Curriculum Vitae

Gerald SteinbauerInstitute for Software Techology

Technische Universitat GrazInffeldgasse 16b/2, A-8010 Graz, Austria

Phone: (+43) 316 873 5723Fax: (+43) 316 873 5706

E-Mail: steinbauer@ist.tugraz.at

WWW: http://www.ist.tugraz.at/steinbauer

Gerald Steinbauer received a M.Sc in Computer Engi-neering (Telematik) and a PhD in Computer Sciencein 2001 and 2006 from Graz University of Technology.He is currently assistant professor with tenure track(Professoren-Laufbahnstelle) at the Institute for Soft-ware Technology (IST) at the Graz University of Tech-nology and works on robustness and dependability of au-tonomous mobile robots. His research interests includeautonomous mobile robots, sensor fusion, world mod-eling, robust robot control, cognitive robotics, searchand rescue robots, knowledge representation, reasoning,model-based diagnosis and RoboCup.He built up several RoboCup teams at Graz Universityof Technology and the research group on autonomousintelligent systems at IST. He published several dozenspapers in journals, conferences and workshops. He orga-nized a number of workshops and other scientific eventsand is very active in the RoboCup community. He isa member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation So-ciety, ACM and the Austrian Society for Artificial In-telligence. Moreover, he is founding president of theAustrian RoboCup National Chapter and the AustrianIEEE Robotics and Automation Chapter.

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Personals

Name Gerald SteinbauerTitle Ass.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.Born 15.06.1973 in Wagna, Austria

Nationality Austrian Citizen

Education

1979 - 83 Primary School, Gleinstatten

1983 - 86 Secondary School, Hauptschule Gleinstatten

1986 - 87 Secondary School, Hauptschule Graz-Webling

1987 - 92 Studying Electronic and Communication Engineering at HohereTechnische Lehranstalt Graz-Gosting

1992 - 01 Studying Computer Engineering (Telematik) at Technische Univer-sitat Graz (with honor). Master Thesis ”Machine learning for an au-tonomous mobile robot”.

2002 - 06 PhD Student in Computer Science at Technische Universitat Graz(with honor). PhD Thesis ”Intelligent and Robust Control of AutonomousMobile Robots”.

2016 Submission of Habilitation Thesis ”Dependability of Autonomous Sys-tems”. Final Defense is planned for January 2017. Contact of the evalu-ation committee is Prof. Franz Wotawa (head of committee).

Work Experience

1992 - 96 Summer jobs in the electrical industry in Germany

1997 - 01 Software development for embedded systems at Roche DiagnosticsGraz (former AVL Medical Instruments)

2002 - 06 Scientific and Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Software Tech-nology, Technische Universitat Graz

June 2006 - June 2007 Post-Doc Researcher at the Institute for SoftwareTechnology, Technische Universitat Graz, project MoRDAMS funded bythe Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

June 2007 - September 2011 Research Assistant at the Institute for Soft-ware Technology, Technische Universitat Graz

Since October 2011 Assistant Professor with Tenure Track (Professoren-Laufbahnstelle) at the Institute for Software Technology, Technische Uni-versitat Graz

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Scientific Activities

Projects Project activities comprise problem analysis, design, implementa-tion of prototypes and also leading and organizing projects. Activities are sortedby their starting year.

Oskar (Project Member, 1999-2000)

The ”Oskar” project had been carried out to show an audience if and howa machine can learn. For this purpose we developed a mobile robot whoplayed autonomously mini-golf and deployed it for more than 9 month inthe collection of the renowned ars electronica center in Linz, Austria.

RoboCup Middle Size (Project Leader, 2002-2007)

The aim of this project is to set up a competitive team for the RoboCupMiddle Size League, to solve the upcoming problems of robotic soccer andto successfully participate in RoboCup. Moreover, the developed robotswill used in research and teaching in the area of multi-agent systems androbotics.

CampusBot (Project Leader, 2004-2005)

Within this project we will investigate sensing and navigation technolo-gies that allows a mobile robot to autonomously navigate on the campusInffeldgasse of the Graz University of Technology.

Omni-Directional Robot Tricia (Project Leader, 2004-2005)

In this project we worked on a concept of an omni-directional robot withsteered traditional wheels. Beside the design and the construction of therobot we tackled the problem of the kinematics of such a robot.

Ant (Project Leader, 2005-2006)

Within this project with a partner from the industry we extended the stateof the art techniques which today are used in industrial Automated GuidedVehicles (AGV). The expected main improvements will be a less restrictedand more flexible navigation of AGV within an industrial environment.

MoRDAMS (Project Member, 2006-2007)

The Model-Based Run-time Diagnosis for Autonomous Mobile Systems(MoRDAMS) project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).Within this project techniques for the online diagnosis and repair of thesoftware and hardware of autonomous mobile robots will be developed.The aim is to extend the well established approach of model-based diag-nosis towards applications on mobile robots.

RoboCup 2009 Graz (General Co-chair, 2007-2009)

This project comprises the application of the city of Graz and the GrazUniversity of Technology as hosts for the the RoboCup world champi-onship 2009 and the organization of the event. This largest robotics

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showcase worldwide will also bring an significant momentum to the areaof mobile robots in Austria.

MoDReMAS (Senior Consultant, 2007-2010)

The Model-based Diagnosis and Reconfiguration in Mobile AutonomousSystems project (MoDReMAS) is the successor project of the MoRDAMSproject and is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Based on theprevious experience we want to extent our approaches towards automaticreconfiguration.

Diagnosis of Industrial Systems (Senior Consultant, 2007-2008)

In this project together with our industrial partner Knapp Automation wework on the applicability of our model-based fault diagnosis framework tolarge-scale industrial systems.

RoboCupJunior Austria (National Coordinator, since 2007 - Society chair,since 2016)

The aim of the project is to establish a vital RoboCupJunior community inAustria. In cooperation with Austrian schools we work to inspire youngpeople for science and technology. We build up a national network ofregional RoboupJunior centers in order to promote the idea of scienceeducation with robots throughout Austria. Since 2016 RoboCupJunior isa non-profit society.

RoboCup Standard Platform (Co-Project Leader, since 2008-2010)

The aim of this project is to set up a team for the new RoboCup StandardPlatform league in order to perform research in the area of intelligentrobust control on the new biped standard robot Nao. This project is acooperation with the Knowledge-Based System Group, RWTH Aachen,Germany and the Robotics and Agents Research Lab, University of CapeTown, South Africa.

Industrial AGV (Project Leader, 2008-2009)

In this project together with our industrial partner Knapp Automationwe develop navigation approaches for a group of AGVs in an industrialenvironment.

Playing board games with robots (Co-Project Leader, since 2009)

The aim of the project is to develop a smart physical opponent for playingboard game. We worked on an autonomous robot which is able to play theboard game Pylos against a human. The interesting part is the fruitfulcombination of game theory and robotics. In the future we will extendthe capabilities of the robot towards nine men’s morris.

RoboCupJunior South Africa (Senior Consultant, since 2010)

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The aim of the project is to support South Africa in the development ofnetworks, infrastructure and material in the area of RoboCupJunior tointerest young people for science and technology.

ABRIAR (Project Leader, 2010-2014)

The Active Belief Repair for Intelligent Autonomous Robots (ABRIAR)project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Within thisproject techniques for the online diagnosis and repair of the knowledgebases of autonomous mobile robots will be developed.

RoboCup Rescue Robot League (Project Leader, since 2010)

The aim of the project is the development of semi-autonomous and au-tonomous robots for search and rescue missions. In particular we are in-terested in robust intelligent control of autonomous robots and autonomyin harsh environments.

TEDUSAR (Project Leader, since 2011)

The aim of the project Technology and Education for Search and RescueRobots (TEDUSAR) is to stimulate education, research and promotion inthe area of robots for search and rescue missions in Slovenia and Austria.Beside the development of courses for different levels (high-school anduniversity students) research in the area of autonomy and dependabilityof search and rescue robots will be conducted.

GUARD (Project Leader, since 2014)

The aim of the project Guaranteeing Service Robot Dependability Duringthe Entire Life Cycle (GUARD) is to develop method based on model-based testing and diagnosis to improve the reliability of service robots inindustrial environments. The lies on the modeling of individual transportrobots as well as a fleet and its embedding in an automated warehouse,the development of automated testing and diagnosis capabilities basedon these models and a seamless integration of the methods in the entiredevelopment, deploy and operation process.

Educational Robotics in Styria (Project Leader, since 2014)

The aim of the project is the extension of the educational robot activities(e.g., teachers training) in the Austrian province of Styria.

R3 - Request a Rescue Robot (Project Leader, 2014-2015)

The aim of the project is the development of a deployment model of robotsin disaster management. Beside technical questions such as proper usecases also tactical, operational and legal issues will be tackled.

ROSE (Project Member, since 2015)

The aim of the project ROSE - Robotics Opportunities (to foster) STEMEducation is the development and evaluation of activities based on edu-cational robotics in order to improve the interest in science, technology,

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engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The project is carried out as net-work activities of different European schools and research institutions.

RoboCup Logistics League (Project Leader, since 2015)

The aim of the project is the development of a team of autonomousrobots that are able to produce individualized products in cooperationwith production machine autonomously. Besides navigation and manipu-lation robust planning and re-planning of production steps for a team ofautonomous robots is important.

Awarded Funds

Diagnosis of Industrial Systems Knapp Automation GmbH, Euro 93.000,February 2008 - January 2010.

Industrial AGV Knapp Automation GmbH, Euro 90.000, March 2007 - Jan-uary 2009.

RoboCup 2009 RoboCup Federation, Euro 280.000, December 2008 - January2010.

Active Belief Repair for Intelligent Autonomous Robots Austrian Sci-ence Fund (FWF), Euro 180.000, July 2010 - January 2014

Technology and Education for Search and Rescue Robots EuropeanRegional Development Fund (ERDF) and national funding from Sloveniaand Austria, Euro 514.000, September 2011 - August 2014

Guaranteeing Service Robot Dependability During the Entire Life CycleAustrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and industrial partner,Euro 280.000, April 2014 - March 2017

Educational Robotics in Styria Land Steiermark (State Government ofStyria), Euro 60.000, September 2014 - August 2017

R3 - Request a Rescue Robot Austrian Research Promotion Agency(FFG), Euro 55.000, September 2014 - August 2015

ROSE - Robotics Opportunities (to foster) STEM EducationERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union, Euro 20.000, January2015 - December 2017

List of lectures and seminars I designed, organized and taught a numberof lectures and seminar in the area of Artificial Intelligence and autonomousrobots.1 All lecturing was done at Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria.

1. SE 2.0 (Seminar, 3 ECTS) Einfuhrung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten(Introduction to Scientific Working) [WT 2005/2006]

1WT ... Winter Term, ST ... Summer Term

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2. PR 2.0 (Lab, 5 ECTS) Konstruktion Mobiler Roboter (Construction ofMobile Robots) [WT 2006/2007, WT 2007/2008, WT 2008/2009, WT2009/2010, WT 2010/2011, WT 2011/2012, WT 2012/13, WT 2013/14,WT 2014/2015, WT 2015/2016]

3. SP 6.0 (Project Work, 10 ECTS) Seminar/Projekt Robotik (Semi-nar/Project Robotics) [WT 2006/2007, WT 2007/2008, WT 2008/2009,WT 2009/2010, WT 2010/2011, WT 2011/2012, WT 2012/13, WT2013/14, WT 2014/2015, WT 2015/2016]

4. VU 4.0 (Lecture and Practicals, 6 ECTS) AK Didaktik der Informatik(Advanced Topics of Didactics of Computer Science) [WT 2011/2012, WT2012/13, WT 2013/14, WT 2015/16]

5. SE 2.0 (Seminar, 3,5 ECTS) Seminar Didaktik der Informatik (SeminarDidactics of Computer Science) [ST 2012, ST 2013, ST 2014, ST 2015, ST2016]

6. VO 2.0, KU 1.0 (Lecture and Practicals, 5 ECTS) Wissensverar-beitung/Expertensysteme (Knowledge Processing/Expert Systems) [ST2008, ST 2009, ST 2010, ST 2011, ST 2012, ST 2013, ST 2014, ST 2015]

7. VO 3.0, KU 1.0 (Lecture and Practicals, 6 ECTS) Klassische Themender Computerwissenschaft (Classical Topics of Computer Science) [WT2008/2009, WT 2009/2010, WT 2010/2011, WT 2011/2012, WT 2012/13,WT 2013/14, WT 2014/2015, WT 2015/20162]

8. VO 2.0, KU 1.0 (Lecture and Practicals, 5 ECTS) Advanced Topics ofArtificial Intelligence [WT 2010/2011, WT 2011/2012, WT 2012/13, WT2013/14, WT 2014/2015, WT 2015/2016]

9. VO 2.0, KU 1.0 (Lecture and Practicals, 5 ECTS) Advanced Robotics [ST2011, ST 2012, ST 2013, ST 2014, ST 2015, ST 2016]

10. VO 2.0, KU 1.0 Mobile Roboter (Lecture and Practicals, 5 ECTS) (MobileRobots) [WT 2013/14, WT 2014/15, WT 2015/16]

Supervised bachelor and master theses I supervised a number of studentprojects, bachelor and master theses in the area of autonomous mobile robots,AI, planning and model-based diagnosis at Graz University of Technology, Graz,Austria. In particular the following master theses:

1. Arndt Muehlenfeld. A Goalie for RoboCup. 2003. Co-supervision withFranz Wotawa.

2. Gordon Fraser. AI-Planning System for Robotic Soccer. 2004. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

2Joint lecture with University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria.

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3. Jorg Weber. Evaluation and Refinement of an AI-Planning System forRobotic Soccer. 2005. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

4. Martin Weiglhofer. An ultrasonic/radio-frequency beacon-based self-localization method for autonomous mobile robots. 2006. Co-supervisionwith Franz Wotawa.

5. Stefan Galler. A navigation approach of autonomous mobile robots in anindustrial environment. 2006. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

6. Mathias Brandstotter. Reconfiguration of mobile robots. 2007. Co-supervision with Michael Hofbaur.

7. Theresa Rienmuller. Particle-filter based Self-localization. 2007. Co-supervision with Horst Bischof.

8. Jurgen Pfingstner. Adaptive Inverse Kinematics for Wheeled MobileRobots. 2008. Co-supervision with Michael Hofbaur.

9. Christof Rath. Self-localization of a biped robot in the RoboCup StandardPlatform League domain. 2010. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

10. Mate Wolfram. An Integral Mobile Robot Platform for Research and Ex-periments in the Field of Intelligent Autonomous Systems. 2011. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

11. Stephan Neumann. Robot Self-Localization Using Principal ComponentAnalysis. 2012. Co-supervision with Horst Bischof.

12. Peter Puchwein. Development and Implementation of error- and crosstalk-avoiding strategies for mobile robot navigation. 2012. Co-supervision withReinhard Braunstingl.

13. Johannes Maurer. Outdoor Localization and Navigation for Mobile Robots.2012. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

14. Sven Bock. Autonomous Nine Men’s Morris Position and Game StateRecognition using a Humanoid Robot Platform. 2012. Co-supervisionwith Franz Wotawa.

15. Roland Klobl. Autonomous grasping and path planning for a humanoidrobot playing Nine Men’s Morris. 2012. Co-supervision with FranzWotawa.

16. Harald Altinger. Ultrasonic sensor based self localization for autonomousvehicles within mapped environments. 2013. Co-supervision with FranzWotawa.

17. Dominik Lechner. A flexible autonomous order picking robot. 2013. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

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18. Clemens Muhlbacher. Development of a tool chain to integrate differentrobot manipulators in ROS. 2013. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

19. Alexander Meisel. Feature based Sensor Fusion for Victim Detection inthe Rescue Robotics Domain. 2014. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

20. Christopher Maier. YAGI - An Easy and Light-Weighted Action-Programming Language for Education and Research in Artificial Intel-ligence and Robotics. 2015. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

21. Max Leingartner. Evaluation of Sensors and Mapping Approaches forDisasters in Tunnels. 2015. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

22. Stefan Kaltner. Autonomous Navigation of a Mobile Forklift. 2015. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

23. Julia Nitsch. Industrial Grasping. 2016.

24. Stefan Imlauer. A Hierarchical Navigation System for Groups of Au-tonomous Logistics Robots in Industrial Environments. 2016.

25. Jakob Auer. Autonomous Shoring Task. 2016.

26. Harald Burgsteiner. Design and Evaluation of an Introductory ArtificialIntelligence Class in Highschools. 2016.

27. Dietmar Watzinger. YAGI Natively on the Lego-Mindstorms-Ev3. 2016.

28. Stefan Loigge. Unified and Dependable Robot Control Architecture basedon ROS. 2016.

29. Konstantin Lassnig. An Autonomous Robot for Campus-Wide TransportTasks. 2016.

Supervised Phd theses

1. Safdar Zaman. Intelligent Model-Based Diagnosis and Repair for ROS-Based Autonomous Robots. 2014. Co-supervision with Wolfgang Slany.

2. Michael Reip. Dependable Belief Management for High-Level Robot Pro-grams. 2016. Co-supervision with Franz Wotawa.

Guest Editor

• OGAI Journal on RoboCup (Vol 22., No. 3 (2003), Vol 22., No. 4 (2003)and Vol 27., No 4 (2008))

• Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue on HybridControl of Autonomous Systems Vol. 58, No. 9 (2010)

• KI - Kunstliche Intelligenz (German Magazine on Artificial Intelligence),Special Issue for 20 years of RoboCup (2016)

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Program Committees and Reviewing - Conferences and Workshops

• Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2006, 2007)

• International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX) (2007, 2012, 2014,2015, 2016)

• Iberoamerican International Congress on Artificial Intelligence (2010)

• International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE) (2010, 2011,2012, 2013,2014, 2015, 2016)

• International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiagentSystems (AAMAS) (2011)

• Austrian Robotics Workshop (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)

• International RoboCup Symposium (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016)

• International RoboCup Symposium (2015, symposium co-chair)

• IEEE Africon (2011, 2013)

• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS) (2011, 2012)

• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS) (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, Associated Editor)

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)(2012, 2013)

• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)(2016, Associated Editor)

• IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics(SSRR) (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)

• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2013,2015)

• European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR) (2013)

• IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)(2013)

• International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming forAutonomous Robots (SIMPAR) (2014)

• 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13) (2014)

• Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2014, 2015, 2017)

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• IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC) (2015)

• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) (2016)

• Frontiers in Education (FIE) (2016)

• IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)(2016)

• International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications(ICIRA) (2016)

• IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Com-petitions (ICARSC) (2016)

• IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV) (2013, 2016)

• KI 2016 (German Conference on Artificial Intelligence) (2016)

Reviewing - Journals

• European AI Journal on Artificial Intelligence (AICom) (2006, 2011)

• IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2008)

• Autonomous Robots Journal (2009, 2016)

• Neural Computation Journal (2009)

• Mechatronics Journal (2009, 2010)

• Journal on Systems and Software (2012)

• Journal of Field Robotics (2014)

• Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (2015)

• ACM Computing Surveys (2016)

• Artificial Intelligence (2016)

Research Visits

• Invited research visit at Knowledge-based Systems Group, RWTH Aachen,Germany, August 2006

• Invited research visit at Research Group on the Foundations of ArtificialIntelligence, University Freiburg, Germany, February 2008

• Invited research visit at Agent and Robotics Research Lab, University ofCape Town, South Africa, February - March 2010

• Invited research visit at Artificial Intelligence and Integrated ComputerSystems Division, Linkoping University, Sweden, July - September 2012

• Invited research visit at LAAS/CNRS, Toulouse, France, September -November 2014

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Awards

• Winner of the IEEE-Robot Contest at Technische Universitat Graz (1995).

• Winner of the Robot Contest 2000 at Technische Universitat Graz (2000).

• Innovation Award of Knapp Automation and Logistics Graz (2000).

• Best Paper Award. The Twenty First International Conference on Indus-trial, Engineering & Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems. Bari,Italy (2005).

• RoboCup Engineering Challenge Award. Osaka, Japan (2005).

• Best Paper Award. The First International Conference on IntelligentRobotics and Applications. Wuhan, China (2008).

• Lupe ’08. Award for outstanding communication of science. AustrianScience Night 2008. Vienna, Austria (2008).

• Congress Award 2010. City of Graz, Austria (2010).

• Best Cognitive Robotics Paper. Runners Up. IEEE International Con-ference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). St. Paul, Minnesota, USA(2012).

• Best in Class Autonomous Exploration, RoboCup Rescue League,RoboCup 2016, Leipzig, Germany (2016).

• 3rd Place, RoboCup Logistics League, RoboCup 2016, Leipzig, Germany(2016).

• 2nd Place, DHL Robotics Challenge 2016, Troisdorf, Germany (2016).

Membership: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, ACM, OGAI(Osterreichische Gesellschaft fur Artificial Intelligence, Austrian Society forArtificial Intelligence), RoboCup Austrian National Committee, Society forMeasurement Technology, Automation and Robotics (Gesellschaft fur Mess-,Automatisierungs- und Robotertechnik - GMAR).

Organized Scientific Events:

• Workshop Chair of the 1st Austrian RoboCup Workshop, Graz, Austria,2006.

• Workshop Co-Chair of the 3rd Austrian RoboCup Workshop, Villach, Aus-tria, 2008.

• Workshop Co-Chair of the ECAI Workshop on Model-Based Systems(MBS 2008), Patras, Greece, 2008.

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• Workshop Co-Chair of the 4th Austrian RoboCup Workshop, Wels, Aus-tria, 2009.

• General Co-Chair of the RoboCup 2009, Graz, Austria.

• Workshop Co-Chair of the Fourth International Workshop on SyntheticSimulation and Robotics to Mitigate Earthquake Disaster (SRMED 2009),Graz, Austria, 2009.

• Workshop Co-Chair of the IJCAI Workshop on Hybrid Control for Au-tonomous Systems, Pasadena, USA, 2009.

• Workshop Co-chair of the Workshop Robotics as an Interactive Tool in Ed-ucation, International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learn-ing, Villach, Austria, 2009.

• Workshop Co-chair of the ICRA Workshop on Automated Diagnosis, Re-pair and Re-Configuration of Robot Systems, Shanghai, China, May 2011.

• Workshop Co-chair of the Austrian Robotics Workshop 2012, Graz, Aus-tria, May 2012.

• Co-chair ROS RoboCup Rescue Summerschool 2012, Graz, Austria, Au-gust 2012.

• Co-chair Special Session on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa,IEEE Africon, 2013.

• Co-chair Rescue Robot Camp, IEEE International Symposium on SafetySecurity and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) 2013, Sweden, October 2013.

• Treasurer, IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and RescueRobotics (SSRR) 2013, Sweden, October 2013.

• Co-chair IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and RescueRobotics (SSRR) - Workshop on obstacles on the way to a broad deploy-ment of robot technology in disaster response, Lake Toya, Japan, 2014.

• Co-chair International RoboCup Symposium, Hefei, China, 2015.

• Chair First GMAR Winter School on Robotics - Mobile Manipulation,Graz, Austria, 2016.

• Publicity Chair KI 2016 (German Conference on Artificial Intelligence),Klagenfurt, Austria, 2016.

• Workshop Co-chair of KI 2016 Workshop - Current AI Research in Austria(CAIRA), Klagenfurt, Austria, 2016.

• Program Co-Chair (Area Europe) of IEEE International Symposium onSafety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Shanghai, China, 2017.

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• Participation in RoboCup world championships as team leader of theMiddle Size team ’Mostly Harmless’ (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007), the Stan-dard Platform team ’ZaDeAt’ (2008, 2009, 2010), the Robot Rescueteam ’TEDUSAR’ (2014, 2016) and the RoboCup Logistics League team’GRIPS’ (2016).

Appointments:

• RoboCupJunior National Representative for Austria (2007 to 2011, since2015)

• Member of the Executive Committee of the RoboCup Federation (2009 to2011)

• Member of the Study Commission for Information and Computer Engi-neering (Telematik), Graz University of Technology (since 2010)

• Chair IEEE Robotics and Automation (RAS) Chapter Austrian (2011-2016)

• Member of the RoboCup Rescue Robot League Technical Committee(2012-2016)

• Member of the Board of Society for Measurement Technology, Automationand Robotics (Gesellschaft fur Mess-, Automatisierungs- und Robotertech-nik - GMAR) (since 2015)

• Society Chair of RoboCupJunior Austria (since 2016)

• Member of the RoboCup Logistics League Technical Committee (since2016)

Talks and Presentations

1. A very short story about autonomous robots. Symposium on the 10th

Anniversary of the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, TechnischeUniversitat Graz, Graz, Austria. June 2002.

2. Modulbasiertes Hardware-Design fur Autonome Mobile Mehrzweck-Roboter. Informationstagung Mikroelektronik 2003. Vienna, Vienna. Oct.1-2, 2003. (Poster Presentation)

3. A Modular Architecture for a Multi-purpose Mobile Robot. 17th Confer-ence on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligenceand Expert Systems, IEA/AIE. Ottawa, Canada. May 2004.

4. Illumination Insensitive Robot Self-Localization Using PanoramicEigenspaces. International RoboCup Symposium. Lisbon, Portugal. July2004.

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5. Mobile Robots in exhibitions, games and education. Do they really help?1st CLAWAR/Euron Workshop on Robots in Entertainment, Leisure andHobby. Vienna, Austria. December 2004.

6. Detecting and locating faults in the control software of autonomous mobilerobots. 16th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, Monter-rey, CA, USA. June 2005.

7. Plan Execution in Dynamic Environments. 18th Conference on Indus-trial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and ExpertSystems, IEA/AIE. Bari, Italy. June 2005.

8. Real-Time Diagnosis and Repair of Faults of Robot Control Software.RoboCup International Symposium, Osaka, Japan. July 2005.

9. Challenges in runtime detecting and locating faults in autonomous mo-bile robots. IJCAI Workshop on Model-Based Systems, Edinburgh, UK.August 2005.

10. Detecting and locating faults in the control software of autonomous mo-bile robots. 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,Edinburgh, UK. 2005. (Poster Presentation)

11. Die RoboCup Middle-Size League als Lehr- und Forschungsplattform. 1st

Austrian RoboCup Workshop. Graz, Austria. 2006.

12. Improving Robustness of Mobile Robots using Model-Based Reasoning.ECAI Workshop on Model-Based Systems, Riva del Garda, Italy. Au-gust 2006.

13. The Research Platform RoboCup Middle-Size League. 2nd AustrianRoboCup Workshop, Vienna, Austria. May 2007.

14. Model-Based Reasoning for Fault-Tolerant Robot Hardware and Software.The 16th International Workshop on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Re-gion, Ljubljana, Slovenia. June 2007.

15. Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Models with Active Observationsfor better Diagnoses of Autonomous Mobile Robots. The 5th Workshop onIntelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems, Madrid, Spain. June 2007.

16. Model-based Reasoning for Autonomous Robots. ASR Seminar, NASAAMES Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA. October 2007. (In-vited Talk)

17. Increased Robustness for Autonomous Robots by Model-based Reasoning.SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universitat Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.February 2008. (Invited Talk)

18. Automated Learning of Communication Models of Robot Control Software.3rd Austrian RoboCup Workshop, Villach, Austria. May 2008

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19. Automated Learning of Communication Models for Robot Control Soft-ware. ECAI Workshop on Model-Based Systems (MBS 2008), Patras,Greece. July 2008

20. Automated learning of diagnosis models for component-oriented robot con-trol software. The Nineteens International Workshop on Principles of Di-agnosis (DX), Blue Mountains, Australia, September 2008. (Poster Pre-sentation)

21. Enhancing plan execution in dynamic environments using model-based rea-soning. First International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Appli-cations, Wuhan, China. October 2008.

22. Towards automated online diagnosis of robot navigation software. Inter-national Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Au-tonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2008), Venice, Italy. November 2008.

23. Towards Automated Generation of Repair Actions for the Belief of Au-tonomous Agents. 4th Austrian RoboCup Workshop, Wels, Austria. May2009.

24. Using Qualitative and Model-Based Reasoning for Sensor Validation ofAutonomous Mobile Robots. The Twentieth International Workshop onPrinciples of Diagnosis (DX), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2009. (PosterPresentation)

25. RoboCup - A platform for research and teaching in Robotics and AI. IJCAIWorkshop on Competitions in Robotics and AI, Pasadena, CA, USA. July2009. (Invited Talk)

26. Model-based Reasoning for Autonomous Robots. Palo Alto Research Cen-ter (Parc), Palo Alto, CA, USA. July 2009. (Invited Talk)

27. Model-Based Reasoning for Autonomous Robots. Singapore Polytechnic,Singapore. December 2009. (Invited Talk)

28. RoboCup 2009 - A Resume. International Rescue Robot Workshop. Pat-taya, Thailand. December 2009. (Invited Talk)

29. Model-based Reasoning for Autonomous Robots. Mechanical EngineeringDepartment, University of Cape Town, South Africa. March 2010. (In-vited Talk)

30. Model-based Reasoning for Autonomous Robots. Computer Science De-partment, University of Cape Town, South Africa. March 2010. (InvitedTalk)

31. Model-Based Reasoning for Robotics. 2nd Korean-Austrian Science Day,Seoul, Korea, May 2010. (Invited Talk)

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32. Providing ground-truth data for the Nao robot platform. InternationalRoboCup Symposium. Singapore. June 2010.

33. On the Way to High-Level Control for Resource-Limited Embedded Sys-tems with Golog. Workshop on Intelligent Engineering Techniques forKnowledge Bases, European Conference on AI (ECAI). Lisbon, Portugal.August 2010.

34. The Regional Center Concept for RoboCupJunior in Austria. First In-ternational Conference on Robotics in Education. Bratislava, Slovakia.September 2010.

35. On the Way to Automated Belief Repair for Autonomous Robots. NationalChia-Yi University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan. October 2010. (Invited Talk)

36. Playing Pylos with an Autonomous Robot. IEEE/RSJ International Con-ference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Taipei, Taiwan, Octo-ber 2010. (Video Presentation)

37. A Survey on the Nature of Faults of Autonomous Robot Systems. ICRAWorkshop on Automated Diagnosis, Repair and Re-Configuration ofRobot Systems. Shanghai, China. May 2011.

38. Intelligente Roboter, Sensoren und Drohnen im Feuerwehr undKatastrophenschutz-Einsatz. Intergraph Forum 2011. Dresden, Germany.May 2011. (Invited Talk)

39. Robust Robotics Using History-Based-Diagnosis in IndiGolog. AustrianRobotics Workshop 2011. Hall/Tirol, 2012. May 2011.

40. Evaluating the Robustness of the Perception-Decision-Execution Cycleof Autonomous Robots. ICAR Workshop on Performance Measures forQuantifying Safe and Reliable Operation of Professional Service Robotsin Unstructured, Dynamic Environments. Tallinn, Estonia. June 2011.

41. The Ontology Lifecycle in RoboCup: Population From Text and Execution.International RoboCup Symposium. Istanbul, Turkey. June 2011. (PosterPresentation)

42. On the Evaluation and Certification of the Robustness of AutonomousIntelligent Systems. International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis(DX). Murnau, Germany. October 2011.

43. How to achieve and evaluate dependability of autonomous intelligent sys-tems. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Pretoria,South Africa. November 2011. (Invited Talk)

44. A Dependable Perception-Decision-Execution Cycle for AutonomousRobot. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA). St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. May 2012.

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45. A Survey about Faults of Robots used in RoboCup. International RoboCupSymposium 2012. Mexico City, Mexico. June 2012. (Poster Presentation)

46. Dependability of Autonomous Robots. Informatic Society 2012 - Robotics.Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia. October 2012. (Invited Talk)

47. Towards CSP-based mission dispatching in C2/C4I systems. IEEE Inter-national Symposium on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics 2012. Col-lege Station, TX, USA. November 2012.

48. The 2012 Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Summer School. IEEEInternational Symposium on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics 2012.College Station, TX, USA. November 2012. (Poster Presentation)

49. Community-Driven Development of Standard Software Modules for Searchand Rescue Robots. IEEE International Symposium on Safety Securityand Rescue Robotics 2012. College Station, TX, USA. November 2012.(Poster Presentation)

50. Automated Generation of Diagnosis Models for ROS-based Robot Systems.International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis 2013. Jerusalem, Israel.October 2013.

51. Evaluation of Sensors and Mapping Approaches for Disasters in Tunnels.IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics(SSRR). Linkoping, Sweden. October 2013.

52. Using Common Sense Invariants in Belief Management for AutonomousAgents. AAAI Spring Symposium 2014. Stanford, CA, USA. March 2014.

53. Using model-based diagnosis to improve the dependability of autonomousmobile robots. LAAS/CNRS. Toulouse, France. September 2014.

54. Field Report: Civil Protection Exercise Gas Storage. IEEE InternationalSymposium on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR). Lake Toya,Japan. October 2014.

55. R3: Request a Rescue Robot. IEEE International Symposium on SafetySecurity and Rescue Robotics (SSRR). Lake Toya, Japan. October 2014.

56. YAGI - An Easy and Light-weighted Action-programming Language forEducation and Research. 1st Knowledge Representation and ReasoningRome Symposium (KRRR), University Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.November 2014. (invited talk)

57. ASRAEL - Abstract Simulator for Research in AI, Education and Learn-ing. 1st Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Rome Symposium(KRRR), University Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. November 2014.(invited talk)

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58. Research and application of disaster robotics in the EU. United NationsWorld Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai, Japan. March2015. (invited talk)

59. Automatic Model Generation to Diagnose Autonomous Systems. Inter-national Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX), Paris, France, 2015.(poster presentation)

60. Artificial Intelligence Education - From Kindergarten to University.Robotics in Education Workshop, European Robotics Forum (ERF),Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2016.

61. Request a Rescue Robot - Deployment Model for Assistant Robots for Re-sponder. Perception and Cognitive Abilities for Disaster ManagementRobots Workshop, European Robotics Forum (ERF), Ljubljana, Slove-nia, 2016.

62. Improving dependability of industrial transport robots using model-basedtechniques. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, 2016. (interactive presentation)

63. Hands Off - A Holistic Model-Based Approach for Long-Term Autonomy.ICRA Workshop on AI for Long-Term Autonomy, Stockholm, Sweden,2016. (poster presentation)

64. Supervision of Hardware, Software and Behavior of Autonomous Indus-trial Transport Robots. IEEE QRS Workshop on Verification and Valida-tion of Adaptive Systems (VVASS 2016), Vienna, Austria, 2016.

65. Controlling Logistics Robots with the Action-based Language YAGI. In-ternational Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA),Tokyo, Japan, 2016.

66. Request a Rescue Robot - Deployment Model for Assistant Robots for Re-sponder. IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and RescueRobotics (SSRR), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2016.

Publications

Academic Theses

1. Gerald Steinbauer. Machine learning for an autonomous mobile robot.Master’s thesis, Graz University of Technology, 2001.

2. Gerald Steinbauer. Intelligent and Robust Control of Autonomous MobileRobots. PhD thesis, Graz University of Technology, 2006.

3. Gerald Steinbauer. Dependability of Autonomous Systems. Habilitationthesis, Graz University of Technology, 2016 (submitted, final defense Jan-uary 2017).

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Book Chapters

1. Gordon Fraser, Gerald Steinbauer, Jorg Weber and Franz Wotawa. RobustIntelligent Control of Mobile Robots. Architectural Design of Multi-AgentSystems: Technologies and Techniques. Hong Lin (Editor), IGI Global,2007.

2. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Combining Quantitative and Qual-itative Models with Active Observations to Improve Diagnosis of ComplexSystems. Intelligent Technical Systems. Natividad Martinez and RalfE.D. Seepold (Editors). Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 38. 2009.

3. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Model-Based Reasoning for Self-Adaptive Systems Theory and Practice. Assurances for Self-AdaptiveSystems. Javier Camara, Rogerio de Lemos, Carlo Ghezzi, Antonia Lopes(Editors). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7475. 2013.

Journals

1. Michael Hofbaur, Johannes Kob, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa.Improving Robustness of Mobile Robots using Model-Based Reasoning.Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, 48(1), 2007.

2. Harald Burgsteiner, Mark Kroll, Alexander Leopold, and Gerald Stein-bauer. Movement prediction from real-world images using a liquid statemachine. Journal of Applied Intelligence, Springer, 26(2), 2007.

3. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Robust plan execution using model-based reasoning. Journal of Advanced Robotics, The Robotics Society ofJapan, 23(10), 2009.

4. Alexander Ferrein, Nils Siebel and Gerald Steinbauer. Editorial: SpecialIssue on Hybrid Control for Autonomous Systems — Integrating learning,deliberation and reactive control. Journal on Robotics and AutonomousSystems, Elsevier, 58(9), 2010.

5. Stephan Gspandl, Ingo Pill, Michael Reip, and Gerald Steinbauer. Main-taining consistency in a robot’s knowledge-base via diagnostic reasoning.AI Communications, IOS Press, 26(1), 2013.

6. Johann Eck, Sabine Hirschmugl-Gaisch, Martin Kandlhofer, and GeraldSteinbauer. A cross-generational robotics project day: pre-school children,pupils and grandparents learn together. Journal of Automation MobileRobotics and Intelligent Systems, 8(1), 12-19, 2014.

7. Max Leingartner, Johannes Maurer, Alexander Ferrein and Gerald Stein-bauer. Evaluation of Sensors and Mapping Approaches for Disasters inTunnels. Journal of Field Robotics, Wiley, doi:10.1002/rob.21611, 2015.

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8. Hofbaur Michael, Muller Andreas, Piater Justus, Rinner Bernhard, Stein-bauer Gerald, Vincze Markus and Wogerer Christian. Making Bet-ter Robots Beitrage Osterreichs zur Europaischen Robotics ResearchRoadmap. In e&i - Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 132(4), 237-248, 2015.

9. Martin Kandlhofer and Gerald Steinbauer. Evaluating the impact of edu-cational robotics on pupils’ technical- and social-skills and science relatedattitudes. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier, 75(B), 679 - 685,2016.

10. Gerald Steinbauer and Alexander Ferrein. Editorial: Special Issue on 20Years of RoboCup. Kunstliche Intelligenz (German Journal on ArtificialIntelligence), Springer, 2016.

11. Alexander Ferrein and Gerald Steinbauer. 20 Years of RoboCup - A Sub-jective Retrospection. Kunstliche Intelligenz (German Journal on ArtificialIntelligence), Springer, 2016.

Conferences and Workshops (refereed)

1. Wofgang Maass, Gerald Steinbauer and Roland Koholka. Autonomousfast learning in a mobile robot. In Sensor Based Intelligent Robots. In-ternational Workshop, Dagstuhl, 2000, Selected Revised Papers. LectureNotes in Computer Science 2238, Springer. 2002.

2. Gerald Steinbauer, Gordon Fraser, Arndt Muhlenfeld and Franz Wotawa.A Modular Architecture for a Multi-purpose Mobile Robot. In Innova-tions in Applied Artificial Intelligence, 17th Conference on Industrialand Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Sys-tems, IEA/AIE. Springer 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3029,Springer.

3. Gerald Steinbauer and Horst Bischof. Illumination Insensitive Robot Self-Localization Using Panoramic Eigenspaces. In Proceedings of the Inter-national RoboCup Symposium. Lisbon, Portugal. 2004. Lecture Notes inComputer Science 3276, Springer.

4. Gordon Fraser, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Application ofQualitative Reasoning to Robotic Soccer. In Proceedings of the 18th In-ternational Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning. Chicago, USA. 2004.

5. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Mobile Robots in exhibitions,games and education. Do they really help? In Proceedings of the 1st

CLAWAR/Euron Workshop on Robots in Entertainment, Leisure andHobby. Vienna. December 2004.

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6. Gerald Steinbauer, Jorg Weber and Franz Wotawa. In From the real-worldto its qualitative representation – Practical lessons learned. Proceedingsof the 18th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, 2005.

7. Harald Burgsteiner, Mark Kroll, Alexander Leopold and Gerald Stein-bauer. Movement Prediction from real-world Images using a LiquidState Machine. In the Proceedings of 18th Conference on Industrial andEngineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems,IEA/AIE. Bari, Italy. 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3533,Springer.

8. Gerald Steinbauer, Gordon Fraser and Franz Wotawa. Plan Execution inDynamic Environments. In the Proceedings of 18th Conference on Indus-trial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and ExpertSystems, IEA/AIE. Bari, Italy. 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science3533, Springer.

9. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Detecting and locating faults in thecontrol software of autonomous mobile robots. In Proceedings of the 16th

International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, Monterrey, CA, USA.2005.

10. Gerald Steinbauer, Martin Morth and Franz Wotawa. Real-Time Diagno-sis and Repair of Faults of Robot Control Software. In Proceedings of theRoboCup International Symposium, Osaka, Japan. 2005. Lecture Notesin Computer Science 4020, Springer.

11. Gerald Steinbauer and Fanz Wotawa. Challenges in runtime detecting andlocating faults in autonomous mobile robots. In Proceedings of the IJCAIWorkshop on Model-Based Systems, Edinburgh, UK. 2005.

12. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Detecting and locating faults inthe control software of autonomous mobile robots. In Proceedings of the19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Ed-inburgh, UK. 2005.

13. Michael Hofbaur, Johannes Kob, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa.Improving Robustness of Mobile Robots using Model-Based Reasoning. InProceedings of the International Symposium on Model-Based Reasoningon Engineering and Robotic Systems, Guangzhou, China. 2006.

14. Michael Hofbaur, Johannes Kob, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa.Improving Robustness of Mobile Robots using Model-Based Reasoning. InProceedings of the ECAI Workshop on Model Based Systems - MBS, Rivadel Garda, Italy. 2006.

15. Michael Hofbaur, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Model-BasedReasoning for Fault-Tolerant Robot Hardware and Software. In Pro-ceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2007.

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16. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Combining Quantitative andQualitative Models with Active Observations for better Diagnoses of Au-tonomous Mobile Robots. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Intelli-gent Solutions in Embedded Systems, Madrid, Spain. 2007.

17. Mathias Brandstotter, Michael Hofbaur, Gerald Steinbauer and FranzWotawa. Model-Based Fault Diagnosis and Reconfiguration of RobotDrives. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference onIntelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, CA, USA. 2007.

18. Alexander Kleiner and Gerald Steinbauer. Automated Learning of Com-munication Models of Robot Control Software. In Proceedings of the 3rd

Austrian RoboCup Workshop, Villach, Austria. 2008.

19. Gerhard Gubisch, Gerald Steinbauer, Martin Weiglhofer and FranzWotawa. A Teleo-Reactive Architecture for Fast, Reactive and RobustControl of Mobile Robots. In Proceedings of the 21st International Con-ference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied In-telligent Systems (IEA/AIE), Wroclaw, Poland, 2008. Lecture Notes inComputer Science 5027, Springer.

20. Alexander Kleiner, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. AutomatedLearning of Communication Models for Robot Control Software. In Pro-ceedings of the ECAI Workshop on Model-Based Systems (MBS 2008),Patras, Greece. 2008.

21. Alexander Kleiner, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Automatedlearning of diagnosis models for component-oriented robot control software.In Proceedings of the Nineteens International Workshop on Principles ofDiagnosis (DX), Blue Mountains, Australia. 2008.

22. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Enhancing plan execution in dy-namic environments using model-based reasoning. In First InternationalConference on Intelligent Robots and Applications, Wuhan,China. 2008.Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5314, Springer.

23. Alexander Kleiner, Gerald Steinbauer, and Franz Wotawa. Towards au-tomated online diagnosis of robot navigation software. In Proceedings ofInternational Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming forAutonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2008), Venice, Italy. 2008. Lecture Notesin Computer Science 5325, Springer.

24. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Towards Automated Generation ofRepair Actions for the Belief of Autonomous Agents. In Proceedings ofthe 4th Austrian RoboCup Workshop, Wels, Austria. 2009.

25. Alexander Kleiner, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Using Quali-tative and Model-Based Reasoning for Sensor Validation of AutonomousRobots. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Workshop on Prin-ciples of Diagnosis (DX), Stockholm, Sweden. 2009.

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26. Ingo Pill, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. A Practical Approach forthe Online Diagnosis of Industrial Transportation Systems. In Proceed-ings of the IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safetyfor Technical Processes (SAFE PROCESS), Barcelona, Spain. 2009.

27. Anet Potgieter, Alexander Ferrein and Gerald Steinbauer. Self-AwareRobots - What do we need from Learning, Deliberation, and Reactive Con-trol? International Workshop on Hybrid Control of Autonomous Systems- Integrating Learning, Deliberation and Reactive Control, IJCAI 2009,Pasadena, CA, USA. 2009.

28. Harald Altinger, Stefan Galler, Stephan Muhlbacher-Karrer, Gerald Stein-bauer, Franz Wotawa and Hubert Zangl. Concept Evaluation of a ReflexInspired Ball Handling Device for Autonomous Soccer Robots. In Pro-ceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium. Graz, Austria. 2009.Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5949, Springer.

29. Michael Hofbaur, Mathias Brandstotter, Christoph Schorghuber and Ger-ald Steinbauer. On-line kinematics reasoning for reconfigurable robotdrives. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA). Anchorage, Alaska, USA. May 2010.

30. Tim Niemuller, Alexander Ferrein, Gerhard Eckel, David Pirro, PatrickPodbregar, Tobias Kellner, Christof Rath, and Gerald Steinbauer. Pro-viding ground-truth data for the Nao robot platform. In RoboCup Inter-national Symposium. Singapore. 2010.

31. Stephan Gspandl, Michael Reip, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa.From Sketch to Plan. In 24th International Workshop on Qualitative Rea-soning (QR), Portland, Oregon, USA. 2010.

32. Alexander Ferrein and Gerald Steinbauer. On the Way to High-Level Con-trol for Resource-Limited Embedded Systems with Golog. Workshop onIntelligent Engineering Techniques for Knowledge Bases, European Con-ference on AI (ECAI). Lisbon, Portugal. 2010.

33. Alexander Hofmann and Gerald Steinbauer. The Regional Center Conceptfor RoboCupJunior in Austria. First International Conference on Roboticsin Education. Bratislava, Slovakia, 2010.

34. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. On the Way to Automated BeliefRepair for Autonomous Robots. In Proceedings of the 21st InternationalWorkshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX), Portland, Oregon, USA. 2010.

35. Oswin Aichholzer, Daniel Detassis, Thomas Hackl, Gerald Steinbauer andJohannes Thonhauser. Playing Pylos with an Autonomous Robot. In Proc-cedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotsand Systems (IROS). Taipei, Taiwan. 2010.

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36. Ansgar Bredenfeld, Alexander Hofmann and Gerald Steinbauer. Roboticsin Education Initiatives in Europe - Status, Shortcomings and Open Ques-tions. SIMPAR Workshop on Teaching Robotics-Teaching with Robotics,Darmstadt, Germany. 2010.

37. Alexander Ferrein and Gerald Steinbauer. On the Way to High-LevelControl for Resource-Limited Embedded Systems with Golog. In Proceed-ings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation, Modeling andProgramming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2010), Darmstadt, Ger-many. 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6472, Springer.

38. Zaman Safdar, Slany Wolfgang and Steinbauer Gerald. ROS-based Map-ping, Localization and Automatic Navigation using Pioneer 3-DX Robotand their relevant Issues. Saudi International Electronics, Communica-tions and Photonics Conference, Riad, Saudi-Arabia. 2011.

39. Gerald Steinbauer. A Survey on the Nature of Faults of AutonomousRobot Systems. ICRA Workshop on Automated Diagnosis, Repair andRe-Configuration of Robot Systems, Shanghai, China. 2011.

40. Wolfram Mate, Gspandl Stephan, Reip Michael and Steinbauer Gerald.Robust Robotics Using History-Based-Diagnosis in IndiGolog. AustrianRobotics Workshop, Hall/Tirol, Austria. 2011.

41. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Evaluating the Robustness ofthe Perception-Decision-Execution Cycle of Autonomous Robots. ICARWorkshop on Performance Measures for Quantifying Safe and ReliableOperation of Professional Service Robots in Unstructured, Dynamic En-vironments, Tallinn, Estonia. 2011.

42. Stephan Gspandl, Andreas Hechenblaickner, Michael Reip, Gerald Stein-bauer, Mate Wolfram, and Christoph Zehentner. The Ontology Lifecyclein RoboCup: Population From Text and Execution. In RoboCup Interna-tional Symposium. Istanbul, Turkey. 2011.

43. Stephan Gspandl, Ingo Pill, Michael Reip and Gerald Steinbauer. BeliefManagement for Autonomous Robots using History-Based Diagnosis. InProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Industrial, Engineer-ing and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE),Syracuse, NY, USA. 2011.

44. Gspandl Stephan, Pill Ingo Hans, Reip Michael, Steinbauer Geraldand Ferrein Alexander. Belief Management for High-Level Robot Pro-grams. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI),Barcelona, Spain. 2011.

45. Alexander Ferrein, Stephen Marais, Anet Potgieter and Gerald Steinbauer.RoboCupJunior: A Vehicle for S&T Education in Africa? IEEE Africon,Livingstone, Zambia. 2011.

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46. Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. On the Evaluation and Certifica-tion of the Robustness of Autonomous Intelligent Systems. InternationalWorkshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX), Murnau, Germany. 2011.

47. Martin Kandlhofer, Gerald Steinbauer, Petra Sundstrom and AstridWeiss. Educational Robotics - Evaluating long-term effects. InternationalWorkshop on Teaching Robotics Teaching with Robotics. Riva del Garda,Italy. 2012.

48. Martin Kandlhofer, Gerald Steinbauer, Petra Sundstrom and AstridWeiss. Evaluating the long-term impact of RoboCupJunior: A first investi-gation. International Conference on Robotics in Education 2012, Prague,Czech Republic. 2012.

49. Ehrentraut Florian, Landschutzer Christian, Lechner Dominik, MattChristian, Pichler Wolfgang, Steinbauer Gerald, Puchinger Bernhard andWimmer Daniel. Kombot - An Autonomous Mobile Order Picking Robot.Austrian Robotics Workshop, Graz, Austria. 2012.

50. Gspandl Stephan, Podesser Siegfried, Reip Michael, Steinbauer Geraldand Wolfram Mate. A Dependable Perception-Decision-Execution Cyclefor Autonomous Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics andAutomation (ICRA), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. 2012.

51. Gerald Steinbauer. A Survey about Faults of Robots used in RoboCup. In-ternational RoboCup International Symposium 2012, Mexico City, Mex-ico. 2012.

52. Alexander Ferrein, Gerald Steinbauer and Stavros Vassos. Action-BasedImperative Programming with YAGI. International Workshop on CognitiveRobotics (CogRob), Toronto, Canada. 2012.

53. Peter Lepej, Johannes Maurer, Gerald Steinbauer and Suzana Uran. Anal-ysis of Laser Sensor System for a Rescue Robot. Electrotechnical andComputer Science Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia. 2012.

54. Michael Reip, Gerald Steinbauer and Alexander Ferrein. Improving Be-lief Management for High-Level Robot Programs by Using Diagnosis Tem-plates. International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX), GreatMalvern, UK. 2012.

55. Siegfried Podesser, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Selective BeliefManagement for High-Level Robot Programs. International Workshop onPrinciples of Diagnosis (DX), Great Malvern, UK. 2012.

56. Peter Lepej, Johannes Maurer, Gerald Steinbauer, Suzana Uran and Saf-dar Zaman. An integrated Diagnosis and Repair Architecture for ROS-Based Robot Systems. International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis(DX), Great Malvern, UK. 2012.

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57. Gerald Steinbauer and Alexander Kleiner. Towards CSP-based missiondispatching in C2/C4I systems. IEEE International Symposium on SafetySecurity and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), College Station, TX, USA. 2012.

58. Sheh Raymond, Kimura Tetsuya, Nardi Daniele, Pellenz Johannes andSteinbauer Gerald. The 2012 Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics Sum-mer School. IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and Res-cue Robotics (SSRR), College Station, TX, USA, 2012.

59. Kohlbrecher Stefan, Petersen Karen, Steinbauer Gerald, Maurer Johannes,Uran Suzana, Lepej Peter, Ventura Rodrigo, Dornhege Christian, HertleAndreas, Sheh Raymond and Pellenz Johannes. Community-Driven De-velopment of Standard Software Modules for Search and Rescue Robots.IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics(SSRR), College Station, TX, USA. 2012.

60. Safdar Zaman, Gerald Steinbauer, Johannes Maurer, Peter Lepej andSuzana Uran. An integrated Diagnosis and Repair Architecture for ROS-Based Robot Systems. IEEE International Conference on Robotics andAutomation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany. 2013.

61. Gerald Steinbauer, Lisa-Christina Winter, Alexander Nussbaumer and Di-etrich Albert. Autonomous Robots: Towards A Founded Assessment ofRobustness. 8th Workshop on Software Development and Integration inRobotics (SDIR-VIII, ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany. 2013.

62. Safdar Zaman and Gerald Steinbauer. Automatic Modeling and Ob-servers Generation for Model-Based Diagnosis System for ROS-BasedRobotic Systems. Austrian Robotics Workshop 2013. Vienna, Austria.2013.

63. Clemens Muhlbacher and Gerald Steinbauer. Improving the ROSArm Navigation Stack by Using Stochastic Inverse Kinematics. AustrianRobotics Workshop 2013. Vienna, Austria. 2013.

64. Eck Hans, Hirschmugl-Gaisch, Sabine, Hofmann Alexander, KandlhoferMartin, Rubenzer Sabrina and Steinbauer Gerald. Innovative conceptsin educational robotics: Robotics projects for kindergartens in Austria.Austrian Robotics Workshop 2013. Vienna, Austria. 2013.

65. Martin Kandlhofer, Gerald Steinbauer, Sabine Hirschmugl-Gaisch, JohannEck. A cross-generational robotics project day: Pre-school children, pupilsand grandparents learn together. International Conference on Robotics inEducation 2013, Lodz, Poland. 2013.

66. Peter Lepej, Johannes Maurer, Gerald Steinbauer and Suzana Uran. Driv-ing a Tracked Mobile Robot over Unstructured Terrain and Stairs. Elec-trotechnical and Computer Science Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia. 2013.

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67. Safdar Zaman and Gerald Steinbauer. Automated Generation of Diag-nosis Models for ROS-based Robot Systems. International Workshop onPrinciples of Diagnosis (DX) 2013, Jerusalem, Israel. 2013.

68. Johannes Maurer and Gerald Steinbauer. Autonomous Risk-Aware Ex-ploration. IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and RescueRobotics (SSRR), Linkoping, Sweden. 2013.

69. Max Leingartner, Johannes Maurer, Gerald Steinbauer and AlexanderFerrein. Evaluation of Sensors and Mapping Approaches for Disasters inTunnels. IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and RescueRobotics (SSRR), Linkoping, Sweden. 2013.

70. Gerald Steinbauer und Clemens Muhlbacher. Using Common Sense In-variants in Belief Management for Autonomous Agents. AAAI SpringSymposium 2014, Stanford, CA, USA. 2014.

71. Sven Bock, Roland Klobl, Thomas Hackl, Oswin Aichholzer and GeraldSteinbauer. Playing Nine Men’s Morris with the Humanoid Robot Nao.Austrian Robotics Workshop 2014, Linz, Austria. 2014.

72. Stefan Imlauer, Konstantin Lassnig, Johannes Maurer and Gerald Stein-bauer. Life Sign Detection Based on Sound and Gas Measurements. Aus-trian Robotics Workshop 2014, Linz, Austria. 2014.

73. Clemens Muhlbacher and Gerald Steinbauer. Using Common Sense In-variants in Belief Management for Autonomous Agents. InternationalConference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of AppliedIntelligent Systems (IEA-AIE) 2014, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2014.

74. Clemens Muhlbacher and Gerald Steinbauer. Diagnosis makes the differ-ence for a successful execution of high-level robot control programs. Intel-ligent Autonomous System (IAS-13), Padova, Italy, 2014.

75. Martin Kandlhofer and Gerald Steinbauer. Evaluating the impact ofrobotics in education on pupils’ skills and attitudes. International Con-ference on Robotics in Education (RIE), Padova, Italy, 2014.

76. Clemens Muhlbacher and Gerald Steinbauer. Knowledge-Aware Executionof Programs in IndiGolog. International Workshop on Cognitive Robotic(CogRob), Prague, Czech Republic, 2014.

77. Clemens Muhlbacher and Gerald Steinbauer. Active Diagnosis for Agentswith Belief Management. International Workshop on Principles of Diag-nosis (DX), Graz, Austria, 2014.

78. Gerald Steinbauer, Johannes Maurer and Heimo Krajnz. R3: Requesta Rescue Robot. IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security andRescue Robotics (SSRR), Lake Toya, Japan, 2014.

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79. Gerald Steinbauer, Johannes Maurer and Andreas Ciossek. Field Report:Civil Protection Exercise Gas Storage. IEEE International Symposium onSafety Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Lake Toya, Japan, 2014.

80. Stefan Kaltner, Jurgen Gugler, Manfred Wonisch and Gerald Steinbauer.An Autonomous Forklift for Battery Change in Electrical Vehicles. Aus-trian Robotics Workshop 2015, Klagenfurt, Austria. 2015.

81. Jorge Santos Simon, Clemens Muhlbacher and Gerald Steinbauer. Auto-matic Model Generation to Diagnose Autonomous Systems. InternationalWorkshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX), Paris, France, 2015.

82. Alexander Ferrein, Christopher Maier, Clemens Muhlbacher, TimNiemueller, Gerald Steinbauer and Stavros Vassos. Controlling LogisticsRobots with the Action-based Language YAGI. IROS Workshop on TaskPlanning for Intelligent Robots in Service and Manufacturing, Hamburg,Germany, 2015.

83. Harald Burgsteiner, Martin Kandlhofer and Gerald Steinbauer. IRobot:Teaching the Basics of Artificial Intelligence in High Schools. Proceed-ings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Phoenix,Arizona, USA, 2016.

84. Stefan Imlauer, Clemens Muhlbacher, Gerald Steinbauer, Michael Reipand Stephan Gspandl Hierarchical Planning with Traffic Zones for aTeam of Industrial Transport Robots ICAPS Workshop on Distributedand Multi-Agent Planning (DMAP), London, UK, 2016.

85. Lara Lammer, Markus Vincze, Martin Kandlhofer and Gerald Stein-bauer. The Educational Robotics Landscape. International Conferenceon Robotics in Education (RIE), Vienna, Austria, 2016.

86. Julia Nitsch and Gerald Steinbauer. Industrial Grasping - An AutonomousOrder Picking System. Austrian Robotics Workshop 2016, Wels, Austria.2016.

87. Clemens Muhlbacher, Stephan Gspandl, Michael Reip and Gerald Stein-bauer. Improving dependability of industrial transport robots using model-based techniques. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Au-tomation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, 2016.

88. Clemens Muhlbacher, and Gerald Steinbauer. Hands Off - A HolisticModel-Based Approach for Long-Term Autonomy. ICRA Workshop on AIfor Long-Term Autonomy, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016.

89. Stefan Loigge, Clemens Mhlbacher and Gerald Steinbauer. Supervisionof Hardware, Software and Behavior of Autonomous Industrial TransportRobots. IEEE QRS Workshop on Verification and Validation of AdaptiveSystems (VVASS 2016), Vienna, Austria, 2016.

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90. Alexander Ferrein, Christopher Maier, Clemens Muhlbacher, TimNiemueller, Gerald Steinbauer and Stavros Vassos. Controlling LogisticsRobots with the Action-based Language YAGI. International Conferenceon Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), Tokyo, Japan, 2016.

91. Clemens Muhlbacher and Gerald Steinbauer. Belief Management usingthe Action History and Consistency-Based-Diagnosis. International Work-shop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX), Denver, CO, USA, 2016.

92. Martin Kandlhofer, Sabine Hirschmugl-Gaisch, Petra Huber and GeraldSteinbauer. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science in Education:From Kindergarten to University. Frontiers in Education (FIE), Erie,PA, USA, 2016.

93. Johannes Maurer, Gerald Steinbauer and Gerald Lichtenegger. Requesta Rescue Robot - Deployment Model for Assistant Robots for Responder.IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics(SSRR), Lausanne, Switzerland. 2016.

94. Johannes Pellenz, Gerald Steinbauer and Denis Dillenberger. Novel RuleSet for the RoboCup Rescue Robot League. IEEE International Symposiumon Safety Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Lausanne, Switzerland.2016.

Other publications

1. Gerald Steinbauer, Roland Koholka and Wolfgang Maass. A very shortstory about autonomous robots. In Special Issue on Foundations of Infor-mation Processing of TELEMATIK, 8(1). 2002.

2. Gerald Steinbauer, Michael Faschinger, Gordon Fraser, Arndt Muhlenfeld,Stefan Richter, Gernot Wober and Jurgen Wolf. Mostly Harmless TeamDescription. In Proceeding of the International RoboCup Symposium.Padua. 2003.

3. Gerald Steinbauer. RoboCup in Austria. Journal of the Austrian Societyfor Artificial Intelligence 22(3). 2003.

4. Gerald Steinbauer, Michael Faschinger, Gordon Fraser, Arndt Muhlenfeld,Stefan Richter, Gernot Wober and Jurgen Wolf. The Mostly HarmlessRoboCup Middle Size League Team. Journal of the Austrian Society forArtificial Intelligence 22(3). 2003

5. Gerald Steinbauer, Arndt Muhlenfeld, Roland Koholka, Robert Rohrer,Harald Hartl and Franz Wotawa. Modulbasiertes Hardware-Design fur Au-tonome Mobile Mehrzweck-Roboter. Informationstagung Mikroelektronik(ME 2003), Vienna October 2003.

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6. Gerald Steinbauer, Christian Deutsch, Gordon Fraser, Matthias Ha-gler, Arndt Muhlenfeld, Stefan Richter, Gernot Wober and Jurgen Wolf.Mostly Harmless Team Description 2004. In Proceeding of the Interna-tional RoboCup Symposium. Lisbon, 2004.

7. Gordon Fraser, Gerald Steinbauer and Franz Wotawa. Autonome mobileRoboter - Anwendung von AI zur intelligenten Kontrolle. OVE Verband-szeitschrift Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik (e&i), (7/8), 2005.

8. Gerald Steinbauer, Mathias Brandstotter, Martin Buchleitner, StefanGaller, Simon Jantscher, Gerald Krammer, Martin Morth, Jorg Weberand Martin Weiglhofer. Mostly Harmless Team Description 2006 - RobustControl of Mobile Robots. In Proceedings of the RoboCup InternationalSymposium. Bremen, Germany. 2006.

9. Gerald Steinbauer, Alexander Hofmann and Stephan Gspandl. RoboCup- Spielwiese fur AI. Journal of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelli-gence, 25(2). 2007.

10. Daniel Beck, Martin Buchleitner, Alexander Ferrein, Tim Niemuller andGerald Steinbauer. Mostly Harmless & AllemaniACs — Mixed Innova-tions. In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium. Atlanta,USA. 2007.

11. Stephan Gspandl, David Monichi, Michael Reip, Gerald Steinbauer, MateWolfram and Christoph Zehenter. KickOffTUG — Team Description Pa-per 2007. In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium. At-lanta, USA. 2007.

12. Alexander Ferrein, Gerald Steinbauer, Graeme McPhillips and Anet Pot-gieter. RoboCup Standard Platform League - Team Zadeat - An Intercon-tinental Research Effort. In Proceedings of the RoboCup InternationalSymposium. Suzou, China. 2008.

13. Galler Stefan, Altinger Harald, Bergler Bernd, Hieden Alexander, HoppeChristof, Joham Thomas, Magnet Thomas, Maier Michael, Muhlbacher-Karrer Stephan, Muschick Daniel, Preschern Christopher, Steinbauer Ger-ald, Unterberger Robert and Wotawa Franz. Mostly Harmless: TeamDescription Paper 2009. In Proceedings of the RoboCup InternationalSymposium. Graz, Austria. 2009.

14. Ferrein Alexander, Steinbauer Gerald, McPhillips Graeme, Niemuller Timand Potgieter Anet. Team Zadeat 2009 — Team Report. In Proceedingsof the RoboCup International Symposium. Graz, Austria. 2009.

15. Ferrein Alexander, Niemuller Tim and Steinbauer Gerald. Team Zadeat2010 — Application for Participation. In Proceedings of the RoboCupInternational Symposium. Singapore. 2010.

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16. Johannes Maurer, Gerald Steinbauer, Peter Lepej, and Suzana Uran.RoboCupRescue 2014 - Robot League Team TEDUSAR (Austria-Slovenia)In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium. Joao Pessoa,Brazil. 2014.

17. Sarah Haas, Dino Keskic, Clemens Muhlbacher, Gerald Steinbauer,Thomas Ulz and Marco Wallner. RoboCup Logistics League TDP - GrazRobust and Intelligent Production System GRIPS In Proceedings of theRoboCup International Symposium. Leipzig, Germany. 2016.

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