Publications

Books

• S. Thrun, W. Burgard, and D. Fox
  Probabilistic Robotics.
  MIT-Press, 2005.
   
• H. Choset, K.M. Lynch, S. Hutchinson, G. Kantor, W. Burgard, L.E. Kavrakij, and S. Thrun
  Principles of Robot Motion - Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations.
  MIT-Press, 2005.
   

Journals and Magazins

• C. Stachniss, D. Hähnel, W. Burgard, and G. Grisetti
  On Actively Closing Loops in Grid-based FastSLAM.
  Journal on Advanced Robotics, accepted for publication.
   
• W. Burgard, M. Moors, C. Stachniss, and F. Schneider
  Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration.
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 21(3), 2005.
   
• J. Wolf, W. Burgard, and H. Burkhardt
  Robust Vision-Based Localization by Combining an Image Retrieval System with Monte Carlo Localization.
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 21(2), 2005.
   
• M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, G. Cielniak, and S. Thrun
  Learning Motion Patterns of People for Compliant Motion.
  International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 24(1), 2005.
   
• S. Thrun, S. Thayer, W. Whittaker, C. Baker, W. Burgard, D. Ferguson, D. Hähnel, M. Montemerlo, A. Morris, Z. Omohundro, C. Reverte, and W. Whittaker.
  Autonomous Exploration and Mapping of Abandoned Mines.
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 11(4), 2005.
   
• P. Trahanias, W. Burgard, A. Argyros, D. Hähnel, H. Baltzakis, P. Pfaff, and C. Stachniss
  TOURBOT and WebFAIR: Web-Operated Mobile Robots for Tele-Presence in Populated Exhibitions.
  Robotics & Automation Magazine, to appear.
   
• S. Thrun, C. Martin, Y. Liu, D. Hähnel, R. Emery-Montemerlo, D. Chakrabarti, and W. Burgard
  A Real-Time Expectation Maximization Algorithm for Acquiring Multi-Planar Maps of Indoor Environments with Mobile Robots.
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 20 (3), pp. 433-442, 2003.
   
• D. Hähnel, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun
  Learning Compact 3D Models of Indoor and Outdoor Environments with a Mobile Robot.
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 44 (1), pp. 15-27, 2003.
   
• D. Hähnel, D. Schulz, and W. Burgard
  Mobile Robot Mapping in Populated Environments.
  Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 7 (17), pp. 579-598, 2003.
   
• W. Burgard, P. Trahanias, D. Hähnel, M. Moors, D. Schulz, H. Baltzakis, A. Argyros
  Tele-Presence in Populated Exhibitions through Web-Operated Mobile Robots.
  Autonomous Robots, 15, pp. 299-316, 2003.
   
• D. Schulz, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and A.B. Cremers
  People Tracking with a Mobile Robot Using Sample-based Joint Probabilistic Data Association Filters.
  International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 22 (2), pp. 99-116, 2003.
   
• M. Bennewitz, M., W. Burgard and S. Thrun
  Finding and Optimizing Solvable Priority Schemes for Decoupled Path Planning Techniques for Teams of Mobile Robots.
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 41 (2), pp. 89-99, 2002.
   
• D. Schulz and W. Burgard
  Probabilistic State Estimation of Dynamic Objects with a Moving Mobile Robot.
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 34 (2-3), pp. 107-115, 2001.
   
• S. Thrun, D. Fox, W. Burgard and F. Dellaert
  Robust Monte Carlo localization for mobile robots.
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 128 (1-2), pp. 99-141, 2001.
   
• M. Beetz, T. Arbuckle, T. Belker, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, H. Grosskreutz, D. Hähnel, D. Schulz
  Integrated Plan-based Control of Autonomous Service Robots in Human Environments.
  IEEE Intelligent Systems, 16 (5), pp. 56-65, 2001.
   
• S. Thrun, M. Beetz, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J.Schulte, and D. Schulz
  Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva.
  Journal of Robotics Research, 19 (11), pp. 972-999, 2000.
   
• D. Schulz, W. Burgard, and A.B. Cremers.
  State Estimation Techniques for 3d-Visualizations of Web-Based Tele-Operated Mobile Robots.
  Künstliche Intelligenz, 4, 2000.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, H. Kruppa, and S. Thrun.
  A Probabilistic Approach to Collaborative Multi-Robot Localization.
  Autonomous Robots, 8 (3), 2000.
   
• D. Schulz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, and S. Thrun.
  Web Interfaces for Mobile Robots in Public Places.
  IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 7 (1), 2000.
   
• W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, D.Schulz, W. Steiner, and S. Thrun.
  Experiences with an Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot.
  Artificial Intelligence (AI), 114 (1-2), pp. 3-55, 2000.
  Video: Rhino in action.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  Markov Localization for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments.
  Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 11, pp. 391-427, 1999.
  IJCAII-JAIR Honorable Mention Award
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  Active Markov Localization for Mobile Robots.
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), 25, pp. 195-207, 1998.
   
• M. Beetz, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and A.B. Cremers.
  Integrating Active Localization into High-Level Robot Control Systems.
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), 23, pp. 205-220, 1998.
   
• S. Thrun, D. Fox, and W. Burgard.
  A Probabilistic Approach to Concurrent Mapping and Localization for Mobile Robots.
  Machine Learning and Autonomous Robots (joint issue) (ML) , 31, 1998.
   
• W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, A.M. Kappel, and S. Lüttringhaus-Kappel.
  Verbesserte Brandfrüherkennung im Steinkohlenbergbau durch Vorhersage von CO-Konzentrationen.
  In KI Themenheft Data Mining, volume 1. ScienTec Publishing GmbH, 1998. In German.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  The Dynamic Window Approach to Collision Avoidance.
  IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 4(1), March 1997.
   
• J. Buhmann, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, T. Hofmann, F.Schneider, J. Strikos, and S. Thrun.
  The Mobile Robot Rhino.
  AI Magazine, 16(2), Summer 1995.
   

Conferences

• C. Stachniss, G. Grisetti, and W. Burgard
  Information Gain-based Exploration Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters.
  In Proc. of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2005.
   
• C. Stachniss and W. Burgard
  Mobile Robot Mapping and Localization in Non-Static Environments.
  In Proc. of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2005.
   
• A. Rottmann, O. Martinez Mozos, C. Stachniss and W. Burgard
  Semantic Place Classification of Indoor Environments with Mobile Robots using Boosting.
  In Proc. of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2005.
   
• R. Triebel and W. Burgard
  Improving Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in 3D Using Global Constraints.
  In Proc. of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2005.
   
• C. Stachniss, G. Grisetti, and W. Burgard
  Recovering Particle Diversity in a Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for SLAM after Actively Closing Loops.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2005.
   
• O. Martinez Mozos, C. Stachniss, and W. Burgard
  Supervised Learning of Places from Range Data using Adaboost.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2005.
  Best student paper award finalist.
   
• G. Grisetti, C. Stachniss, and W. Burgard
  Improving Grid-based SLAM with Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters by Adaptive Proposals and Selective Resampling.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2005.
   
• R. Triebel, W. Burgard, and F. Dellaert
  Using Hierarchical EM to Extract Planes from 3D Range Scans.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2005.
   
• D.F. Wolf, G. Sukhatme, D. Fox, and W. Burgard
  Autonomous Terrain Mapping and Classification Using Hidden Markov Models.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2005.
   
• M. Veeck and W. Burgard
  Learning Polyline Maps from Range Scan Data Acquired with Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2004.
   
• C. Stachniss and W. Burgard
  Exploration with Active Loop-Closing for FastSLAM.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2004.
   
• D. Hähnel, W. Burgard, D. Fox, K. Fishkin, and M. Philipose
  Mapping and Localization with RFID Technology.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2004.
  Add-on: Animation.
   
• D. Ferguson, A. Morris, D. Hähnel, C. Baker, Z. Omohundro, C. Reverte, S. Thayer, W. Whittaker, W. Whittaker, W. Burgard, S. Thrun
  An Autonomous Robotic System for Mapping Abandoned Mines.
  In Proc. of the Conference on Neural Information Processing (NIPS), 2003.
   
• D. Hähnel, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun
  A Highly Efficient FastSLAM Algorithm for Generating Cyclic Maps of Large-scale Environments from Raw Laser Range Measurements.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2003.
  Add-ons: Multimedia data.
   
• C. Stachniss and W. Burgard
  Mapping and Exploration with Mobile Robots using Coverage Maps.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2003.
   
• G. Cielniak, M. Bennewitz and W. Burgard
  Where is ...? Learning and Utilizing Motion Patterns of Persons with Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2003.
   
• C. Stachniss, W. Burgard.
  Exploring Unknown Environments with Mobile Robots using Coverage Maps.
  In Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2003.
   
• D. Hähnel, S. Thrun, W. Burgard.
  An Extension of the ICP Algorithm for Modeling Nonrigid Objects with Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2003.
   
• D. Hähnel, R. Triebel, W. Burgard, S. Thrun.
  Map Building with Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2003.
  Add-ons: Multimedia data.
   
• M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard and S. Thrun.
  Adapting Navigation Strategies Using Motions Patterns of People.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2003.
   
• S. Thrun, D. Hähnel, D. Ferguson, M. Montemerlo, R. Triebel, W. Burgard, C. Baker, Z. Omohundro, S. Thayer, and W. Whittaker
  A system for volumetric robotic mapping of underground mines.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2003.
   
• P. Trahanias, W. Burgard, D. Hähnel, M. Moors, D. Schulz, H. Baltzakis, A. Argyros.
  Interactive Tele-presence in Populated Exhibitions through Web-operated Robots.
  In Proc. of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2003.
   
• J. Blanco, W. Burgard, R. Sanz, J.L. Fernandez.
  Fast Face Detection for Mobile Robots by Integrating Laser Range Data with Vision.
  In Proc. of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2003.
   
• D. Hähnel, D. Schulz, W. Burgard.
  Map Building with Mobile Robots in Populated Environments.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2002.
  INRIA-EPFL Best paper award on Mobile Robot Navigation and Perception: Certificate and Ceremony.
  Cool visualizations: Multimedia data.
   
• M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, S. Thrun.
  Using EM to Learn Motion Behaviors of Persons with Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2002.
  Cool visualizations: Multimedia data.
   
• C. Stachniss, W. Burgard.
  An Integrated Approach to Goal-directed Obstacle Avoidance under Dynamic Constraints for Dynamic Environments.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2002.
  Cool visualizations: Multimedia data.
   
• J. Wolf, W. Burgard, H. Burkhardt.
  Using an Image Retrieval System for Vision-based Mobile Robot Localization.
  In Proc. of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), 2002.
   
• M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, S. Thrun.
  Learning Motion Patterns of Persons for Mobile Service Robots.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2002.
  Video: Person moving in a home environment.
  Cool visualizations: Full laser data and tracking scans. Trajectories extracted out of the data. Clustering the data with EM.
   
• J. Wolf, W. Burgard, H. Burkhardt.
  Robust Vision-based Localization for Mobile Robots using an Image Retrieval System Based on Invariant Features.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2002.
  Cool visualizations: Input images, global localization, and recovery from localization failure.
  Slides of the presentation.
   
• D. Schulz, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and A.B. Cremers.
  Tracking Multiple Moving Objects with a Mobile Robot.
  In Proc. of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2001.
  Cool visualizations: Tracker in action as well as scans and samples.
   
• M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  Exploiting Constraints During Prioritized Path Planning for Teams of Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2001.
   
• M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  Constraint-Based Optimization of Priority Schemes for Decoupled Path Planning Aechniques.
  In Proc. of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Springer Verlag, 2001.
   
• D. Schulz, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and A.B. Cremers.
  Tracking Multiple Moving Targets with a Mobile Robot Using Particle Filters and Statistical Data Association.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2001.
   
• Y. Liu, R. Emery, D. Chakrabarti, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  Using EM to Learn 3D Models of Indoor Environments with Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2001.
   
• M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  Optimizing schedules for prioritized path planning of multi-robot systems.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2001.
   
• S. Thrun, D. Fox, and W. Burgard
  Monte Carlo Localization with Mixture Proposal Distributions.
  In Proc. of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2000.
   
• S. Thrun, W. Burgard, and D. Fox
  A Real-Time Algorithm for Mobile Robot Mapping with Applications to Multi-Robot and 3D Mapping.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics &Automation (ICRA), 2000.
  Best paper award.
  Cool visualization: Virtual Wean-Hall
   
• R. Simmons, D. Apfelbaum, W. Burgard, D. Fox, M. Moors, S. Thrun and Hakan Younes.
  Coordination for Multi-Robot Exploration and Mapping.
  In Proc. of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2000.
   
• W. Burgard, M. Moors, D. Fox, R. Simmons, and S. Thrun.
  Collaborative Multi-Robot Exploration.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics &Automation (ICRA), 2000.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, H. Kruppa, and S. Thrun.
  Collaborative Multi-Robot Localization.
  In Proc. of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence(KI ) and the 21st Symposium on Pattern Recognition (DAGM), Germany, 1999.
  DAGM outstanding paper award.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, F. Dellaert, and S. Thrun.
  Monte-Carlo Localization: Efficient Position Estimation for Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI ),1999.
  Cool visualizations: Global localization with sonars and position tracking with lasers.
   
• F. Dellaert, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun.
  Using the Condensation Algorithm for Robust, Vision-Based Mobile Robot Localization.
  In Proc. of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 1999.
  Visualization: Vision-based Monte-Carlo localization.
   
• W. Burgard, D. Fox, H. Jans, C. Matenar, and S. Thrun.
  Sonar-Based Mapping of Large-Scale Mobile Robot Environments using EM.
  In Proc. of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML ),1999.
   
• S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte,D. Schulz, and W. Steiner.
  Experiences with two Deployed Interactive Tour-Guide Robots.
  In Proc. of the International Conference onField and Service Robotics (FSR), Pittsburgh, PA, 1999.
   
• S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert,D.Fox, D. Hähnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, and D. Schulz.
  MINERVA: A Second Generation Mobile Tour-Guide Robot.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics &Automation (ICRA), 1999.
   
• F. Dellaert, D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  Monte Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics &Automation (ICRA), 1999.
   
• N. Roy, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun.
  Coastal Navigation: Mobile Robot Navigation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Environments.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics &Automation (ICRA), 1999.
   
• D. Schulz, W. Burgard, and A.B. Cremers
  Robust Visualization of Navigation Experiments with Mobile Robots over the Internet.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 1999.
   
• F. Schönherr, J. Hertzberg, and W. Burgard.
  Probabilistic Mapping of Unexpected Objects by a Mobile Robot.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 1998.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, S. Thrun, and A.B. Cremers.
  Position Estimation for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments.
  In Proc. of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI ),1998.
   
• S. Thrun, J.-S. Gutmann, D. Fox, W. Burgard, and B. Kuipers.
  Integrating Topological and Metric Maps for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Statistical Approach [ps.gz] (307 kb)
  In Proc. of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI ),1998.
   
• W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, D.Schulz, W. Steiner, and S. Thrun.
  The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot.
  In Proc. of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI ),1998.
  Outstanding paper award.
  Video: Rhino in action.
   
• D. Hähnel, W. Burgard, G. Lakemeyer, D.
  GOLEX - Bridging the Gap Between Logic (Golog) and a Real Robot.
  In Proc. of 22nd German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI ),1998.
  Best paper award.
   
• J.-S. Gutmann, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and K. Konolige.
  An Experimental Comparison of Localization Methods.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on IntelligentRobots and Systems (IROS), 1998.
  Best paper award.
   
• W. Burgard, A. Derr, D. Fox, and A.B. Cremers.
  Integrating Global Position Estimation and Position Tracking for Mobile Robots: The Dynamic Markov Localization Approach.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on IntelligentRobots and Systems (IROS), 1998.
   
• A. Hopp, D. Schulz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fellner
  Virtual Reality Visualization of Distributed Tele-Experiments.
  IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), 1998.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, S. Thrun, and A.B. Cremers.
  A Hybrid Collision Avoidance Method for Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics &Automation (ICRA), 1998.
   
• S. Thrun, D. Fox, and W. Burgard.
  Probabilistic Mapping of an Environment by a Mobile Robot.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics &Automation (ICRA), 1998.
   
• W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun.
  Active Mobile Robot Localization.
  In Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 1997.
   
• W. Burgard, D. Fox, and D. Hennig.
  Fast Grid-Based Position Tracking for Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the 21th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence,Germany . Springer Verlag (KI), 1997.
   
• W. Burgard, D. Fox, D. Hennig, and T. Schmidt.
  Estimating the Absolute Position of a Mobile Robot Using Position Probability Grids.
  In Proc. of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1996.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  Controlling Synchro-Drive Robots with the Dynamic Window Approach to Collision Avoidance.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on IntelligentRobots and Systems (IROS), 1996.
   
• W. Burgard, A. B. Cremers, M. Heidelbach, A. M. Kappel, and S. LüttringhausKappel.
  Knowledge-Enhanced CO-Monitoring in Coal Mines.
  In Proc. of the Ninth International Conference on Industrial &Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & ExpertSystems (IEA/AIE), 1996.
   

Book chapters

• W. Burgard, M. Moors, and F. Schneider.
  Collaborative Exploration of Unknown Environments with Teams of Mobile Robots .
  In M. Beetz and J. Hertzberg, and Ghallab, M. and Pollack, M.E., editors, Advances in Plan-Based Control of Robotic Agents. Springer Verlag, volume 4266 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2002.
   
• W. Burgard and D. Schulz.
  Robust Visualization for Web-Based Control of Mobile Robots .
  In K. Goldberg and R. Siegwart, editors, Robots on the Web: Physical Interaction through the Internet. MIT-Press, 2002.
   
• D. Fox, S. Thrun, F. Dellaert, and W. Burgard.
  Particle Filters for Mobile Robot Localization.
  In A. Doucet, N. de Freitas, and N. Gordon, editors, Sequential Monte-Carlo Methods in Practice. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, H. Kruppa, and S. Thrun.
  Efficient Multi-Robot Localization Based on Monte Carlo Approximation.
  In J. Hollerbach and D. Koditschek, editors, Robotics Research: the Ninth International Symposium. Springer-Verlag, London, 2000.
   
• S. Thrun, A. Bücken, W. Burgard, D. Fox, T. Fröhlinghaus, D.Hennig, T. Hofmann, M. Krell, and T. Schimdt.
  Map Learning and High-Speed Navigation in RHINO.
  In David Kortenkamp, R.P. Bonasso, and R. Murphy, editors, ArtificialIntelligence and Mobile Robots. MIT/AAAI Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998.
   
• W. Burgard.
  Goal-Directed Forward Chaining: A Tuple-Orientedc Bottom-Up Approach.
  Ch. Beierle and L. Plümer, editors, Logic Programming: Formal Methods and Practical Applications. Elsevier Science B.V., 1995.
   

Refereed Symposium/Workshop Articles

• D. Sack and W. Burgard
  A comparison of methods for line extraction from range data.
  In Proc. of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV), 2004.
  Addon: Multimedia data.
   
• D. Hähnel, S. Thrun, B. Wegbreit, and W. Burgard
  Towards Lazy Data Association in SLAM.
  In Proc. of the International Symposium on on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2003.
   
• D. W. Burgard, P. Trahanias, D. Hähnel, M. Moors, D. Schulz, H. Baltzakis, and A. Argyros.
  TOURBOT and WebFAIR: Web-Operated Mobile Robots for Tele-Presence in Populated Exhibitions.
  In Proc. of the IROS 02 Workshop on Robots in Exhibitions, 2002.
   
• D. Schulz, M. Moors, W. Burgard and A.B. Cremers.
  A Statistical Approach to Tracking Multiple Moving People with a Mobile Robot and its Application to Improved Tele-Presence.
  In Proc. of the VDI-Conference Robotik 2002 (Robotik), 2002.
   
• M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard. and S. Thrun.
  Learning Motion Patterns of Persons for Mobile Service Robots.
  In Proc. of the VDI-Conference Robotik 2002 (Robotik), 2002.
   
• D. Hähnel and W. Burgard.
  Probabilistic Matching for 3D Scan Registration.
  In Proc. of the VDI-Conference Robotik 2002 (Robotik), 2002.
   
• M. Bennewitz and W. Burgard.
  Finding Solvable Priority Schemes for Decoupled Path Planning Techniques for Teams of Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (SIRS), 2001.
   
• M. Bennewitz and W. Burgard.
  An Experimental Comparison of Path Planning Techniques for Teams of Mobile Robots.
  In Tagungsband des 16. Fachgesprächs Autonome Mobile Systeme ( AMS), 2000.
   
• M. Bennewitz and W. Burgard.
  Coordinating the Motions of Multiple Mobile Robots using a Probabilistic Model.
  In Proc. of the International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (SIRS), 2000.
   
• M. Bennewitz and W. Burgard.
  A Probabilistic Method for Planning Collision-Free Trajectories of Multiple Mobile Robots.
  In Proc. of the workshop Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market at the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-99), 2000.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, H. Kruppa, and S. Thrun.
  Efficient Multi-Robot Localization Based on Monte Carlo Approximation.
  In Proc. of the 9th International Symposium of RoboticsResearch (ISRR-99 ).
   
• N. Roy, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun.
  Coastal Navigation: Robot Motion with Uncertainty.
  In Proc. of the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium, 1998.
   
• W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, D.Schulz, W. Steiner and S. Thrun.
  The Museum Tour-Guide Robot RHINO.
  In Proc. of Fachgespräche Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS '98 ), Karlsruhe, Germany, 1998.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  Markov Localization for Reliable Robot Navigation and People Detection.
  In Proc. of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Modelling and Planning for Sensor-Based Intelligent Robot Systems, LNCS. Springer Verlag, 1999.
   
• W. Burgard, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, S. Thrun, and A.B. Cremers.
  Real Robots for the Real World - the RHINO Museum Tour-Guide Project.
  In Proc. of the AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Integrating Robotics Research: Taking the Next Leap, 1998.
   
• M. Beetz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, and D. Fox.
  Active Localization for Service Robot Applications.
  In Proc. of the 5th Symposium for Intelligent Robotics Systems (SIRS ),Stockholm, Sweden, 1997.
   
• W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thruns.
  Active Mobile Robot Localization by Entropy Minimization.
  In Proc. of the Second EUROMICRO Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots( EUROBOT). IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997.
   
• S. Thrun, D. Fox, and W. Burgard.
  Probabilistic State Estimation in Robotics.
  In Proc. of the Workshop on Self-Organization of Adaptive Behavior,Ilmenau, Germany. VDI-Verlag, 1997.
   
• W. Burgard, D. Fox, D. Hennig, and Timo Schmidt.
  Position Tracking with Position Probability Grids.
  In Proc. of the First EUROMICRO Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots( EUROBOT). IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.
   
• W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, M. Heidelbach, A.M. Kappel, and S. Lüttringhaus-Kappel.
  Logic programming tools applied to firedetection in hard-coal mines.
  In Proc. of the Joint International Conference and Symposium on LogicProgramming , 1996.
   

Unrefereed/Invited Articles

• C. Stachniss, G. Grisetti, D. Haehnel, and W. Burgard.
  Improved Rao-Blackwellized Mapping by Adaptive Sampling and Active Loop-Closure.
  In Proc. of the Workshop on Self-Organization of Adaptive Behavior (SOAVE) (invited presentation), University of Ilmenau, 2004.
   
• D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun.
  Probabilistic Methods for Mobile Robot Mapping.
  In Proc. of the IJCAI-99 Workshop on Adaptive SpatialRepresentations of Dynamic Environments (invited presentation), 1999.
   
• S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, and D. Schulz.
  MINERVA: A Tour-Guide Robot that Learns.
  In Proc. of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), Germany. Springer Verlag, 1999.