Substitute

Dr. rer. nat. Javad Ghofrani

Interim Professorship in Service Robotics

Email: javad.ghofrani@uni-luebeck.de
Phone: +49 451 3101 6322
Office: Building 64, Room 120 (2nd Floor)
Address: Universität zu Lübeck
Institut für technische Informatik
Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Germany

Teaching

I am responsible of follwoing courses at University of Luebeck:

Seminar Bio-inspired Robotics "Cyber Physical Systems"
Evolutionary Robotics
Collective Robotics

Writing Scientific Work

Please note that your scientific work (e.g., master thesis) should cover following parts

Introduction (which explains the problem that you are aiming and why it is important to solve that specific problem)
Related work ( you should do some literature research and analysis of similar work done by others to show that you work is interesting for some scientific or industrial communities)
Propose your solution as an abstract model without implementations
Describe your implementation of the solution
Design of evaluation and experiments for showing that your solution is working
Show the results and discuss their details, and eventually compare your results with the results from part 2 (Related Work)
Conclusion

Teaching

WiSe 2026/27

Earlier semesters (9)

SoSe 2026: Bachelor-Projekt Informatik "Einführung in die disruptiven Technologien für Industrie 4.0", Bachelor-Seminar Informatik "Einführung in die disruptiven Technologien für Industrie 4.0", Collective Robotics for Master-AI, Englischsprachiges Seminar "System Architecture" für Masterstudierende, Evolutionary Robotics, Evolutionary Robotics for Master-AI, Fallstudie zur professionellen Produktentwicklung, Real-Time Systems for Master-AI, Seminare Bio-inspired Robotics und Cyber Physical Systems
WiSe 2025/26: Collective Robotics, Parallel Computing Systems for Master-AI, Parallelrechnersysteme, Seminare Bio-inspired Robotics und Cyber Physical Systems
WiSe 2024/25: Collective Robotics, Organic Computing, Parallel Computing Systems for Master-AI, Parallelrechnersysteme, Seminare Bio-inspired Robotics und Cyber Physical Systems
SoSe 2024: Bachelor-Seminar Informatik "Einführung in die disruptiven Technologien für Industrie 4.0", Collective Robotics for Master-AI, Englischsprachiges Seminar "System Architecture" für Masterstudierende, Evolutionary Robotics, Evolutionary Robotics for Master-AI, Mobile Roboter, Real-Time Systems, Real-Time Systems for Master-AI, Seminare Bio-inspired Robotics und Cyber Physical Systems, Wireless Sensor Networks (Drahtlose Sensornetze)
WiSe 2023/24: Bio-Robotik/Collective Robotics, Organic Computing
SoSe 2023: Evolutionary Robotics, Real-Time Systems
WiSe 2022/23: Bio-Robotik/Collective Robotics, Organic Computing, Seminar Bio-inspired Robotics "Cyber Physical Systems", Seminar Cyber Physical Systems
SoSe 2022: Evolutionary Robotics
WiSe 2020/21: Hardware/Software Co-Design

Completed projects

Publications

C. Starck and J. Ghofrani
Improving Load Balancing of Long-lived Streaming RPCs for gRPC-enabled Inter-service Communication
15th ZEUS Workshop, ZEUS 2023, 45-51, Hannover, Germany 2023, 2,023
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S. Nienaber, M. D. Soorati, A. Ghasemzadeh, and J. Ghofrani
Software Product Lines for Development of Evolutionary Robots
SPLC '23: Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference - Volume B, 77–84, Association for Computing Machinery, Tokyo, Japan 2023, 2,023
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J. Ghofrani, P. Heravi, K. A. Babaei, and M. D. Soorati
Trust challenges in reusing open source software: an interview-based initial study
SPLC '22: 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 110–116, ACM, New York, NY, United States 2022, 2,022
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M. D. Soorati, J. Clark, J. Ghofrani, D. Tarapore, and S. D. Ramchurn
Designing a User-Centered Interaction Interface for Human–Swarm Teaming
Drones 2021, 5(4):131, 2021, 2,021
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J. Ghofrani and T. Söldner
Kreislaufwirtschaft durch digitale Transformation ? Die Bedeutung der digitalen Transformation für die Kreislaufwirtschaft
Industrie 4.0 Management Report number: 5/2021, 2021, 2,021
RIS, BibTex

M. D. Soorati, P. Zahadat, J. Ghofrani, and H. Hamann
Adaptive Path Formation in Self-Assembling Robot Swarms by Tree-like Vascular Morphogenesis
Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol. 9, 299-311, Springer International Publishing, Cham 2019, 2,019
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M. D. Soorati, M. Krome, M. Mora-Mendoza, J. Ghofrani, and H. Hamann
Plasticity in Collective Decision-Making for Robots: Creating Global Reference Frames, Detecting Dynamic Environments, and Preventing Lock-ins
2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, Macau, China 2019, 2,019
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M. D. Soorati, M. K. Heinrich, J. Ghofrani, P. Zahadat, and H. Hamann
Photomorphogenesis for Robot Self-assembly: Adaptivity, Collective Decision-making, and Self-repair
Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, IOPScience, 2019, 2,019
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M. D. Soorati, J. Ghofrani, P. Zahadat, and H. Hamann
Robust and Adaptive Robot Self-Assembly Based on Vascular Morphogenesis
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 4282-4287, IEEE, Madrid 2018, 2,018
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