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Preprints

2024
  1. B. Alt, C. Kienle, D. Katic, R. Jäkel, and M. Beetz, “Shadow Program Inversion with Differentiable Planning: A Framework for Unified Robot Program Parameter and Trajectory Optimization,” Sep. 13, 2024, arXiv: arXiv:2409.08678. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2409.08678.
  2. C. Kienle, B. Alt, D. Katic, and R. Jäkel, “QueryCAD: Grounded Question Answering for CAD Models,” Sep. 16, 2024, arXiv: arXiv:2409.08704. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2409.08704.

Conference Papers

2024
  1. B. Alt et al., “RoboGrind: Intuitive and Interactive Surface Treatment with Industrial Robots,” in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan: IEEE, May 2024. doi: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611143.
  2. C. Kienle et al., “MuTT: A Multimodal Trajectory Transformer for Robot Skills,” in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi: IEEE, Aug. 2024. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2407.15660.
  3. B. Alt, J. Dvorak, D. Katic, R. Jäkel, M. Beetz, and G. Lanza, “BANSAI: Towards Bridging the AI Adoption Gap in Industrial Robotics with Neurosymbolic Programming,” presented at the 57th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2024, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal: arXiv, May 2024. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.13652.
  4. B. Alt et al., “Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models for Interactive Robot Programming,” in European Robotics Forum 2024, Rimini, Italy, Mar. 2024. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2312.13905.
  5. B. Alt et al., “Human-AI Interaction in Industrial Robotics: Design and Empirical Evaluation of a User Interface for Explainable AI-Based Robot Program Optimization,” presented at the 57th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2024, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal: arXiv, Apr. 2024. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.19349.
  6. L. Steffen et al., “HoLLiE C—A Multifunctional Bimanual Mobile Robot Supporting Versatile Care Applications,” in Intelligent Autonomous Systems 18, S.-G. Lee, J. An, N. Y. Chong, M. Strand, and J. H. Kim, Eds., Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, pp. 127–140. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-44981-9_11.
2023
  1. B. Alt, F. K. Kenfack, A. Haidu, D. Katic, R. Jäkel, and M. Beetz, ‘Knowledge-Driven Robot Program Synthesis from Human VR Demonstrations’, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Rhodes, Greece: IJCAI, Sep. 2023, pp. 34–43. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.24963/kr.2023/4
  2. F. Stöckl et al., ‘Autonomous Surface Grinding of Wind Turbine Blades’, in Intelligent Autonomous Systems 18, S.-G. Lee, J. An, N. Y. Chong, M. Strand, and J. H. Kim, Eds., Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, Jul. 2023, pp. 451–457. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-44981-9_38.
  3. J. Raible et al., ‘Artificial Neural Network Guided Compensation of Nonlinear Payload and Wear Effects for Industrial Robots’, in 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Aug. 2023, pp. 1–8. doi: 10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260559.
  4. B. Alt et al., ‘EfficientPPS: Part-aware Panoptic Segmentation of Transparent Objects for Robotic Manipulation’, in ISR Europe 2023, Stuttgart, Germany: VDE Verlag, Sep. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.vde-verlag.de/proceedings-en/456140019.html
2022
  1. B. Alt, D. Katic, R. Jäkel, and M. Beetz, ‘Heuristic-free Optimization of Force-Controlled Robot Search Strategies in Stochastic Environments’, in 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2022, pp. 8887–8893. doi: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982093.
  2. B. Alt et al., ‘LapSeg3D: Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Point Clouds Representing Laparoscopic Scenes’, in 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2022, pp. 5265–5270. doi: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981178.
2021
  1. B. Alt, D. Katic, R. Jäkel, A. K. Bozcuoglu, and M. Beetz, ‘Robot Program Parameter Inference via Differentiable Shadow Program Inversion’, in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2021, pp. 4672–4678. doi: 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561206.
2020
  1. B. Alt et al., ‘Modulare, datengetriebene Roboterprogrammierung für die Lösung komplexer Handhabungsaufgaben in Alltagsumgebungen’, in AAL-Kongress 2020, Berlin, 2020, pp. 17–22. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-608626.html
2019
  1. F. Jordan et al., ‘Auslegung von Assistenzfunktionen für die robotische Unterstützung älterer Menschen am Esstisch unter Berücksichtigung ethischer und sicherheitstechnischer Randbedingungen’, in Zukunft der Pflege, Berlin, 2019, pp. 57–58. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-581200.html
  2. O. Rettig, S. Müller, M. Strand, and D. Katic, ‘Unsupervised Hump Detection for Mobile Robots Based On Kinematic Measurements and Deep-Learning Based Autoencoder’, in Intelligent Autonomous Systems 15, Cham, 2019, pp. 99–110. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-01370-7_9.
  3. O. Rettig, S. Müller, M. Strand, and D. Katic, ‘Which deep artifical neural network architecture to use for anomaly detection in Mobile Robots kinematic data?’, in Machine Learning for Cyber Physical Systems, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2019, pp. 58–65. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-58485-9_7.

Journal Papers

2024

  1. A. Schultheis et al., “EASY: Energy-Efficient Analysis and Control Processes in the Dynamic Edge-Cloud Continuum for Industrial Manufacturing,” KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, Sep. 2024, doi: 10.1007/s13218-024-00868-3.
  2. M. Brünett et al., “HoLLiECares -Development of a Multi-Functional Robot for Professional Care,” Front. Robot. AI, vol. 11, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.3389/frobt.2024.1325143.

Book Chapters

2022
  1. L. Kluy et al., ‘Mensch-Roboter-Kollaboration in KMU – Potenziale identifizieren, analysieren und realisieren’, in Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt im Mittelstand 1: Ergebnisse und Best Practice des BMBF-Forschungsschwerpunkts ‘Zukunft der Arbeit: Mittelstand – innovativ und sozial’, V. Nitsch, C. Brandl, R. Häußling, J. Lemm, T. Gries, and B. Schmenk, Eds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2022, pp. 55–97. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-64803-2_3.
2020
  1. B. Graf et al., ‘RoPHa – Robuste Wahrnehmungsfähigkeiten für Roboter zur Unterstützung älterer Nutzer im häuslichen Umfeld’, in Autonome Roboter für Assistenz­funktionen, Dortmund: Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, 2020, pp. 118–133. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-618329.html

Workshop Papers

2021
  1. S. Dittus, B. Alt, A. Hermann, D. Katic, R. Jäkel, and J. Fleischer, ‘Localization and Tracking of User-Defined Points on Deformable Objects for Robotic Manipulation’, presented at the IEEE ICRA Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects, Xi’an, China, May 2021. Accessed: Jun. 02, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09067

Invited Talks

2024
  1. B. Alt, “GPUs sind das neue Öl: Die KI-Revolution im deutschen Mittelstand erfordert ein Umdenken bei der Bereitstellung kritischer Rechenkapazitäten”, presetned at the Day of Digital Technologies (Tag der digitalen Technologien) of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action,  Berlin, Oct. 07, 2024.
  2. B. Alt, “Bridging the AI Application Gap in Industrial Robotics with Ontologies and Standards”, presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Ontologies and Standards for Robotics and Automation (WOSRA 2024) at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, May 13, 2024.
  3. B. Alt, “What’s in Your Head? Neurosymbolic AI for Intelligent Robots that we Understand”, presented at the e-fellows IT Day, Stuttgart, May 9, 2024.
2023
  1. D. Katic, “Data-Driven Programming Assistants for industrial Robotics / Datengetriebene Programmierassistenten für die industrielle Robotik”, presented at the 4th AI Congress “Smarte Maschinen im Einsatz”, Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart, Nov. 30, 2023.
  2. D. Katic, “Die Künstliche Intelligenz und mein Arbeitsplatz”, KIT Science Week, Karlsruhe, Oct. 11, 2023.
  3. B. Alt, “Intelligente Programmierassistenten für die industrielle Robotik – künstliche Intelligenz nutzbar machen”, “Revolution in der Robotik – Lösungen aus Baden-Württemberg”, VDMA, online, Aug. 13, 2023.
2022
  1. B. Alt, “Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Industrial Robotics”, presented at the EASE Fall School, Sep. 23, 2022.
2021
  1. D. Katic, “MEDICA Health IT Forum: Smart Robotics – Tech Talk”, presented at the MEDICA / COPAMED 2021, Düsseldorf, Nov. 16, 2021.
  2. B. Alt, “Cross-Platform Sensor-Enabled Industrial Robot Programming and Control”, presented at the EASE Fall School, Nov. 12, 2021.
  3. B. Alt, “Sensor-based Robot Projects: Innovative Opportunities and Solutions for Demanding Robotic Applications”, presented at the bwcon SIG Robotics, Hochschule Karlsruhe, Sep. 17, 2021.
  4. D. Katic, “Sensor-based Robot Projects: Innovative Opportunities and Solutions for Demanding Robotic Applications”, presented at the Dresden Robotics Festival, Dresden, Sep. 17, 2021.