Prof. Dr. Alexander Antoine Ferrein

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsSoftware Engineering and Programming Languages
KeywordsArtificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Robotics

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityAachen
InstitutionFachhochschule Aachen (FH Aachen)
InstituteRobotics and Computer Science
Homepagewww.ferrein.fh-aachen.de

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Anet E.G. PotgieterDepartment of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
Dr. Heather G. MarcoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2009

Programme(s)

2008Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2010Tim 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
2010Gavin 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
2010Tim 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
2010Alexander 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
2010Alexander 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
2010Alexander Ferrein: Robot controllers for highly dynamic environments with real-time constraints. In: Kunstliche Intelligenz, 2010, 175-178
2010Stefan 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
2009Gavin 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
2009Alexander 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