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• [15 September 2009] Bernhard Nebel was elected to become a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
• [11 August 2009] The paper Landmarks, Critical Paths and Abstractions: What's the Difference Anyway?, written by Malte Helmert and Carmel Domshlak has been awarded the ICAPS-2009 Best Paper Award of the Nineteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.
• [5 May 2009] Malte Helmert was awarded as runner-up for the annual IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize. The award committee selected his paper "The Fast Downward Planning System" as second best among the JAIR papers published in the last 5 years.
• [16 September 2008] Bernhard Nebel received together with Jana Koehler, Jörg Hoffmann und Yannis Dimopoulos the ICAPS 2008 award Influential Paper/Honourable Mention for the paper "Extending Planning Graphs to an ADL Subset" that had been published 1997 at the European Planning Conference.
• [16 September 2008] The LAMA planner by Silvia Richter and Matthias Westphal wins the award for the best sequential satisficing planner at the sixth International Planning Competition (IPC-6).
• [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.