@article{FerreinDyllaLakemeyer2002,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Dylla, Frank and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Acting and Deliberating using Golog in Robotic Soccer - A Hybrid Architecture / Dylla, Frank ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {Proc. 3rd International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (CogRob 2002)},
  journal   = {Proc. 3rd International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (CogRob 2002)},
  pages     = {1 -- 7},
  year      = {2002},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinFritzLakemeyer2003,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Fritz, Christian and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Extending DTGOLOG with Options / Ferrein, Alexander ; Fritz, Christian ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {IJCAI-03, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15, 2003},
  journal   = {IJCAI-03, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15, 2003},
  pages     = {1391 -- 1393},
  year      = {2003},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinDyllaLakemeyer2003,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Dylla, Frank and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Specifying Multirobot Coordination in ICPGolog - From Simulation towards Real Robots / Dylla, Frank ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  pages     = {1 -- 10},
  year      = {2003},
  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}
}
@article{FerreinKonurLakemeyer2004,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Konur, Savas and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Learning Decision Trees for Action Selection in Soccer Agents / Konur, Savas ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  pages     = {1 -- 7},
  year      = {2004},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinFritzLakemeyer2004,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Fritz, Christian and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {On-Line Decision-Theoretic Golog for Unpredictable Domains / Ferrein, Alexander ; Fritz, Christian ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {KI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence : 27th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2004, Ulm, Germany, September 20-24, 2004. Proceedings},
  journal   = {KI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence : 27th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2004, Ulm, Germany, September 20-24, 2004. Proceedings},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  pages     = {322 -- 336},
  year      = {2004},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ferrein2004,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Planwirtschaft},
  series = {Linux Magazin (2004)},
  journal   = {Linux Magazin (2004)},
  isbn      = {1432-640X},
  pages     = {50 -- 53},
  year      = {2004},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Ferrein2004,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Autonome Entscheidungsfindung bei Robotern : Planwirtschaft},
  series = {Linux-Magazin},
  journal   = {Linux-Magazin},
  number    = {7},
  issn      = {1432-640X (Print)},
  pages     = {50 -- 53},
  year      = {2004},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{FerreinJacobsLakemeyer2005,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Jacobs, Stefan and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Controlling Unreal Tournament 2004 Bots with the logic-based action language Golog / Jacobs, Stefan ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {Proceedings of the First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE).},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE).},
  pages     = {151 -- 152},
  year      = {2005},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinDyllaLakemeyeretal.2005,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Dylla, Frank and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Murray, Jan},
  title     = {Towards a League-Independent Qualitative Soccer Theory for RoboCup / Dylla, Frank ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard ; Murray, Jan ; Obst, Oliver ; R{\"o}fer, Thomas ; Stolzenburg, Frieder ; Visser, Ubbo},
  series = {RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII / Daniele Nardi ... (ed.).},
  journal   = {RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII / Daniele Nardi ... (ed.).},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-540-25046-8},
  pages     = {611 -- 618},
  year      = {2005},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinJacobsLakemeyer2005,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Jacobs, Stefan and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Unreal Golog Bots / Jacobs, Stefan ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {IJCAI-05 Workshop on Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in Computer Games},
  journal   = {IJCAI-05 Workshop on Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in Computer Games},
  pages     = {31 -- 36},
  year      = {2005},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinFritzLakemeyer2005,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Fritz, Christian and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Using Golog for Deliberation and Team Coordination in Robotic Soccer / Ferrein, Alexander ; Fritz, Christian ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz : KI. 19 (2005), H. 1},
  journal   = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz : KI. 19 (2005), H. 1},
  isbn      = {0933-1875},
  pages     = {24 -- 30},
  year      = {2005},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinLakemeyer2005,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Wie Roboter die Welt sehen : Roboterfußball im Dienst der Wissenschaft / Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {Bild und Erkenntnis : Formen und Funktionen des Bildes in Wissenschaft und Technik / RWTH. Andreas Beyer ; Markus Lohoff (Hrsg.)},
  journal   = {Bild und Erkenntnis : Formen und Funktionen des Bildes in Wissenschaft und Technik / RWTH. Andreas Beyer ; Markus Lohoff (Hrsg.)},
  publisher = {Deutscher Kunstverlag},
  address   = {M{\"u}nchen},
  isbn      = {3-422-06463-X},
  pages     = {360 -- 361},
  year      = {2005},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{Ferrein2005,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Specifying Soccer Moves with Golog},
  series = {Book of abstracts : Cologne, 15 - 17 September 2004 / 1st International Working Conference IT and Sport \& 5th conference DVS-Section Computer Science in Sport},
  journal   = {Book of abstracts : Cologne, 15 - 17 September 2004 / 1st International Working Conference IT and Sport \& 5th conference DVS-Section Computer Science in Sport},
  publisher = {German Sport Univ.},
  address   = {K{\"o}ln},
  isbn      = {3-00-014576-1},
  pages     = {161 -- 165},
  year      = {2005},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinHermannsLakemeyer2006,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Hermanns, Lutz and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Comparing Sensor Fusion Techniques for Ball Position Estimation / Ferrein, Alexander ; Hermanns, Lutz ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX},
  journal   = {RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-540-35437-6},
  pages     = {154 -- 165},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSchifferLakemeyer2006,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Schiffer, Stefan and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Football is coming Home / Schiffer, Stefan ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {PCAR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Practical cognitive agents and robots},
  journal   = {PCAR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Practical cognitive agents and robots},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address   = {New York, NY},
  isbn      = {1-74052-130-7},
  pages     = {39 -- 50},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinLakemeyer2006,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Roboterfußball - Wissenschaft, die auch Spass macht / Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {RWTH Themen (2006)},
  journal   = {RWTH Themen (2006)},
  isbn      = {0179-079X},
  pages     = {36 -- 39},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{FerreinStrackLakemeyer2006,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Strack, Andreas and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Laser-Based Localization with Sparse Landmarks / Strack, Andreas ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX},
  journal   = {RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-540-35437-6},
  pages     = {569 -- 576},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSchifferLakemeyer2006,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Schiffer, Stefan and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Qualitative World Models for Soccer Robots / Schiffer, Stefan ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {Qualitative constraint calculi : application and integration ; KI 2006, 14 - 19 June 2006, Bremen, Germany ; 29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence ; workshop / Stefan W{\"o}lfl ... (eds.)},
  journal   = {Qualitative constraint calculi : application and integration ; KI 2006, 14 - 19 June 2006, Bremen, Germany ; 29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence ; workshop / Stefan W{\"o}lfl ... (eds.)},
  publisher = {Univ.},
  address   = {Bremen},
  isbn      = {3-88722-666-6},
  pages     = {3 -- 14},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinCalmesLakemeyeretal.2006,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Calmes, Laurent and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Wagner, Hermann},
  title     = {Von Schleiereulen und fussballspielenden Robotern / Calmes, Laurent ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard ; Wagner, Hermann},
  series = {RWTH Themen (2006)},
  journal   = {RWTH Themen (2006)},
  isbn      = {0179-079X},
  pages     = {30 -- 33},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{VorstFerreinLakemeyer2006,
  author    = {Vorst, Phillip and Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {AllemaniACs3D team description},
  pages     = {1 -- 6},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FerreinLakemeyerSchiffer2006,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Schiffer, Stefan},
  title     = {AllemaniACs@ home 2006 team description},
  pages     = {1 -- 6},
  year      = {2006},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinBeckLakemeyer2007,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Beck, Daniel and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {A Simulation Environment for Middle-Size Robots with Multi-level Abstraction / Beck, Daniel ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI},
  journal   = {RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-540-68846-4},
  pages     = {136 -- 147},
  year      = {2007},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinBoehnstedtLakemeyer2007,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and B{\"o}hnstedt, Lutz and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Options in readylog reloaded -- generating decision-theoretic plan libraries in golog / B{\"o}hnstedt, Lutz ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {KI 2007: advances in artificial intelligence : 30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007, Osnabr{\"u}ck, Germany, September 10 - 13, 2007 ; proceedings},
  journal   = {KI 2007: advances in artificial intelligence : 30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007, Osnabr{\"u}ck, Germany, September 10 - 13, 2007 ; proceedings},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-540-74564-8},
  pages     = {352 -- 366},
  year      = {2007},
  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}
}
@book{Ferrein2008,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Robot controllers for highly dynamic environments with real-time constraints},
  pages     = {XVI; 247 S. : Ill., graph. Darst},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSchifferLakemeyer2008,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Schiffer, Stefan and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {A Fuzzy Set Semantics for Qualitative Fluents in the Situation Calculus / Ferrein, Alexander ; Schiffer, Stefan ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {Intelligent Robotics and Applications : First International Conference, ICIRA 2008 Wuhan, China, October 15-17, 2008 Proceedings, Part I},
  journal   = {Intelligent Robotics and Applications : First International Conference, ICIRA 2008 Wuhan, China, October 15-17, 2008 Proceedings, Part I},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  pages     = {498 -- 509},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinDyllaLakemeyeretal.2008,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Dylla, Frank and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Murray, Jan},
  title     = {Approaching a formal soccer theory from behaviour specifications in robotic soccer / Dylla, Frank ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard ; Murray, Jan ; Obst, Oliver ; R{\"o}fer, Thomas ; Schiffer, Stefan ; Stolzenburg, Frieder ; Visser, Ubbo ; Wagner, Tho},
  series = {Computers in sport / editors: P Dabnichki},
  journal   = {Computers in sport / editors: P Dabnichki},
  publisher = {WIT Press},
  address   = {Southampton},
  isbn      = {978-1-8456-4064-4},
  pages     = {161 -- 185},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ferrein2008,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Logic-based robot control in highly dynamic domains / Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 56 (2008), H. 11},
  journal   = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 56 (2008), H. 11},
  isbn      = {0921-8890},
  pages     = {980 -- 991},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinMiesLakemeyer2008,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Mies, Christoph and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Repairing Decision-Theoretic Policies Using Goal-Oriented Planning / Mies, Christoph ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {KI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence : 31st Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2008, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 23-26, 2008. Proceedings},
  journal   = {KI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence : 31st Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2008, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 23-26, 2008. Proceedings},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-540-85844-7},
  pages     = {267 -- 275},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ferrein2008,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Towards applying soccer moves in the RoboCup Standard Platform League},
  series = {{\"O}GAI-Journal},
  volume    = {Bd. 27},
  journal   = {{\"O}GAI-Journal},
  number    = {H. 3},
  organization    = {{\"O}sterreichische Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Artificial Intelligence},
  issn      = {0254-4326},
  pages     = {4 -- 9},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{RensFerreinPoel2008,
  author    = {Rens, Gavin and Ferrein, Alexander and Poel, Etienne van der},
  title     = {Extending DTGolog to deal with POMD-Ps},
  series = {Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA 2008)},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA 2008)},
  organization    = {Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa},
  pages     = {49 -- 54},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSteinbauerMcPhillipsetal.2008,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald and McPhillips, Graeme and Potgieter, Anet},
  title     = {RoboCup Standard Platform League - Team Zadeat : an intercontinental research effort},
  pages     = {1 -- 7},
  year      = {2008},
  language  = {en}
}
@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}
}
@article{FerreinBeckLakemeyer2009,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Beck, Daniel and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Landmark-Based Representations for Navigating Holonomic Soccer Robots / Beck, Daniel ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {RoboCup 2008 : robot soccer world cup XII / Luca Iocchi ... (eds.)},
  journal   = {RoboCup 2008 : robot soccer world cup XII / Luca Iocchi ... (eds.)},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Heidelberg},
  isbn      = {978-3-642-02921-9},
  pages     = {25 -- 36},
  year      = {2009},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinRensPoel2009,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Rens, Gavin and Poel, Etienne van der},
  title     = {A BDI agent architecture for a POMDP planner / Rens, Gavin ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Poel, Etienne van der},
  pages     = {1 -- 6},
  year      = {2009},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinJacobsSchifferetal.2009,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Jacobs, Stefan and Schiffer, Stefan and Beck, Daniel},
  title     = {Robust Collision Avoidance in Unknown Domestic Environments / Jacobs, Stefan ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Schiffer, Stefan ; Beck, Daniel ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {ROBOCUP 2009: ROBOT SOCCER WORLD CUP XIII},
  journal   = {ROBOCUP 2009: ROBOT SOCCER WORLD CUP XIII},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  pages     = {116 -- 127},
  year      = {2009},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FerreinPotgieterSteinbauer2009,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Potgieter, Anet and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {Self-aware robots - What do we need from learning, deliberation, and reactive control?},
  series = {HYCAS 2009 : International Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems : Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control : Pasadena, Calif., 13 July 2009},
  booktitle = {HYCAS 2009 : International Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems : Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control : Pasadena, Calif., 13 July 2009},
  publisher = {AAAI Pr.},
  pages     = {1 -- 5},
  year      = {2009},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{FerreinPauliSiebeletal.2009,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Pauli, J. and Siebel, N. T. and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {Hybrid control for autonomous systems : [... 1st Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems - Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control with the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), held in Pasadena, CA, in July 2009] / ed. by Alexander Ferrein ...},
  pages     = {VI, 96 S.},
  year      = {2009},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSteinbauerMcPhillipsetal.2009,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald and McPhillips, Graeme and Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Potgieter, Anet},
  title     = {Team Zadeat 2009 : team report},
  volume    = {6},
  pages     = {1},
  year      = {2009},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchifferFerreinLakemeyer2010,
  author    = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2011)},
  series = {Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2011)},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2011)},
  pages     = {1 -- 10},
  year      = {2010},
  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}
}
@article{NiemuellerFerreinLakemeyer2010,
  author    = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {A Lua-based Behavior Engine for Controlling the Humanoid Robot Nao},
  series = {RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII},
  journal   = {RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII},
  pages     = {240 -- 251},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSiebelSteinbauer2010,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Siebel, Nils T. and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {Hybrid control for autonomous systems — Integrating learning, deliberation and reactive control},
  series = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  volume    = {58},
  journal   = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  number    = {9},
  isbn      = {0921-8890},
  pages     = {1037 -- 1038},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSteinbauer2010,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {On the Way to High-Level Programming for Resource-Limited Embedded Systems with Golog},
  series = {Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots},
  journal   = {Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots},
  pages     = {229 -- 240},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ferrein2010,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Robot controllers for highly dynamic environments with real-time constraints},
  series = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz : KI. 24 (2010), H. 2},
  journal   = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz : KI. 24 (2010), H. 2},
  isbn      = {1610-1987},
  pages     = {175 -- 178},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RensVarzinczakMeyeretal.2010,
  author    = {Rens, Gavin and Varzinczak, Ivan and Meyer, Thomas and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {A Logic for Reasoning about Actions and Explicit Observations},
  series = {AI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 23rd Australasian Joint Conference, Adelaide, Australia, December 7-10, 2010. Proceedings},
  journal   = {AI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence 23rd Australasian Joint Conference, Adelaide, Australia, December 7-10, 2010. Proceedings},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-642-17431-5},
  pages     = {395 -- 404},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ferrein2010,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {golog.lua: Towards a Non-Prolog Implementation of Golog for Embedded Systems},
  pages     = {20 -- 28},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ferrein2010,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {golog.lua: Towards a Non-Prolog Implementation of Golog for Embedded Systems},
  series = {Cognitive Robotics / Lakemeyer, Gerhard (ed.)},
  journal   = {Cognitive Robotics / Lakemeyer, Gerhard (ed.)},
  pages     = {1 -- 15},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinNiemuellerSteinbauer2010,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {Team Zadeat 2010 : application for participation},
  pages     = {5 Seiten},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GspandlPillReipetal.2011,
  author    = {Gspandl, Stephan and Pill, Ingo and Reip, Michael and Steinbauer, Gerald and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Belief Management for High-Level Robot Programs},
  series = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [electronic resource] : Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 16 - 22 July 2011 / sponsored by International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Ed. by Toby Walsh},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [electronic resource] : Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 16 - 22 July 2011 / sponsored by International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Ed. by Toby Walsh},
  pages     = {900 -- 905},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchifferFerreinLakemeyer2011,
  author    = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Reasoning with Qualitative Positional Information for Domestic Domains in the Situation Calculus},
  series = {Journal of Intelligent \& Robotic Systems},
  volume    = {63},
  journal   = {Journal of Intelligent \& Robotic Systems},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {0921-0296},
  pages     = {273 -- 300},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NiemuellerFerreinEckeletal.2011,
  author    = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Ferrein, Alexander and Eckel, Gerhard and Pirro, David and Podbregar, Patrick and Kellner, Tobias and Rath, Christoph and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {Providing Ground-truth Data for the Nao Robot Platform},
  series = {RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV},
  journal   = {RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-642-20217-9},
  pages     = {133 -- 144},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BooysenRiegerFerrein2011,
  author    = {Booysen, Tracy and Rieger, Michael and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Towards inexpensive robots for science \& technology teaching and education in Africa},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {New York},
  isbn      = {978-1-61284-992-8},
  pages     = {1 -- 6},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinMaraisPotgieteretal.2011,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Marais, Stephen and Potgieter, Anet and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {RoboCup Junior: A vehicle for S\&T education in Africa?},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {New York},
  isbn      = {978-1-61284-992-8},
  pages     = {1 -- 6},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinRensMeyeretal.2011,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Rens, Gavin and Meyer, Thomas and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {A Logic for Specifying Partially Observable Stochastic Domains / Rens, Gavin ; Meyer, Thomas ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  series = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop pn non-Monotonic Reasoning, Action and Change (NRAC`11)},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop pn non-Monotonic Reasoning, Action and Change (NRAC`11)},
  pages     = {15 -- 22},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{SchifferFerreinLakemeyer2011,
  author    = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Fuzzy representations and control for domestic service robots in Golog},
  series = {Intelligent robotics and applications : 4th International conference, ICIRA 2011, Aachen, Germany, December 6-8, 2011, proceedings, part I. (Lecture notes in computer science ; 7102)},
  booktitle = {Intelligent robotics and applications : 4th International conference, ICIRA 2011, Aachen, Germany, December 6-8, 2011, proceedings, part I. (Lecture notes in computer science ; 7102)},
  isbn      = {978-3-642-25486-4},
  pages     = {241 -- 250},
  year      = {2011},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSteinbauerVassos2012,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald and Vassos, Stavros},
  title     = {Action-Based Imperative Programming with YAGI},
  pages     = {24 -- 31},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Many tasks for autonomous agents or robots are best described by a specification of the environment and a specification of the available actions the agent or robot can perform. Combining such a specification with the possibility to imperatively program a robot or agent is what we call the actionbased imperative programming. One of the most successful such approaches is Golog. In this paper, we draft a proposal for a new robot programming language YAGI, which is based on the action-based imperative programming paradigm. Our goal is to design a small, portable stand-alone YAGI interpreter. We combine the benefits of a principled domain specification with a clean, small and simple programming language, which does not exploit any side-effects from the implementation language. We discuss general requirements of action-based programming languages and outline YAGI, our action-based language approach which particularly aims at embeddability.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchifferFerreinLakemeyer2012,
  author    = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Caesar: an intelligent domestic service robot},
  series = {Intelligent service robotics},
  volume    = {5},
  journal   = {Intelligent service robotics},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {1861-2776},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11370-012-0118-y},
  pages     = {259 -- 276},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {In this paper we present CAESAR, an intelligent domestic service robot. In domestic settings for service robots complex tasks have to be accomplished. Those tasks benefit from deliberation, from robust action execution and from flexible methods for human-robot interaction that account for qualitative notions used in natural language as well as human fallibility. Our robot CAESAR deploys AI techniques on several levels of its system architecture. On the low-level side, system modules for localization or navigation make, for instance, use of path-planning methods, heuristic search, and Bayesian filters. For face recognition and human-machine interaction, random trees and well-known methods from natural language processing are deployed. For deliberation, we use the robot programming and plan language READYLOG, which was developed for the high-level control of agents and robots; it allows combining programming the behaviour using planning to find a course of action. READYLOG is a variant of the robot programming language Golog. We extended READYLOG to be able to cope with qualitative notions of space frequently used by humans, such as "near" and "far". This facilitates human-robot interaction by bridging the gap between human natural language and the numerical values needed by the robot. Further, we use READYLOG to increase the flexible interpretation of human commands with decision-theoretic planning. We give an overview of the different methods deployed in CAESAR and show the applicability of a system equipped with these AI techniques in domestic service robotics},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinMeyer2012,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Meyer, Thomas},
  title     = {A Brief Overview of Artificial Intelligence in South Africa},
  series = {AI Magazine},
  volume    = {33},
  journal   = {AI Magazine},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {AAAI},
  address   = {Menlo Park},
  issn      = {0738-4602},
  doi       = {10.1609/aimag.v33i1.2357},
  pages     = {99 -- 101},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {South Africa in recent years is the establishment of a number of research hubs involved in AI activities ranging from mobile robotics and computational intelligence, to knowledge representation and reasoning, and human language technologies. In this survey we take the reader through a quick tour of the research being conducted at these hubs, and touch on an initiative to maintain and extend the current level of interest in AI research in the country.},
  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}
}
@article{RensFerrein2013,
  author    = {Rens, Gavin and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Belief-node condensation for online POMDP algorithms},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address   = {New York},
  pages     = {1 -- 7},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Slightly extended version of the paper accepted at the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Workshop, a special track of IEEE AFRICON-2013, held in Mauritius, 9-12 September 2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{NiemuellerLakemeyerFerrein2013,
  author    = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Aspects of integrating diverse software into robotic systems extended abstract},
  series = {ICRA 2013 - 8th Workshop on Software Development and Integration in Robotics (SDIR), Karlsruhe, Germany},
  booktitle = {ICRA 2013 - 8th Workshop on Software Development and Integration in Robotics (SDIR), Karlsruhe, Germany},
  pages     = {1 -- 2},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NiemuellerLakemeyerFerreinetal.2013,
  author    = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Ferrein, Alexander and Reuter, S. and Ewert, D. and Jeschke, S. and Pensky, D. and Karras, Ulrich},
  title     = {Proposal for advancements to the LLSF in 2014 and beyond},
  pages     = {Publ. online},
  year      = {2013},
  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{LeingartnerMaurerSteinbaueretal.2013,
  author    = {Leingartner, Max and Maurer, Johannes and Steinbauer, Gerald and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Evaluation of sensors and mapping approaches for disasters in tunnels},
  series = {IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics : SSRR : 21-26 Oct. 2013, Linkoping, Sweden},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics : SSRR : 21-26 Oct. 2013, Linkoping, Sweden},
  organization    = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers},
  isbn      = {978-1-4799-0879-0},
  pages     = {1 -- 7},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{NiemuellerEwertReuteretal.2013,
  author    = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Ewert, Daniel and Reuter, Sebastian and Ferrein, Alexander and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {The Carologistics RoboCup Logistics Team 2013},
  series = {RoboCup 2013 : Eindhoven},
  booktitle = {RoboCup 2013 : Eindhoven},
  organization    = {Robocup <2013, Eindhoven>},
  pages     = {1 -- 8},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FerreinNiemuellerSchifferetal.2013,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Schiffer, Stefan and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Lessons learnt from developing the embodied AI platform CAESAR for domestic service robotics},
  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     = {21 -- 26},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{PriedeFerrein2013,
  author    = {Priede, Gareth and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Towards passive walking for the fully-actuated biped robot Nao},
  series = {Emerging trends in computing, informatics, systems sciences, and engineering. (Lecture notes in electrical engineering : vol. 151)},
  booktitle = {Emerging trends in computing, informatics, systems sciences, and engineering. (Lecture notes in electrical engineering : vol. 151)},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York, NY},
  isbn      = {978-1-4614-3557-0 ; 978-1-4614-3558-7},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-1-4614-3558-7_18},
  pages     = {225 -- 236},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Many biped robots deploy a form of gait that follows the zero moment point (ZMP) approach, that is, the robot is in a stable position at any point in time. This requires the robot to be fully actuated. While very stable, the draw-backs of this approach are a fairly slow gait and high energy consumption. An alternative approach is the so-called passive-dynamic walking, where the gait makes use of the inertia and dynamic stability of the robot. In this paper we describe our ongoing work of combining the principles of passive-dynamic walking on the fully-actuated biped robot Nao, which is also deployed for robotic soccer applications. We present a simple controller that allows the robot to stably rock sidewards, showing a closed limit-cycle. We discuss first results of superimposing a forward motion on the sidewards motion. Based on this we expect to endow the Nao with a fast, robust, and stable passive-dynamic walk on the fully-actuated Nao in the future.},
  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}
}
@article{BeckBuchleitnerFerreinetal.2014,
  author    = {Beck, Daniel and Buchleitner, Martin and Ferrein, Alexander and Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {Mostly Harmless \& AllemaniACs - mixed innovations},
  pages     = {1 -- 8},
  year      = {2014},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{KallweitFerreinScholletal.2014,
  author    = {Kallweit, Stephan and Ferrein, Alexander and Scholl, Ingrid and Reichert, Walter},
  title     = {Mobile Autonome Systeme in der Lehre, am Beispiel der ROS Summer School},
  series = {Tagungsband AALE 2014 : das Forum f{\"u}r Fachleute der Automatisierungstechnik aus Hochschulen und Wirtschaft ; 11. Fachkonferenz, Regensburg ; [11. Konferenz f{\"u}r Angewandte Automatisierungstechnik in Lehre und Entwicklung / Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg; VFAALE, Verein der Freunde und F{\"o}rderer der Angewandten Automatisierungstechnik]},
  booktitle = {Tagungsband AALE 2014 : das Forum f{\"u}r Fachleute der Automatisierungstechnik aus Hochschulen und Wirtschaft ; 11. Fachkonferenz, Regensburg ; [11. Konferenz f{\"u}r Angewandte Automatisierungstechnik in Lehre und Entwicklung / Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg; VFAALE, Verein der Freunde und F{\"o}rderer der Angewandten Automatisierungstechnik]},
  publisher = {Dt. Industrieverl.},
  address   = {M{\"u}nchen},
  isbn      = {978-3-8356-7142-3},
  pages     = {157 -- 163},
  year      = {2014},
  language  = {de}
}
@incollection{NiemuellerEwertReuteretal.2014,
  author    = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Ewert, Daniel and Reuter, Sebastian and Ferrein, Alexander and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {RoboCup logistics league sponsored by festo: A competitive factory automation testbed},
  series = {RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII : Eindhoven; Netherlands; 1 July 2013 through 1 July 2013. (Lecture notes in computer science ; 8371)},
  booktitle = {RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII : Eindhoven; Netherlands; 1 July 2013 through 1 July 2013. (Lecture notes in computer science ; 8371)},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  organization    = {RoboCup International Symposium <17, 2013, Eindhoven>},
  isbn      = {978-3-662-44467-2 (Print) 978-3-662-44468-9 (Online)},
  pages     = {336 -- 347},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {A new trend in automation is to deploy so-called cyber-physical systems (CPS) which combine computation with physical processes. The novel RoboCup Logistics League Sponsored by Festo (LLSF) aims at such CPS logistic scenarios in an automation setting. A team of robots has to produce products from a number of semi-finished products which they have to machine during the game. Different production plans are possible and the robots need to recycle scrap byproducts. This way, the LLSF is a very interesting league offering a number of challenging research questions for planning, coordination, or communication in an application-driven scenario. In this paper, we outline the objectives of the LLSF and present steps for developing the league further towards a benchmark for logistics scenarios for CPS. As a major milestone we present the new automated referee system which helps in governing the game play as well as keeping track of the scored points in a very complex factory scenario.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AlhwarinFerreinScholl2014,
  author    = {Alhwarin, Faraj and Ferrein, Alexander and Scholl, Ingrid},
  title     = {IR stereo kinect: improving depth images by combining structured light with IR stereo},
  pages     = {1 -- 9},
  year      = {2014},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{NeumannFerreinKallweitetal.2014,
  author    = {Neumann, Tobias and Ferrein, Alexander and Kallweit, Stephan and Scholl, Ingrid},
  title     = {Towards a mobile mapping robot for underground mines},
  series = {7th Conference of Robotics and Mechatronics : RobMech 2014 : 27th and 28th Nov. 2014, Cape Town},
  booktitle = {7th Conference of Robotics and Mechatronics : RobMech 2014 : 27th and 28th Nov. 2014, Cape Town},
  organization    = {Conference of Robotics and Mechatronics <7, 2014, Cape Town, South Africa>},
  pages     = {1 -- 6},
  year      = {2014},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{AlhwarinFerreinScholl2014,
  author    = {Alhwarin, Faraj and Ferrein, Alexander and Scholl, Ingrid},
  title     = {IR stereo kinect: improving depth images by combining structured light with IR stereo},
  series = {PRICAI 2014: Trends in artificial intelligence : 13th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence : Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, December 1-5, 2014 : proceedings. (Lecture notes in computer science ; vol. 8862)},
  booktitle = {PRICAI 2014: Trends in artificial intelligence : 13th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence : Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, December 1-5, 2014 : proceedings. (Lecture notes in computer science ; vol. 8862)},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {M{\"u}nchen},
  isbn      = {978-3-319-13559-5 (Print) ; 978-3-319-13560-1 (E-Book)},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-13560-1_33},
  pages     = {409 -- 421},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {RGB-D sensors such as the Microsoft Kinect or the Asus Xtion are inexpensive 3D sensors. A depth image is computed by calculating the distortion of a known infrared light (IR) pattern which is projected into the scene. While these sensors are great devices they have some limitations. The distance they can measure is limited and they suffer from reflection problems on transparent, shiny, or very matte and absorbing objects. If more than one RGB-D camera is used the IR patterns interfere with each other. This results in a massive loss of depth information. In this paper, we present a simple and powerful method to overcome these problems. We propose a stereo RGB-D camera system which uses the pros of RGB-D cameras and combine them with the pros of stereo camera systems. The idea is to utilize the IR images of each two sensors as a stereo pair to generate a depth map. The IR patterns emitted by IR projectors are exploited here to enhance the dense stereo matching even if the observed objects or surfaces are texture-less or transparent. The resulting disparity map is then fused with the depth map offered by the RGB-D sensor to fill the regions and the holes that appear because of interference, or due to transparent or reflective objects. Our results show that the density of depth information is increased especially for transparent, shiny or matte objects.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchifferFerreinLakemeyer2015,
  author    = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Abstracting Away Low-Level Details in Service Robotics with Fuzzy Fluents},
  series = {Model-Driven Knowledge Engineering for Improved Software Modularity in Robotics and Automation. Workshop at European Robotics Forum 2015 Vienna, Austria, March 11-13, 2015.},
  journal   = {Model-Driven Knowledge Engineering for Improved Software Modularity in Robotics and Automation. Workshop at European Robotics Forum 2015 Vienna, Austria, March 11-13, 2015.},
  pages     = {1 -- 4},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{Ferrein2015,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {Robots: challenges, chances and risks for solving 21st century problems},
  series = {President's Invitation Lecture / South African Institute of Electrical Engineers : May 21 \& 22, 2015, University of Johannesburg},
  booktitle = {President's Invitation Lecture / South African Institute of Electrical Engineers : May 21 \& 22, 2015, University of Johannesburg},
  organization    = {South African Institute of Electrical Engineers},
  pages     = {1 -- 45},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{RebelHueningScholletal.2015,
  author    = {Rebel, S{\"o}ren and H{\"u}ning, Felix and Scholl, Ingrid and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {MQOne: Low-cost design for a rugged-terrain robot platform},
  series = {Intelligent robotics and applications : 8th International Conference, ICIRA 2015, Portsmouth, UK, August 24-27, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture notes in computer science : vol. 9245)},
  booktitle = {Intelligent robotics and applications : 8th International Conference, ICIRA 2015, Portsmouth, UK, August 24-27, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture notes in computer science : vol. 9245)},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Cham},
  isbn      = {978-3-319-22875-4 (print) ; 978-3-319-22876-1 (E-Book)},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-319-22876-1_19},
  pages     = {209 -- 221},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Rugged terrain robot designs are important for field robotics missions. A number of commercial platforms are available, however, at an impressive price. In this paper, we describe the hardware and software component of a low-cost wheeled rugged-terrain robot. The robot is based on an electric children quad bike and is modified to be driven by wire. In terms of climbing properties, operation time and payload it can compete with some of the commercially available platforms, but at a far lower price.},
  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{KrueckelNoldenFerreinetal.2015,
  author    = {Kr{\"u}ckel, Kai and Nolden, Florian and Ferrein, Alexander and Scholl, Ingrid},
  title     = {Intuitive visual teleoperation for UGVs using free-look augmented reality displays},
  series = {2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, WA},
  booktitle = {2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, WA},
  doi       = {10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139809},
  pages     = {4412 -- 4417},
  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{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{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{Ferrein2015,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {3D-Mapping von Straßentunneln},
  series = {16. Geokinematischer Tag, 07. und 08. Mai 2015 : Tagungsband / Technische Universit{\"a}t Bergakademie Freiberg},
  booktitle = {16. Geokinematischer Tag, 07. und 08. Mai 2015 : Tagungsband / Technische Universit{\"a}t Bergakademie Freiberg},
  pages     = {31 -- 40},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {de}
}
@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{StopforthFerreinSteinbauer2015,
  author    = {Stopforth, Riaan and Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {Europe and South African collaboration on the Mechatronics and Robotics systems as part of the SA Robotics Center},
  series = {ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum},
  booktitle = {ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum},
  pages     = {3 S.},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Mechatronics consist of the integration of mechanical engineering, electronic integration and computer science/ engineering. These broad fields are essential for robotic systems, yet it makes it difficult for the researchers to specialize and be experts in all these fields. Collaboration between researchers allow for the integration of experience and specialization, to allow optimized systems. Collaboration between the European countries and South Africa is critical, as each country has different resources available, which the other countries might not have. Applications with the need for approval of any restrictions, can also be obtained easier in some countries compared to others, thus preventing the delays of research. Some problems that have been experienced are discussed, with the Robotics Center of South Africa as a possible solution.},
  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{NiemuellerLakemeyerFerrein2015,
  author    = {Niemueller, Tim and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {The RoboCup Logistics League as a Benchmark for Planning in Robotics},
  series = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob-15); Jerusalem, Israel 7-8/6/2015},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob-15); Jerusalem, Israel 7-8/6/2015},
  editor    = {Finzi, Alberto},
  pages     = {63 -- 68},
  year      = {2015},
  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.2015,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Maier, Christopher and M{\"u}hlbacher, Clemens and Niemueller, Tim and Steinbauer, Gerald and Vassos, Stravros},
  title     = {Controlling Logistics Robots with the Action-based Language YAGI},
  series = {Proceedings of the 2015 IROS Workshop on Workshop on Task Planning for Intelligent Robots in Service and Manufacturing},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 IROS Workshop on Workshop on Task Planning for Intelligent Robots in Service and Manufacturing},
  year      = {2015},
  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{NiemuellerReuterFerreinetal.2016,
  author    = {Niemueller, Tim and Reuter, Sebastian and Ferrein, Alexander and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard},
  title     = {Evaluation of the RoboCup Logistics League and Derived Criteria for Future Competitions},
  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_3},
  pages     = {31 -- 43},
  year      = {2016},
  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}
}
@article{LeingartnerMaurerFerreinetal.2016,
  author    = {Leingartner, Max and Maurer, Johannes and Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {Evaluation of Sensors and Mapping Approaches for Disasters in Tunnels},
  series = {Journal of Field Robotics},
  volume    = {33},
  journal   = {Journal of Field Robotics},
  number    = {8},
  publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
  address   = {Weinheim},
  issn      = {1556-4967},
  doi       = {10.1002/rob.21611},
  pages     = {1037 -- 1057},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Ground or aerial robots equipped with advanced sensing technologies, such as three-dimensional laser scanners and advanced mapping algorithms, are deemed useful as a supporting technology for first responders. A great deal of excellent research in the field exists, but practical applications at real disaster sites are scarce. Many projects concentrate on equipping robots with advanced capabilities, such as autonomous exploration or object manipulation. In spite of this, realistic application areas for such robots are limited to teleoperated reconnaissance or search. In this paper, we investigate how well state-of-the-art and off-the-shelf components and algorithms are suited for reconnaissance in current disaster-relief scenarios. The basic idea is to make use of some of the most common sensors and deploy some widely used algorithms in a disaster situation, and to evaluate how well the components work for these scenarios. We acquired the sensor data from two field experiments, one from a disaster-relief operation in a motorway tunnel, and one from a mapping experiment in a partly closed down motorway tunnel. Based on these data, which we make publicly available, we evaluate state-of-the-art and off-the-shelf mapping approaches. In our analysis, we integrate opinions and replies from first responders as well as from some algorithm developers on the usefulness of the data and the limitations of the deployed approaches, respectively. We discuss the lessons we learned during the two missions. These lessons are interesting for the community working in similar areas of urban search and rescue, particularly reconnaissance and search.},
  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{NeumannDuelbergSchifferetal.2016,
  author    = {Neumann, Tobias and D{\"u}lberg, Enno and Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {A rotating platform for swift acquisition of dense 3D point clouds},
  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_22},
  pages     = {257 -- 268},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSchifferBooysenetal.2016,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Schiffer, Stefan and Booysen, T. and Stopforth, R.},
  title     = {Why it is harder to run RoboCup in South Africa: Experiences from German South African collaborations},
  series = {International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems},
  volume    = {13},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems},
  number    = {5},
  issn      = {1729-8806},
  doi       = {10.1177/1729881416662789},
  pages     = {1 -- 13},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Robots are widely used as a vehicle to spark interest in science and technology in learners. A number of initiatives focus on this issue, for instance, the Roberta Initiative, the FIRST Lego League, the World Robot Olympiad and RoboCup Junior. Robotic competitions are valuable not only for school learners but also for university students, as the RoboCup initiative shows. Besides technical skills, the students get some project exposure and experience what it means to finish their tasks on time. But qualifying students for future high-tech areas should not only be for students from developed countries. In this article, we present our experiences with research and education in robotics within the RoboCup initiative, in Germany and South Africa; we report on our experiences with trying to get the RoboCup initiative in South Africa going. RoboCup has a huge support base of academic institutions in Germany; this is not the case in South Africa. We present our 'north-south' collaboration initiatives in RoboCup between Germany and South Africa and discuss some of the reasons why we think it is harder to run RoboCup in South Africa.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSteinbauer2016,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {20 Years of RoboCup - A Subjective Retrospection},
  series = {KI - K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz},
  volume    = {30},
  journal   = {KI - K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {1610-1987},
  doi       = {10.1007/s13218-016-0449-5},
  pages     = {225 -- 232},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {This summer, RoboCup competitions were held for the 20th time in Leipzig, Germany. It was the second time that RoboCup took place in Germany, 10 years after the 2006 RoboCup in Bremen. In this article, we give an overview on the latest developments of RoboCup and what happened in the different leagues over the last decade. With its 20th edition, RoboCup clearly is a success story and a role model for robotics competitions. From our personal view point, we acknowledge this by giving a retrospection about what makes RoboCup such a success.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FerreinSteinbauer2016,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {The Interplay of Aldebaran and RoboCup},
  series = {KI - K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz},
  volume    = {30},
  journal   = {KI - K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz},
  number    = {3-4},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {1610-1987},
  doi       = {10.1007/s13218-016-0440-1},
  pages     = {325 -- 326},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}