Publications

Publications 2004

Publications 2005

Publications 2005

 Rachid Alami , Aurélie Clodic, Vincent Montreuil , Emrah Akin Sisbot , Raja Chatila, Task planning for human-robot interaction , Invited paper. Smart Objects & Ambient Intelligence (sOc-EUSAI'2005), Grenoble (France), 12-14 Octobre 2005, pp.81-85

Aris Alissandrakis, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Joe Saunders , Achieving corresponding effects on multiple robotic platforms : imitating in context using different effect metrics . Third International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, part of the AISB05 convention, 12-14 April 2005, Hatfield UK

Aris Alissandrakis, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Joe Saunders, An Approach for Programming Robots by Demonstration: Generalization Across Different Initial Configurations of Manipulated Objects, CIRA2005 - 6th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA05), Espoo, Finland, June 27-30, 2005 

Sylvain Argentieri, Patrick Danès, Philippe Soueres, and Pierre Lacroix, An Experimental Testbed for Sound Source Localization with Mobile Robots using Optimized Wideband Beamformers , IROS'05, August 2005, Edmonton, Canada, pp. 909--914

Sylvain Argentieri, Patrick Danès, Philippe Soueres, Prototyping Filter-Sum Beamformers for Sound Source Localization in Mobile Robotics , ICRA'05

Bakker, B., Zivkovic, Z, and Kröse, B. , Hierarchical Dynamic Programming for Robot Path Planning , IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Canada, 2005

Booij O., Zivkovic Z., Krose B. , Pruning the image set for appearance based robot localization, Conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, the Netherlands, June 2005

R te Boekhorst, M Walters, K L Koay, K Dautenhahn, C Nehaniv (2005), A Study of a Single Robot Interacting with Groups of Children in a Rotation Game Scenario, Proc. IEEE CIRA 2005.

Ludovic Brethes, Frédéric Lerasle, Patrick Danès, Data fusion for visual tracking dedicated to human-robot interaction, ICRA 2005

Calinon, Sylvain and Billard, Aude,  Recognition and Reproduction of Gestures using a Probabilistic Framework combining PCA, ICA and HMM. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning, Bonn, Germany, 2005.

Aurélie Clodic, Sara Fleury, Rachid Alami, Mathieu Herrb, Raja Chatila, Supervision and interaction. Analysis from an autonomous tour-guide robot deployment, ICAR2005.

Aurelie Clodic, Vincent Montreuil, Rachid Alami and Raja Chatila, A Decisional Framework for Autonomous Robots Interacting with Humans, to appear in 14th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 05)

Efrain Lopez-Damian, Daniel Sidobre, and Rachid Alami, Grasp Planning for Non-Convex Objects , 36th International Symposium on Robotics- ISR2005, Nov-Dec 2005, Tokyo, Japan. (ISR05 BEST PAPER AWARD)

Kerstin Dautenhahn, Sarah Woods, Christina Kaouri, Mick Walters, Kheng Lee Koay, Iain Werry , What is a Robot Companion - Friend, Assistant or Butler?. IROS2005

Nicolas Do Huu, Williams Paquier, Raja Chatila, Combining structural description and image-based representation for image, object, and scene recognition, IJCAI 2005

Markus Finke, Kheng Lee Koay, Kerstin Dautenhahn,Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Michael L. Walters and Joe Saunders, Hey, I'm over here - How can a robot attract people's attention, ROMAN05.

J. Fritsch, B. Wrede, G. Sagerer, Bringing it all together: Integration to study embodied interaction with a robot companion, AISB Creative Robotics Symposium 2005.  

 A. Haasch, N. Hofemann, J .Fritsch, G. Sagerer, A Multi-Modal Object Attention System for a Mobile Robot,Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2005

Bart Jansen, Bart de Boer, Tony Belpaeme, You did it on purpose ! Towards intentional embodied agents, In Iida, F., Pfeifer, R., Steels, L.and Kuniyoshi, Y. (eds.) Embodied Artificial Intelligence. LNCS/AI series vol. 3139:271-277. Springer, Berlin.

Jansen, Bart, ten Thij, Tom, Belpaeme, Tony, De Vylder, Bart and de Boer, Bart (2004) Imitation in embodied agents results in self-organization of behavior. In Schaal, S., Ijspeert, A.J., Billard, A., Vijayakumar, S., Hallam, J. and Meyer, J.-A. (eds.) From animals to animats 8. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 455-466.

Bart Jansen, Goal level imitation with emergent repertoires, AISB05, 12-15 April 2005, Hatfield, England.

Gradje Klaassen, Wojtek Zajdel, Ben Krose, Speech-based localization of multiple persons for an interface robot . IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA) 2005.

Steffen Knoop, Stefan Vacek, and Rüdiger Dillmann, Modeling Joint Constraints for an Articulated 3D Human Body Model with Artificial Correspondences in ICP , International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2005), Tsukuba , Japan

 Jens Kubacki, Björn Giesler, Christopher Parlitz: Active Autonomous Object Modelling for Recognition and Manipulation: Towards a Unified Object Model and Learning Cycle. Autonome mobile Systeme 8./9.12.2005, Stuttgart and published in Autonome Mobile Systeme 2005, Springer (joint paper IPA - UniKarl)

Jens Kubacki & Kai Pfeiffer: Using Range Imaging Sensors with Color Imaging Sensors in Cognitive Robot Companions: A New and Simple Calibration Technique Based on Particle Swarm Optimization, Proc. 1st Range Imaging Day, pp. 43-58, Zuerich, 2005.

 K L Koay, M L. Walters, K Dautenhahn (2005) Methodological Issues using a Comfort Level Device in Human-Robot Interactions. Proc. IEEE Ro-man.

Shuyin Li, Axel Haasch, Britta Wrede, Jannik Fritsch, Gerhard Sagerer. Human-style interaction with a robot for cooperative learning of scene objects. Int. Conf. on Multi-modal Interfaces (ICMI2005)

Efrain Lopez-Damian, Daniel Sidobre, Rachid Alami, A grasp planner based on inertial properties, ICRA 2005

 B. Möller, S. Posch, A. Haasch, J. Fritsch, G. Sagerer Interactive Object Learning for Robot Companions using Mosaic Images . Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005)

C. L. Nehaniv, Classifying Gestures and Inferring Intent, submitted to AISB2005, In: Proc.  AISB'05 Symposium on Robot Companions: Hard Problems and Open Challenges in Robot-Human Interaction, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour

Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn Jens Kubacki, Martin Haegele, Christopher Parlitz, Rachid Alami, A Methodological Approach relating the Classification of Gesture to Identification of Human Intent in the Context of Human-Robot Interaction, IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2005).
(joint paper UH - IPA - LAAS)

 Nguyen, V.T. , Martinelli, A. and Siegwart, R. (2005) Handling the Inconsistency of Relative Map Filter . In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA, Barcelona , Spain.

Michael Pardowitz, RaoulZöllner, Rüdiger Dillmann, Learning sequential Constraints of Tasks from User Demonstrations, EEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS), Tsukuba , Japan 

Joe Saunders, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn, An Examination of the Static to Dynamic Imitation Spectrum. AISB05 convention, 12-14 April 2005, Hatfield UK

Steels, Luc and Belpaeme, Tony, Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language, Accepted as target article for Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Adriana Tapus, Shrihari Vasudevan and Roland Siegwart, Towards a Multilevel Cognitive Probabilistic Representation of Space, In the proceedings of the International Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X, part of the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2005, 16-20 January 2005, CA, USA (HVEI 2005)

E.A.Topp and H.I.Christensen, Tracking for Following and Passing Persons, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, August 2005, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Ioannis Toptsis, Axel Haasch, Sonja Hüwel, Jannik Fritsch, Gernot A. Fink, Modality Integration and Dialog Management for a Robotic Assistant, Interspeech 2005, Lisboa

 Stefan Vacek, Steffen Knoop, Rüdiger Dillmann, Classifying Human Activities in Household Environments, IJCAI'05, Edinburgh, Scotland

Michael L Walters, Kerstin Dautenhahn, René te Boekhorst, Kheng Lee Koay, Christina Kaouri, Sarah Woods, Chrystopher Nehaniv, David Lee, Iain Werry, The Influence of Subject's Personality Traits on Personal Spatial Zones in a Human-Robot Interaction Experiment, ROMAN05.

 Michael L Walters, S. Woods, K. L. Koay, K. Dautenhahn, Practical and methodological challenges in designing and conducting human-robot interaction studies, Accepted for publication in Proc. AISB'05 Symposium Robot Companions: Hard Problems and Open Challenges in Robot-Human Interaction

S. Woods, K. Dautenhahn, C. Kaouri (2005) Is Someone Watching Me? ­ Consideration of Social Facilitation Effects in Human-Robot Interaction Experiments. Proc. IEEE CIRA 2005.

W.Zajdel, Z.Zivkovic and B.Krose, Keeping track of humans: have I seen this person before?, ICRA 2005, Barcelona, Spain, 2005

Zivkovic, Z, Bakker, B., and Kröse, B. , Hierarchical Map Building Using Visual Landmarks and Geometric Constraints , IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Canada, 2005

Raoul Zöllner , Michael Pardowitz, Steffen Knoop, Rüdiger Dillmann, Towards cognitive Robots: Building hierarchical Task Representations of Manipulations from human Demonstration , ICRA 2005, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.


Publications 2004

Are listed below (in alphabetical order) the COGNIRON publications for the year 2004. Most papers are available directly on each partners' publications webpage.

Raja Chatila,The Cognitive Robot Companion and the European 'Beyond Robotics Initiative', accepted for "6th EAJ International Symposium "Living with Robots" October 4 and 5, 2004, Tokyo, Japan".

Kerstin Dautenhahn (2004), Robots We Like to Live With?! -A Developmental Perspective on a Personalized, Life-Long Robot Companion, Invited paper, Proc. IEEE Ro-man 2004, 13th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication September 20-22, 2004 Kurashiki, Okayama Japan, IEEE Press, pp. 17-22.

Bart De Vylder, Bart Jansen and Tony Belpaeme, Embodied cognition through cultural interactions, in Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modelling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Genova, Italy. Lund University Cognitive Studies, volume 117, p. 141-142.

Jannik Frisch et al., A Flexible Infrastructure for the Development of a Robot Companion with Extensible HRI-Capabilities, Accepted for ICRA05, April 18-22 2005, Barcelona, Spain.

Axel Haasch, Sascha Hohenner, Sonja Huewel, Marcus Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, Ioannis Toptsis, Gernot A. Fink, Jannik Fritsch, Britta Wrede, and Gerhard Sagerer, BIRON -- The Bielefeld Robot Companion, accepted for ASER 2004 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Service Robots, Stuttgart, May 21, 2004.

Nils Hofemann, Jannik Fritsch and Gerhard Sagerer , Recognition of Deictic Gestures with Context, Submitted to DAGM'04: 26th Pattern Recognition Symposium.

Marcus Kleinehagenbrock, Jannik Fritsch, Gerhard Sagerer, Supporting Advanced Interaction Capabilities on a Mobile Robot with a Flexible Control System, accepted for IROS 2004 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, 2004.

Steffen Knoop, Stefan Vacek, Raoul Zöllner, Christian Au,Rüdiger Dillmann, A CORBA-based distributed software architecture for control of service robots, Submitted to IROS 2004 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, 2004.

Shuyin Li, Marcus Kleinehagenbrock, Jannik Frisch, Britta Wrede, Gerhard Sagerer, "Biron, Let me show you something" : Evaluating the Interaction with a Robot Companion", accepted for IEEE SMC, Special session on Human-Robot Interaction.

Adriana Tapus, Shrihari Vasudevan and Roland Siegwart (Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL/LSA), EPFL, Switzerland), Towards a Multilevel Cognitive Probabilistic Representation of Space, The proceedings of the International Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X (HVEI 2005), part of the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2005, 16-20 January 2005, CA, USA.

Ioannis Toptsis, Shuyin Li, Britta Wrede, Gernot A Fink, A Multi-modal Dialog System for a Mobile Robot, accepted for INTERSPEECH 2004 (ICSLP), 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, October 4-8, 2004, Jeju Island, Korea.

Stefan Vacek, Steffen Knoop, Raoul Zöllner, Rüdiger Dillmann, A framework for goal-directed, capability-based visual perception, Submitted to RO-MAN 04.

Britta Wrede, Axel Haasch, Nils Hofemann, Sascha Hohenner, Sonja Hüweln M. Kleinenhagenbrock, S. Lang, Shuyin Li, Ioannis Topsis, Gernot A. Fink, Jannik Fritsch, Gerhard Sagerer, Research Issues for Designing Robot Companions : BIRON as a case study, Accepted for MECHROB 04, September 13-15, 2004, Aachen, Germany.

W.Zajdel, Zoran Zivkovic and Ben Krose. Keeping track of humans: have I seen this person before? Accepted for ICRA 2005, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

Zoran Zivkovic, Improved Adaptive Gaussian Mixture Model for Background Subtraction, Submitted to ICPR 2004, 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cambridge, UK, 23-26 August 2004.

Zoran Zivkovic, Ben Kröse, An EM-like algorithm for color-histogram-based object tracking, Submitted to IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , Washington, USA, June 2004.

Zoran Zivkovic, Ben Krose, A probabilistic model for an EM-like object tracking algorithm using color-histograms, 6th IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (in connection with ECCV2004), May, 2004.