Dr.-Ing. Michael Angermann  DLR Oberpfaffenhofen Institute of Communications and Navigation 82234 Wessling Germany Phone: +49-8153-28-2893 Fax: +49-8153-28-1442 email: Michael.Angermann@dlr.de

Research Interests:

• Ubiquituous/Pervasive/Mobile Computing
• Context/Situation Awareness
• Information Theory
• Bayesian Methods (e.g. sequential Monte-Carlo filters aka "Particle Filters")
• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)

Collaboration:

I recently spent a research visit at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).
Within Daniela Rus' Distributed Robotics Lab (DRL), I am working with Brian Julian on visual navigation of quadrotors.

Teaching:

I am teaching the following classes at Universität der Bundeswehr München (University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich):

• Grundlagen der Kommunikation
• Sensornetze I
• Sensornetze II
• Sensornetze III

Demos:

• Diffusion Demo - This demo shows the generation of "reasonable" paths in our map-based mobility model

Current Projects:

• TEWS Tsunami Early Warning System (see also here)

• Daidalos II (see project website)
Daidalos second phase.

• Daidalos I (see project website)

• Heywow (see project website)

• UVviaWAP
  Prototype of a location-based service. The service provides information on exposure to UV radiation, based on the user's position and the current state of the ozone layer.


• ESA-SDS
  Signal Design Study for the Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)


• NAVSIM
  Development of an end-to-end simulation environment for future global satellite navigation systems (GNSS)

Publications:

2010

Martin Frassl, Michael Lichtenstern, Mohammed Khider, Michael Angermann,
"Developing a System for Information Management in Disaster Relief - Methodology and Requirements"
Proceedings of the 7th International ISCRAM Conference 2010,
Seattle, USA, May 2010 [pdf]

Patrick Robertson, Michael Angermann, Mohammed Khider, Bernhard Krach,
"SLAM Dance: Inertial-Based Joint Mapping and Positioning for Pedestrian Navigation"
InsideGNSS,
May 2010

Patrick Robertson, Michael Angermann, Mohammed Khider,
"Improving Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Pedestrian Navigation and Automatic Mapping of Buildings by using Online Human-Based Feature Labeling"
in Proc. IEEE/ION PLANS 2010,
May 2010, Palm Springs, CA, USA

2009

Patrick Robertson, Michael Angermann, Bernhard Krach,
"Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Pedestrians using only Foot-Mounted Inertial Sensors"
Proc. Ubicomp 2009,
30. Sep.-3. Oct. 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA [pdf]

Patrick Robertson, Michael Angermann, Bernhard Krach, Mohammed Khider,
"Inertial Systems Based Joint Mapping and Positioning for Pedestrian Navigation"
In Proc. ION GNSS 2009, 22. Sep. - 25. Sep. 2009,
Savannah, Georgia, USA [pdf]

Michael Angermann, Anne Friese, Mohammed Khider, Bernhard Krach, Klaus Krack, Patrick Robertson,
"A Reference Measurement Data Set for Multisensor Pedestrian Navigation with Accurate Ground Truth"
European Navigation Conference (ENC-GNSS 2009),
Naples, Italy, May 2009 [pdf]

Brian Julian, Mac Schwager, Michael Angermann, and Daniela Rus,
"A Location-based algorithm for multi-hopping state estimates within a distributed robot team"
In Proc. of the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR 09),
Cambridge, MA, July 14-16, 2009 [pdf]

2008

Michael Angermann, Walt Truszkowski,
"Communication and Localization Networks in Swarm-Intelligent Systems"
IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS 2008),
Orlando, Florida, Jan 2008 [pdf]

Mohammed Khider, Susanna Kaiser, Patrick Robertson, Michael Angermann,
"The Effect of Maps-Enhanced Novel Movement Models on Pedestrian Navigation Performance",
European Navigation Conference (ENC-GNSS 2008),
Toulouse, France, April 2008 [pdf]

Mohammed Khider, Susanna Kaiser, Patrick Robertson, Michael Angermann,
"A Novel Movement Model for Pedestrians Suitable for Personal Navigation",
Proceedings of the ION NTM 2008,
San Diego, USA, Jan 2008

Michael Angermann, Mohammed Khider and Patrick Robertson,
"Towards Operational Systems for Continuous Navigation of Rescue Teams",
Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2008,
Monterey, USA, May 2008 [pdf]

2006

Kai Wendlandt, Mohammed Khider, Patrick Robertson, Michael Angermann,
"Continuous Location and Direction Estimation with Multiple Sensors using Particle Filtering",
International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (IEEE MFI06),
Heidelberg, Germany, 2006 [pdf]

2005

Michael Angermann, Patrick Robertson, Thomas Strang,
"Issues and Requirements for Bayesian Approaches in Context Aware Systems"
International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2005), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, May 2005.

Maria Strimpakou, Ioanna Roussaki, Carsten Pils, Michael Angermann, Patrick Robertson, Miltiades E. Anagnostou,
"Context Modelling and Management in Ambient-Aware Pervasive Environments"
International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2005), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, May 2005 [pdf]

2004

Michael Angermann,
"Situation Awareness for Mobile Information Access in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks",
PhD thesis, University of Ulm, December 2004 [pdf]

Michael Angermann, Thomas Strang, Martin Kähmer, Michael Kreutzer,
"Rapidly Deployable Infrastructures for Communications and Localization in Disaster Management",
United Nations International Workshop on the Use of Space Technology for Disaster Management,
Munich, Germany, 18-22 October, 2004

Michael Angermann, Thaddaeus Dorsch, Jens Kammann, Patrick Robertson, Thomas Strang, Christian Wasel, Kai Wendlandt,
"Experiences from Ramping Up an Environment for Mobile Information Access",
Mobile HCI 2004 Workshop on Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access, Glasgow, UK, September 2004

2003

Michael Angermann, Jens Kammann, Bruno Lami,
"A New Mobility Model Based on Maps", Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference
(VTC Fall 2003), Orlanda, USA, October 6-9, 2003 [pdf]

Michael Angermann, "Differences in Cost and Benefit of Prefetching in Circuit-Switched and Packet-Switched Networks",
10th International Conference on Telecommunications IEEE ICT'2003,
February 23 - March 1, 2003 Tahiti, Papeete, French Polynesia [pdf]

2002

Michael Angermann, "Analysis of Speculative Prefetching",
ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review,
Volume 6, Number 2, April 2002  [pdf]

Michael Angermann, Jens Kammann,
"Cost Metrics for Decision Problems in Wireless Ad Hoc Networking",
In Proceedings IEEE CAS 2002,
Pasadena, USA, September 2002 [pdf]

2001

Michael Angermann, Jens Kammann, Patrick Robertson, Alexander Steingass,Thomas Strang,
"Software Representation for Heterogeneous Location Data Sources Within A Probabilistic Framework",
LOCELLUS 2001, International Symposium on Location Based Services for Cellular Users,
Munich, February 2001. [pdf]

Michael Angermann, Uwe-Carsten Fiebig, "Tutorial on Heterogenous Communication and Navigation
Infrastructures for ITS and Related Mobile Services", IV 2001, Tokyo, May 2001

Michael Angermann, Uwe-Carsten Fiebig, "Towards Unconstrained Mobility", SAINT 2001, San Diego,
January 2001

M. Angermann, J. Kammann, F. Kuehndel, P. Roberston, A. Steingass, T. Strang, "Heywow - Enjoyable
Mobile Commerce", Pervasive Computing 2001, Gaithersburg, Maryland, May 2001

2000

Michael Angermann, "SFDMA - Spatial Focus Division Multiple Access", IEE Colloquium on Capacity and
Range Enhancement Techniques for the Third Generation Mobile Communications and Beyond, London,
February 2000 [pdf]

1999

Michael Angermann, Wolfram Hiller, Patrick Robertson, Alexander Steingaß, "Galileo & Heywow -
Unleashing Wireless Information Devices", Keynote Session, JESS '99, Paris, Mai 1999

Michael Angermann, "Navigation Capabilities of Future Mobile Communication Systems -
Will Global Navigation Satellite Systems become obsolete ?", GNSS '99, Genova, October 1999 [pdf]

Alexander Steingaß, Michael Angermann, Patrick Robertson, "Integration of Navigation and
 Communication Services for Personal Travel Assistance Using a JINI and JAVA Based Architecture",
 GNSS '99, Genova, October 1999

A. Steingaß, M. Angermann, P. Robertson, J. Selva, J. Furthner, J. Hahn, A. Hornbostel, R. Kraemer,
H.P. Mueller, E. Engler, T. Noack, S. Schlueter "Modular Software Simulation for an End-To-End
Navigation System"; GNSS '99, Genova, October 1999

Alexander Steingaß, Michael Angermann, Armin Dammann, Robert Schweikert, Thomas Woerz,
"The Impact of High Power Amplifiers and their Associated Lowpass-Filters on Pseudorange Accuracy
 and the Spectrum of the Signal", GNSS '99, Genova, October 1999

Michael Angermann, Patrick Robertson, Alexander Steingaß, "Das "Heywow" Konzept zur persönlichen
Reisebegleitung", FachCongress Satellitenkommunikation-Globale Netze-Neue Services der ExpoNet '99,
Düsseldorf, October 1999

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