TY - JOUR A1 - Limpert, Nicolas A1 - Wiesen, Patrick A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Kallweit, Stephan A1 - Schiffer, Stefan T1 - The ROSIN Project and its Outreach to South Africa JF - R&D Journal Y1 - 2019 VL - 35 SP - 1 EP - 6 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Marco, Heather G. A1 - Ferrein, Alexander T1 - AGNES: The African-German Network of Excellence in Science T2 - Proceedings of the 2nd Developing World Robotics Forum, Workshop at IEEE AFRICON 2017 Y1 - 2017 SP - 1 EP - 2 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mataré, Victor A1 - Schiffer, Stefan A1 - Ferrein, Alexander ED - Steinbauer, Gerald ED - Ferrein, Alexander T1 - golog++ : An integrative system design T2 - CogRob 2018. Cognitive Robotics Workshop : Proceedings of the 11th Cognitive Robotics Workshop 2018 co-located with 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018) Tempe, AZ, USA, October 27th, 2018 Y1 - 2019 SN - 1613-0073 SP - 29 EP - 35 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Neumann, Tobias A1 - Dülberg, Enno A1 - Schiffer, Stefan A1 - Ferrein, Alexander T1 - A rotating platform for swift acquisition of dense 3D point clouds T2 - Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 9th International Conference, ICIRA 2016, Tokyo, Japan, August 22-24, 2016, Proceedings, Part I Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-319-43505-3 (Print) SN - 978-3-319-43506-0 (Online) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43506-0_22 N1 - Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) VL - 9834 SP - 257 EP - 268 PB - Springer 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 - CHAP A1 - Niemueller, T. A1 - Lakemeyer, G. A1 - Reuter, S. A1 - Jeschke, S. A1 - Ferrein, Alexander T1 - Benchmarking of Cyber-Physical Systems in Industrial Robotics: The RoboCup Logistics League as a CPS Benchmark Blueprint T2 - Cyber-Physical Systems: Foundations, Principles and Applications N2 - In the future, we expect manufacturing companies to follow a new paradigm that mandates more automation and autonomy in production processes. Such smart factories will offer a variety of production technologies as services that can be combined ad hoc to produce a large number of different product types and variants cost-effectively even in small lot sizes. This is enabled by cyber-physical systems that feature flexible automated planning methods for production scheduling, execution control, and in-factory logistics. During development, testbeds are required to determine the applicability of integrated systems in such scenarios. Furthermore, benchmarks are needed to quantify and compare system performance in these industry-inspired scenarios at a comprehensible and manageable size which is, at the same time, complex enough to yield meaningful results. In this chapter, based on our experience in the RoboCup Logistics League (RCLL) as a specific example, we derive a generic blueprint for how a holistic benchmark can be developed, which combines a specific scenario with a set of key performance indicators as metrics to evaluate the overall integrated system and its components. KW - Smart factory KW - Industry 4.0 KW - Cyber-physical systems KW - Multi-robot systems KW - Autonomous mobile robots Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803801-7.00013-4 SP - 193 EP - 207 PB - Academic Press CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Niemueller, Tim A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Reuter, Sebastian A1 - Jeschke, Sabina A1 - Lakemeyer, Gerhard T1 - The RoboCup Logistics League as a Holistic Multi-Robot Smart Factory Benchmark T2 - Proceedings of the IROS 2015 Open forum on evaluation of results, replication of experiments and benchmarking in robotics research N2 - 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. Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Niemueller, Tim A1 - Karras, Ulrich A1 - Ferrein, Alexander T1 - Meisterschaft der Maschinen: Die Industrial Logistic Liga JF - C´t Magazin für Computertechnik Y1 - 2017 IS - 26 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Niemueller, Tim A1 - Lakemeyer, Gerhard A1 - Ferrein, Alexander ED - Finzi, Alberto T1 - The RoboCup Logistics League as a Benchmark for Planning in Robotics T2 - Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob-15); Jerusalem, Israel 7-8/6/2015 Y1 - 2015 SP - 63 EP - 68 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Niemueller, Tim A1 - Neumann, Tobias A1 - Henke, Christoph A1 - Schönitz, Sebastian A1 - Reuter, Sebastian A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Jeschke, Sabina A1 - Lakemeyer, Gerhard T1 - Improvements for a robust production in the RoboCup logistics league 2016 T2 - RoboCup 2016: Robot World Cup XX. RoboCup 2016. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-319-68792-6 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68792-6_49 SP - 589 EP - 600 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER -