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• [29 May 2008] Together with four other teams, our team SP-Freiburg has qualified for the TechX Challenge, to be held in August 2008 in Singapore. The winning team will be awarded with one million Singapore Dollars (around 470,000 Euro). During the qualification round, each robot had to prove its capability of autonomously climbing up a staircase, entering an elevator and pressing the elevator panel with a manipulator, and navigating without collision through a 30 meters long obstacle maze. More infos can be found under: [Videos], [Artikel auf Heise Online (in German)]
• [21 May 2008] The paper How Good is Almost Perfect? by Malte Helmert and Gabriele Röger has been awarded the AAAI-2008 Outstanding Paper Award at the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
• [27 October 2007] Our team won the 1st place of the indoor competition at this year's "Robot Day" of the Sick company, awarded with 800 Euro. Our robot was 10 seconds faster than any other team and managed the course within 20 seconds. The team members were Jörg Müller, Christian Dornhege and Alexander Kleiner. Competing in the outdoor competition, the AIS team reached the second place, just 5 seconds behind the winners. Team members for Freiburg were Giorgio Grisetti, Rainer Kümmerle, Patrick Pfaff and Bastian Steder. More information concerning the race: [Videos], [Newspaper article (German)], [Map], [Results and pictures from Sick].
• [13 August 2007] The paper Flexible abstraction heuristics for optimal sequential planning, written by Malte Helmert, Jörg Hoffmann and Patrik Haslum, has been awarded the ICAPS-07 Best Research Paper Award at the Seventeenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.
• [2 June 2007] Malte Helmert's Ph.D. thesis, Solving Planning Tasks in Theory and Practice, is one of four disserations that have been awarded the mention of Outstanding dissertation in automated planning and scheduling by the ICAPS 2007 Award Committee.
• [15 April 2007] Malte Helmert was awarded a Program Committee Award Honorable Mention for outstanding reviewing at this year's AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Of the 606 programme committee members, two received an award.
• [18 June 2006] Our RoboCup team Rescue Robots Freiburg won the award for the best autonomous team in the Robocup competitions for the second time. Additionally our team Rescue Robots Freiburg Virtual won the 1st prize in the "RoboCupRescue Virtal League". Furthermore the paper "Wearable computing meets multiagent systems: a real-world interface for the RoboCupRescue simulation platform" won the Infrastructure Award.
• [1 August 2005] Jörg Hoffmann und Bernhard Nebel received the annual IJCAII-JAIR Prize for the Best Paper of the last 5 years. The award committee had selected their JAIR paper "The FF Planning System: Fast Plan Generation Through Heuristic Search" for this award.
• [17 July 2005] Our team brought again home awards from the RoboCup competitions. Rescue Robots Freiburg won the award for the best autonomous team and RescueSim Freiburg won the Infrastructure Award.
• [11 April 2005] Our latest RoboCup team Rescue Robots Freiburg won in the RoboCupRescue Real Robots league the second place among nine participants.