Olov Andersson
Scholar

Olov Andersson

Google Scholar ID: 1lCMaQgAAAAJ
Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Previously: ASL@ETH Zurich
Robot LearningAutonomous RobotsMotion PlanningMappingNavigation
Citations & Impact
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Citations
709
 
H-index
13
 
i10-index
13
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
8
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Key member of CERBERUS, the winning team of the DARPA SubT Challenge
  • Led development of a novel long-range autonomous drone for unknown 3D environments
  • Flying metal detector project featured in IEEE Spectrum
  • Co-chaired a workshop on robot perception in dynamic environments at IROS 2024 with researchers from MIT, ETH Zurich, Stanford, Google, and Amazon
  • Discussed the potential of AI robots with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson during his AI initiative visit to KTH in December 2023
Research Experience
  • Senior Researcher (2020–2023) at the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL), ETH Zurich, under Prof. Roland Siegwart
  • Supervised multiple PhD students and research projects at ETH
  • Led an ArmaSuisse project on a flying metal detector concept for humanitarian demining
  • Led the mobile manipulation component in the EU H2020 Heron project for robotic road repair
  • Currently Assistant Professor at the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning, KTH, supervising PhD students, postdocs, and research engineers