Florian Tschopp

I am currently a Senior Perception Engineer in Mobile Robotics at Arrival Ltd., making robots see and enabling the next generation of manufacturing using autonomous mobile robots.

Recently, I completed my PhD at the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich under the supervision of Roland Siegwart.

My main research focus was to enable robust and large-scale mapping solutions for challenging scenarios, specifically high speed railway environments under vast appearance changes.

During my PhD, I led projects funded by Siemens Mobility on train positioning and Bosch on outdoor mapping where I tackled both hardware and software development, and performed many data collections on trains, trams and in underground mines.

Also, at ASL I was responsible for administering and maintaining many different IT infrastructures to enable efficient research for the whole lab.

I have received my Master's degree in Robotics, Systems and Control in 2017 and Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2014, both from ETH Zurich.

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Publications

High-Precision Low-Cost Gimballing Platform for Long-Range Railway Obstacle Detection
Elio Hajj Assaf*, Cornelius von Einem*, Cesar Cadena, Roland Siegwart, and Florian Tschopp, Sensors, 2022.

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Hough2Map – Iterative Event-based Hough Transform for High-Speed Railway Mapping
Florian Tschopp*, Cornelius von Einem*, Andrei Cramariuc*, David Hug, Andrew W. Palmer, Roland Siegwart, Margarita Chli, Juan Nieto, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021.

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Learning Trajectories for Visual-Inertial System Calibration via Model-based Heuristic Deep Reinforcement Learning
Le Chen*, Yunke Ao*, Florian Tschopp, Andrei Cramariuc, Michel Breyer, Jen Jen Chung, Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020.

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LCD – Line Clustering and Description for Place Recognition
Felix Taubner, Florian Tschopp, Tonci Novkovic, Roland Siegwart, Fadri Furrer, International Virtual Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2020.

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IDOL: A Framework for IMU-DVS Odometry using Lines
Cedric Le Gentil*, Florian Tschopp*, Ignacio Alzugaray, Theresa Vidal-Calleja, Roland Siegwart, Juan Nieto, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.

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VersaVIS — An Open Versatile Multi-Camera Visual-Inertial Sensor Suite
Florian Tschopp, Michael Riner, Marius Fehr, Lukas Bernreiter, Fadri Furrer, Tonci Novkovic, Andreas Pfrunder, Cesar Cadena, Roland Siegwart, Juan Nieto, Sensors, 2020.

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Experimental Comparison of Visual-Aided Odometry Methods for Rail Vehicles
Florian Tschopp, Thomas Schneider, Andrew W. Palmer, Navid Nourani-Vatani, Cesar Cadena, Roland Siegwart, Juan Nieto, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019.

Paper Paper, Video Video, Poster Poster
Ascento: A two-wheeled jumping robot
Victor Klemm*, Alessandro Morra*, Ciro Salzmann*, Florian Tschopp, Karen Bodie, Lionel Gulich, Nicola Ku ̈ng, Dominik Mannhart, Corentin Pfister, Marcus Vierneisel, Florian Weber, Robin Deuber, and Roland Siegwart, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019.

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Optimal Energy and Emission Management of a Diesel Hybrid Electric Vehicle Equipped with a Selective Catalytic Reduction System
Florian Tschopp, Tobias Nüesch, Mu Wang, and Christopher Onder, SAE International Journal of Alternative Powertrains, 2015.

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Workshops

Go Fetch: Mobile Manipulation in Unstructured Environments
Kenneth Blomqvist*, Michel Breyer*, Andrei Cramariuc*, Julian Förster*, Margarita Grinvald*, Florian Tschopp*, Jen Jen Chung, Lionel Ott, Juan Nieto, Roland Siegwart, Workshop on Perception, Action, Learning, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020.

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Teaching

Supervision of 40+ student projects (Master thesis, semester project, bachelor thesis and focus project), ETH Zurich
Teaching Assistant, ETH Zurich
Perception and Learning for Robotics - Spring 2021
Teaching Assistant, ETH Zurich
Autonomous Mobile Robots - Spring 2021
Teaching Assistant, ETH Zurich
Perception and Learning for Robotics - Spring 2020
Teaching Assistant, ETH Zurich
Autonomous Mobile Robots - Spring 2020
Teaching Assistant, ETH Zurich
Robotics Summer School, Summer 2019
Teaching Assistant, ETH Zurich
Autonomous Mobile Robots - Spring 2019
Teaching Assistant, ETH Zurich
Autonomous Mobile Robots - Spring 2018