Robotics Engineer & PhD Researcher — Mobile Robotics · SLAM · Computer Vision · Human-Robot Interaction
Neuro-Information Technology (NIT), Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
I am a robotics engineer and PhD researcher (Doktorand) in the Neuro-Information Technology (NIT) group at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany, working on autonomous mobile robots that perceive, reason about, and navigate human environments.
My work spans the full autonomy stack — multi-sensor perception and fusion (RGB-D, 2D/3D LiDAR, IMU), visual, dynamic, and semantic SLAM, human action recognition and engagement estimation, through to human-aware navigation and LLM/VLA-driven robot task control. Systems are validated in simulation and on real hardware, primarily the PAL Robotics TIAGo platform, using ROS / ROS 2 and Nav2.
📍 Magdeburg, Germany · 🌐 aibomech.github.io — projects, publications, and tutorials
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A["📷 Perception &<br/>Sensor Fusion"] --> B["🗺️ Dynamic &<br/>Semantic SLAM"]
B --> C["🚶 Human Action &<br/>Trajectory Analysis"]
C --> D["🤝 Human-Robot<br/>Interaction"]
D --> E["🧭 Human-Aware Nav<br/>ROS 2 · Nav2"]
E --> F["🦾 LLM / VLA<br/>Robot Control"]
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| Area | What I work on |
|---|---|
| 📷 Perception & Multi-Sensor Fusion | Late-fusion of RGB-D point clouds with 2D LiDAR for robust mapping; noise filtering and degeneracy handling |
| 🗺️ Visual, Dynamic & Semantic SLAM | RGB-D SLAM that stays accurate when people and objects move through the scene, instead of assuming a static world |
| 🚶 Human Action Recognition | ResNet + Bi-LSTM with multi-head attention and optical-flow frame selection for real-time HAR in assistive robotics |
| 🤝 Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) | Eye-contact and engagement prediction for efficient, legible interaction between robots and people |
| 🧭 Navigation & Motion Planning | ROS / ROS 2 and Nav2 navigation stacks, enhanced Gmapping (EGM), adaptive resampling, real-world TIAGo deployment |
| 🦾 LLM / VLA for Robot Control | Integrating large language and vision-language-action models into everyday robot automation and task planning |
| 🦿 Robot Manipulators & Kinematics | Kinematic/kinetic analysis, trajectory planning, and grasping for robotic arms |
I publish practical robotics tutorials on YouTube @AIBOMECH — ROS and ROS 2 fundamentals, Nav2 configuration, SLAM setup, TIAGo simulation, and computer vision for robotics. Built for engineers and researchers who want working code, not slideware.
Robotics ROS 2 · ROS 1 · Nav2 · MoveIt · Gazebo · RViz · TF2 · Behavior Trees · SMACH · Gmapping · RTAB-Map · PAL TIAGo · URDF/Xacro Perception & CV OpenCV · Open3D · PCL · RGB-D processing · 2D/3D LiDAR · point cloud filtering · optical flow · semantic segmentation · object detection · pose & gaze estimation AI / ML PyTorch · TensorFlow · ResNet · Bi-LSTM · multi-head attention · Transformers · LLM & VLA integration · CUDA Languages Python · C++ · MATLAB · Bash Tooling Docker · Git · Linux (Ubuntu) · CMake · colcon · NumPy · Pandas
Open to research collaborations, industry R&D roles, postdoc partnerships, and invited talks or tutorials in mobile robotics, SLAM, perception, human-robot interaction, and embodied AI.
Portfolio · Scholar · LinkedIn · YouTube · basheer.al-tawil@ovgu.de
Research areas: Robotics Engineer · PhD Researcher · Mobile Robotics · Autonomous Navigation · SLAM · Visual SLAM · Semantic SLAM · Dynamic SLAM · RGB-D SLAM · Gmapping · RTAB-Map · ROS · ROS 2 · Nav2 · MoveIt · Gazebo · Computer Vision · Multi-Sensor Fusion · LiDAR · Point Cloud Processing · Deep Learning · PyTorch · Human Action Recognition · Gaze Estimation · Engagement Prediction · Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · Social Navigation · Motion Planning · Robot Manipulators · Vision-Language-Action (VLA) · Vision-Language Models (VLM) · Large Language Models (LLM) · Embodied AI · TIAGo · PAL Robotics · Neuro-Information Technology · OVGU · Magdeburg · Germany