TY  - CHAP
A1  - Alhwarin, Faraj
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Gebhardt, Andreas
A1  - Kallweit, Stephan
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
A1  - Tedjasukmana, Osmond Sanjaya
T1  - Improving additive manufacturing by image processing and robotic milling
T2  - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Aug 24-28, 2015 Gothenburg, Sweden
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2015.7294217
SP  - 924
EP  - 929
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Alhwarin, Faraj
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
T1  - IR stereo kinect: improving depth images by combining structured light with IR stereo
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Alhwarin, Faraj
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
T1  - IR stereo kinect: improving depth images by combining structured light with IR stereo
T2  - PRICAI 2014: Trends in artificial intelligence : 13th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence : Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, December 1-5, 2014 : proceedings. (Lecture notes in computer science ; vol. 8862)
N2  - RGB-D sensors such as the Microsoft Kinect or the Asus Xtion are inexpensive 3D sensors. A depth image is computed by calculating the distortion of a known infrared light (IR) pattern which is projected into the scene. While these sensors are great devices they have some limitations. The distance they can measure is limited and they suffer from reflection problems on transparent, shiny, or very matte and absorbing objects. If more than one RGB-D camera is used the IR patterns interfere with each other. This results in a massive loss of depth information. In this paper, we present a simple and powerful method to overcome these problems. We propose a stereo RGB-D camera system which uses the pros of RGB-D cameras and combine them with the pros of stereo camera systems. The idea is to utilize the IR images of each two sensors as a stereo pair to generate a depth map. The IR patterns emitted by IR projectors are exploited here to enhance the dense stereo matching even if the observed objects or surfaces are texture-less or transparent. The resulting disparity map is then fused with the depth map offered by the RGB-D sensor to fill the regions and the holes that appear because of interference, or due to transparent or reflective objects. Our results show that the density of depth information is increased especially for transparent, shiny or matte objects.
Y1  - 2014
SN  - 978-3-319-13559-5 (Print) ; 978-3-319-13560-1 (E-Book)
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13560-1_33
SP  - 409
EP  - 421
PB  - Springer
CY  - München
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Alhwarin, Faraj
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
T1  - CRVM: Circular Random Variable-based Matcher - A Novel Hashing Method for Fast NN Search in High-dimensional Spaces
T2  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2018
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-989-758-276-9
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0006692802140221
SP  - 214
EP  - 221
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  - http://dx.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  - CHAP
A1  - Alhwarin, Faraj
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
T1  - Optimized KinectFusion Algorithm for 3D Scanning Applications
T2  - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: BIOIMAGING
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-989-758-278-3
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0006594700500057
SP  - 50
EP  - 57
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Alhwarin, Faraj
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
T1  - An Optimized Method for 3D Body Scanning Applications Based on KinectFusion
T2  - Communications in Computer and Information Science
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29196-9_6
SN  - 1865-0929
N1  - 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2018; Funchal; Portugal; 19 January 2018 through 21 January 2018
VL  - 1024
SP  - 100
EP  - 113
PB  - Springer
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  - http://dx.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  - 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  - Booysen, Tracy
A1  - Mathew, Thomas
A1  - Knox, Greig
A1  - Fong, W. K.
A1  - Stüttgen, Marcel
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - The Scarab Project
T2  - ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Booysen, Tracy
A1  - Rieger, Michael
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Towards inexpensive robots for science & technology teaching and education in Africa
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 978-1-61284-992-8
N1  - AFRICON, 2011
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Chajan, Eduard
A1  - Schulte-Tigges, Joschua
A1  - Reke, Michael
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Matheis, Dominik
A1  - Walter, Thomas
T1  - GPU based model-predictive path control for self-driving vehicles
T2  - IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
N2  - One central challenge for self-driving cars is a proper path-planning. Once a trajectory has been found, the next challenge is to accurately and safely follow the precalculated path. The model-predictive controller (MPC) is a common approach for the lateral control of autonomous vehicles. The MPC uses a vehicle dynamics model to predict the future states of the vehicle for a given prediction horizon. However, in order to achieve real-time path control, the computational load is usually large, which leads to short prediction horizons. To deal with the computational load, the control algorithm can be parallelized on the graphics processing unit (GPU). In contrast to the widely used stochastic methods, in this paper we propose a deterministic approach based on grid search. Our approach focuses on systematically discovering the search area with different levels of granularity. To achieve this, we split the optimization algorithm into multiple iterations. The best sequence of each iteration is then used as an initial solution to the next iteration. The granularity increases, resulting in smooth and predictable steering angle sequences. We present a novel GPU-based algorithm and show its accuracy and realtime abilities with a number of real-world experiments.
KW  - Heuristic algorithms
KW  - Computational modeling
KW  - model-predictive control
KW  - GPU
KW  - autonomous driving
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-1-7281-5394-0
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IV48863.2021.9575619
N1  - 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
July 11-17, 2021. Nagoya, Japan
SP  - 1243
EP  - 1248
PB  - IEEE
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Claer, Mario
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
T1  - Calibration of a Rotating or Revolving Platform with a LiDAR Sensor
JF  - Applied Sciences
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app9112238
SN  - 2076-3417
VL  - Volume 9
IS  - issue 11, 2238
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Dey, Thomas
A1  - Elsen, Ingo
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Frauenrath, Tobias
A1  - Reke, Michael
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
ED  - Makedon, Fillia
T1  - CO2 Meter: a do-it-yourself carbon dioxide measuring device for the classroom
T2  - PETRA 2021: The 14th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference
N2  - In this paper we report on CO2 Meter, a do-it-yourself carbon dioxide measuring device for the classroom. Part of the current measures for dealing with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is proper ventilation in indoor settings. This is especially important in schools with students coming back to the classroom even with high incidents rates. Static ventilation patterns do not consider the individual situation for a particular class. Influencing factors like the type of activity, the physical structure or the room occupancy are not incorporated. Also, existing devices are rather expensive and often provide only limited information and only locally without any networking. This leaves the potential of analysing the situation across different settings untapped. Carbon dioxide level can be used as an indicator of air quality, in general, and of aerosol load in particular. Since, according to the latest findings, SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted primarily in the form of aerosols, carbon dioxide may be used as a proxy for the risk of a virus infection. Hence, schools could improve the indoor air quality and potentially reduce the infection risk if they actually had measuring devices available in the classroom. Our device supports schools in ventilation and it allows for collecting data over the Internet to enable a detailed data analysis and model generation. First deployments in schools at different levels were received very positively. A pilot installation with a larger data collection and analysis is underway.
KW  - embedded hardware
KW  - sensor networks
KW  - information systems
KW  - education
KW  - do-it-yourself
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 9781450387927
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3453892.3462697
N1  - PETRA '21: The 14th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference Corfu Greece 29 June 2021- 2 July 2021
SP  - 292
EP  - 299
PB  - Association for Computing Machinery
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Donner, Ralf
A1  - Rabel, Matthias
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Donner, Marc
A1  - Geier, Andreas
A1  - John, André
A1  - Köhler, Christian
A1  - Varga, Sebastian
T1  - Die Extraktion bergbaulich relevanter Merkmale aus 3D-Punktwolken eines untertagetauglichen mobilen Multisensorsystems
T2  - Tagungsband Geomonitoring
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.15488/4515
SP  - 91
EP  - 110
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Dylla, Frank
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - AllemaniACs 2003 team description
T2  - RoboCup 2003 : Robot Soccer World Cup VII
Y1  - 2003
SP  - 1
EP  - 3
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Eichenbaum, Julian
A1  - Nikolovski, Gjorgji
A1  - Mülhens, Leon
A1  - Reke, Michael
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
T1  - Towards a lifelong mapping approach using Lanelet 2 for autonomous open-pit mine operations
T2  - 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
N2  - Autonomous agents require rich environment models for fulfilling their missions. High-definition maps are a well-established map format which allows for representing semantic information besides the usual geometric information of the environment. These are, for instance, road shapes, road markings, traffic signs or barriers. The geometric resolution of HD maps can be as precise as of centimetre level. In this paper, we report on our approach of using HD maps as a map representation for autonomous load-haul-dump vehicles in open-pit mining operations. As the mine undergoes constant change, we also need to constantly update the map. Therefore, we follow a lifelong mapping approach for updating the HD maps based on camera-based object detection and GPS data. We show our mapping algorithm based on the Lanelet 2 map format and show our integration with the navigation stack of the Robot Operating System. We present experimental results on our lifelong mapping approach from a real open-pit mine.
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 979-8-3503-2069-5 (Online)
SN  - 979-8-3503-2070-1 (Print)
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260526
N1  - 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 26-30 August 2023, Auckland, New Zealand.
PB  - IEEE
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Eltester, Niklas Sebastian
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
T1  - A smart factory setup based on the RoboCup logistics league
T2  - 2020 IEEE Conference on Industrial Cyberphysical Systems (ICPS)
N2  - In this paper we present SMART-FACTORY, a setup for a research and teaching facility in industrial robotics that is based on the RoboCup Logistics League. It is driven by the need for developing and applying solutions for digital production. Digitization receives constantly increasing attention in many areas, especially in industry. The common theme is to make things smart by using intelligent computer technology. Especially in the last decade there have been many attempts to improve existing processes in factories, for example, in production logistics, also with deploying cyber-physical systems. An initiative that explores challenges and opportunities for robots in such a setting is the RoboCup Logistics League. Since its foundation in 2012 it is an international effort for research and education in an intra-warehouse logistics scenario. During seven years of competition a lot of knowledge and experience regarding autonomous robots was gained. This knowledge and experience shall provide the basis for further research in challenges of future production. The focus of our SMART-FACTORY is to create a stimulating environment for research on logistics robotics, for teaching activities in computer science and electrical engineering programmes as well as for industrial users to study and explore the feasibility of future technologies. Building on a very successful history in the RoboCup Logistics League we aim to provide stakeholders with a dedicated facility oriented at their individual needs.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPS48405.2020.9274766
N1  - 2020 IEEE Conference on Industrial Cyberphysical Systems (ICPS), 10-12 June 2020, Tampere, Finland.
SP  - 297
EP  - 302
PB  - IEEE
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
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  - 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  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - golog.lua: Towards a Non-Prolog Implementation of Golog for Embedded Systems
Y1  - 2010
SP  - 20
EP  - 28
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Planwirtschaft
JF  - Linux Magazin (2004)
Y1  - 2004
SN  - 1432-640X
SP  - 50
EP  - 53
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Specifying Soccer Moves with Golog
JF  - Book of abstracts : Cologne, 15 - 17 September 2004 / 1st International Working Conference IT and Sport & 5th conference DVS-Section Computer Science in Sport
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 3-00-014576-1
N1  - International Working Conference IT and Sport 1, 2004, Köln ; Deutsche Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft
SP  - 161
EP  - 165
PB  - German Sport Univ.
CY  - Köln
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  - 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  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Robots: challenges, chances and risks for solving 21st century problems
T2  - President’s Invitation Lecture / South African Institute of Electrical Engineers : May 21 & 22, 2015, University of Johannesburg
Y1  - 2015
SP  - 1
EP  - 45
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - 3D-Mapping von Straßentunneln
T2  - 16. Geokinematischer Tag, 07. und 08. Mai 2015 : Tagungsband / Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg
Y1  - 2015
N1  - Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Markscheidewesen und Geodsäsie an der Technischen Universität Bergakademie Freiberg
SP  - 31
EP  - 40
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Beck, Daniel
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Landmark-Based Representations for Navigating Holonomic Soccer Robots / Beck, Daniel ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - RoboCup 2008 : robot soccer world cup XII / Luca Iocchi ... (eds.)
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 978-3-642-02921-9
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 5399
SP  - 25
EP  - 36
PB  - Springer
CY  - Heidelberg
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Beck, Daniel
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - A Simulation Environment for Middle-Size Robots with Multi-level Abstraction / Beck, Daniel ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI
Y1  - 2007
SN  - 978-3-540-68846-4
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 5001
SP  - 136
EP  - 147
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Bharatheesha, Mukunda
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Corbato, Carlos Hernandez
T1  - TRROS 2018 :  Teaching Robotics with ROS Workshop at ERF 2018;  Proceedings of the Workshop on Teaching Robotics with ROS (held at ERF 2018), co-located with European Robotics Forum 2018 (ERF 2018), Tampere, Finland, March 15th, 2018
T2  - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 1613-0073
IS  - Vol-2329
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  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Calmes, Laurent
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
A1  - Wagner, Hermann
T1  - Von Schleiereulen und fussballspielenden Robotern / Calmes, Laurent ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard ; Wagner, Hermann
JF  - RWTH Themen (2006)
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 0179-079X
SP  - 30
EP  - 33
ER  - 
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
A1  - Dylla, Frank
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
A1  - Murray, Jan
T1  - Approaching a formal soccer theory from behaviour specifications in robotic soccer / Dylla, Frank ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard ; Murray, Jan ; Obst, Oliver ; Röfer, Thomas ; Schiffer, Stefan ; Stolzenburg, Frieder ; Visser, Ubbo ; Wagner, Tho
JF  - Computers in sport / editors: P Dabnichki
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 978-1-8456-4064-4
SP  - 161
EP  - 185
PB  - WIT Press
CY  - Southampton
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Dylla, Frank
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
A1  - Murray, Jan
T1  - Towards a League-Independent Qualitative Soccer Theory for RoboCup  / Dylla, Frank ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard ; Murray, Jan ; Obst, Oliver ; Röfer, Thomas ; Stolzenburg, Frieder ; Visser, Ubbo
JF  - RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII / Daniele Nardi ... (ed.).
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 978-3-540-25046-8
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 3276
SP  - 611
EP  - 618
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
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  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Fritz, Christian
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - On-Line Decision-Theoretic Golog for Unpredictable Domains / Ferrein, Alexander ; Fritz, Christian ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - KI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence : 27th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2004, Ulm, Germany, September 20-24, 2004. Proceedings
Y1  - 2004
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 3238
SP  - 322
EP  - 336
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Fritz, Christian
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Extending DTGOLOG with Options / Ferrein, Alexander ; Fritz, Christian ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - IJCAI-03, Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Acapulco, Mexico, August 9-15, 2003
Y1  - 2003
SP  - 1391
EP  - 1393
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Hermanns, Lutz
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Comparing Sensor Fusion Techniques for Ball Position Estimation / Ferrein, Alexander ; Hermanns, Lutz ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 978-3-540-35437-6
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 4020
SP  - 154
EP  - 165
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Jacobs, Stefan
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Controlling Unreal Tournament 2004 Bots with the logic-based action language Golog / Jacobs, Stefan ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - Proceedings of the First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE).
Y1  - 2005
SP  - 151
EP  - 152
ER  - 
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  - Jacobs, Stefan
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Beck, Daniel
T1  - Robust Collision Avoidance in Unknown Domestic Environments  /  Jacobs, Stefan ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Schiffer, Stefan ; Beck, Daniel ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - ROBOCUP 2009: ROBOT SOCCER WORLD CUP XIII
Y1  - 2009
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 5949
SP  - 116
EP  - 127
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Kallweit, Stephan
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
A1  - Reichert, Walter
T1  - Learning to Program Mobile Robots in the ROS Summer School Series
T2  - Proceedings 6th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE 15)
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Konur, Savas
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Learning Decision Trees for Action Selection in Soccer Agents / Konur, Savas ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
Y1  - 2004
N1  - Proceedings of Workshop on Agents in dynamic and real-time environments
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Roboterfußball - Wissenschaft, die auch Spass macht / Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - RWTH Themen (2006)
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 0179-079X
SP  - 36
EP  - 39
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Wie Roboter die Welt sehen : Roboterfußball im Dienst der Wissenschaft / Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - Bild und Erkenntnis : Formen und Funktionen des Bildes in Wissenschaft und Technik / RWTH. Andreas Beyer ; Markus Lohoff (Hrsg.)
Y1  - 2005
SN  - 3-422-06463-X
SP  - 360
EP  - 361
PB  - Deutscher Kunstverlag
CY  - München
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
T1  - AllemaniACs@ home 2006 team description
Y1  - 2006
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Maier, Christopher
A1  - Mühlbacher, Clemens
A1  - Niemueller, Tim
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
A1  - Vassos, Stravros
T1  - Controlling Logistics Robots with the Action-based Language YAGI
T2  - Proceedings of the 2015 IROS Workshop on Workshop on Task Planning for Intelligent Robots in Service and Manufacturing
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Maier, Christopher
A1  - Mühlbacher, Clemens
A1  - Niemüller, Tim
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
A1  - Vassos, Stravros
T1  - Controlling logistics robots with the action-based language YAGI
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_46
N1  - Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
VL  - 9834
SP  - 525
EP  - 537
PB  - Springer
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Marais, Stephen
A1  - Potgieter, Anet
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - RoboCup Junior: A vehicle for S&T education in Africa?
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 978-1-61284-992-8
N1  - AFRICON, 2011
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Meeßen, Marcus
A1  - Limpert, Nicolas
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
ED  - Lepuschitz, Wilfried
T1  - Compiling ROS Schooling Curricula via Contentual Taxonomies
T2  - Robotics in Education
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-030-67411-3
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67411-3_5
N1  - RiE: International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE);
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, volume 1316)
SP  - 49
EP  - 60
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
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  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Mies, Christoph
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Repairing Decision-Theoretic Policies Using Goal-Oriented Planning / Mies, Christoph ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - KI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence : 31st Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2008, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 23-26, 2008. Proceedings
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 978-3-540-85844-7
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 5243
SP  - 267
EP  - 275
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Niemüller, Tim
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
ED  - Boots, Byron
T1  - Lessons learnt from developing the embodied AI platform CAESAR for domestic service robotics
T2  - Designing intelligent robots : reintegrating AI II ; papers from the AAAI spring symposium ; [held March 25 - 27, 2013 in Palo Alto, California, USA, on the campus of Stanford University]. (Technical Report / Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ; 2013,4)
Y1  - 2013
SN  - 9781577356011
SP  - 21
EP  - 26
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Niemüller, Tim
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - Team Zadeat 2010 : application for participation
Y1  - 2010
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Pauli, J.
A1  - Siebel, N. T.
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - Hybrid control for autonomous systems : [... 1st Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems - Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control with the 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), held in Pasadena, CA, in July 2009] / ed. by Alexander Ferrein ...
Y1  - 2009
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Potgieter, Anet
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - Self-aware robots - What do we need from learning, deliberation, and reactive control?
T2  - HYCAS 2009 : International Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems : Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control : Pasadena, Calif., 13 July 2009
Y1  - 2009
SP  - 1
EP  - 5
PB  - AAAI Pr.
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Rens, Gavin
A1  - Meyer, Thomas
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - A Logic for Specifying Partially Observable Stochastic Domains / Rens, Gavin ; Meyer, Thomas ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop pn non-Monotonic Reasoning, Action and Change (NRAC`11)
Y1  - 2011
N1  - Technical Report RMIT-TR-11-02
SP  - 15
EP  - 22
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Rens, Gavin
A1  - Poel, Etienne van der
T1  - A BDI agent architecture for a POMDP planner / Rens, Gavin ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Poel, Etienne van der
Y1  - 2009
N1  - 9th International Symposium on Logical Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning: Commonsense 2009, Toronto, Canada, 1-3 June, 2009
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Booysen, T.
A1  - Stopforth, R.
T1  - Why it is harder to run RoboCup in South Africa: Experiences from German South African collaborations
JF  - International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1729881416662789
SN  - 1729-8806
VL  - 13
IS  - 5
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Kallweit, Stephan
T1  - The ROSIN Education Concept - Fostering ROS Industrial-Related Robotics Education in Europe
T2  - ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-319-70836-2
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70836-2_31
N1  - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 694;
(AISC, volume 694)
SP  - 370
EP  - 381
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Embedding fuzzy controllers in golog  / Ferrein, Alexander ; Schiffer, Stefan ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2009. FUZZ-IEEE 2009
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 978-1-4244-3596-8
SP  - 894
EP  - 899
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - A Fuzzy Set Semantics for Qualitative Fluents in the Situation Calculus / Ferrein, Alexander ; Schiffer, Stefan ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - Intelligent Robotics and Applications : First International Conference, ICIRA 2008 Wuhan, China, October 15-17, 2008 Proceedings, Part I
Y1  - 2008
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 5314
SP  - 498
EP  - 509
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Football is coming Home / Schiffer, Stefan ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - PCAR '06 Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Practical cognitive agents and robots
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 1-74052-130-7
SP  - 39
EP  - 50
PB  - ACM
CY  - New York, NY
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Qualitative World Models for Soccer Robots / Schiffer, Stefan ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - Qualitative constraint calculi : application and integration ; KI 2006, 14 - 19 June 2006, Bremen, Germany ; 29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence ; workshop / Stefan Wölfl ... (eds.)
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 3-88722-666-6
SP  - 3
EP  - 14
PB  - Univ.
CY  - Bremen
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
A1  - Neumann, Tobias
A1  - Krückel, Kai
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
T1  - A system for continuous underground site mapping and exploration
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.85859
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Siebel, Nils T.
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - Hybrid control for autonomous systems — Integrating learning, deliberation and reactive control
JF  - Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 0921-8890
VL  - 58
IS  - 9
SP  - 1037
EP  - 1038
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
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - 20 Years of RoboCup -  A Subjective Retrospection
JF  - KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13218-016-0449-5
SN  - 1610-1987
VL  - 30
IS  - 3
SP  - 225
EP  - 232
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - The Interplay of Aldebaran and RoboCup
JF  - KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13218-016-0440-1
SN  - 1610-1987
VL  - 30
IS  - 3-4
SP  - 325
EP  - 326
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - Looking back on 20 Years of RoboCup
JF  - KI - Künstliche Intelligenz
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13218-016-0443-y
SN  - 1610-1987
VL  - 30
IS  - 3-4
SP  - 321
EP  - 323
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
A1  - McPhillips, Graeme
A1  - Niemüller, Tim
A1  - Potgieter, Anet
T1  - Team Zadeat 2009 : team report
Y1  - 2009
VL  - 6
SP  - 1
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  - 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  - Steinbauer, Gerald
A1  - Vassos, Stavros
T1  - Action-Based Imperative Programming with YAGI
N2  - Many tasks for autonomous agents or robots are best described by a specification of the environment and a specification of the available actions the agent or robot can perform. Combining such a specification with the possibility to imperatively program a robot or agent is what we call the actionbased imperative programming. One of the most successful such approaches is Golog. In this paper, we draft a proposal for a new robot programming language YAGI, which is based on the action-based imperative programming paradigm. Our goal is to design a small, portable stand-alone YAGI interpreter. We combine the benefits of a principled domain specification with a clean, small and simple programming language, which does not exploit any side-effects from the implementation language. We discuss general requirements of action-based programming languages and outline YAGI, our action-based language approach which particularly aims at embeddability.
Y1  - 2012
N1  - Cognitive Robotics
AAAI Technical Report WS-12-06
SP  - 24
EP  - 31
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Strack, Andreas
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Laser-Based Localization with Sparse Landmarks  / Strack, Andreas ; Ferrein, Alexander ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard
JF  - RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX
Y1  - 2006
SN  - 978-3-540-35437-6
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 4020
SP  - 569
EP  - 576
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gspandl, Stephan
A1  - Pill, Ingo
A1  - Reip, Michael
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Belief Management for High-Level Robot Programs
JF  - Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [electronic resource] : Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, 16 - 22 July 2011 / sponsored by International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Ed. by Toby Walsh
Y1  - 2011
N1  - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ; (22 : ; 2011.07.16-22 : ; Barcelona, Spain) ; IJCAI ; (22 : ; 2011.07.16-22 : ; Barcelona, Spain)
SP  - 900
EP  - 905
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hofmann, Till
A1  - Limpert, Nicolas
A1  - Mataré, Victor
A1  - Schönitz, Sebastian
A1  - Niemueller, Tim
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - The Carologistics RoboCup Logistics Team 2018
N2  - The Carologistics team participates in the RoboCup Logistics League for the seventh year. The RCLL requires precise vision,
manipulation and path planning, as well as complex high-level decision
making and multi-robot coordination. We outline our approach with an
emphasis on recent modifications to those components.
The team members in 2018 are David Bosen, Christoph Gollok, Mostafa
Gomaa, Daniel Habering, Till Hofmann, Nicolas Limpert, Sebastian Schönitz,
Morian Sonnet, Carsten Stoffels, and Tarik Viehmann.
This paper is based on the last year’s team description.
Y1  - 2018
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hofmann, Till
A1  - Limpert, Nicolas
A1  - Mataré, Viktor
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Winning the RoboCup Logistics League with Fast Navigation, Precise Manipulation, and Robust Goal Reasoning
T2  - RoboCup 2019: Robot World Cup XXIII. RoboCup
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-030-35699-6
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35699-6_41
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11531
SP  - 504
EP  - 516
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
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  - http://dx.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  - CHAP
A1  - Hofmann, Till
A1  - Mataré, Victor
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - Constraint-based online transformation of abstract plans into executable robot actions
T2  - Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Spring Symposium on Integrating Representation, Reasoning, Learning, and Execution for Goal Directed Autonomy
Y1  - 2018
SP  - 549
EP  - 553
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kallweit, Stephan
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
A1  - Reichert, Walter
T1  - Mobile Autonome Systeme in der Lehre, am Beispiel der ROS Summer School
T2  - Tagungsband AALE 2014 : das Forum für Fachleute der Automatisierungstechnik aus Hochschulen und Wirtschaft ; 11. Fachkonferenz, Regensburg ; [11. Konferenz für Angewandte Automatisierungstechnik in Lehre und Entwicklung / Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg; VFAALE, Verein der Freunde und Förderer der Angewandten Automatisierungstechnik]
Y1  - 2014
SN  - 978-3-8356-7142-3
N1  - Die Textverteilung der elektronischen Zweitveröffentlichung entspricht nicht der der o.g. Verlagsausgabe.
SP  - 157
EP  - 163
PB  - Dt. Industrieverl.
CY  - München
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kirsch, Maximilian
A1  - Mataré, Victor
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
T1  - Integrating golog++ and ROS for Practical and Portable High-level Control
T2  - 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0008984406920699
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Krückel, Kai
A1  - Nolden, Florian
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Scholl, Ingrid
T1  - Intuitive visual teleoperation for UGVs using free-look augmented reality displays
T2  - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, WA
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139809
SP  - 4412
EP  - 4417
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Leingartner, Max
A1  - Maurer, Johannes
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
T1  - Evaluation of Sensors and Mapping Approaches for Disasters in Tunnels
JF  - Journal of Field Robotics
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rob.21611
SN  - 1556-4967
VL  - 33
IS  - 8
SP  - 1037
EP  - 1057
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Leingartner, Max
A1  - Maurer, Johannes
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Evaluation of sensors and mapping approaches for disasters in tunnels
T2  - IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics : SSRR : 21-26 Oct. 2013, Linkoping, Sweden
Y1  - 2013
SN  - 978-1-4799-0879-0
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Limpert, Nicolas
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - A Local Planner for Ackermann-Driven Vehicles in ROS SBPL
T2  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics (PRASA-RobMech), 2015
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RoboMech.2015.7359518
SP  - 172
EP  - 177
ER  - 
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  -