"TraceBot HEROES - Meet the Developers!" #9: Philipp Ausserlechner

Dear TraceBot followers,
in the nineth part of our "TraceBot HEROES - Meet the Developers!" series, we proudly introduce Philipp Ausserlechner from our project partner TUW - Technische Universität Wien (Technical University of Vienna) - to you. Philipp is a doctoral student in Professor Markus Vincze's team at the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) which belongs to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in Vienna.
Philipp holds a master in physics from the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and presently works in the TraceBot project on the detection of small objects.
To him and his colleagues from the ACIN the perception of a robot's environment is crucial for the programming and training of the skills of a robot. Particularly the fact that the robot actually needs to detect really tiny objects makes Philipp very passionate about his role in the TraceBot project. He is quite well prepared for this occupation as he already has experience in a project which dealt with vision and detection of tree logs in which he worked on at the Austrian Institute of Technology before he started at the ACIN.
In the TraceBot object he just "swapped" the tree logs for the tiny needle of the sterility kit as the sterility kit is the use case for project. In a nutshell: the detection and handling of the needle executed by our lab robot "TraceBot" is Philipp's very personal and individual challenge to overcome and his contribution and the commitment of all his other colleagues from the TUW are crucial. Without their findings on perception and vision, our TraceBot literally remains blind!
Please meet Philipp Ausserlechner and get to know his visual approach on the perception of structures and objects such that robots learn from every day situations.
Stay tuned for more to come on our TraceBot developers soon!