Michael Beetz
199 publications
22 venues
H Index 47
Affiliation
University of Bremen, GermanyTechnical University Munich, Germany
University of Bonn, Germany
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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| Name | Venue | Year | citations |
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GRIM: Task-Oriented Grasping with Conditioning on Generative Examples.
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AAAI | 2026 | 0 |
| Towards Autonomous Verification: Integrating Cognitive AI and Semantic Digital Twins in Medical Robotics.
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ICRA | 2025 | 2 |
| Generating Actionable Robot Knowledge Bases by Combining 3D Scene Graphs with Robot Ontologies.
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IROS | 2025 | 0 |
| Robot manipulation in everyday activities with the CRAM 2.0 cognitive architecture and generalized action plans.
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Cognitive System Research | 2025 | 5 |
| Shadow Program Inversion with Differentiable Planning: A Framework for Unified Robot Program Parameter and Trajectory Optimization.
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ICRA | 2025 | 0 |
| MARLIN: A cloud integrated robotic solution to support intralogistics in retail.
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2024 | 5 |
| RoboGrind: Intuitive and Interactive Surface Treatment with Industrial Robots.
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ICRA | 2024 | 10 |
| Perception through Cognitive Emulation : "A Second Iteration of NaivPhys4RP for Learningless and Safe Recognition and 6D-Pose Estimation of (Transparent) Objects".
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ICRA | 2024 | 1 |
| An Open and Flexible Robot Perception Framework for Mobile Manipulation Tasks.
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ICRA | 2024 | 6 |
| Simulated Robotic Soft Body Manipulation.
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AAMAS | 2024 | 0 |
| Translating Universal Scene Descriptions into Knowledge Graphs for Robotic Environment.
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ICRA | 2024 | 0 |
| Towards a Neuronally Consistent Ontology for Robotic Agents.
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ECAI | 2023 | 1 |
| Robotic Shopping Assistance for Everyone: Dynamic Query Generation on a Semantic Digital Twin as a Basis for Autonomous Shopping Assistance.
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AAMAS | 2023 | 5 |
| Knowledge-Driven Robot Program Synthesis from Human VR Demonstrations.
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KR | 2023 | 2 |
| An open-source motion planning framework for mobile manipulators using constraint-based task space control with linear MPC.
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IROS | 2022 | 7 |
| Empirical Estimates on Hand Manipulation are Recoverable: A Step Towards Individualized and Explainable Robotic Support in Everyday Activities.
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AAMAS | 2022 | 2 |
| Heuristic-free Optimization of Force-Controlled Robot Search Strategies in Stochastic Environments.
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IROS | 2022 | 6 |
| NaivPhys4RP - Towards Human-like Robot Perception "Physical Reasoning based on Embodied Probabilistic Simulation".
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Humanoids | 2022 | 0 |
| Kineverse: A Symbolic Articulation Model Framework for Model-Agnostic Mobile Manipulation.
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | 2022 | 0 |
| Improving Object Pose Estimation by Fusion With a Multimodal Prior - Utilizing Uncertainty-Based CNN Pipelines for Robotics.
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | 2022 | 0 |
| Action Selection and Execution in Everyday Activities: A Cognitive Robotics and Situation Model Perspective.
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Topics in Cognitive Science | 2022 | 0 |
| Robot Program Parameter Inference via Differentiable Shadow Program Inversion.
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ICRA | 2021 | 10 |
| Automated acquisition of structured, semantic models of manipulation activities from human VR demonstration.
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ICRA | 2021 | 0 |
| The Robot Household Marathon Experiment.
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ICRA | 2021 | 0 |
| Imagination-enabled Robot Perception.
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IROS | 2021 | 0 |
| A Formal Model of Affordances for Flexible Robotic Task Execution.
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ECAI | 2020 | 39 |
| Learning Motion Parameterizations of Mobile Pick and Place Actions from Observing Humans in Virtual Environments.
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IROS | 2020 | 12 |
| SkillMaN - A skill-based robotic manipulation framework based on perception and reasoning.
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2020 | 22 |
| Towards Plan Transformations for Real-World Mobile Fetch and Place.
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ICRA | 2020 | 5 |
| RobotVQA - A Scene-Graph- and Deep-Learning-based Visual Question Answering System for Robot Manipulation.
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IROS | 2020 | 0 |
| Manipulation Planning and Control for Shelf Replenishment.
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | 2020 | 0 |
| Executing Underspecified Actions in Real World Based on Online Projection.
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IROS | 2019 | 11 |
| Self-Specialization of General Robot Plans Based on Experience.
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | 2019 | 16 |
| Continuous Modeling of Affordances in a Symbolic Knowledge Base.
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IROS | 2019 | 8 |
| A Framework for Self-Training Perceptual Agents in Simulated Photorealistic Environments.
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ICRA | 2019 | 22 |
| Cut & recombine: reuse of robot action components based on simple language instructions.
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IJRR | 2019 | 10 |
| Autonomous Parallelization of Resource-Aware Robotic Task Nodes.
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | 2019 | 4 |
| Automated Models of Human Everyday Activity based on Game and Virtual Reality Technology.
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ICRA | 2019 | 15 |
| Query-based integration of heterogeneous knowledge bases for search and rescue tasks.
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2019 | 4 |
| Cognition-enabled robotic wiping: Representation, planning, execution, and interpretation.
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2019 | 22 |
| Adapting Everyday Manipulation Skills to Varied Scenarios.
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ICRA | 2019 | 0 |
| Dempster-Shafer theoretic resolution of referential ambiguity.
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Autonomous Robots | 2019 | 0 |
| The Exchange of Knowledge Using Cloud Robotics.
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ICRA | 2018 | 2 |
| OWL-enabled Assembly Planning for Robotic Agents.
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AAMAS | 2018 | 26 |
| Multidimensional Time-Series Shapelets Reliably Detect and Classify Contact Events in Force Measurements of Wiping Actions.
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | 2018 | 8 |
| Configuration of Perception Systems via Planning Over Factor Graphs.
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ICRA | 2018 | 4 |
| Reasoning Systems for Semantic Navigation in Mobile Robots.
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IROS | 2018 | 8 |
| Design, Execution, and Postmortem Analysis of Prolonged Autonomous Robot Operations.
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | 2018 | 8 |
| Grounding Robot Plans from Natural Language Instructions with Incomplete World Knowledge.
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CoRL | 2018 | 47 |
| Cognition-enabled Framework for Mixed Human-Robot Rescue Teams.
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IROS | 2018 | 19 |
| Know Rob 2.0 - A 2nd Generation Knowledge Processing Framework for Cognition-Enabled Robotic Agents.
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ICRA | 2018 | 0 |
| Variations on a Theme: "It's a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards".
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IROS | 2018 | 0 |
| KnowRobSIM - Game Engine-Enabled Knowledge Processing Towards Cognition-Enabled Robot Control.
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IROS | 2018 | 0 |
| The Exchange of Knowledge Using Cloud Robotics.
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | 2018 | 0 |
| Instruction completion through instance-based learning and semantic analogical reasoning.
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ICRA | 2017 | 9 |
| Transferring skills to humanoid robots by extracting semantic representations from observations of human activities.
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Artificial Intelligence | 2017 | 138 |
| Cognition-enabled Task Interpretation for Human-Robot Teams in a Simulation-based Search and Rescue Mission.
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AAMAS | 2017 | 3 |
| Representations for robot knowledge in the KnowRob framework.
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Artificial Intelligence | 2017 | 167 |
| Task Parametrization through Multi-modal Analysis of Robot Experiences.
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AAMAS | 2017 | 9 |
| A cloud service for robotic mental simulations.
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ICRA | 2017 | 13 |
| Envisioning the qualitative effects of robot manipulation actions using simulation-based projections.
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Artificial Intelligence | 2017 | 61 |
| Deeper Understanding of Vague Instructions through Simulated Execution.
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AAMAS | 2017 | 4 |
| Programming robotic agents with action descriptions.
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IROS | 2017 | 16 |
| What no robot has seen before - Probabilistic interpretation of natural-language object descriptions.
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ICRA | 2017 | 0 |
| Robotic Agents Representing, Reasoning, and Executing Wiping Tasks for Daily Household Chores.
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AAMAS | 2016 | 38 |
| Inferring the effects of wiping motions based on haptic perception.
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Humanoids | 2016 | 15 |
| Knowledge-Enabled Robotic Agents for Shelf Replenishment in Cluttered Retail Environments: (Extended Abstract).
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AAMAS | 2016 | 14 |
| Action recognition and interpretation from virtual demonstrations.
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IROS | 2016 | 21 |
| Open robotics research using web-based knowledge services.
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ICRA | 2016 | 21 |
| Learning models for constraint-based motion parameterization from interactive physics-based simulation.
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IROS | 2016 | 24 |
| Knowledge-enabled parameterization of whole-body control strategies for compliant service robots.
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Autonomous Robots | 2016 | 45 |
| Robots Reasoning with Cuts and Connections: Creating and Removing Entities (Extended Abstract).
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AAMAS | 2016 | 0 |
| Scaling perception towards autonomous object manipulation - in knowledge lies the power.
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ICRA | 2016 | 0 |
| RoboSherlock: Unstructured information processing for robot perception.
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ICRA | 2015 | 90 |
| Robotic agents capable of natural and safe physical interaction with human co-workers.
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IROS | 2015 | 37 |
| Generalized Plan Design For Autonomous Mobile Manipulation in Open Environments.
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AAMAS | 2015 | 2 |
| Multi-robot 6D graph SLAM connecting decoupled local reference filters.
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IROS | 2015 | 42 |
| Learning action failure models from interactive physics-based simulations.
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IROS | 2015 | 21 |
| Towards robots conducting chemical experiments.
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IROS | 2015 | 25 |
| Robots, Pancakes, and Computer Games: Designing Serious Games for Robot Imitation Learning.
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CHI | 2015 | 8 |
| Cloud-Based Probabilistic Knowledge Services for Instruction Interpretation.
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ISRR | 2015 | 20 |
| How to Use OpenEASE: An Online Knowledge Processing System for Robots and Robotics Researchers (Demonstration).
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AAMAS | 2015 | 6 |
| Pervasive 'Calm' Perception for Autonomous Robotic Agents.
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AAMAS | 2015 | 10 |
| Rendering semantically-annotated experiment videos out of robot memories.
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Humanoids | 2015 | 1 |
| Robot action plans that form and maintain expectations.
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IROS | 2015 | 13 |
| Open-EASE.
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ICRA | 2015 | 30 |
| A Knowledge-Based Approach to Robotic Perception using Unstructured Information Management.
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AAMAS | 2015 | 0 |
| Classifying compliant manipulation tasks for automated planning in robotics.
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IROS | 2015 | 32 |
| Automatic segmentation and recognition of human activities from observation based on semantic reasoning.
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IROS | 2014 | 35 |
| Controlled Natural Languages for language generation in artificial cognition.
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ICRA | 2014 | 12 |
| Bootstrapping humanoid robot skills by extracting semantic representations of human-like activities from virtual reality.
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Humanoids | 2014 | 21 |
| Learning task outcome prediction for robot control from interactive environments.
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IROS | 2014 | 9 |
| Knowledge-based Specification of Robot Motions.
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ECAI | 2014 | 22 |
| PR2 looking at things - Ensemble learning for unstructured information processing with Markov logic networks.
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ICRA | 2014 | 0 |
| Acquiring task models for imitation learning through games with a purpose.
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IROS | 2013 | 15 |
| Decomposing CAD models of objects of daily use and reasoning about their functional parts.
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IROS | 2013 | 34 |
| Tracking-based interactive segmentation of textureless objects.
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ICRA | 2013 | 43 |
| KnowRob: A knowledge processing infrastructure for cognition-enabled robots.
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IJRR | 2013 | 440 |
| Constraint-based movement representation grounded in geometric features.
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Humanoids | 2013 | 27 |
| Fast temporal projection using accurate physics-based geometric reasoning.
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ICRA | 2013 | 36 |
| Learning probability distributions over partially-ordered human everyday activities.
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ICRA | 2013 | 20 |
| Interactive environment exploration in clutter.
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IROS | 2013 | 30 |
| Automated alignment of specifications of everyday manipulation tasks.
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IROS | 2013 | 8 |
| The RoboEarth Language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments (Extended Abstract).
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IJCAI | 2013 | 0 |
| Real-time compression of point cloud streams.
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ICRA | 2012 | 346 |
| Robots that validate learned perceptual models.
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ICRA | 2012 | 8 |
| Everything robots always wanted to know about housework (but were afraid to ask).
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IROS | 2012 | 61 |
| A unified representation for reasoning about robot actions, processes, and their effects on objects.
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IROS | 2012 | 33 |
| Searching objects in large-scale indoor environments: A decision-theoretic approach.
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ICRA | 2012 | 50 |
| Improving robot manipulation through fingertip perception.
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IROS | 2012 | 57 |
| A generalized framework for opening doors and drawers in kitchen environments.
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ICRA | 2012 | 74 |
| Learning organizational principles in human environments.
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ICRA | 2012 | 38 |
| Semantic Object Maps for robotic housework - representation, acquisition and use.
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IROS | 2012 | 99 |
| The RoboEarth language: Representing and exchanging knowledge about actions, objects, and environments.
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ICRA | 2012 | 0 |
| Movement-aware action control - Integrating symbolic and control-theoretic action execution.
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ICRA | 2012 | 0 |
| Learning and Reasoning with Action-Related Places for Robust Mobile Manipulation.
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JAIR | 2012 | 0 |
| Multimodal autonomous tool analyses and appropriate application.
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Humanoids | 2011 | 9 |
| Parameterizing actions to have the appropriate effects.
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IROS | 2011 | 51 |
| Logic programming with simulation-based temporal projection for everyday robot object manipulation.
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IROS | 2011 | 35 |
| Fast adaptation for effect-aware pushing.
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Humanoids | 2011 | 27 |
| Robotic roommates making pancakes.
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Humanoids | 2011 | 247 |
| Transparent object detection and reconstruction on a mobile platform.
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ICRA | 2011 | 80 |
| How-models of human reaching movements in the context of everyday manipulation activities.
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ICRA | 2011 | 13 |
| Imitating human reaching motions using physically inspired optimization principles.
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Humanoids | 2011 | 88 |
| Simulation-based temporal projection of everyday robot object manipulation.
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AAMAS | 2011 | 58 |
| Autonomous semantic mapping for robots performing everyday manipulation tasks in kitchen environments.
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IROS | 2011 | 94 |
| Contracting curve density algorithm for applications in personal robotics.
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Humanoids | 2011 | 1 |
| Towards semantic robot description languages.
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ICRA | 2011 | 143 |
| Editorial.
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IJRR | 2011 | 0 |
| Combined 2D-3D categorization and classification for multimodal perception systems.
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IJRR | 2011 | 0 |
| Prediction of action outcomes using an object model.
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IROS | 2010 | 12 |
| Robotic grasping of unmodeled objects using time-of-flight range data and finger torque information.
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IROS | 2010 | 41 |
| Adaptive Markov Logic Networks: Learning Statistical Relational Models with Dynamic Parameters.
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ECAI | 2010 | 27 |
| ORO, a knowledge management platform for cognitive architectures in robotics.
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IROS | 2010 | 159 |
| Combining perception and knowledge processing for everyday manipulation.
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IROS | 2010 | 52 |
| Generality and legibility in mobile manipulation.
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Autonomous Robots | 2010 | 56 |
| Understanding and executing instructions for everyday manipulation tasks from the World Wide Web.
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ICRA | 2010 | 159 |
| Becoming action-aware through reasoning about logged plan execution traces.
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IROS | 2010 | 17 |
| Towards performing everyday manipulation activities.
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2010 | 50 |
| Perception and probabilistic anchoring for dynamic world state logging.
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Humanoids | 2010 | 41 |
| General 3D modelling of novel objects from a single view.
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IROS | 2010 | 140 |
| Hierarchical object geometric categorization and appearance classification for mobile manipulation.
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Humanoids | 2010 | 70 |
| KNOWROB-MAP - knowledge-linked semantic object maps.
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Humanoids | 2010 | 115 |
| Priming transformational planning with observations of human activities.
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ICRA | 2010 | 7 |
| CRAM - A Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine for everyday manipulation in human environments.
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IROS | 2010 | 0 |
| Partial view modeling and validation in 3D laser scans for grasping.
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Humanoids | 2009 | 23 |
| Real-time CAD model matching for mobile manipulation and grasping.
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Humanoids | 2009 | 89 |
| Real-time perception-guided motion planning for a personal robot.
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IROS | 2009 | 101 |
| Fast Point Feature Histograms (FPFH) for 3D registration.
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ICRA | 2009 | 4004 |
| Using Physics- and Sensor-based Simulation for High-Fidelity Temporal Projection of Realistic Robot Behavior.
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ICAPS | 2009 | 36 |
| Probabilistic categorization of kitchen objects in table settings with a composite sensor.
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IROS | 2009 | 56 |
| Reconstruction and Verification of 3D Object Models for Grasping.
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ISRR | 2009 | 42 |
| 3D model selection from an internet database for robotic vision.
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ICRA | 2009 | 56 |
| Close-range scene segmentation and reconstruction of 3D point cloud maps for mobile manipulation in domestic environments.
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IROS | 2009 | 235 |
| Compact models of motor primitive variations for predictable reaching and obstacle avoidance.
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Humanoids | 2009 | 31 |
| Equipping robot control programs with first-order probabilistic reasoning capabilities.
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ICRA | 2009 | 48 |
| Leaving Flatland: Toward real-time 3D navigation.
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ICRA | 2009 | 49 |
| Model-based and learned semantic object labeling in 3D point cloud maps of kitchen environments.
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IROS | 2009 | 154 |
| Fast geometric point labeling using conditional random fields.
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IROS | 2009 | 85 |
| Robust Real-Time Multiple Target Tracking.
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ACCV | 2009 | 5 |
| Combining analysis, imitation, and experience-based learning to acquire a concept of reachability in robot mobile manipulation.
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Humanoids | 2009 | 13 |
| Perception for mobile manipulation and grasping using active stereo.
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Humanoids | 2009 | 51 |
| On fast surface reconstruction methods for large and noisy point clouds.
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ICRA | 2009 | 226 |
| Action-related place-based mobile manipulation.
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IROS | 2009 | 29 |
| KNOWROB - knowledge processing for autonomous personal robots.
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IROS | 2009 | 0 |
| Positioning mobile manipulators to perform constrained linear trajectories.
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IROS | 2008 | 51 |
| Towards 3D Point cloud based object maps for household environments.
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2008 | 1132 |
| Combining declarative, procedural, and predictive knowledge to generate, execute, and optimize robot plans.
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2008 | 13 |
| Aligning point cloud views using persistent feature histograms.
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IROS | 2008 | 1067 |
| Functional object mapping of kitchen environments.
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IROS | 2008 | 31 |
| Robots in the kitchen: Exploiting ubiquitous sensing and actuation.
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2008 | 66 |
| Refining the Execution of Abstract Actions with Learned Action Models.
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JAIR | 2008 | 26 |
| Towards 3D object maps for autonomous household robots.
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IROS | 2007 | 113 |
| Visually Tracking Football Games Based on TV Broadcasts.
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IJCAI | 2007 | 56 |
| Seamless Execution of Action Sequences.
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ICRA | 2007 | 5 |
| Transformational Planning for Everyday Activity.
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ICAPS | 2007 | 24 |
| Action awareness: enabling agents to optimize, transform, and coordinate plans.
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AAMAS | 2006 | 8 |
| Camera-based observation of football games for analyzing multi-agent activities.
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AAMAS | 2006 | 55 |
| Implicit Coordination in Robotic Teams using Learned Prediction Models.
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ICRA | 2006 | 30 |
| Optimized Execution of Action Chains Using Learned Performance Models of Abstract Actions.
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IJCAI | 2005 | 22 |
| Probabilistic Hybrid Action Models for Predicting Concurrent Percept-driven Robot Behavior.
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JAIR | 2005 | 0 |
| Acquiring Models of Rectangular 3D Objects for Robot Maps.
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ICRA | 2004 | 13 |
| Motion and Episode Models for (Simulated) Football Games: Acquisition, Representation, and Use.
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AAMAS | 2004 | 11 |
| RPLLEARN: Extending an Autonomous Robot Control Language to Perform.
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AAMAS | 2004 | 0 |
| The AGILO Robot Soccer Team-Experience-Based Learning and Probabilistic Reasoning in Autonomous Robot Control.
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Autonomous Robots | 2004 | 0 |
| Designing probabilistic state estimators for autonomous robot control.
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IROS | 2003 | 3 |
| Fast image-based object localization in natural scenes.
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IROS | 2002 | 36 |
| The AGILO autonomous robot soccer team: computational principles, experiences, and perspectives.
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AAMAS | 2002 | 18 |
| Approximating the value function for continuous space reinforcement learning in robot control.
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IROS | 2002 | 11 |
| Learning action models for the improved execution of navigation plans.
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 2002 | 23 |
| Structured Reactive Controllers.
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Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems | 2001 | 36 |
| Cooperative probabilistic state estimation for vision-based autonomous mobile robots.
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IROS | 2001 | 153 |
| Multi-robot path planning for dynamic environments: a case study.
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IROS | 2001 | 21 |
| Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva.
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IJRR | 2000 | 622 |
| Autonomous Environment and Task Adaptation for Robotic Agents.
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ECAI | 2000 | 6 |
| Semi-Automatic Acquisition of Symbolically-Annotated 3D-Models of Office Environments.
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ICRA | 1999 | 4 |
| Controlling image processing: providing extensible, run-time configurable functionality on autonomous robots.
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IROS | 1999 | 2 |
| Integrating active localization into high-level robot control systems.
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Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 1998 | 31 |
| Transparent, Flexible, and Resource-adaptive Image Processing for Autonomous Service Robots.
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ECAI | 1998 | 19 |