Frank Kirchner

Frank Kirchner

Frank.Kirchner@dfki.de
Institution: University of Bremen / DFKI
Department: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science (Bremen) / Robotics Innovation Center (DFKI)
Position: Chair of Robotics (Bremen) / Executive Director (DFKI)
https://robotik.dfki-bremen.de/de/ueber-uns/mitarbeiter/frki01

Artificial intelligence based on robotics, machine learning, human-machine interface, walking and underactuated robotics

  • Prioritized Motion Control Robust to Actuator Failure for Hovering-Type AUVs Using INDI-QP (2026)

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    Published at: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 11)
    DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2026.3711829

  • ITPNet: Initial trajectory prediction network-a deep learning framework for predicting initial trajectories to warm start optimization-based motion planners (2026)

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    Published at: International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications (Volume: 10)
    DOI: 10.1007/s41315-025-00520-9

  • Fast reprogramming and adaptive reproduction of contact-rich assembly (2026)

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    Published at: Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Volume: 13)
    DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2026.1746577

  • Recent advances in tracking control of hydrobatic AUVs (2026)

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    Published at: At Automatisierungstechnik (Volume: 74)
    DOI: 10.1515/auto-2025-0071

  • Task-Specific Subnetwork Discovery in Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Navigation (2026)

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    Published at: Oceans Conference Record IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS66983.2026.11616787

  • DINO-Explorer: Active Underwater Discovery via Ego-Motion Compensated Semantic Predictive Coding (2026)

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    Published at: Oceans Conference Record IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS66983.2026.11617131

  • Contextual Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Reef Monitoring (2026)

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    Published at: Oceans Conference Record IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS66983.2026.11616873

  • Robust anomaly detection through multi-modal autoencoder fusion for small vehicle damage detection (2025)

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    Published at: Machine Learning with Applications (Volume: 22)
    DOI: 10.1016/j.mlwa.2025.100794

  • Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave (2025)

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    Published at: Science Robotics (Volume: 10)
    DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.adj9699

  • 3D-DUO: 3D detection of underwater objects in low-resolution multibeam echosounder maps (2025)

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    Published at: Ocean Engineering (Volume: 331)
    DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2025.121254