Frank E. Schneider

1. A. Kräußling, F. E. Schneider, and D. Wildermuth, A Switching Algorithm for Tracking Extended Targets. Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics II (ICINCO), Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 117-128.

2. F. E. Schneider, A. Kräußling, and D. Wildermuth, Tracking Methods for Relative Localisation, Robot Motion and Control . Recent Developments, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 335, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2006, pp. 301-313.

3. L. E. Parker, F. E. Schneider, and A. C. Schultz (Eds.), Multi Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume III. Proceedings from the 2005 International Workshop on Multi Robot Systems. Kluwer Academic Press, 2005.

4. A. C. Schultz, L. E. Parker, and F. E. Schneider (Eds.), Multi Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume II. Proceedings from the 2003 International Workshop on Multi Robot Systems. Kluwer Academic Press, 2003.

5. W. Burgard, M Moors, and F. E. Schneider, Collaborative Exploration of Unknown Environments with Teams of Mobile Robots. In: M. Beetz, J. Hertzberg, M. Ghallab, and M. E. Pollack (Eds.): Advances in Plan-Based Control of Robotic Agents, vol. 4266 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2002.

1. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, Influences of the Robot Group Size on Cooperative Multi-Robot Localisation . Analysis and Experimental Validation. To be published in the TAROS 2011 special issue of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2012.

2. F. E. Schneider, D. Wildermuth, B. Brüggemann, and T. Röhling, European Land Robot Trial (ELROB) . Towards a Realistic Benchmark for Outdoor Robotics, AT&P Journal plus, vol. 2, HMH s.r.o., Bratislava, 2010, pp. 97-102.

3. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, An Application of Relative Localisation for Multi-Robot Navigation. Optoelectronics, Instrumentation and Data Processing (Avtometriya), vol. 42, no. 5, Allerton Press, New York, 2006, pp. 110-120.

4. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, Directed and Non-Directed Potential Field Approaches to Formation Navigation, Optoelectronics, Instrumentation and Data Processing (Avtometriya), vol. 42, no. 5, Allerton Press, New York, 2006, pp. 98-109.

5. F. E. Schneider, D. Wildermuth, and A. Kräußling, Discussion of Exemplary Metrics for Multi-Robot Systems for Formation Navigation, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 2-4, 2005, pp. 345-353.

6. W. Burgard, M. Moors, C. Stachniss, and F. E. Schneider, Coordinated Multi-Robot Exploration, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 21, no. 3, 2005, pp. 376-386.

7. D. Wildermuth and F. E. Schneider, A Vision-based Approach for Maintaining a Common Co-ordinate System for a Group of Robots based on Vision, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 44, no. 3-4, 2003, pp. 209-217.

8. J. Grosche and F. E. Schneider, Robotik – Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. In: IT-Report 2002.

9. J. Buhmann, W. Burgard, A. B. Cremers, D. Fox, T. Hofmann, F. E. Schneider, J. Strikos, and S. Thrun, The Mobile Robot RHINO. AI Magazine, vol. 16, no. 2, 1995, pp. 31-38.

1. F. E. Schneider, D. Wildermuth and H.-L. Wolf, Professional Ground Robotic Competitions From an Educational Perspective . A Consideration Using the Example of the European Land Robot Trial (ELROB), to be published in: Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS.12), Sofia, Bulgaria, 6.-8. September 2012.

2. F. E. Schneider, J. Welle, D. Wildermuth, and M. Ducke, Unmanned Multi-Robot CBRNE Reconnaissance with Mobile Manipulation, to be published in: Proceedings of the 13th International Carpathian Control Conference (ICCC), Podbanské, Slovak Republic, 28.-31. May 2012.

3. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, Evaluating the Effect of Robot Group Size on Relative Localisation Precision. In: R. Groß et al. (Eds.): TAROS 2011 . Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6856, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 149.160, 2011.

4. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, Results of the European Land Robot Trial and Their Usability for Benchmarking Outdoor Robot Systems. In: R. Groß et al. (Eds.): TAROS 2011 . Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6856, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 408-409, 2011.

5. D. Wildermuth and F. E. Schneider, A Validation of Localisation Accuracy Improvements by the Combined Use of GPS and GLONASS. In: R. Groß et al. (Eds.): TAROS 2011 . Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6856, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, pp. 374-375, 2011.

6. M. Brunner, F. Höller, A. Königs, T. Röhling, F. E. Schneider, A. Tiderko, D. Schulz, and D. Wildermuth, The FKIE Robot System for the European Land Robot Trial 2011, 5th International IARP Workshop on Robotics for Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance-Maintenance (RISE 2011), Leuven, Belgium, 20.-21. June 2011

7. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, An Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle for CBRNE Reconnaissance. 12th International Carpathian Control Conference (ICCC), Velke Karlovice, Czech Republic, 25.-28. May 2011.

8. F. E. Schneider, T. Röhling, B. Brüggemann, and D. Wildermuth, CBRNE reconnaissance with an unmanned vehicle . a semi-autonomous approach. 2nd IFAC Symposium on Telematics Applications (IFAC-TA), Timi.oara, Romania, 5.-8. October 2010.

9. F. E. Schneider, D. Wildermuth, B. Brüggemann, and T. Röhling, European Land Robot Trial (ELROB) . Towards a Realistic Benchmark for Outdoor Robotics. 1st International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE), Bratislava, Slovakia, 16.-17. September 2010.

10. T. Röhling, B. Brüggemann, F. Höller, and F. E. Schneider, CBRNE Hazard Detection with an Unmanned Vehicle. IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Denver, Colorado, 3..6. November 2009.

11. B. Brüggemann, T. Röhling, H.-L. Wolf, and F. E. Schneider, European Land Robotic Trial 2008 (ELROB) . A Realistic Benchmark for Outdoor Robotics. Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Mai 2009.

12. F. Höller, D. Schulz, M. Moors, and F. E. Schneider, Accompanying Persons with a Mobile Robot using Motion Prediction and Probabilistic Roadmaps, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, California, 29. October . 2. November 2007.

13. S. Sehestedt and F. E. Schneider, Monte Carlo Localization in Highly Symmetric Environments. 3rd International Conference on Informatics and Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Setubal, Portugal, 1.-5. August 2006.

14. A. Kräußling, F. E. Schneider, and S. Sehestedt, Tracking multiple objects using the Viterbi algorithm. 3rd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Setubal, Portugal, 1.-5. August 2006.

15. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, An Application of Relative Localisation for Multi-Robot Navigation. 2nd IASTED International Conference on Automation, Control, and Applications (ACIT-ACA), Novosibirsk, Russia, 20.-24. June 2005.

16. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, Directed and Non-Directed Potential Field Approaches to Formation Navigation. 2nd IASTED International Conference on Automation, Control, and Applications (ACIT-ACA), Novosibirsk, Russia, 20.-24. June 2005.

17. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, Experimental Comparison of a Directed and a Non-Directed Potential Field Approach to Formation Navigation. 6th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), Espoo, Finland, 27. 30. June 2005.

18. A. Kräußling, F. E. Schneider, and D. Wildermuth, A Switching Algorithm for Tracking Extended Targets. 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Barcelona, Spain, 14.-17. September 2005.

19. F. E. Schneider, D. Wildermuth and A. Kräußling, Discussion of Exemplary Metrics for Multi-Robot Systems for Formation Navigation. 6th Conference .Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. (TAROS), London, UK, 12.-14. September 2005.

20. A. Kräußling, F. E. Schneider, and D. Wildermuth, Tracking Expanded Objects Using the Viterbi Algorithm. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS 2004), Varna, Bulgaria, 22.-24. June 2004.

21. A. Kräußling, F. E. Schneider, and D. Wildermuth, Tracking of Extended Crossing Objects Using the Viterbi Algorithm. 1st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Setubal, Portugal, 25.-28. August 2004.

22. F. E. Schneider, A. Kräußling, and D. Wildermuth, An approach to active sensing using the Viterbi algorithm. 7th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Systems (DARS), Toulouse, France, 23.-25. June 2004.

23. F. E. Schneider, M Moors, and D. Wildermuth, Methods and experiments for hazardous area activities using a multi-robot system. IEEE 2004 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), New Orleans, USA, 26. April – 1. May 2004.

24. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, Using an Extended Kalman Filter for Relative Localisation in a Moving Robot Formation. 4th International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (RoMoCo.04), Puszczykowo, Poland, 17.-20. June 2004.

25. F. E. Schneider, M. Moors, D. Wildermuth, and A. Kräußling, Relative position estimation in a group of robots. IEEE, International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR), Mi.dzyzdroje, Poland, 30. August – 2. September 2003.

26. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, A potential field based approach to multi robot formation navigation. IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing (RISSP), Changsha, Hunan, China, 8.-13. October 2003.

27. M. Moors, F. E. Schneider, and D. Wildermuth, Estimating a Relative Co-ordinate System for a Group of Robots. 6th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR), Catania, Italia, 17.-19. September 2003.

28. B. Trouvain, H.-L. Wolf, and F. E. Schneider, Impact of autonomy in multi-robot systems on teleoperation performance. In: A. C. Schultz, L. E. Parker, and F. E. Schneider (Eds.), Multi Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume II. Proceedings from the 2003 International Workshop on Multi Robot Systems. Kluwer Academic Press, 2003, pp. 253-264.

29. D. Wildermuth and F. E. Schneider, Maintaining a Common Co-ordinate System for a Group of Robots based on Vision. IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing (RISSP), Changsha, Hunan, China, 8.-13. October 2003.

30. F. E. Schneider, and D. Wildermuth, A potential field based approach to multi-robot formation navigation. 1st European Conference on Mobile Robotics (2003), Radziejowice, Poland, 4. 6. September 2003.

31. D. Wildermuth and F. E. Schneider, Maintaining a Common Coordinate System for a Group of Robots based on Vision. 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS 7), Marina del Rey, California, 25.-27. March 2002.

32. F. E. Schneider and B. Trouvain, Forschungsarbeiten im Projekt .Experimentelles Mensch-Mehrrobotersystem., Symposium .Robotik. of the Bundesakademie für Wehrverwaltung und Wehrtechnik (BakWVT), Mannheim, Germany, 10. December 2002.

33. F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, Motion co-ordination for formations of multiple mobile robots 3rd International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR), Helsinki, Finnland, 11.-13. Juni 2001.

34. B. Trouvain and F. E. Schneider, Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction using a Laserpointer and Speech, 4th European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots (EUROBOT.01), Lund, Sweden, 19..21. September 2001.

B. Trouvain, F. E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, Integrating a multimodal human-robot interaction method into a multi-robot control station. 10th IEEE International Workshop on Robot-Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), Bordeaux and Paris, France, 18. 21. September 2001.

36. D. Wildermuth and F. E. Schneider, Erzeugung eines gemeinsamen Koordinatensystems für eine Gruppe von Robotern auf der Basis von Bildverarbeitung, 16. Fachgespräch Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS), Karlsruhe, Germany, 20.-21. November 2000.

37. F. E. Schneider, D. Wildermuth, and H.-L. Wolf, Concept of a man-machine-interface for a human-multi-robot-system, 1st International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics (M&R 2000), St. Petersburg, Russia, 22.-26. May 2000.

38. F. E. Schneider, D Wildermuth, and H.-L. Wolf, Konzept einer Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstelle für ein Mensch-Mehrrobotersystem. Conference .Robotik 2000., Berlin, Germany, 29. 30. June 2000.

39. F. E. Schneider, D. Wildermuth, and H.-L. Wolf, Motion co-ordination in formations of multiple mobile robots using a potential field approach, 5th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), Knoxville, Tennessee, 4.-6. October 2000.

40. F E. Schneider and D. Wildermuth, Simulation von Mehrrobotersystemen. 13. Fachgespräch Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS), Stuttgart, Germany, 6.-7. October 1997.

41. F. E: Schneider and K.-P. Gärtner, Mensch-Mehrroboter-Systeme im Bereich autonomer mobiler Systeme. Deutsch-Französischer Workshop .Robotik“, Ludwigshafen, Germany, June 1997.

42. F. E. Schneider, K.-P. Gärtner, and D. Wildermuth, Einsatz einer verteilten Simulation beim Entwurf von Mensch-Mehrroboter-Systemen. Symposium .Neue Technologien in der wehrtechnischen Simulation. of the Bundesakademie für Wehrverwaltung und Wehrtechnik (BakWVT), Mannheim, Germany, 30. September – 2. October 1997.

43. F. E. Schneider and K.-P. Gärtner, Teleoperation with compressed motion pictures sequences, 27th International Symposium on Industrial Robots (ISIR), Milano, Italia, 6.-8. October 1996.

44. F. E. Schneider, K.-P. Gärtner, and D. Wildermuth, Simulation eines autonomen unbemannten Landfahrzeuges, Symposium .Neue Technologien in der wehrtechnischen Simulation. of the Bundesakademie für Wehrverwaltung und Wehrtechnik (BakWVT), Mannheim, Germany, 3.-5. June 1996.