Olov Andersson
Assistant professor
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About me
I am a new WASP Assistant Professor in Learning for Autonomous Systems here at KTH (as of October 1, 2023).
Interests:
- Full-stack autonomy for real-world mobile robots: robust planning, mapping and navigation for dynamic, uncertain environments.
- AI for autonomy: How to leverage recent advances in AI (e.g. VLM, LLM, ...) for improved autonomy. Learning better world representations for planning. Learning to plan, reinforcement learning.
Previously (2020-2023), I was a senior researcher in theAutonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich under Prof. Roland Siegwart. Among other things I was:
- On the winning team of the DARPA SubT Challenge (helped lead ASL's part of the winning team CERBERUS) and supervised development of a new autonomous long-range drone for unknown 3D environments.
Washington Post "The $82 Million Super Bowl of Robots": https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/10/darpa-robot-competition/ - Lead an ArmaSuisse project on a flying metal detector concept (e.g., humanitarian de-mining). Got picked up in IEEE Spectrum here.
- Lead the mobile manipulation part in EU H2020 project Heron for robotic road repair.
News:
December 8, 2023. Got a chance to talk about the potential of AI robots with Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson when he visited KTH and Danica Kragic as part of his AI initiative. https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2023/12/statsministern-och-civilministern-besoker-kth/
Courses
Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA231X), examiner | Course web
Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA239X), examiner | Course web
Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, Second Cycle (DA250X), examiner | Course web
Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Machine Learning, Second Cycle (DA233X), examiner | Course web
Degree Project in Computer Science and Engineering, specializing in Systems, Control and Robotics, Second Cycle (DA236X), examiner | Course web
Degree Project in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Systems, Control and Robotics, Second Cycle (EA236X), examiner | Course web
Graduate Course in Machine Learning (FDD3431), teacher | Course web
Machine Learning (DD2421), teacher, assistant | Course web
Programming and Scientific Computing (DD1318), teacher | Course web
Robotics, Reading Group (FDD3316), teacher | Course web
Topics in Computer Vision II (FDD3338), teacher | Course web