@article{SchifferFerrein2016,
  author    = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Decision-Theoretic Planning with Fuzzy Notions in GOLOG},
  series = {International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems},
  volume    = {24},
  journal   = {International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems},
  number    = {Issue Suppl. 2},
  publisher = {World Scientific},
  address   = {Singapur},
  issn      = {1793-6411},
  doi       = {10.1142/S0218488516400134},
  pages     = {123 -- 143},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {In this paper we present an extension of the action language Golog that allows for using fuzzy notions in non-deterministic argument choices and the reward function in decision-theoretic planning. Often, in decision-theoretic planning, it is cumbersome to specify the set of values to pick from in the non-deterministic-choice-of-argument statement. Also, even for domain experts, it is not always easy to specify a reward function. Instead of providing a finite domain for values in the non-deterministic-choice-of-argument statement in Golog, we now allow for stating the argument domain by simply providing a formula over linguistic terms and fuzzy uents. In Golog's forward-search DT planning algorithm, these formulas are evaluated in order to find the agent's optimal policy. We illustrate this in the Diner Domain where the agent needs to calculate the optimal serving order.},
  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}
}
@incollection{NiemuellerReuterEwertetal.2015,
  author    = {Niemueller, Tim and Reuter, Sebastian and Ewert, Daniel and Ferrein, Alexander and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Decisive Factors for the Success of the Carologistics RoboCup Team in the RoboCup Logistics League 2014},
  series = {RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII},
  booktitle = {RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII},
  publisher = {Springer},
  isbn      = {978-3-319-18615-3},
  pages     = {155 -- 167},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{StopforthDavrajhFerrein2017,
  author    = {Stopforth, Riaan and Davrajh, Shaniel and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Design considerations of the duo fugam dual rotor UAV},
  series = {2017 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics (PRASA-RobMech)},
  booktitle = {2017 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics (PRASA-RobMech)},
  isbn      = {978-1-5386-2314-5},
  doi       = {10.1109/RoboMech.2017.8261115},
  pages     = {7 -- 13},
  year      = {2017},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NiemuellerFerreinBecketal.2010,
  author    = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Ferrein, Alexander and Beck, Daniel and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Design Principles of the Component-Based Robot Software Framework Fawkes},
  series = {Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots},
  journal   = {Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots},
  pages     = {300 -- 311},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{DonnerRabelScholletal.2019,
  author    = {Donner, Ralf and Rabel, Matthias and Scholl, Ingrid and Ferrein, Alexander and Donner, Marc and Geier, Andreas and John, Andr{\´e} and K{\"o}hler, Christian and Varga, Sebastian},
  title     = {Die Extraktion bergbaulich relevanter Merkmale aus 3D-Punktwolken eines untertagetauglichen mobilen Multisensorsystems},
  series = {Tagungsband Geomonitoring},
  booktitle = {Tagungsband Geomonitoring},
  doi       = {10.15488/4515},
  pages     = {91 -- 110},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{FerreinSchifferLakemeyer2009,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Schiffer, Stefan and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Embedding fuzzy controllers in golog / Ferrein, Alexander ; Schiffer, Stefan ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2009. FUZZ-IEEE 2009},
  journal   = {IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2009. FUZZ-IEEE 2009},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {New York},
  isbn      = {978-1-4244-3596-8},
  pages     = {894 -- 899},
  year      = {2009},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{HofmannMatareNeumannetal.2018,
  author    = {Hofmann, Till and Matar{\´e}, Victor and Neumann, Tobias and Sch{\"o}nitz, Sebastian and Henke, Christoph and Limpert, Nicolas and Niemueller, Tim and Ferrein, Alexander and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Enhancing Software and Hardware Reliability for a Successful Participation in the RoboCup Logistics League 2017},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Cham},
  isbn      = {978-3-030-00308-1},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-00308-1_40},
  pages     = {486 -- 497},
  year      = {2018},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchifferFerrein2018,
  author    = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {ERIKA—Early Robotics Introduction at Kindergarten Age},
  series = {Multimodal Technologies Interact},
  volume    = {2},
  journal   = {Multimodal Technologies Interact},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  address   = {Basel},
  issn      = {2414-4088},
  doi       = {10.3390/mti2040064},
  pages     = {15},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {In this work, we report on our attempt to design and implement an early introduction to basic robotics principles for children at kindergarten age. One of the main challenges of this effort is to explain complex robotics contents in a way that pre-school children could follow the basic principles and ideas using examples from their world of experience. What sets apart our effort from other work is that part of the lecturing is actually done by a robot itself and that a quiz at the end of the lesson is done using robots as well. The humanoid robot Pepper from Softbank, which is a great platform for human-robot interaction experiments, was used to present a lecture on robotics by reading out the contents to the children making use of its speech synthesis capability. A quiz in a Runaround-game-show style after the lecture activated the children to recap the contents they acquired about how mobile robots work in principle. In this quiz, two LEGO Mindstorm EV3 robots were used to implement a strongly interactive scenario. Besides the thrill of being exposed to a mobile robot that would also react to the children, they were very excited and at the same time very concentrated. We got very positive feedback from the children as well as from their educators. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of only few attempts to use a robot like Pepper not as a tele-teaching tool, but as the teacher itself in order to engage pre-school children with complex robotics contents.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSteinbauerMcPhillipsetal.2007,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald and McPhillips, Graeme and Potgieter, Anet},
  title     = {Establishing the RoboCup Standard League in Africa - applying for the RoboCup Standard League with a German-Austrian-South African Research Project},
  pages     = {1 -- 5},
  year      = {2007},
  language  = {en}
}