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2008

“Multi-Robot Range-Only SLAM by Active Sensor Nodes for Urban Search and Rescue”
by D. Sun, A. Kleiner, and T. M. Wendt.
In Robocup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII, 2008. to appear.
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“Mapping and Exploration for Search and Rescue with Humans and Mobile Robots”
by A. Kleiner.
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Freiburg, 2008.
Details. Download: Paper (PDF).

2007

“RFID-Based Exploration for Large Robot Teams”
by V.A. Ziparo, A. Kleiner, B. Nebel, and D. Nardi.
In Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2007, pp. 4606-4613.
Details. Download: Paper (PDF), Video (mpeg 5MB) .

“Towards the Integration of Real-Time Real-World Data in Urban Search and Rescue Simulation”
by H. Kenn and A. Kleiner.
In Int. Workshop on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response - MobileResponse 2007, (J. Löffler and M. Klann, eds.), 2007, pp. 106-115.
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“Towards heterogeneous robot teams for disaster mitigation: Results and Performance Metrics from Robocup Rescue”
by S. Balakirsky, S. Carpin, A. Kleiner, M. Lewis, A. Visser, J. Wang, and V.A. Ziparo.
Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 24, no. 11-12, 2007, pp. 943-967.
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“Real-time Localization and Elevation Mapping within Urban Search and Rescue Scenarios”
by A. Kleiner and C. Dornhege.
Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 24, no. 8--9, 2007, pp. 723-745.
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“Mapping disaster areas jointly: RFID-Coordinated SLAM by Humans and Robots”
by A. Kleiner, C. Dornhege, and D. Sun.
In Proc. of the IEEE Int. Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), (Rom, Italy), 2007, pp. 1-6.
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“Genetic MRF model optimization for real-time victim detection in Search and Rescue”
by A. Kleiner and R. Kümmerle.
In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS), (San Diego, California), 2007, pp. 3025-3030.
Details. Download: Paper (PDF), Video (mpeg 5MB).

“Decentralized SLAM for Pedestrians without direct Communication”
by A. Kleiner and D. Sun.
In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS), (San Diego, California), 2007, pp. 1461-1466.
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“Cooperative Exploration for USAR Robots with Indirect Communication”
by V.A. Ziparo, A. Kleiner, L. Marchetti, A. Farinelli, and D. Nardi.
In Proc.of 6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV'07), 2007.
Details. Download: Paper (PDF).

“Behavior maps for online planning of obstacle negotiation and climbing on rough terrain”
by C. Dornhege and A. Kleiner.
In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS), (San Diego, California), 2007, pp. 3005-3011.
Details. Download: Paper (PDF), Video (mpeg 5MB) .

“Behavior maps for online planning of obstacle negotiation and climbing on rough terrain”
by C. Dornhege and A. Kleiner.
In Video Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), (San Diego, California), 2007.
Details. Download: Video (mpeg 49MB) .

2006

“RoboCupRescue - Simulation League Team RescueRobots Freiburg (Germany)”
by A. Kleiner and V.A. Ziparo.
In RoboCup 2006 (CDROM Proceedings), Team Description Paper, Rescue Simulation League, (Bremen, Germany), 2006. (1st place in the competition).
Details. Download: Paper (pdf), Poster (ppt), Video from the final (avi 32MB) .

“RoboCupRescue - Robot League Team RescueRobots Freiburg (Germany)”
by A. Kleiner, C. Dornhege, R. Kümmerle, M. Ruhnke, B. Steder, B. Nebel, P. Doherty, M. Wzorek, P. Rudol, G. Conte, S. Durante, and D. Lundstrom.
In RoboCup 2006 (CDROM Proceedings), Team Description Paper, Rescue Robot League, (Bremen, Germany), 2006. (1st place in the autonomy competition).
Details. Download: Paper (pdf), Poster (ppt), Video from the autonomy final (mpeg 13MB).

“RFID Technology-based Exploration and SLAM for Search And Rescue”
by A. Kleiner, J. Prediger, and B. Nebel.
In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS), (Beijing, China), 2006, pp. 4054-4059.
Details. Download: Paper (PDF), Video (mpeg 13MB).

“Wearable computing meets multiagent systems: A real-world interface for the RoboCupRescue simulation platform”
by A. Kleiner, N. Behrens, and H. Kenn.
In First International Workshop on Agent Technology for Disaster Management at AAMAS06, (N. Jennings, M. Tambe, T. Ishida, and S. Ramchurn, eds.), (Hakodate, Japan), 2006, pp. 116-123.
Details. Download: Paper (pdf), Talk (ppt), SRMED2006.

“Visual Odometry for Tracked Vehicles”
by C. Dornhege and A. Kleiner.
In Proc. of the IEEE Int. Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA), 2006.
Details. Download: Paper (PDF), Video (mpeg 5.4MB).

2005

“RoboCupRescue - Robot League Team RescueRobots Freiburg (Germany)”
by A. Kleiner, B. Steder, C. Dornhege, D. Höfer, D. Meyer-Delius, J. Prediger, J. Stückler, K. Glogowski, M. Thurner, M. Luber, M. Schnell, R. Kümmerle, T. Burk, T. Bräuer, and B. Nebel.
In RoboCup 2005 (CDROM Proceedings), Team Description Paper, Rescue Robot League, (Osaka, Japan), 2005. (1st place in the autonomy competition, 4th place in the teleoperation competition).
Details. Download: Paper (pdf).

“ResQ Freiburg: Team Description and Evaluation”
by A. Kleiner, M. Brenner, T. Bräuer, C. Dornhege, M. Göbelbecker, M. Luber, J. Prediger, J. Stückler, and B. Nebel, Institut für Informatik.
Universität Freiburg technical report 00219, 2005.
Details. Download: Paper (ps.gz).

“Successful Search and Rescue in Simulated Disaster Areas”
by A. Kleiner, M. Brenner, T. Bräuer, C. Dornhege, M. Göbelbecker, M. Luber, J. Prediger, J. Stückler, and B. Nebel.
In Robocup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, (A. Bredenfeld, A. Jacoff, I. Noda, and Y. Takahashi, eds.), 2005, pp. 323-334.
Details. Download: Paper (pdf).

“Game AI: The shrinking gap between computer games and AI systems”
by A. Kleiner.
Ambient Intelligence: The evolution of technology, communication and cognition towards the future of human-computer interaction, (G. Riva, F. Vatalaro, F. Davide, and M. Alcaniz, eds.), vol. 6, 2005, pp. 143-155, IOS press.
Details. Download: Paper (pdf).

2004

“Rescue3D: Making rescue simulation attractive to the public”
by A. Kleiner and M. Göbelbecker, Institut für Informatik.
Universität Freiburg technical report 00229, 2004.
Details. Download: Paper (ps.gz), Paper (pdf).

“ResQ Freiburg: Team Description and Evaluation”
by A. Kleiner, M. Brenner, T. Bräuer, C. Dornhege, M. Göbelbecker, M. Luber, J. Prediger, and J. Stückler.
In RoboCup 2004 (CDROM Proceedings), Team Description Paper, Rescue Simulation League, (Lisbon, Portugal), 2004. (1st place in the competition).
Details. Download: Paper (pdf).

“Approaching Urban Disaster Reality: The ResQ Firesimulator”
by T. A. Nüssle, A. Kleiner, and M. Brenner.
In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, (D. Nardi, M. Riedmiller, C. Sammut, and J. Santos-Victor, eds.), 2004, pp. 474-482.
Details. Download: Paper (pdf).

2003

“A Plugin-Based Architecture for Simulation in the F2000 League”
by A. Kleiner and T. Buchheim.
In RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, (D. Polani, B. Browning, A. Bonarini, and K. Yoshida, eds.), 2003, pp. 434-445.
Details. Download: Paper (pdf).

“Self-Localization in Dynamic Environments based on Laser and Vision Data”
by E. Schulenburg, T. Weigel, and A. Kleiner.
In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots & Systems (IROS), November 17 2003, pp. 998-1004.
Details. Download: Paper (pdf), Video (mpeg 3MB).

2002

“Towards a Life-Long Learning Soccer Agent”
by A. Kleiner, M. Dietl, and B. Nebel.
In RoboCup 2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI, (G. A. Kaminka, P. U. Lima, and R. Rojas, eds.), 2002, pp. 126-134.
Details. Download: Paper (pdf), Video (mpeg 16MB).

“CS Freiburg: Coordinating Robots for Successful Soccer Playing”
by T. Weigel, J.-S. Gutmann, M. Dietl, A. Kleiner, and B. Nebel.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol. 18, no. 5, January 07 2002, pp. 685-699.
Details. Download: Paper (pdf), Video (mpeg 3MB).

2001

“CS Freiburg 2001”
by T. Weigel, A. Kleiner, F. Diesch, M. Dietl, J.-S. Gutmann, B. Nebel, P. Stiegeler, and B. Szerbakowski.
In RoboCup 2001 : Robot Soccer World Cup V, (Andreas Birk, Silvia Coradeschi, and Satoshi Tadokoro, eds.), 2001, pp. 26-38.
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2000

“Self Organising Maps for Value Estimation to Solve Reinforcement Learning Tasks”
by A. Kleiner, B. Sharp, and O. Bittel.
In Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2000), 2000, pp. 74-83.
Details. Download: Paper (pdf).

“A New Algorithm for Learning Bayesian Classifiers from Data”
by A. Kleiner and B. Sharp.
In Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, (M. K. Hamza, ed.), (Banff, Alberta, Canada), 2000, pp. 191-197.
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