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Plan-based Robot Control

  • Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz. Learning Predictive Knowledge to Optimize Robot Motor Control. In International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008), 2008.
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  • Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz. Refining the execution of abstract actions with learned action models. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 32, June 2008.
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  • Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz. Combining Declarative, Procedural and Predictive Knowledge to Generate and Execute Robot Plans Efficiently and Robustly. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Network Robot Systems), 2008.
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  • 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), pp. 248–255, Providence, USA, September 2007.
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  • 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, September 2007.
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  • Freek Stulp, Hans Utz, Michael Isik, and Gerd Mayer. Implicit Coordination with Shared Belief: A Heterogeneous Robot Soccer Team Case Study. In accepted for the First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (RoboComm), 2007.
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  • 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.
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  • Michael Isik, Freek Stulp, Gerd Mayer, and Hans Utz. Coordination without Negotiation in Teams of Heterogeneous Robots. In Proceedings of the RoboCup Symposium, pp. 355–362, 2006.
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  • Armin Müller and Michael Beetz. Designing and Implementing a Plan Library for a Simulated Household Robot. In Cognitive Robotics: Papers from the AAAI Workshop, pp. 119–128, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California, 2006.
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  • Radu Bogdan Rusu. Acquiring Models of Everyday Activities for Robotic Control in 'Current PhD Research in Pervasive Computing'. Technical Reports - University of Munich, Department of Computer Science, Media Informatics Group, LMU-MI-2005-3, March 2006.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Michael Beetz. Towards Comprehensive Computational Models for Plan-Based Control of Autonomous Robots. In Dieter Hutter, Werner Stephan, editors, Mechanizing Mathematical Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Jörg H. Siekmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, pp. 514–527, Springer LNCS 2605, 2005.
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  • Alexandra Kirsch and Michael Beetz. Combining Learning and Programming for High-Performance Robot Controllers. In Autonome Mobile Systeme 2005, 2005.
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  • Alexandra Kirsch. Towards High-performance Robot Plans with Grounded Action Models: Integrating Learning Mechanisms into Robot Control Languages. In ICAPS Doctoral Consortium, 2005.
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  • 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.
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  • Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz. Optimized Execution of Action Chains through Subgoal Refinement. 2005. ICAPS Workshop ``Plan Execution: A Reality Check''
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  • Freek Stulp and Michael Beetz. Tailoring Action Parameterizations to Their Task Contexts. 2005. IJCAI Workshop ``Agents in Real-Time and Dynamic Environments''
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  • 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.
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  • Michael Beetz, Sebastian Buck, Robert Hanek, Andreas Hofhauser, and Thorsten Schmitt. AGILO RoboCuppers 2002: Applying Cooperative Game State Estimation Experience-based Learning, and Plan-based Control to Autonomous Robot Soccer. In RoboCup International Symposium 2002, 2002.
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  • Michael Beetz and Andreas Hofhauser. Plan-based control for autonomous robot soccer. In Advances in Plan-based Control of Autonomous Robots. Selected Contributions of the Dagstuhl Seminar Plan-based Control of Robotic Agents, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer-Verlag, 2002.
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  • Michael Beetz. Towards integrated computational models for the plan-based control of robotic agents.. In Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Prof. J. Siekmann, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Publishers, 2002.
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  • Michael Beetz. Plan-based Control of Robotic Agents, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Publishers, 2002.
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  • Michael Beetz, Joachim Hertzberg, Malik Ghallab, and Martha Pollack. Advances in Plan-based Control of Robotic Agents, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Publishers, 2002.
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  • Michael Beetz. Plan Representation for Robotic Agents. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on AI Planning and Scheduling, pp. 223–232, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 2002.
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  • Thorsten Belker, Michael Beetz, and Armin Cremers. Learning Action Models for the Improved Execution of Navigation Plans. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 38(3--4):137–148, March 2002.
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  • Michael Beetz, Tom Arbuckle, Maren Bennewitz, Wolfram Burgard, Armin Cremers, Dieter Fox, Henrik Grosskreutz, Dirk Hähnel, and Dirk Schulz. Integrated Plan-based Control of Autonomous Service Robots in Human Environments. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 16(5):56–65, 2001.
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  • Michael Beetz. Plan Management for Robotic Agents. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz; Special Issue on Planning and Scheduling, pp. 12–17, 2001.
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  • Michael Beetz. Runtime Plan Adaptation in Structured Reactive Controllers. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 2001.
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  • Michael Beetz. Structured Reactive Controllers. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Special Issue: Best Papers of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents '99, 4:25–55, Kluwer Academic Publishers, March/June 2001.
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  • Thorsten Belker and Michael Beetz. Learning to Execute Robot Navigation Plans. In Proceedings of the 25th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 01), Springer Verlag, Wien, Austria, 2001.
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  • Sebastian Buck, Michael Beetz, and Thorsten Schmitt. Planning and Executing Joint Navigation Tasks in Autonomous Robot Soccer. In 5th International Workshop on RoboCup (Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences), 2001.
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  • Sebastian Buck, U. Weber, Michael Beetz, and Thorsten Schmitt. Multi Robot Path Planning for Dynamic Evironments: A case study. In Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2001.
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  • Thorsten Schmitt, Robert Hanek, Sebastian Buck, and Michael Beetz. Cooperative Probabilistic State Estimation for Vision-based Autonomous Mobile Robots. In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1630–1638, Maui, Hawaii, 2001.
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  • Thorsten Schmitt, Robert Hanek, Sebastian Buck, and Michael Beetz. Cooperative Probabilistic State Estimation fo Vision-based Autonomous Soccer Robots. In RoboCup International Symposium 2001, Seattle, USA, 2001.
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  • Thorsten Schmitt, Sebastian Buck, and Michael Beetz. AGILO RoboCuppers 2001: Utility- and Plan-based Action Selection based on Probabilistically Estimated Game Situations. In 5th International Workshop on RoboCup (Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences), Springer Verlag, 2001.
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  • Michael Beetz, Tom Arbuckle, Thorsten Belker, Maren Bennewitz, Armin Cremers, Dirk Hähnel, and Dirk Schulz. Enabling Autonomous Robots to Perform Complex Tasks. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz; Special Issue on Autonomous Robots, 2000.
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  • Michael Beetz. Concurrent Reactive Plans: Anticipating and Forestalling Execution Failures, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Publishers, 2000.
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  • Michael Beetz. Plan-based Control of Robotic Agents. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Bonn, 2000. Habilitationsschrift, eingereicht im Oktober 2000.
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  • Michael Beetz, Jürgen Schumacher, Armin Cremers, Bernd Hellingrath, and Christian Mazzocco. Perspectives on Plan-based Multiagent Systems for Distributed Supply Chain Management in the Steel Industry. In Proceedings of the ECAI2000 Workshop on Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios in Logistics, 2000.
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  • Michael Beetz and Henrik Grosskreutz. Probabilistic Hybrid Action Models for Predicting Concurrent Percept-driven Robot Behavior. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on AI Planning Systems, AAAI Press, 2000.
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  • Michael Beetz. Runtime Plan Adaptation in Structured Reactive Controllers. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 2000.
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  • Sebastian Thrun, Michael Beetz, Maren Bennewitz, Armin Cremers, Frank Dellaert, Dieter Fox, Dirk Hähnel, Charles Rosenberg, Nicholas Roy, Jamieson Schulte, and Dirk Schulz. Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva. International Journal of Robotics Research, 2000.
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  • Michael Beetz, Maren Bennewitz, and Henrik Grosskreutz. Probabilistic, Prediction-based Schedule Debugging for Autonomous Robot Office Couriers. In Proceedings of the 23rd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 99), Springer Verlag, Bonn, Germany, 1999.
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  • Michael Beetz. Structured Reactive Controllers - A computational Model of Everyday Activity. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 228–235, 1999.
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  • Michael Beetz, Markus Giesenschlag, Roman Englert, Eberhard Gülch, and Armin Cremers. Semi-automatic Acquisition of Symbolically-annotated 3D Models of Office Environments. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-99), 1999.
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  • M. Beetz and H. Grosskreutz. Causal Models of Mobile Service Robot Behavior. In Fourth International Conference on AI Planning Systems, pp. 163–170, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
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  • Michael Beetz and Maren Bennewitz. Planning, Scheduling, and Plan Execution for Autonomous Robot Office Couriers. In Proceedings of the workshop ``Integrating Planning, Scheduling and Execution in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments'' at the Fourth International Conference on AI in Planning Systems (AIPS), AAAI Press, 1998.
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  • Michael Beetz, Tom Arbuckle, Armin Cremers, and Markus Mann. Transparent, Flexible, and Resource-adaptive Image Processing for Autonomous Service Robots. In Procs. of the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98), pp. 632–636, 1998.
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  • Michael Beetz and Hanno Peters. Structured Reactive Communication Plans - Integrating Conversational Actions into High-level Robot Control Systems. In Proceedings of the 22nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 98), Bremen, Germany, Springer Verlag, 1998.
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  • Michael Beetz, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, and Armin Cremers. Integrating Active Localization into High-level Control Systems. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 23:205–220, 1998.
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  • M. Beetz and D. McDermott. Expressing Transformations of Structured Reactive Plans. In Recent Advances in AI Planning. Proceedings of the 1997 European Conference on Planning, pp. 64–76, Springer Publishers, 1997.
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  • M. Beetz and D. McDermott. Fast Probabilistic Plan Debugging. In Recent Advances in AI Planning. Proceedings of the 1997 European Conference on Planning, pp. 77–90, Springer Publishers, 1997.
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  • M. Beetz and D. McDermott. Local Planning of Ongoing Activities. In Third International Conference on AI Planning Systems, pp. 19–26, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996.
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  • M. Beetz and D. McDermott. Improving Robot Plans During Their Execution. In Second International Conference on AI Planning Systems, pp. 3–12, Morgan Kaufmann, 1994.
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  • M. Beetz and D. McDermott. Declarative Goals in Reactive Plans. In First International Conference on AI Planning Systems, pp. 3–12, Morgan Kaufmann, 1992.
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Robot Learning

State Estimation

Robocup

Vision

Robot Vision

Robot Mapping

  • Radu Bogdan Rusu, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow, Mihai Dolha, and Michael Beetz. Towards 3D Point Cloud Based Object Maps for Household Environments. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Semantic Knowledge), 2008.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Radu Bogdan Rusu, Brian Gerkey, and Michael Beetz. Robots in the kitchen: Exploiting ubiquitous sensing and actuation. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Network Robot Systems), 2008.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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), 2007.
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  • Derik Schröter and Michael Beetz. RG Mapping: Building Object-Oriented Representations of Structured Human Environments. In 6-th Open Russian-German Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Image Understanding (OGRW), Katun/Russia, 2004. Best Paper Award
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  • D. Schröter and M. Beetz. Acquiring Modells of Rectangular Objects for Robot Maps. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), New Orleans/USA, 2004.
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  • D. Schröter, T. Weber, M. Beetz, and B. Radig. Detection and Classification of Gateways for the Acquisition of Structured Robot Maps. In Proc. of 26th Pattern Recognition Symposium (DAGM), Tübingen/Germany, 2004.
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  • D. Schröter, M. Beetz, and J.-S. Gutmann. RG Mapping: Learning Compact and Structured 2D Line Maps of Indoor Environments. In 11th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), Berlin/Germany, 2002.
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Game Analysis

Image Understanding

Robotics

  • Radu Bogdan Rusu, Zoltan Csaba Marton, Nico Blodow, Mihai Dolha, and Michael Beetz. Towards 3D Point Cloud Based Object Maps for Household Environments. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Semantic Knowledge), 2008.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Radu Bogdan Rusu, Brian Gerkey, and Michael Beetz. Robots in the kitchen: Exploiting ubiquitous sensing and actuation. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Network Robot Systems), 2008.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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), 2007.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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Activity Recognition

  • 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. Accepted for publication