Publications on navigation

Arras K.O., Castellanos J.A., Schilt M., Siegwart R., "Feature-Based Multi-Hypothesis Localization and Tracking Using Geometric Constraints," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 44, issue 1, 2003. [pdf-file, 490 kbytes]

Arras K.O., Feature-Based Mobile Robot Navigation in Known and Unknown Environments, Dissertation Nr. 2765, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), June 2003. [pdf-file, 3.6 Mbytes]

Arras K.O., Persson J., Tomatis N., Siegwart R., "Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance For Polygonal Robots With A Reduced Dynamic Window," IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'02), Washington DC, USA, 2002. [pdf-file, 720 kbytes]

Arras K.O., Tomatis N., Jensen B., Siegwart R., "Multisensor On-the-Fly Localization: Precision and Reliability for Applications," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 34, issue 2-3, pp. 131-143, February 2001. [pdf-file, 570 kbytes]

Arras K.O., Vestli S.J., "Hybrid, high-precision localisation for the mail distributing mobile robot system MOPS", IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'98), Leuven, Belgium, 1998. [pdf-file, 760 kbytes]

Arras K.O., Siegwart R.Y., "Feature Extraction and Scene Interpretation for Map-Based Navigation and Map Building", Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 3210, Mobile Robotics XII, p. 42-53, Pittsburgh, USA, 1997. [pdf-file, 240 kbytes]

Publications of the Expo.02 project

Siegwart R., et al., "Robox at Expo.02: A Large-Scale Installation of Personal Robots", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 42, issue 3-4, pp. 203-222, March 2003. [pdf-file, 980 kbytes]

Arras K.O., Philippsen R., Tomatis N., de Battista M., Schilt M., Siegwart R., "A Navigation Framework for Multiple Mobile Robots and its Application at the Expo.02 Exhibition," IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'03), Taipei, Taiwan, 2003. [pdf-file, 760 kbytes]

Publications on robots as new media technologies

Arras K.O., Burgard W. (eds.), Robots in Exhibitions, IROS'02 Workshop Proceedings, 2002. [pdf-file, 11.7 Mbytes]

Arras K.O., "Wünsche an einen vielseitigen Helfer: Roboter in Ausstellungen", in Landwehr D. (eds) Playground Robotics, Christoph Merian Verlag, 2004. (In German)

Publications of interdisciplinary work

Arras K.O., Cerqui D., "Do we want to share our lives and bodies with robots? A 2000-people survey", Technical Report Nr. 0605-001, Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), June 2005. [pdf-file, 460 kbytes]