Prof. Dr. Karsten Berns

Contact

Room 48-360

Tel.: +49 631 205 2613

e-mail:karsten.berns(at)cs.rptu.de

Robotics Research Lab
Department of Computer Science
Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Postbox 3049
DE-67653 Kaiserslautern

Vita

Prof. Dr. Karsten Berns has studied computer science with a special focus on artificial intelligence at the University of Kaiserslautern (1982 to 1988). For his research on "Neural Networks for the Control of a six-legged Walking Machine" he received his PhD from the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. As head of the IDS (Interactive Diagnosis and Service Systems) department of the Research Center for Information Technology (FZI), Karlsruhe (till 2003) he examined adaptive control concepts for different types of service robots. Since 2003 he is a full professor at the University of Kaiserslautern.

Present research activities are the realization of reliable, complex autonomous robotic systems. Therefore, he and his research group are developing the robotic middleware Finroc, the behavior-based control architecture iB2C as well as different validation and verification methodologies. The main application is off-road robotics, in which autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles like small a truck, an excavator, a shuttlebus, tractors, and rescue robots are under development. In the range of humanoid robots, the social robot ROMAN and Robin is developed for the investigation of human robot interaction. Also a biological inspired biped locomotion is under development including soft actuators and the mechatronics system of the biped.

Prof. Berns is frequently reviewer and associated editor of several journals and robotic conferences like ICRA, IROS, Humanoids. Furthermore, he is editor of the ELSEVIER journal Robotics and Autonomous Systems a member of a number of editorial boards. He also acts as reviewer for several national and international funding organizations. He was general chair of several national and international conferences. He is member of the IEEE and the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
He is a member of the executive committee of the German Robotics Association (DGR) and is leader of the technical committee for robotic systems of the GI. He was Dean of the department of computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern (2007 – 2010) and was member of the scientific directorate Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics (2008- 2014). From 2010 till 2020 he was spokesperson of the Center for Commercial Vehicle Technology (ZNT) at the University of Kaiserslautern and the Commercial Vehicle Cluster, Kaiserslautern.

Publications (Excerpt)

complete list of publications

2024

Sort by: Author, Year, Title

  • Evaluating the Robustness of Off-Road Autonomous Driving Segmentation against Adversarial Attacks. A Dataset-Centric analysis.
    Pankaj Deoli, Rohit Kumar, Axel Vierling and Karsten Berns
    arXiv, (2024)
  • Task Oriented Collaborative Robots. Intervention in Repetitive Task for Worker Well-Being.
    Ashita Ashok, Jovan Sumarac, Aleksandar Rodic and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD 2024), (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59257-7_25
  • Outliers - Do Image and Feature Domain Outliers Coincide in Robotic Applications?.
    Axel Vierling, Urooj Iltifat and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD 2024), (2024)
  • FPGA-Based Emulation of a Muscle Stretch Re?ex on an Electric Series Elastic Actuator.
    Oleksandr Sivak, Patrick Vonwirth and Karsten Berns
    Synergetic Cooperation between Robots and Humans, Vol. 811, S. 299 - 310. (2024)
  • Evaluation of Robustness of Off-Road Autonomous Driving Segmentation against Adversarial Attacks. A Dataset-Centric Study.
    Pankaj Deoli, Rohit Kumar, Axel Vierling and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Nr. 3, S. 2237–2239. (2024)
  • University CopyCat Game. Observational Learning with Robot Tutee.
    Ashita Ashok, Vlatka Tolj and Karsten Berns
    2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO), (2024)
    DOI: 10.1109/ARSO60199.2024.10557817
  • Exploring Image Fusion Techniques for Off-Road Semantic Segmentation in Harsh Lighting Conditions. A Multispectral Imagery Analysis.
    Pankaj Deoli, Shuham Deshpande, Axel Vierling and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Ubiquotous Robots (UR2024), (2024)
  • Detailed Analysis of Pedestrian Activity Recognition in Pedestrian Zones Using 3D Skeleton Joints Using LSTM.
    Qazi Jan, Yogitha Badella and Karsten Berns
    SN Computer Science, Vol. 5, Nr. 2, S. 242. (2024)
  • Implementation of Off-Road Panoptic-Segmentation under dynamic lighting conditions.
    Pankaj Deoli, Koushik Samudrala and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2024) (To appear), (2024)
  • “You Scare Me”. The Effects of Humanoid Robot Appearance, Emotion, and Interaction Skills on Uncanny Valley Phenomenon.
    Karsten Berns and Ashita Ashok
    Actuators, S. 19. (2024)
    https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/13/10/419

2023

Sort by: Author, Year, Title

  • Aktuelle Forschung im Bereich des autonomen Fahr- und Arbeitsbetriebs von Nutzfahrzeugen.
    Karsten Berns and Patrick Wolf
    Jahresmagazin AUTOMATION + ROBOTIK, S. 48 - 53. (2023)
  • Bio-Inspired Imprecise Impedance Control of Muscle-Driven Robotic Limbs.
    Patrick Vonwirth and Karsten Berns
    Robotics in Natural Settings, Vol. 530, S. 42 - 53. (2023)
  • Transferring off-road control concepts to watercraft used in flooded areas.
    Dennis Meckel, Hannan Keen, Christian Heupel and Karsten Berns
    Commercial Vehicle Technology 2022, (2023)
  • Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft mittels Künstlicher Intelligenz – Ein plattformbasierter Ansatz für Forschung und Industrie.
    Sebastian Bosse, Karsten Berns, Johannes Bosch, Jörg Dörr, Peter Eisert, Christoph Fischer, Eike Gassen, Heike Gerighausen, Michael Gerstenberger, Jonathan Heil, Anna Hilsmann, Jochen Huber, Mortesa Hussaini, Martin Kasparick, Peter Kloke, Hartmut Krause-Edler, Jannes Magnusson, Felix Möhrle, Markus Möller, Peter Pickel, Mike Reichardt, Clemens Rautenberg, Slawomir Stanczak, Hans Schotten, Lars Thiele, Henrik Ücdemir, Annett Wanja and Anthony Stein
    Informatik in der Land- Forst- und Ernährungswissenschaft, Vol. P-330, S. 41 - 51. (2023)
  • Muscular Damping Distribution Strategy for Bio-Inspired, Soft Motion Control at Variable Precision.
    Patrick Vonwirth and Karsten Berns
    Sensors, Vol. 23, Nr. 5, (2023)
  • Global map generation using local feature grid maps for autonomous vehicles in frequently changing off-road environments.
    Matthias Kremer, Patrick Wolf, Dennis Meckel and Karsten Berns
    18th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS 2023), (2023)
  • Reverse-Engineering of Behavior-Based Robot Components.
    Dennis Meckel, Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    18th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS 2023), (2023)
  • Navigating Off-roads. Using Deep neural Networks for Rock detection in off-road Autonomous Driving with Unimog.
    Pankaj Deoli, Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    20th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2023), (2023)
  • Simultaneous top-down and bottom-up perception for autonomous off-road driving.
    Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), (2023)
  • Excavation pits - progress estimation and cause of delay identification.
    Axel Vierling, Tobias Groll, Dennis Meckel, Kristina Heim, Daniel Walter, Karsten Körkemeyer and Karsten Berns
    Construction Robotics, Vol. 7, Nr. 1, S. 53 - 63. (2023)
  • LiDAR-GEiL. LiDAR GPU Exploitation in Lightsimulations.
    Manuel Vogel, Maximilian Kunz, Eike Gassen and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2023), (2023)
  • Social Robot Dressing Style. An evaluation of interlocutor preference for University Setting.
    Ashita Ashok, Sarwar Paplu and Karsten Berns
    2023 32nd IEEE International Conferenceon Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), S. 6. (2023)
    DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309491
  • QUANTIFIABLE ROBUSTNESS ESTIMATION FOR OBJECT DETECTION WITH CNNS USING INTRINSIC DIMENSIONALITY.
    Axel Vierling, Ajay Chawda, Mahesh Manjunath and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), (2023)
  • Multimodal Episodic Analysis of Human Personality Traits for Personalized Behavior in Social Robots.
    Sarwar Paplu, Bhalachandra Bhat and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), (2023)
    DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids57100.2023.10375182
  • Probabilistic Fusion of Surface and Underwater Maps in a Shallow Water Environment.
    Hannan Keen and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, S. 195 - 202. (2023)
  • Social Perception and Scene Awareness in Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu, Prabesh Khadka, Bhalachandra Bhat and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2023), S. 123 - 132. (2023)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8718-4_11
  • Intralogistics application with a fleet of robots on a private 5G campus network.
    Marc Kalter, Dennis Karbach, Christian Schellenberger, Eric Sch"oneberg, Axel Vierling, Hans Schotten, Daniel G"orges and Karsten Berns
    (2023)
  • Effective Visual Content of eHMI for Autonomous Vehicles in Pedestrian Zones.
    Qazi Jan, Priyanka Dahiwal and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, S. 203 - 210. (2023)
  • Autonomous Shuttle for Pedestrian Zones.
    Qazi hamza Jan and Karsten Berns
    International Symposium on Measurements and Control in Robotics, S. 169 - 179. (2023)
  • Thorough Analysis and Reasoning of Environmental Factors on End-to-End Driving in Pedestrian Zones.
    Qazi Jan, Arshil Khan and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Vol. 1, S. 495 - 502. (2023)
  • Deep Driving with Additional Guided Inputs for Crossings in Pedestrian Zones.
    Qazi hamza Jan, Jan Kleen and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, S. 402 - 409. (2023)

2022

Sort by: Author, Year, Title

  • On Demand Ride Sharing. Scheduling of an Autonoumous Bus Fleet for Last Mile Travel.
    Jörg Husemann, Simon Kunz and Karsten Berns
    17th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-17), (2022)
  • Continuous Inverse Kinematics in Singular Position.
    Patrick Vonwirth and Karsten Berns
    Robotics for Sustainable Future, Vol. 324, S. 24 - 36. (2022)
  • Analysis of Object Detection Under Different Weather Conditions in Simulated and Real Environment.
    Pragati Jaiswal, Axel Vierling and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, S. 444 - 451. (2022)
  • Progress Estimation of an Excavation Pit.
    Axel Vierling, Tobias Groll, Dennis Meckel, Kristina Heim, Daniel Walter, Lukas Scheidhauer, Karsten Körkemeyer and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 39 th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2022), (2022)
  • Paralinguistic Cues in Speech to Adapt Robot Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction.
    Ashita Ashok, Jakub Pawlak, Sarwar Paplu, Zuhair Zafar and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics & Biomechatronics (BioRob), (2022)
    DOI: 10.1109/BioRob52689.2022.9925505
  • Traction optimization for robust navigation in unstructured environments using deep neural networks on the example of the off-road truck Unimog.
    Patrick Wolf, Pankaj Deoli, Satish Thangellapally and Karsten Berns
    17th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems – IAS-17, S. 191 - 208. (2022)
  • A modular control architecture for safe and robust robot operation and inspection in steep slope vineyards.
    Eike Gassen, Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    Resilient Smart Farming Lab Workshop Informatik 2022 (RSF-Lab 2022), (2022)
  • Integration of human skeleton posture models into REACTiON for realizing dynamic risk management.
    Qazi Jan, Patrick Wolf, Karsten Berns, Jan Reich and Marc Wellstein
    7th International Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium Kaiserslautern – CVT 2022, (2022)
  • Disturbance and Particle Detection in LiDAR Data.
    Jannis Egelhof, Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2022), (2022)
  • Behavior-Based Visual Servoing on a Hybrid CPU-/FPGA-Platform.
    Christian Heupel, Alexander Köpper and Karsten Berns
    ISR Europe 2022 – 54th International Symposium on Robotics, S. 150 - 157. (2022)
  • Harnessing Long-term Memory for Personalized Human-Robot Interactions.
    Sarwar Paplu, Raúl Navarro and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 21st IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), S. 377 - 382. (2022)
    DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids53995.2022.10000213
  • Multimodal Perceptual Cues for Context-aware Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu, Hasnat Ahmed, Ashita Ashok, Sevilay Akkus and Karsten Berns
    The Joint International Conference of the 13th IFToMM International Symposium on Science of Mechanisms and Machines (SYROM 2022) and the XXV International Conference on Robotics (ROBOTICS 2022), Vol. 127, S. 283 - 294. (2022)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25655-4_29
  • Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Soil Compactors using Coverage Path Planning Strategies.
    Jörg Husemann and Karsten Berns
    9. Fachtagung Baumaschinentechnik 2022, (2022)
  • Universelle Nutzfahrzeugkonzepte zum autonomen ­Arbeiten in herausfordernden Umgebungen. Ein Zwischenbericht zum Projekt »Autonome Arbeitsmaschine für den Einsatz in Anwendungen wie Katastrophenschutz/ Feuerwehr, Forstwirtschaft und Weinbau«..
    Karsten Berns, Patrick Wolf and Pankaj Deoli
    CVC News, Vol. 2, S. 20 - 24. (2022)
  • Pedestrian Activity Recognition from 3D Skeleton Data using Long Short Term Memory Units.
    Qazi Jan, Yogitha Baddela and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems - VEHITS, Vol. 1, Nr. 10.5220/0011075700003191, S. 368 - 375. (2022)
  • Integration of human skeleton posture models into REACTiON for realizing dynamic risk management.
    Qazi hamza Jan, Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    International Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium, S. 109 - 120. (2022)

2021

Sort by: Author, Year, Title

  • Extending Skills of Autonomous Off-Road Robots on the Example of Behavior-Based Edge Compaction in a Road Construction Scenario.
    Patrick Wolf, Axel Vierling, Jörg Husemann, Karsten Berns and Peter Decker
    Commercial Vehicle Technology 2020/2021. Proceedings of the 6th Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium – CVT 2020/2021, (2021)
  • Technical Foundations of Embedded Systems. Electronics, System theory, Components and Analysis.
    Karsten Berns, Alexander Köpper and Bernd Schürmann
    Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 732, (2021)
    https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783030651565 ISBN-13: 978-3-030-65156-5
  • Data-fusion for robust off-road perception considering data quality of uncertain sensors.
    Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), S. 6853 - 6860. (2021)
  • Adapting Behaviour of Socially Interactive Robot based on Text Sentiment.
    Sarwar Paplu, Mohammed Arif and Karsten Berns
    30th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD), Vol. Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, S. 221 - 228. (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75259-0_24
  • Utilizing Semantic and Contextual Information during Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu, Mohammed Arif and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), S. 1 - 6. (2021)
    https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL49984.2021.9515611
  • Exploiting Conversational Topic Awareness for Interactive Robots.
    Sarwar Paplu, Mohammed Arif, Nishan Tamang and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), S. 474 - 479. (2021)
    DOI: 10.1109/ICAR53236.2021.9659484
  • Towards Linguistic and Cognitive Competence for Socially Interactive Robots.
    Sarwar Paplu and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RITA), Nr. 429, S. 520 - 530. (2021)
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97672-9_47
  • Autonome Navigation und Umfelderkennung eines Unimogs in unstrukturiertem Terrain.
    Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    Tagungsband DWT-SGW Forum Unmanned Systems VIII, S. 30. (2021)
  • Autonomes Arbeiten mit dem Unimog. Umrüstung für Arbeitseinsätze im Katastrophenschutz, bei Feuerwehr, Forstwirtschaft, Weinbau und Deponie.
    Karsten Berns and Patrick Wolf
    CVC News, Vol. 2, S. 8 - 10. (2021)
  • Localization using OSM landmarks.
    Maximilian Kunz, Axel Vierling, Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    2021 Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS), 2021 Brazilian Symposium on Robotics (SBR), and 2021 Workshop on Robotics in Education (WRE), S. 228 - 233. (2021)
    DOI: 10.1109/LARS/SBR/WRE54079.2021.9605475 ISBN: 978-1-6654-0761-8
  • Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production – Proceedings of the First International Conference, ADOP 2021, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 7-9, 2021.
    Andrey Ronzhin, Karsten Berns and Alexander Kostyaev
    Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Vol. 245, (2021)
  • Detection of Fungus in Gladiolus Fields Using a Quadcopter.
    Muhammad Zaheer, Syed Mehdi, Hannan Keen and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, S. 127 - 134. (2021)
  • Drive on Pedestrian Walk. TUK Campus Dataset.
    Hannan Keen, Qazi Jan and Karsten Berns
    2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), S. 3822 - 3828. (2021)
  • Provable Translational Robustness For Object Detection With Convolutional Neural Networks.
    Axel Vierling, Charu James, Karsten Berns and Nikoletta Katsaouni
    2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), S. 694 - 698. (2021)
  • Adaptive Zoom Control Approach of Load-View Crane Camera for Worker Detection.
    Tanittha Sutjaritvorakul, Atabak Nejadfard, Axel Vierling and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), S. 553 - 560. (2021)
  • Simulated Environment for Developing Crane Safety Assistance Technology.
    Tanittha Sutjaritvorakul, Axel Vierling and Karsten Berns
    Commercial Vehicle Technology 2020/2021, S. 459 - 470. (2021)
  • Safety-configuration of Autonomous Bus in Pedestrian Zone.
    Qazi hamza Jan and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, Vol. 1, Nr. 978-989-758-513-5, S. 698 - 705. (2021)
  • Simulated Pedestrian Modelling for Reliable Testing of Autonomous Vehicle in Pedestrian Zones.
    Qazi jan, Jan Kleen and Karsten Berns
    Smart Cities, Green Technologies, and Intelligent Transport Systems, Vol. 1475, S. 290 - 307. (2021)

2020

Sort by: Author, Year, Title

  • Simulated Environment for Developing Crane Safety Assistance Technology.
    Tanittha Sutjaritvorakul, Axel Vierling and Karsten Berns
    Commercial Vehicle Technology 2020. Proceedings of the 6th Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium – CVT 2020, (2020)
  • SLIP-Based Concept of Combined Limb and Body Control of Force-Driven Robots.
    Patrick Vonwirth, Atabak Nejadfard, Krzysztof Mianowski and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, Vol. 84, S. 547 - 556. (2020)
  • Behavior-Based Obstacle Detection in Off-Road Environments Considering Data Quality.
    Patrick Wolf, Thorsten Ropertz and Karsten Berns
    Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Vol. 495, S. 786 - 809. (2020)
  • Biologically Inspired Bipedal Locomotion - From Control Concept to Human-Like Biped.
    Patrick Vonwirth, Atabak Nejadfard and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics “Zavalishin’s Readings”, S. 3 - 14. (2020)
  • Autonome Off-Road Navigation von Nutzfahrzeugen. Erfahrungsbericht und Testergebnisse des CVC-Leitprojekts zum autonomen Fahrbetrieb von Nutzfahrzeugen im Off-Road-Bereich.
    Karsten Berns, Patrick Wolf and Steffen Hemer
    CVC News, Vol. 1, S. 4 - 10. (2020)
  • Evolution of robotic simulators. Using UE 4 to enable real-world quality testing of complex autonomous robots in unstructured environments.
    Patrick Wolf, Tobias Groll, Steffen Hemer and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2020), S. 271 - 278. (2020)
  • Simulation Platform for Crane Visibility Safety Assistance.
    Tanittha Sutjaritvorakul, Axel Vierling, Jakub Pawlak and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, Vol. 84, (2020)
  • Advanced scene aware navigation for the heavy duty off-road vehicle Unimog.
    Patrick Wolf, Axel Vierling, Thorsten Ropertz and Karsten Berns
    The 9th International Conference on Advanced Concepts in Mechanical Engineering – ACME 2020. IOP Conference Series, Vol. 997, S. 1 - 18. (2020)
    DOI: 10.1088/1757-899x/997/1/012093
  • RADAR+RGB Fusion for Robust Object Detection in Autonomous Vehicles.
    Ritu Yadav, Axel Vierling and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), (2020)
  • Towards High-Quality Road Construction. Using Autonomous Tandem Rollers for Asphalt Compaction Optimization.
    Jörg Husemann, Patrick Wolf, Axel Vierling, Karsten Berns and Peter Decker
    Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), S. 90 - 97. (2020)
  • Autonomous Off-Road Navigation using Near-Feature-Based World Knowledge Incorporation on the Example of Forest Path Detection.
    Patrick Wolf, Axel Vierling, Thorsten Ropertz, Simon Velden, Carlos Guzman and Karsten Berns
    Preprint submitted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems, (2020)
  • Data-Driven Worker Detection from Load-View Crane Camera.
    Tanittha Sutjaritvorakul, Axel Vierling and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), S. 864 - 871. (2020)
  • Pseudo-Randomization in Automating Robot Behaviour during Human-Robot Interaction.
    Sarwar Paplu, Chinmaya Mishra and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-ER), S. 120 - 125. (2020)
    https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDL-EpiRob48136.2020.9278115
  • Technical Advantages and Disadvantages of Biarticular Actuators in Bipedal robots.
    Atabak Nejadfard, Karsten Berns and Patrick Vonwirth
    Robots in Human Life – Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the support Technologies for Mobile Machines, S. 166 - 174. (2020)
  • Wenn Autos fahren wie von Geisterhand. Off-Road-Bereich wird zur Herausforderung / Nutzen wäre aber enorm.
    Karsten Berns and Patrick Wolf
    KOMMUNALtopinform, Vol. 4, S. 62 - 63. (2020)
  • Safe and efficient navigation of an autonomous shuttle in a pedestrian zone.
    Qazi Jan
    Advances in Intelligent systems and Computing (AISC), Vol. 980, S. 267 - 274. (2020)
  • Self-aware Pedestrians Modeling for Testing Autonomous Vehicles in Simulation.
    Qazi hamza Jan, Jan Kleen and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, Vol. 1, Nr. 10.5220/0009377505770584, S. 577 - 584. (2020)

2019

Sort by: Author, Year, Title

  • Segmentation of Very Sparse and Noisy Point Clouds.
    Patrick Fleischmann and Karsten Berns
    ICACR 2019, S. 119–124. (2019)
  • Crop Edge Detection based on Stereo Vision.
    Johannes Kneip, Patrick Fleischmann and Karsten Berns
    Intelligent Autonomous Systems 15 – Proceedings of the 15th International Conference IAS-15, Vol. 867, (2019)
  • Autonomous trenching with hierarchically organized primitives.
    Tobias Groll, Steffen Hemer, Thorsten Ropertz and Karsten Berns
    Automation in Construction, Vol. 98, S. 214 - 224. (2019)
  • White Paper. High Quality Road Construction using 5G-AMMCOA. Autonomous Mobile Machine Communication for Off-Road Applications.
    Patrick Wolf, Thorsten Ropertz, Karsten Berns and Peter Decker
    , S. 1 - 7. (2019)
  • Distributed Coordination and Task Assignment of Autonomous Tandem Rollers in Road Construction Scenarios.
    Patrick Wolf, Thorsten Ropertz, Alexander Matheis, Karsten Berns and Peter Decker
    36th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2019), S. 953 - 960. (2019)
  • Combining Onthologies and Behavior-Based Control for Aware Navigation in Challenging Off-Road Environments.
    Patrick Wolf, Thorsten Ropertz, Philipp Feldmann and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2019), S. 135 - 146. (2019)
    DOI: 10.5220/0007934301350146, ISBN: 9789897583803
  • Dataset Generation Using A Simulated World.
    Axel Vierling, Tanittha Sutjaritvorakul and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD 2019), S. 505 - 513. (2019)
  • Design of the musculoskeletal leg CARL based on the physiology of mono-articular and biarticular muscles in the human leg.
    Atabak Nejadfard, Steffen Sch"utz, Krzysztof Mianowski, Patrick Vonwirth and Karsten Berns
    Bioinspiration & biomimetics, Vol. 14, Nr. 6, S. 066002. (2019)
  • Technische Grundlagen Eingebetteter Systeme. Elektronik, Systemtheorie, Komponenten und Analyse.
    Karsten Berns, Alexander Köpper and Bernd Schürmann
    (2019)
    https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658265151 ISBN-13: 978-3-658-26515-1
  • Generation of Elevation Maps for Planning and Navigation of Vehicles in Rough Natural Terrain.
    Hannan Keen and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, Vol. 980, S. 488 - 495. (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19648-6_56 ISBN: 978-3-030-19648-6

2018

Sort by: Author, Year, Title

  • Behavior-Based Control for Safe and Robust Navigation of an Unimog in Off-Road Environments.
    Patrick Wolf, Thorsten Ropertz, Karsten Berns, Martin Thul, Peter Wetzel and Achim Vogt
    Commercial Vehicle Technology 2018. Proceedings of the 5th Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium – CVT 2018, S. 63 - 76. (2018)
  • Cooperation and Communication of Autonomous Tandem Rollers in Street Construction Scenarios.
    Thorsten Ropertz, Patrick Wolf, Karsten Berns, Jochen Hirth and Peter Decker
    Commercial Vehicle Technology 2018. Proceedings of the 5th Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium – CVT 2018, S. 25 - 36. (2018)
  • Combining Behavior-Based and Contract-Based Control Architectures for Behavior Optimization of Networked Autonomous Vehicles in Unstructured Environments.
    Sebastian Mu?ller, Patrick Wolf, Karsten Berns and Peter Liggesmeyer
    Commercial Vehicle Technology 2018. Proceedings of the 5th Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium – CVT 2018, S. 324 - 335. (2018)
  • Auf dem Weg zur autonomen Straßenfertigung. Kooperation und Kommunikation von vollauto­matisierten Nutzfahrzeugen in der Baustelle von morgen am Beispiel von BOMAG Tandemwalzen..
    Karsten Berns, Patrick Wolf and Peter Decker
    CVC News, Vol. 1, S. 12 - 15. (2018)
  • Local Behavior-Based Navigation in Rough Off-Road Scenarios based on Vehicle Kinematics.
    Patrick Wolf, Thorsten Ropertz, Moritz Oswald and Karsten Berns
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), S. 719 - 724. (2018)
    DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460631
  • Coordination of the Biarticular Actuators Based on Instant Power in an Explosive Jump Experiment.
    Atabak Nejadfard, Steffen Schütz, Patrick Vonwirth, Krzysztof Mianowski and Karsten Berns
    IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), (2018)
  • Moment Arm Analysis of the Biarticular Actuators in Compliant Robotic Leg CARL.
    Atabak Nejadfard, Steffen Schütz, Patrick Vonwirth, Krzysztof Mianowski and Berns Karsten
    Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, S. 348 - 360. (2018)
  • Behavior-Based Low-Level Control for (semi-) Autonomous Vehicles in Rough Terrain.
    Thorsten Ropertz, Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of ISR 2018, S. 386 - 393. (2018)
  • Real-Time Recognition of Human Postures for Human-Robot Interaction.
    Zuhair Zafar, Rahul Venugopal and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI), S. 114 - 119. (2018)
  • Emotion Based Human-Robot Interaction.
    Karsten Berns and Zuhair Zafar
    Proceedings of the 13th International Scientific-Technical Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics "Zavalishin’s Readings" (ER(ZR)), (2018)
  • Real-time Recognition of Extroversion-Introversion Trait in Context of Human-Robot Interaction.
    Zuhair Zafar, Sarwar Paplu and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, Vol. 67, S. 63 - 70. (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00232-9
  • Crane safety system with monocular and controlled zoom cameras.
    Axel Vierling, Tanittha Sutjaritvorakul and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 35th ISARC, Berlin, Germany, S. 873 - 879. (2018)
  • Behavior-Based Approach for Calculation of a Robot Arm’s Inverse Kinematics on a FPGA.
    Alexander Köpper and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of ISR 2018, S. 306 - 313. (2018)
  • Backhoe Bucket Volume and Trench Monitoring using a Time-of-Flight Camera.
    Steffen Hemer, Tobias Groll and Karsten Berns
    7. Fachtagung Baumaschinentechnik 2018, (2018)
  • Automatic Assessment of Human Personality Traits. A Step towards Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction.
    Zuhair Zafar, Sarwar Paplu and Karsten Berns
    2018 IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), S. 670 - 675. (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2018.8624975
  • Behavior-Based Local Path-Planning by Exploiting Inverse Kinematics on FPGA.
    Alexander Köpper and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, S. 466 - 474. (2018)
  • Commercial Vehicle Technology 2018 – Proceedings of the 5th Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium - CVT 2018.
    Karsten Berns, Klaus Dressler, Patrick Fleischmann, Daniel Görges, Ralf Kalmar, Bernd Sauer, Nicole Stephan, Roman Teutsch and Martin Thul
    (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21300-8

2017

Sort by: Author, Year, Title

  • One Fits More - On the Relevance of Highly Modular Framework and Middleware Design for Quality Characteristics of Robotics Software.
    Max Reichardt, Steffen Schütz and Karsten Berns
    First IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), (2017)
  • Ability of Humanoid Robot to Perform Emotional Body Gestures.
    Djordje Urukalo, Ljubinko Kevac, Zuhair Zafar, Salah Al-Darraji, Aleksandar Rodić and Karsten Berns
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, Vol. 49, S. 657 - 664. (2017)
    http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319612751 ISBN: 978-3-319-61275-1
  • Human Robot Interaction using Dynamic Hand Gestures.
    Zuhair Zafar, Daniel Villarreal, Salah Al-Darraji, Djordje Urukalo, Berns Karsten and Aleksandar Rodić
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, Vol. 49, S. 647 - 656. (2017)
    http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319612751 ISBN: 978-3-319-61275-1
  • A Behavior-based Architecture for Excavation Tasks.
    Tobias Groll, Steffen Hemer, Thorsten Ropertz and Karsten Berns
    34th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), S. 1005 - 1012. (2017)
  • Quality-Based Behavior-Based Control for Autonomous Robots in Rough Environments.
    Thorsten Ropertz, Patrick Wolf and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2017), Vol. 1, S. 513 - 524. (2017)
  • CARL – A Compliant Robotic Leg Featuring Mono- and Biarticular Actuation.
    Steffen Schütz, Atabak Nejadfard, Krzysztof Mianowski, Patrick Vonwirth and Karsten Berns
    IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, S. 289 - 296. (2017)
  • Autonomie in unwegsamem Gelände. Aktuelle Zwischenergebnisse des CVC-Leitprojekts zum autonomen Fahrbetrieb von Nutzfahrzeugen im Off-Road Bereich.
    Karsten Berns and Patrick Wolf
    CVC News, Vol. 2, S. 8 - 11. (2017)
  • Unmanned Ground Robots for Rescue Tasks.
    Karsten Berns, Atabak Nezhadfard, Massimo Tosa, Haris Balta and Geert Cubber
    Search and Resuce Robotics - From Theory to Practice, S. 53 - 76. (2017)
    http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/unmanned-ground-robots-for-rescue-tasks ISBN: 978-953-51-3376-6
  • Behaviour-Based Inverse Kinematics Solver on FPGA.
    Alexander Köpper and Karsten Berns
    Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD), Vol. 49, S. 55 - 62. (2017)
  • Interactive Communication Between Human and Robot Using Nonverbal Cues.
    Salah Al-Darraji, Zuhair Zafar, Karsten Berns, Djordje Urukalo and Aleksandar Rodić
    Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics, Vol. 49, S. 673 - 680. (2017)
    http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319612751 ISBN: 978-3-319-61275-1
  • Bio-inspired Bipedal Speed Control in the B4LC System.
    Qi Liu, Kartikeya Karnatak and Karsten Berns
    Human-centric Robotics-Proceedings Of The 20th International Conference Clawar 2017, S. 349. (2017)
  • One Fits More - On Highly Modular Quality-Driven Design of Robotic Frameworks and Middleware.
    Max Reichardt, Steffen Schütz and Karsten Berns
    Journal of Software Engineering for Robotics (JOSER), Vol. 8, Nr. 1, S. 141 - 153. (2017)
  • Proceedings DGR Days 2017.
    Tamin Asfour
    (2017)
    http://dgr2017.informatik.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Proceedings-DGR-Days-2017.pdf