Sorin Mihai Grigorescu


E-mail: s.grigorescu AT unitbv.ro
sg AT grigorescu.net


Dr. Sorin Mihai Grigorescu received the Dipl.-Eng. Degree in Control Engineering and Computer Science from the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in Process Control from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2010. Between 2006 and 2010 he was a member of the Institute of Automation, University of Bremen. From 2009 to 2010 he coordinated the FRIEND service robotics project. Since June 2010 he is affiliated with the Department of Automation at UTBv, where he leads the Robust Vision and Control Laboratory. Sorin M. Grigorescu was an exchange researcher at several institutes, such as the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group (Technische Universitaet Muenchen), the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) or the Robotic Intelligence Lab in University Jaume I. He is a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) and of the Romanian Society for Automatic Control and Applied Informatics (SRAIT). His research interests include Robust Vision, Feedback Control in Image Processing and Service Robotics.

Since 1 August, 2010: Head of ROVIS Lab at the Institute of Automation, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania.
1 June 2009 - 31 July 2010: Head of the FRIEND project at the Institute of Automation, University of Bremen, Germany.
1 November 2006 - 31 July 2010: PhD student at the Institute of Automation, University of Bremen, Germany. Date of dissertation colloquium: 22 January 2010.
1 October 2000 - 30 September 2006: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Transilvania University of Brasov, Diploma Engineer (graduated head of the 2006 promotion).

Highlights

3D camera pose and scene structure estimation (see Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2011)
Brain Computer Interface (BCI) robotic control; A sample of my brain waves (see ROBOTICA 2011) KurierAmSonntag BCI-Grigorescu
Activities of daily living with the FRIEND assistive robot (2009)
Working in a library with the FRIEND assistive robot (2009)
Quality control in a rehabilitation workshop with the FRIEND assistive robot (2009)

Press releases
Kurier Am Sonntag (May 2008) KurierAmSonntag
Die Norddeutsche (June 2009) Die-Norddeutsche
Beatmet Leben (January 2010) Beatmet-leben
Syker Kreiszeitung (June 2010) Syker-Kreiszeitung


Selected publications

  • S.M. Grigorescu, G. Macesanu, T.T. Cocias, D. Puiu and F. Moldoveanu "Robust Camera Pose and Scene Structure Analysis for Service Robotics", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, Netherlands, 2011.

  • S.M. Grigorescu, T. Lueth, C. Fragkopoulos, M. Cyriacks and A. Graeser "A BCI Controlled Robotic Assistant for Quadriplegic People in Domestic and Professional Life", ROBOTICA, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2011.

  • S.M. Grigorescu and F. Moldoveanu "Controlling Depth Estimation for Robust Robotic Perception", Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 28 - September 2, 2011 (PPT Presentation).

  • C.N. Boldisor, V. Comnac, S. Coman and S.M. Grigorescu "A Combined Experience and Model Based Design Methodology of a Fuzzy Control System for Mean Arterial Pressure and Cardiac Output", Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, August 28 - September 2, 2011.

  • S.M. Grigorescu Robust Machine Vision for Service Robotics, PhD Thesis, Institute of Automation, University Bremen, Shaker-Verlag, Aachen, 2010.

  • S.M. Grigorescu, S. Natarajan, D. Mronga and A. Graeser "Robust Feature Extraction for 3D Reconstruction of Boundary Segmented Objects in a Robotic Library Scenario", Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE-RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems IROS, Taipei, Taiwan, October 18-22, 2010.

  • S.M. Grigorescu and A. Graeser "Robust Machine Vision for Complex Service Robotic Systems" (invited paper), Proceedings of the X Triennial International SAUM Conference on Systems, Automatic Control and Measurements, Nis, Serbia, November 10-12, 2010.

  • S.M. Grigorescu, D. Ristic-Durrant and A. Graeser "RObust machine VIsion for Service robotic system FRIEND", Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE-RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems IROS, St. Louis, USA, October 10-15, pp. 3574-3581, 2009.

  • R. Tschakarow, S.M. Grigorescu and A. Graeser "FRIEND - a Dependable Semiautonomous Rehabilitation Robot", Proceedings of the Joint 41th International Symposium on Robotics and 6th German Conference on Robotics, pp. 327-378, Munich, Germany, June 07-09, 2010.

  • T. Heyer, S.M. Grigorescu and A. Graeser "Camera Calibration for Reliable Object Manipulation in Care-providing System FRIEND", Proceedings of the Joint 41th International Symposium on Robotics and 6th German Conference on Robotics, pp. 446-451, Munich, Germany, June 07-09, 2010.

  • S.M. Grigorescu and A. Graeser "Model Driven Developed Machine Vision System for Service Robotics", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipments - OPTIM 2010, pp. 877-883, Brasov, Romania, May 20-22, 2010.

  • S.M. Grigorescu, D. Ristic-Durrant, S.K. Vupalla and A. Graeser "Closed-Loop Control in Image Processing for Improvement of Object Recognition", Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July 06-11, 2008.

  • S.M. Grigorescu and D. Ristic-Durrant "Robust Extraction of Object Features in the System FRIEND II", Methods and Applications in Automation, Shaker Verlag, Series 1, No. 2, pp. 97-107, 2008.

  • S.K. Vuppala, S.M. Grigorescu, D. Ristic-Durrant and A. Graeser "Robust Color Object Recognition for a Service Robotic Task in the System", Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics 2007, Noordwijk, Netherlands, June 13-15, 2007, pp. 704 - 713, 2007.

    Teaching

  • Machine Vision (in romanian): Lectures presentations in *.zip file.

    Projects

    ROVIS Machine Vision Framework.
    SVN repository: http://rovis.unitbv.ro/rovis