Sean Maroofi

I'm a research assistant at Hamburg University of Technology , affiliated with the Institue of Logistics Engineering . I earned a Master's degree in Mechatronics and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.

I've had the priviledge of working with Prof. Robert Seifried at the Institute of Mechanics and Ocean Engineering and Prof. Masayoshi Tomizuka at the Mechanical Systems Control Lab during my study abroad at UC Berkeley.

I'm interested in robot control and learning, with a particular passion for applications in dynamic and cluttered environments.

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News

11/2025 I attended ROSCon FR & DE 2025 in Strasbourg, France.
08/2025 We conducted a workshop on "Prediction of Robot Localization Failure" at IPIN 2025.
05/2025 We participated in a workshop on persistent challenges for robot applications in public space.
10/2024 We visited ROSCon 2024 in Odense, Denmark (to inofficial advertise our SLAM dataset 😉).

Research

Please find a list of my research work below, under review as well as papers ongoing/in preparation below (the superscript* indicates equal contribution).

	Dynamic Model Inversion of a Soft Robot using Servo Constraints Sean Maroofi, Malte Grube Robert Seifried Under Review, 2025 preprint Addressing model inversion of underactuated, redundant soft robots for dynamic control.
	Creating Data-Driven Models for Predicting Localization Failures for Mobile Robots Markus Knitt, Sean Maroofi, Maximilian Schmidt, Manav Thakkar, IPIN, 2025 project page \| conference page Workshop on predicition of localization loss in dynamic environments for precautionary actions.
	Synthetic Datasets for Data-Driven Localization Monitoring Markus Knitt, Sean Maroofi, Manav Thakkar, Hendrik Rose, Philipp Braun, Logistics Journal, 2025* DVC download \| conference page A collection of data sequences for induced localization failure of autonomous robots in ambiguous, dynamic environments.
	MRCD: Mobile Robot Campus Dataset for Evaluating SLAM Algorithms on Wheeled Robots Justin Ziegenbein, Noel Blunder, Sean Maroofi, Marko Thiel, Thien-Minh Nguyen, Hendrik Rose, Philipp Braun, Carlos Jahn Under Review, 2025* project page / preprint A multi-modal, outdoor SLAM dataset for wheeled robots in urban, large-scale environments.
	Integrating Delivery Robots into Public Transport Marko Thiel, Noel Blunder, Sean Maroofi, Justin Ziegenbein, Hendrik Rose, Workshop on Autonomous Delivery and Service Robots on Pedestrian and Cycle Paths, 2025 publication \| project page Industry-Academica dialogue on persistent challenges and restrictions in urban robot applications across Germany.

Projects

Throughout my academic career, I participated in a number of robot projects. Please find a list of my ongoing and completed projects below.

	Flowcean Sean Maroofi, Markus Knitt, Maximillian Schmidt, Swantje Plambeck, Christian Wieck, 12/2024 - Ongoing, Institute of Logistics Engineering, Hamburg University of Technology github / flowcean-ros A framework that bridges various popular machine learning libraries for developing models for cyber-physical systems in a streamlined fassion.
	TaBuLa-LOGplus Sean Maroofi, Noel Blunder, Justin Ziegenbein, Manuel Schrick, Marko Thiel 06/2024 - 12/2024, Institute of Logistics Engineering, Hamburg University of Technology project page / Youtube documentary Controlling mobile delivery robots and their transport in public service vehicles combining state-machine-design flow and remote control center communication.
	Design and Implementation of a framework for Reinforcement Learning Sean Maroofi, Chenran Li, Masayoshi Tomizuka, 08/2021 - 02/2023, Mechanical Systems Control Lab, University of California, Berkeley project page / research thesis Learning steering commands using soft-actor-critic for navigation in dense scenes.
	An Interaction Aware Trajectory Prediction Transformer For Racing Finn Lukas Busch, Sean Maroofi, Niklas Trekel, Spring 2022, CS282, University of California, Berkeley github page / technical report Vision transformers can predict trajectories of multiple vehicles in autonomous racing.

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Academic Teaching

Sidewalk Segmentation for Urban Robots (MA thesis Supervisor), Hamburg University of Technology
LLM Risk Awareness for Urban Robots (MA thesis Supervisor), Hamburg University of Technology
Design and Implementation of Software Systems, Hamburg University of Technology
Engineering Design Project, Hamburg University of Technology

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