I’m involved in the Carpe Noctem RoboCup Team we have stated in late 2005. We designed a team of robots that can move, kick, and recognize their environment through an omni-directional camera (the camera is looking upwards onto an axially symmetric mirror; this emulates an ultra-wide angle lens).

Within this project I’m pursuing my PhD topic: A framework platform-independent secure robot collaboration. It deals with communication issues and security requirements for groups of autonomous mobile systems.

I’m also very interested in applied cryptography, crypto protocols, and computer security. My diploma thesis dealt with authentication in groups of distributed systems which perfectly represents my interests in this area.

As a part of my job I take part in research and training.

• WS 2005/2006: Tutor Distributed Systems — Architectures and Services
• WS 2006/2007: Tutor Distributed Systems — Architectures and Services
• SS 2007: Tutor Techniques and Services of the Internet
• WS 2007/2008: Seminar Seminar Security in Distributed Systems — KaSWoSDS’07
• WS 2007/2008: Tutor Distributed Systems — Architectures and Services
• SS 2008: Lecturer/Tutor Autonomous Mobile Robots

The following diploma/bachelor/master theses have been conducted in out robotics lab; most of them have been (co-)supervised by me.

• Florian Seute.
  Gestenerkennung in Autonomen Robotern.
  Bachelor’s Thesis, Kassel University, 2008. In progress.
• Andreas Scharf.
  Grafische Verhaltensmodellierung für Kooperative Autonome Roboter.
  Bachelor’s Thesis, Kassel University, 2008. In progress.
• Stefan Triller.
  A Cooperative Behaviour Model for Autonomous Robots in Dynamic Domains.
  Diploma Thesis, Kassel University, 2008. In progress.
• Jens Wollenhaupt.
  Kai Baumgart.
  Powermanagement in solarbetriebenen autonomen Robotern.
  Diploma Thesis, Kassel University, 2008.

• Marco Schwalm.
  Entwicklung eines Lade- und Monitoringsystems für NiMH-Akkus.
  Diploma Thesis, Kassel University, 2007.
• Daniel Saur.
  Einsatz von Lernverfahren zur Verhaltenssteuerung autonomer mobiler Roboter.
  Diploma Thesis, Kassel University, 2007.
• Christof Hoppe.
  Einsatz von Clusterungsverfahren zur automatischen Adaption der Farbkalibrierung autonomer Roboter.
  Bachelor’s Thesis, Kassel University, 2007.

• Kai Schönewald.
  Simulationsumgebung für autonome mobile Roboter.
  Diploma Thesis, Kassel University, 2006.

Head of the Distributed Autonomous Systems Laboratory (together with Roland Reichle)

Philipp A. Baer and Roland Reichle: Communication and Collaboration in Heterogeneous Teams of Soccer Robots. In Robotic Soccer, ISBN 978-3-902613-21-9, December 2007.

Philipp A. Baer, Roland Reichle, Michael Zapf, Thomas Weise, and Kurt Geihs: A Generative Approach to the Development of Autonomous Robot Software. In Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (EASe 2007), pages 43–52, 2007.

Ulrich Kaufmann, Roland Reichle, Christof Hoppe, and Philipp A. Baer: An Unsupervised Approach for Adaptive Color Segmentation. International Workshop on Robot Vision, VISAPP 2007.

Philipp A. Baer. Designing Secure Protocol Implementations. 3. Krypto-Tag – Workshop über Kryptographie, page 10. Technische Universität Darmstadt, TR TI-1/05, September 15, 2005.

Philipp A. Baer. Group Authentication and Encryption in Distributed Environments. 1. Krypto-Tag – Workshop über Kryptographie, Universität Mannheim, Reihe Informatik, TR 2004-10 (2004).

Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Gerd Mayer, Hans Utz, Philipp Baer, Martin Claus, Ulrich Kaufmann, Martin Lauer, Simon Natterer, Sebastian Przewoznik, Roland Reichle, Christoph Sitter, Florian Sterk, and Günther Palm. The Ulm Sparrows 2004. RoboCup 2004 International Symposium Padua, Italy July 4-5, 2004.

Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Gerd Mayer, Hans Utz, Philipp Baer, Martin Claus, Ulrich Kaufmann, Martin Lauer, Simon Natterer, Sebastian Przewoznik, Roland Reichle, Alexander Reisser, Axel Roth, Miriam Schmidt, Christoph Sitter, Florian Sterk, and Günther Palm. The Ulm Sparrows 2003. RoboCup 2003 International Symposium Padua, Italy July 10-11, 2003.

Hans Utz, Gerd Mayer, Dominik Maschke, Alexander Neubeck, Peter Schaeffer, Philipp Baer, Ingmar Baetge, Jan Fischer, Roland Holzer, Martin Lauer, Alexander Reisser, Florian Sterk, Günther Palm, and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar. The Ulm Sparrows 2001. Proceedings of RoboCup-2001 Symposium.

Research Colloquium, Kassel, 2008: Spica — Communication Infrastructures for Mobile Robots

Research Colloquium, Kassel, 2007: Mobile Robot Communication Modelling

EASe Workshop, Tucson, AZ, USA, 2007: A Generative Approach to the Development of Autonomous Robot Software

Kryptotag 3, Darmstadt, 2005: Designing Secure Protocol Implementations

• Roland Reichle (Distributed Systems Group, Kassel University)
• Ulrich Kaufmann (Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm)
• Dietmar Wahl (Institute of Optoelectronics, University of Ulm)
• Peter Ulbrich (Department of Computer Sciences 4, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
• Hans Utz (RIACS, Intelligent Robotics Group, NASA Ames Research Center)
• Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar (Autonomous Systems Program, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg)
• Tobias Eibach (Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, University of Ulm)