Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[1]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]
[2]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]
[3]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]
[4]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]
[5]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]
[6]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]
[7]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]
[8]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]
[9]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]
[10]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]
[11]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]
[12]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Representations for robot knowledge in the KnowRob framework", In Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, 2015. [bibtex]
Conference Papers
[13]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]
[14]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]
[15]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]
[16]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]
[17]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]
[18]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]
[19]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]
[20]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]
[21]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]
[22]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]
[23]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]
[24]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]
[25]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]
[26]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]
[27]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]
[28]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]
[29]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Exchange of Action-related Information among Autonomous Robots", In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[30]Daniel di Marco, Moritz Tenorth, Kai Häussermann, Oliver Zweigle and Paul Levi, "RoboEarth Action Recipe Execution", In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[31]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]
[32]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]
[33]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]
[34]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]
[35]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]
[36]Charmayne Mary Lee Hughes, Moritz Tenorth, Marta Bienkiewicz and Joachim Hermsdörfer, "Action sequencing and error production in stroke patients with apraxia – Behavioral modeling using Bayesian Logic Networks", In 6th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2013), Barcelona, Spain, 2013. [bibtex] [pdf]
[37]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]
[38]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]
[39]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]
[40]Moritz Tenorth, Koji Kamei, Satoru Satake, Takahiro Miyashita and Norihiro Hagita, "Building Knowledge-enabled Cloud Robotics Applications using the Ubiquitous Network Robot Platform", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, pp. 5716–5721, 2013. [bibtex] [pdf]
[41]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]
[42]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]
[43]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]
[44]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]
Workshop Papers
[45]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]
[46]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]
[47]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]
[48]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]
[49]Moritz Tenorth, Koji Kamei, Satoru Satake, Takahiro Miyashita and Norihiro Hagita, "Towards a Networked Robot Architecture\\ for Distributed Task Execution and Knowledge Exchange", In Third International Workshop on Standards and Common Platforms for Robotics (SCPR 2012), in conjunction with SIMPAR 2012, Tsukuba, Japan, 2012. [bibtex] [pdf]
[50]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]
[51]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]
[52]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]
Other Publications
[53]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]
[54]Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz, "Deliverable D5.2: The RoboEarth Language – Language Specification", Technical report, FP7-ICT-248942 RoboEarth, no. D5.2, 2010. [bibtex]
[55]Moritz Tenorth, "Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robots", PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2011. [bibtex] [pdf]
[56]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]
[57]Daniel Di Marco, Andreas Koch, Oliver Zweigle, Kai Häussermann, Björn Schieß le, Paul Levi, Dorian Galvez Lopez, Luis Riazuelo, Javier Civera, J.M.M Montiel, Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo, Markus Waibel and Marinus Jacobus Gerardus van de Molengraft, "Creating and using RoboEarth object models", St. Paul, MN, USA, 2012. [bibtex]





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