Institute of Microwaves and Photonics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
(07/2013 - 04/2017)

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose learn. (John C. Maxwell)
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. (Steve Jobs)

Publications

• Y. Dobrev, T. Pavlenko, J. Geiß, M. Lipka, P. Gulden, and M. Vossiek, “A 24-GHz Wireless Locating System for Human–Robot Interaction,” IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech.vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 2036-2044, May 2019.
• Y. Dobrev, “Accurate and Reliable Mobile Robots Localization Based on Secondary Radar and Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion,” PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2018.
• Y. Dobrev, P. Gulden, and M. Vossiek, “An Indoor Positioning System Based on Wireless Range and Angle Measurements Assisted by Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion for Service Robot Application,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 69036-69052, Nov. 2018.
• Y. Dobrev, “Wireless Local Positioning of Straddle Carriers, Mobile Robots, and UAVs for Tracking and Autonomous Navigation,” invited talk presented at the IEEE MTT-S Int. Conf. on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM 2018), Munich, Germany, Apr. 2018.
• Y. Dobrev, Yavor Dobrev, P. Gulden, M. Lipka, T. Pavlenko, D. Moormann, and M. Vossiek, “Radar-Based High-Accuracy 3D Localization of UAVs for Landing in GNSS-Denied Environments,” in Proc. of the IEEE MTT-S Int. Conf. on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM 2018), Munich, Germany, Apr. 2018.
• Y. Dobrev, M. Vossiek, M. Christmann, I. Bilous, and P. Gulden, “Steady Delivery: Wireless Local Positioning Systems for Tracking and Autonomous Navigation of Transport Vehicles and Mobile Robots,” IEEE Microwave Magazine, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 26-37, Sept.-Oct. 2017.
• Y. Dobrev, D. Shmakov, I. Bilous, T. Pavlenko, C. Reustle, and M. Vossiek, “A Wireless Localization Network for 6D Pose Estimation,” in Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition – IPSN 2016, Vienna, Austria, 2016 (unpublished).
• Y. Dobrev, C. Reustle, and M. Vossiek, “Self-Organizing 3D Wireless Local Positioning Networks for Robot Swarms,” presented at IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium 2016 (IMS 2016), San Francisco, CA, May 2016.
• Y. Dobrev, C. Reustle, T. Pavlenko, F. Cordes, and M. Vossiek, “Mobile Robot 6D Pose Estimation Using a Wireless Localization Network,” in Proc. of the IEEE MTT-S Int. Conf. on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM 2016), San Diego, USA, May 2016.
• Y. Dobrev, S. Flores, and M. Vossiek, “Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion for Indoor Mobile Robot Pose Estimation,” in Proc. of the IEEE/ION Position Location and Navigation Symp. (PLANS), Savannah, USA, 2016.
• Y. Dobrev, D. Shmakov, and M. Vossiek, “A Bilateral 24 GHz Wireless Positioning System for 3D Real-Time Localization of People and Mobile Robots,” in Proc. of the IEEE MTT-S International Conf. on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM 2015), Heidelberg, Germany, Apr. 2015.


• T. Pavlenko, M. Schütz, Y. Dobrev, and M. Vossiek, “Design of Sparse Dome Antenna Array for Angle of Arrival Localization Systems,” in Proc. of the 13th European Conf. on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP 2019), Krakow, Poland, Apr. 2019 (accepted for presentation).
• M. Lipka, E. Sippel, M. Hehn, J. Adametz, M. Vossiek, Y. Dobrev and P. Gulden, “Wireless 3D Localization Concept for Industrial Automation Based on a Bearings Only Extended Kalman Filter,” in Proc. of the 2018 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conf., Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 2018.
• M. Schütz, Y. Dobrev, T. Pavlenko, and M. Vossiek, “A Secondary Surveillance Radar with Miniaturized Transponders for Localization of Small-Sized UAVs in Controlled Air Space,” in Proc. of the 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Aerospace (MetroAeorspace), Rome, Italy, June 2018.
• F. Kirsch, M. Gottinger, Y. Dobrev, and M. Vossiek, “Advanced Wireless Local Positioning via Compressed Sensing,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 25110-25120, Apr. 2018.
• M. Schütz, Y. Dobrev, C. Carlowitz, and M. Vossiek, “Wireless Local Positioning with SILO-Based Backscatter Transponders for Autonomous Robot Navigation,” in Proc. of the IEEE MTT-S Int. Conf. on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility (ICMIM 2018), Munich, Germany, Apr. 2018.
• T. Pavlenko, C. Reustle, Y. Dobrev, M. Gottinger, L. Jassoume, and M. Vossiek, “Design and Optimization of Sparse Planar Antenna Arrays for Wireless 3D Local Positioning Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 7288-7297, Dec. 2017.
• M. Pöpperl, Y. Dobrev, M. Gottinger, C. Mandel, R. Jakoby, and M. Vossiek, “Chipless UWB TDR RFID Landmark-Based Positioning Using Polarimetric Filtering,” in Proc. of the IEEE MTT-S Int. Conf. on Microwaves for Intelligent Mobility, San Diego, USA, May 2016.

Projects

• German Space Agency (DLR) VaMEx-LAOLa, registration no. 50NA1528, 2016-2019.
• Participation in the Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition 2016, 4th place out of 31 .
• German Space Agency (DLR) TransTerrA, registration no. 50RA1301, 2015-2016.
• Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) iserveU, registration no. 01IM12008F, 2013-2016.
• German Space Agency (DLR) SOKOROB, registration no. 50RA1205, 2012-2015.

Chair of Microelectronics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
(04/2011 - 06/2013)

Publications

• P. Volkert and C. Xu, “Principle and validation of digital driving for active matrix organic light emitting diodes displays,” J. Soc. Inf. Disp., vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 43–54, Jan. 2014.
• Y. Dobrev, P. Volkert, and C. Xu, “Feasibility Study of Digital Driving for AMOLED Displays,” in EuroDisplay 2013, London, UK, 2013.
• Y. Dobrev, P. Volkert, and C. Xu, “Advantages and Challenges of Digital Driving for AMOLED Displays,” presented at electronic displays Conf., Nuremberg, Germany, 2013.
• C. Xu and Y. Dobrev, “Digital Driving Method Utilizing Image Decomposition for Nonuniformity Compensation of AMOLED Displays,” in IMID, Daegu, South Korea, 2012.

Hobby

• Reconnect Android app to help you reconnect with nature.
• Smart Headset Assistant Android app to control a smartphone from a headset.
• Read4Me TTS Clipboard Reader Windows program to read the clipboard content and convert text to mp3 using TTS.
• antday.com A website about ants and antfarms.
• piedpapers.com A scholarly goodreads for academic papers.