@InCollection{
  author={Tipaldi, Gian Diego and Braun, Manuel and Arras, Kai O.},
  title={FLIRT: Interest Regions for 2D Range Data with Applications to Robot Navigation},
  booktitle={Experimental Robotics},
  series={Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  editor={Khatib, Oussama and Kumar, Vijay and Sukhatme, Gaurav},
  volume={79},
  pages={695-710},
  year={2014},
}

@InCollection{
  author={Luber, Matthias and Tipaldi, Gian Diego and Arras, Kai O.},
  title={Place-Dependent People Tracking},
  booktitle={Robotics Research},
  series={Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics},
  publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  editor={Pradalier, Cedric and Siegwart, Roland and Hirzinger, Gerhard},
  volume={70},
  pages={557-572},
  year={2011},
}

@InProceedings{okalIROSWS14,
  title={Towards Group-Level Social Activity Recognition for Mobile Robots},
  author={Okal, Billy and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={IROS 2014 Workshop on Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment},
  address = {Chicago, USA},
  year={2014},
}

@InProceedings{palmieriIROSWS14,
  title={Distance Metric Learning for {RRT}-Based Motion Planning for Wheeled Mobile Robots},
  author={Palmieri, Luigi and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={IROS 2014 Workshop on Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion},
  address = {Chicago, USA},
  year={2014},
}

@InProceedings{linderFUSION14,
  title={Multi-Model Hypothesis Tracking of Groups of People in {RGB-D} Data},
  author={Linder, Timm and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={IEEE Int. Conf. on Information Fusion (FUSION'14)},
  address = {Salamanca, Spain},
  year={2014},
}

@InProceedings{palmieriICAPSWS14,
  title={Efficient and Smooth {RRT} Motion Planning Using a Novel Extend Function for Wheeled Mobile Robots},
  author={Palmieri, Luigi and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={ICAPS 2014 Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob'14)},
  address = {Portsmouth, USA},
  year={2014},
}

@InProceedings{palmieriIROS14,
  title={A Novel {RRT} Extend Function for Efficient and Smooth Mobile Robot Motion Planning},
  author={Palmieri, Luigi and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'14)},
  address = {Chicago, USA},
  year={2014},
}

@InProceedings{vasquezIROS14,
  title={Inverse Reinforcement Learning Algorithms and Features for Robot Navigation in Crowds: an experimental comparison},
  author={Vasquez, Dizan and Okal, Billy and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'14)},
  address = {Chicago, USA},
  year={2014},
}

@InProceedings{schwenkAAAI14,
  title={Schedule-Based Robotic Search for Multiple Residents in a Retirement Home Environment},
  author={Schwenk, Markus and Vaquero, Tiago and Nejat, Goldie and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'14)},
  address = {Quebec, Canada},
  year={2014},
}

@InProceedings{schwenkICAPSWS14,
  title={Planning a Robot's Search for Multiple Residents in a Retirement Home Environment},
  author={Schwenk, Markus and Vaquero, Tiago and Nejat, Goldie and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={ICAPS 2014 Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob'14)},
  address = {Portsmouth, USA},
  year={2014},
}

@InProceedings{schwenkROMAN14,
  title={{R2-D2} Reloaded: A Flexible Sound Synthesis System for Sonic Human-Robot Interaction Design},
  author={Schwenk, Markus and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={IEEE Int. Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'14)},
  address = {Edinburgh, UK},
  year={2014},
}

@InProceedings{beckerasanoHAI14,
  title={Robotic tele-presence with {DARYL} in the wild},
  author={Becker-Asano, Christian and Arras, Kai O. and Nebel, Bernhard},
  booktitle={Int. Conf. on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI'14)},
  year={2014},
  address = {Tsukuba, Japan},
}

@InProceedings{beckerasanoAISB14,
  title={On the Effect of Operator Modality on Social and Spatial Presence during Teleoperation of a Human-Like Robot},
  author={Becker-Asano, Christian and Gustorff, Severin and Arras, Kai O. and Nebel, Bernhard},
  booktitle={Int. Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction at AISB'14},
  year={2014},
  address = {London, UK},
}

@InProceedings{luberRSS13,
  title={Multi-Hypothesis Social Grouping and Tracking for Mobile Robots},
  author={Luber, Matthias and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS'13)},
  year = {2013},
  address = {Berlin, Germany},
}

@InProceedings{beckerasanoHRI13,
  title={Robot embodiment, operator modality, and social interaction in tele-existence: A project outline},
  author={Becker-Asano, Christian and Gustorff, Severin and Arras, Kai O. and Ogawa, Kohei and Nishio, Shuichi and Ishiguro, Hiroshi and Nebel, Bernhard},
  booktitle={ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'13)},
  year={2013},
  address = {Tokyo, Japan},
}

@InProceedings{beckerasanoIROSWS12,
  title={The effect of anthropomorphism on social tele-embodiment},
  author={Becker-Asano, Christian and Arras, Kai O.. and Nebel, Bernhard and Ishiguro, Hiroshi},
  booktitle={IROS 2012 Workshop on Human-Agent Interaction},
  year={2012},
  address = {Vilamoura, Portugal}
}

@InProceedings{luberIROS12,
  title={Socially-aware robot navigation: a learning approach},
  author={Luber, Matthias and Spinello, Luciano and Silva, Jens and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'12)},
  year={2012},
  address = {Vilamoura, Portugal}
}

@InCollection{arrasSTAR12,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Boris Lau and Slawomir Grzonka and Matthias Luber and Oscar Mart\'{i}nez-Mozos and Daniel Meyer-Delius and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Range-Based People Detection and Tracking for Socially Aware Service Robots},
  booktitle = {Towards Service Robots for Everyday Environments},
  series = {Springer STAR series},
  volume = {76},
  year = {2012},
}

@InProceedings{spinelloICRA12,
  author = {Luciano Spinello and Matthias Luber and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {Leveraging {RGB-D} data: adaptive fusion and domain adaptation for object detection},
  booktitle = {IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'12)},
  address = {St. Paul, USA},
  year = {2012},
}

@InProceedings{storkROMAN12,
  title={Audio-based human activity recognition using non-Markovian ensemble voting},
  author={Stork, Johannes A and Spinello, Luciano and Silva, Jens and Arras, Kai O.},
  booktitle={IEEE Int. Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'12)},
  address = {Paris, France},
  year={2012}
}

@inproceedings{embgenROMAN12,
  title={Robot-specific social cues in emotional body language},
  author={Embgen, Stephanie and Luber, Matthias and Becker-Asano, Christian and Ragni, Marco and Evers, Vanessa and Arras, Kai O..},
  booktitle={IEEE Int. Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'12)},
  address = {Paris, France},
  year={2012}
}

@InProceedings{tipaldiIROS11,
  author = {Gian Diego Tipaldi and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {Please do not disturb! Minimum Interference Coverage for Social Robots},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'11)},
  address = {San Francisco, USA},
  year = {2011},
}

@InProceedings{luberIROS11,
  author = {Matthias Luber and Luciano Spinello and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {People Tracking in {RGB-D} Data With Online-Boosted Target Models},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'11)},
  address = {San Francisco, USA},
  year = {2011},
}

@InProceedings{spinelloIROS11,
  author = {Luciano Spinello and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {People Detection in {RGB-D} Data},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'11)},
  address = {San Francisco, USA},
  year = {2011},
}

@InProceedings{luberRSSWS11,
  title={Learning to Detect and Track People in {RGB-D} Data},
  author={Matthias Luber and Luciano Spinello and Kai O. Arras},
  booktitle={RSS 2011 Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras},
  address = {Los Angeles, USA},
  year={2011},
}

@Article{luberIJRR11,
  author = {Matthias Luber and Gian Diego Tipaldi and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {Place-Dependent People Tracking},
  journal = {International Journal of Robotics Research},
  volume = {30},
  number = {3},
  month = {March},
  year = {2011},
}

@InProceedings{tipaldiICAPS11,
  author = {Gian Diego Tipaldi and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {Planning Problems for Social Robots},
  booktitle = {Proc. International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'11)},
  address = {Freiburg, Germany},
  year = {2011},
}

@InProceedings{spinelloICRA11,
  author = {Luciano Spinello and Matthias Luber and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {Tracking People in 3D Using a Bottom-Up Top-Down People Detector},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'11)},
  address = {Shanghai, China},
  year = {2011},
}

@InProceedings{luberICRA11,
  author = {Matthias Luber and Gian Diego Tipaldi and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {Better Models For People Tracking},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'11)},
  address = {Shanghai, China},
  year = {2011},
}

@InProceedings{tipaldiICRA11,
  author = {Gian Diego Tipaldi and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {I want my coffee hot! {L}earning to find people under spatio-temporal constraints},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'11)},
  address = {Shanghai, China},
  year = {2011},
}

@InProceedings{tipaldiISER10,
  author = {Gian Diego Tipaldi and Manuel Braun and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {FLIRT: Interest Regions for 2D Range Data with Applications to Robot Navigation},
  booktitle = {12th Int. Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER'10)},
  year = {2010},
  address = {New Delhi, India},
}

@InProceedings{spinelloAAAI10,
  author = {Luciano Spinello and Kai O. Arras and Rudolph Triebel and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {A Layered Approach to People Detection in 3D Range Data},
  booktitle = {Proc. 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PGAI Track (AAAI'10)},
  year = {2010},
  address = {Atlanta, USA},
}

@InProceedings{spinelloECCV10,
  author = {Luciano Spinello and Rudolph Triebel and Dizan Vasquez and Kai O. Arras and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Exploiting Repetitive Object Patterns for Model Compression and Completion},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'10)},
  year = {2010},
  address = {Heraklion, Greece},
}

@InProceedings{luberICRA10,
  author = {Matthias Luber and Johannes A. Stork and Gian Diego Tipaldi and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {People Tracking with Human Motion Predictions from Social Forces},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'10)},
  year = {2010},
  address = {Anchorage, USA},
}

@InProceedings{tipaldiICRA10,
  author = {Gian Diego Tipaldi and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {{FLIRT} - {I}nterest Regions for 2D Range Data},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'10)},
  year = {2010},
  address = {Anchorage, USA},
}

@Article{lauIJSR10,
  author = {Boris Lau and Kai O. Arras and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Multi-Model Hypothesis Group Tracking and Group Size Estimation},
  journal = {International Journal of Social Robotics},
  volume = {2},
  number = {1},
  month = {March},
  year = {2010},
}

@InProceedings{vandevenICRA10,
  author = {J. Van de Ven and Fabio Ramos and Gian Diego Tipaldi},
  title = {An Integrated Probabilistic Model for Scan Matching, Moving Object Detection and Motion Estimation},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'10)},
  year = {2010},
  address = {Anchorage, USA},
}

@Proceedings{arrasRAS10,
  editor = {Kai O. Arras and Wolfram Burgard and Horst-Michael Gross},
  title = {Selected papers from the 2007 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR '07)},
  journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  volume = {85},
  number = {2},
  month = {February},
  year = {2010},
}

@Proceedings{arrasIJSR10,
  editor = {Kai O. Arras and \'{O}scar Mart\'{i}nez Mozos},
  title = {Special issue on People Detection and Tracking},
  journal = {International Journal of Social Robotics},
  volume = {2},
  number = {1},
  month = {March},
  year = {2010},
}

@InBook{muellerCOSMOS10,
  author = {J\"{o}rg M\"{u}ller and Cyrill Stachniss and Kai O. Arras and Wolfram Burgard},
  chapter = {Socially Inspired Motion Planning for Mobile Robots in Populated Environments},
  title = {Cognitive Systems},
  series = {Cognitive Systems Monographs},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2010},
  note = {In press},
}

@TechReport{tipaldiTR09,
  author = {Gian Diego Tipaldi and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {FLIRT -- Interest Regions for 2D Range Data},
  type = {Technical Report},
  number = {Nr. 249},  
  institution = {Institut fuer Informatik, University of Freiburg},
  year = {2009},
}

@InProceedings{tipaldiIROS09,
  author = {Gian Diego Tipaldi and Fabio Ramos},
  title = {Motion Clustering and Estimation with Conditional Random Fields},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09)},
  year = {2009},
  address = {San Louis, USA},
}

@InProceedings{luberISRR09,
  author = {Matthias Luber and Gian Diego Tipaldi and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {Place-Dependent People Tracking},
  booktitle = {Proc. International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR'09)},
  year = {2009},
  address = {Lucerne, Switzerland},
}

@Proceedings{arrasICRAWS09,
  editor = {Kai O. Arras and \'{O}scar Mart\'{i}nez Mozos},
  title = {People Detection and Tracking, ICRA'09 Workshop Proceedings},
  address = {Kobe, Japan},
  month = {May},
  year = {2009},
}

@Article{luberAURO09,
  author = {Matthias Luber and Kai O. Arras and Christian Plagemann and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Classifying Dynamic Objects: An Unsupervised Learning Approach},
  journal = {Autonomous Robots},
  year = {2009},
  volume = {26},
  number = {2-3},
  pages = {141--151},
}

@PhdThesis{tipaldiPHD09,
  author = {Gian Diego Tipaldi},
  title = {Looking Inside for Mapping the Outside: Introspective Simultaneous Localization and Mapping},
  school = {University of Rome La Sapienza, PhD Thesis},
  year = {2009},
  note = {in press},
}

@InCollection{MollerICBBE09,
  author = {Knut Moller and F. Toth and L. Wang and J. Moller and Kai Oliver Arras and M. Bach and S. Schumann and J. Guttmann},
  title = {Enhanced Perception for Visually Impaired People},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (ICBBE'09)},
  year = {2009},
  address = {Beijing, China},
}

@InProceedings{lauICRA09,
  author = {Boris Lau and Kai O. Arras and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Tracking Groups of People with a Multi-Model Hypothesis Tracker},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'09)},
  year = {2009},
  address = {Kobe, Japan},
}

@InProceedings{luberRSS08,
  author = {Matthias Luber and Kai O. Arras and Christian Plagemann and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Classifying Dynamic Objects: An Unsupervised Learning Approach},
  booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS'08)},
  year = {2008},
  address = {Zurich, Switzerland},
}

@InProceedings{arrasICRA08,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Slawomir Grzonka and Matthias Luber and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Efficient People Tracking in Laser Range Data using a Multi-Hypothesis Leg-Tracker with Adaptive Occlusion Probabilities},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'08)},
  year = {2008},
  address = {Pasadena, USA},
}

@InProceedings{censiICRA08,
  author = {Andrea Censi and Gian Diego Tipaldi},
  title = {Lazy Localization using the Frozen Time Smoother},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation ({ICRA}'08)},
  pages = {3167--3172},
  year = {2008},
  month = {May},
  address = {Pasadena, CA},
}

@InProceedings{muellerCOGSYS08,
  author = {J\"{o}rg M\"{u}ller and Cyrill Stachniss and Kai O. Arras and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Socially Inspired Motion Planning for Mobile Robots in Populated Environments},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys'08)},
  year = {2008},
  address = {Karlsruhe, Germany},
}

@InProceedings{iocchiSSRR07,
  author = {L. Iocchi and S. Pellegrini and G. D. Tipaldi},
  title = {Building multi-level planar maps integrating {LRF}, stereo vision and {IMU} sensors},
  booktitle = {Proc. of {IEEE} International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics ({SSRR}'07)},
  year = {2007},
  address = {Rome, Italy},
}

@Article{grisettiRAS07,
  author = {G. Grisetti and G.D. Tipaldi and C. Stachniss and W. Burgard and D. Nardi},
  title = {Fast and Accurate {SLAM} with Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters},
  journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue on Simultaneous Localization and Map Building},
  year = {2007},
  volume = {55},
  number = {1},
  pages = {30--38},
}

@InProceedings{tipaldiIROS07,
  author = {Gian Diego Tipaldi and Giorgio Grisetti and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Approximated Covariance Estimation in Graphical Approaches to SLAM},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'07)},
  address = {San Diego, USA},
  year = {2007},
}

@InProceedings{tipaldiICRA07,
  author = {Gian Diego Tipaldi and Alessandro Farinelli and Luca Iocchi and Daniele Nardi},
  title = {Heterogeneous Feature State Estimation with Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters},
  booktitle = {Proc. {IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'07)},
  year = {2007},
  address = {Rome, Italy},
}

@InProceedings{grisettiICRA06,
  author = {G. Grisetti and G. D. Tipaldi and C. Stachniss and W. Burgard and D. Nardi},
  title = {Speeding Up {R}ao {B}lackwellized {SLAM}},
  booktitle = {Proc. {IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'06)},
  year = {2006},
  address = {Orlando, USA},
}

@InProceedings{arrasICRA07,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and \'{O}scar Mart\'{i}nez Mozos and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Using Boosted Features for the Detection of People in 2D Range Data},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'07)},
  year = {2007},
  address = {Rome, Italy},
}

@TechReport{arrasTR05,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Daniela Cerqui},
  title = {Do we want to share our lives and bodies with robots? A 2000-people survey},
  type = {Technical Report},
  number = {EPFL-ASL-TR-0605-001},  
  institution = {Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne},
  month = {June},
  year = {2005},
}

@Manual{arrasManual04,
  author = {Kai O. Arras},
  title = {The CAS Robot Navigation Toolbox: Users Guide and Reference},
  type = {Manual},
  organization = {Center for Autonomous Systems, KTH},
  month = {September},
  year = {2004},
}

@InProceedings{wulfICRA04,
  author = {Oliver Wulf and Kai O. Arras and Henrik I. Christensen and Bernardo Wagner},
  title = {2{D} Mapping of Cluttered Indoor Environments by Means of 3{D} Perception},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'04)},
  year = {2004},
  address = {New Orleans, USA},
}

@PhdThesis{arrasPHD03,
  author = {Kai O. Arras},
  title = {Feature-Based Robot Navigation in Known and Unknown Environments},
  school = {Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Th\`{e}se No. 2765},
  year = {2003},
  month = {June},
}

@InCollection{arrasSTAR03,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Nicola Tomatis and Roland Siegwart},
  editor = {B. Siciliano and P. Dario},
  title = {Robox, a Remarkable Mobile Robot for the Real World},
  booktitle = {Experimental Robotics VIII},
  series = {Springer Advanced Robotics Series (STAR)},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year = {2003},
}

@Periodical{baerfeldtRAS03,
  editor = {Albert-Jan Baerfeldt and Kai O. Arras and Christian Balkenius},
  title = {Special issue with the best papers of Eurobot'01, Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  year = {2003},
  volume = {44},
  number = {1},
}

@Article{arrasRAS03,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Jos\'{e} A. Castellanos and Martin Schilt and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Feature-Based Multi-Hypothesis Localization and Tracking Using Geometric Constraints},
  journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  volume = {44},
  number = {1},
  year = {2003},
}

@Article{siegwartRAS03,
  author = {Roland Siegwart and Kai O. Arras and Samir Bouabdallah and Daniel Burnier and Gilles Froidevaux and Xavier Greppin and Bj\"{o}rn Jensen and Antoine Lorotte and Laetitia Mayor and Mathieu Meisser and Roland Philippsen and Ralph Piguet and Guy Ramel and Gregoire Terrien and Nicola Tomatis},
  title = {Robox at {E}xpo.02: A Large-Scale Installation of Personal Robots},
  journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  volume = {42},
  number = {3-4},
  pages = {203-222},
  month = {March},
  year = {2003},
}

@InProceedings{cerquiPISTA03,
  author = {Daniela Cerqui and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {Human Beings and Robots: Towards a Symbiosis? A 00-People Survey},
  booktitle = {Proc. International Conference on Socio Political Informatics and Cybernetics (PISTA'03)},
  address = {Orlando, USA},
  year = {2003},
}

@InProceedings{martinelliISRR03,
  author = {Agostino Martinelli and Adriana Tapus and Kai O. Arras and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Representations and Maps for Real World Navigation},
  booktitle = {Proc. 11th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR'03)},
  address = {Siena, Italy},
  year = {2003},
}

@InProceedings{arrasICRA03,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Roland Philippsen and Nicola Tomatis and Marc de Battista and Martin Schilt and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {A Navigation Framework for Multiple Mobile Robots and its Application at the {E}xpo.02 Exhibition},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'03)},
  address = {Taipei, Taiwan}, 
  year = {2003},
}

@InProceedings{tomatisICRA03,
  author = {Nicola Tomatis and Gregoire Terrien and Ralph Piguet and Daniel Burnier and Samir Bouabdallah and Kai O. Arras and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Designing a Secure and Robust Mobile Interacting Robot for the Long Term},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'03)},
  address = {Taipei, Taiwan}, 
  year = {2003},
}

@InProceedings{siegwartASER03,
  author = {Roland Siegwart and Kai O. Arras and Bj\"{o}rn Jensen and Roland Philippsen and Nicola Tomatis},
  title = {Design, Implementation and Exploitation of a New Fully Autonomous Tour Guide Robot},
  booktitle = {Proc. 1st International Workshop on Advances in Service Robotics (ASER'03)},
  address = {Bardolino, Italy},
  year = {2003},
}

@Proceedings{arrasIROSWS02,
  editor = {Kai O. Arras and Wolfram Burgard},
  title = {Robots in Exhibitions, IROS'02 Workshop Proceedings},
  address = {Lausanne, Switzerland},
  month = {October},
  year = {2002},
}

@InProceedings{arrasISER02,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Nicola Tomatis and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Robox, a Remarkable Mobile Robot for the Real World},
  booktitle = {Proc. 8th Int. Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER'02)},
  address = {Sant'Angelo d'Ischia, Italy},
  year = {2002},
}

@InProceedings{arrasICRA02a,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Jos\'{e} A. Castellanos and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Feature-Based Multi-Hypothesis Localization and Tracking for Mobile Robots Using Geometric Constraints},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'02)},
  address = {Washington DC, USA},
  year = {2002},
}

@InProceedings{arrasICRA02b,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Jan Persson and Nicola Tomatis and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance For Polygonal Robots With A Reduced Dynamic Window},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'02)},
  address = {Washington DC, USA},
  year = {2002},
}

@InProceedings{tomatisISR02,
  author = {Nicola Tomatis and Roland Philippsen and Bj\"{o}rn Jensen and Kai O. Arras and Gregoire Terrien and Ralph Piguet and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Building a Fully Autonomous Tour Guide Robot: Where Academic Research Meets Industry},
  booktitle = {Proc. 33rd International Symposium on Robotics (ISR'02)},
  address = {Stockholm, Sweden},
  year = {2002},
}

@Proceedings{arrasEUROBOTProc01,
  editor = {Kai O. Arras and Christian Balkenius and Albert-Jan Baerfeldt and Wolfram Burgard and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots (Eurobot'01)},
  address = {Lund, Sweden},
  month = {September},
  year = {2001},
}

@Article{arrasRAS01,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Nicola Tomatis and Bj\"{o}rn Jensen and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Multisensor On-the-Fly Localization: Precision and Reliability for Applications},
  journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  volume = {34},
  number = {2-3},
  pages = {131-143},
  month = {February},
  year = {2001},
}

@InProceedings{arrasEUROBOT01,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Jos\'{e} A. Castellanos and Martin Schilt and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Towards Feature-Based Multi-Hypothesis Localization and Tracking},
  booktitle = {Proc. 4th European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots (Eurobot'01)},
  address = {Lund, Sweden},
  year = {2001},
}

@InProceedings{caprariAMIRE01,
  author = {Gilles Caprari and Kai O. Arras and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Robot Navigation in Centimeter Range Labyrinths},
  booktitle = {Proc. 5th International Heinz Nixdorf Symposium, Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE'01)},
  address = {Paderborn, Germany},
  year = {2001},
}

@InProceedings{tomatisAIM01,
  author = {Nicola Tomatis and Roberto Brega and Kai O. Arras and Bj\"{o}rn Jensen and Benoit Moreau and Jan Persson and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {A Complex Mechatronic System: from Design to Application},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM'01)},
  address = {Como, Italy},
  year = {2001},
}

@InProceedings{tomatisICRA01,
  author = {Nicola Tomatis and Illah Nourbakhsh and Kai O. Arras and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {A Hybrid Approach for Robust and Precise Mobile Robot Navigation with Compact Environment Modeling},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'01)},
  address = {Seoul, Korea}, 
  year = {2001},
}

@InProceedings{arrasIROS00,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Nicola Tomatis and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Multisensor On-the-Fly Localization Using Laser and Vision},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'00)},
  address = {Takamatsu, Japan},
  year = {2000},
}

@InProceedings{bregaIROS00,
  author = {Roberto Brega and Nicola Tomatis and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {The Need for Autonomy and Real-Time in Mobile Robotics: A Case Study of {XO}/2 and {P}ygmalion},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'00)},
  address = {Takamatsu, Japan},
  year = {2000},
}

@InProceedings{caprariIROS00,
  author = {Gilles Caprari and Kai O. Arras and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {The Autonomous Miniature Robot {A}lice: From Prototypes to Applications},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'00)},
  address = {Takamatsu, Japan},
  year = {2000},
}

@InProceedings{moreauSPIE00,
  author = {Benoit Moreau and Nicola Tomatis and Kai O. Arras},
  title = {Multimodal Web Interface for Task Supervision and Specification},
  booktitle = {Proc. of SPIE, vol. 4195, Mobile Robots XV and Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies VII},
  address = {Boston, USA},
  year = {2000},
}

@InProceedings{arrasEUROBOT99,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Nicola Tomatis},
  title = {Improving Robustness and Precision in Mobile Robot Localization by Using Laser Range Finding and Monocular Vision},
  booktitle = {Proc. 3rd European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots (Eurobot'99)},
  address = {Z\"{u}rich, Switzerland},
  year = {1999},
}

@InProceedings{WullschlegerEUROBOT99,
  author = {Felix H. Wullschleger and Kai O. Arras and Sjur J. Vestli},
  title = {A Flexible Exploration Framework for Map Building},
  booktitle = {Proc. 3rd European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots (Eurobot'99)},
  address = {Z\"{u}rich, Switzerland},
  year = {1999},
}

@InProceedings{arrasAMS99,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Nicola Tomatis},
  title = {Sensordatenfusion zur Robusten und Pr\"{a}zisen {EKF} {L}okalisierung von {M}obilen {R}obotern},
  booktitle = {Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS'99)},
  address = {M\"{u}nchen, Germany},
  year = {1999},
}

@TechReport{arrasTR98,
  author = {Kai O. Arras},
  title = {An Introduction to Error Propagation: Derivation, Meaning and Examples of {C}y = {F}x {C}x {F}x'},
  type = {Technical Report},
  number = {EPFL-ASL-TR-98-01 R3},  
  institution = {Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne},
  month = {September},
  year = {1998},
}

@InProceedings{arrasICRA98,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Sjur J. Vestli},
  title = {Hybrid, high-precision localisation for the mail distributing mobile robot system {MOPS}},
  booktitle = {Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'98)},
  address = {Leuven, Belgium}, 
  year = {1998},
}

@InProceedings{arrasSPIE97,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Roland Siegwart},
  title = {Feature Extraction and Scene Interpretation for Map-Based Navigation and Map Building},
  booktitle = {Proc. of SPIE, vol. 3210, Mobile Robotics XII, p. 42-53},
  address = {Pittsburgh, USA},
  year = {1997},
}

@InProceedings{arrasAMS96,
  author = {Kai O. Arras and Sjur J. Vestli and Nadine Tschichold-G\"{u}rman},
  title = {Echtzeitf\"{a}hige {M}erkmalsextraktion und {S}ituationsinterpretation aus {L}aserscannerdaten},
  booktitle = {Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS'96)},
  address = {M\"{u}nchen, Germany},
  year = {1996},
}