@inproceedings{AlhwarinSchifferFerreinetal.2019,
  author    = {Alhwarin, Faraj and Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander and Scholl, Ingrid},
  title     = {An Optimized Method for 3D Body Scanning Applications Based on KinectFusion},
  series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
  volume    = {1024},
  booktitle = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
  publisher = {Springer},
  issn      = {1865-0929},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-29196-9_6},
  pages     = {100 -- 113},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FerreinSchollNeumannetal.2019,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Scholl, Ingrid and Neumann, Tobias and Kr{\"u}ckel, Kai and Schiffer, Stefan},
  title     = {A system for continuous underground site mapping and exploration},
  doi       = {10.5772/intechopen.85859},
  pages     = {16 Seiten},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{MatareSchifferFerrein2019,
  author    = {Matar{\´e}, Victor and Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {golog++ : An integrative system design},
  series = {CogRob 2018. Cognitive Robotics Workshop : Proceedings of the 11th Cognitive Robotics Workshop 2018 co-located with 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018) Tempe, AZ, USA, October 27th, 2018},
  booktitle = {CogRob 2018. Cognitive Robotics Workshop : Proceedings of the 11th Cognitive Robotics Workshop 2018 co-located with 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018) Tempe, AZ, USA, October 27th, 2018},
  editor    = {Steinbauer, Gerald and Ferrein, Alexander},
  issn      = {1613-0073},
  pages     = {29 -- 35},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{NiemuellerEwertReuteretal.2013,
  author    = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Ewert, Daniel and Reuter, Sebastian and Karras, Ulrich and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Towards benchmarking cyber-physical systems in factory automation scenarios},
  series = {KI 2013: advances in artificial intelligence : 36th Annual German Conference on AI, Koblenz, Germany, September 16-20, 2013 ; proceedings / Ingo J. Timm ... (ed.). (Lecture notes in computer science ; 8077)},
  booktitle = {KI 2013: advances in artificial intelligence : 36th Annual German Conference on AI, Koblenz, Germany, September 16-20, 2013 ; proceedings / Ingo J. Timm ... (ed.). (Lecture notes in computer science ; 8077)},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin [u.a.]},
  isbn      = {978-3-642-40941-7},
  pages     = {296 -- 299},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{SchifferFerrein2015,
  author    = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Decision-Theoretic Planning with Linguistic Terms in Golog},
  series = {FLinAl 2015 - Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence : Proceedings of the Workshop on Fuzzy Logic in AI (FLinAI-15) co-located with the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015) Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25, 2015.},
  booktitle = {FLinAl 2015 - Fuzzy Logic in Artificial Intelligence : Proceedings of the Workshop on Fuzzy Logic in AI (FLinAI-15) co-located with the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2015) Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25, 2015.},
  issn      = {1613-0073},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0074-1424-4},
  pages     = {7 Seiten},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FerreinKallweitScholletal.2015,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Kallweit, Stephan and Scholl, Ingrid and Reichert, Walter},
  title     = {Learning to Program Mobile Robots in the ROS Summer School Series},
  series = {Proceedings 6th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE 15)},
  booktitle = {Proceedings 6th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE 15)},
  pages     = {6 S.},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The main objective of our ROS Summer School series is to introduce MA level students to program mobile robots with the Robot Operating System (ROS). ROS is a robot middleware that is used my many research institutions world-wide. Therefore, many state-of-the-art algorithms of mobile robotics are available in ROS and can be deployed very easily. As a basic robot platform we deploy a 1/10 RC cart that is wquipped with an Arduino micro-controller to control the servo motors, and an embedded PC that runs ROS. In two weeks, participants get to learn the basics of mobile robotics hands-on. We describe our teaching concepts and our curriculum and report on the learning success of our students.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{DyllaFerreinLakemeyer2003,
  author    = {Dylla, Frank and Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {AllemaniACs 2003 team description},
  series = {RoboCup 2003 : Robot Soccer World Cup VII},
  booktitle = {RoboCup 2003 : Robot Soccer World Cup VII},
  pages     = {1 -- 3},
  year      = {2003},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{AlhwarinFerreinGebhardtetal.2015,
  author    = {Alhwarin, Faraj and Ferrein, Alexander and Gebhardt, Andreas and Kallweit, Stephan and Scholl, Ingrid and Tedjasukmana, Osmond Sanjaya},
  title     = {Improving additive manufacturing by image processing and robotic milling},
  series = {2015 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Aug 24-28, 2015 Gothenburg, Sweden},
  booktitle = {2015 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Aug 24-28, 2015 Gothenburg, Sweden},
  doi       = {10.1109/CoASE.2015.7294217},
  pages     = {924 -- 929},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{KirschMatareFerreinetal.2020,
  author    = {Kirsch, Maximilian and Matar{\´e}, Victor and Ferrein, Alexander and Schiffer, Stefan},
  title     = {Integrating golog++ and ROS for Practical and Portable High-level Control},
  series = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2},
  publisher = {SciTePress},
  address   = {Set{\´u}bal, Portugal},
  doi       = {10.5220/0008984406920699},
  pages     = {692 -- 699},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {The field of Cognitive Robotics aims at intelligent decision making of autonomous robots. It has matured over the last 25 or so years quite a bit. That is, a number of high-level control languages and architectures have emerged from the field. One concern in this regard is the action language GOLOG. GOLOG has been used in a rather large number of applications as a high-level control language ranging from intelligent service robots to soccer robots. For the lower level robot software, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been around for more than a decade now and it has developed into the standard middleware for robot applications. ROS provides a large number of packages for standard tasks in robotics like localisation, navigation, and object recognition. Interestingly enough, only little work within ROS has gone into the high-level control of robots. In this paper, we describe our approach to marry the GOLOG action language with ROS. In particular, we present our architecture on inte grating golog++, which is based on the GOLOG dialect Readylog, with the Robot Operating System. With an example application on the Pepper service robot, we show how primitive actions can be easily mapped to the ROS ActionLib framework and present our control architecture in detail.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{NiemuellerLakemeyerFerrein2013,
  author    = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Incremental task-level reasoning in a competitive factory automation scenario},
  series = {Designing intelligent robots : reintegrating AI II ; papers from the AAAI spring symposium ; [held March 25 - 27, 2013 in Palo Alto, California, USA, on the campus of Stanford University]. (Technical Report / Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ; 2013,4)},
  booktitle = {Designing intelligent robots : reintegrating AI II ; papers from the AAAI spring symposium ; [held March 25 - 27, 2013 in Palo Alto, California, USA, on the campus of Stanford University]. (Technical Report / Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ; 2013,4)},
  editor    = {Boots, Byron},
  organization    = {American Association for Artificial Intelligence},
  isbn      = {9781577356011},
  pages     = {43 -- 48},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{WalentaSchellekensFerreinetal.2017,
  author    = {Walenta, Robert and Schellekens, Twan and Ferrein, Alexander and Schiffer, Stefan},
  title     = {A decentralised system approach for controlling AGVs with ROS},
  series = {AFRICON, Proceedings},
  booktitle = {AFRICON, Proceedings},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  isbn      = {978-1-5386-2775-4},
  issn      = {2153-0033},
  doi       = {10.1109/AFRCON.2017.8095693},
  pages     = {1436 -- 1441},
  year      = {2017},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FerreinKallweitLautermann2012,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Kallweit, Stephan and Lautermann, Mark},
  title     = {Towards an autonomous pilot system for a tunnel boring machine},
  series = {5th Robotics and Mechatronics Conference of South Africa (ROBMECH) : 26 - 27 November 2012 ; CSIR International Conference Centre Gauteng South Africa},
  booktitle = {5th Robotics and Mechatronics Conference of South Africa (ROBMECH) : 26 - 27 November 2012 ; CSIR International Conference Centre Gauteng South Africa},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {Piscataway, NJ},
  isbn      = {978-1-4673-5183-6},
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{NiemuellerReuterFerrein2016,
  author    = {Niemueller, Tim and Reuter, Sebastian and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Fawkes for the RoboCup Logistics League},
  series = {RoboCup 2015: Robot World Cup XIX},
  booktitle = {RoboCup 2015: Robot World Cup XIX},
  editor    = {Almeida, Luis},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  address   = {Cham},
  isbn      = {978-3-319-29339-4},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-29339-4_31},
  pages     = {365 -- 373},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{BooysenMathewKnoxetal.2015,
  author    = {Booysen, Tracy and Mathew, Thomas and Knox, Greig and Fong, W. K. and St{\"u}ttgen, Marcel and Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {The Scarab Project},
  series = {ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum},
  booktitle = {ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum},
  pages     = {3 S.},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) is an active research field in the robotics community. Despite recent advances for many open research questions, these kind of systems are not widely used in real rescue missions. One reason is that such systems are complex and not (yet) very reliable; another is that one has to be an robotic expert to run such a system. Moreover, available rescue robots are very expensive and the benefits of using them are still limited. In this paper, we present the Scarab robot, an alternative design for a USAR robot. The robot is light weight, humanpackable and its primary purpose is that of extending the rescuer's capability to sense the disaster site. The idea is that a responder throws the robot to a certain spot. The robot survives the impact with the ground and relays sensor data such as camera images or thermal images to the responder's hand-held control unit from which the robot can be remotely controlled.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{LimpertSchifferFerrein2015,
  author    = {Limpert, Nicolas and Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {A Local Planner for Ackermann-Driven Vehicles in ROS SBPL},
  series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics (PRASA-RobMech), 2015},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics (PRASA-RobMech), 2015},
  doi       = {10.1109/RoboMech.2015.7359518},
  pages     = {172 -- 177},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FerreinMaierMuehlbacheretal.2016,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Maier, Christopher and M{\"u}hlbacher, Clemens and Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Steinbauer, Gerald and Vassos, Stravros},
  title     = {Controlling logistics robots with the action-based language YAGI},
  series = {Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 9th International Conference, ICIRA 2016, Tokyo, Japan, August 22-24, 2016, Proceedings, Part I},
  volume    = {9834},
  booktitle = {Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 9th International Conference, ICIRA 2016, Tokyo, Japan, August 22-24, 2016, Proceedings, Part I},
  publisher = {Springer},
  isbn      = {978-3-319-43505-3 (Print)},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-43506-0_46},
  pages     = {525 -- 537},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{NiemuellerFerreinReuteretal.2015,
  author    = {Niemueller, Tim and Ferrein, Alexander and Reuter, Sebastian and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {The RoboCup Logistics League as a Holistic Multi-Robot Smart Factory Benchmark},
  series = {Proceedings of the IROS 2015 Open forum on evaluation of results, replication of experiments and benchmarking in robotics research},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IROS 2015 Open forum on evaluation of results, replication of experiments and benchmarking in robotics research},
  pages     = {3 S.},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {With autonomous mobile robots receiving increased attention in industrial contexts, the need for benchmarks becomes more and more an urgent matter. The RoboCup Logistics League (RCLL) is one specific industry-inspired scenario focusing on production logistics within a Smart Factory. In this paper, we describe how the RCLL allows to assess the performance of a group of robots within the scenario as a whole, focusing specifically on the coordination and cooperation strategies and the methods and components to achieve them. We report on recent efforts to analyze performance of teams in 2014 to understand the implications of the current grading scheme, and derived criteria and metrics for performance assessment based on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) adapted from classic factory evaluation. We reflect on differences and compatibility towards RoCKIn, a recent major benchmarking European project.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{EichenbaumNikolovskiMuelhensetal.2023,
  author    = {Eichenbaum, Julian and Nikolovski, Gjorgji and M{\"u}lhens, Leon and Reke, Michael and Ferrein, Alexander and Scholl, Ingrid},
  title     = {Towards a lifelong mapping approach using Lanelet 2 for autonomous open-pit mine operations},
  series = {2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  isbn      = {979-8-3503-2069-5 (Online)},
  doi       = {10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260526},
  pages     = {8 Seiten},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Autonomous agents require rich environment models for fulfilling their missions. High-definition maps are a well-established map format which allows for representing semantic information besides the usual geometric information of the environment. These are, for instance, road shapes, road markings, traffic signs or barriers. The geometric resolution of HD maps can be as precise as of centimetre level. In this paper, we report on our approach of using HD maps as a map representation for autonomous load-haul-dump vehicles in open-pit mining operations. As the mine undergoes constant change, we also need to constantly update the map. Therefore, we follow a lifelong mapping approach for updating the HD maps based on camera-based object detection and GPS data. We show our mapping algorithm based on the Lanelet 2 map format and show our integration with the navigation stack of the Robot Operating System. We present experimental results on our lifelong mapping approach from a real open-pit mine.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{NiemuellerReuterEwertetal.2016,
  author    = {Niemueller, Tim and Reuter, Sebastian and Ewert, Daniel and Ferrein, Alexander and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {The Carologistics Approach to Cope with the Increased Complexity and New Challenges of the RoboCup Logistics League 2015},
  series = {RoboCup 2015: Robot World Cup XIX},
  booktitle = {RoboCup 2015: Robot World Cup XIX},
  editor    = {Almeida, Luis},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  address   = {Cham},
  isbn      = {978-3-319-29339-4},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-29339-4_4},
  pages     = {47 -- 59},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{DeyElsenFerreinetal.2021,
  author    = {Dey, Thomas and Elsen, Ingo and Ferrein, Alexander and Frauenrath, Tobias and Reke, Michael and Schiffer, Stefan},
  title     = {CO2 Meter: a do-it-yourself carbon dioxide measuring device for the classroom},
  series = {PETRA '21: Proceedings of the 14th Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference},
  booktitle = {PETRA '21: Proceedings of the 14th Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference},
  editor    = {Makedon, Fillia},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address   = {New York},
  isbn      = {9781450387927},
  doi       = {10.1145/3453892.3462697},
  pages     = {292 -- 299},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {In this paper we report on CO2 Meter, a do-it-yourself carbon dioxide measuring device for the classroom. Part of the current measures for dealing with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is proper ventilation in indoor settings. This is especially important in schools with students coming back to the classroom even with high incidents rates. Static ventilation patterns do not consider the individual situation for a particular class. Influencing factors like the type of activity, the physical structure or the room occupancy are not incorporated. Also, existing devices are rather expensive and often provide only limited information and only locally without any networking. This leaves the potential of analysing the situation across different settings untapped. Carbon dioxide level can be used as an indicator of air quality, in general, and of aerosol load in particular. Since, according to the latest findings, SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted primarily in the form of aerosols, carbon dioxide may be used as a proxy for the risk of a virus infection. Hence, schools could improve the indoor air quality and potentially reduce the infection risk if they actually had measuring devices available in the classroom. Our device supports schools in ventilation and it allows for collecting data over the Internet to enable a detailed data analysis and model generation. First deployments in schools at different levels were received very positively. A pilot installation with a larger data collection and analysis is underway.},
  language  = {en}
}