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Linus Nwankwo, M.Sc.

Short Bio

Mr. Linus Nwankwo started as a PhD student at the Chair of Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPS) in August 2021.  Prior to joining CPS, he worked as a research intern at the Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringTechnische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany.

In 2020, he obtained his M.Sc. degree in Automation and Robotics, a speciality in control for Green Mechatronics (GreeM) at the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC), France. In his M.Sc. thesis,  he implemented a stabilisation control for a mobile inverted pendulum robot and investigated the possibility of controlling and stabilising the robot via CANopen communication network.

Research Interests

  • Robotics
    • Simultaneous localization & mapping (SLAM)
    • Path planning & autonomous navigation
  • Machine Learning
    • Large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs) 
    • Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning
    • Probabilistic learning for robotics 
  • Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
    • Intention-aware planning for social service robots
    • Social-aware and norm learning navigation
    • LLMs and VLMs for HRI

Research Videos

https://cps.unileoben.ac.at/wp/OpenRobot_Nwankwo2022_lowQ.mp4#t=1

Contact & Quick Links

M.Sc. Linus Nwankwo
Doctoral Student supervised by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elmar Rueckert since August 2021.
Montanuniversität Leoben
Franz-Josef-Straße 18, 
8700 Leoben, Austria 

Phone:  +43 3842 402 – 1901 (Sekretariat CPS)
Email:   linus.nwankwo@unileoben.ac.at 
Web Work: CPS-Page
Web Private: https://sites.google.com/view/linus-nwankwo
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Publications

2024

Nwankwo, Linus; Rueckert, Elmar

Multimodal Human-Autonomous Agents Interaction Using Pre-Trained Language and Visual Foundation Models Workshop

2024, ( In Workshop of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on HumanRobot Interaction (HRI ’24 Workshop), March 11–14, 2024, Boulder, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA).

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Multimodal Human-Autonomous Agents Interaction Using Pre-Trained Language and Visual Foundation Models

Nwankwo, Linus; Rueckert, Elmar

The Conversation is the Command: Interacting with Real-World Autonomous Robots Through Natural Language Proceedings Article

In: HRI '24: Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction., pp. 808–812, ACM/IEEE Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2024, ISBN: 9798400703232, (Published as late breaking results. Supplementary video: https://cloud.cps.unileoben.ac.at/index.php/s/fRE9XMosWDtJ339 ).

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The Conversation is the Command: Interacting with Real-World Autonomous Robots Through Natural Language

2023

Nwankwo, Linus; Rueckert, Elmar

Understanding why SLAM algorithms fail in modern indoor environments Proceedings Article

In: International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD). , pp. 186 - 194, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland., 2023.

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Understanding why SLAM algorithms fail in modern indoor environments

Nwankwo, Linus; Fritze, Clemens; Bartsch, Konrad; Rueckert, Elmar

ROMR: A ROS-based Open-source Mobile Robot Journal Article

In: HardwareX, vol. 15, pp. 1–29, 2023.

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ROMR: A ROS-based Open-source Mobile Robot