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Prof. Michael Beetz PhD

Prof. Michael Beetz PhD
Professor

Tel: –49 -421 218 64001
Fax: –49 -421 218 64047
Room: TAB 1.59
Mail: beetz(at)cs[dot]uni-bremen[dot]de

Emails

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About

Michael Beetz is a professor for Computer Science at the Faculty for Mathematics & Informatics of the University Bremen and head of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI). IAI investigates AI-based control methods for robotic agents, with a focus on human-scale everyday manipulation tasks. With his openEASE, a web-based knowledge service providing robot and human activity data, Michael Beetz aims at improving interoperability in robotics and lowering the barriers for robot programming. Due to this the IAI group provides most of its results as open-source software, primarily in the ROS software library.

Michael Beetz received his diploma degree in Computer Science with distinction from the University of Kaiserslautern. His MSc, MPhil, and PhD degrees were awarded by Yale University in 1993, 1994, and 1996 and his Venia Legendi from the University of Bonn in 2000. Michael Beetz was a member of the steering committee of the European network of excellence in AI planning (PLANET) and coordinating the research area “robot planning”. He is associate editor of the AI Journal. His research interests include plan-based control of robotic agents, knowledge processing and representation for robots, integrated robot learning, and cognitive perception.

Publications

2018

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[1]Gajewski, Pawel, Ferreira, Paulo, Bartels, Georg, Wang, Chaozheng, Guerin, Frank, Indurkhya, Bipin, Beetz, Michael and Sniezynski, Bartlomiej, "Adapting Everyday Manipulation Skills to Varied Scenarios", In arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.02743, 2018. [bibtex] [pdf]
[2]Nyga, Daniel and Beetz, Michael, "Cloud-based Probabilistic Knowledge Services for Instruction Interpretation", Chapter in Robotics Research, Springer, vol. 2, pp. 649–664, 2018. [bibtex]
[3]Stelter, Simon, Bartels, Georg, and Beetz, Michael, "Multidimensional Time Series Shapelets Reliably Detect and Classify Contact Events in Force Measurements of Wiping Actions", In Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE, 2018. (c) 2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[4]Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Furuta, Yuki, Stelter, Simon, Beetz, Michael, Okada, Kei and Inaba, Masayuki, "The Exchange of Knowledge using Cloud Robotics", In Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1072-1079, 2018. [bibtex] [doi]
Conference Papers
[5]Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc and Beetz, Michael, "Variations on a Theme:'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards'", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018. [bibtex] [doi]
[6]Michael Beetz, Daniel Beßler, Andrei Haidu, Mihai Pomarlan, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Georg Bartels, "KnowRob 2.0 – A 2nd Generation Knowledge Processing Framework for Cognition-enabled Robotic Agents", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, 2018. [bibtex] [pdf]
[7]Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael, "OWL-enabled Assembly Planning for Robotic Agents", In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018. Finalist for the Best Robotics Paper Award. [bibtex] [pdf]
[8]Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai, Akbari, Aliakbar, Muhayyuddin, Diab, Mohammed, Rosell, Jan, Bateman, John and Beetz, Michael, "Assembly Planning in Cluttered Environments through Heterogeneous Reasoning", In 41st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2018. [bibtex]
[9]Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Furuta, Yuki, Stelter, Simon, Beetz, Michael, Okada, Kei and Inaba, Masayuki, "The Exchange of Knowledge using Cloud Robotics", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, 2018. Finalist for the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award, Finalist for the Best Service Robotics Paper Award. [bibtex]
[10]Crespo, Jonathan, Barber, Ramon, Mozos, Oscar, Beßler, Daniel and Beetz, Michael, "Reasoning Systems for Semantic Navigation in Mobile Robots", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018. [bibtex]
[11]Haidu, Andrei, Beßler, Daniel, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan and Beetz, Michael, "KNOWROB-SIM — Game Engine-enabled Knowledge Processing for Cognition-enabled Robot Control", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[12]Nyga, Daniel, Roy, Subhro, Paul, Rohan, Park, Daehyung, Pomarlan, Mihai, Beetz, Michael and Roy, Nicholas, "Grounding Robot Plans from Natural Language Instructions with Incomplete World Knowledge", In 2nd Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2018), Zurich, Switzerland, 2018. [bibtex] [pdf]
[13]Yazdani, Fereshta, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Haidu, Andrei, Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael, "Cognition-enabled Framework for Mixed Human-Robot Rescue Team", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[14]Mona Abdel-Keream, Michael Beetz, Patrick Mania and Jose Rojas, "Towards a Photorealistic Learning Infrastructure for Human Activities", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018. [bibtex]
[15]Beßler, Daniel, Koralewski, Sebastian and Beetz, Michael, "Knowledge Representation for Cognition- and Learning-enabled Robot Manipulation", In Proc. 11th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (CogRob 2018), AAAI Press, 2018. accepted for publication [bibtex]

2017

Conference Papers
[16]Bateman, John, Beetz, Michael, Beßler, Daniel, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan and Pomarlan, Mihai, "Heterogeneous Ontologies and Hybrid Reasoning for Service Robotics: The EASE Framework", In Third Iberian Robotics Conference, Sevilla, Spain, 2017. [bibtex]
[17]Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Michael Beetz, "A Cloud Service for Robotic Mental Simulations", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 2017. [bibtex]
[18]Daniel Nyga, Mareike Picklum and Michael Beetz, "What No Robot Has Seen Before – Probabilistic Interpretation of Natural-language Object Descriptions", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 2017. [bibtex] [url]
[19]Daniel Nyga, Mareike Picklum, Sebastian Koralewski and Michael Beetz, "Instruction Completion through Instance-based Learning and Semantic Analogical Reasoning", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, 2017. [bibtex] [url]
[20]Pomarlan, Mihai, Nyga, Daniel, Picklum, Mareike, Koralewski, Sebastian and Beetz, Michael, "Deeper Understanding of Vague Instructions through Simulated Execution (Extended Abstract)", In Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2017. [bibtex] [pdf]
[21]Stelter, Simon, Bartels, Georg, and Beetz, Michael, "Multidimensional Time Series Shapelets Reliably Detect and Classify Contact Events in Force Measurements of Wiping Actions", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, 2017. Finalist for the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award. [bibtex]
[22]Winkler, Jan, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael, "Task Parametrization through Multi-modal Analysis of Robot Experiences (Extended Abstract)", In Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2017. [bibtex]
[23]Yazdani, Fereshta, Scheutz, Matthias and Beetz, Michael, "Cognition-enabled Task Interpretation for Human-Robot Teams in a Simulation-based Search and Rescue Mission (Extended Abstract)", In Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 2017. [bibtex]
[24]Gayane Kazhoyan and Michael Beetz, "Programming Robotic Agents with Action Descriptions", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 103-108, 2017. [bibtex] [doi]
[25]Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Marton, Zoltan-Csaba, Durner, Maximilian and Beetz, Michael, "Storing and Retrieving Perceptual Episodic Memories for Long-term Manipulation Tasks", In Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Hong-Kong, China, 2017. Finalist for Best Paper Award [bibtex]
[26]Yazdani, Fereshta, Scheutz, Matthias and Beetz, Michael, "Guidelines for Improving Task-based Natural Language Understanding in Human-Robot Rescue Teams", In Proceedings of the 2017 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), Debrecen, Hungary, 2017. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[27]Michael Beetz, Daniel Beßler and Gayane Kazhoyan, "Robotic Agents that Know What They are Doing", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, 2017. [bibtex]

2016

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[28]Leidner, Daniel, Dietrich, Alexander, Beetz, Michael and Albu-Schäffer, Alin, "Knowledge-enabled parameterization of whole-body control strategies for compliant service robots", In Autonomous Robots, Springer, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 519–536, 2016. [bibtex]
Conference Papers
[29]Winkler, Jan, Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Wiedemeyer, Thiemo, Beetz, Michael, Vaskevicius, Narunas, Mueller, Christian A., Fromm, Tobias and Birk, Andreas, "Knowledge-Enabled Robotic Agents for Shelf Replenishment in Cluttered Retail Environments: (Extended Abstract)", In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents &\#38; Multiagent Systems, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, pp. 1421–1422, 2016. [bibtex] [url]
[30]Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Patrick Mania and Michael Beetz, "Scaling Perception Towards Autonomous Object Manipulation — In Knowledge Lies the Power", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, 2016. [bibtex] [url]
[31]Michael Beetz, Daniel Beßler, Jan Winkler, Jan-H. Worch, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Georg Bartels, Aude Billard, Asil K. Bozcuoglu, Zhou Fang, Nadia Figueroa, Andrei Haidu, Hagen Langer, Alexis Maldonado, Ana-Lucia Pais, Moritz. Tenorth and Thiemo Wiedemeyer, "Open Robotics Research Using Web-based Knowledge Services", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, 2016. [bibtex] [pdf]
[32]Zhou Fang, Georg Bartels and Michael Beetz, "Learning Models for Constraint-Based Motion Parameterization from Interactive Physics-based Simulation", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Daejeon, South Korea, 2016. [bibtex] [pdf]
[33]Andrei Haidu and Michael Beetz, "Action Recognition and Interpretation from Virtual Demonstrations", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Daejeon, South Korea, 2016. [bibtex] [url]
[34]Leidner, Daniel and Beetz, Michael, "Inferring the effects of wiping motions based on haptic perception", In Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on, pp. 461–468, 2016. Best Interactive Paper Award Finalist. [bibtex]
[35]Leidner, Daniel, Bejjani, Wissam, Albu-Schäffer, Alin and Beetz, Michael, "Robotic Agents Representing, Reasoning, and Executing Wiping Tasks for Daily Household Chores", In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, pp. 1006–1014, 2016. [bibtex]
[36]Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael, "Robots Reasoning with Cuts and Connections: Creating and Removing Entities (Extended Abstract)", In Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents &\#38; Multiagent Systems, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, pp. 1373–1374, 2016. [bibtex] [url]
[37]J. Winkler, F. Bálint-Benczédi, T. Fromm, C. A. Müller, N. Vaskevicius, A. Birk and M. Beetz, "Knowledge-Enabled Robotic Agents for Shelf Replenishment in Cluttered Retail Environments", In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Singapore, 2016. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[38]Sebastian Blumenthal, Benjamin Brieber, Nico Huebel, Fereshta Yazdani, Michael Beetz and Herman Bruyninckx, "A Case Study for Integrating Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases for Outdoor Environments", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Daejeon, South Korea, 2016. [bibtex]

2015

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[39]Beetz, Michael, Bálint-Benczédi, Ferenc, Blodow, Nico, Kerl, Christian, Márton, Zoltán-Csaba, Nyga, Daniel, Seidel, Florian, Wiedemeyer, Thiemo and Worch, Jan-Hendrik, "RoboSherlock: Unstructured Information Processing Framework for Robotic Perception", In Handling Uncertainty and Networked Structure in Robot Control, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 181–208, 2015. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[40]Hausman, Karol, Pangercic, Dejan, Márton, Zoltán-Csaba, Bálint-Benczédi, Ferenc, Bersch, Christian, Gupta, Megha, Sukhatme, Gaurav and Beetz, Michael, "Interactive Segmentation of Textured and Textureless Objects", In Handling Uncertainty and Networked Structure in Robot Control, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 237–262, 2015. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[41]Lars Kunze and Michael Beetz, "Envisioning the Qualitative Effects of Robot Manipulation Actions using Simulation-based Projections", In Artificial Intelligence, 2015. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[42]Michael Beetz, Hagen Langer and Daniel Nyga, "Planning Everyday Manipulation Tasks–Prediction-based Transformation of Structured Activity Descriptions", Chapter in Exploring Cybernetics, Springer, pp. 63–83, 2015. [bibtex]
[43]Daniel Leidner, Alexander Dietrich, Michael Beetz and Alin Albu-Schäffer, "Knowledge-Enabled Parameterization of Whole-Body Control Strategies for Compliant Service Robots", In Autonomous Robots (AURO): Special Issue on Whole-Body Control of Contacts and Dynamics for Humanoid Robots, Springer US, 2015. Cond. accepted for publication. [bibtex]
[44]Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Michael Beetz and Gordon Cheng, "Understanding the intention of human activities through semantic perception: observation, understanding and execution on a humanoid robot", In Advanced Robotics, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 345-362, 2015. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[45]Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Michael Beetz and Gordon Cheng, "Transferring skills to humanoid robots by extracting semantic representations from observations of human activities", In Artificial Intelligence, pp. -, 2015. [bibtex] [doi]
[46]Luis Riazuelo, Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Di Marco, Marta Salas, Dorian Gálvez-López, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Lars Kunze, Michael Beetz, Juan D. Tardós, Luis Montano and J. M. M. Montiel, "RoboEarth Semantic Mapping: A Cloud Enabled Knowledge-Based Approach", In IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 2015. [bibtex] [url]
[47]Stommel, Martin, Beetz, Michael and Xu, Weiliang, "Model-Free Detection, Encoding, Retrieval, and Visualization of Human Poses From Kinect Data", In Mechatronics, IEEE/ASME Transactions on, IEEE, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 865–875, 2015. [bibtex]
[48]Moritz Tenorth, Jan Winkler, Daniel Beßler and Michael Beetz, "Open-EASE – A Cloud-Based Knowledge Service for Autonomous Learning", In KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. [bibtex] [doi]
[49]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Representations for robot knowledge in the KnowRob framework", In Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, 2015. [bibtex]
[50]Vernon, David, Beetz, Michael and Sandini, Giulio, "Prospection in Cognition: The Case for Joint Episodic-Procedural Memory in Cognitive Robotics", In Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 2, no. 19, 2015. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[51]Worch, Jan-Hendrik, Bálint-Benczédi, Ferenc and Beetz, Michael, "Perception for Everyday Human Robot Interaction", In KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer Berlin-Heidelberg, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 21-27, 2015. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
Conference Papers
[52]Thiemo Wiedemeyer, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Michael Beetz, "Pervasive 'Calm' Perception for Autonomous Robotic Agents", In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagen Systems, ACM, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015. [bibtex] [pdf]
[53]Michael Beetz, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Nico Blodow, Daniel Nyga, Thiemo Wiedemeyer and Zoltan-Csaba Marton, "RoboSherlock: Unstructured Information Processing for Robot Perception", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, Washington, USA, 2015. Best Service Robotics Paper Award [bibtex] [pdf]
[54]Michael Beetz, Georg Bartels, Alin Albu-Schäffer, Ferenc Bálint-Benczédi, Rico Belder, Daniel Beßler, Sami Haddadin, Alexis Maldonado, Nico Mansfeld, Thiemo Wiedemeyer, Roman Weitschat and Jan-Hendrik Worch, "Robotic Agents Capable of Natural and Safe Physical Interaction with Human Co-workers", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015. [bibtex] [pdf]
[55]Benjamin Walther-Franks, Jan Smeddinck, Peter Szmidt, Andrei Haidu, Michael Beetz and Rainer Malaka, "Robots, Pancakes, and Computer Games: Designing Serious Games for Robot Imitation Learning", In Human–Computer Interaction, Seul, Korea, 2015. [bibtex] [pdf]
[56]Andrei Haidu, Daniel Kohlsdorf and Michael Beetz, "Learning Action Failure Models from Interactive Physics-based Simulations", In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015. [bibtex] [url]
[57]Gheorghe Lisca, Daniel Nyga, Ferenc Bálint-Benczédi, Hagen Langer and Michael Beetz, "Towards Robots Conducting Chemical Experiments", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015. [bibtex] [url]
[58]Daniel Nyga and Michael Beetz, "Reasoning about Unmodelled Concepts – Incorporating Class Taxonomies in Probabilistic Relational Models", In Arxiv.org, 2015. Preprint [bibtex] [url]
[59]Daniel Nyga and Michael Beetz, "Cloud-based Probabilistic Knowledge Services for Instruction Interpretation", In International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), Sestri Levante (Genoa), Italy, 2015. [bibtex] [url]
[60]Michael Beetz, Moritz Tenorth and Jan Winkler, "Open-EASE – A Knowledge Processing Service for Robots and Robotics/AI Researchers", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, Washington, USA, 2015. Finalist for the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award. [bibtex]
[61]Jan Winkler and Michael Beetz, "Generalized Plan Design For Autonomous Mobile Manipulation in Open Environments", In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Istanbul, Turkey, 2015. [bibtex]
[62]Jan Winkler and Michael Beetz, "Robot Action Plans that Form and Maintain Expectations", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015. [bibtex]
[63]Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu, Daniel Beßler and Michael Beetz, "Rendering Semantically-Annotated Experiment Videos out of Robot Memories", In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Seoul, Korea, 2015. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[64]Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Thiemo Wiedemeyer, Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Beßler and Michael Beetz, "A Knowledge-Based Approach to Robotic Perception using Unstructured Information Management", In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Istanbul, Turkey, 2015. [bibtex]
[65]Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu, Fereshta Yazdani, Daniel Beßler, Bogdan Togorean and Michael Beetz, "Reasoning on Communication Between Agents in a Human-Robot Rescue Team", In Towards Intelligent Social Robots – Current Advances in Cognitive Robotics, Seoul, Korea, 2015. [bibtex]
[66]Georg Bartels, Daniel Beßler, Michael Beetz, Moritz Tenorth and Jan Winkler, "How to Use OpenEASE: An Online Knowledge Processing System for Robots and Robotics Researchers", In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Istanbul, Turkey, 2015. [bibtex] [pdf]

2014

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[67]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Oscar Martines Mozos, Nico Blodow, Asako Kanezaki, Lucian-Cosmin Goron, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz, "Part-Based Geometric Categorization and Object Reconstruction in Cluttered Table-Top Scenes", In Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer Netherlands, pp. 1-22, 2014. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[68]Jan Winkler, Moritz Tenorth, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Michael Beetz, "CRAMm – Memories for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation Activities", In Advances in Cognitive Systems, vol. 3, pp. 47–66, 2014. [bibtex]
[69]Martin Stommel, Michael Beetz and Weiliang Xu, "Inpainting of Missing Values in the Kinect Sensor's Depth Maps Based on Background Estimates", In Sensors Journal, IEEE, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1107-1116, 2014. [bibtex]
Conference Papers
[70]Beetz, Michael and Belker, Thorsten, "Learning robot action plans for controlling continuous, percept-driven behavior", In Sixth European Conference on Planning, 2014. [bibtex]
[71]Andrei Haidu, Daniel Kohlsdorf and Michael Beetz, "Learning Task Outcome Prediction for Robot Control from Interactive Environments", In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, USA, 2014. [bibtex] [url]
[72]Moritz Tenorth, Georg Bartels and Michael Beetz, "Knowledge-based Specification of Robot Motions", In Proc. of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2014. [bibtex] [pdf]
[73]Ramirez-Amaro, Karinne, Beetz, Michael and Cheng, Gordon, "Automatic segmentation and recognition of human activities from observation based on semantic reasoning", In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pp. 5043-5048, 2014. [bibtex] [doi]
[74]Daniel Nyga, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Michael Beetz, "PR2 Looking at Things: Ensemble Learning for Unstructured Information Processing with Markov Logic Networks", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, 2014. [bibtex] [url]
[75]Nicholas Hubert Kirk, Daniel Nyga and Michael Beetz, "Controlled Natural Languages for Language Generation in Artificial Cognition", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, 2014. [bibtex] [url]
[76]Fereshta Yazdani, Benjamin Brieber and Michael Beetz, "Cognition-enabled Robot Control for Mixed Human-Robot Rescue Teams", In In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13), Springer, vol. 302, Padova, Italy, pp. 1357 – 1369, 2014. [bibtex]
[77]Ramirez-Amaro, Karinne, Inamura, Tetsunari, Dean-Leon, Emmanuel, Beetz, Michael and Cheng, Gordon, "Bootstrapping Humanoid Robot Skills by Extracting Semantic Representations of Human-like Activities from Virtual Reality", In IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), IEEE, 2014. [bibtex] [pdf]
Workshop Papers
[78]Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Michael Beetz and Gordon Cheng, "Understanding Human Activities from Observation via Semantic Reasoning for Humanoid Robots", In IROS 2014 Workshop on AI Robotics., Chicago, USA, 2014. [bibtex]

2013

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[79]Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz and Michael Beetz, "Representation and Exchange of Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments in the RoboEarth Framework", In IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 643-651, 2013. Best Paper Award Finalist [bibtex] [doi]
[80]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "KnowRob – A Knowledge Processing Infrastructure for Cognition-enabled Robots", In Int. Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 566 – 590, 2013. [bibtex] [url]
Conference Papers
[81]Kunze, Lars, Haidu, Andrei and Beetz, Michael, "Acquiring task models for imitation learning through games with a purpose", In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 102–107, 2013. [bibtex] [pdf]
[82]Martin Stommel, Stefan Edelkamp, Thiemo Wiedemeyer and Michael Beetz, "Fractal Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search in Log-Log Time", In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, BMVA Press, 2013. [bibtex]
[83]Georg Bartels, Ingo Kresse and Michael Beetz, "Constraint-based Movement Representation grounded in Geometric Features", In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2013. [bibtex] [pdf]
[84]Moritz Tenorth, Fernando De la Torre and Michael Beetz, "Learning Probability Distributions over Partially-Ordered Human Everyday Activities", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 4539–4544, 2013. [bibtex] [pdf]
[85]Karol Hausman, Ferenc Bálint-Benczédi, Dejan Pangercic, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ryohei Ueda, Kei Okada and Michael Beetz, "Tracking-based Interactive Segmentation of Textureless Objects", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 1122–1129, 2013. Finalist for the Best Service Robotics Paper Award [bibtex] [doi]
[86]Lorenz Mösenlechner and Michael Beetz, "Fast Temporal Projection Using Accurate Physics-Based Geometric Reasoning", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 1821–1827, 2013. [bibtex]
[87]Moritz Tenorth, Stefan Profanter, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Michael Beetz, "Decomposing CAD Models of Objects of Daily Use and Reasoning about their Functional Parts", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, pp. 5943–5949, 2013. [bibtex] [url]
[88]Moritz Tenorth, Johannes Ziegltrum and Michael Beetz, "Automated Alignment of Specifications of Everyday Manipulation Tasks", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, pp. 5923–5928, 2013. [bibtex] [pdf]
[89]Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz and Michael Beetz, "The RoboEarth Language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments", In 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013). Special track on Best Papers in Sister Conferences, Beijing, China, 2013. Invited paper. [bibtex] [pdf]
[90]Ramirez-Amaro, Karinne, Kim, Eun-Sol, Kim, Jiseob, Zhang, Byoung-Tak, Beetz, Michael and Cheng, Gordon, "Enhancing Human Action Recognition through Spatio-temporal Feature Learning and Semantic Rules", In Humanoid Robots, 2013, 13th IEEE-RAS International Conference, 2013. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[91]Ramirez-Amaro, Karinne, Beetz, Michael and Cheng, Gordon, "Extracting Semantic Rules from Human Observations", In ICRA 2013 Workshop: Semantics, Identification and Control of Robot-Human-Environment Interaction, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013. [bibtex]
[92]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Oscar Martinez Mozos, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz, "Incremental Object Categorization in Clutter", In 2nd Workshop on Robots in Clutter, in conjunction with RSS2013, Berlin,Germany, 2013. [bibtex]
[93]Hartmut Messerschmidt, Jan Winkler, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Michael Beetz, "Experience Based Task and Environment Specification for Plan-based Robotic Agents", In 27. Workshop on Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren, Entwerfen, Koblenz, Germany, 2013. [bibtex]
[94]Luis Riazuelo, Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Di Marco, Marta Salas, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Lars Kunze, Michael Beetz, Juan D. Tardos, Luis Montano and J. M. M. Montiel, "RoboEarth Web-Enabled and Knowledge-Based Active Perception", In IROS 2013 Workshop on AI-based Robotics, Tokyo, Japan, 2013. [bibtex]
Other Publications
[95]Martin Stommel and Michael Beetz, "Sampling and Clustering of the Space of Human Poses from Tracked, Skeletonised Colour+Depth Images", Technical report, TZI, Universität Bremen, no. 70, 2013. [bibtex]

2012

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[96]Jan Bandouch, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins and Michael Beetz, "A Self-Training Approach for Visual Tracking and Recognition of Complex Human Activity Patterns", In International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 166-189, 2012. [bibtex]
[97]Michael Beetz, Dominik Jain, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Moritz Tenorth, Lars Kunze, Nico Blodow and Dejan Pangercic, "Cognition-Enabled Autonomous Robot Control for the Realization of Home Chore Task Intelligence", In Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 100, no. 8, pp. 2454–2471, 2012. [bibtex]
[98]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Florian Seidel, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Michael Beetz, "Ensembles of Strong Learners for Multi-cue Classification", In Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), Special Issue on Scene Understandings and Behaviours Analysis, 2012. [bibtex] [url]
[99]Eun-Sol Kim, Jiseob Kim, Karinne Ramirez Amaro, Michael Beetz and Byoung-Tak Zhang, "Human Cooking Action Recognition via Spatio-temporal Feature Learning based on ISA", In Journal special edition of the Korean Computer Conference (KCC12), South Korea, 2012. [bibtex]
[100]Freek Stulp, Andreas Fedrizzi, Lorenz Mösenlechner and Michael Beetz, "Learning and Reasoning with Action-Related Places for Robust Mobile Manipulation", In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), vol. 43, pp. 1–42, 2012. [bibtex]
[101]Jan Winkler, Georg Bartels, Lorenz Mösenlechner and Michael Beetz, "Knowledge Enabled High-Level Task Abstraction and Execution", In First Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, Palo Alto, CA, pp. 131–148, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
Conference Papers
[102]Michael Beetz, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Moritz Tenorth and Thomas Rühr, "CRAM – a Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine", In 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2012), 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[103]Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Zoltan-Csaba Marton and Michael Beetz, "Efficient Part-Graph Hashes for Object Categorization", In 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys), 2012. [bibtex]
[104]Michael Beetz, Moritz Tenorth, Dejan Pangercic and Benjamin Pitzer, "Semantic Object Maps for Household Tasks", In 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2012), 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[105]David Gossow, David Weikersdorfer and Michael Beetz, "Distinctive Texture Features from Perspective-Invariant Keypoints", In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2012. Accepted for publication. [bibtex]
[106]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Exchange of Action-related Information among Autonomous Robots", In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[107]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Florian Seidel, Lucian Cosmin Goron and Michael Beetz, "Object Categorization in Clutter using Additive Features and Hashing of Part-graph Descriptors", In Proceedings of Spatial Cognition (SC), Abbey Kloster Seeon, Germany, 2012. [bibtex] [url]
[108]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Florian Seidel and Michael Beetz, "Towards Modular Spatio-temporal Perception for Task-adapting Robots", In Postgraduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition (RobotDoC-PhD), a satellite event of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2012. [bibtex]
[109]Eun-sol Kim, Jiseob Kim, Karinne Ramirez Amaro, Michael Beetz and Byoung-Tak Zhang, "A Visual Hypernetwork Model using Eye-Gaze-Information-Based Active Sampling", In Korean Computer Conference (KCC12), South Korea, 2012. [bibtex]
[110]David Weikersdorfer, David Gossow and Michael Beetz, "Depth-Adaptive Superpixels", In 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2012. Accepted for publication. [bibtex]
[111]Lars Kunze, Andrei Haidu and Michael Beetz, "Making Virtual Pancakes — Acquiring and Analyzing Data of Everyday Manipulation Tasks through Interactive Physics-based Simulations", In Poster and Demo Track of the 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2012), Saarbrücken, Germany, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[112]L. Marconi, C. Melchiorri, M. Beetz, D. Pangercic†, R. Siegwart, S. Leutenegger, R. Carloni, S. Stramigioli, H. Bruyninckx, P. Doherty, A. Kleiner, V. Lippiello, A. Finzi, B. Siciliano, A. Sala and N. Tomatis, "The SHERPA project: smart collaboration between humans and ground-aerial robots for improving rescuing activities in alpine environments", In IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), College Station, Texas, USA, 2012. [bibtex]
[113]Daniel Nyga and Michael Beetz, "Everything Robots Always Wanted to Know about Housework (But were afraid to ask)", In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012. [bibtex] [url]
[114]Martin Schuster, Dominik Jain, Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Learning Organizational Principles in Human Environments", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, MN, USA, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[115]Thomas Rühr, Jürgen Sturm, Dejan Pangercic, Daniel Cremers and Michael Beetz, "A Generalized Framework for Opening Doors and Drawers in Kitchen Environments", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, MN, USA, 2012. [bibtex]
[116]Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz and Michael Beetz, "The RoboEarth language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, MN, USA, 2012. Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award. [bibtex] [pdf]
[117]Lars Kunze, Michael Beetz, Manabu Saito, Haseru Azuma, Kei Okada and Masayuki Inaba, "Searching Objects in Large-scale Indoor Environments: A Decision-thereotic Approach", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, MN, USA, 2012. [bibtex]
[118]Ulrich Klank, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Alexis Maldonado and Michael Beetz, "Robots that Validate Learned Perceptual Models", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, MN, USA, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[119]Ingo Kresse and Michael Beetz, "Movement-aware Action Control – Integrating Symbolic and Control-theoretic Action Execution", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, MN, USA, pp. 3245–3251, 2012. [bibtex]
[120]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robot Control", In AAAI Spring Symposium on Designing Intelligent Robots: Reintegrating AI, Stanford, CA, USA, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[121]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "A Unified Representation for Reasoning about Robot Actions, Processes, and their Effects on Objects", In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[122]Dejan Pangercic, Moritz Tenorth, Benjamin Pitzer and Michael Beetz, "Semantic Object Maps for Robotic Housework - Representation, Acquisition and Use", In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[123]Alexis Maldonado, Humberto Alvarez-Heredia and Michael Beetz, "Improving robot manipulation through fingertip perception", In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[124]Julius Kammerl, Nico Blodow, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Suat Gedikli, Michael Beetz and Eckehard Steinbach, "Real-time Compression of Point Cloud Streams", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Minnesota, USA, 2012. [bibtex]
[125]Lucian Cosmin Goron, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Gheorghe Lazea and Michael Beetz, "Segmenting Cylindrical and Box-like Objects in Cluttered 3D Scenes", In 7th German Conference on Robotics (ROBOTIK), Munich, Germany, 2012. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[126]Karol Hausman, Christian Bersch, Dejan Pangercic, Sarah Osentoski, Zoltan-Csaba Marton and Michael Beetz, "Segmentation of Cluttered Scenes through Interactive Perception", In ICRA 2012 Workshop on Semantic Perception and Mapping for Knowledge-enabled Service Robotics, St. Paul, MN, USA, 2012. [bibtex]
[127]Ross Kidson, Darko Stanimirovic, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz, "Elaborative Evaluation of RGB-D based Point Cloud Registration for Personal Robots", In ICRA 2012 Workshop on Semantic Perception and Mapping for Knowledge-enabled Service Robotics, St. Paul, MN, USA, 2012. [bibtex]
[128]Christian Bersch, Dejan Pangercic, Sarah Osentoski, Karol Hausman, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Ryohei Ueda, Kei Okada and Michael Beetz, "Segmentation of Textured and Textureless Objects through Interactive Perception", In RSS Workshop on Robots in Clutter: Manipulation, Perception and Navigation in Human Environments, Sydney, Australia, 2012. [bibtex]
[129]Reinhard Klapfer, Lars Kunze and Michael Beetz, "Pouring and Mixing Liquids — Understanding the Physical Effects of Everyday Robot Manipulation Actions", In 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2012), Workshop on Human Reasoning and Automated Deduction, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2012. [bibtex]
[130]Vladyslav Usenko, Florian Seidel, Zoltan-Csaba Marton and Dejan Pangercic Michael Beetz, "Furniture Classification using WWW CAD Models", In IROS’12 Workshop on Active Semantic Perception (ASP’12), Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012. [bibtex]
[131]Lucian Cosmin Goron, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Zoltan-Csaba Marton and Michael Beetz, "Incremental Modeling and Object Classification based on the Segmentation from Cluttered Settings", In Workshop on Low Cost 3D Sensors, Algorithms and Application, Berlin,Germany, 2012. [bibtex]

2011

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[132]Séverin Lemaignan, Raquel Ros, E. Akin Sisbot, Rachid Alami and Michael Beetz, "Grounding the Interaction: Anchoring Situated Discourse in Everyday Human-Robot Interaction", In International Journal of Social Robots, Springer Netherlands, pp. 1-19, 2011. [bibtex] [url]
[133]Moritz Tenorth, Ulrich Klank, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz, "Web-enabled Robots – Robots that Use the Web as an Information Resource", In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 58–68, 2011. [bibtex] [pdf]
[134]Markus Waibel, Michael Beetz, Raffaello D'Andrea, Rob Janssen, Moritz Tenorth, Javier Civera, Jos Elfring, Dorian Gálvez-López, Kai Häussermann, J.M.M. Montiel, Alexander Perzylo, Björn Schießle, Oliver Zweigle and René van de Molengraft, "RoboEarth - A World Wide Web for Robots", In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 69–82, 2011. [bibtex] [pdf]
[135]Oscar Martinez Mozos, Zoltan Csaba Marton and Michael Beetz, "Furniture Models Learned from the WWW – Using Web Catalogs to Locate and Categorize Unknown Furniture Pieces in 3D Laser Scans", In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 22–32, 2011. [bibtex]
[136]Zoltan Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Nico Blodow and Michael Beetz, "Combined 2D-3D Categorization and Classification for Multimodal Perception Systems", In The International Journal of Robotics Research, Sage Publications, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 1378–1402, 2011. [bibtex]
Conference Papers
[137]Chung-Yeon Lee, Ji-seob Kim, Eun-Sol Kim, Karinne Ramirez Amaro, Michael Beetz and Byoung-Tak Zhang, "Learning and Generation of Human Motion using Boltzmann Machines", In Korean Computer Congress (KCC), Seoul, South Korea, 2011. [bibtex]
[138]Federico Ruiz-Ugalde, Gordon Cheng and Michael Beetz, "Fast adaptation for effect-aware pushing", In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Bled, Slovenia, 2011. [bibtex]
[139]Sebastian Albrecht, Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Federico Ruiz-Ugalde, David Weikersdorfer, Marion Leibold, Michael Ulbrich and Michael Beetz, "Imitating human reaching motions using physically inspired optimization principles", In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Bled, Slovenia, 2011. [bibtex]
[140]Lars Kunze, Mihai Emanuel Dolha, Emitza Guzman and Michael Beetz, "Simulation-based Temporal Projection of Everyday Robot Object Manipulation", In 10th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2011. [bibtex]
[141]Lars Kunze, Tobias Roehm and Michael Beetz, "Towards Semantic Robot Description Languages", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, pp. 5589–5595, 2011. [bibtex]
[142]Daniel Nyga, Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "How-Models of Human Reaching Movements in the Context of Everyday Manipulation Activities", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, 2011. [bibtex] [url]
[143]Ulrich Klank, Daniel Carton and Michael Beetz, "Transparent Object Detection and Reconstruction on a Mobile Platform", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, 2011. [bibtex]
[144]Nico Blodow, Lucian Cosmin Goron, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Thomas Rühr, Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Autonomous Semantic Mapping for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation Tasks in Kitchen Environments", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011. [bibtex] [pdf]
[145]Lars Kunze, Mihai Emanuel Dolha and Michael Beetz, "Logic Programming with Simulation-based Temporal Projection for Everyday Robot Object Manipulation", In 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011. Best Student Paper Finalist. [bibtex]
[146]Dominik Jain, Klaus von Gleissenthall and Michael Beetz, "Bayesian Logic Networks and the Search for Samples with Backward Simulation and Abstract Constraint Learning", In KI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 34th Annual German Conference on AI, Springer, vol. 7006, pp. 144-156, 2011. [bibtex]
[147]Lorenz Mösenlechner and Michael Beetz, "Parameterizing Actions to have the Appropriate Effects", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011. [bibtex]
[148]Shulei Zhu, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz, "Contracting Curve Density Algorithm for Applications in Personal Robotics", In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Bled, Slovenia, 2011. [bibtex]
[149]Michael Beetz, Ulrich Klank, Ingo Kresse, Alexis Maldonado, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Dejan Pangercic, Thomas Rühr and Moritz Tenorth, "Robotic Roommates Making Pancakes", In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Bled, Slovenia, 2011. [bibtex] [pdf]
[150]Ingo Kresse, Ulrich Klank and Michael Beetz, "Multimodal Autonomous Tool Analyses and Appropriate Application", In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Bled, Slovenia, 2011. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[151]Michael Beetz, Ulrich Klank, Alexis Maldonado, Dejan Pangercic and Thomas Rühr, "Robotic Roommates Making Pancakes - Look Into Perception-Manipulation Loop", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Mobile Manipulation: Integrating Perception and Manipulation, pp. 529–536, 2011. [bibtex]
[152]Nico Blodow, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Thomas Rühr, Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Inferring Generalized Pick-and-Place Tasks from Pointing Gestures", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Semantic Perception, Mapping and Exploration, 2011. [bibtex] [pdf]
[153]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow and Michael Beetz, "Advantages of Spatial-temporal Object Maps for Service Robotics", In IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), Half-Moon Bay, CA, USA, 2011. [bibtex]
[154]Manabu Saito, Haseru Chen, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba, Lars Kunze and Michael Beetz, "Semantic Object Search in Large-scale Indoor Environments", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011. [bibtex]
[155]Dejan Pangercic, Vladimir Haltakov and Michael Beetz, "Fast and Robust Object Detection in Household Environments Using Vocabulary Trees with SIFT Descriptors", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011. [bibtex]
[156]Asako Kanezaki, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Tatsuya Harada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Michael Beetz, "Voxelized Shape and Color Histograms for RGB-D", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on Active Semantic Perception and Object Search in the Real World, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011. [bibtex]
[157]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz, "Efficient Surface and Feature Estimation in RGBD", In RGB-D Workshop on 3D Perception in Robotics at the European Robotics (euRobotics) Forum, Västerås, Sweden, 2011. [bibtex]
Other Publications
[158]Dejan Pangercic, Koppany Mathe, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Lucian Cosmin Goron, Monica-Simona Opris, Martin Schuster, Moritz Tenorth, Dominik Jain, Thomas Ruehr and Michael Beetz, "A Robot that Shops for and Stores Groceries", San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011. [bibtex] [url]

2010

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[159]Michael Beetz, Freek Stulp, Piotr Esden-Tempski, Andreas Fedrizzi, Ulrich Klank, Ingo Kresse, Alexis Maldonado and Federico Ruiz, "Generality and Legibility in Mobile Manipulation", In Autonomous Robots Journal (Special Issue on Mobile Manipulation), vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 21–44, 2010. [bibtex]
[160]Michael Beetz and Alexandra Kirsch, "Special Issue on Cognition for Technical Systems", In Künstliche Intelligenz, vol. 24, 2010. [bibtex]
[161]Michael Beetz, Moritz Tenorth, Dominik Jain and Jan Bandouch, "Towards Automated Models of Activities of Daily Life", In Technology and Disability, IOS Press, vol. 22, no. 1-2, pp. 27–40, 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]
[162]Michael Beetz, Martin Buss and Bernd Radig, "Learning from Humans – Cognition-enabled Computational Models of Everyday Activity", In Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer, 2010. [bibtex]
[163]Michael Beetz, Dominik Jain, Lorenz Mösenlechner and Moritz Tenorth, "Towards Performing Everyday Manipulation Activities", In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, vol. 58, no. 9, pp. 1085–1095, 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]
[164]Martin Buss and Michael Beetz, "CoTeSys – Cognition for Technical Systems", In Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer, 2010. [bibtex]
[165]Nicolai v. Hoyningen-Huene and Michael Beetz, "Importance Sampling as One Solution to the Data Association Problem in Multi-target Tracking", Chapter in VISIGRAPP 2009, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, no. 68, pp. 309–325, 2010. [bibtex]
[166]Moritz Tenorth, Dominik Jain and Michael Beetz, "Knowledge Representation for Cognitive Robots", In Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 233–240, 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]
[167]Wykowska, Agnieszka, Maldonado, Alexis, Beetz, Michael and Schuboe, Anna, "How Humans Optimize Their Interaction with the Environment: The Impact of Action Context on Human Perception", In International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer Netherlands, pp. 1-9, 2010. 10.1007/s12369-010-0078-3 [bibtex] [url]
[168]M. F. Zaeh, W. Roesel, A. Bannat, T. Bautze, M. Beetz, J. Blume, K. Diepold, C. Ertelt, F. Geiger, T. Gmeiner, T. Gyger, A. Knoll, C. Lau, C. Lenz, M. Ostgathe, G. Reinhart, T. Ruehr, A. Schuboe, K. Shea, I. Stork genannt Wersborg, S. Stork, W. Tekouo, F. Wallhoff and M. Wiesbeck, "Artificial Cognition in Production Systems", In IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1–27, 2010. [bibtex]
Conference Papers
[169]Lucian Cosmin Goron, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Gheorghe Lazea and Michael Beetz, "Automatic Layered 3D Reconstruction of Simplified Object Models for Grasping", In Joint 41st International Symposium on Robotics (ISR) and 6th German Conference on Robotics (ROBOTIK), Munich, Germany, 2010. [bibtex]
[170]Dominik Jain, Andreas Barthels and Michael Beetz, "Adaptive Markov Logic Networks: Learning Statistical Relational Models with Dynamic Parameters", In 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), pp. 937-942, 2010. [bibtex]
[171]Dominik Jain and Michael Beetz, "Soft Evidential Update via Markov Chain Monte Carlo Inference", In KI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 33rd Annual German Conference on AI, Springer, vol. 6359, pp. 280-290, 2010. [bibtex]
[172]Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Nyga and Michael Beetz, "Understanding and Executing Instructions for Everyday Manipulation Tasks from the World Wide Web", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK, USA, pp. 1486–1491, 2010. [bibtex] [url]
[173]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Priming Transformational Planning with Observations of Human Activities", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK, USA, pp. 1499–1504, 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]
[174]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Nico Blodow, Jonathan Kleinehellefort and Michael Beetz, "General 3D Modelling of Novel Objects from a Single View", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2010. [bibtex]
[175]Dejan Pangercic, Moritz Tenorth, Dominik Jain and Michael Beetz, "Combining Perception and Knowledge Processing for Everyday Manipulation", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1065-1071, 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]
[176]Michael Beetz, Lorenz Mösenlechner and Moritz Tenorth, "CRAM – A Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine for Everyday Manipulation in Human Environments", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1012-1017, 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]
[177]Lorenz Mösenlechner, Nikolaus Demmel and Michael Beetz, "Becoming Action-aware through Reasoning about Logged Plan Execution Traces", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems., Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 2231–2236, 2010. [bibtex]
[178]Federico Ruiz-Ugalde, Gordon Cheng and Michael Beetz, "Prediction of action outcomes using an object model", In 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2010. [bibtex]
[179]Alexis Maldonado, Ulrich Klank and Michael Beetz, "Robotic grasping of unmodeled objects using time-of-flight range data and finger torque information", In 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 2586–2591, 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]
[180]Lars Kunze, Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Putting People's Common Sense into Knowledge Bases of Household Robots", In 33rd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2010), Springer, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 151–159, 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]
[181]Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Andreas Holzbach and Michael Beetz, "Hierarchical Object Geometric Categorization and Appearance Classification for Mobile Manipulation", In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Nashville, TN, USA, 2010. [bibtex]
[182]Nico Blodow, Dominik Jain, Zoltan-Csaba Marton and Michael Beetz, "Perception and Probabilistic Anchoring for Dynamic World State Logging", In 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Nashville, TN, USA, pp. 160-166, 2010. [bibtex]
[183]Moritz Tenorth, Lars Kunze, Dominik Jain and Michael Beetz, "KNOWROB-MAP – Knowledge-Linked Semantic Object Maps", In 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Nashville, TN, USA, pp. 430-435, 2010. [bibtex] [pdf]
[184]Séverin Lemaignan, Raquel Ros, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Rachid Alami and Michael Beetz, "ORO, a knowledge management module for cognitive architectures in robotics", In Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 3548–3553, 2010. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[185]Karinne Ramirez Amaro and Michael Beetz, "Models of Human Everyday Manipulation Activities", In SIMPAR 2010 Workshops Intl. Conf. on Simulation, Modelling and Programming for Autonomous Robots, Darmstadt, Germany, 2010. [bibtex]
[186]Nico Blodow, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic and Michael Beetz, "Making Sense of 3D Data", In Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), Workshop on Strategies and Evaluation for Mobile Manipulation in Household Environments, 2010. [bibtex]
Other Publications
[187]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Deliverable D5.2: The RoboEarth Language – Language Specification", Technical report, FP7-ICT-248942 RoboEarth, no. D5.2, 2010. [bibtex]
[188]D. Brščić, M. Eggers, F. Rohrmüller, O. Kourakos, S. Sosnowski, D. Althoff, M. Lawitzky, A. Mörtl, M. Rambow, V. Koropouli, J.R. Medina Hernández, X. Zang, W. Wang, D. Wollherr, K. Kühnlenz, C. Mayer, T. Kruse, A. Kirsch, J. Blume, A. Bannat, T. Rehrl, F. Wallhoff, T. Lorenz, P. Basili, C. Lenz, T. Röder, G. Panin, W. Maier, S. Hirche, M. Buss, M. Beetz, B. Radig, A. Schubö, S. Glasauer, A. Knoll and E. Steinbach, "Multi Joint Action in CoTeSys — Setup and Challenges", Technical report, CoTeSys Cluster of Excelence: Technische Universität München & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, no. CoTeSys-TR-10-01, Munich, Germany, 2010. [bibtex]

2009

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[189]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Aravind Sundaresan, Benoit Morisset, Kris Hauser, Motilal Agrawal, Jean-Claude Latombe and Michael Beetz, "Leaving Flatland: Efficient Real-Time 3D Navigation", In Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), 2009. [bibtex]
[190]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Jan Bandouch, Franziska Meier, Irfan Essa and Michael Beetz, "Human Action Recognition using Global Point Feature Histograms and Action Shapes", In Advanced Robotics journal, Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), 2009. [bibtex]
[191]Michael Beetz, Nicolai von Hoyningen-Huene, Bernhard Kirchlechner, Suat Gedikli, Francisco Siles, Murat Durus and Martin Lames, "ASpoGAMo: Automated Sports Game Analysis Models", In International Journal of Computer Science in Sport, vol. 8, no. 1, 2009. [bibtex]
[192]Wykowska, Agnieszka, Maldonado, Alexis, Beetz, Michael and Schuboe, Anna, "How Humans Optimize Their Interaction with the Environment: The Impact of Action Context on Human Perception", Chapter in Progress in Robotics, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 44, pp. 162-172, 2009. 10.1007/978-3-642-03986-7_19 [bibtex] [url]
[193]Michael F. Zäh, Michael Beetz, Kristina Shea, Gunther Reinhart, K. Bender, Christian Lau, Martin Ostgathe, W. Vogl, Mathey Wiesbeck, Marco Engelhard, Christoph Ertelt, Thomas Rühr, M. Friedrich and S. Herle, "The Cognitive Factory", Chapter in Changeable and Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Springer, pp. 355–371, 2009. [bibtex]
Conference Papers
[194]Christoph Ertelt, Thomas Rühr, Dejan Pangercic, Kristina Shea and Michael Beetz, "Integration of Perception, Global Planning and Local Planning in the Manufacturing Domain", In Proceedings of Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)., 2009. [bibtex]
[195]Andreas Leha, Dejan Pangercic, Thomas Rühr and Michael Beetz, "Optimization of Simulated Production Process Performance using Machine Learning", In Proceedings of Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)., 2009. [bibtex]
[196]Morten Rufus Blas, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Mogens Blanke and Michael Beetz, "Fault-tolerant 3D Mapping with Application to an Orchard Robot", In Proceedings of the 7th IFAC International Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS'09), Barcelona, Spain, June 30 - July 3, 2009. [bibtex]
[197]Benoit Morisset, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Aravind Sundaresan, Kris Hauser, Motilal Agrawal, Jean-Claude Latombe and Michael Beetz, "Leaving Flatland: Toward Real-Time 3D Navigation", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009. [bibtex]
[198]Florian Friesdorf, Dejan Pangercic, Heiner Bubb and Michael Beetz, "Mutually Augmented Cognition", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)., 2009. [bibtex]
[199]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Nico Blodow and Michael Beetz, "Fast Point Feature Histograms (FPFH) for 3D Registration", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009. [bibtex]
[200]Andreas Andreakis, Nicolai von Hoyningen-Huene and Michael Beetz, "Incremental Unsupervised Time Series Analysis Using Merge Growing Neural Gas", In WSOM, Springer, vol. 5629, pp. 10-18, 2009. [bibtex]
[201]Michael Beetz, Jan Bandouch, Dominik Jain and Moritz Tenorth, "Towards Automated Models of Activities of Daily Life", In First International Symposium on Quality of Life Technology – Intelligent Systems for Better Living, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA, 2009. [bibtex] [pdf]
[202]Andreas Fedrizzi, Lorenz Moesenlechner, Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz, "Transformational Planning for Mobile Manipulation based on Action-related Places", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)., pp. 1–8, 2009. [bibtex]
[203]Dominik Jain, Lorenz Mösenlechner and Michael Beetz, "Equipping Robot Control Programs with First-Order Probabilistic Reasoning Capabilities", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3626-3631, 2009. [bibtex]
[204]Ulrich Klank, Muhammad Zeeshan Zia and Michael Beetz, "3D Model Selection from an Internet Database for Robotic Vision", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 2406–2411, 2009. [bibtex]
[205]Lorenz Mösenlechner and Michael Beetz, "Using Physics- and Sensor-based Simulation for High-fidelity Temporal Projection of Realistic Robot Behavior", In 19th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'09)., 2009. [bibtex]
[206]Freek Stulp, Andreas Fedrizzi and Michael Beetz, "Action-Related Place-Based Mobile Manipulation", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 3115–3120, 2009. [bibtex]
[207]Freek Stulp, Andreas Fedrizzi, Franziska Zacharias, Moritz Tenorth, Jan Bandouch and Michael Beetz, "Combining Analysis, Imitation, and Experience-based Learning to Acquire a Concept of Reachability", In 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 161–167, 2009. [bibtex] [pdf]
[208]Freek Stulp, Ingo Kresse, Alexis Maldonado, Federico Ruiz, Andreas Fedrizzi and Michael Beetz, "Compact Models of Human Reaching Motions for Robotic Control in Everyday Manipulation Tasks", In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)., 2009. [bibtex]
[209]Freek Stulp, Erhan Oztop, Peter Pastor, Michael Beetz and Stefan Schaal, "Compact Models of Motor Primitive Variations for Predictable Reaching and Obstacle Avoidance", In 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2009. [bibtex]
[210]Freek Stulp, Andreas Fedrizzi and Michael Beetz, "Learning and Performing Place-based Mobile Manipulation", In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)., pp. 1–7, 2009. [bibtex]
[211]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "KnowRob – Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Personal Robots", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4261–4266, 2009. [bibtex] [pdf]
[212]Muhammad Zeeshan Zia, Ulrich Klank and Michael Beetz, "Acquisition of a Dense 3D Model Database for Robotic Vision", In International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2009. [bibtex]
[213]Ulrich Klank, Dejan Pangercic, Radu Bogdan Rusu and Michael Beetz, "Real-time CAD Model Matching for Mobile Manipulation and Grasping", In 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Paris, France, pp. 290–296, 2009. [bibtex]
[214]Zoltan Csaba Marton, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Dominik Jain, Ulrich Klank and Michael Beetz, "Probabilistic Categorization of Kitchen Objects in Table Settings with a Composite Sensor", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, pp. 4777-4784, 2009. [bibtex]
[215]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Ioan Alexandru Sucan, Brian Gerkey, Sachin Chitta, Michael Beetz and Lydia E. Kavraki, "Real-time Perception-Guided Motion Planning for a Personal Robot", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, pp. 4245–4252, 2009. [bibtex]
[216]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow, Andreas Holzbach and Michael Beetz, "Model-based and Learned Semantic Object Labeling in 3D Point Cloud Maps of Kitchen Environments", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, 2009. [bibtex]
[217]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Nico Blodow, Zoltan Csaba Marton and Michael Beetz, "Close-range Scene Segmentation and Reconstruction of 3D Point Cloud Maps for Mobile Manipulation in Human Environments", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, 2009. [bibtex]
[218]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Andreas Holzbach, Nico Blodow and Michael Beetz, "Fast Geometric Point Labeling using Conditional Random Fields", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, 2009. [bibtex]
[219]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Wim Meeussen, Sachin Chitta and Michael Beetz, "Laser-based Perception for Door and Handle Identification", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Munich, 2009. Best Paper Award [bibtex]
[220]Dejan Pangercic, Rok Tavcar, Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Visual Scene Detection and Interpretation using Encyclopedic Knowledge and Formal Description Logic", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)., Munich, Germany, 2009. [bibtex] [pdf]
[221]Zoltan Csaba Marton, Radu Bogdan Rusu and Michael Beetz, "On Fast Surface Reconstruction Methods for Large and Noisy Datasets", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, 2009. [bibtex]
[222]Nicolai von Hoyningen-Huene and Michael Beetz, "Rao-Blackwellized Resampling Particle Filter for Real-Time Player Tracking in Sports", In Fourth International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), INSTICC press, vol. 1, Lisboa, Portugal, pp. 464-470, 2009. [bibtex]
[223]Nicolai von Hoyningen-Huene and Michael Beetz, "Robust real-time multiple target tracking", In Ninth Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), Xi'an, China, 2009. [bibtex]
[224]Zoltan Csaba Marton, Lucian Cosmin Goron, Radu Bogdan Rusu and Michael Beetz, "Reconstruction and Verification of 3D Object Models for Grasping", In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR09), Lucerne, Switzerland, 2009. [bibtex]
[225]Nico Blodow, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Zoltan Csaba Marton and Michael Beetz, "Partial View Modeling and Validation in 3D Laser Scans for Grasping", In 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Paris, France, 2009. [bibtex]
[226]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Andreas Holzbach, Rosen Diankov, Gary Bradski and Michael Beetz, "Perception for Mobile Manipulation and Grasping using Active Stereo", In 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Paris, France, 2009. [bibtex]
[227]Jun Li, Alexis Maldonado, Michael Beetz and Anna Schuboe, "Obstacle avoidance in a pick-and-place task", In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Guilin, Guangxi, China, 2009. [bibtex]
[228]Agnieszka Wykowska, Alexis Maldonado, Michael Beetz and Anna Schuboe, "How humans optimize their interaction with the environment: The impact of action context on human perception.", In Progress in Robotics. Proceedings of the FIRA RoboWorld Congress, Incheon, Korea, 2009. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[229]Jan Bandouch and Michael Beetz, "Tracking Humans Interacting with the Environment Using Efficient Hierarchical Sampling and Layered Observation Models", In IEEE Int. Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In conjunction with ICCV2009, 2009. [bibtex]
[230]Moritz Tenorth, Jan Bandouch and Michael Beetz, "The TUM Kitchen Data Set of Everyday Manipulation Activities for Motion Tracking and Action Recognition", In IEEE International Workshop on Tracking Humans for the Evaluation of their Motion in Image Sequences (THEMIS), in conjunction with ICCV2009, 2009. [bibtex] [pdf]
[231]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Andreas Holzbach, Gary Bradski and Michael Beetz, "Detecting and Segmenting Objects for Mobile Manipulation", In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Search in 3D and Video (S3DV), held in conjunction with the 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, 2009. [bibtex]
[232]Michael Beetz, Nico Blodow, Ulrich Klank, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic and Radu Bogdan Rusu, "CoP-Man – Perception for Mobile Pick-and-Place in Human Living Environments", In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop on Semantic Perception for Mobile Manipulation, St. Louis, MO, USA, 2009. Invited paper. [bibtex]
[233]Li Sun, Ulrich Klank and Michael Beetz, "EYEWATCHME - 3D Hand and object tracking for inside out activity analysis", In IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009. CVPR 2009., vol. , no. , pp. 9-16, 2009. [bibtex] [doi]
Other Publications
[234]Dominik Jain, Stefan Waldherr and Michael Beetz, "Bayesian Logic Networks", Technical report, IAS Group, Fakultät für Informatik, Technische Universität München, 2009. [bibtex]
[235]Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Nyga and Michael Beetz, "Understanding and Executing Instructions for Everyday Manipulation Tasks from the World Wide Web", Technical report, IAS group, Technische Universität München, Fakultät für Informatik, 2009. [bibtex]

2008

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[236]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]
[237]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]
[238]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]
[239]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]
Conference Papers
[240]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]
[241]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]
[242]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]
[243]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]
[244]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]
[245]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]
[246]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]
[247]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]
[248]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]
[249]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]
[250]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]
[251]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]
[252]Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz, "Learning Predictive Knowledge to Optimize Robot Motor Control", In International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008), 2008. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[253]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]
[254]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]
[255]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]
[256]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]
[257]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]
[258]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]
[259]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]

2007

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[260]Martin Buss, Michael Beetz and Dirk Wollherr, "CoTeSys — Cognition for Technical Systems", In International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Mechatronics, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 25-36, 2007. [bibtex]
Conference Papers
[261]Matthias Kranz, Alexis Maldonado, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Benedikt Hoernler, Gerhard Rigoll, Michael Beetz and Albrecht Schmidt, "Sensing Technologies and the Player-Middleware for Context-Awareness in Kitchen Environments", In Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems, June 6 - 8, 2007, Braunschweig, Germany, 2007. [bibtex]
[262]Matthias Kranz, Alexis Maldonado, Benedikt Hoernler, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Michael Beetz, Gerhard Rigoll and Albrecht Schmidt, "A Knife and a Cutting Board as Implicit User Interface - Towards Context-Aware Kitchen Utilities", In Proceedings of First International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2007, TEI 2007, February 15-17 Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, 2007. [bibtex]
[263]Michael Beetz, Martin Buss and Dirk Wollherr, "Cognitive Technical Systems — What Is the Role of Artificial Intelligence?", In Proceedings of the 30th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2007), pp. 19–42, 2007. Invited paper [bibtex]
[264]Michael Beetz, Suat Gedikli, Jan Bandouch, Bernhard Kirchlechner, Nico von Hoyningen-Huene and Alexander Perzylo, "Visually Tracking Football Games Based on TV Broadcasts", In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2007. [bibtex]
[265]Suat Gedikli, Jan Bandouch, Nico von Hoyningen-Huene, Bernhard Kirchlechner and Michael Beetz, "An Adaptive Vision System for Tracking Soccer Players from Variable Camera Settings", In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), 2007. [bibtex]
[266]Nicolai v. Hoyningen-Huene, Bernhard Kirchlechner and Michael Beetz, "GrAM: Reasoning with Grounded Action Models by Combining Knowledge Representation and Data Mining", In Towards Affordance-based Robot Control, 2007. [bibtex]
[267]Dominik Jain, Bernhard Kirchlechner and Michael Beetz, "Extending Markov Logic to Model Probability Distributions in Relational Domains", In KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 30th Annual German Conference on AI, Springer, vol. 4667, pp. 129–143, 2007. [bibtex]
[268]Alexandra Kirsch and Michael Beetz, "Training on the Job — Collecting Experience with Hierarchical Hybrid Automata", In Proceedings of the 30th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2007), pp. 473–476, 2007. [bibtex]
[269]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Nico Blodow, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Alina Soos and Michael Beetz, "Towards 3D Object Maps for Autonomous Household Robots", In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, CA, USA, 2007. [bibtex]
[270]Freek Stulp, Wolfram Koska, Alexis Maldonado and Michael Beetz, "Seamless Execution of Action Sequences", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3687-3692, 2007. [bibtex]
[271]Armin Müller, Alexandra Kirsch and Michael Beetz, "Transformational Planning for Everyday Activity", In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'07), Providence, USA, pp. 248–255, 2007. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[272]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Alexis Maldonado, Michael Beetz and Brian Gerkey, "Extending Player/Stage/Gazebo towards Cognitive Robots Acting in Ubiquitous Sensor-equipped Environments", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop for Network Robot Systems, 2007, April 14, Rome, Italy, 2007. [bibtex]
[273]Michael Beetz, Jan Bandouch, Alexandra Kirsch, Alexis Maldonado, Armin Müller and Radu Bogdan Rusu, "The Assistive Kitchen — A Demonstration Scenario for Cognitive Technical Systems", In Proceedings of the 4th COE Workshop on Human Adaptive Mechatronics (HAM), 2007. [bibtex]
[274]Martin Buss, Michael Beetz and Dirk Wollherr, "CoTeSys — Cognition for Technical Systems", In Proceedings of the 4th COE Workshop on Human Adaptive Mechatronics (HAM), 2007. [bibtex]
[275]Armin Müller and Michael Beetz, "Towards a Plan Library for Household Robots", In Proceedings of the ICAPS'07 Workshop on Planning and Plan Execution for Real-World Systems: Principles and Practices for Planning in Execution, Providence, USA, 2007. [bibtex]

2006

Conference Papers
[276]Michael Beetz, Jan Bandouch, Suat Gedikli, Nico von Hoyningen-Huene, Bernhard Kirchlechner and Alexis Maldonado, "Camera-based Observation of Football Games for Analyzing Multi-agent Activities", In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2006. [bibtex] [pdf]
[277]Radu Bogdan Rusu, Alexis Maldonado, Michael Beetz, Matthias Kranz, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Paul Holleis and Albrecht Schmidt, "Player/Stage as Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing", In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006), Orange County California, September 17-21, 2006. [bibtex]
[278]Markus Geipel and Michael Beetz, "Learning to shoot goals, Analysing the Learning Process and the Resulting Policies", In RoboCup-2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2006. to be published [bibtex]
[279]Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz, "Action Awareness – Enabling Agents to Optimize, Transform, and Coordinate Plans", In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2006. [bibtex]
[280]Freek Stulp, Mark Pflüger and Michael Beetz, "Feature Space Generation using Equation Discovery", In Proceedings of the 29th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), 2006. [bibtex]
[281]Freek Stulp, Michael Isik and Michael Beetz, "Implicit Coordination in Robotic Teams using Learned Prediction Models", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1330-1335, 2006. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[282]Matthias Kranz, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Alexis Maldonado, Michael Beetz and Albrecht Schmidt, "A Player/Stage System for Context-Aware Intelligent Environments", In Proceedings of UbiSys'06, System Support for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop, at the 8th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006), Orange County California, September 17-21, 2006, 2006. [bibtex]
[283]Armin Müller and Michael Beetz, "Designing and Implementing a Plan Library for a Simulated Household Robot", In Cognitive Robotics: Papers from the AAAI Workshop, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California, pp. 119–128, 2006. [bibtex]

2005

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[284]Michael Beetz, Bernhard Kirchlechner and Martin Lames, "Computerized Real-Time Analysis of Football Games", In IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 33-39, 2005. [bibtex]
[285]Michael Beetz, "Towards Comprehensive Computational Models for Plan-Based Control of Autonomous Robots", Chapter in Mechanizing Mathematical Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Jörg H. Siekmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Springer LNCS 2605, pp. 514–527, 2005. [bibtex]
[286]Michael Beetz and Henrik Grosskreutz, "Probabilistic Hybrid Action Models for Predicting Concurrent Percept-driven Robot Behavior", In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 24, pp. 799–849, 2005. [bibtex]
Conference Papers
[287]Alexandra Kirsch and Michael Beetz, "Combining Learning and Programming for High-Performance Robot Controllers", In Tagungsband Autonome Mobile Systeme 2005, Springer Verlag, 2005. [bibtex]
[288]Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz, "Optimized Execution of Action Chains Using Learned Performance Models of Abstract Actions", In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2005. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[289]Alexandra Kirsch, Michael Schweitzer and Michael Beetz, "Making Robot Learning Controllable: A Case Study in Robot Navigation", In Proceedings of the ICAPS Workshop on Plan Execution: A Reality Check, 2005. [bibtex]
Other Publications
[290]Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz, "Optimized Execution of Action Chains through Subgoal Refinement", ICAPS Workshop "Plan Execution: A Reality Check", 2005. ICAPS Workshop "Plan Execution: A Reality Check" [bibtex] [url]
[291]Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz, "Tailoring Action Parameterizations to Their Task Contexts", IJCAI Workshop "Agents in Real-Time and Dynamic Environments", 2005. IJCAI Workshop "Agents in Real-Time and Dynamic Environments" [bibtex] [url]





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