Patrick Mania

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Research Staff & System administration

Tel: –49 -421 218 64004
Fax: –49 -421 218 64047
Room: TAB 2.84
Mail: pmania(at)cs[dot]uni-bremen[dot]de

Teaching

Publications

Books
[1]Beetz, Michael, Stelter, Simon, Beßler, Daniel, Dhanabalachandran, Kaviya, Neumann, Michael, Mania, Patrick and Haidu, Andrei, "Robots Collecting Data: Modelling Stores", Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–64, 2022. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[2]Richter-Klug, Jesse, Mania, Patrick, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Beetz, Michael and Frese, Udo, "Improving Object Pose Estimation by Fusion With a Multimodal Prior – Utilizing Uncertainty-Based CNN Pipelines for Robotics", In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 2282-2288, 2022. [bibtex] [doi]
Conference Papers
[3]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]
[4]Patrick Mania and Michael Beetz, "A Framework for Self-Training Perceptual Agents in Simulated Photorealistic Environments", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, 2019. [bibtex] [pdf]
[5]Patrick Mania, Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Michael Neumann and Michael Beetz, "Imagination-enabled Robot Perception", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021. Best Paper Award on Cognitive Robotics [bibtex]
[6]Kenghagho, Franklin K, Neumann, Michael, Mania, Patrick, Tan, Toni, Siddiky, Feroz A, Weller, René, Zachmann, Gabriel and Beetz, Michael, "NaivPhys4RP-Towards Human-like Robot Perception “Physical Reasoning based on Embodied Probabilistic Simulation”", In 2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 815–822, 2022. [bibtex]
[7]Kenghagho, Franklin Kenfack, Neumann, Michael, Mania, Patrick and Beetz, Michael, "Perception through Cognitive Emulation:"A Second Iteration of NaivPhys4RP for Learningless and Safe Recognition and 6D-Pose Estimation of (Transparent) Objects"", In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 7679–7685, 2024. [bibtex]
[8]Mania, Patrick, Stelter, Simon, Kazhoyan, Gayane and Beetz, Michael, "An Open and Flexible Robot Perception Framework for Mobile Manipulation Tasks", In 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024. [bibtex]
[9]Mania, Patrick, Neumann, Michael, Kenghagho Kenfack, Franklin and Beetz, Michael, "Towards Autonomous Verification: Integrating Cognitive AI and Semantic Digital Twins in Medical Robotics", In 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025. Accepted for publication [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[10]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]
Other Publications
[11]Patrick Mania, Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Michael Neumann and Michael Beetz, "Imagination-enabled Robot Perception", 2020. [bibtex] [url]