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2014

Ngo, H., Luciw, M., Ngo, V., Nagi, J., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Efficient Interactive Multiclass Learning from Binary Feedback”, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) -- Special Issue on Multiple Modalities in Interactive Systems and Robots, 4:3, October 2014. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Leitner, J., Frank, M., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Reactive Reaching and Grasping on a Humanoid: Towards Closing the Action-Perception Loop on the iCub”, International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Vienna, Austria, September 1-3, 2014. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Leitner, J., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Improving Robot Vision Models for Object Detection Through Interaction”, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2014 (WCCI) -- International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Leitner, J., Luciw, M., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Teleoperation of a 7 DOF Humanoid Robot Arm Using Human Arm Accelerations and EMG Signals”, International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), Montréal, Canada, June 17-19, 2014. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Frank, M., Leitner, J., Stollenga, M., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Curiosity Driven Reinforcement Learning for Motion Planning on Humanoids”, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 7:25, January 6, 2014. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: link]

2013

Ducatelle, F., Di Caro, G. A., Förster, A., Bonani, M., Dorigo, M., Magnenat, S., Mondada, F., O’Grady, R., Pinciroli, C., Rétornaz, P., Trianni, V., Gambardella, L. M., “Cooperative navigation in robotic swarms”, Swarm Intelligence, Springer, November, 2013. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: link] [Full text: pdf]
Ngo, H., Luciw, M., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Confidence-based progress-driven self-generated goals for skill acquisition in developmental robots”, Frontiers in Psychology, November 26, 2013. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: link]
Leitner, J., Harding, S., Frank, M., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Humanoid Learns to Detect Its Own Hands”, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computing (CEC), Cancun, Mexico, June 20--23, 2013. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: link] [Full text: pdf]
Leitner, J., Harding, S., Chandrashekhariah, P., Frank, M., Förster, A., Triesch, J., Schmidhuber, J., “Learning visual object detection and localisation using icVision”, In Chella, A. et. al (eds.): Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2012. Extended versions of selected papers from the Third Annual Meeting of the BICA Society (BICA 2012), vol. 5, pp. 29--41, Elsevier, 2013. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: link] [Full text: pdf(draft version)]
Leitner, J., Harding, S., Frank, M., Förster A., Schmidhuber, J., “Artificial Neural Networks For Spatial Perception: Towards Visual Object Localisation in Humanoid Robots”, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Dallas, Texas, USA, August 2013. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Stollenga, M., Pape, L., Frank, M., Leitner, J., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Task-Relevant Roadmaps: A Framework for Humanoid Motion Planning”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 2013. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Dorigo, M., Floreano, D., Gambardella, L. M., Mondada, F., Nolfi, S., Baaboura, T., Birattari, M., Bonani, M., Brambilla, M., Brutschy, A., Burnier, D., Campo, A., Christensen, A. L., Decugnière, A., Di Caro, G. A., Ducatelle, F., Ferrante, E., Förster, A., Martinez Gonzales, J., Guzzi, J., Longchamp, V., Magnenat, S., Mathews, N., Montes de Oca, M., O’Grady, R., Pinciroli, C., Pini, G., Rétornaz, P., Roberts, J., Sperati, V., Stirling, T., Stranieri, A., Stützle, T., Trianni, V., Tuci, E., Turgut, A. E., Vaussard, F., “Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms”, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, vol 20, nr 4, pp. 60--71, 2013. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: link] [Full text: pdf (draft version published as Technical Report IRIDIA 2011-14)]

2012

Leitner, J., Harding, S., Frank, M., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “An Integrated, Modular Framework for Computer Vision and Cognitive Robotics Research (icVision)”, In Chella, A. et. al (eds.): Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2013. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 196, pp. 205--210, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. (presented at the International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA), Palermo, Italy, October 31 - November 3, 2012). [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: link] [Full text: pdf (draft version)]
Leitner, J., Chandrashekhariah, P., Harding, S., Frank, M., Spina, G., Förster, A., Triesch, J., Schmidhuber, J., “Autonomous Learning Of Robust Visual Object Detection And Identification On A Humanoid”, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), San Diego, California, USA, November 7-9, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Leitner, J., Harding, S., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Mars Terrain Image Classification using Cartesian Genetic Programming”, 11th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), Torino, Italy, September 4-6, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Leitner, J., Harding, S., Frank, M., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Towards Spatial Perception: Learning to Locate Objects From Vision”, Postgraduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition (RobotDoC-PhD),Lausanne, Switzerland, September 11-14, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Leitner, J., Harding, S., Frank, M., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Learning Spatial Object Localisation from Vision on a Humanoid Robot”, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 6, InTech, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Frank, M., Leitner, J., Stollenga, M., Kaufmann, G., Harding, S., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “The Modular Behavioral Environment for Humanoids and other Robots (MoBeE)”, 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Rome, Italy, July 28-31, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Pape, L., Oddo, C.M., Controzzi, M., Cipriani, C., Förster, A., Carrozza, M.C., Schmidhuber, J., “Learning tactile skills through curious exploration”, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, vol. 6, nr. 6, July 23, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Leitner, J., Harding, S., Frank, M., Förster, A, Schmidhuber, J., “Transferring Spatial Perception Between Robots Operating In A Shared Workspace”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Frank, K., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Reflexive Collision Response with Virtual Skin --- Roadmap Planning Meets Reinforcement Learning”, 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Vilamoura, Portugal, February 6-8, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Förster, A., Förster, A., Garg, K., Puccinelli, D., Giordano, S., Gambardella, L.M., “Demonstrating MOTEL: A Mobile Robotic-Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks Testbed”, 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Trento, Italy, February 15-17, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Extended abstract: pdf] [Poster: pdf]
Ngo, H., Luciw, M., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “Learning Skills from Play: Artificial Curiosity on a Katana Robot Arm”, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Leitner, J., Harding, S., Frank, M., Förster, A., Schmidhuber, J., “icVision: A Modular Vision System for Cognitive Robotics Research”, 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys), Vienna, Austria, February 22-23, 2012. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]

2011

Dorigo, M., Floreano, D., Gambardella, L. M., Mondada, F., Nolfi, S., Baaboura, T., Birattari, M., Bonani, M., Brambilla, M., Brutschy, A., Burnier, D., Campo, A., Christensen, A. L., Decugnière, A., Di Caro, G. A., Ducatelle, F., Ferrante, E., Förster, A., Martinez Gonzales, J., Guzzi, J., Longchamp, V., Magnenat, S., Mathews, N., Montes de Oca, M., O’Grady, R., Pinciroli, C., Pini, G., Rétornaz, P., Roberts, J., Sperati, V., Stirling, T., Stranieri, A., Stützle, T., Trianni, V., Tuci, E., Turgut, A. E., Vaussard, F., “Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms”, Technical Report IRIDIA 2011-14, Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium, 2011. [Citations: bib] [Full text: pdf]
Förster, A., Förster, A., Leidi, T., Garg, K., Puccinelli, D., Ducatelle, F., Giordano, S., Gambardella, L.M., “MOTEL: Towards Flexible Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds”, EWSN 2011: 8th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, Bonn, Germany, February 23-25, 2011. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt(UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Förster, A., Förster, A. (Eds.), Emerging Communications for Wireless Sensor Networks, InTech, ISBN 978-953-307-082-7, February 7, 2011. [Citations: bib] [Preface: txt(UTF-8)] [Link: html (book download for free)]

2010

Ducatelle F., Di Caro G. A., Förster A., Gambardella L. M., “Mobile stigmergic markers for navigation in a heterogeneous robotic swarm”, Swarm Intelligence, Proceedings of the 7th International ANTS Conference, Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10, 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6234, pp. 456--463, Springer , 2010. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: link] [Full text: pdf]
Ducatelle F., Di Caro G. A., Förster A., Gambardella L. M., “Adaptive navigation in a heterogeneous swarm robotic system”, 4th International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys2010), Zurich, Switzerland, January 27-28, 2010. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]

2009

Ducatelle, F., Förster, A., Di Caro, G.A., Gambardella, L.M., “Supporting Navigation in Multi-Robot Systems through Delay Tolerant Network Communication”, NetRob 2009: IFAC Workshop on Networked Robotics, Golden, Colorado, USA, October 6-8, 2009. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Förster, A., Förster, A., Murphy, A.L., “Optimal Cluster Sizes for Wireless Sensor Networks: An Experimental Analysis”, ADHOCNETS 2009: First International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 23-25, 2009. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Ducatelle, F., Förster, A., Di Caro, G.A., Gambardella, L.M., “New task allocation methods for robotic swarms”, Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/RAS Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 7, 2009. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Ducatelle, F., Förster, A., Di Caro, G.A., Gambardella, L.M., “Task allocation in robotic swarms: new methods and comparisons”, Technical Report, IDSIA-01-09, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland, January 22, 2009. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Wierstra, D., Förster, A., Peters, J., Schmidhuber, J., “Recurrent Policy Gradients”, Logic Journal of IGPL, 2010 18: 620-634, doi:10.1093/jigpal/jzp049, Online ISSN 1368-9894 - Print ISSN 1367-0751, Oxford University Press, Advance Access published on September 9, 2009. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]

2008

Balkenius, C., Förster A., Johansson B., Thorsteinsdottir V. “Anticipation in Attention”, In: Pezzulo, G., Butz, M.V., Castelfranchi, C. , Falcone, R. (Eds.). The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems, pp. 65-83, Springer, LNAI 5225, ISBN: 978-3-540-87701-1, 2008. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]

2007

Wierstra, D., Förster, A., Peters, J., Schmidhuber, J. “Solving Deep Memory POMDPs with Recurrent Policy Gradients”, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN'07, Porto, Portugal, September 9-13, 2007. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]
Förster, A., Graves, A., Schmidhuber, J. “RNN-based Learning of Compact Maps for Efficient Robot Localization”, 15th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN, Bruges, Belgium, April 25-27, 2007. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (UTF-8)] [Full text: pdf]

2006

Rojas, R., Gloye Förster, A. “Holonomic Control of a robot with an omnidirectional drive”, KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, vol. 20, nr. 2, BöttcherIT Verlag, 2006. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (iso 8895-1)] [Full text: pdf (preprint)]

2005

Gloye, A., Wiesel, F., Tenchio, O., Simon, M. “Reinforcing the Driving Quality of Soccer Playing Robots by Anticipation” (Verbesserung der Fahreigenschaften von fußballspielenden Robotern durch Antizipation), it - Information Technology, vol. 47, nr. 5, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2005. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (deutsch, iso 8895-1), txt (english, iso 8895-1)] [Full text on request]
Hecht, B., Simon, M., Tenchio, O., Wiesel, F., Gloye, A., Rojas, R.: “A Neural Coach for Teaching Robots Using Diagrams”, in Workshop Agents in Real Time and Dynamic Environments, IJCAI 2005, Edinburgh, July 2005.
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Gloye, A., “Lernmethoden für autonome mobile Roboter” (Learning Methods for Autonomous Mobile Robots), PhD thesis (Dissertation), Freie Universität Berlin, 2005. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (deutsch, iso 8895-1), txt (english, iso 8895-1)] [Full text: pdf]

2004

Gloye, A., Göktekin, C., Egorova, A., Tenchio, O., Rojas, R., “Learning to Drive and Simulate Autonomous Mobile Robots”, RoboCup-2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, Springer-Verlag, 2004. [Citations: txt (utf8), bib, ris] [Abstract: txt (iso 8895-1)] [Full text: ps]
Egorova, A., Simon, M., Wiesel, F., Gloye, A., Rojas, R., “Plug & Play: Fast Automatic Geometry and Color Calibration for Cameras Tracking Robots”, RoboCup-2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII, Springer-Verlag, 2004. [Citations: txt (utf8), bib, ris] [Abstract: txt (iso 8895-1)] [Full text: pdf, ps]
Egorova, A., Gloye, A., Göktekin, C., Liers, A., Luft, M., Rojas, R., Simon, M., Tenchio, O., Wiesel, F., “FU-Fighters Small Size 2004”, in: D. Nardi, M. Riedmiller, C. Sammut, J. Santos-Victor (Eds.), RoboCup 2004 Symposium: Papers and Team Description Papers, 2004. [Citations: bib] [Full text: pdf, ps]

2003

Gloye, A., “Reinforcement Learning mit realen Robotern”, in: Schweppe, H. (Ed.), Doktorandenworkshop des Instituts für Informatik der FU, Technical Report B 03-17, Free University Berlin, 2003. [Citations: bib] [Full text: pdf]
Behnke, S., Egorova, A., Gloye, A., Rojas, R. and Simon, M., “Predicting Away the Delay”, RoboCup-2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, Springer-Verlag, 2004. [Citations: txt (utf8), bib, ris] [Abstract: txt (iso 8895-1)] [Full text: pdf, ps]
Gloye, A., Simon, M., Egorova, A., Wiesel, F., Tenchio, O., Schreiber, M., Behnke, S., Rojas, R., Predicting away robot control latency, Technical Report B08-03, Free University Berlin, 2003. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: txt (iso 8895-1)] [Full text: pdf, ps]
Egorova, A., Gloye, A., Liers, A., Rojas, R., Schreiber, M., Simon, M., Tenchio, O., Wiesel, F., “FU-Fighters 2003 (Global Vision)”, in D. Polani, B. Browning, A. Bonarini, K. Yoshida (Eds.), RoboCup2003: Proceedings of the International Symposium with Team Description Papers, 2003. [Citations: bib] [Full text: pdf]
Gloye, A., Simon, M., Egorova, A., Wiesel, F., Tenchio, O., Schreiber, M., Rojas, R., Hardware and Software of the FU-Fighters 2003, Technical Report B10-03, Free University Berlin, 2003. [Citations: bib] [Full text: pdf]

2002

Behnke, S., Gloye, A., Hundelshausen, F. v., Rojas, R., “FU-Fighters 2002 (Middle Size), Team Description”, in: G. A. Kaminka, P U. Lima, R. Rojas (Eds.), RoboCup-2002: RobotSoccer World Cup VI, The 2002 International RoboCup Symposium Pre-Proceedings, 2002. [Citations: bib] [Full text: pdf]
Egorova, A., Gloye, A., Rojas, R., Videoanalyse von Sportspielen, Technical Report B-15-2002, FU-Berlin, 2002.
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2001

Gloye, A., “ARP” in: R. Rojas (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History, vol. 1, p. 47, Fitzroy Deaborn, NY 2001.
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1996

Förster, A., Eigenschaften graphischer D0L-Systeme, master thesis (Diplomarbeit), Freie Universität Berlin, 1996. [Citations: bib] [Abstract: html] [Full text: ps]

1995

Gärtner, B., Förster, A., School “Pflanzen und Computergrafik” (Plants and Computer Graphics), Berliner Tag der Mathematik (Berlin Mathematics Day for pupils), Computer Science Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Summer 1995. [Citations: bib] [Full text: pdf, ps]

Last change November 2014, Alexander Förster