Aljoscha Pörtner

Projects

• SwarmRob – A Toolkit for Reproducibility and Sharing of Experimental Artifacts in Robotics Research [code] Due to the complexity of robotics, the reproducibility of results and experiments is one of the fundamental problems in robotics research. While the problem has been identified by the community, the approaches that address the problem appropriately are limited. The proposed toolkit tries to deal with the problem of reproducibility and sharing of experimental artifacts in robotics research by a holistic approach based on operating-system-level virtualization. The experimental artifacts of an experiment are isolated in „containers“ that can be distributed to other researchers. As a result, a novel experimental workflow to describe, execute and distribute experimental software-artifacts to heterogeneous robots emerged, that supports researchers in executing and reproducing experimental evaluations.
• Seerose – Service Robots in Smart Homes [code] The research project deals with the integration of service robots into an intelligent home environment to cooperatively accomplish tasks. This combination will extend the sensory variety of the smart home and the service robots and will allow more sophisticated applications. One focus of the project is the development of an adequate middleware architecture to enable communication between different agents in the system, e.g. robots, sensors and actuators. Furthermore, the robots will be programmable by employing user-friendly learning from demonstration techniques. The whole project is embedded into a health care scenario to support elderly people in their everday lives.
• Fall and Activity Recognition in Smart Homes The project focuses on the development of a fall detection and activity recognition system and the integration of the system into a smart home environment. It is based on a small-sized customized wearable device that is attached to the user’s waist. Activity recognition is performed locally on the wearable with its restricted computational capabilities in real time. A special focus is set on the porting of appropriate machine learning algorithms onto the chip. The smart home integration of the system allows urgent support for fallen people as well as a fast response of the intelligent environment depending on the current user’s activity.

Publications

• Tidy up my room: Multi-agent cooperation for service tasks in smart environments,

  Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 11, iss. 3, p. 261–275, 2019. R. Rasch, D. Sprute, A. Pörtner, S. Battermann, and M. König

• Smart Fall: Entwicklung eines Systems zur Sturz- und Aktivitätenerkennung im Smart Home,

  Orthopädie Technik, pp. 30-35, 2017. M. König, H. -J. Lakomek, A. Pörtner, and D. Sprute

• SwarmRob: A Toolkit for Reproducibility and Sharing of Experimental Artifacts in Robotics Research,

  2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2018, p. 325–332. A. Pörtner, M. Hoffmann, S. Zug, and M. König

• The Power of Color: A Study on the Effective Use of Colored Light in Human-Robot Interaction,

  2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018, p. 3395–3402. A. Pörtner, L. Schröder, R. Rasch, D. Sprute, M. Hoffmann, and M. König

• Gesture-Based Object Localization for Robot Applications in Intelligent Environments,

  2018 International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE), 2018, p. 48–55. D. Sprute, R. Rasch, A. Pörtner, S. Battermann, and M. König

• Ambient Assisted Robot Object Search,

  Enhanced Quality of Life and Smart Living: 15th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2017, Paris, France, 2017, p. 112–123. D. Sprute, A. Pörtner, R. Rasch, S. Battermann, and M. König

• A Decoupled Three-layered Architecture for Service Robotics in Intelligent Environments,

  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Embodied Interaction with Smart Environments, Tokyo, Japan, 2016, pp. 1:1-1:8. R. Rasch, A. Pörtner, M. Hoffmann, and M. König

• Überlegungen zu Multi-Sensor-Aktor-Systemen und Kontrolle in intelligenten Arbeitsumgebungen,

  INFORMATIK 2016, 46. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Klagenfurt, Österreich, 2016, pp. 1699-1712. L. Schröder, A. Pörtner, M. König, and M. Hoffmann

• Integration of a fall detection system into the intelligent building,

  INFORMATIK 2015, 45. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Cottbus, Deutschland, 2015, pp. 191-202. A. Pörtner, D. Sprute, A. Weinitschke, and M. König

• Smart Fall: Accelerometer-Based Fall Detection in a Smart Home Environment,

  Inclusive Smart Cities and e-Health: 13th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2015, Geneva, Switzerland, 2015, p. 194–205. D. Sprute, A. Pörtner, A. Weinitschke, and M. König

• Configuration Management,

  Embedded Engineering Talks, Minden, Germany, 2016. A. Pörtner

• A Distributed Multi-Agent System for Service Robotics in Intelligent Environments,

  Master’s thesis, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld/University of Kassel, 2016. A. Pörtner

• Evaluation verschiedener Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms anhand der Entwicklung einer mobilen Applikation zur Vertriebsunterstützung,

  Bachelor’s thesis, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld/arvato AG, 2015. A. Pörtner

• AWS Technical Essentials, TÜV Rheinland Akademie GmbH.
• Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps, edX.
• Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications, edX.
• Introduction to Kubernetes, edX.

• ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level,

  ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board.