3-D perception and modeling

3D data collection at Disaster City at the 2008 NIST Response Robot Evaluation Exercise (RREE)

3D forward sensor modeling and application to occupancy grid based sensor fusion

A Characterization of 3D Sensors for Response Robots

A Fuzzy Controller for Autonomous Negotiation of Stairs by a Mobile Robot with Adjustable Tracks

A Novel Approach to Efficient Error Correction for the SwissRanger Time-of-Flight 3D Camera

article

A Robotics Course during COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Online Teaching beyond the Pandemic

scientific article published in 2020

A networking framework for teleoperation in safety, security, and rescue robotics

A quantitative assessment of structural errors in grid maps

A short overview of recent advances in map evaluation

scholarly article published November 2012

Advances in underwater mapping and their application potential for Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)

An N-player prisoner’s dilemma in a robotic ecosystem

scholarly article in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 39 no. 3-4, June 2002

An efficient strategy for data exchange in multi-robot mapping under underwater communication constraints

Anticipation and attention for robust object recognition with RGBD-data in an industrial application scenario

Augmented autonomy: Improving human-robot team performance in Urban search and rescue

Automated species counting using a hierarchical classification approach with Haar cascades and multi-descriptor random forests

article

Beyond points: Evaluating recent 3D scan-matching algorithms

Boosting cooperation by evolving trust

article by Andreas Birk published September 2000 in Applied Artificial Intelligence

CADDY Project, Year 1: Overview of Technological Developments and Cooperative Behaviours★

scientific article published in 2015

CADDY Project, Year 2: The First Validation Trials**This work is supported by the European Commission under the FP7-ICT project "CADDY - Cognitive Autonomous Diving Buddy" Grant Agreement No. 611373

scientific article published in 2016

CADDY project, year 3: The final validation trials

CADDY—Cognitive Autonomous Diving Buddy: Two Years of Underwater Human-Robot Interaction

Creating Photo Maps with an Aerial Vehicle in USARsim

Determining Map Quality through an Image Similarity Metric

DexROV: Dexterous Undersea Inspection and Maintenance in Presence of Communication Latencies

DexROV: Enabling effective dexterous ROV operations in presence of communication latency

Dexterous Undersea Interventions with Far Distance Onshore Supervision: the DexROV Project

Distributed Communicative Exploration under underwater communication constraints

EU project MORPH: Current Status After 3 Years of Cooperation Under and Above Water

scientific article published in 2015

Editorial: Safety, security, and rescue robotics special issue

Efficient Representation in Three-Dimensional Environment Modeling for Planetary Robotic Exploration

journal article; published in Advanced Robotics in 2010

Efficient continuous system integration and validation for deep-sea robotics applications

Efficiently communicating map updates with the pose graph

Evaluation of map quality by matching and scoring high-level, topological map structures

scholarly article published May 2013

Evaluation of the robustness of planar-patches based 3D-registration using marker-based ground-truth in an outdoor urban scenario

Exploration Strategies for a Robot with a Continously Rotating 3D Scanner

Extraction of Semantic Floor Plans from 3D Point Cloud Maps

scholarly article published September 2007

Extraction of quadrics from noisy point-clouds using a sensor noise model

Fast 3D mapping by matching planes extracted from range sensor point-clouds

Fast 6-DOF path planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) based on 3D plane mapping

Fast Detection of Polygons in 3D Point Clouds from Noise-Prone Range Sensors

Fast Registration Based on Noisy Planes With Unknown Correspondences for 3-D Mapping

Fast and robust photomapping with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Fast plane detection and polygonalization in noisy 3D range images

article published in 2008

Fitting superquadrics in noisy, partial views from a low-cost RGBD sensor for recognition and localization of sacks in autonomous unloading of shipping containers

Full 3D navigation correction using low frequency visual tracking with a stereo camera

Fully Autonomous Operations of a Jacobs Rugbot in the RoboCup Rescue Robot League 2006

Future RAS Support for Summer Schools [Education]

article

Generalized graph SLAM: Solving local and global ambiguities through multimodal and hyperedge constraints

Hierarchical graph-based discovery of non-primitive-shaped objects in unstructured environments

Hough based terrain classification for realtime detection of drivable ground

Incorporating large scale SSRR scenarios into the high fidelity simulator USARSim

Initial results of cooperative AUV exploration in a high-fidelity simulation using real-world data from Monte da Guia, Azores

Large-scale image mosaicking using multimodal hyperedge constraints from multiple registration methods within the Generalized Graph SLAM framework

Large-scale mosaicking with spectral registration based simultaneous localization and mapping (iFMI-SLAM) in the Ligurian Sea

Map evaluation using matched topology graphs

Maximum likelihood mapping with spectral image registration

scholarly article published May 2010

Merging Occupancy Grid Maps From Multiple Robots

Modeling underwater acoustic communications for multi-robot missions in a robotics simulator

Multi-robot exploration under the constraints of wireless networking

Multi-robot exploration with AUVs on cliffs and other 3D structures with a predominant orientation

No More Heavy Lifting: Robotic Solutions to the Container Unloading Problem

Object recognition and localization for robust grasping with a dexterous gripper in the context of container unloading

Object recognition in RGBD images of cluttered environments using graph-based categorization with unsupervised learning of shape parts

Object shape categorization in RGBD images using hierarchical graph constellation models based on unsupervisedly learned shape parts described by a set of shape specificity levels

On map merging

article by Stefano Carpin et al published October 2005 in Robotics and Autonomous Systems

On-board control in the RoboCup small robots league

journal article; published in Advanced Robotics in 2001

Online generation of an underwater photo map with improved Fourier Mellin based registration

article published in 2009

Online three-dimensional SLAM by registration of large planar surface segments and closed-form pose-graph relaxation

Optimized Octtree Datastructure and Access Methods for 3D Mapping

Overview of the FP7 project “CADDY — Cognitive Autonomous Diving Buddy”

scientific article published in May 2015

Physics-based damage-aware manipulation strategy planning using Scene Dynamics Anticipation ⬇️

article

Plane-based registration of sonar data for underwater 3D mapping

article published in 2010

Planetary Exploration in USARsim: A Case Study Including Real World Data from Mars

Preface

Programming with behavior-processes

scholarly article in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 39 no. 3-4, June 2002

Propose an RAS Summer School [Education]

article

Recognition and Localization of Sacks for Autonomous Container Unloading by Fitting Superquadrics in Noisy, Partial Views from a Low-cost RGBD Sensor

Reconnaissance and camp security missions with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) at the 2009 European Land Robots Trials (ELROB)

Representing and solving local and global ambiguities as multimodal and hyperedge constraints in a generalized graph SLAM framework

Rescue robotics — a crucial milestone on the road to autonomous systems

journal article; published in Advanced Robotics in 2006

Revisiting Superquadric Fitting: A Numerically Stable Formulation

scientific article published on 04 December 2017

Revisiting uncertainty analysis for optimum planes extracted from 3D range sensor point-clouds

RoboGuard, a teleoperated mobile security robot

Robotic bridge inspection within strategic flood evacuation planning

Robotic bridge statics assessment within strategic flood evacuation planning using low-cost sensors

Robotics in edutainment

Robust 3D object modeling with a low-cost RGBD-sensor and AR-markers for applications with untrained end-users

Robust estimation of camera-tilt for iFMI based underwater photo-mapping using a calibrated monocular camera

Safety, Security, and Rescue Missions with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Scale-Free Registrations in 3D: 7 Degrees of Freedom with Fourier Mellin SOFT Transforms

Seafloor classification for mine countermeasures operations using synthetic aperture sonar images

Segmentation and classification using active contours based superellipse fitting on side scan sonar images for marine demining

Simultaneous localization and mapping with multimodal probability distributions

Spectral 6DOF registration of noisy 3D range data with partial overlap

scientific article published in April 2013

Spectral registration of noisy sonar data for underwater 3D mapping

Spectral registration of volume data for 6-DOF spatial transformations plus scale

Stereo-vision based diver pose estimation using LSTM recurrent neural networks for AUV navigation guidance

Sub-pixel depth accuracy with a time of flight sensor using multimodal Gaussian analysis

Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) without Navigation: Scan Registration as Basis for Near Field Synthetic Imaging in 2D

scientific article published on 09 August 2020

The CO 3 AUVs (Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) project: Overview and current progresses

scientific article published in June 2011

The ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge: Simulating Operations at the Lunar South Pole

scientific article published on 19 June 2013

The ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge: Simulating operations at the lunar south pole

scientific article published on 6 January 2012

The European Project MORPH: Distributed UUV Systems for Multimodal, 3D Underwater Surveys

scientific article published in July 2016

The European R&D-Project MORPH: Marine robotic systems of self-organizing, logically linked physical nodes

scientific article published in 2012

The MORPH concept and its application in marine research

scientific article published in June 2013

The MORPH project: Actual results

scientific article published in May 2015

The Pinax-model for accurate and efficient refraction correction of underwater cameras in flat-pane housings

The True Spirit of RoboCup [Education

article by Andreas Birk published December 2010 in IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

The jacobs robotics approach to object recognition and localization in the context of the ICRA'11 Solutions in Perception Challenge

Towards Cooperative and Decentralized Mapping in the Jacobs Virtual Rescue Team

Towards Object Classification Using 3D Sensor Data

Uncertainty analysis for optimum plane extraction from noisy 3D range-sensor point-clouds

Uncertainty estimation for a 6-DoF spectral registration method as basis for sonar-based underwater 3D SLAM

Uncertainty estimation of AR-marker poses for graph-SLAM optimization in 3D object model generation with RGBD data

Underwater place recognition in noisy stereo data using FAB-MAP with a multimodal vocabulary from 2D texture and 3D surface descriptors

Underwater stereo data acquisition and 3D registration with a spectral method

Using Different Humanoid Robots for Science Edutainment of Secondary School Pupils

Using a fiducial map metric for assessing map quality in the context of RoboCup Rescue

scholarly article published November 2011

Using fiducials in 3D map evaluation

Using iFMI spectral registration for video stabilization and motion detection by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

Using recursive spectral registrations to determine brokenness as measure of structural map errors

scholarly article published May 2010

Utilizing color information in 3D scan-registration using planar-patches matching

scholarly article published September 2012

Velvet fingers: Grasp planning and execution for an underactuated gripper with active surfaces

Visual diver detection using multi-descriptor nearest-class-mean random forests in the context of underwater Human Robot Interaction (HRI)

Visual speed adaptation for improved sensor coverage in a multi-vehicle survey mission

What is Robotics? An Interdisciplinary Field Is Getting Even More Diverse [Education]

Where Else Do You See Cheering Crowds in a Classroom? [Education

article by Andreas Birk published September 2010 in IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine