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	Knowledge-Based Systems – Publications

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• Wolfram Strothmann, Arno Ruckelshausen, Joachim Hertzberg, Christian Scholz, Frederik Langsenkamp. Plant classification with in-field-labeling for crop/weed discrimination using spectral features and 3D surface features from a multi-wavelength laser line profile system. J. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (accepted)

2017

• Martin Günther, Thomas Wiemann, Sven Albrecht, Joachim Hertzberg Model-Based Furniture Recognition for Building Semantic Object Maps. Artificial Intelligence 247:336-351, 2017. [DOI 10.1016/j.artint.2014.12.007]

• José Raúl Ruiz-Sarmiento, Martin Günther, Cipriano Galindo, Javier González-Jiménez, Joachim Hertzberg. Online Context-based Object Recognition for Mobile Robots. International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2017), Coimbra, Portugal, April 26-28, 2017.

• Stefan Stiene, Stephan Scheuren, Martin Günther, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Lauer, Ansgar Bernardi, Joachim Hertzberg. Architektur einer offenen Software-Plattform für landwirtschaftliche Dienstleistungen. in: A. Ruckelshausen et al. (eds.): Informatik in der Land-, Forst- und Ernährungswirtschaft. Referate der 37. GIL-Jahrestagung (GIL 2017), Dresden, Mar 6-7, 2017.

• Juan Carlos Saborío, Joachim Hertzberg. Practical assumptions for planning under uncertainty. Proc. ICAART 2017 -- 9th Intl. Conf. Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Porto, Portugal, Feb 24-26, 2017

• Thomas Wiemann, Sven Albrecht, Joachim Hertzberg. Konzeptentwicklung zur automationsgestützten 3D-Digitalisierung kulturhistorisch relevanter Bauten. 16. Oldenburger 3D-Tage, Feb 1-2, 2017.

• Thomas Wiemann, Isaak Mitschke, Sven Albrecht, Joachim Hertzberg. Massiv parallelisierte Oberflächenrekonstruktion aus großvolumigen und hochaufgelösten 3D-Punktwolken. 16. Oldenburger3D-Tage, Feb 1-2, 2017.

2016

• Thomas Wiemann, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. Optimizing Triangle Mesh Reconstructions of Planar Environments. Proc. IAV 2016 -- 9th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Leipzig, June 29-July 1st, 2016.

• Thorsten Gedicke, Martin Günther, Joachim Hertzberg. FLAP for CAOS: Forward-Looking Active Perception for Clutter-Aware Object Search. Proc. IAV 2016 -- 9th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Leipzig, June 29-July 1st, 2016.

• Tristan Igelbrink, Thomas Wiemann, Joachim Hertzberg. Online Mesh Optimization for Large Scale KinectFusion Meshes. Proc. IAV 2016 -- 9th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Leipzig, June 29-July 1st, 2016.

• Sebastian Pütz, Thomas Wiemann, Jochen Sprickerhof, Joachim Hertzberg. 3D Navigation Mesh Generation for Path Planning in Uneven Terrain. Proc. IAV 2016 -- 9th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Leipzig, June 29-July 1st, 2016.

• Michael Beetz, Raja Chatila, Joachim Hertzberg, Federico Pecora. AI Reasoning Methods for Robotics. in: Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib (eds.): Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2nd ed., Chapter 14, pp. 329-356. Springer, 2016 [Springer Link]

• Alexander Mock, Thomas Wiemann, Dorit Borrmann, Tristan Igelbrink, Joachim Hertzberg. Real Time Texture Generation in Optimized Large-Scale Polygon Meshes with KinectFusion. 47th Symposium on Robotics -- ISR 2016, Munich, June 21-22, pp. 10-16, 2016.

• Sebastian Stock, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. Towards a flexible hybrid planner for machine coordination in arable farming. in: A. Ruckelshausen et al. (eds.): Informatik in der Land-, Forst- und Ernährungswirtschaft. Referate der 36. GIL-Jahrestagung (GIL 2016), Osnabrück, Feb 22-23, pp. 205-208, 2016.

• Nils Niemann, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. Methoden zur Bestimmung optimal ergänzender Scanposen in unvollständig erfassten 3D-Szenen. avn -- Allgemeine Vermessungs-Nachrichten, 123(1):11-20, 2016.

• Thomas Wiemann, Alexander Mock, Tristan Igelbrink, Dorit Borrmann, Joachim Hertzberg. Online-Generierung großflächiger 3D-Meshes mit Texturen durch RGB-D Kameras. in: Luhmann&Müller (eds): Photogrammetrie, Laserscanning, Optische 3D-Messtechnik. Beiträge der Oldenburger 3D-Tage 2016. Wichmann Verlag 2016

• Thomas Wiemann, Marcel Mrozinski, Dominik Feldschnieders, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. Data Handling in Large Scale Surface Reconstruction. In: E. Menegatti et al. (eds.): Intelligent Autonomous Systems 13. Springer, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 302, pp. 499-511, 2016. [Springer Link]

2015

• Sebastian Stock, Masoumeh Mansouri, Federico Pecora, Joachim Hertzberg. Online Task Merging with a Hierarchical Hybrid Task Planner for Mobile Service Robots. Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. Intelligen Robots and Systems (IROS 2015), Hamburg, Sep 28 - Oct 02, pp. 6459-6464, 2015

• Sebastian Rockel, Stefan Konecny, Sebastian Stock, Joachim Hertzberg, Federico Pecora, Jianwei Zhan g. Integrating Physics-Based Prediction with Semantic Plan Execution Monitoring. Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. Intelligen Robots and Systems (IROS 2015), Hamburg, Sep 28 - Oct 02, pp. 2883-2888, 2015

• Sebastian Stock, Masoumeh Mansouri, Federico Pecora, Joachim Hertzberg. Hierarchical Hybrid Planning in a Mobile Service Robot. KI 2015: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Dresden, Sep 21-25, pp. 309-315. Springer (LNCS vol. 9324), 2015. [Springer Link]

• Ann-Katrin Becker, Jochen Sprickerhof, Martin Günther, Joachim Hertzberg. Abducing Hypotheses about Past Events from Observed Environment Changes. Proc. 38th German Conference onArtificial Intelligence KI 2015: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Dresden, Sep 21-25, pp. 234-240. Springer (LNCS vol. 9324), 2015. [Springer Link]

• Thomas Wiemann, Tristan Igelbrink, Joachim Hertzberg. Generating Topologically Consistent Triangle Meshes from Large Scale Kinect Fusion. Proc. 7th European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR 2015), Lincoln, UK, Sept 2-4, 2015 (accepted)

• Henning Deeken, Thomas Wiemann, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. SEMAP -- A Semantic Environment Mapping Framework. Proc. 7th European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR 2015), Lincoln, UK, Sept 2-4, 2015 (accepted)

• Thomas Schüler. Abstrakte virtuelle Illusionen für die Schlaganfalltherapie. Springer Vieweg Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-10061-2.

• Iman Awaad, Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Joachim Hertzberg The Role of Functional Affordances in Socializing Robots. Int. J. of Social Robotics, [DOI 10.1007/s12369-015-0281-3], March 2015.

• Joachim Hertzberg. Technische Gestaltungsoptionen für autonom agierende Komponenten und Systeme. in: Das Recht vor den Herausforderungen der modernen Technik. Beiträge der 1. Würzburger Tagung zu Technikrecht im November 2013 (E. Hilgendorf, S. Hötitzsch, eds.). Baden-Baden (Nomos) 2015, p. 63-73

• Nils Niemann, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. Planung von optimalen Scanposen zur Nach-Erfassung verschatteter Bereiche in 3D-Szenen. in: Tagungsband Oldenburger 3D-Tage, Oldenburg, VDE, Februar 2015.

• Thomas Wiemann, Hendrik Annuth, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. An Extended Evaluation of Open Source Surface Reconstruction Software for Robotic Applications. J. Intelligent and Robotic Systems 77(1):149-170, 2015 (Special Issue on Advanced Robotics). [DOI 10.1007/s10846-014-0155-1]

2014

• Joachim Hertzberg, Jianwei Zhang, Liwei Zhang, Sebastian Rockel, Bernd Neumann, Jos Lehmann, Krishna S. R. Dubba, Anthony G. Cohn, Alessandro Saffiotti, Federico Pecora, Masoumeh Mansouri, Stefan Konecny, Martin Günther, Sebastian Stock, Luis Seabra Lopes, Miguel Oliveira, Gi Hyun Li, Hamidreza Kasaei, Vahid Mokhtari, Lothar Hotz, Wilfried Bohlken. The RACE Project -- Robustness by Autonomous Competence Enhancement. in: KI 28(4):297-304, 2014. DOI 10.1007/s13218-014-0327-y.

• Thomas Wiemann, Kai Lingemann, and Joachim Hertzberg. Large Scale Surface Reconstruction. Proc. 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13), July 15-19, 2014, Padova, Italy (Paper proceedings in press, Springer)

• Thomas Schüler. Abstrakte virtuelle Umgebung für die Schlaganfalltherapie. Mensch und Computer Konferenz (MuC 2014), Aug 31 - Sep 3, 2014, München.

• Thomas Schüler, Luara Ferreira dos Santos, Simon Hoermann. Harnessing the Experience of Presence for Virtual Motor Rehabilitation: Towards a Guideline for the Development of Virtual Reality Environments . 10th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies (ICDVRAT 2014), Gothenburg, Sweden, 2014.

• Andreas Linz, Joachim Hertzberg, Arno Ruckelshausen, Erik Wunder. Autonomous service robots for orchards and vineyards: 3D simulation environment of multi sensor-based navigation and applications. 12th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, Indianapolis, July 15-18, 2014

• Iman Awaad, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar and Joachim Hertzberg. Finding Ways to Get the Job Done: An Affordance-based Approach. 24th Intl. Conf. Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2014), June 21-26, Portsmouth, USA (Robotics Track)

• Henning Deeken, Thomas Wiemann, Sebastian Pütz, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. Integrating Semantic Information in Navigational Planning. ISR/Robotik 2014, June 2-4, 2014, Munich

• Sebastian Stock, Martin Günther, Joachim Hertzberg. Generating and executing hierarchical mobile manipulation plans. ISR/Robotik 2014, June 2-4, 2014, Munich [Get Paper (PDF)]

• Wolfram Strothmann, Arno Ruckelshausen, Joachim Hertzberg. Multi-wavelength laser line profile sensing for agricultural crop characterization. Proc. SPIE 9141, Optical Sensing and Detection III, 91411K (May 15, 2014). [doi:10.1117/12.2052009]

• Joachim Hertzberg. Autonome Systeme in der Landwirtschaft (Erweiterte Zusammenfassung). KTBL-Tage 2014, Potsdam, April 1-2, 2014. [Complete KTBL-2014 proceedings (in German)]

• S. Konecny, S. Stock, F. Pecora, A. Saffiotti. Planning Domain + Execution Semantics: a Way Towards Robust Execution?. AAAI 2014 Spring Symposium on Qualitative Representations for Robots., Stanford, California, USA, Mar 24-26, 2014.

• Astrid Ullrich, Stefan Stiene, Joachim Hertzberg. ROS-Based Path Planning and Machine Control for an Autonomous Sugar Beet Harvester. 4th Int. Conf. Machine Control & Guidance, March 19-20, 2014.

• Thomas Wiemann, Johannes Heitmann, Marcel Mrozinski, Tristan Igelbrink, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. Repräsentation Geometrischer und Semantischer Informationen in einem Geoinformationssystem für Mobile Roboter. In: Luhmann/Müller (eds.): Photogrammetrie, Laserscanning, Optische 3D-Messtechnik. Beiträge der Oldenburger 3D-Tage 2014, Wichmann Verlag, 2014

• Thomas Wiemann. Automatic Generation of 3D Polygon Maps for Mobile Robots. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz 28(1):53-57, 2014, DOI: 10.1007/s13218-013-0287-7

• Thomas Schüler, Sonja Drehlmann, Friederike Kane, Harry von Piekartz. Telepresence and motor rehabilitation in an abstract virtual environment for stroke patients. 15th International Conference on Presence (ISPR 2014), Mar 17-19, 2014, Vienna, Austria.

2013

• Thomas Wiemann, Hendrik Annuth, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. An Evaluation of Open Source Surface Reconstruction Software for Robotic Applications. 16th Intl. Conf. Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2013), Nov 25-29, 2013, Montevideo, Uruguay. Shortlisted for best paper award

• Stephan Scheuren, Stefan Stiene, Ronny Hartanto, Joachim Hertzberg, Max Reinecke. Spatio-temporally Constrained Planning for Cooperative Vehicles in a Harvesting Scenario. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, 27(4), 2013, pp. 341-346.

• Sven Albrecht, Stephen Marsland. Seeing the Unseen: Simple Reconstruction of Transparent Objects from Point Cloud Data. Robots in Clutter (RIC) Workshop at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2013.

• Iman Awaad, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Joschim Hertzberg. Socializing Robots: The Role of Functional Affordances. Intl. Workshop Developmental Social Robotics (DevSoR 2013) at IROS 2013, Nov 7, 2013, Tokyo.

• Kim Oliver Rinnewitz, Thomas Wiemann, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. Automatic Creation and Application of Texture Patterns to 3D Polygon Maps. 2013 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), Nov 3-7, 2013, Tokyo, pp. 3691-3696.

• Martin Günther, Thomas Wiemann, Sven Albrecht, Joachim Hertzberg. Building Semantic Object Maps from Sparse and Noisy 3D Data. 2013 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), Nov 3-7, 2013, Tokyo, pp. 2228-2233.

• Thomas Schüler, Sonja Drehlmann, Friederike Kane, Harry von Piekartz. Abstract virtual environment for motor rehabilitation of stroke patients with upper limb dysfunction. A pilot study.. Proceedings of International Conference for Virtual Rehabilitation ICVR, 2013.

• Joachim Hertzberg. Kognitive Robotik. in: A. Stephan, S. Walter (eds.): Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft, Chap. II.B.2, pp. 47-51 Stuttgart (Metzler), 2013

• Christoph Mies, Joachim Hertzberg. Encoding HTN Heuristics in PDDL Planning Instances (Extended Abstract). in: Ingo J. Timm, Matthias Thimm (Eds.): KI 2013: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 36th Annual German Conference on AI, pp. 292-295. Heidelberg (Springer), 2013. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40942-4_27

• Iman Awaad, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Joachim Hertzberg. Affordance-Based Reasoning in Robot Task Planning. Planning and Robotics (PlanRob) Workshop at 23rd Intl. Conf. Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Rome, June 10-14, 2013

• T. Wiemann, K. Lingemann, J. Hertzberg. Automatic Map Creation for Environment Modelling in Robotic Simulators Proc. 27th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2013), May 27-30, 2013

• Thomas Wiemann. Automatische Generierung dreidimensionaler Polygonkarten für mobile Roboter. Dissertation, Universität Osnabrück, April 2013, URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2013050710827.

• S. Rockel, B. Neumann, J. Zhang, K.S.R. Dubba, A.G. Cohn, S. Konecny, M. Mansouri, F. Pecora, A. Saffiotti, M. Günther, S. Stock, J. Hertzberg, A.M. Tome, A. Pinho, L. Seabra Lopes, S. von Riegen, L. Hotz. An Ontology-based Multi-level Robot Architecture for Learning from Experiences. AAAI Spring Symposium 2013 on Designing Intelligent Robots: Reintegrating AI II

• S. Albrecht, T. Wiemann, J. Hertzberg, H.W. Guesgen, S. Marsland. From Object Recognition to Activity Interpretation and Back, Based on Point Cloud Data KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, 27(2), pp 161-167, 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s13218-013-0244-5

• Susanne Biundo-Stephan, Hans Werner Guesgen, Joachim Hertzberg, Stephen R. Marsland (eds.). Interpreting Observed Actions (Dagstuhl Seminar 12491). Dagstul Report Online Publication Server [DROPS page, DOI 10.4230/DagRep.2.12.1].

• Stephan Scheuren, Joachim Hertzberg, Stefan Stiene, Ronny Hartanto. Infield Path Planning for Autonomous Unloading Vehicles. Proc. 33. Jahrestagung Gesellschaft für Informatik in der Land-, Forst- und Ernährungswir tschaft (GIL 2013), Potsdam, Feb 20-21, 2013.

2012

• Martin Günther, Joachim Hertzberg, Masoumeh Mansouri, Federico Pecora, Alessandro Saffiotti. Hybrid Reasoning in Perception: A Case Study. 10th Intl. IFAC Symp. Robot Control (SYROCO 2012), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2012. DOI: 10.3182/20120905-3-HR-2030.00180

• Stephan Scheuren, Stefan Stiene, Ronny Hartanto, Joachim Hertzberg. Approximating Reference Trajectories for Autonomous Vehicles using Motion Primitives. Proc. 22nd Conf. Autonomous Mobile Systems (AMS 2012), September 26-28 2012, Stuttgart, pp. 109-117

• Jens Poppenborg, Sigrid Knust, and Joachim Hertzberg. Online scheduling of flexible job-shops with blocking and transportation. European J. of Industrial Engineering 6(4):497-518, 2012. [Publisher Link]

• Thomas Wiemann, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, and Joachim Hertzberg. A Toolkit for Automatic Generation of Polygonal Maps -- Las Vegas Reconstruction. In: Proc. 7th German Conf. on Robotics (ROBOTIK 2012), München, VDE Verlag, 2012, pp. 446-451

• Joachim Hertzberg, Kai Lingemann, and Andreas Nüchter. Mobile Roboter. Eine Einführung aus Sicht der Informatik. Springer, 2012. [Web page] [Springer page]

• Kim Oliver Rinnewitz, Sven Karl Schalk, Thomas Wiemann, Kai Lingemann, and Joachim Hertzberg Das Las Vegas Reconstruction Toolkit. In: Luhmann/Müller (eds.): Photogrammetrie, Laserscanning, Optische 3D-Messtechnik. Beiträge der Oldenburger 3D-Tage 2012

• Yukihiro Tobata, Ryo Kurazume, Yusuke Noda, Kai Lingemann, Yumi Iwashita, Tsutomu Hasegawa. Laser-based geometrical modeling of large-scale architectural structures using co-operative multiple robots. Autonomous Robots 32(1):49-62, 2012. [Springer Link]

• Thomas Schüler. Therapeutic presence - virtual illusions for neurorehabilitation. 11th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2012), Bremen, Germany, 2012.

• Thomas Schüler. Generative design as a method to foster explorative behaviour in virtual motor rehabilitation. 9th International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies (ICDVRAT 2012), Laval, France, 2012. [Proceedings PDF]

2011

• Jochen Sprickerhof, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg. A Heuristic Loop Closing Technique for Large-Scale 6D SLAM. Automatika 52(3):199-222, 2011, Special Issue Selected papers from the 4th European Conference on Mobile Robotics, [Get Paper][Get Videos]

• Joachim Hertzberg. Unter Modulbuchhaltern und Sprintstudierenden – Wer studiert heute KI? Und warum? in. Künstl. Intell. 25(4):321-323, 2011, DOI 10.1007/s13218-011-0124-9 [Springer Link]

• Markus Quirin, Joachim Hertzberg, Julius Kuhl, and Achim Stephan. Could Positive Affect Help Engineer Robot Control Systems? J. Cognitive Processing 12(4):375-378, 2011. DOI: 10.1007/s10339-011-0401-4 [online (Springer Verlag)]

• Martin Günther, Thomas Wiemann, Sven Albrecht, and Joachim Hertzberg. Model-based object recognition from 3D laser data. In: KI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 34th Annual German Conference on AI, October 2011, Berlin. Springer (LNAI 7006), pp. 99-110, 2011

• Stephan Scheuren, Stefan Stiene, Ronny Hartanto, Joachim Hertzberg, and Max Reinicke. The Problem of Spatio-temporally Constrained Motion Planning for Cooperative Vehicles. To appear in: Proc. 26. Workshop Planen, Scheduling und Konfigurieren, Entwerfen (PuK-2011), October 2011, Berlin.

• Sven Albrecht, Thomas Wiemann, Martin Günther, Joachim Hertzberg. Matching CAD Object Models in Semantic Mapping Proc. ICRA 2011 Workshop Semantic Perception, Mapping and Exploration, Shanghai, China, May 2011

• Dorit Borrmann, Jan Elseberg, Kai Lingemann, and Andreas Nüchter. The 3D Hough Transform for Plane Detection in Point Clouds - A Review and A new Accumulator Design, Journal 3D Research, ISSN 2092-6731, Springer, Volume 2, Number 2, March 2011

• Florian Otte, Johannes Zimmermann, Jochen Sprickerhof, Kai Lingemann, Thomas Wiemann, and Joachim Hertzberg. Automatisiertes Auffinden und Auffüllen von Scanschatten in 3D-Laserscans. Luhmann/Müller (eds.): Photogrammetrie, Laserscanning, Optische 3D-Messtechnik. Beiträge der Oldenburger 3D-Tage 2010. Berlin (Wichmann), 2011, pp. 46-53.

• Thomas Schüler, Daniel Kämmerling, Michael Albrecht & Karsten Morisse. User Stories als Kommunikationsbasis bei der Integration von e-Learning in ein Campusmanagementsystem. Proceedings of DeLFI 2011, Dresden, Germany

• Thomas Schüler & Karsten Morisse. Usage of mobile self-assessment to support a continuous learning process. Proceedings of eL&mL 2011, Gosier, Guadeloupe, France.

2010

• Jan Elseberg, Dorit Borrmann, Andreas Nüchter, and Kai Lingemann. Non-Rigid Registration and Rectification of 3D Laser Scans, Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '10), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010.

• Martin Günther. Using Top-Down Information in Semantic Mapping. Proc. 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science (KogWis 2010), Doctoral Symposium, Oct 3-6, Potsdam, Germany

• Joachim Hertzberg, Sven Albrecht, Martin Günther, Kai Lingemann, Jochen Sprickerhof, Thomas Wiemann. From Semantic Mapping to Anchored Knowledge Bases. Proc. 10th Biannual Meeting German Soc. Cognitive Science (KogWis 2010), Symposium Adaptivity of Hybrid Cognitive Systems, Oct 3-6, Potsdam, Germany

• Jochen Sprickerhof. Seeing structure in the point cloud -- first attempts at 3D symbols for mobile robots. Proc. 10th Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science (KogWis 2010), Doctoral Symposium, Oct 3-6, Potsdam, Germany

• Thomas Wiemann, Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Stefan Stiene, Joachim Hertzberg Automatic Construction of Polygonal Maps from Point Cloud Data. Proc. 8th IEEE Intl. Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR-2010), Jul 26-30, 2010, Bremen, Germany.

• Jan Wülfing, Joachim Hertzberg, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, Stefan Stiene, Thomas Wiemann. Towards Real Time Robot 6D Localization in a Polygonal Indoor Map Based on 3D ToF Camera Data. Proc. 7th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV 2010), Sep 6-8, 2010, Lecce, Italy.

• Dorit Borrmann, Jan Elseberg, Kai Lingemann, and Andreas Nüchter. A Data Structure for the 3D Hough Transform for Plane Detection. Proc. 7th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV 2010), Sep 6-8, 2010, Lecce, Italy.

• Joachim Hertzberg, Kai Lingemann, Christopher Lörken, Andreas Nüchter, Stefan Stiene, Thomas Wiemann. 3D-Roboterkartenbau in Osnabrück. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, 24(3), Special Issue Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, 2010. DOI: 10.1007/s13218-010-0032-4. [Springer Link]

• Dorit Borrmann, Jan Elseberg, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter. Verbesserte Kartenqualität durch Thin Plate Splines und Hough-Transformation. in: Luhmann/Müller (eds.): Photogrammetrie, Laserscanning, Optische 3D-Messtechnik. Beiträge der Oldenburger 3D-Tage 2010. Berlin (Wichmann), 2010, pp. 134-141

• Erik Schulenburg, Norbert Elkmann, Markus Fritzsche, Joachim Hertzberg, Stefan Stiene LISA: Auf dem Weg zur sicheren Assistenzrobotik. KI – Künstliche Intelligenz 24(1):69-73, 2010. DOI: 10.1007/s13218-010-0013-7. [Springer Link]

• Thomas Schüler & Marion Pälmke. PT@PC - Innovation Virtuelle Rehabilitation. physiopraxis 1/2010:22-25, Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany

2009

• Simone Frintrop, Andreas Nüchter, Kai Pervölz, Hartmut Surmann, Sara Mitri, and Joachim Hertzberg. Attentive Classification. Intl. J. Applied Artificial Intelligence in Engineering Systems 1(1):47-66, 2009 [Journal Issue]

• Stefan May, David Droeschel, Dirk Holz, Stefan Fuchs, Ezio Malis, Andreas Nüchter, and Joachim Hertzberg. 3D Mapping with Time-of-Flight Cameras. J. Field Robotics 26(11-12):934-965, 2009. [Get Paper (JFR site)]

• Jochen Sprickerhof, Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg. An Explicit Loop Closing Technique for 6D SLAM. in Proc. 4th European Conf. Mobile Robots (ECMR-09), Mlini/Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2009, pp.229-234.

• Ronny Hartanto and Joachim Hertzberg. On the Benefit of Fusing DL Reasoning with HTN Planning. KI 2009. (32nd Annl. German Conf. on AI, Paderborn, Germany, September 2009, Proceedings), Springer (LNAI 5803), pp.41-48, 2009. [Get Paper]

• Ronny Hartanto. Fusing DL Reasoning with HTN Planning as a Deliberative Layer in Mobile Robotics Doctoral Dissertation, Univ. Osnabrück, August 2009.

• Stefan Stiene and Joachim Hertzberg. Virtual Range Scan for Avoiding 3D Obstacles Using 2D Tools. Proc. 14th Intl. Conf. Advanced Robotics (ICAR-2009), Munich, June 2009. [Get Paper]

• Stefan Stiene. Multisensorfusion zur semantisch gestützten Navigation eines autonomen Assistenzroboters. Doctoral Dissertation, Univ. Osnabrück, June 2009. [elib publication, UOS]

• Martin Magnusson, Henrik Andreasson, Andreas Nüchter, Achim J. Lilienthal. Appearance-Based Place Recognition from 3D Laser Data Using the Normal Distributions Transform, in Proc. 2009 IEEE International Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA '09), Kobe, Japan, May 2009.

• Martin Magnusson, Andreas Nüchter, Christopher Lörken, Achim J. Lilienthal, and Joachim Hertzberg. 3D Mapping the Kvarntorp Mine -- A Field Experiment for Evaluation of 3D Scan Matching Algorithms, in Proc. 2009 IEEE International Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA '09), Kobe, Japan, May 2009.

• Ryo Kurazume, Yusuke Noda, Yukihiro Tobata, Kai Lingemann, Yumi Iwashita, Tsutomu Hasegawa. Laser-based Geometric Modeling using Cooperative Multiple Mobile Robots, in Proc. 2009 IEEE International Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA '09), Kobe, Japan, May 2009.

• Stefan May. 3D Time-of-Flight Ranging for Robotic Perception in Dynamic Environments. Doctoral Dissertation, Univ. Osnabrück, March 2009. [vdi Verlag link]

• Andreas Nüchter. 3D Robotic Mapping. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) vol.52, Springer Verlag, 2009. [Springer Link] [Get Book].

2008

• Joachim Hertzberg and Alessandro Saffiotti (eds.). Special Issue 56(11):857-1014 Semantic Knowledge in Robotics of J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, November 2008

• Joachim Hertzberg and Alessandro Saffiotti. Editorial: Using Semantic Knowledge in Robotics. J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue Semantic Knowledge in Robotics 56(11):875-877, 2008. [ScienceDirect Link]

• Andreas Nüchter and Joachim Hertzberg. Towards Semantic Maps for Mobile Robots. J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue on Semantic Knowledge in Robotics 56(11):915-926, 2008. [ScienceDirect Link]

• Joachim Hertzberg, Karsten Morisse, and Thomas Schüler. Robotik-Schulstunden als Mittel der Informatik-Hochschulausbildung: Eine Fallstudie. In: B. Schwarze et al. (eds.): Gender und Diversity in den Ingenieurwissenschaften und Informatik. Bielefeld (Universitätsverlag Webler) 2008, pp.86-100 [Get Draft Version (PDF)] [Book link]

• Thomas Schüler, Joachim Hertzberg, and Karsten Morisse. Organisation von Robotik-Schulstunden im Informatikstudium. In: Tagungsband logOS 2008. Lernen Organisation Gesellschaft. Das eCampus-Symposium der Osnabrücker Hochschulen. Osnabrück, Oktober 2008, pp.97-101

• Martin Magnusson, Andreas Nüchter, Christopher Lörken, Achim J. Lilienthal, and Joachim Hertzberg. 3D Mapping the Kvarntorp Mine: A Field Experiment for Evaluation of 3D Scan Matching Algorithms. In Proceedings of the Workshop on 3D-Mapping at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '08), Nice, France, September 2008.

• Thomas Wiemann, Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Stefan Stiene, and Joachim Hertzberg. Surface Reconstruction for 3D Robotic Mapping. In Proceedings of the Workshop on 3D-Mapping at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '08), Nice, France, September 2008.

• Ronny Hartanto and Joachim Hertzberg. Fusing DL Reasoning with HTN Planning. In: KI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 31st Annual German Conference on AI, Proceedings, Kaiserslautern, September 2008. Springer Verlag (LNAI 5243), 2008, pp.62-69. [Get Paper (PDF)]

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, and Joachim Hertzberg. Evaluating a 3D Camera for RoboCup Rescue. in Proceedings of the SICE Annual Conference 2008: International Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Information Technology (SICE '08), Tokyo, Japan, August, 2008.

• Dirk Holz, Christopher Lörken and Hartmut Surmann. Continuous 3D Sensing for Navigation and SLAM in Cluttered and Dynamic Environments. In: 11th Intl. Conf. Information Fusion (Fusion 2008), Cologne, June 30-July 3, 2008.

• Dorit Borrmann, Jan Elseberg, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, and Joachim Hertzberg. The Efficient Extension of Globally Consistent Scan Matching to 6 DoF. In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT '08), Available electronically as Tech Report GT-IC-08-05 from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, pages 29-36, June 2008 [Get Paper] [Get Video] [Addendum].

• Joachim Hertzberg and Raja Chatila. AI Reasoning Methods for Robotics. in: B. Siciliano and O. Khatib (eds.): Springer Handbook of Robotics, Ch.9, pp.207-223. Springer 2008

• Christopher Lörken and Joachim Hertzberg. Grounding planning operators by affordances. in: Proc. Intl. Conf. Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008), Karlsruhe, April 2-4, 2008, p.79-84 (CD Proceedings). [Get Paper (PDF)]

• Oliver Wulf, Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg, and Bernardo Wagner. Benchmarking Urban Six-Degree-of-Freedom Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Journal of Field Robotics (JFR) 25(3):148-163, 2008, [Get Paper] [Get Videos].

• Erich Rome, Lucas Paletta, Erol Sahin, Georg Dorffner, Joachim Hertzberg, Ralph Breithaupt, Gerald Fritz, Jörg Irran, Florian Kintzler, Christopher Lörken, Stefan May, and Emre Ugur. The MACS project: An Approach to Affordance-inspired Robot Control. In Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control. Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar 06231, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 5-9, 2006, Springer (LNAI vol. 4760), pp. 173-210, 2008. [Springer Link]

• Joachim Hertzberg, Kai Lingemann, Christopher Lörken, Andreas Nüchter, and Stefan Stiene. Does it help a robot navigate to call navigability an affordance?. In Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control. Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar 06231, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 5-9, 2006, Springer (LNAI vol. 4760), pp. 16-26, 2008. [Get Paper Draft] [Springer Link]

• Erich Rome, Joachim Hertzberg, Georg Dorffner (eds.): Towards Affordance-based Robot Control. Proceedings of Dagstuhl Seminar 06231, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 5-9, 2006 Springer (LNAI vol. 4760), 2008. [Springer link]

• Dorit Borrmann, Jan Elseberg, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter and Joachim Hertzberg. Globally consistent 3D mapping with scan matching. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 56(2):130-142, 2008, [ScienceDirect Link] [Get Paper Draft] [Get Videos] [Addendum].

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Dorit Bormann, Jan Elseberg, and Jan Böhm. Global Konsistente 3D-Kartierung mit Scanmatching. in Photogrammetrie Laserscanning Optische 3D-Messtechnik, Beiträge der Oldenburger 3D-Tage 2008, Fachhochschule Oldenburg/Ostfr./Whv., Wichmann Verlag, pp. 194-201, February 2007.

2007

• Oliver Wulf, Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg, and Bernardo Wagner. Ground Truth Evaluation of Large Urban 6D SLAM. In in: Proc. 2007 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '07), San Diego, CA, USA, October 2007, p.650-657.

• Markus Fritzsche, Erik Schulenburg, Norbert Elkmann, Angelika Girstl, Stefan Stiene, Christian Teutsch Safe Human-Robot Interaction in a Life Science Environment. IEEE Intl. Workshop Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR2007), 2007. [Get Paper]

• Stefan Stiene and Joachim Hertzberg, Sicheres Navigieren in dynamischen Umgebungen mit 3D-Kollisionsvermeidung in: K. Berns, T. Luksch (eds.): Autonome Mobile Systeme 2007 (AMS 2007). 20. Fachgespräch, Kaiserslautern, 18./19. Oktober 2007. Berlin (Springer) 2007, p. 68-74. [Get Paper]

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg, and Hartmut Surmann, 6D SLAM - 3D Mapping Outdoor Environments Journal of Field Robotics 24(8-9):699-722, Special Issue on Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Robotic and Intelligent Systems, August-September 2007, [Get Paper].

• Andreas Nüchter. Parallelization of Scan Matching for Robotic 3D Mapping. In Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR '07), Freiburg, Germany, September 2007, [Get Paper], [View Online Proceedings].

• Erik Schulenburg, Norbert Elkmann, Markus Fritzsche, Angelika Girstl, Stefan Stiene, Christian Teutsch. LiSA: A Robot Assistant for Life Sciences.. In KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007. Osnabrück, Germany, September 2007. Proceedings. Springer Verlag (LNAI vol. 4667), 2007, pp. 502-505. [Get Paper]

• Joachim Hertzberg, Michael Beetz, Roman Englert (Eds.): KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007. Osnabrück, Germany, September 2007. Proceedings. Springer (LNAI vol. 4667), 2007. [online information, Springer link]

• Andreas Bartel, Frank Meyer, Christopher Sinke, Thomas Wiemann, Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, and Joachim Hertzberg. Real-Time Outdoor Trail Detection on a Mobile Robot. In Proceedings of Robotics and Applications and Telematics, pp. 477-482, Würzburg, Germany, August 2007, [Get Paper and Videos].

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, and Joachim Hertzberg. 6D SLAM with Cached k-d tree Search. In Proceedings of the 13th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, pp. 181-186, Würzburg, Germany, August 2007.

• Rolf Lakaemper, Andreas Nüchter, Nagesh Adluru, and Longin Jan Latecki. Performance of 6D LuM and FFS SLAM - An Example for Comparison using Grid and Pose Based Evaluation Methods. In Proceedings of seventh workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS '07), Washington D.C., USA, August 2007, [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, and Joachim Hertzberg. Cached k-d tree search for ICP algorithms. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances in 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM '07), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 419-426, Montreal, Canada, August 2007, [Get Paper (PDF)] [HTML Version].

• Christopher Lörken. Introducing Affordances into Robot Task Execution, in K.-U. Kühnberger et al. (eds.): Publications of the Institute of Cognitive Science (PICS), Volume 2-2007, 100 pages, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, May 2007, [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Giovanni Indiveri, Andreas Nüchter, and Kai Lingemann. High Speed Differential Drive Mobile Robot Path Following Control With Bounded Wheel Speed Commands, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA '07), pp. 2202-2207, Rome, Italy, April 2007, [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Stefan Stiene, Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, and Joachim Hertzberg. An Experiment in Semantic Correction of Sensor Data, (Poster) in Proceedings Workshop on Semantic Information in Robotics at the IEEE International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA '07), Rome, Italy, April 2007, [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann and Joachim Hertzberg. 6D SLAM with Kurt3D, Robotics Today, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, First Quarter, Vol. 20, No. 1, April, 2007, [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Johannes Steger, Robert Märtin, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg, and Peter König. Laser range scans of natural scenes for the evaluation of stereo- matching algorithms. Poster at ICVS Workshop From Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to Computer Vision (CCNCV '07) Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007.

• Johannes Steger, Robert Märtin, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg, and Peter König. Assessing stereo matching algorithms using ground-truth disparity maps of natural scenes, (Poster), in Proceedings of the 7th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society / 31th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Neuroforum 2007, Göttingen, Germany, 2007.

• Lars Kunze, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, and Joachim Hertzberg. Salient Visual Features to Help Close the Loop in 6D SLAM, in Proceedings of the ICVS Workshop on Computational Attention & Applications (WCAA '07), Bielefeld, Germany, March 2007, [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Dirk Holz and Christopher Lörken. Continuous 3D Environment Sensing for Autonomous Robot Navigation and Mapping, in Proc. of the 9. Fachwissenschaftlicher Informatik-Kongress, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) - Series of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), pp. 39-42, Bonn, Germany, March 2007. [Get Paper (PDF)]

• Joachim Hertzberg. Embodying AI -- GOFAI Goes Robotics, in Proc. Interdisciplinary College 2007 (IK-2007), Günne, Germany, March 2007; pp. 369-384

• Andreas Nüchter. Algorithmen zur Erstellung virtueller 3D-Welten mit mobilen Robotern, in Photogrammetrie Laserscanning Optische 3D-Messtechnik, Beiträge der Oldenburger 3D-Tage 2007, Fachhochschule Oldenburg/Ostfr./Whv, Wichmann Verlag, pp. 164-171, February 2007.

2006

• Andreas Nüchter. Semantische dreidimensionale Karten für autonome mobile Roboter, Dissertation (PhD thesis), University of Bonn, September 2006. Also appeared as DISKI vol. 303, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka GmbH, Berlin, Germany.

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann and Oliver Wulf (Eds.). Robotic 3D Environment Cognition, Workshop at the International Conference Spatial Cognition, Bremen, Germany 2006, [Get Workshop Proceedings (PDF)].

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann and Joachim Hertzberg. 6D SLAM with Kurt3D, in Robotic 3D Environment Cognition, Workshop at the International Conference Spatial Cognition, Bremen, Germany 2006. [Get Paper (PDF)]

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg, and Hartmut Surmann. 6D SLAM -- Mapping Outdoor Environments, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR '06), (CDROM Proceedings), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, August 2006,

• Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg, Oliver Wulf, Bernardo Wagner, Kai Pervölz, Hartmut Surmann, and Thomas Christaller. RoboCupRescue2006 -- Robot League, Deutschland1 (Germany), in Team Description Paper, Rescue Robot League Competition, (CDROM Proceedings), Bremen, Germany, June 2006, [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Sven Albrecht, Joachim Hertzberg, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, Jochen Sprickerhof, Stefan Stiene. Device Level Simulation of Kurt3D Rescue Robots, in Third International Workshop on Synthetic Simulation and Robotics to Mitigate Earthquake Disaster (SRMED 2006). CDROM Proceedings, June 2006 [Get Paper, PDF] [Paper, HTML].

• Stefan Stiene, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, and Joachim Hertzberg. Contour-based Object Detection in Range Images, in Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT '06), June 2006. [Get Paper]

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, and Joachim Hertzberg. Extracting Drivable Surfaces in Outdoor 6D SLAM, in Proceedings of the 37nd International Symposium on Robotics (ISR '06) and 4th German Conference Robotik 2006, Munich, Germany, 2006. [Get Paper (PDF)] [Get Paper (HTML)] [Get Surface Animation (DivX)] [Get Marching Cubes Representation (DivX)]

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg, Oliver Wulf, Bernardo Wagner, Kai Pervölz, Hartmut Surmann, Thomas Christaller. The RoboCup Rescue Team Deutschland1, KI – Künstliche Intelligenz 2006(2):24-29, May 2006 [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, and Joachim Hertzberg. Kurt3D -- A Mobile Robot for 3D Mapping of Environments, ELROB Technical Paper, Hammelburg, Germany, May 2006. [Get Technical Paper (PDF)] [Get Team Information (PDF)] [Get Vehicle Specification Sheet (PDF)] [Get Team Roster (PDF)].

• Sandor P. Fekete, Rolf Klein, and Andreas Nüchter. Online searching with an autonomous robot, in Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications 34(2):102-115 May 2006.

2005

• Hartmut Surmann, Kai Pervölz, Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg, and Matthias Hennig. Simultaneous Mapping and Localization of Rescue Environments in it- Information Technology 47 (2005) 5, pp 282-291, Oldenbourg press, October 2005. (Note: The paper is an extended version of the SSRR 2005 best paper awarded paper "Mapping of Rescue Environments with Kurt3D")

• Simone Frintrop, Erich Rome, Andreas Nüchter, and Hartmut Surmann, A Bimodal Laser-Based Attention System. Journal Computer 100(1-2):124-151 (Special Issue on Attention and Performance in Computer Vision), October-November 2005.

• Kai Lingemann, Hartmut Surmann, Andreas Nüchter, and Joachim Hertzberg. Verfahren zur Ermittlung der Position und Orientierung eines navigierenden Systems. Offenlegungsschrift DE 10 2004 015 111 A1 2005.10.20, Deutsches Patentamt. Offenlegungstag 20.10.2005

• Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg, and Hartmut Surmann. About the Control of High Speed Mobile Indoor Robots, in Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR '05), Ancona, Italy, September 2005, pp. 218-223. [Get Paper and Video]

• Ronny Hartanto and Joachim Hertzberg. Offering Existing AI Planners as Web Services, in GI Workshop Planen und Konfigurieren (PuK 2005), Koblenz, Germany, September 2005[Get Paper (PDF)].

• Joachim Hertzberg, Kai Lingemann, and Andreas Nüchter. USARSIM -- Game-Engines in der Robotik-Lehre, in A. B. Cremers et al. (eds.): Informatik 2005 -- Informatik LIVE, vol.1 (Beiträge der 35. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn, Germany, September 2005). Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn 2005, pp. 158-162. [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg, and Hartmut Surmann. Heuristic-Based Laser Scan Matching for Outdoor 6D SLAM, in KI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 28th Annual German Conference on AI, Proceedings. Springer (Berlin) LNAI vol. 3698, pp. 304-319. Koblenz, Germany, September 2005. [Get Paper and Video]

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg, and Hartmut Surmann. Accurate Object Localization in 3D Laser Range Scans, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '05), pp. 665-672, Seattle, USA, July 2005, [Get Paper (PDF)] [Get Paper (HTML)].

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg, and Hartmut Surmann. 6D SLAM with Approximate Data Association, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '05), pp. 242-249, Seattle, USA, July 2005, [Get Paper (PDF)] [Get Paper (HTML)].

• Andreas Nüchter, Oliver Wulf, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg, Bernardo Wagner, and Hartmut Surmann, 3D Mapping with Semantic Knowledge, in Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium 2005, Osaka, Japan, July 2005, [Get Paper (PDF)] [Get Paper (HTML)].

• Hartmut Surmann, Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, Matthias Hennig, Kai Pervölz, Oliver Wulf, Joachim Hertzberg, Bernardo Wagner, and Thomas Christaller. RoboCupRescue - Robot League Team, Team Deutschland1 (Germany) Team Description Paper, Rescue Robot League Competition, (CDROM Proceedings) (RoboCup 2005), Osaka, Japan, July 2005, (6th place), [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Andreas Nüchter, Kai Lingemann, Joachim Hertzberg, Hartmut Surmann, Kai Pervölz, Matthias Hennig, K. R. Tiruchinapalli, Rainer Worst, and Thomas Christaller, Mapping of Rescue Environments with Kurt3D, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR '05), pp. 158-163, Kobe, Japan, June 2005, (best paper award) [Get Paper (PDF)].

• Kai Lingemann, Andreas Nüchter, Joachim Hertzberg, and Hartmut Surmann. High-Speed Laser Localization for Mobile Robots, Journal Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 51(4):275-296, 2005. [ScienceDirect link] [Get Paper (PDF)]

• Sara Mitri, Simone Frintrop, Kai Pervölz, Hartmut Surmann, and Andreas Nüchter. Robust Object Detection at Regions of Interest with an Application in Ball Recognition, in Proceedings IEEE 2005 International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05), pp. 126-131, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005, [Get Paper (PDF)] [Get Paper (HTML)].

2004

• Simone Frintrop, Andreas Nüchter, Hartmut Surmann and Joachim Hertzberg. Saliency-based Object Recognition in 3D Data, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '04), pp. 2167-2172, Sendai, Japan, September 2004. [Get Paper (PDF)]

• Kai Lingemann, Hartmut Surmann, Andreas Nüchter and Joachim Hertzberg. Indoor and Outdoor Localization for Fast Mobile Robots, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '04), pp. 2185-2190, Sendai, Japan, September 2004. [Get Paper (PDF)]