TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Dylla, Frank
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Specifying Multirobot Coordination in ICPGolog - From Simulation towards Real Robots / Dylla, Frank ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
Y1  - 2003
N1  - AOS-4 at IJCAI-03
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
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  - golog.lua: Towards a Non-Prolog Implementation of Golog for Embedded Systems
JF  - Cognitive Robotics / Lakemeyer, Gerhard (ed.)
Y1  - 2010
N1  - Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings ; 10081
SP  - 1
EP  - 15
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Caesar: an intelligent domestic service robot
JF  - Intelligent service robotics
N2  - 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
Y1  - 2012
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11370-012-0118-y
SN  - 1861-2776
N1  - Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Robotics: Sensing, Representation and Action, Part I
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
SP  - 259
EP  - 276
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rens, Gavin
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Belief-node condensation for online POMDP algorithms
N2  - 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
Y1  - 2013
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
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  - http://dx.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  - Niemüller, Tim
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Reuter, S.
A1  - Ewert, D.
A1  - Jeschke, S.
A1  - Pensky, D.
A1  - Karras, Ulrich
T1  - Proposal for advancements to the LLSF in 2014 and beyond
Y1  - 2013
SP  - Publ. online
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Towards applying soccer moves in the RoboCup Standard Platform League
JF  - ÖGAI-Journal
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 0254-4326
VL  - Bd. 27
IS  - H. 3
SP  - 4
EP  - 9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Autonome Entscheidungsfindung bei Robotern : Planwirtschaft
JF  - Linux-Magazin
Y1  - 2004
SN  - 1432-640X (Print)
IS  - 7
SP  - 50
EP  - 53
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  -