Stefan Schiffer

I am a research and teaching assistant (and a Ph.D. candidate) at the Knowledge-based Systems Group which is headed by Professor G. Lakemeyer, PhD.. We are part of the Department of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University.

News

• I do not offer any internships. Please excuse that I will not respond to any such (email) requests.

Personal

General

If you do not speak german and are unsure on how to pronounce my name, try "Shiffuh".
For the IPA-capable people among you, here you go:   [ˈStêfaːn ˈʃɪfɐ] 
You can also use pronounciation tips for 'Schiffer' at pronouncenames.com

Short Bio

• Is a research and teaching assistant and a Ph.D. candidate at RWTH Aachen University since 2006.
• Held a scholarship from the graduate school Graduiertenkolleg "Software fuer mobile Kommunikationssysteme" from 2006 to 2008.
• Received his diploma degree (Dipl.-Inform., comparable to M.Sc.) from RWTH Aachen University end of 2005.
• Studied computer science with a minor in medicine and specialization in artificial intelligence at RWTH Aachen University.
  • Worked as a student researcher at Knowledge-based Sytems Group at RWTH Aachen University in the RoboCup project from 2003 to 2005.
  • Worked as a student researcher at the Department of Computer Science 3 (Software Engineering) at RWTH Aachen University in the aTool project from 2000 to 2002.

Profiles

• My profile in the RWTH CAMPUS system
• My event list in the RWTH CAMPUS system
• My profile at Academia.edu
• My profile at Mendeley
• My profile at ResearchGATE

Research

Interests

My research interests include but are not limited to

• Cognitive Robotics
• Domestic Service Robotics
• Human-Machine Interaction
• Embodied Artificial Intelligence

Projects

• I am head of the RoboCup@Home Division of the AllemaniACs RoboCup Team .
• I am involved in the League

Activities

RoboCup

• I was League Chair of the RoboCup@Home league competitions at RoboCup German Open 2008 held at Hannover Fair.
• I have served as a member of the Technical Committee of the RoboCup@Home League for 2006/2007, 2007/2008, and 2008/2009.
  Thus, I was/am actively involved in writing the rulebook.

Review

So far, I reviewed paper submissions for the following conferences, journals, symposia, and workshops:

• International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots 2006 (PCAR'06)
• RoboCup International Symposium 2006 (RC'06)
• RoboCup International Symposium 2007 (RC'07)
• International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2008 (ICRA'08)
• RoboCup International Symposium 2008 (RC'08)
• 6th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop, July 21-22, Patras, Greece, 2008 (CogRob'08)
• International Conference on Spatial Cognition 2008 (SC'08)
• RoboCup International Symposium 2009 (RC'09)
• RoboCup International Symposium 2010 (RC'10)
• Agents in Real-Time and Dynamic Environments Workshop at AAMAS 2010, Toronto, Canada
• SIMPAR Workshop 2010 - Domestic Service Robots in the Real World
  November 15, 2010, Darmstadt, Germany (SIMPAR10-WS-DSR)
• RoboCup International Symposium 2011 (RC'11)
• 34th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  October 4-7, 2011: Technical University Berlin (KI 2011)
• The 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI2011)
• Africon 2011 Special Session on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa
  September 13-15, 2011, Zambia (Africon 2011)
• International Conference on Spatial Cognition 2012 (SC'12)
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2012 (IROS 2012)
• 35th German Conference on Artifical Intelligence 2012 (KI 2012)
• Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS)
• Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (JINT)

Program Committee

I've been a Program Committee member of

• The RoboCup 2008 Symposium
• The RoboCup 2009 Symposium
• The RoboCup 2010 Symposium
• The RoboCup 2011 Symposium
• The ERLARS Workshop
• The HIMoA 2011 Workshop
• The 35th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2012) - Poster and Demo Track

Awards & Honors

I've received the following awards and honors

• As a team member of the student team ArneAnsaugstutzen (together with S.Jacobs and C.Richterich)
  we ranked 3rd in the Sun Software Price at Tag der Informatik 2001
  at the Computer Science Department at RWTH Aachen, Germany.
  preliminary round, finals and award ceremony.
• As leader of the AllemaniACs RoboCup Team in the RoboCup@Home league
  we became World Champion at RoboCup 2006 in Bremen, Germany.
• Leading the AllemaniACs RoboCup Team in the RoboCup@Home league
  we won at the RoboCup German Open in 2007 in Hannover, Germany.
• As leader of the AllemaniACs RoboCup Team in the RoboCup@Home league
  we became World Champion at RoboCup 2007 in Atlanta, USA.
• Leading the AllemaniACs RoboCup Team in the RoboCup@Home league
  we won the RoboCup German Open in 2008 in Hannover, Germany.
• As leader of the AllemaniACs RoboCup Team in the RoboCup@Home league
  we reached 2^nd place at RoboCup 2008 in Suzhou, China.
• Masrur Doostdar, Gerhard Lakemeyer, and I received the Best Student Paper Award
  at the RoboCup 2008 Symposium in Suzhou, China, for our paper
  ``Robust Speech Recognition for Service Robotic Applications''.
• We received the Best Student Paper Award at ICAART 2012 in Vilamoura, Portugal.
  for our paper ``Flexible Command Interpretation on an Interactive Domestic Service Robot''.

Development

• I added the network connectivity part and some bug reports to the Referee-Box for the RoboCup Middle-Size League.
  See this announcement for more information.

Other

• I am involved in the working group "Mensch und Automatisierung" within the Forum Technik und Gesellschaft.

Publications

See also:

• List of Stefan Schiffer's publications at the KBSG website
• List of Stefan Schiffer's publications at the AllemaniACs RoboCup Team website
• Stefan Schiffer's DBLP listing (mine)
  
  (The other Stefan Schiffer's DBLP listing)
• Stefan Schiffer's PubZone listing (mine)
  
  (The other Stefan Schiffer's PubZone listing)
• My ACM author profile (not all of the entries are mine here)
• search 'Stefan Schiffer' at SpringerLink
• Stefan Schiffer's listing at ScientificCommons (not all of the entries are mine here neither)
• 'Stefan Schiffer' listing at Metapress (again, not all of the entries are actually mine)
• Search for Stefan Schiffer at CiteSeerX
• Search for Stefan Schiffer at The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies (csbib)
• Stefan Schiffer's author profile at Microsoft Academic Search. (Not all results are mine, once again.)
• Stefan Schiffer's profile at Google Scholar Citations
• Stefan Schiffer's profile at ArnetMiner (not all publications are mine, but there's also another Stefan Schiffer at ArnetMiner (those publications are mine) and yet another Stefan Schiffer at ArnetMiner (whose publications are mine, also) .

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2013

Stefan Schiffer, Niklas Hoppe, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Natural Language Interpretation for an Interactive Service Robot in Domestic Domains.
In Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Fourth International Conference, ICAART 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal, February 6-8, 2012. Revised Selected Papers.
Accepted for publication, to appear.
BibTeX

2012

Stefan Schiffer, Alexander Ferrein, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Caesar -- An Intelligent Domestic Service Robot.
In Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics. Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Robotics..
BibTeX  |  Article at Springerlink Classic  |  Article at SpringerLink  |  JISR at Springerlink  |  Download preprint (pdf)

Christoph Schwering, Daniel Beck, Stefan Schiffer, Gerhard Lakemeyer
Plan Recognition by Program Execution in Continuous Temporal Domains.
Proceedings of the 35^th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2012).
September 24-27, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2012.
BibTeX  |  DBLP BibTeX  |  DBLP Entry  |  SpringerLink Classic  |  SpringerLink  |  Download (pdf)

Tim Niemueller, Stefan Schiffer, Albert Helligrath, Safoura Rezapour Lakani, Gerhard Lakemeyer
BendIT -- An Interactive Game with two Robots.
Poster and Demo Session at the 35^th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2012).
September 24-27, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2012.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)  |  Download Poster (pdf)  |  Watch BendIT video on YouTube
Poster & Demo Track website  |  Download at conference's P&D-Track website (pdf)

Stefan Schiffer, Tobias Baumgartner, Daniel Beck, Bahram Maleki-Fard, Tim Niemueller, Christoph Schwering, Gerhard Lakemeyer
robOCD: Robotic Order Cups Demo -- An Interactive Domestic Service Robotics Demo.
Poster and Demo Session at the 35^th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2012).
September 24-27, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2012.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)  |  Download Poster (pdf)  |  Watch robOCD video on YouTube
Poster & Demo Track website  |  Download at conference's P&D-Track website (pdf)

Christoph Schwering, Daniel Beck, Stefan Schiffer, Gerhard Lakemeyer
Plan Recognition by Program Execution in Continuous Temporal Domains.
In Wolfram Burgard, Kurt Konolige, Maurice Pagnucco, and Stavros Vassos, editors,
Proceedings of the 8th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop (CogRob 2012).
held at AAAI 2012, July 22-23, Toronto, Canada, 2012.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)  |  in AAAI WS 2012 List  |  Download (pdf) at AAAI

Stefan Schiffer, Niklas Hoppe, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Flexible Command Interpretation on an Interactive Domestic Service Robot.
In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2012).
February 6-8, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2012. Received Best Student Paper Award.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)  |  DBLP bibtex  |  DBLP entry

2011

Stefan Schiffer, Tobias Baumgartner, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
A Modular Approach to Gesture Recognition for Interaction with a Domestic Service Robot.
In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2011).
December 6 - 8, Aachen, Germany, 2011.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)  |  DBLP bibtex  |  DBLP entry  |  Springerlink

Stefan Schiffer, Alexander Ferrein, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Fuzzy Representations and Control for Domestic Service Robots in Golog.
In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2011).
December 6 - 8, Aachen, Germany, 2011.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)  |  DBLP bibtex  |  DBLP entry  |  SpringerLink Classic  |  SpringerLink

Sandra Geisler, Christoph Quix, Stefan Schiffer, Matthias Jarke.
An Evaluation Framework for Traffic Information Systems Based on Data Streams.
In Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. Special Issue on Data Management in Vehicular Networks..
Article at Science Direct  |  Transportation Research Part C - Journal at Elsevier

Stefan Schiffer, Alexander Ferrein, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Reasoning with Qualitative Positional Information for Domestic Domains in the Situation Calculus.
In Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. Special Issue on Domestic Service Robots in the Real World..
BibTeX  |  Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems  |  Article at Springerlink  |  JINT at Springerlink  |  Download preprint (pdf)

Stefan Schiffer, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
AllemaniACs@Home 2011 Team Description.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)

2010

Stefan Schiffer, Alexander Ferrein, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Fuzzy Representation and Control for Domestic Service Robotics.
In Domestic Service Robots in the Real World (SIMPAR10-ATHOME).
Workshop Proceedings of the 2^nd Int. Conference on Simulation, Modelling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR2010).
November 15-18, Darmstadt, Germany.
BibTeX  |  SIMPAR10-ATHOME Website  |  Download (pdf)

Sandra Geisler, Christoph Quix, Stefan Schiffer.
A Data Stream-based Evaluation Framework for Traffic Information Systems.
In Proc. of the 1^st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS) 2010.
November 2, San Jose, CA, USA.
BibTeX  |  DBLP bibtex  |  DBLP entry  |  ACM Portal entry  |  Download (pdf)  |  IWGS 2010 Website

Stefan Schiffer, Andreas Wortmann, Gerhard Lakemeyer
Self-Maintenance for Autonomous Robots controlled by ReadyLog.
In Proc. of the 7^th Workshop on Technical Challenges for Dependable Robots in Human Environments. 2010.
BibTeX  |  DRHE2010 Website  |  Download (pdf)

Stefan Schiffer, Andreas Wortmann, Gerhard Lakemeyer
Self-Maintenance for Autonomous Robots in the Situation Calculus.
In Gerhard Lakemeyer, Hector Levesque, and Fiorra Pirri, editors, Cognitive Robotics,
number 10081 in Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Dagstuhl, Germany, 2010.
BibTeX  |  Online Proceedings  |  DROPS entry

2009

Thomas Wisspeintner, Tijn van der Zant, Luca Iocchi, Stefan Schiffer
RoboCup@Home: Scientific Competition and Benchmarking for Domestic Service Robots.
Interaction Studies. Special Issue Robots in the Wild, 10(3). 2009.
BibTeX  |  Article at John Benjamins  |  Special Issue at John Benjamins  |  IS at John Benjamins  |  Download (pdf)

Stefan Jacobs, Alexander Ferrein, Stefan Schiffer, Daniel Beck, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Robust Collision Avoidance in Unknown Domestic Environments.
In Proc. of the International RoboCup Symposium 2009 (RoboCup 2009).
June 30 - July 3, Graz, Austria, 2009.
BibTeX  |  DBLP bibtex  |  DBLP entry  |  SpringerLink Classic  |  SpringerLink  |  Download (pdf)

Thomas Wisspeintner, Tijn van der Zant, Luca Iocchi, Stefan Schiffer.
RoboCup@Home: Results in Benchmarking Domestic Service Robots.
In Proc. of the International RoboCup Symposium 2009 (RoboCup 2009).
June 30 - July 3, Graz, Austria, 2009.
BibTeX  |  DBLP bibtex  |  DBLP entry  |  Springerlink  |  Download (pdf)

Thomas Wisspeintner, Tijn van der Zant, Luca Iocchi, Stefan Schiffer.
RoboCup@Home 2008: Analysis of Results.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)

Alexander Ferrein, Stefan Schiffer, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Embedding Fuzzy Controllers into Golog.
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE'09).
ICC Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea, 20-24 August, 2009.
BibTeX  |  IEEE Xplore  |  Download (pdf)

Stefan Schiffer, Tim Niemueller, Masrur Doostdar, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
AllemaniACs@Home 2009 Team Description.
In Proc. of the International RoboCup Symposium 2009 (RoboCup 2009).
Graz, Austria, 2009. CD-ROM Supplement.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)

2008

Vaishak Belle, Thomas Deselaers, Stefan Schiffer.
Randomized Trees for Real-Time One-Step Face Detection and Recognition.
In Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition 2008 (ICPR'08).
December 8-11, Tampa, Florida, USA.
BibTeX  |  DBLP bibtex  |  DBLP entry  |  IEEE Xplore  |  Download (pdf)

Alexander Ferrein, Stefan Schiffer, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
A Fuzzy Set Semantics for Qualitative Fluents in the Situation Calculus.
In Proc. of the International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications 2008 (ICIRA'08).
October 15-17, Wuhan, China.
BibTeX  |  DBLP bibtex  |  DBLP entry  |  Springerlink  |  ACM Portal entry  |  Google Books  |  Download (pdf)

Masrur Doostdar, Stefan Schiffer, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Robust Speech Recognition for Service Robotics Applications.
In Proc. of the International RoboCup Symposium 2008 (RoboCup 2008).
July 14-18, Suzhou, China. Received Best Student Paper Award
BibTeX  |  DBLP bibtex  |  DBLP entry  |  SpringerLink Classic  |  SpringerLink  |  ACM Portal entry  |  Download (pdf)

Frank Dylla, Alexander Ferrein, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Jan Murray, Oliver Obst, Thomas Röfer,
Stefan Schiffer, Frieder Stolzenburg, Ubbo Visser, and Thomas Wagner.
Approaching a formal soccer theory from behaviour specifications in robotic soccer.
In Peter Dabnicki and Arnold Baca, editors,
Computer Science and Sports. WIT Press, London, 2008.
BibTeX  |  Book website at WITpress  |  Download (pdf)

Stefan Schiffer, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
AllemaniACs@Home 2008 Team Description.
In Proc. of the International RoboCup Symposium 2008 (RoboCup 2008).
Suzhou, China, 2008. CD-ROM Supplement.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)

2007

Laurent Calmes, Hermann Wagner, Stefan Schiffer, and Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Combining Sound Localization and Laser based Object Recognition.
In Adriana Tapus, Marek Michalowski, and Selma Sabanovic, editors,
Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, pages 1-6, AAAI Press, Stanford CA, 2007.
BibTeX  |  Download at AAAI  |  Download (pdf)

Stefan Schiffer, Alexander Ferrein, Gerhard Lakemeyer.
AllemaniACs@Home 2007 Team Description.
In Proc. of the International RoboCup Symposium 2007 (RoboCup 2007).
Atlanta, USA, 2007. CD-ROM Supplement.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)

2006

Stefan Schiffer, Alexander Ferrein, and Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Football is coming Home.
In Proc. of International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots (PCAR'06).
University of Western Australia Press, 2006.
BibTeX  |  ACM Portal entry  |  Download

Stefan Schiffer, Alexander Ferrein, and Gerhard Lakemeyer.
Qualitative World Models for Soccer Robots.
In Stefan Wölfl and Till Mossakowski, editors,
Qualitative Constraint Calculi, Workshop at KI 2006, Bremen, pages 3-14, 2006.
BibTeX  |  CiteSeerX  |  Download (pdf)

Alexander Ferrein, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Stefan Schiffer.
AllemaniACs@Home 2006 Team Description.
In Proc. of the International RoboCup Symposium 2006 (RoboCup 2006).
Bremen, Germany, 2006. CD-ROM Supplement.
BibTeX  |  Download (pdf)

2005

Stefan Schiffer.
ReadyWorld - A Qualitative Worldmodel for Autonomous Soccer Agents in the ReadyLog Framework.
Master's thesis, Knowledge-based Systems Group, RWTH Aachen University, 2005.
BibTeX  |  old ReadyWorld Website

2002

Frank Dylla, Alexander Ferrein, Stefan Jacobs, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Claus Richterich, Stefan Schiffer
Collision Avoidance in Real-Time with Look-Ahead (CARLA).
In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Environment and Motion Modelling. RWTH Aachen University, 2002.
BibTeX

Selected Talks

Stefan Schiffer Kinect in Domestic Service Robotics.
Talk at the REGINA Management Treffen 04/2012, Kinect - Die Maschine versteht dich!.
National Instruments, Aachen, Germany, April 2012.

Stefan Schiffer RoboCup: Robotic Soccer and Beyond.
Talk at the Fachschaftstagung Mathematik/Informatik 2011, Cusanuswerk.
Bildungsstaette Eichsfeld, Uder, Germany, June 2011.

Stefan Schiffer Towards Integrated Self-Maintenance for Domestic Service Robotics.
Talk at the DAIDO/RWTH Workshop on Metal Forming and Autonomous Systems,
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, October 2010.

Stefan Schiffer RoboCup@Home - A Domestic Service Robotics Initiative.
Talk at the Robots and Agents Research Lab, Open House Day 2009,
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2009.

Stefan Schiffer Robust Service Robotics in RoboCup@Home - A Team's Perspective.
Talk at the EURON annual meeting 2009,
K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, April 2009.

Stefan Schiffer RoboCup@Home - Wettkampf der Service-Roboter.
Talk at Tagung "58/08: Der Mensch als Vorbild, Partner & Patient von Robotern - Bionik an der Schnittstelle Mensch-Maschine",
Ev. Akademie Loccum, October 2008.
Website

Stefan Schiffer RoboCup@Home: A Service Robotics Competition.
Talk at the Symposium "Die Automatisierung von Dienstleistungen - eine technische und gesellschaftliche Herausforderung",
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, October 2007.
Fotos

Stefan Schiffer Football is coming Home.
Talk at "Tag der Informatik",
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, December 2006.
Fotos

Selected Exhibits and Demonstrations

International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications 2011
We, the AllemaniACs, demonstrated our robot Caesar at the International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications 2011 showing its capabilities to autonomously drive around the conference area, detect tables and object on them and to grasp and deliver specific objects selected by bystanders using (pointing) gestures. Caesar also presented its ability to detect and follow a Robotino robot from Festo that could be remote controlled by conference participants.
Tivoli Business Center, Aachen, Germany, 12/2011.

Schueler-Universitaet 2008, 2009, and 2010
By demonstrating our robot Caesar to some students participating the Schueler-Universitaet we explained some principal methods in autonomous mobile robotics.
KBSG, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, 09/2008, 09/2009, 09/2010.

Tag der Technik 2008
Our robot Caesar acted as an assistant to Helge Haas in the Manege der Innovationen at Tag der Technik.
Schloss Birlinghoven, St. Augustin, Germany, 06/2008.

Hannover Messe 2007 We demonstrated our robot Hannibal at the booth of North-Rhine-Westphalia at the Hannover Messe.
Hannover Fair, Hannover, Germany, 04/2007.

Teaching

General

I am the coordinator and study advisor for the Master Programme Software Systems Engineering.

Check out my event list in the CAMPUS System.

Courses

• SS 2013 - Artificial Intelligence (ProSeminar)
• SS 2013 - Plan and Activity Recognition (Seminar)
• WS 2012/2013 - Ringvorlesung Bionik (Lecture + Exercise on Robotics)
• WS 2012/2013 - Einfuehrung in die Informatik (Lecture + Exercises)
• WS 2012/2013 - Robot Communication and Coordination (Lab Course)
• SS 2012 - Robust Reliable Robotics (Seminar)
• SS 2012 - Artificial Intelligence (ProSeminar)
• WS 2011/2012 - Einfuehrung in die Informatik (Lecture + Exercises)
• WS 2011/2012 - Interactive Games and/with Robots (Lab Course)
• SS 2011 - Knowledge Representation and Computational Tractability (Seminar)
• SS 2011 - Artificial Intelligence (ProSeminar)
• WS 2010/2011 - Einfuehrung in die Informatik (Lecture + Exercises)
• WS 2010/2011 - Interactive Agents Artificial Intelligence (Lab Course)
• SS 2010 - Selected Topics in Specifying Intelligent Agents (Seminar)
• WS 2009/2010 - Ringvorlesung Bionik (Lecture + Exercise on Robotics)
• WS 2009/2010 - Einfuehrung in die Informatik (Lecture + Exercises)
• WS 2009/2010 - Intelligent Agents for Interactive Computer Games (Lab Course)
• SS 2009 - Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (Seminar)
• SS 2009 - Planning in Artificial Intelligence (ProSeminar)
• WS 2008/2009 - Einfuehrung in die Informatik (Lecture) [partly]
• WS 2008/2009 - Behavior Programming for Soccer Robots (Lab Course)
• SS 2008 - Markovian Robotics (Seminar) (old page version)
• WS 2007/2008 - Robot Control with Golog (Lab Course) (old page version)
• SS 2007 - Interaction and Learning in Complex Domains (Seminar) [B-IT]
• SS 2007 - Artificial Intelligence (ProSeminar)
• WS 2006/2007 - Service Robotics (Lab Course)
• SS 2006 - Agent Communication (Seminar)

Bachelor-/Master-/Diploma-/Project-Theses

Open

• Master's / Diploma / Bachelor's Thesis, NN.
  Working Title: Long-term World Modelling for Interactive Service Robots
• Master's / Diploma / Bachelor's Thesis, NN.
  Working Title: Tabletop Scene Analysis for Domestic Service Robots
• Master's / Diploma / Bachelor's Thesis, NN.
  Working Title: Visual People Tracking on a Mobile Robot
• Master's / Diploma / Bachelor's Thesis, NN.
  Working Title: Flexible Trajectory Planning for Anthropomorphic Robotic Manipulation
• Contact me for the above and other available Bachelor-/Diplom-/Master-theses topics.

Current

• Master's / Diploma / Bachelor's Thesis, NN.
  Working Title: A Flexible Object Recognition System for Domestic Domains

Finished

• Diploma Thesis, Christoph Schwering.
  Title: Situation Calculus-based Online Plan Recognition in Continuous Domains
  Supervision together with Daniel Beck.
  Also see our publication at CogRob 2012 and our publication at KI 2012 on this.
• Diploma Thesis, Paul Koehler.
  Title: Informed Unsupervised Clustering for Problematic Attributes in Supervised Learning Tasks
  Supervision together with Daniel Beck.
• Diploma Thesis, Niklas Hoppe.
  Title: Flexible Command Interpretation on a Mobile Robot using ReadyLog
  thesis info on KBSG website Also see our publication on this at ICAART 2012.
• Diploma Thesis, Masrur Doostdar.
  Title: Multi-Modal Multi-Target People Tracking on a Mobile Robot
  thesis info on KBSG website
• Bachelor's Thesis, Tobias Baumgartner.
  Title: Visual Gesture Recognition on a Mobile Robot
  thesis info on KBSG website Also see our publication on this at ICIRA 2011.
• Diploma Thesis, Andreas Wortmann.
  Title: Self-Maintaining and Self-Monitoring Autonomous Systems
  thesis info on KBSG website
  Also see our publications on this at CogRob 2010 and at DRHE2010.
• External Diploma Thesis, Siavash Sefid-Rodi.
  Title: Bewegungsverhalten computergesteuerter Charaktere in modernen Computerspielen
  External thesis at artificial technology gmbh.
• Diploma Thesis, Dennis Pannhausen.
  Title: Inductive Policy Learning
  Supervision together with Daniel Beck.
• Diploma Thesis, Christian Gehrmann.
  Topic: Hierarchical Agent Communication in Interactive Computer Games
  Supervised together with Daniel Beck and Dr. Alexander Ferrein.
• Project Thesis, Borja Artamendi Aguirregomezcorta.
  Topic: PoMDP Dialog Management for a Mobile Robot.
• Master's Thesis, Vaishak Belle.
  Title: Detection and Recognition of Human Faces using Random Forests for a Mobile Robot
  Supervised together with Thomas Deselaers from Chair of Computer Science 6
  Also see our publication on this at ICPR 2008.

Stuff

My Erdös Number

My Erdös Number is five (5).
Here's the link-chain:
I coauthored with Gerhard Lakemeyer
  coauthored with Joseph Y. Halpern
  coauthored with Ashok K. Chandra
  coauthored with Shmuel Zaks
  coauthored with Paul Erdös¹

You might be interested in a XKCD comic on this.

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Contact

The easiest way to reach me is via eMail: schiffercsrwth-aachende .
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