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Awards
Award of Gerlinde and Helmut Schwarz Foundation.
For outstanding scientific achievements attracting international attention with regard to robotics research, but as well with regard to the faculty of engineering sciences, the chair of dynamics and control at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Best Student Paper Award at International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments ROSE 2012 for contributing Ertle, Voos, Söffker:
"Utilizing Dynamic Hazard Knowledge for Risk Sensitive Action Planning of Autonomous Robots."
Finalist (1 out of 4) for the New Technology Foundation Award at IROS 2012 with contribution Ertle, Tokic, Cubek, Voos, Söffker: "Learning of Safety Knowledge from Human Demonstrations."
Reviewed Conference Articles
Ertle, P.;Voos, H.; Söffker, D.:
Utilizing Dynamic Hazard Knowledge for Risk Sensitive Action Planning of Autonomous Robots.
In:Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments ROSE, pp.162-167, Magdeburg, Germany, November 16-18, 2012
Ertle, P.; Tokic, M.; Cubek, R.;Voos, H.; Söffker, D.:
Learning of Safety Knowledge from Human Demonstrations.
In:Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS, pp. 5394-5399,
Vilamoura, Portugal,October 7-12, 2012.
Ertle P., Tokic M.,
Bystricky T., Ebel M., Voos H., Söffker D.:
Conceptual design of a dynamic risk-assessment server for autonomous robots.
In Proceedings of the 7th German Conference on Robotics (Robotik 2012), pp. 250-254, Munich, Germany, 2012.
Tokic M., Ertle P., Palm G., Söffker D.,
Voos H.: Robust exploration/exploitation trade-offs in safety-critical applications. In Proceedings
of the 8th IFAC Symposium Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes
Safeprocess 2012, pp. 660-665, Mexico City, Mexico, 2012
Ertle P. , Gamrad D. , Voos H. und Söffker D. :
Action Planning for Autonomous Systems with respect to Safety Aspects.
In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pp. 2465-2472,
Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.
Ertle P. , Voos H. und Söffker D. :
Development of Safe Autonomous Mobile Service Robots using an Active
Integrated Approach. In Proc. International Symposium on Robotics ISR
2010, Munich, Germany, 2010.
Ertle P. , Voos H. und Söffker D. :
On Risk Formalization of On-line Risk Assessment for Safe Decision
Making in Robotics.. In Proc. 7. IARP Workshop on Technical
Challengesor Dependable Robots in Human Environments, pp. 15-22,
Toulous, France,
2010.
Voos H. und Ertle P. :
Online Risk Assessment for Safe Autonomous Mobile Robots - A
Perspective. In Proc. of the 7th. Workshop on Advanced Control and
Diagnosis, Zielona Gora, Poland, 2009.
Book Chapter
Ertle
P. und D. Söffker :
Towards Risk Analysis to enable Safe Service Robotics. In: N. Baloian,
W. Luther, D. Söffker, Y. Urano [Hrsg.], Interface and Interaction
Design for Learning and Simulation Environments, Berlin: Logos, 2010, p. 33-35.
ISBN/ISSN 978-3-8325-2361-9
Television interview
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