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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - CHAP A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Lakemeyer, Gerhard A1 - Schiffer, Stefan T1 - AllemaniACs@ home 2006 team description Y1 - 2006 SP - 1 EP - 6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vorst, Phillip A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Lakemeyer, Gerhard T1 - AllemaniACs3D team description Y1 - 2006 SP - 1 EP - 6 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 - 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 - Schiffer, Stefan A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Lakemeyer, Gerhard T1 - Abstracting Away Low-Level Details in Service Robotics with Fuzzy Fluents JF - Model-Driven Knowledge Engineering for Improved Software Modularity in Robotics and Automation. Workshop at European Robotics Forum 2015 Vienna, Austria, March 11-13, 2015. Y1 - 2015 SP - 1 EP - 4 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 - JOUR A1 - Niemüller, Tim A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Lakemeyer, Gerhard T1 - A Lua-based Behavior Engine for Controlling the Humanoid Robot Nao JF - RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII Y1 - 2010 N1 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 5949 SP - 240 EP - 251 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 - 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 -