TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Jacobs, Stefan
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Unreal Golog Bots / Jacobs, Stefan ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - IJCAI-05 Workshop on Reasoning, Representation, and Learning in Computer Games
Y1  - 2005
SP  - 31
EP  - 36
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Böhnstedt, Lutz
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Options in readylog reloaded -- generating decision-theoretic plan libraries in golog / Böhnstedt, Lutz ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - KI 2007: advances in artificial intelligence : 30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007, Osnabrück, Germany, September 10 - 13, 2007 ; proceedings
Y1  - 2007
SN  - 978-3-540-74564-8
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 4667
SP  - 352
EP  - 366
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Neumann, Tobias
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Kallweit, Stephan
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
T1  - Towards a mobile mapping robot for underground mines
T2  - 7th Conference of Robotics and Mechatronics : RobMech 2014 : 27th and 28th Nov. 2014, Cape Town
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Meyer, Thomas
T1  - A Brief Overview of Artificial Intelligence in South Africa
JF  - AI Magazine
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v33i1.2357
SN  - 0738-4602
VL  - 33
IS  - 1
SP  - 99
EP  - 101
PB  - AAAI
CY  - Menlo Park
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schulte-Tigges, Joschua
A1  - Förster, Marco
A1  - Nikolovski, Gjorgji
A1  - Reke, Michael
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Kaszner, Daniel
A1  - Matheis, Dominik
A1  - Walter, Thomas
T1  - Benchmarking of various LiDAR sensors for use in self-driving vehicles in real-world environments
JF  - Sensors
N2  - Abstract
In this paper, we report on our benchmark results of the LiDAR sensors Livox Horizon, Robosense M1, Blickfeld Cube, Blickfeld Cube Range, Velodyne Velarray H800, and Innoviz Pro. The idea was to test the sensors in different typical scenarios that were defined with real-world use cases in mind, in order to find a sensor that meet the requirements of self-driving vehicles. For this, we defined static and dynamic benchmark scenarios. In the static scenarios, both LiDAR and the detection target do not move during the measurement. In dynamic scenarios, the LiDAR sensor was mounted on the vehicle which was driving toward the detection target. We tested all mentioned LiDAR sensors in both scenarios, show the results regarding the detection accuracy of the targets, and discuss their usefulness for deployment in self-driving cars.
KW  - Lidar
KW  - Benchmark
KW  - Self-driving
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/s22197146
SN  - 1424-8220
N1  - This article belongs to the Special Issue "Sensor Fusion for Vehicles Navigation and Robotic Systems"
VL  - 22
IS  - 19
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
A1  - McPhillips, Graeme
A1  - Potgieter, Anet
T1  - Establishing the RoboCup Standard League in Africa - applying for the RoboCup Standard League with a German-Austrian-South African Research Project
Y1  - 2007
SP  - 1
EP  - 5
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Fritz, Christian
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Using Golog for Deliberation and Team Coordination in Robotic Soccer / Ferrein, Alexander ; Fritz, Christian ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - Künstliche Intelligenz : KI. 19 (2005), H. 1
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 0933-1875
SP  - 24
EP  - 30
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - ERIKA—Early Robotics Introduction at Kindergarten Age
JF  - Multimodal Technologies Interact
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/mti2040064
SN  - 2414-4088
VL  - 2
IS  - 4
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hofmann, Till
A1  - Mataré, Victor
A1  - Neumann, Tobias
A1  - Schönitz, Sebastian
A1  - Henke, Christoph
A1  - Limpert, Nicolas
A1  - Niemueller, Tim
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Jeschke, Sabina
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Enhancing Software and Hardware Reliability for a Successful Participation in the RoboCup Logistics League 2017
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-030-00308-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00308-1_40
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11175
SP  - 486
EP  - 497
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Niemüller, Tim
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Beck, Daniel
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Design Principles of the Component-Based Robot Software Framework Fawkes
JF  - Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots
Y1  - 2010
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 6472 ; Second International Conference, SIMPAR 2010, Darmstadt, Germany, November 15-18, 2010. Proceedings
SP  - 300
EP  - 311
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - On the Way to High-Level Programming for Resource-Limited Embedded Systems with Golog
JF  - Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots
Y1  - 2010
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 6472 ; Second International Conference, SIMPAR 2010, Darmstadt, Germany, November 15-18, 2010. Proceedings
SP  - 229
EP  - 240
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Robot controllers for highly dynamic environments with real-time constraints
JF  - Künstliche Intelligenz : KI. 24 (2010), H. 2
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 1610-1987
SP  - 175
EP  - 178
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Beck, Daniel
A1  - Buchleitner, Martin
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Niemüller, Tim
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - Mostly Harmless & AllemaniACs - mixed innovations
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Arndt, Tobias
A1  - Conzen, Max
A1  - Elsen, Ingo
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Galla, Oskar
A1  - Köse, Hakan
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Tschesche, Matteo
T1  - Anomaly detection in the metal-textile industry for the reduction of the cognitive load of quality control workers
T2  - PETRA '23: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
N2  - This paper presents an approach for reducing the cognitive load for humans working in quality control (QC) for production processes that adhere to the 6σ -methodology. While 100% QC requires every part to be inspected, this task can be reduced when a human-in-the-loop QC process gets supported by an anomaly detection system that only presents those parts for manual inspection that have a significant likelihood of being defective. This approach shows good results when applied to image-based QC for metal textile products.
KW  - Datasets
KW  - Neural networks
KW  - Anomaly detection
KW  - Quality control
KW  - Process optimization
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 9798400700699
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3594806.3596558
N1  - PETRA '23: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Corfu, Greece, July 5 - 7, 2023
SP  - 535
EP  - 542
PB  - ACM
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Alhwarin, Faraj
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
T1  - An Efficient Hashing Algorithm for NN Problem in HD Spaces
T2  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-303005498-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05499-1_6
N1  - 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2018; Funchal; Portugal; 16 January 2018 through 18 January 2018; Code 222779
SP  - 101
EP  - 115
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Dylla, Frank
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Acting and Deliberating using Golog in Robotic Soccer - A Hybrid Architecture / Dylla, Frank ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - Proc. 3rd International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (CogRob 2002)
Y1  - 2002
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Logic-based robot control in highly dynamic domains  / Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 56 (2008), H. 11
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 0921-8890
SP  - 980
EP  - 991
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Robot controllers for highly dynamic environments with real-time constraints
Y1  - 2008
N1  - Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2007
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
A1  - McPhillips, Graeme
A1  - Potgieter, Anet
T1  - RoboCup Standard Platform League - Team Zadeat : an intercontinental research effort
Y1  - 2008
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Niemüller, Tim
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Aspects of integrating diverse software into robotic systems extended abstract
T2  - ICRA 2013 - 8th Workshop on Software Development and Integration in Robotics (SDIR), Karlsruhe, Germany
Y1  - 2013
SP  - 1
EP  - 2
ER  -