Prof. Dr. Alexander Antoine Ferrein

Profile

Academic position	Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fields	Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Keywords	Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Robotics

Current contact address

Country	Germany
City	Aachen
Institution	Fachhochschule Aachen (FH Aachen)
Institute	Robotics and Computer Science
Homepage	www.ferrein.fh-aachen.de

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Anet E.G. Potgieter	Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
Dr. Heather G. Marco	Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
Start of initial sponsorship	01/03/2009

Programme(s)

2008	Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2010	Tim Niemueller, Alexander Ferrein: A Lua-based Behavior Engine for Controlling the Humanoid Robot Nao. In: Jacky Baltes, Michail G. Lagoudakis, Tadashi Naruse, Saeed Shiry Ghidary, RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII . Springer, 2010. 240-251
2010	Gavin Rens, Ivan Varzinczak, Thomas Meyer, Alexander Ferrein: A speciﬁcation logic for reasoning about actions and explicit obser vations.. In: Jiuyong Li, AI 2010: Advances in Artiﬁcial Intelligence - Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artiﬁcial Intelligence. Springer, 2010. 395-404
2010	Tim Niemueller, Alexander Ferrein, Daniel Beck, Gerhard Lakemeyer.: Design principles of the component-based robot software framework fawkes.. In: N. Ando, S. Balakirsky, Th. Hemker M. Reggiani, and O. von Stryk, Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2010). Springer, 2010. 300-311
2010	Alexander Ferrein, Nils Siebel, Gerald Steinbauer: Editorial: Hybrid control for autonomous systems Integrating learning, deliberation and reactive control.. In: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2010, 1037-1038
2010	Alexander Ferrein, Gerald Steinbauer: On the way to high-level programming for resource- limited embedded systems with golog.. In: N. Ando, S. Balakirsky, Th. Hemker M. Reggiani, and O. von Stryk, Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2010),. Springer, 2010. 229-240
2010	Alexander Ferrein: Robot controllers for highly dynamic environments with real-time constraints. In: Kunstliche Intelligenz, 2010, 175-178
2010	Stefan Jacobs, Alexander Ferrein, Stefan Schiffer, Daniel Beck, Gerhard Lakemeyer:: Robust Collision Avoidance in Unknown Domestic Environments. In: Jacky Baltes, Michail G. Lagoudakis, Tadashi Naruse, Saeed Shiry Ghidary, RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII. Springer, 2010. 116-127
2009	Gavin Rens, Alexander Ferrein, Etienne van der Poel: A BDI Agent Architecture for a POMDP Planner. In: Gerhard Lakemeyer, Leora Morgenstern, Mary-Anne Williams, Proceedings of the Nineth International Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning. UTSePress, 2009. 109-114
2009	Alexander Ferrein, Stefan Schiffer, Gerhard Lakemeyer: Embedding Fuzzy Controllers into Golog. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE'09). IEEE Press, 2009. 498-509