Staff

Dr.-Ing. Babu Ajish

Organization : DFKI GmbH
Area : Robotics Innovation Center
Status : Staff
Room HB : A 0.07
Address HB : Robert-Hooke-Str. 1
28359 Bremen
Phone HB : +49 421 17845 4138
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Publications

2025

Beyond Teleoperation: Autonomous-Assisted Soil Sampling for Decontamination in Hazardous Environments Using a Walking Excavator
Yuhan Jin, Haider Khan Lodhi, Fabian Maas genannt Bermpohl, Pierre Willenbrock, Christoph Hertzberg, Steffen Planthaber, Babu Ajish, Daniel Kuehn, Frank Kirchner
In 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security Rescue Robotics (SSRR), (SSRR-2025), 29.10.-31.10.2025, Galway, IEEE, Oct/2025.
Control of robots with hybrid locomotion capabilities
Babu Ajish
Aug/2025. DFKI.
Field Testing of Rimless Wheel Micro Rovers in Space Analogue Environments
Raúl Domínguez, Mehmed Yüksel, Christoph Hertzberg, Babu Ajish, Frank Kirchner
Editors: Málaga Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales
University of Málaga, I Doctoral Workshop on Space Robotics, 2025.
Stepping Locomotion for a Walking Excavator Robot Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Action Masking
Babu Ajish, Frank Kirchner
In 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025), (IROS-2025), 18.10.-25.10.2025, Hangzhou, IEEE, 2025.

2024

ARTER: a walking excavator robot
Babu Ajish, Pierre Willenbrock, Jannik Tiemann, Felix Bernhard, Daniel Kuehn
Editors: Shivesh Kumar, Andreas Mueller, Frank Kirchner
In Biologically Inspired Series-Parallel Hybrid Robots, Elsevier Science, 1. Auflage, volume 514, pages 235-261, Dec/2024. ISBN: 978-0-323-88482-2.
Sherpa, a family of wheeled-leg rovers
Florian Cordes, Babu Ajish, Tobias Stark
In Biologically Inspired Series-Parallel Hybrid Robots, Elsevier Science, 1. Auflage, volume 514, pages 281-304, Dec/2024. ISBN: 978-0-323-88482-2.
Sorting Bulky Waste with the Help of AI - the SmartRecycling Project
Thomas Vögele, Tim Tiedemann, Timo Lange, Philipp Meyer, Matthis Trost, Martin Wittmaier, Sebastian Wolff, Yuhan Jin, Yi-Ling Liu, Phillip Grote, Adrian Auer, Babu Ajish
In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Circular Economy and Urban Mining, (SUM-2024), 15.5.-17.5.2024, Capri, EUROWASTE, Via Beato Pellegrino 23 35137 Padova Italy, May/2024. EUROWASTE Srl. ISBN: 9788862650403.

2022

ARTER: a walking excavator robot for autonomous and remote operations
Babu Ajish, Leon Cedric Danter, Pierre Willenbrock, Sankaranarayanan Natarajan, Daniel Kuehn, Frank Kirchner
In at - Automatisierungstechnik, De Gruyter, volume 70, number 10, pages 876-887, 2022.
Autonome Robotersysteme in der Altlastensanierung
Philipp Woock, Babu Ajish
Editors: Volker Franzius, Michael Altenbockum, Thomas. Gerhold
In Handbuch Altlastensanierung und Flächenmanagement, Rehm Verlag, volume 93. Aktualisierung, 3. Aufl., pages 0-0, 2022.

2021

Terrain Adaption Controller for a Walking Excavator Robot using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Babu Ajish, Frank Kirchner
In 2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), (ICAR-2021), 07.12.-10.12.2021, Ljubljana, IEEE Xplore, pages 64-70, Dec/2021.

2019

Trajectory Following using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control and 3D Point-Cloud-based Localization for Autonomous Driving
Babu Ajish, Kerim Yener Yurtdas, Christian Ernst Siegfried Koch, Mehmed Yüksel
In 2019 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), (ECMR-2019), 04.9.-06.9.2019, Prag, IEEE, Sep/2019.

2018

Design and Field Testing of a Rover with an Actively Articulated Suspension System in a Mars Analog Terrain
Florian Cordes, Frank Kirchner, Babu Ajish
In Journal of Field Robotics, Wiley, volume 35, number 7, pages 1149-1181, Oct/2018.

2017

Static Force Distribution and Orientation Control for a Rover with an Actively Articulated Suspension System
Florian Cordes, Babu Ajish, Frank Kirchner
In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (IROS-17), 24.9.-28.9.2017, Vancouver, BC, IEEE/RSJ, Sep/2017.

2016

SherpaTT: A Versatile Hybrid Wheeled-Leg Rover
Florian Cordes, Babu Ajish
In Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation In Space, (iSAIRAS-16), 20.6.-23.6.2016, Beijing, n.n., Jun/2016.

2014

Static forces weighted Jacobian motion models for improved Odometry
Javier Hidalgo Carrió, Babu Ajish, Frank Kirchner
In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (IROS-2014), 14.9.-18.9.2014, Chicago, IEEE, Sep/2014.
An Active Suspension System for a Planetary Rover
Florian Cordes, Christian Oekermann, Babu Ajish, Daniel Kuehn, Tobias Stark, Frank Kirchner
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS 2014), (iSAIRAS-2014), 17.6.-19.6.2014, Montreal, o.A., Jun/2014.
Control of Flexible Link Manipulator
Babu Ajish
In Proceedings of the RIC Project Day "Framework & Standardization" and "Manipulation & Control", 19.6.2014, Selbstverlag, Bremen, series DFKI Documents, volume 14-03 , number 14-03, pages 67-75, Jun/2014. DFKI GmbH. ISBN: ISSN 0946-0098.
Autonomous Steering Controller for Path Following
Mohammed Ahmed, Babu Ajish
In Proceedings of the RIC Project Day Workgroups "Framework & Standardization" and "Manipulation & Control", 19.6.2014, Bremen, Selbstverlag, series DFKI Documents, volume 14-05, pages 118-119, Jun/2014. DFKI Robotics Innovation Center Bremen. DFKI GmbH. ISBN: ISSN 0946-0098.
Autonomous Steering Controller for Path Following
Mohammed Ahmed, Babu Ajish
In Proceedings of the RIC Project Day "Framework & Standardization" and "Manipulation & Control". , 19.6.2014, Selbstverlag, Bremen, series DFKI Documents, volume 14-03 , number 14-03, pages 118-119, Jun/2014. DFKI GmbH. ISBN: ISSN 0946-0098.

2011

Intelligent Mobility - Autonomous Outdoor Robotics at the DFKI
Sylvain Joyeux, Jakob Schwendner, Frank Kirchner, Babu Ajish, Felix Grimminger, Janosch Machowinski, Patrick Merz Paranhos, Christopher Gaudig
In KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, German Journal on Artificial Intelligence - Organ des Fachbereiches "Künstliche Intelligenz" der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., Springer, volume 25 - Special Issue on Off-road Robotics, number 2, pages 133-139, May/2011.

2010

Effects of Wheel Synchronization for the Hybrid Leg-Wheel Robot Asguard
Babu Ajish, Sylvain Joyeux, Jakob Schwendner, Felix Grimminger
In Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, (iSAIRAS-10), 29.8.-01.9.2010, Sapporo, o.A., Aug/2010.


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