Andreas Birk

Orcid: 0000-0003-4577-2525

Affiliations:
  • Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany


According to our database1, Andreas Birk authored at least 144 papers between 1995 and 2024.

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  • Erdős number3 of four.

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2024
SmileyNet - Towards the Prediction of the Lottery by Reading Tea Leaves with AI.
CoRR, 2024

Scanning Sonar Data From an Underwater Robot With Ground Truth Localization.
IEEE Access, 2024

An Open-Source Solution for Fast and Accurate Underwater Mapping with a Low-Cost Mechanical Scanning Sonar.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024

2023
Synthetic Scan Formation for Underwater Mapping With Low-Cost Mechanical Scanning Sonars (MSS).
IEEE Access, 2023

Using Registration with Fourier-SOFT in 2D (FS2D) for Robust Scan Matching of Sonar Range Data.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

2021
Registration of Magnetic Resonance Tomography (MRT) Data with a Low Frequency Adaption of Fourier-Mellin-SOFT (LF-FMS).
Sensors, 2021

Seeing through the forest and the trees with drones.
Sci. Robotics, 2021

A Robotics Course during COVID-19: Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Online Teaching beyond the Pandemic.
Robotics, 2021

Underwater Vision-Based Gesture Recognition: A Robustness Validation for Safe Human-Robot Interaction.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2021

Robotics Labs and Other Hands-On Teaching During COVID-19: Change Is Here to Stay?
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2021

From Multi-Modal Property Dataset to Robot-Centric Conceptual Knowledge About Household Objects.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2021

Robotics and Intelligent Systems: A New Curriculum Development and Adaptations Needed in Coronavirus Times.
Proceedings of the Robotics in Education, 2021

Improved Students' Performance in an Online Robotics Class During COVID-19: Do only Strong Students Profit?
Proceedings of the Robotics in Education, 2021

2020
Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) without Navigation: Scan Registration as Basis for Near Field Synthetic Imaging in 2D.
Sensors, 2020

Visual Object Categorization Based on Hierarchical Shape Motifs Learned From Noisy Point Cloud Decompositions.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst., 2020

A Divide and Conquer Method for 3D Registration of Inhomogeneous, Partially Overlapping Scans with Fourier Mellin SOFT (FMS).
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

2019
Revisiting Superquadric Fitting: A Numerically Stable Formulation.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 2019

Adaptive Navigation Scheme for Optimal Deep-Sea Localization Using Multimodal Perception Cues.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

Improved Fourier Mellin Invariant for Robust Rotation Estimation with Omni-Cameras.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2019

Towards Accurate Deep-Sea Localization in Structured Environments based on Perception Quality Cues.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2019

2018
Dexterous Underwater Manipulation from Onshore Locations: Streamlining Efficiencies for Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2018

Scale-Free Registrations in 3D: 7 Degrees of Freedom with Fourier Mellin SOFT Transforms.
Int. J. Comput. Vis., 2018

Unsupervised Learning of Shape Concepts - From Real-World Objects to Mental Simulation.
CoRR, 2018

Robust Gesture-Based Communication for Underwater Human-Robot Interaction in the context of Search and Rescue Diver Missions.
CoRR, 2018

Towards Robot-Centric Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition.
CoRR, 2018

CADDY Underwater Stereo-Vision Dataset for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in the Context of Diver Activities.
CoRR, 2018

Underwater Image Haze Removal and Color Correction with an Underwater-ready Dark Channel Prior.
CoRR, 2018

Robust Continuous System Integration for Critical Deep-Sea Robot Operations Using Knowledge-Enabled Simulation in the Loop.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

Conceptualization of Object Compositions Using Persistent Homology.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

2017
Recognition and Localization of Sacks for Autonomous Container Unloading by Fitting Superquadrics in Noisy, Partial Views from a Low-cost RGBD Sensor.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst., 2017

Robotic bridge statics assessment within strategic flood evacuation planning using low-cost sensors.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, 2017

2016
No More Heavy Lifting: Robotic Solutions to the Container Unloading Problem.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2016

Generalized graph SLAM: Solving local and global ambiguities through multimodal and hyperedge constraints.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2016

Knowledge-Enabled Robotic Agents for Shelf Replenishment in Cluttered Retail Environments.
CoRR, 2016

Unsupervised Watertight Mesh Generation for Physics Simulation Applications Using Growing Neural Gas on Noisy Free-Form Object Models.
CoRR, 2016

Map evaluation using matched topology graphs.
Auton. Robots, 2016

Anticipation and attention for robust object recognition with RGBD-data in an industrial application scenario.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

Physics-based damage-aware manipulation strategy planning using Scene Dynamics Anticipation.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

Hierarchical graph-based discovery of non-primitive-shaped objects in unstructured environments.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016

Knowledge-Enabled Robotic Agents for Shelf Replenishment in Cluttered Retail Environments: (Extended Abstract).
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, 2016

2015
Robust 3D object modeling with a low-cost RGBD-sensor and AR-markers for applications with untrained end-users.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2015

Using fiducials in 3D map evaluation.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, 2015

Segmentation and classification using active contours based superellipse fitting on side scan sonar images for marine demining.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015

Beyond points: Evaluating recent 3D scan-matching algorithms.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015

2014
Large-scale image mosaicking using multimodal hyperedge constraints from multiple registration methods within the Generalized Graph SLAM framework.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

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.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

Representing and solving local and global ambiguities as multimodal and hyperedge constraints in a generalized graph SLAM framework.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

Velvet fingers: Grasp planning and execution for an underactuated gripper with active surfaces.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

Fitting superquadrics in noisy, partial views from a low-cost RGBD sensor for recognition and localization of sacks in autonomous unloading of shipping containers.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2014

Object recognition and localization for robust grasping with a dexterous gripper in the context of container unloading.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2014

2013
Spectral 6DOF Registration of Noisy 3D Range Data with Partial Overlap.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., 2013

A Distributed Algorithm for Cooperative 3D Exploration under Communication Constraints.
Paladyn J. Behav. Robotics, 2013

The ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge: Simulating Operations at the Lunar South Pole.
J. Field Robotics, 2013

Simultaneous localization and mapping with multimodal probability distributions.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2013

Preface.
Adv. Robotics, 2013

Object recognition in RGBD images of cluttered environments using graph-based categorization with unsupervised learning of shape parts.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013

Uncertainty estimation of AR-marker poses for graph-SLAM optimization in 3D object model generation with RGBD data.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013

Evaluation of map quality by matching and scoring high-level, topological map structures.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Robust estimation of camera-tilt for iFMI based underwater photo-mapping using a calibrated monocular camera.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

2012
Propose an RAS Summer School [Education].
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2012

A short overview of recent advances in map evaluation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2012

Advances in underwater mapping and their application potential for Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR).
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2012

Utilizing color information in 3D scan-registration using planar-patches matching.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, 2012

The jacobs robotics approach to object recognition and localization in the context of the ICRA'11 Solutions in Perception Challenge.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

Uncertainty estimation for a 6-DoF spectral registration method as basis for sonar-based underwater 3D SLAM.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

2011
Future RAS Support for Summer Schools [Education].
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2011

What is Robotics? An Interdisciplinary Field Is Getting Even More Diverse [Education].
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2011

Towards Pathplanning for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) in 3D Plane-Maps of Unstructured Environments.
Künstliche Intell., 2011

Safety, Security, and Rescue Missions with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) - Aerial Mosaicking and Autonomous Flight at the 2009 European Land Robots Trials (ELROB) and the 2010 Response Robot Evaluation Exercises (RREE).
J. Intell. Robotic Syst., 2011

Editorial: Safety, security, and rescue robotics special issue.
J. Field Robotics, 2011

Spectral registration of noisy sonar data for underwater 3D mapping.
Auton. Robots, 2011

Spectral registration of volume data for 6-DOF spatial transformations plus scale.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011

2010
Fast Registration Based on Noisy Planes With Unknown Correspondences for 3-D Mapping.
IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2010

Surface Representations for 3D Mapping - A Case for a Paradigm Shift.
Künstliche Intell., 2010

Online three-dimensional SLAM by registration of large planar surface segments and closed-form pose-graph relaxation.
J. Field Robotics, 2010

Uncertainty analysis for optimum plane extraction from noisy 3D range-sensor point-clouds.
Intell. Serv. Robotics, 2010

A quantitative assessment of structural errors in grid maps.
Auton. Robots, 2010

Efficient Representation in Three-Dimensional Environment Modeling for Planetary Robotic Exploration.
Adv. Robotics, 2010

Exploration Strategies for a Robot with a Continously Rotating 3D Scanner.
Proceedings of the Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, 2010

An efficient strategy for data exchange in multi-robot mapping under underwater communication constraints.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010

Plane-based registration of sonar data for underwater 3D mapping.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010

Evaluation of the robustness of planar-patches based 3D-registration using marker-based ground-truth in an outdoor urban scenario.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010

Extraction of quadrics from noisy point-clouds using a sensor noise model.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010

Maximum likelihood mapping with spectral image registration.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010

Using recursive spectral registrations to determine brokenness as measure of structural map errors.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010

2009
A networking framework for teleoperation in safety, security, and rescue robotics.
IEEE Wirel. Commun., 2009

3-D perception and modeling.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2009

A Characterization of 3D Sensors for Response Robots.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII [papers from the 13th annual RoboCup International Symposium, Graz, Austria, June 29, 2009

Creating Photo Maps with an Aerial Vehicle in USARsim.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII [papers from the 13th annual RoboCup International Symposium, Graz, Austria, June 29, 2009

Fast 3D mapping by matching planes extracted from range sensor point-clouds.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009

Fast and robust photomapping with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009

Revisiting uncertainty analysis for optimum planes extracted from 3D range sensor point-clouds.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2009

Relaxing loop-closing errors in 3D maps based on planar surface patches.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2009

Iterative localization optimization for networked mobile robots.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2009

Precise realtime localization by RF transceiver ToF measurements.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2009

2008
Hough based terrain classification for realtime detection of drivable ground.
J. Field Robotics, 2008

Determining Map Quality through an Image Similarity Metric.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII [papers from the 12th annual RoboCup International Symposium, 2008

A Novel Approach to Efficient Error Correction for the SwissRanger Time-of-Flight 3D Camera.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII [papers from the 12th annual RoboCup International Symposium, 2008

Towards Cooperative and Decentralized Mapping in the Jacobs Virtual Rescue Team.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII [papers from the 12th annual RoboCup International Symposium, 2008

Planetary Exploration in USARsim: A Case Study Including Real World Data from Mars.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII [papers from the 12th annual RoboCup International Symposium, 2008

Using Different Humanoid Robots for Science Edutainment of Secondary School Pupils.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII [papers from the 12th annual RoboCup International Symposium, 2008

Fast plane detection and polygonalization in noisy 3D range images.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008

Efficiently communicating map updates with the pose graph.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008

Sub-pixel depth accuracy with a time of flight sensor using multimodal Gaussian analysis.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008

Augmented autonomy: Improving human-robot team performance in Urban search and rescue.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008

2007
A Fuzzy Controller for Autonomous Negotiation of Stairs by a Mobile Robot with Adjustable Tracks.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI, 2007

Detecting Humans in 2D Thermal Images by Generating 3D Models.
Proceedings of the KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2007

3D forward sensor modeling and application to occupancy grid based sensor fusion.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 29, 2007

Spatial Knowledge Processing within the Reproductive Perception Paradigm.
Proceedings of the Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems, 2007

2006
Merging Occupancy Grid Maps From Multiple Robots.
Proc. IEEE, 2006

Rescue robotics - A crucial milestone on the road to autonomous systems.
Adv. Robotics, 2006

Vectorization of Grid Maps by an Evolutionary Algorithm.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, 2006

A New Mechatronic Component for Adjusting the Footprint of Tracked Rescue Robots.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X, 2006

2005
On map merging.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2005

Communicative Exploration with Robot Packs.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, 2005

High Fidelity Tools for Rescue Robotics: Results and Perspectives.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, 2005

A HMI Supporting Adjustable Autonomy of Rescue Robots.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, 2005

Mobile Robot Communication Without the Drawbacks of Wireless Networking.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, 2005

2004
Combining Exploration and Ad-Hoc Networking in RoboCup Rescue.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, 2004

From Games to Applications: Component Reuse in Rescue Robots.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, 2004

Stochastic Map Merging in Rescue Environments.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, 2004

Fast Robot Prototyping with the Cubesystem.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004

2002
An <i>N</i>-player prisoner's dilemma in a robotic ecosystem.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2002

Programming with behavior-processes.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2002

A Rescue Robot Control Architecture Ensuring Safe Semi-autonomous Operation.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI, 2002

2001
Hungry robots.
XRDS, 2001

The Tournament Results of the Different Leagues of RoboCup-2001.
Proceedings of the RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V, 2001

An Industrial Application of Behavior-Oriented Robotics.
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Efficient Scheduling of Behavior-Processes on Different Time-Scales.
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

2000
On-board control in the RoboCup small robots league.
Adv. Robotics, 2000

Boosting Cooperation by Evolving Trust.
Appl. Artif. Intell., 2000

Applying Behavior-Oriented Robotics to a Mobile Security Device.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI 2000 Workshop Reader, Four Workshops held at PRICAI 2000, Melbourne, Australia, August 28, 2000

Progress in RoboCup Soccer Research in 2000.
Proceedings of the Experimental Robotics VII [ISER 2000, 2000

Robotics in Edutainment.
Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2000

Learning to Trust.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 2000

1999
The VUB AI-lab RoboCup'99 Small League Team.
Proceedings of the RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, 1999

Heterogeneity and On-Board Control in the Small Robots League.
Proceedings of the RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, 1999

1998
The Small League RoboCup Team of the VUB AI-Lab.
Proceedings of the RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II, 1998

An Overview of the Extended VUB Ecosystem, a MAS of Heterogeneous Robots.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Multiagent Systems, 1998

RoboCube a "universal" "special purpose" Hardware for the RoboCup small robots league.
Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 3, 1998

A Multiagent System Based on Heterogeneous Robots.
Proceedings of the Collective Robotics, First International Workshop, 1998

1997
Robot Learning and Self-Sufficiency: What the Energy-Level Can Tell Us about a Robot's Performance.
Proceedings of the Learning Robots, 6th European Workshop, 1997

1996
Learning Geometric Concepts with an Evolutionary Algorithm.
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming, 1996

1995
Stimulus Response Lernen: ein neues Machine Learning Paradigma.
PhD thesis, 1995


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