Krister Wolff Ph.D.
Senior researcher,
Adaptive Systems,
Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

Research Interests

I am doing research with bio-inspired computational methods for optimization of behaviors in autonomous robots. Currently I am heavily involved with the transportation robot project (TRP).

Past research projects:

• Structural evolution of Central Pattern Generators for bipedal walking (with Master's thesis student Almir Heralic)

• Evolution of bipedal walking on a simulated humanoid, by means of LGP.

• Passive-Dynamic Walker.

• Development of mini-humanoid robots. This work was partially carried out in collaboration with prof. Wolfgang Banzhaf and Jens Ziegler at Dortmund University, Chair of Systems Analysis, in Germany. Jens Barnholt has contributed to this work also.

• In the past, several of the projects within the Humanoid Project.

Selected Publications

• Wolff, K., Pettersson, J., Heralic, A., and Wahde, M. (2006) Structural evolution of central pattern generators for bipedal walking in 3D simulation, Accepted for publication in the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'06).

• Augustsson, P., Wolff, K., and Nordin, P. (2002). "Creation of a Learning, Flying Robot by Means of Evolution." In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2002 (pp. 1279-1285). New York, 9-13 July 2002. Morgan Kaufmann.
  Winner of the "Best Paper Award in Evolutionary Robotics" at GECCO 2002.
  Press coverage: article in IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine, Nov/Dec 2002, Vol. 17, No. 6, by Danna Voth, article in New Scientist, by Ian Sample.

For a complete list, see my publications page.

Teaching

Teaching for year academic year 08/09

• Humanoid Robotics.

• Artificial Intelligence 2 (ITUniv/ISD).

• Autonomous Agents.

Professional Activities

• Review Board Member of the 2007 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation (CEC), September 25-28, Singapore.

• Review Board Member of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (WCCI/CEC 2006), 16-21 July 2006, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

• Review Board Member of the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue on Morphology, Control and Passive Dynamics. Elsevier.

• Program Committee Member of the 8th European Conference on Genetic Programming EuroGP 2005, 30 March - 1 April 2005 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

• Rewiev Board Member of the International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies: CCCT'04, 14-17 August , 2004, Austin, Texas, USA

• Member of the RoboCupJunior International Committee for 2004.

• Program Committee Member of ASTC 2004, Business and Industry Symposium, 18-22 April, 2004, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

• Program Committee Member of the 7th European Conference on Genetic Programming EuroGP 2004, 5-7 April 2004, Coimbra, Portugal.

• Review Board Member of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR), Special Issue on Soccer-Playing Humanoid Robots.

• Review Board Member of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.

• Teaching in the International Masters Programme in Complex Adaptive Systems offered at Chalmers.

• ASTC 2003, Business and Industry Symposium:
  Session Chair, Invited to the International Round Table Discussion.

• SCI 2002: Session Chair, Evolutionary Programs track.

• Mechatronics 2002: Invited to Walking Machines Session.

• Program Committee Member of Sixth European Conference on Genetic Programming, euroGP2003, 14-16 April 2003, Colchester, England, UK.

• Node membership of the European Communities Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, EVONET.

• Membership of the European Robotics Research Network, EURON.

Supervisions

• Hanna Sjölinder, Detection of mastitis in cows using milk conductivity data. In cooperation with DeLaval, Stockholm, CAS Master's thesis project, fall 2005/spring 2006.

• Almir Heralic, Evolution of central pattern generators for biped walking, CAS Master's thesis project, fall 2005/spring 2006.

• Peter Hilmersson, Approaches to bipedal humanoid walk in simulation and reality, Master's thesis project, 2002.

• Simulated Evolution of Biped Walking, CAS Master Thesis Project, duration Fall 2003, Stefan Castille.

• CadGene, D3 project No.5, duration Fall 2002 /Spring 2003
  Linda Blomqvist, Filip Karlsson, Calle Lennartsson, Joel Steen-Timle, Daniel Cederman, David Larsson, Claes Verdoes, Anders Åström.

• Priscilla Humanoid Project, Jonas Martner

• Lightweight Humanoid, CAS Master Thesis Project, duration Fall 2002 /Spring 2003, Marcin Kucharski, Mikael Jansson.

Contact Information:

Visiting Address:
Chalmers, Campus Gibraltar
Hörsalsvägen 7A

Mail Address:
Dept. of Applied Mechanics
Chalmers University of Technology
S-41296 Göteborg, Sweden

Email: krister.wolff at chalmers.se
Phone: 31-7723625
Fax: 31-772----

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