanoid Hand via the Myo Armband. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Human-robot interfaces for enhanced physical interactions, 2016 more… BibTeX
- Humanoid Collision Reflex Sequences based on an artificial Robot Nervous System including Contact Location and Direction. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Legged Robot Falling: Fall Detection, Damage Prevention, and Recovery Actions, 2016 more… BibTeX
- The Robot Nervous System RNS: Teaching Robots to Feel Pain. To be submitted, 2015 more… BibTeX
Press
- Interview: Why robots need reflexes (TUM, May 2021)
- Lebensformen: Cyborg: Mensch wird Maschine? (SAT.1 Bayern, Dezember 2020)
- TUM-Studierende nehmen an renomierten Wettkampf Cybathlon teil (TUM, Novmeber 2020)
- Bundeskanzlerin Merkel und Ministerpresident Söder an der TUM: Zu Gast bei Intelligenten Robotern (TUM, Mai 2019)
- Höchste Intelligenz auf Weltniveau (Bundesregierung, Mai 2019)
- Deutschland soll führender KI Standort werden (Bundesregierung, Mai 2019)
- Bundeskanzlerin besucht MSRM (Bundeskanzlerin Instagram, Mai 2019)
- Künstliche Intelligenz & Robotik (Bundeskanzlerin Instagram, Mai 2019)
- Zauberwort Zukunft - Hand in Hand mit dem Roboter (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Mai 2019)
- Pain in the machine (Cambridge University, October 2016)
- Researchers Teaching Robots to Feel and React to Pain (IEEE Spectrum Robotics Blog, May 2016)
- Why scientists want robots to learn to feel pain (Washington Post, May 2016)
- Researchers teach robots to 'feel pain' (BBC, May 2016)
- Se il robot sente dolore: ci spaventa ma può servire (Repubblica.it, major italien newspaper)
- German scientists are training robots to 'feel' pain (engaged.com, May 2016)
- Researchers want robots to feel pain (theverge.com, May 2016)
- To make them smarter, researchers are teaching robots to feel pain (Yahoo.com, June 2016)
- Intelligente Prothesen: Wissenschaftler forscht an feinfühligen Robotern in Hannover (SAT1 Regional - July 2015)