Journals:

1. Rolf Lakaemper, Nagesh Adluru. Using Virtual Scans for Improved Mapping and Evaluation. Autonomous Robots Journal, Special Issue 'Characterizing Mobile Robot Localization and Mapping', Editors: Raj Madhavan, Alex Kleiner, Chris Scrapper. Springer, (accepted 8/2009, to appear)
2. Rolf Lakaemper, Ali Malkawi. Integrating Robot Mapping and Augmented Building Simulation. ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering - Special Issue on Visualization in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, (accepted, to appear in 2009)
3. Longin Jan Latecki, Marc Sobel, Rolf Lakaemper. Piecewise Linear Models with Guaranteed Closeness to the Data. IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), to appear in 2009
4. pdf file R.Lakaemper, N.Adluru, L.J.Latecki, R. Madhavan: Multi Robot Mapping using Force Field Simulation. Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue on Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Robotic and Intelligent Systems, 2007

 

Book Chapters

10. C. Scrapper, R. Madhavan, R. Lakaemper, A. Censi, A. Godil, A. Wagan, and A. Jacoff, "Chapter 10: Quantitative Assessment of Robot-generated Maps", R. Madhavan, E. Tunstel and E. Messina (eds.), Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems, Springer, September 2009 (to appear).
11. Rolf Lakaemper, Nagesh Adluru: Force Field Simulation Based Laser Scan Alignment. In Aleksandar Lazinica (editor): Recent Advances in Multi-Robot Systems, I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria, May 2008, ISBN 978-3-902613-24-0, ONLINE VERSION

 

Fully Refereed Conference Papers

 

13.  Rolf Lakaemper. Simultaneous Multi-Line-Segment Merging for Robot Mapping using Mean Shift Clustering. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS09). St Louis, MO, USA, September 2009. (Accepted, to appear)

14.  Raj Madhavan, Rolf Lakaemper, Tamas Kalmar-Nagy. Benchmarking and Standardization of Intelligent Robotic Systems. 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2009). Munich, Germany, June 2009.

16.  N. Adluru, L. J. Latecki, M. Sobel, and R. Lakaemper. Merging Maps of Multiple Robots. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tampa, Florida, December 2008.  

19.  Lakaemper, R., Adluru, N. Improving Sparse Laser Scan Alignment with Virtual Scans. IEEE/RJS 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, September 2008

20.  Lakaemper, R., Adluru, N. Using Virtual Scans to Improve Alignment in Robot Mapping. Proceedings of  Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS 2008), NIST, Gaithersburg, August 2008

23.  R. Lakaemper, N.Adluru, L.J.Latecki: Force Field Based n-Scan Alignment.
European Conference on Mobile Robots, ECMR 2007, Freiburg, Germany, Sept. 2007

24.  Rolf Lakaemper, Andreas Nuechter, Nagesh Adluru, Longin Jan Latecki. Performance of  6D LuM and FFS Slam – An Example for Comparison of Grid and Pose Based Evaluation Methods. Proceedings of  Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS 2007), NIST, Gaithersburg, August 2007.

26.  N. Adluru, L. J. Latecki, R. Lakaemper, and R. Madhavan. Robot Mapping for Rescue Robots. IEEE Int. Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, NIST, Gaithersburg, August 2006.

27.  pdf file L. J. Latecki, M. Sobel, and R. Lakaemper: New EM Derived from Kullback-Leibler Divergence. The 12^th ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Philadelphia, August 2006. (AR=11% for full papers)

28.  R. Lakaemper, A. Malkawi, R. Srinivasan, and L. J. Latecki. Mobile Robot Mapping and Immersive Building Simulation. 16th Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics (GRAPHICON), Novosibirsk, Russia, July 2006.

29.  pdf file L. J. Latecki and R. Lakaemper: Polygonal Approximation of Point Sets. 11^th IAPR Int. Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA), Berlin, Germany, June 2006.

30.  R. Lakaemper and L. J. Latecki: Using Extended EM to Segment Planar Structures in 3D. 18^th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Hong Kong, August 2006. (AR=42%)

31.  pdf file L. J. Latecki and R. Lakaemper: Polygonal Approximation of Laser Range Data Based on Perceptual Grouping and EM. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida, May 2006. (AR=39%)

32.  pdf file R. Lakaemper and L. J. Latecki: Extended EM for Planar Approximation of 3D Data. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida, May 2006. (AR=39%)

35.  pdf file R. Lakaemper, L. J. Latecki, and D. Wolter: Incremental Multi-Robot Mapping. IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Edmonton, Canada, August 2005. (AR=54%)

36.  pdf file R. Lakämper, L. J. Latecki, X. Sun, and D. Wolter: Geometric Robot Mapping. Int. Conf. on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI), April 2005.

37.  pdf file D. Wolter, L. J. Latecki, R. Lakämper, X. Sun: Shape-Based Robot Mapping. 27th German Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Ulm, Germany, September 2004. (AR=31%)

38.  pdf file L. J. Latecki, R. Lakämper, X. Sun, D. Wolter: Building Polygonal Maps from Laser Range Data. Int. Cognitive Robotics Workshop, Valencia, Spain, August 2004.

39.  L. J. Latecki, R. Lakämper, X. Sun, D. Wolter: Construction of Global Maps with Polygonal Objects from Laser Range Data. IASTED Int. Conf. on Robotics and Applications, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2004.