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 (Beßler, Daniel, Porzel, Robert, Pomarlan Mihai and Beetz, Michael), Chapter in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality – Changing Realities in a Dynamic World (Jung, Timothy, tom Dieck, M. Claudia, Rauschnabel, Philipp A., eds.), Springer, 2019. [bibtex] [url]
[1]	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 (Drechsler, Rolf, Große, Cornelia, eds.), Springer, 2019. [bibtex] [url]

Refereed Articles

2010
[13]	Towards Automated Models of Activities of Daily Life (Michael Beetz, Moritz Tenorth and Dominik Jain), In Technology and Disability, IOS Press, volume 22, 2010. [bibtex]
[12]	Towards Performing Everyday Manipulation Activities (Michael Beetz, Dominik Jain and Lorenz Mösenlechner), In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, volume 58, 2010. [bibtex]
[11]	Knowledge Representation for Cognitive Robots (Moritz Tenorth and Dominik Jain), In Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer, volume 24, 2010. [bibtex]
2011
[10]	Web-enabled Robots – Robots that Use the Web as an Information Resource (Moritz Tenorth, Ulrich Klank and Dejan Pangercic), In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, volume 18, 2011. [bibtex]
[9]	RoboEarth - A World Wide Web for Robots (Markus Waibel, Michael Beetz, Raffaello D'Andrea, Rob Janssen, Moritz Tenorth, Javier Civera, Jos Elfring, Dorian Gálvez-López, Kai Häussermann, J.M.M. Montiel, Alexander Perzylo, Björn Schießle and Oliver Zweigle), In Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE, volume 18, 2011. [bibtex]
2012
[8]	Cognition-Enabled Autonomous Robot Control for the Realization of Home Chore Task Intelligence (Michael Beetz, Dominik Jain, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Moritz Tenorth, Lars Kunze and Nico Blodow), In Proceedings of the IEEE, volume 100, 2012. [bibtex]
[7]	Cognition-Enabled Autonomous Robot Control for the Realization of Home Chore Task Intelligence (Michael Beetz, Dominik Jain, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Lars Kunze, Moritz Tenorth and Nico Blodow), In Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Quality of Life Technology, 2012. [bibtex]
2013
[6]	Representation and Exchange of Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments in the RoboEarth Framework (Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz and Michael Beetz), In IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), volume 10, 2013. [bibtex] [doi]
[5]	KnowRob – A Knowledge Processing Infrastructure for Cognition-enabled Robots (Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz), In International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), volume 32, 2013. [bibtex]
2015
[4]	RoboEarth Semantic Mapping: A Cloud Enabled Knowledge-Based Approach (Luis Riazuelo, Moritz Tenorth, Daniel Di Marco, Marta Salas, Dorian Gálvez-López, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Lars Kunze, Michael Beetz, Juan D. Tardós, Luis Montano and J. M. M. Montiel), In IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 2015. [bibtex] [url]
[3]	Open-EASE – A Cloud-Based Knowledge Service for Autonomous Learning (Moritz Tenorth, Jan Winkler, Daniel Beßler and Michael Beetz), In KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, 2015. [bibtex] [doi]
2019
[2]	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), In KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, Springer, 2019. [bibtex] [doi]
[1]	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), In The Knowledge Engineering Review, Cambridge University Press, volume 34, 2019. [bibtex] [doi]

Refereed Conference Papers

2009
[40]	Towards Automated Models of Activities of Daily Life (Michael Beetz, Jan Bandouch and Dominik Jain), In First International Symposium on Quality of Life Technology – Intelligent Systems for Better Living, 2009. [bibtex]
[39]	Combining Analysis, Imitation, and Experience-based Learning to Acquire a Concept of Reachability (Freek Stulp, Andreas Fedrizzi, Franziska Zacharias, Moritz Tenorth and Jan Bandouch), In 9th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2009. [bibtex]
[38]	KnowRob – Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Personal Robots (Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. [bibtex]
[37]	Visual Scene Detection and Interpretation using Encyclopedic Knowledge and Formal Description Logic (Dejan Pangercic, Rok Tavcar and Moritz Tenorth), In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)., 2009. [bibtex]
2010
[36]	Understanding and Executing Instructions for Everyday Manipulation Tasks from the World Wide Web (Moritz Tenorth and Daniel Nyga), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010. [bibtex]
[35]	Combining Perception and Knowledge Processing for Everyday Manipulation (Dejan Pangercic, Moritz Tenorth and Dominik Jain), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010. [bibtex]
[34]	CRAM – A Cognitive Robot Abstract Machine for Everyday Manipulation in Human Environments (Michael Beetz and Lorenz Mösenlechner), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010. [bibtex]
[33]	Priming Transformational Planning with Observations of Human Activities (Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010. [bibtex]
[32]	Putting People's Common Sense into Knowledge Bases of Household Robots (Lars Kunze and Moritz Tenorth), In 33rd Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2010), Springer, 2010. [bibtex]
[31]	KNOWROB-MAP – Knowledge-Linked Semantic Object Maps (Moritz Tenorth, Lars Kunze and Dominik Jain), In 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2010. [bibtex]
2011
[30]	How-Models of Human Reaching Movements in the Context of Everyday Manipulation Activities (Daniel Nyga and Moritz Tenorth), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011. [bibtex]
[29]	Autonomous Semantic Mapping for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation Tasks in Kitchen Environments (Nico Blodow, Lucian Cosmin Goron, Zoltan-Csaba Marton, Dejan Pangercic, Thomas Rühr and Moritz Tenorth), In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011. [bibtex]
[28]	Robotic Roommates Making Pancakes (Michael Beetz, Ulrich Klank, Ingo Kresse, Alexis Maldonado, Lorenz Mösenlechner, Dejan Pangercic and Thomas Rühr), In 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2011. [bibtex]
2012
[27]	Exchange of Action-related Information among Autonomous Robots (Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz), In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2012. [bibtex]
[26]	RoboEarth Action Recipe Execution (Daniel di Marco, Moritz Tenorth, Kai Häussermann and Oliver Zweigle), In 12th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, 2012. [bibtex]
[25]	Semantic Object Maps for Robotic Housework - Representation, Acquisition and Use (Dejan Pangercic, Moritz Tenorth and Benjamin Pitzer), In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012. [bibtex]
[24]	Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robot Control (Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz), In AAAI Spring Symposium on Designing Intelligent Robots: Reintegrating AI, 2012. [bibtex]
[23]	The RoboEarth language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments (Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo and Reinhard Lafrenz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bibtex]
[22]	A Unified Representation for Reasoning about Robot Actions, Processes, and their Effects on Objects (Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz), In 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012. [bibtex]
[21]	Learning Organizational Principles in Human Environments (Martin Schuster, Dominik Jain and Moritz Tenorth), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. [bibtex]
2013
[20]	Action sequencing and error production in stroke patients with apraxia – Behavioral modeling using Bayesian Logic Networks (Charmayne Mary Lee Hughes, Moritz Tenorth, Marta Bienkiewicz and Joachim Hermsdörfer), In 6th International Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF 2013), 2013. [bibtex]
[19]	Learning Probability Distributions over Partially-Ordered Human Everyday Activities (Moritz Tenorth, Fernando De la Torre and Michael Beetz), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013. [bibtex]
[18]	The RoboEarth Language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments (Extended Abstract) (Moritz Tenorth, Alexander Clifford Perzylo, Reinhard Lafrenz and Michael Beetz), In 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013). Special track on Best Papers in Sister Conferences, 2013. [bibtex]
[17]	Decomposing CAD Models of Objects of Daily Use and Reasoning about their Functional Parts (Moritz Tenorth, Stefan Profanter, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi and Michael Beetz), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013. [bibtex]
[16]	Automated Alignment of Specifications of Everyday Manipulation Tasks (Moritz Tenorth, Johannes Ziegltrum and Michael Beetz), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013. [bibtex]
[15]	Building Knowledge-enabled Cloud Robotics Applications using the Ubiquitous Network Robot Platform (Moritz Tenorth, Koji Kamei, Satoru Satake, Takahiro Miyashita and Norihiro Hagita), In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013. [bibtex]
[14]	CRAMm – Memories for Robots Performing Everyday Manipulation Activities (Jan Winkler, Moritz Tenorth, Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu and Michael Beetz), In Second Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, 2013. [bibtex]
2014
[13]	Knowledge-based Specification of Robot Motions (Moritz Tenorth, Georg Bartels and Michael Beetz), In Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2014. [bibtex]
2015
[12]	Open-EASE – A Knowledge Processing Service for Robots and Robotics/AI Researchers (Michael Beetz, Moritz Tenorth and Jan Winkler), In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015. [bibtex]
[11]	Rendering Semantically-Annotated Experiment Videos out of Robot Memories (Asil Kaan Bozcuoglu, Daniel Beßler and Michael Beetz), In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2015. [bibtex]
2016
[10]	Open Robotics Research Using Web-based Knowledge Services (Michael Beetz, Daniel Beßler, Jan Winkler, Jan-H. Worch, Ferenc Balint-Benczedi, Georg Bartels, Aude Billard, Asil K. Bozcuoglu, Zhou Fang, Nadia Figueroa, Andrei Haidu, Hagen Langer, Alexis Maldonado, Ana-Lucia Pais, Moritz. Tenorth and Thiemo Wiedemeyer), In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016. [bibtex]
2017
[9]	Heterogeneous Ontologies and Hybrid Reasoning for Service Robotics: The EASE Framework (Bateman, John, Beetz, Michael, Beßler, Daniel, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan and Pomarlan, Mihai), In Third Iberian Robotics Conference, 2017. [bibtex]
2018
[8]	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), In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018. [bibtex]
[7]	OWL-enabled Assembly Planning for Robotic Agents (Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael), In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 2018. [bibtex]
[6]	Assembly Planning in Cluttered Environments through Heterogeneous Reasoning (Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai, Akbari, Aliakbar, Muhayyuddin, Diab, Mohammed, Rosell, Jan, Bateman, John and Beetz, Michael), In 41st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Springer, 2018. [bibtex]
[5]	Reasoning Systems for Semantic Navigation in Mobile Robots (Jonathan Crespo and Ramón Barber, Óscar Martínez Mozos and Daniel Beßler and Michael Beetz), In 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2018, Madrid, Spain, October 1-5, 2018, IEEE, 2018. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
[4]	KNOWROB-SIM — Game Engine-enabled Knowledge Processing for Cognition-enabled Robot Control (Haidu, Andrei, Beßler, Daniel, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan and Beetz, Michael), In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018. [bibtex] [doi]
[3]	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), In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018. [bibtex]
2019
[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), In Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, 2019. [bibtex]
2020
[1]	A Formal Model of Affordances for Flexible Robotic Task Execution (Beßler, Daniel, Porzel, Robert, Pomarlan Mihai, Beetz, Michael, Malaka, Rainer and Bateman, John), In Proc. of the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2020. [bibtex]

Other Publications

2011
[2]	Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robots (), PhD thesis, Technische Universität München, 2011. [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, 2019. [bibtex] [pdf]