Publications

The following list of publications describes parts of the KnowRob system or experimental systems that have been realized using KnowRob. If you would like to contribute a publication, please contact the KnowRob maintainers.

Book Chapters
2019
[2] Foundational Models for Manipulation Activity Parsing (, , and ), Chapter in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality – Changing Realities in a Dynamic World (Jung, Timothy, tom Dieck, M. Claudia, Rauschnabel, Philipp A., eds.), Springer, . [bibtex] [url]
[1] Information System for Storage, Management and Usage for Embodied Intelligent Agents (, and ), Chapter in Information Storage from a multi-disciplinary perspective (Drechsler, Rolf, Große, Cornelia, eds.), Springer, . [bibtex] [url]
Refereed Articles
2010
[13]Towards Automated Models of Activities of Daily Life (, and ), In Technology and Disability, IOS Press, volume 22, . [bibtex]
[12]Towards Performing Everyday Manipulation Activities (, and ), In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, volume 58, . [bibtex]
[11]Knowledge Representation for Cognitive Robots ( and ), In Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer, volume 24, . [bibtex]
2011
[10]Web-enabled Robots – Robots that Use the Web as an Information Resource (, and ), In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, volume 18, . [bibtex]
[9]RoboEarth - A World Wide Web for Robots (, , , , , , , , , , , and ), In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, volume 18, . [bibtex]
2012
[8]Cognition-Enabled Autonomous Robot Control for the Realization of Home Chore Task Intelligence (, , , , and ), In Proceedings of the IEEE, volume 100, . [bibtex]
[7]Cognition-Enabled Autonomous Robot Control for the Realization of Home Chore Task Intelligence (, , , , and ), In Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Quality of Life Technology, . [bibtex]
2013
[6]Representation and Exchange of Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments in the RoboEarth Framework (, , and ), In IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), volume 10, . [bibtex] [doi]
[5]KnowRob – A Knowledge Processing Infrastructure for Cognition-enabled Robots ( and ), In International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), volume 32, . [bibtex]
2015
[4] RoboEarth Semantic Mapping: A Cloud Enabled Knowledge-Based Approach (, , , , , , , , , and ), In IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), . [bibtex] [url]
[3]Open-EASE – A Cloud-Based Knowledge Service for Autonomous Learning (, , and ), In KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, . [bibtex] [doi]
2019
[2]Episodic Memories for Safety-Aware Robots – Knowledge Representation and Reasoning for Robots that Safely Interact with Human Co-Workers (, and ), In KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer, . [bibtex] [doi]
[1]A Review and Comparison of Ontology-based Approaches to Robot Autonomy (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and ), In The Knowledge Engineering Review, Cambridge University Press, volume 34, . [bibtex] [doi]
Refereed Conference Papers
2009
[40]Towards Automated Models of Activities of Daily Life (, and ), In First International Symposium on Quality of Life Technology – Intelligent Systems for Better Living, . [bibtex]
[39]Combining Analysis, Imitation, and Experience-based Learning to Acquire a Concept of Reachability (, , , and ), In 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, . [bibtex]
[38]KnowRob – Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Personal Robots (), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, . [bibtex]
[37]Visual Scene Detection and Interpretation using Encyclopedic Knowledge and Formal Description Logic (, and ), In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)., . [bibtex]
2010
[36]Understanding and Executing Instructions for Everyday Manipulation Tasks from the World Wide Web ( and ), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), . [bibtex]
[35]Combining Perception and Knowledge Processing for Everyday Manipulation (, and ), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), . [bibtex]
[34]CRAM – A Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine for Everyday Manipulation in Human Environments ( and ), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, . [bibtex]
[33]Priming Transformational Planning with Observations of Human Activities (), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), . [bibtex]
[32]Putting People's Common Sense into Knowledge Bases of Household Robots ( and ), In 33rd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2010), Springer, . [bibtex]
[31]KNOWROB-MAP – Knowledge-Linked Semantic Object Maps (, and ), In 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, . [bibtex]
2011
[30]How-Models of Human Reaching Movements in the Context of Everyday Manipulation Activities ( and ), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), . [bibtex]
[29]Autonomous Semantic Mapping for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation Tasks in Kitchen Environments (, , , , and ), In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), . [bibtex]
[28]Robotic Roommates Making Pancakes (, , , , , and ), In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, . [bibtex]
2012
[27]Exchange of Action-related Information among Autonomous Robots (), In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, . [bibtex]
[26]RoboEarth Action Recipe Execution (, , and ), In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, . [bibtex]
[25]Semantic Object Maps for Robotic Housework - Representation, Acquisition and Use (, and ), In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), . [bibtex]
[24]Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robot Control (), In AAAI Spring Symposium on Designing Intelligent Robots: Reintegrating AI, . [bibtex]
[23]The RoboEarth language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments (, and ), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), . [bibtex]
[22]A Unified Representation for Reasoning about Robot Actions, Processes, and their Effects on Objects (), In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), . [bibtex]
[21]Learning Organizational Principles in Human Environments (, and ), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), . [bibtex]
2013
[20]Action sequencing and error production in stroke patients with apraxia – Behavioral modeling using Bayesian Logic Networks (, , and ), In 6th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2013), . [bibtex]
[19]Learning Probability Distributions over Partially-Ordered Human Everyday Activities (, and ), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), . [bibtex]
[18]The RoboEarth Language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments (Extended Abstract) (, , and ), In 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013). Special track on Best Papers in Sister Conferences, . [bibtex]
[17]Decomposing CAD Models of Objects of Daily Use and Reasoning about their Functional Parts (, , and ), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), . [bibtex]
[16]Automated Alignment of Specifications of Everyday Manipulation Tasks (, and ), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), . [bibtex]
[15]Building Knowledge-enabled Cloud Robotics Applications using the Ubiquitous Network Robot Platform (, , , and ), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), . [bibtex]
[14]CRAMm – Memories for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation Activities (, , and ), In Second Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, . [bibtex]
2014
[13]Knowledge-based Specification of Robot Motions (, and ), In Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), . [bibtex]
2015
[12]Open-EASE – A Knowledge Processing Service for Robots and Robotics/AI Researchers (, and ), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), . [bibtex]
[11]Rendering Semantically-Annotated Experiment Videos out of Robot Memories (, and ), In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, . [bibtex]
2016
[10]Open Robotics Research Using Web-based Knowledge Services (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , and ), In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), . [bibtex]
2017
[9]Heterogeneous Ontologies and Hybrid Reasoning for Service Robotics: The EASE Framework (, , , and ), In Third Iberian Robotics Conference, . [bibtex]
2018
[8]KnowRob 2.0 – A 2nd Generation Knowledge Processing Framework for Cognition-enabled Robotic Agents (, , , , and ), In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), . [bibtex]
[7]OWL-enabled Assembly Planning for Robotic Agents (, and ), In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Autonomous Agents, . [bibtex]
[6]Assembly Planning in Cluttered Environments through Heterogeneous Reasoning (, , , , , , and ), In 41st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Springer, . [bibtex]
[5] Reasoning Systems for Semantic Navigation in Mobile Robots (, and ), In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain, October 1-5, 2018, IEEE, . [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[4]KNOWROB-SIM — Game Engine-enabled Knowledge Processing for Cognition-enabled Robot Control (, , and ), In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), . [bibtex] [doi]
[3]Cognition-enabled Framework for Mixed Human-Robot Rescue Team (, , , , , , and ), In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), . [bibtex]
2019
[2]An Ontology for Failure Interpretation in Automated Planning and Execution (, , , , , and ), In Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, . [bibtex]
2020
[1]A Formal Model of Affordances for Flexible Robotic Task Execution (, , , , and ), In Proc. of the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), . [bibtex]
Other Publications
2011
[2] Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robots (), PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, . [bibtex] [pdf]
2019
[1] Fast Robot Learning using Prospection and Experimental Knowledge : A Cognitive Approach with Narrative-Enabled Episodic Memories and Symbolic Knowledge (), PhD thesis, Universität Bremen, . [bibtex] [pdf]