Simon Schwaiger, MSc

I am a Lecturer/Researcher at University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien and Doctoral Student at Graz University of Technology, working on machine learning and modern control approaches in robotics as well as personal projects.

Publications

UGV-CBRN: An Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Disaster Response

Simon Schwaiger*, Lucas Muster*, Georg Novotny, Michael Schebek, Wilfried Wöber, Stefan Thalhammer, Christoph Böhm

Published in ArXiv, 2024

Integration and field test of disaster response mobile robot in cooperation with the Austrian Armed Forces.


Towards full Autonomy in Mobile Robot Navigation and Manipulation

Simon Schwaiger*, Lucas Muster*, Alessandro Scherl, Paolo Trivisonne, Wilfried Wöber, Stefan Thalhammer

Published in e+i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 2024

Showcase of data-driven robotics research at UAS Technikum to increase autonomy of robots in real world scenarios.


From Words to Poses: Enhancing Novel Object Pose Estimation with Vision Language Models

Tessa Pulli, Stefan Thalhammer, Simon Schwaiger, Markus Vincze

Published in Proceedings of IEEE ICRA@40, 2024

Advancing zero-shot 6D object pose estimation by leveraging geometric and semantic reconstruction with neural radiance fields.


On the Applicability of Docker Containers and systemd Services for Search and Rescue Applications

Georg Novotny, Simon Schwaiger, Lucas Muster, Mohamed Aburaia, Wilfried Wöber

Published in Proceedings of the Austrian Robotics Workshop 2023

Use of containerization (Docker), service management (systemd), and monitoring tools to enhance the maintenance and deployment of robotics systems in search and rescue operations.


Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Robot Trajectory Control

Simon Schwaiger, Mohamed Aburaia, Lucas Muster, Moritz Abdank, Wilfried Wöber

Published in Proceedings of the Austrian Robotics Workshop 2022

Continuous trajectory planning for 7DOF robots using various reinforcement learning algorithmns.


Explainable Artificial Intelligence For Robot Arm Control

Simon Schwaiger, Mohamed Aburaia, Ali Aburaia, Wilfried Wöber

Published in Proceedings of the 32nd International DAAAM Symposium 2021

Explainability examination of models performing discrete trajectory planning for 3DOF robots using policy iteration.


Open Loop Robot Control using Deep Q-Learning

Simon Schwaiger, Ali Aburaia, Mohamed Aburaia, Wilfried Wöber

Published in Proceedings of the Austrian Robotics Workshop 2021

Discrete trajectory planning for 3DOF robots using multi-goal reinforcement learning.


Evaluierung von Navigationsmethoden für mobile Roboter, Evaluation of navigation methodologies for mobile robots

Wilfried Wöber, Johannes Rauer, Maximilian Papa, Ali Aburaia, Simon Schwaiger, Georg Novotny, Mohamed Aburaia, Wilfried Kubinger

Published in e+i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 2020

Presentation of current research in the Technikum Digital Factory.