Nikolaus Correll

Nikolaus Correll
Born 1977
Munich, Germany
Residence American
Citizenship German
Fields Robotics, Computer Science
Institutions University of Colorado
Alma mater EPFL, ETH
Thesis Coordination Schemes for Distributed Boundary Coverage with a Swarm of Miniature Robots: Synthesis, Analysis and Experimental Validation (2007)
Doctoral advisor Alcherio Martinoli
Other academic advisors Daniela Rus
Notable awards NSF CAREER award, NASA Early Career Faculty Fellowship
Children 4
Website
http://correll.cs.colorado.edu

Nikolaus Correll (born 1977 in Munich, Germany) is a roboticist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Department of Computer Science with courtesy appointments in the departments of Aerospace, Electrical and Materials Engineering.

Biography

Correll obtained a Diploma (Masters) in Electrical Engineering from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. He spent the first two years of his studies at the Technische Hochschule München, participated in the Erasmus Programme to spend a semester at Lunds Tekniska Hogsköla working with Rolf Johansson and wrote his Diploma thesis at Caltech working with Alcherio Martinoli and Joel Burdick.

Correll received his Dr. és science (Phd) degree in Computer Science in 2007 at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) working under Alcherio Martinoli. Correll did a post-doc with Prof. Daniela Rus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He became an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2007.

Correll is the recipient of a 2012 NSF CAREER award[1] as well as a 2012 NASA Early Career Faculty Fellowship.[2] He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Work

Correll's research is on Swarm Robotics, Swarm Intelligence, and Self-organization. He is using these concepts to equip composite materials with intelligence and enabling robots with autonomy,[3] for which he coined the term Robotic Materials.[4]

Correll is also an active researcher in robotics education[5] and is the author of an open-source,[6] collaborative textbook "Introduction to Autonomous Robots".[7]

Correll's work on robotic materials has received wide media attention worldwide including the Associated Press,[8] Neue Zuercher Zeitung,[9] the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,[10] and Popular Science,[11] among others.

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References

  1. ↑ CAREER: Modeling and Design of Composite Swarming Behaviors
  2. ↑ Universities Go to Space: NASA Announces Early Career Faculty Space Tech Research Grants, August 14, 2012
  3. ↑ Materials that Couple Sensing, Actuation, Computation, and Communication, CCC Innovative Great Ideas, November 2, 2015
  4. ↑ M. A. McEvoy and N. Correll. Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation and communication. Science 347(6228)
  5. ↑ N. Correll, R. Wing, D. Coleman (2013): A One Year Introductory Robotics Curriculum for Computer Science Upperclassmen. In: IEEE Transactions on Education, 56 (1), pp. 54-60, 2013
  6. ↑ Introduction to Autonomous Robots on Github.com, last retrieved Nov 9, 2015.
  7. ↑ N. Correll. Introduction to Autonomous Robots, ISBN 1493773070, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.
  8. ↑ Advances in Robotic Materials Stuck in Lab, March 20, 2015.
  9. ↑ Roboter im Schwarm: Der Automat als Herdentier, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, June 26, 2013.
  10. ↑ Next-Generation Robots Offer Sophisticated Mobility, Manipulation, and Sensing Capabilities, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 30(5):11-13.
  11. ↑ Autonomous Materials will let Future Robots Change Color and Shift Shape, Popular Science, March 19, 2015.
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