Master Thesis - Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

Acknowledgement
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Several people have contributed to the success of this work, whom I’d like to thank at this point.
I’d like to thank my colleagues at the BGIA, who contributed to this work by professional discussions
and hints on important literature, as well as the construction of the robot’s workplace. Especially I’d
like to thank my supervisor Dr. Michael Huelke for his constant support and Dr. Michael Schaefer for
making this work possible.
Also I’d like to thank my supervising professors, Prof. Dr. Dietmar Reinert and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard
K. Kraetzschmar, for their support and ideas on the improvement of the project.
I thank Jörn von der Lippe, who worked on a parallel master project on the same 3D camera, for
tossing back and forth ideas on algorithms and programming (e.g. see chapter 5.2.1) for one and a
halve year and for letting me reuse some of his code (e.g. see chapter 5.1.2).
Furthermore I thank the people at Reis GmbH & Co. KG Maschinenfabrik, especially Dipl.-Ing. Franz
Som and Michael Pfeiffer, for their detailed information on their hard- and software and for
contributing the robot, which was used in this project.
In addition I thank my proofreaders for their comments and suggestions.