@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{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}
}
@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{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{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}
}
@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}
}
@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{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{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{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{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}
}
@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{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{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{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{FerreinSteinbauer2016,
  author    = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald},
  title     = {Looking back on 20 Years of 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/s13218-016-0443-y},
  pages     = {321 -- 323},
  year      = {2016},
  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}
}
@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}
}