• Student's contact person (Master Theses, Diploma Theses, Werkstudenten)
• Supervisor of RoboSoccer

• Indoor navigation based on multiple sensor systems
• Inertial sensor based indoor localization
• WiFi based indoor position estimation
• Indoor Map creation
• Navigation algorithms optimized for indoor scenarios
• Map-matching and pattern recognition in indoor environments
• Magnetic field analysis in indoor environments
• Medical sensors
• Low power sensor systems
• Sensor fusion

InPriMo: Prevention with mobile terminals of the future (terminated)

PiNav: Pedestrian Indoor Navigation

Martin Schäfer has studied Electrical Engineering at the TUD (Darmstadt) and General  Engineering at the ECL (LYON). He received his diploma in December  2005. He joined the Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems in January 2006 as a research associate.

2011

• Improving Pedestrian Indoor Localization via Magnetic Fingerprinting
  (Michael Balszun, Diploma Thesis)
• Recognizing characteristic Movement Patters using Hidden Markov Models
  (Alexander Schreiber, Bachelor Thesis)
• Indoor Localization using WiFi Fingerprinting (Robert Katzschner, Bachelor Thesis)
  
  

2010

• Automatic generation of navigatable indoormaps out of CAD-Drawings
  (Christian Knapp, Bachelor Thesis)
• Pedestrian Indoor Localization and Tracking using a Particle Filter combined with a learning Accessibility Map (Julian Straub, Bachelor Thesis)

2009

• Design and Implementation of an FPGA-based Stereo Vision System for the EyeBot M6 (Benedikt Dietrich, Diploma Thesis)
• Simulation and Implementation of Climax Squelch functions for ATC receivers (Thomas Gebauer, Diploma Thesis)
• WiFi based localization on an ARM9 System (Martin Obermeir, Diploma Thesis)

 2008

• Setup and Evaluation of a mobile Pulse-oxymeter based on the MSP430 Microcontroller (Benjamin Schrödl, Bachelor Thesis)
• A Robotic Foot-Ankle System for Stable Dynamic Motions (Florian Petit, Diploma Thesis)
• Discovery and Detection of Surgical Activity in Percutaneous Vetebroplasty (Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi, Diploma Thesis)
• Fusion of MEMS Sensors for innertial Measurements on an ARM9 based Microcontroller (Georg Schwarzenböck, Diploma Thesis)
• Development of a Dead Reckoning Prototype for Personal Localization (Thomas Gebauer, Bachelor Thesis)

2007

• Implementation and Evaluation of the Micro System Data Format on the MSP430 Microcontroller (Benedikt Dietrich, Bachelor Thesis)
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Sensor-Framework based on the MSP430 Microcontroller (Georg Schwarzenböck, Bachelor Thesis)