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M. Sc. Christopher Bohn

  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Campus Süd
    Institut für Regelungs- und Steuerungssysteme
    Geb. 11.20 (Engler-Villa)
    Kaiserstr. 12
    D-76131 Karlsruhe

Curriculum Vitae

Studies of electrical engineering and information technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Bachelor thesis at the Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), developing a driver assistant function for optimizing the energy efficiency of the traffic flow (2016). Internships at TRUMPF Inc. in Farmington, CT (USA) on optimizing the control of laser cutting machines and at BOSCH SEA Pte. Ltd. in Singapore contributing to the core development of an Ubuntu Linux based operating system. Master thesis at the Institute of Control Systems (IRS), developing an intention based cooperative control concept for human-robot-interaction with a variable level of automation (2019).

Member of the scientific staff and head of the Functional Safety Control research group at the IRS since April 2024

Research

Computation of reachable sets for motion planning of highly automated vehicles

Highly automated vehicles have the potential to transform our mobility: They can contribute to increased safety and efficiency in road traffic and increase the comfort of individual mobility. However, these and other advantages only come into play if the safety of such vehicles can be guaranteed - because the integrity of people must never be exposed to an increased risk.

As part of my research, I deal with methods for calculating reachable sets that a vehicle can reach by guarantee within a predicted time horizon. The focus here is on over-actuated vehicles both, under ideal conditions and in abnormal situations, for example, after actuators have partially failed or on slippery roads.

My goal is to communicate the determined reachable sets in a suitable form to the motion planning of a vehicle so that they can be explicitly taken into account there. Thereby, it can be guaranteed that all planned vehicle motions can be implemented - especially ways out of potentially critical situations.

Such a concept could contribute to increasing the safety of highly automated vehicles and to quickening their entry into our everyday lives.

Teaching

Publications


2024
Time and Memory-Efficient Computation of Hamilton-Jacobi Reachable Sets Based on a Level Set Method Employing Adaptive Grids
Bohn, C.; Reis, P.; Schwartz, M.; Hohmann, S.
2024. 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 13-15 December 2023, 8235–8241, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10383317
2023
Efficient Computation of Inner Approximations of Reachable Sets for a Verified Motion Planning Concept
Bohn, C.; Riegert, J.; Siebenrock, F.; Schwartz, M.; Hohmann, S.
2023. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56 (2), 10664–10670. doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.10.716
2022
Model Predictive Reference Generation of Wheel-Individually Controlled Vehicles
Schwartz, M.; Wang, T.; Bohn, C.; Hohmann, S.
2022. 2022 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA): Trieste, August 22-25, 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/CCTA49430.2022.9966023
2020
A Cooperative Assistant System with Smoothly Shifting Control Authority Based on Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
Braun, C. A.; Bohn, C.; Inga, J.; Hohmann, S.
2020. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Toronto, ON, Canada, October 11–14, 2020., 806–811, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/SMC42975.2020.9283176