@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}
}
@article{SteinbauerFerrein2016,
  author    = {Steinbauer, Gerald and Ferrein, Alexander},
  title     = {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/s13218-016-0442-z},
  pages     = {221 -- 224},
  year      = {2016},
  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{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{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}
}