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Alina Hawkin

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Research Staff
Room: 2.81
Mail: hawkin(at)uni-bremen[dot]de

About me

I am interested in teaching robots new everyday manipulation tasks based on their own prior experiences and demonstrations by humans in Virtual Reality. In the later, one can show robots new tasks my demonstrating them as a human, or by being a robot in VR. I enjoy working with real robots the most and have gathered some experience working with the PR2(Willow Garage), HSR(Toyota), Pepper(Aldebaran/Softbank), DonBot(IAI, UR5) and soon also the TIAGo (PAL Robotics).

Projects

Supervised Student Projects

Supervised Thesis

Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[1]Dennis Mronga, Andreas Bresser, Fabias Maas genannt Bermpohl, Adrian Danzglock, Simon Stelter, Alina Hawkin, Giang Nguyen, Michael Beetz and Frank Kirchner, "MARLIN: A cloud integrated robotic solution to support intralogistics in retail", In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 175, pp. 104654, 2024. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
Conference Papers
[2]Gayane Kazhoyan, Alina Hawkin, Sebastian Koralewski, Andrei Haidu and Michael Beetz, "Learning Motion Parameterizations of Mobile Pick and Place Actions from Observing Humans in Virtual Environments", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. [bibtex] [doi]
[3]Michaela Kümpel, Jonas Dech, Alina Hawkin and Michael Beetz, "Robotic Shopping Assistance for Everyone: Dynamic Query Generation on a Semantic Digital Twin as a Basis for Autonomous Shopping Assistance", In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023), London, United Kingdom, pp. 2523–2525, 2023. [bibtex] [pdf]
[4]Nils Leusmann, Glareh Mir, Giang Nguyen, Simon Stelter, Kaviya Dhanabalachandran, Cagatay Odabasi, Maik Malki, Alina Hawkin, Felix Bazlen and Michael Beetz, "Retail SemDT Collection Knowledge-base, A Platform Architecture", In 2023 IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC), pp. 1–6, 2023. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[5]Kümpel, M., Dech, J., Hawkin, A. and Beetz, Michael, "Evaluation of Autonomous Shopping Assistants Using Semantic Digital Twin Stores", In AIC'23: 9th workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition, 2023. [bibtex]
[6]Kümpel, Michaela, Hassouna, Vanessa, Hawkin, Alina and Beetz, Michael, "Between Input and Output: The Importance of Modelling Transients in Meal Preparation Tasks", In Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) - Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology, and satellite events co-located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), July 15-19, 2024, Enschede, The Netherlands., 2024. [bibtex]

Own Thesis

Bachelor's Thesis of Alina Hawkin “Towards Robots Executing Observed Manipulation Activities of Humans” (2018)

Master's Thesis of Alina Hawkin “Teaching robots manipulation skills with human-controlled robot bodies – Spend a day in Virtual Reality inside a robot's body” (2020)