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CRAM

A framework for cognitive robot abstract architectures to perform high-level tasks.

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PyCRAM

PyCRAM is a toolbox for designing, implementing and deploying software on autonomous robots. The framework provides various tools and libraries for aiding in robot software development as well as geometric reasoning and fast simulation mechanisms to develop cognition-enabled control programs that achieve high levels of robot autonomy.

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KnowRob

A knowledge-processing system for autonomous robots that integrates symbolic and geometric reasoning.

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RoboKudo

An open-source platform for task planning, execution, and monitoring in robotic systems.

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Giskard

A powerful framework for motion planning and control in high-dimensional robotic spaces.

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Joint Probability Trees

Joint Probability Trees (short JPTs) are a formalism for learning of and reasoning about joint probability distributions, which is tractable for practical applications.

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Probalistic Models

The Probalistic Model package contains fast and flexible implementations for various probabilistic models. This package provides a clean, unifying and well documented API to probabilistic models. Just like sklearn does for classical machine learning models.

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Random-Events

The package is designed to provide a simple and flexible way to generate events that are suitable for probabilistic reasoning in a python.

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NaivPhys4RP - Dark Perception

Perception as inner realistic world construction that anticipates and explains the world state as well as observations in an explainable manner, with reasonable computational resources. NaivPhys4RP is a white-box and causal generative model of perception

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2025

Conference

  1. Huerkamp, Malte, Dhanabalachandran, Kaviya, Pomarlan, Mihai, Stelter, Simon and Beetz, Michael, "A Modular Framework for Knowledge-Based Servoing: Plugging Symbolic Theories into Robotic Controllers", In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1, pp. 886–897, 2025.

  2. Beetz, Michael, Huerkamp, Malte, Picklum, Mareike, Zhang, Jianwei and Lakemeyer, Gerhard, "AI-Powered and Cognition-Enabled Robotics: Advancing Autonomy and Human-Robot Collaboration", In 1st German Robotics Conference (GRC), 2025. 

  3. Beetz, Michael, Huerkamp, Malte, Hassouna, Vanessa, Kümpel, Michaela, Zhan, Yanxiang, Niedzwiecki, Arthur, Gandyra, Max, Hawkin, Alina, Nguyen, Giang and Picklum, Mareike, "Virtual Research Building: Accelerating Collaborative Robotics Research and Innovation", In 1st German Robotics Conference (GRC), 2025.

  4. Kenghagho Kenfack, Franklin, Weibel, Jean-Baptiste, Aloui, Saifeddine, Prada, Miguel, Neumann, Michael, Dubois, Clémence, Raveendran, Nirmal, Grossard, Mathieu, Remazeilles, Anthony, Vincze, Markus and Beetz, Michael, "RobAuditor — A Methodology for Scalable and Context-Adaptive Task Execution Verification in Safety-Critical Robotic Processes", In , vol. , no. , pp. Submitted, 2025.

  5. Kümpel, Michaela, "Enhancing Cognitive Robotics with Actionable Knowledge Graphs: A Framework for Context-Aware Reasoning", In 1st German Robotics Conference (GRC), 2025.

  6. Kümpel, Michaela and Dech, Jonas, "Semantic Digital Twins for Omni-Channel Localisation", In Proceedings of the 11th IFAC MIM Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control, 2025.

  7. Maldonado, Jaime, Huerkamp, Malte, Krumme, Jonas, Zetzsche, Christoph and Beetz, Michael, "Robot Pouring: Modeling and Sim-to-Real Evaluation Using Causal Discovery", In Proceedings of the European Robotics Forum 2025 (Accepted for publication), 2025.

  8. Mania, Patrick, Neumann, Michael, Kenghagho Kenfack, Franklin and Beetz, Michael, "Towards Autonomous Verification: Integrating Cognitive AI and Semantic Digital Twins in Medical Robotics", In 2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025. Accepted for publication

  9. Beetz, Michael, Niedzwiecki, Arthur and Picklum, Mareike, "Semantic Verification through Mental Simulation of Generated Control Sequences for Autonomous Cognitive Household Robots", In 1st German Robotics Conference (GRC), 2025.

  10. Pekarek-Rosin, Theresa, Hassouna, Vanessa, Sun, Xiaowen, Krohm, Luca, Kordt, Henri-Leon, Beetz, Michael and Wermter, Stefan, "A Framework for Adapting Human-Robot Interaction to Diverse User Groups", In Social Robotics, vol. , no. , pp. 24–38, 2025.

  11. Alt, Benjamin, Kienle, Claudius, Katic, Darko, Jäkel, Rainer and Beetz, Michael, "Shadow Program Inversion with Differentiable Planning: A Framework for Unified Robot Program Parameter and Trajectory Optimization", In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, Atlanta, USA, 2025.

 

2024

Journal

  1. MARLIN: A cloud integrated robotic solution to support intralogistics in retail ,[Dennis Mronga, Andreas Bresser, Fabias Maas genannt Bermpohl, Adrian Danzglock, Simon Stelter, Alina Hawkin, Giang Nguyen, Michael Beetz and Frank Kirchner],(Robotics and Autonomous Systems)
  2. Action Selection in Everyday Activities: The Opportunistic Planning Model ,[Wenzl, Petra and Schultheis, Holger],(Cognitive Science)

Conference

  1. Hassouna, Vanessa, Huerkamp, Malte and Beetz, Michael, "Task-Critical Motion Patterns in Task Planning and Motion Control for Household Manipulation Tasks", In ICRA40 – 40th Anniversary of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024. In press.

  2. Kenghagho, Franklin Kenfack, Neumann, Michael, Mania, Patrick and Beetz, Michael, "Perception through Cognitive Emulation: 'A Second Iteration of NaivPhys4RP for Learningless and Safe Recognition and 6D-Pose Estimation of (Transparent) Objects'", In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 7679–7685, 2024.

  3. Kümpel, Michaela, Vyas, Abhijit, Hassouna, Vanessa and Beetz, Michael, "Task Learning Using Actionable Knowledge Graphs", In ICRA40 – 40th Anniversary of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024.

  4. Kümpel, Michaela, Töberg, Jan-Phillip, Hassouna, Vanessa, Cimiano, Phillip and Beetz, Michael, "Towards a Knowledge Engineering Methodology for Flexible Robot Manipulation in Everyday Tasks", In Actionable Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robots (AKR³) at European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2024. 

  5. Mania, Patrick, Stelter, Simon, Kazhoyan, Gayane and Beetz, Michael, "An Open and Flexible Robot Perception Framework for Mobile Manipulation Tasks", In 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.

  6. Nguyen, Giang, Beßler, Daniel, Stelter, Simon, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael, "Translating Universal Scene Descriptions into Knowledge Graphs for Robotic Environment", In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 9389–9395, 2024.

  7. Niedzwiecki, Arthur, Jongebloed, Sönke, Zhan, Yanxiang, Kümpel, Michaela, Syrbe, Jan, Beetz, Michael, "Cloud-based Digital Twin for Cognitive Robotics", In IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), pp. 1–5, 2024,

  8. Syrbe, Jan, Rümenapp, Tim, Wenzl, Paul, Kümpel, Michaela, Beetz, Michael, Niedzwiecki, Arthur, "Interactive E-Learning Environment for Cognitive Robotics", In IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), pp. 01–09, 2024. 

  9. Alt, Benjamin, Dvorak, Julia, Katic, Darko, Jäkel, Rainer, Beetz, Michael and Lanza, Gisela, "BANSAI: Towards Bridging the AI Adoption Gap in Industrial Robotics with Neurosymbolic Programming", In Procedia CIRP, Elsevier B.V., vol. 130, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, pp. 532–537, 2024.

  10. Alt, Benjamin, Zahn, Johannes, Kienle, Claudius, Dvorak, Julia, May, Marvin, Katic, Darko, Jäkel, Rainer, Kopp, Tobias, Beetz, Michael and Lanza, Gisela, "Human-AI Interaction in Industrial Robotics: Design and Empirical Evaluation of a User Interface for Explainable AI-Based Robot Program Optimization", In Procedia CIRP, Elsevier B.V., vol. 130, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, pp. 591–596, 2024. 

  11. Alt, Benjamin, Stöckl, Florian, Müller, Silvan, Braun, Christopher, Raible, Julian, Alhasan, Saad, Rettig, Oliver, Ringle, Lukas, Katic, Darko, Jäkel, Rainer, Beetz, Michael, Strand, Marcus and Huber, Marco F., "RoboGrind: Intuitive and Interactive Surface Treatment with Industrial Robots", In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 1–8, 2024. 

Workshop

  1. Hassouna, Vanessa, Hawkin, Alina and Beetz, Michael, "Steps Towards Generalized Manipulation Action Plans - Tackling Mixing Task", In Workshop on Actionable Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robots (AKR^3) at Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), May 27, 2024, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 2024
  2. Kümpel, Michaela and Töberg, Jan-Philipp, "Creating and Accessing Knowledge Graphs for Action Parameterisation", In EKAW 2024: EKAW 2024 Workshops, Tutorials, Posters and Demos, 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2024), November 26-28, 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2024. 
  3. Transforming Web Knowledge into Actionable Knowledge Graphs for Robot Manipulation Tasks ,[Beetz, Michael, Cimiano, Philipp, Kümpel, Michaela, Motta, Enrico, Tiddi, Ilaria and Töberg, Jan-Philipp],(ESWC 2024 Workshops and Tutorials Joint Proceedings, May 26-27, Heraklion, Greece)
  4. Translating Actionable Knowledge Graphs into Robot Action Execution ,[Beetz, Michael, Cimiano, Philipp, Kümpel, Michaela, Motta, Enrico, Tiddi, Ilaria and Töberg, Jan-Philipp],(HHAI-WS 2024: Workshops at the Third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI), June 10-11, Malmö, Sweden)
  5. Between Input and Output: The Importance of Modelling Transients in Meal Preparation Tasks ,[Kümpel, Michaela, Hassouna, Vanessa, Hawkin, Alina and Beetz, Michael],(Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) - Episode X: The Tukker Zomer of Ontology, and satellite events co-located with the 14th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2024), July 15-19, Enschede, The Netherlands)
2023

Conference

  1. Towards a Neuronally Consistent Ontology for Robotic Agents ,[Ahrens, Florian, Pomarlan, Mihai, Beßler, Daniel, Fehr, Thorsten, Beetz, Michael and Herrmann, Manfred],(ECAI 2023)
  2. Robotic Shopping Assistance for Everyone: Dynamic Query Generation on a Semantic Digital Twin as a Basis for Autonomous Shopping Assistance ,[Michaela Kümpel, Jonas Dech, Alina Hawkin and Michael Beetz],(Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023))
  3. ProductKG: A Product Knowledge Graph for User Assistance in Daily Activities ,[Kümpel, Michaela and Beetz, Michael],(Ontology Showcase and Demonstrations Track, co-located with FOIS 2023, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)
  4. Retail SemDT Collection Knowledge-base, A Platform Architecture ,[Nils Leusmann, Glareh Mir, Giang Nguyen, Simon Stelter, Kaviya Dhanabalachandran, Cagatay Odabasi, Maik Malki, Alina Hawkin, Felix Bazlen and Michael Beetz],(2023 IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC))
  5. Towards an Ontology for Robot Introspection and Metacognition ,[Robin Nolte, Mihai Pomarlan, Daniel Beßler, Robert Porzel, Rainer Malaka and John Bateman],(Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference, FOIS 2023, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)
  6. Joint Probability Trees ,[Daniel Nyga, Mareike Picklum, Tom Schierenbeck and Michael Beetz],(Arxiv.org)

Workshop

  1. Towards a Neuronally Consistent Ontology for Robotic Agents ,[Ahrens, Florian, Pomarlan, Mihai, Beßler, Daniel, Fehr, Thorsten, Beetz, Michael and Herrmann, Manfred],(ECAI 2023)
  2. Robotic Shopping Assistance for Everyone: Dynamic Query Generation on a Semantic Digital Twin as a Basis for Autonomous Shopping Assistance ,[Michaela Kümpel, Jonas Dech, Alina Hawkin and Michael Beetz],(Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023))
  3. ProductKG: A Product Knowledge Graph for User Assistance in Daily Activities ,[Kümpel, Michaela and Beetz, Michael],(Ontology Showcase and Demonstrations Track, co-located with FOIS 2023, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)
  4. Retail SemDT Collection Knowledge-base, A Platform Architecture ,[Nils Leusmann, Glareh Mir, Giang Nguyen, Simon Stelter, Kaviya Dhanabalachandran, Cagatay Odabasi, Maik Malki, Alina Hawkin, Felix Bazlen and Michael Beetz],(2023 IEEE Smart World Congress (SWC))
  5. Towards an Ontology for Robot Introspection and Metacognition ,[Robin Nolte, Mihai Pomarlan, Daniel Beßler, Robert Porzel, Rainer Malaka and John Bateman],(Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference, FOIS 2023, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada)
  6. Joint Probability Trees ,[Daniel Nyga, Mareike Picklum, Tom Schierenbeck and Michael Beetz],(Arxiv.org)

Other

  1. The CRAM Cognitive Architecture for Robot Manipulation in Everyday Activities ,[Michael Beetz, Gayane Kazhoyan and David Vernon],(undefined)
2022

Journal

  1. Improving Object Pose Estimation by Fusion With a Multimodal Prior – Utilizing Uncertainty-Based CNN Pipelines for Robotics ,[Richter-Klug, Jesse, Mania, Patrick, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Beetz, Michael and Frese, Udo],(IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters)
  2. Human Lower Limb Motion Capture and Recognition Based on Smartphones ,[Duan, Lin-Tao, Lawo, Michael, Wang, Zhi-Guo and Wang, Hai-Ying],(Sensors)

Conference

  1. Robotizing the Sterility Testing Process: Scientific Challenges for Bringing Agile Robots into the Laboratory ,[Remazeilles, Anthony, Rasines, Irati, Fernandez, Asier, Neumann, Maike, Beetz, Michael, Grossard, Mathieu, Hellingman, Clive, Coulon, Carl-Helmut, Cichon, Torben, Gosselin, Florian and Vincze, Markus],(ROBOT2022: Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference)
  2. The Downgrading Axioms Challenge for Qualitative Composition of Food Ingredients ,[Krieg-Brückner, Bernd, Nolte, Mark Robin, Pomarlan, Mihai and Kümpel, Michaela],(SemREC 2022, 2nd Semantic Reasoning Evaluation Challenge 2022)
  3. Simulation-Based Debugging of Formal Environment Models ,[Tim Meywerk, Arthur Niedzwiecki, Vladimir Herdt and Rolf Drechsler],(30th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2022, Vouliagmeni, Greece)

Book

  1. Robots Collecting Data: Modelling Stores ,[Beetz, Michael, Stelter, Simon, Beßler, Daniel, Dhanabalachandran, Kaviya, Neumann, Michael, Mania, Patrick and Haidu, Andrei],(undefined)
  2. Robotic Clerks: Autonomous Shelf Refilling ,[Cavallo, Alberto, Costanzo, Marco, De Maria, Giuseppe, Natale, Ciro, Pirozzi, Salvatore, Stelter, Simon, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Koralewski, Sebastian and Beetz, Michael],(undefined)

Other

  1. Ontological representation of activity context for flexible robot task execution ,[Daniel Beßler],(undefined)
2021

Journal

  1. Semantic Digital Twins for Retail Logistics ,[Kümpel, Michaela and Mueller, Christian A. and Beetz, Michael],(Chapter in Dynamics in Logistics: Twenty-Five Years of Interdisciplinary Logistics Research in Bremen, Germany)

Conference

  1. Cutting Events: Towards Autonomous Plan Adaption by Robotic Agents through Image-Schematic Event Segmentation ,[Dhanabalachandran, Kaviya, Hassouna, Vanessa, Hedblom, Maria M., Kümpel, Michaela, Leusmann, Nils and Beetz, Michael],(In Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference)
  2. Robot Program Parameter Inference via Differentiable Shadow Program Inversion ,[Benjamin Alt, Darko Katic, Rainer Jäkel, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Michael Beetz],(In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
  3. Foundations of the Socio-physical Model of Activities (SOMA) for Autonomous Robotic Agents ,[Daniel Beßler, Robert Porzel, Mihai Pomarlan, Abhijit Vyas, Sebastian Höffner, Michael Beetz, Rainer Malaka and John Bateman],(In Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, FOIS 2021)
  4. Automated acquisition of structured, semantic models of manipulation activities from human VR demonstration ,[Andrei Haidu and Michael Beetz],(In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
  5. Knowledge-enabled generation of semantically annotated image sequences of manipulation activities from VR demonstrations ,[Andrei Haidu, Xiaoyue Zhang and Michael Beetz],(In 13th International Conference on Computer Vision System (ICVS))
  6. The Robot Household Marathon Experiment ,[Gayane Kazhoyan, Simon Stelter, Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Sebastian Koralewski and Michael Beetz],(In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
  7. Imagination-enabled Robot Perception ,[Patrick Mania, Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Michael Neumann and Michael Beetz],(In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS))
  8. Planning and Action Organization in Ill-Defined Tasks: The Case of Everyday Activities ,[Wenzl, Petra and Schultheis, Holger],(In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society)

Workshop

  1. FailRecOnt – An Ontology-based Framework for Failure Interpretation and Recovery in Planning and Execution ,[Mohammed Diab, Mihai Pomarlan, Stefano Borgo, Daniel Beßler, Jan Rosell, John Bateman and Michael Beetz],(In Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops co-located with the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BOSK 2021))
  2. URoboSim — a simulation-based predictive modelling engine for cognition-enabled robot manipulation ,[Michael Neumann, Andrei Haidu and Michael Beetz],(In 2nd Embodied AI Workshop (CVPR))
  3. Inferring dispositions from Object Shape and Material with physics game engine modelling ,[Abhijit Vyas, Daniel Beßler and Michael Beetz],(In RobOntics workshop)

Other

  1. Prolog as a Querying Language for MongoDB ,[Daniel Beßler, Sascha Jongebloed and Michael Beetz],(undefined)
  2. Realizing Trustworthiness in Linked Data Applications Based on Individual Data Source Trust Assessment. ,[Michaela Kümpel and Michael Beetz],(undefined)
2020

Journal

  1. Manipulation Planning and Control for Shelf Replenishment ,[Costanzo, Marco, Stelter, Simon, Natale, Ciro, Pirozzi, Salvatore, Bartels, Georg, Maldonado, Alexis, and Beetz, Michael],(IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters)
  2. SkillMaN – A skill-based robotic manipulation framework based on perception and reasoning ,[Diab, Mohammed, Pomarlan, Mihai, Beßler, Daniel, Akbari, Aliakbar, Rosell, Jan, Bateman, John, and Beetz, Michael],(Robotics and Autonomous Systems)

Conference

  1. A Formal Model of Affordances for Flexible Robotic Task Execution ,[Beßler, Daniel, Porzel, Robert, Pomarlan, Mihai, Beetz, Michael, Malaka, Rainer, and Bateman, John],(Proc. of the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI))
  2. Towards Plan Transformations for Real-World Mobile Fetch and Place ,[Gayane Kazhoyan, Arthur Niedzwiecki, and Michael Beetz],(IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
  3. Learning Motion Parameterizations of Mobile Pick and Place Actions from Observing Humans in Virtual Environments ,[Gayane Kazhoyan, Alina Hawkin, Sebastian Koralewski, Andrei Haidu, and Michael Beetz],(IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS))
  4. RobotVQA — A Scene-Graph- and Deep-Learning-based Visual Question Answering System for Robot Manipulation ,[Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Feroz Ahmed Siddiky, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, and Michael Beetz],(IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS))
  5. Optimality and Space in Weakly Constrained Everyday Activities ,[Wenzl, Petra, and Schultheis, Holger],(Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society)

Workshop

  1. Using Linked Data to Help Robots Understand Product-related Actions ,[Kümpel, Michaela, de Groot, Anna, Tiddi, Ilaria, and Beetz, Michael],(JOWO 2020, The Joint Ontology Workshops)

Other

  1. Task Adaptable, Pervasive Perception for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation ,[Ferenc Balint-Benczedi],(undefined)
  2. Foundations of the Socio-physical Model of Activities (SOMA) for Autonomous Robotic Agents ,[Beßler, Daniel, Robert Porzel, Mihai Pomarlan, Abhijit Vyas, Sebastian Höffner, Michael Beetz, Rainer Malaka, and John Bateman],(undefined)
  3. The Robot Household Marathon Experiment ,[Gayane Kazhoyan, Simon Stelter, Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Sebastian Koralewski, and Michael Beetz],(undefined)
  4. Imagination-enabled Robot Perception ,[Patrick Mania, Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Michael Neumann, and Michael Beetz],(undefined)
2019

Journal

  1. MatCALO: Knowledge-enabled machine learning in materials science ,[Mareike Picklum and Michael Beetz],(Computational Materials Science)
  2. From Research to Market: Building the Perception Systems for the Next Generation of Industrial Robots – Interview with Dr. Michael Suppa, CEO and Founder of the Startup Roboception ,[Bartels, Georg, and Beetz, Michael],(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz)
  3. Perception-guided Mobile Manipulation Robots for Automation of Warehouse Logistics – Interview with Dr. Moritz Tenorth, CTO of the Startup Magazino ,[Bartels, Georg, and Beetz, Michael],(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz)
  4. Episodic Memories for Safety-Aware Robots – Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robots that Safely Interact with Human Co-Workers ,[Bartels, Georg, Beßler, Daniel and Beetz, Michael],(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz)
  5. Foundational Models for Manipulation Activity Parsing ,[Beßler, Daniel, Porzel, Robert, Pomarlan Mihai and Beetz, Michael],(Chapter in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality – Changing Realities in a Dynamic World, Springer)
  6. Information System for Storage, Management and Usage for Embodied Intelligent Agents ,[Beßler, Daniel, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan and Beetz, Michael],(Chapter in Information Storage from a multi-disciplinary perspective, Springer)
  7. Self-specialization of General Robot Plans Based on Experience ,[Koralewski, Sebastian, Kazhoyan, Gayane and Beetz, Michael],(Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE)
  8. Cognition-enabled Robotic Wiping: Representation, Planning, Execution, and Interpretation ,[Leidner, Daniel, Bartels, Georg, Bejjani, Wissam, Albu-Schäffer, Alin and Beetz, Michael],(Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier)
  9. A Review and Comparison of Ontology-based Approaches to Robot Autonomy ,[Olivares-Alarcos, Alberto, Beßler, Daniel, Khamis, Alaa, Goncalves, Paulo, Habib, Maki, Bermejo, Julita, Barreto, Marcos, Diab, Mohammed, Rosell, Jan, Quintas, João, Olszewska, Joanna, Nakawala, Hirenkumar, Pignaton, Edison, Gyrard, Amelie, Borgo, Stefano, Alenyà, Guillem, Beetz, Michael and Li, Howard],(The Knowledge Engineering Review, Cambridge University Press)
  10. Cut & recombine: reuse of robot action components based on simple language instructions ,[Minija Tamosiunaite, Mohamad Javad Aein, Jan Matthias Braun, Tomas Kulvicius, Irena Markievicz, Jurgita Kapociute-Dzikiene, Rita Valteryte, Andrei Haidu, Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Barry Ridge, Tomas Krilavicius, Daiva Vitkute-Adzgauskiene, Michael Beetz, Ole Madsen, Ales Ude, Norbert Krüger and Florentin Wörgötter],(The International Journal of Robotics Research)
  11. Query-based Integration of Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases for Search and Rescue Tasks ,[Yazdani, Fereshta, Blumenthal, Sebastian, Huebel, Nico, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Beetz, Michael and Bruyninckx, Herman],(Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), Elsevier)

Conference

  1. Continuous Modeling of Affordances in a Symbolic Knowledge Base ,[Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Furuta, Yuki, Okada, Kei, Beetz, Michael and Inaba, Masayuki],(IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS))
  2. An Ontology for Failure Interpretation in Automated Planning and Execution ,[Diab, Mohammed, Pomarlan, Mihai, Beßler, Daniel, Abkari, Aliakbar, Rossel, Jan, Bateman, John and Beetz, Michael],(Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference)
  3. Adapting Everyday Manipulation Skills to Varied Scenarios ,[Pawel Gajewski, Paulo Ferreira, Georg Bartels, Chaozheng Wang, Frank Guerin, Bipin Indurkhya, Michael Beetz and Bartlomiej Sniezynski],(International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
  4. Automated Models of Human Everyday Activity based on Game and Virtual Reality Technology ,[Andrei Haidu and Michael Beetz],(International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
  5. Accomplishing Variations of Mobile Manipulation Actions through Generalized Robot Plans ,[Gayane Kazhoyan and Michael Beetz],(Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems)
  6. Executing Underspecified Actions in Real World Based on Online Projection ,[Gayane Kazhoyan and Michael Beetz],(IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS))
  7. A Framework for Self-Training Perceptual Agents in Simulated Photorealistic Environments ,[Patrick Mania and Michael Beetz],(International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
2018

Journal

  1. Adapting Everyday Manipulation Skills to Varied Scenarios ,[Gajewski, Pawel, Ferreira, Paulo, Bartels, Georg, Wang, Chaozheng, Guerin, Frank, Indurkhya, Bipin, Beetz, Michael and Sniezynski, Bartlomiej],(arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.02743)
  2. Cloud-based Probabilistic Knowledge Services for Instruction Interpretation ,[Nyga, Daniel and Beetz, Michael],(Chapter in Robotics Research, Springer)
  3. Multidimensional Time Series Shapelets Reliably Detect and Classify Contact Events in Force Measurements of Wiping Actions ,[Stelter, Simon, Bartels, Georg, and Beetz, Michael],(Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE)
  4. The Exchange of Knowledge using Cloud Robotics ,[Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Furuta, Yuki, Stelter, Simon, Beetz, Michael, Okada, Kei and Inaba, Masayuki],(Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE)

Conference

  1. Variations on a Theme: 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards' ,[Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc and Beetz, Michael],(International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)
  2. KnowRob 2.0 – A 2nd Generation Knowledge Processing Framework for Cognition-enabled Robotic Agents ,[Michael Beetz, Daniel Beßler, Andrei Haidu, Mihai Pomarlan, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Georg Bartels],(International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
  3. OWL-enabled Assembly Planning for Robotic Agents ,[Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael],(Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Autonomous Agents)
  4. Assembly Planning in Cluttered Environments through Heterogeneous Reasoning ,[Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai, Akbari, Aliakbar, Muhayyuddin, Diab, Mohammed, Rosell, Jan, Bateman, John and Beetz, Michael],(41st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Springer)
  5. The Exchange of Knowledge using Cloud Robotics ,[Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Furuta, Yuki, Stelter, Simon, Beetz, Michael, Okada, Kei and Inaba, Masayuki],(International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA))
  6. 6DoF Pose Estimation for Industrial Manipulation based on Synthetic Data ,[Brucker, Manuel, Durner, Maximilian, Márton, Zoltan-Csaba, Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Sundermeyer, Martin and Triebel, Rudolph],(International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER))
  7. Reasoning Systems for Semantic Navigation in Mobile Robots ,[Crespo, Jonathan, Barber, Ramon, Mozos, Oscar, Beßler, Daniel and Beetz, Michael],(International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems)
  8. KNOWROB-SIM — Game Engine-enabled Knowledge Processing for Cognition-enabled Robot Control ,[Haidu, Andrei, Beßler, Daniel, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan and Beetz, Michael],(International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS))
  9. Grounding Robot Plans from Natural Language Instructions with Incomplete World Knowledge ,[Nyga, Daniel, Roy, Subhro, Paul, Rohan, Park, Daehyung, Pomarlan, Mihai, Beetz, Michael and Roy, Nicholas],(2nd Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2018))
  10. Cognition-enabled Framework for Mixed Human-Robot Rescue Team ,[Yazdani, Fereshta, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Haidu, Andrei, Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael],(International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS))

Workshop

  1. Towards a Photorealistic Learning Infrastructure for Human Activities ,[Mona Abdel-Keream, Michael Beetz, Patrick Mania and Jose Rojas],(IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS))
  2. Knowledge Representation for Cognition- and Learning-enabled Robot Manipulation ,[Beßler, Daniel, Koralewski, Sebastian and Beetz, Michael],(Proc. 11th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (CogRob 2018), AAAI Press)
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