Publications

2008

Books
[1]Visser, Ubbo, Ribeiro, Fernando, Ohashi, Takeshi and Dellaert, Frank, "RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI", Springer, no. 5001, Heidelberg, 2008. [bibtex] [doi]
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[2]Boronowsky, Michael, Herzog, Otthein and Lawo, Michael, "Wearable Computing: Information and Communication Technology Supporting Mobile Workers", In Zeitschrift it- information technology, no. 1, pp. 30–39, 2008. [bibtex]
[3]Hartmut Messerschmidt and Friedrich Otto, "On determinism versus nondeterminism for restarting automata", In Inf. Comput., vol. 206, no. 9-10, pp. 1204-1218, 2008. [bibtex]
[4]Dylla, Frank, Ferrein, Alexander, Lakemeyer, Gerhard, Murray, Jan, Obst, Oliver, Röfer, Thomas, Schiffer, Stefan and Stolzenburg, Frieder, Visser, Ubbo and Wagner, Thomas, "Approaching a Formal Soccer Theory from the Behavior Specification in Robotic Soccer", Chapter in Computers in Sport, WIT Press, London, pp. 161–186, 2008. [bibtex]
[5]Gottfried, Björn, "Representing Short-Term Observations of Moving Objects by a Simple Visual Language.", In Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 321–342, 2008. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[6]Gottfried, Björn, "Global Feature Schemes in Spatial and Temporal Reasoning", In Spatial Cognition \textbackslash& Computation, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 27–46, 2008. [bibtex]
[7]Herzog, Otthein, Lawo, Michael, Boronowsky, Michael, Kenn, Holger, Nicolai, Tom, Witt, Hendrik and Glotzbach, Ulrich, "Mobile City Bremen - Von der Forschung zu innovativen mobilen Lösungen", Chapter in Jürgen Síeck und Michael A. Herzog (Hrsg.): Wireless Communication and Information - New Technologies and Applications, Verlag Werner Hülsbusch, Boizenburg, pp. 9–22, 2008. [bibtex]
[8]Lutz, Michael, Sprado, Jörn, Klien, Eva and Schubert, Chris and Christ, Ingrid, "Overcoming Semantic Heterogeneity in Spatial Data Infrastructures", In Computers & Geosciences, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 739–752, 2008. [bibtex]
[9]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Brian Gerkey and Michael Beetz, "Robots in the kitchen: Exploiting ubiquitous sensing and actuation", In Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Network Robot Systems), 2008. [bibtex]
[10]Ulrich Klank, N. Padoy, H. Feussner and N. Navab, "Automatic feature generation in endoscopic images", In International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 331–339, 2008. [bibtex]
[11]Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz, "Combining Declarative, Procedural and Predictive Knowledge to Generate and Execute Robot Plans Efficiently and Robustly", In Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Semantic Knowledge), 2008. [bibtex]
[12]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow, Mihai Dolha and Michael Beetz, "Towards 3D Point Cloud Based Object Maps for Household Environments", In Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Semantic Knowledge in Robotics), vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 927–941, 2008. [bibtex]
[13]Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz, "Refining the execution of abstract actions with learned action models", In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), vol. 32, 2008. [bibtex]
[14]Schuldt, Arne and Gottfried, Björn, "Selbststeuerung in der Intralogistik: Kognitive räumliche Repräsentationen für autonome Fahrzeuge", In Industrie Management, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 41–44, 2008. [bibtex] [html]
Conference Papers
[15]Baumann, Hannes and Gottfried, Björn, "Spatiotemporal Cooperation at the Microscopic Scale", In IK2008, pp. 2, 2008. [bibtex]
[16]Martin Kutrib and Hartmut Messerschmidt and Friedrich Otto, "On Stateless Two-Pushdown Automata and Restarting Automata", In AFL, pp. 257-268, 2008. [bibtex]
[17]Gehrke, Jan D., Langer, Hagen and Herzog, Otthein, "Distributed Control for Robust Autonomous Logistic Processes", In Robuste und sichere Logistiksysteme. 4. Wissenschaftssymposium Logistik, BVL, M\ü\nchen, pp. 25–37, 2008. [bibtex]
[18]Gehrke, Jan D. and Wojtusiak, Janusz, "Traffic Prediction for Agent Route Planning", In International Conference on Computational Science 2008, Springer, vol. 3, no. 5103, Krak\ó\w, Poland, pp. 692–701, 2008. [bibtex] [doi]
[19]Gehrke, Jan D., Schuldt, Arne and Werner, Sven, "Quality Criteria for Multiagent-Based Simulations with Conservative Synchronisation", In 13th ASIM Dedicated Conference on Simulation in Production and Logistics, Berlin, Germany, pp. 545–554, 2008. [bibtex] [html]
[20]Paul Maier and Martin Sachenbacher, "Constraint Optimization and Abstraction for Embedded Intelligent Systems", In Proc. Fifth International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR'08), Paris, France, pp. 338–342, 2008. [bibtex]
[21]Dejan Pangercic, Radu Bogdan Rusu and Michael Beetz, "3D-Based Monocular SLAM for Mobile Agents Navigating in Indoor Environments", In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18, 2008. [bibtex]
[22]Thomas Rühr, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz, "Structured Reactive Controllers and Transformational Planning for Manufacturing", In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18, 2008. [bibtex]
[23]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow and Michael Beetz, "Persistent Point Feature Histograms for 3D Point Clouds", In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-10), Baden-Baden, Germany, 2008. [bibtex]
[24]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow and Michael Beetz, "Learning Informative Point Classes for the Acquisition of Object Model Maps", In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Hanoi, Vietnam, December 17-20, 2008. [bibtex]
[25]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Aravind Sundaresan, Benoit Morisset, Motilal Agrawal and Michael Beetz, "Leaving Flatland: Realtime 3D Stereo Semantic Reconstruction", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA) 2008, October 15-17, Wuhan, China, 2008. [bibtex]
[26]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Nico Blodow, Zoltan Csaba Marton and Michael Beetz, "Aligning Point Cloud Views using Persistent Feature Histograms", In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, September 22-26, 2008. [bibtex]
[27]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow, Mihai Emanuel Dolha and Michael Beetz, "Functional Object Mapping of Kitchen Environments", In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, September 22-26, 2008. [bibtex]
[28]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Jan Bandouch, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow and Michael Beetz, "Action Recognition in Intelligent Environments using Point Cloud Features Extracted from Silhouette Sequences", In IEEE 17th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Muenchen, Germany, 2008. [bibtex]
[29]Martin Sachenbacher and Paul Maier, "Test Strategy Generation using Quantified CSPs", In Proc. International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP'08), 2008. Accepted for publication [bibtex]
[30]Schuldt, Arne, Gehrke, Jan D. and Werner, Sven, "Designing a Simulation Middleware for FIPA Multiagent Systems", In 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE Computer Society Press, Sydney, Australia, pp. 109–113, 2008. [bibtex] [html] [doi]
[31]Schuldt, Arne and Gottfried, Björn, "Spatiotemporal Cooperation at the Geographic Scale", In Interdisciplinary College, pp. 32, 2008. [bibtex] [html]
[32]Sprado, Jörn and Gottfried, Björn, "What Motions Patterns Tell Us about Soccer Teams", In RoboCupXII, Springer, Suzhou, China, pp. 614–625, 2008. [bibtex]
[33]Sprado, Jörn and Gottfried, Björn, "Spatiotemporal Cooperation at the Soccer Pitch Scale", In IK2008, pp. 33, 2008. [bibtex]
[34]Jan Bandouch, Florian Engstler and Michael Beetz, "Accurate Human Motion Capture Using an Ergonomics-Based Anthropometric Human Model", In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects (AMDO), 2008. [bibtex]
[35]Jan Bandouch, Florian Engstler and Michael Beetz, "Evaluation of Hierarchical Sampling Strategies in 3D Human Pose Estimation", In Proceedings of the 19th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2008. [bibtex]
[36]Michael Beetz, Freek Stulp, Bernd Radig, Jan Bandouch, Nico Blodow, Mihai Dolha, Andreas Fedrizzi, Dominik Jain, Uli Klank, Ingo Kresse, Alexis Maldonado, Zoltan Marton, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Federico Ruiz, Radu Bogdan Rusu and Moritz Tenorth, "The Assistive Kitchen – A Demonstration Scenario for Cognitive Technical Systems", In IEEE 17th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Muenchen, Germany, pp. 1-8, 2008. Invited paper. [bibtex] [pdf]
[37]Anna Schubö, Alexis Maldonado, Sonja Stork and Michael Beetz, "Subsequent Actions Influence Motor Control Parameters of a Current Grasping Action", In IEEE 17th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Muenchen, Germany, 2008. [bibtex]
[38]Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz, "Learning Predictive Knowledge to Optimize Robot Motor Control", In International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008), 2008. [bibtex]
[39]Boronowsky, Michael and Herzog, Otthein, "Exploiting Wearable Computing Research Results", In IST AFRICA, Windhoek, Nambia, 2008. [bibtex]
[40]Elfers, Carsten, Herzog, Otthein, Miene, Andrea and Wagner, Thomas, "Qualitative Abstraction and Inherent Uncertainty in Scene Recognition", In Logic and Probability for Scene Interpretation, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, no. 08091, Wadern, 2008. [bibtex] [url]
[41]Jacobs, Arne, Luedtke, Andree and Herzog, Otthein, "Inter-video similarity for video parsing", In IIP2008, Springer, Peking, pp. 174–181, 2008. [bibtex] [doi]
[42]Knackfuß, Peter, Dyrks, Tobias, Capman, F. and Lawo, Michael, "Supporting First Responders by Wearable Computing Solutions - The wearIT@work Show Case", In PTC08, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008. [bibtex]
[43]Lawo, Michael, "Steuerung "Mitdenkender" Elektroprodukte durch Wearable Computing", In 1. Deutscher AAL Kongress, Berlin, pp. 15–19, 2008. [bibtex]
[44]Lawo, Michael, "Maintenance Support by Wearable and Mobile Computing Solutions", In dewek2008, pp. 174, 2008. Eingereicht [bibtex]
[45]Lawo, Michael, "Gesund, sicher, smart: Wohnen in Bemen", In 5. ehome Fachmesse und Kongress für vernetztes Wohnen, Berlin, 2008. Eingereicht [bibtex]
[46]Lawo, Michael, Boronowsky, Michael and Herzog, Otthein, "Wearable Computing, the European plan wearIT@work", In 20th World Computing Congress, Mailand, Italien, 2008. [bibtex]
[47]Lawo, Michael, Herzog, Otthein, Langer, Hagen and Gehrke, Jan D., "Intelligent Objects at Work and in Everyday Life", In 7. Internationales Heinz Nixdorf Symposium. Self-optimizing Mechatronic Systems: Design the Future, Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, pp. 487–499, 2008. [bibtex]
[48]Lawo, Michael, Witt, Hendrik, Lukowicz, Paul and Herzog, Otthein, "Using Wearable Computing Solutions in Real-World Applications", In CHI 2008, Florenz, Italien, 2008. [bibtex]
[49]Sprado, Jörn and Gottfried, Björn, "Grammar-Based Argument Construction", In 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Springer, Zagreb, Croatia, pp. 330–340, 2008. [bibtex]
[50]Stommel, Martin and Kuhnert, Klaus-Dieter, "Part aggregation in a compositional model based on the evaluation of feature cooccurrence statistics", In Int?l Conf. on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, IEEE, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2008. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[51]Stommel, Martin and Kuhnert, Klaus-Dieter, "A hierarchical model for the recognition of deformable objects", In ICCVG, Springer, Warsaw, Poland, 2008. [bibtex]
[52]Tondini, Daniele and Lawo, Michael, "Exploiting Research Results in Practice", In ICE 2008, Lissabon, Portugal, 2008. [bibtex]
[53]Warden, Tobias, Lattner, Andreas D. and Visser, Ubbo, "Real-Time Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Dynamic Scenes in 3D Soccer Simulation", In RoboCupXII, Springer, no. 5399, Suzhou, China, pp. 366–378, 2008. [bibtex] [doi]
[54]Witt, Hendrik, Lawo, Michael and Drugge, Mikael, "Visual Feedback and Different Frames of Reference: The Impact on Gesture Interaction Techniques for Wearable Computing", In MobileHCI2008, Amsterdam, 2008. [bibtex]
[55]Paul Maier, "Adaptive Abstraction of Constraint-Based Models for Self-Diagnosis and Planning", In Proc. AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium, The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, pp. 1859–1860, 2008. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[56]Claas Ahlrichs, Daniel Kohlsdorf and Michael Lawo, "Google Earth im Handumdrehen", In Mensch & Computer Workshopband, pp. 235-238, 2008. [bibtex]
[57]M. F. Zäh, M. Beetz, K. Shea, G. Reinhart, O. Stursberg, M. Ostgathe, C. Lau, C. Ertelt, D. Pangercic, Thomas Rühr, H. Ding and T. Paschedag, "An Integrated Approach to Realize the Cognitive Machine Shop", In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, München, Germany, 6-8 October, 2008. [bibtex]
[58]Gehrke, Jan D., "Evaluating Situation Awareness of Autonomous Systems", In Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, NIST, no. 1090, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, pp. 206–213, 2008. [bibtex]
[59]Stefan Heinz and Martin Sachenbacher, "Using Model Counting to Find Optimal Distinguishing Tests", In Proc. First International Workshop on Counting Problems in CSP and SAT, and other neighbouring problems (Counting'08), 2008. Accepted for publication [bibtex]
[60]Paul Maier and Martin Sachenbacher, "Adaptive Domain Abstraction in a Soft-Constraint Message-Passing Algorithm", In Proc. Ninth International Workshop on Preferences and Soft Constraints (Soft'08), 2008. Accepted for publication [bibtex]
[61]Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow, Mihai Dolha, Moritz Tenorth, Radu Bogdan Rusu and Michael Beetz, "Autonomous Mapping of Kitchen Environments and Applications", In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, Munich, Germany, 6-8 October, 2008. [bibtex] [pdf]
[62]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Aravind Sundaresan, Benoit Morisset, Motilal Agrawal, Michael Beetz and Kurt Konolige, "Realtime Extended 3D Reconstruction from Stereo for Navigation", In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop on 3D Mapping, Nice, France, September 26, 2008. Invited paper [bibtex]
[63]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow and Michael Beetz, "Interpretation of Urban Scenes based on Geometric Features", In Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop on 3D Mapping, Nice, France, September 26, 2008. Invited paper [bibtex]
[64]Martin Sachenbacher and Stefan Schwoon, "Model-based Testing Using Quantified CSPs: A Map", In Proc. Workshop on Model-based Systems (MBS-2008), Patras, Greece, pp. 37–41, 2008. [bibtex]
[65]Martin Sachenbacher and Stefan Schwoon, "Model-based Test Generation Using Quantified CSPs", In Proc. International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX'08), 2008. Accepted for publication [bibtex]
[66]Lorenz Mösenlechner, Armin Müller and Michael Beetz, "High Performance Execution of Everyday Pick-and-Place Tasks by Integrating Transformation Planning and Reactive Execution", In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, München, Germany, 6-8 October, 2008. [bibtex]
[67]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Towards Practical and Grounded Knowledge Representation Systems for Autonomous Household Robots", In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, München, Germany, 6-8 October, 2008. [bibtex] [pdf]
[68]Lawo, Michael, "Sensorsysteme zur Kontexterkennung im Wearable Computing", In 5. GMM-Workshop: Mikrosensorik mit autarker Energieversorgung und drahtloser Signalübertragung, VDE Verlag, vol. 58, Düsseldorf, 2008. [bibtex]
[69]Luedtke, Andree, Gottfried, Björn, Herzog, Otthein and Ioannidis, George T., Leszczuk, Mikolai and Simko, Viliam, "Content Enrichment in the GAMA Project", In VARIAZIONI Workshop, Florenz, 2008. [bibtex]
[70]Dominik Jain, Lorenz Mösenlechner and Michael Beetz, "Equipping Robot Control Programs with First-Order Probabilistic Reasoning Capabilities", In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Cognition for Technical Systems, München, Germany, 2008. [bibtex]
Other Publications
[71]Gehrke, Jan D., Schuldt, Arne and Werner, Sven, "Evaluating Logistic Strategies by Integrated Operation and Simulation", 2008. [bibtex]
[72]Gehrke, Jan D. and Wojtusiak, Janusz, "A Natural Induction Approach to Traffic Prediction for Autonomous Agent-based Vehicle Route Planning", Technical report, Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, George Mason University, no. MLI 08-1, 2008. [bibtex]
[73]Stefan Heinz and Martin Sachenbacher, "Using Model Counting to Find Optimal Distinguishing Tests", Technical report, Zuse Institute Berlin, no. 08-32, 2008. [bibtex]
[74]Alexandra Kirsch, "Integration of Programming and Learning in a Control Language for Autonomous Robots Performing Everyday Activities", PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2008. [bibtex] [pdf]
[75]Armin Müller, "Transformational Planning for Autonomous Household Robots using Libraries of Robust and Flexible Plans", PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2008. [bibtex] [pdf]





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