List of Publications (BibTeX)
    Christoph Sprunk, Boris Lau, Patrick Pfaff, and Wolfram Burgard
Online Generation of Kinodynamic Trajectories for non-circular Omnidirectional Robots
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011)
Shanghai, China, 2011.
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    Wolfram Burgard and Patrick Pfaff, editors
Special Issue: Three-Dimensional Mapping, Part 3
Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), Volume 27 Issue 1 (January 2010)
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    Wolfram Burgard and Patrick Pfaff, editors
Special Issue: Three-Dimensional Mapping, Part 2
Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), Volume 26 Issue 11-12 (November - December 2009)
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    Wolfram Burgard and Patrick Pfaff, editors
Special Issue: Three-Dimensional Mapping, Part 1
Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), Volume 26 Issue 10 (October 2009)
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    Patrick Pfaff
Probabilistic Models for Autonomous Systems
PhD Thesis, University of Freiburg, July 2008.
thesis
    Patrick Pfaff, Cyrill Stachniss, Christian Plagemann, and Wolfram Burgard
Efficiently Learning High-dimensional Observation Models for Monte-Carlo Localization
using Gaussian Mixtures
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Intellegent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008)
Nice, France, 2008.
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    Patrick Pfaff, Christian Plagemann, and Wolfram Burgard
Gaussian Mixture Models for Probabilistic Localization
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008)
Pasadena, CA, USA, 2008.
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    Rainer Kümmerle, Rudolph Triebel, Patrick Pfaff, and Wolfram Burgard
Monte Carlo Localization in Outdoor Terrains using Multi-Level Surface Maps
Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), 2008
to appear.
    Patrick Pfaff, Christian Plagemann, and Wolfram Burgard
Improved Likelihood Models for Probabilistic Localization based on Range Scans
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Intellegent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007)
San Diego, CA, USA, 2007.
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    Giorgio Grisetti, Slawomir Grzonka, Cyrill Stachniss, Patrick Pfaff, and Wolfram Burgard
Efficient Estimation of Accurate Maximum Likelihood Maps in 3D
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Intellegent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007),
San Diego, CA, USA, 2007.
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    Patrick Pfaff, Rainer Kümmerle, Dominik Joho, Cyrill Stachniss, Rudolph Triebel, and Wolfram Burgard
Navigation in Combined Outdoor and Indoor Environments using Multi-Level Surface Maps
In Proc of the Workshop on Safe Navigation in Open and Dynamic Environments,
IEEE International Conference on Intellegent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007),
San Diego, CA, USA, 2007.
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    Rainer Kümmerle, Rudolph Triebel, Patrick Pfaff, and Wolfram Burgard
Monte Carlo Localization in Outdoor Terrains using Multi-Level Surface Maps
In Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR 2007),
Chamonix, France, 2007.
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    Kristian Kersting, Christian Plagemann, Patrick Pfaff, and Wolfram Burgard
Most Likely Heteroscedastic Gaussian Process Regression
In Proc. of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2007),
Corvallis, OR, USA, 2007.
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    Christian Plagemann, Kristian Kersting, Patrick Pfaff, and Wolfram Burgard
Gaussian Beam Processes: A Nonparametric Baysian Measurement Model for Range Finders
In Proc. of the 2007 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS 2007),
Atlanta, GA, USA, 2007.
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    Patrick Pfaff, Rudolph Triebel, Cyrill Stachniss, Pierre Lamon, Wolfram Burgard, and Roland Siegwart
Towards Mapping of Citites
In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2007),
Rome, Italy, 2007.
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    Rainer Kümmerle, Patrick Pfaff, Rudolph Triebel, and Wolfram Burgard
Active Monte Carlo Localization in Outdoor Terrains using Multi-Level Surface Maps
In Fachgespräche Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS 2007),
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    Dominik Joho, Cyrill Stachniss, Patrick Pfaff, and Wolfram Burgard
Autonomous Exploration for 3D Map Learning
In Fachgespräche Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS 2007),
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    Christian Plagemann, Kristian Kersting, Patrick Pfaff, and Wolfram Burgard
Heteroscedastic Gaussian Process Regression for Modeling Range Sensors in Mobile Robotics
Learning Workshop (SNOWBIRD 2007),
San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2007.
    Patrick Pfaff, Rudolph Triebel, and Wolfram Burgard
An Efficient Extension of Elevation Maps for Outdoor Terrain Mapping and Loop Closing
The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR),
2007.
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    Rudolph Triebel, Patrick Pfaff, and Wolfram Burgard
Multi-Level Surface Maps for Outdoor Terrain Mapping and Loop Closing
In Proc of the IEEE International Conference on Intellegent Robots and Systems (IROS 2006),
Bejing, China, 2006.
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    Pierre Lamon, Cyrill Stachniss, Rudolph Triebel, Patrick Pfaff, Christian Plagemann,
Giorgio Grisetti, Sascha Kolski, Wolfram Burgard, and Roland Siegwart
Mapping with an Autonomous Car
In Proc of the Workshop on Safe Navigation in Open and Dynamic Environments,
IEEE International Conference on Intellegent Robots and Systems (IROS 2006),
Bejing, China, 2006.
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    Patrick Pfaff, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox
Robust Monte-Carlo Localization using Adaptive Likelihood Models
In Proc. of the European Robotics Symposium (EUROS-06),
Palermo, Italy, 2006.
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    Patrick Pfaff and Wolfram Burgard
An Efficient Extension of Elevation Maps for Outdoor Terrain Mapping
In Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR 2005),
Port Douglas, QLD, Australia, 2005.
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    P. Trahanias, W. Burgard, A. Argyros, D. Hähnel, H. Baltzakis, P. Pfaff, and C. Stachniss
TOURBOT and WebFAIR: Web-Operated Mobile Robots for Tele-Presence in Populated Exhibitions
In IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine.
       
      Student Work
       
    Patrick Pfaff
Techniken für die Outdoor-Navigation mit mobilen Robotern
Master Thesis (in German), University of Freiburg, March 2005.
master thesis
    Patrick Pfaff
Robotalk im deutschen Museum
Student Project (in German), University of Freiburg, July 2003.
student project