This page contains some information on my PhD project. The title of the dissertation is Platform-Independent Development of Robot Communication Software; it will be published later. Please find my related publications below.

You might also want to have a look at my staff page.

Relevant Publications

Articles

• [2008,article] bibtex
  K. Geihs, P. A. Baer, R. Reichle, and J. Wollenhaupt, "Ontology-based Automatic Model Transformations," Sixth IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2008), 2008.
  @article{Geihs2008, title = {{Ontology-based Automatic Model Transformations}},
  author = {Kurt Geihs and Philipp A. Baer and Roland Reichle and Jens Wollenhaupt},
  journal = {Sixth IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2008)},
  year = 2008, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c1e3a926ca23b3c48bad93599fa8f394/phbaer},
  keywords = {imported ontology phbaer-diss phbaer-pub year:2008},
  timestamp = {2008-08-23},
  owner = {phbaer}
}
• [2008,article] bibtex
  P. A. Baer and K. Geihs, "Robot Control Architectures — Another Tower of Babel?," Microsoft Technical Summit, Microsoft Academic Days 2008, 2008.
  @article{phbaer2008-msad, title = {{Robot Control Architectures -- Another Tower of Babel?}},
  author = {Philipp A. Baer and Kurt Geihs},
  journal = {Microsoft Technical Summit, Microsoft Academic Days 2008},
  year = 2008, month = {November},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2fd3c66c745718a31a1127a057fd2d2ba/phbaer},
  keywords = {imported phbaer-diss phbaer-pub year:2008},
  }
• [2008,inproceedings] bibtex
  P. A. Baer, R. Reichle, and K. Geihs, "The Spica Development Framework — Model-Driven Software Development for Autonomous Mobile Robots," in IAS-10, 2008, pp. 211-220.
  @inproceedings{phbaer2008-spica, title = {{The Spica Development Framework -- Model-Driven Software Development for Autonomous Mobile Robots}},
  author = {Philipp A. Baer and Roland Reichle and Kurt Geihs},
  booktitle = {IAS-10},
  crossref = {burgard08ias},
  editor = {Wolfram Burgard and Rüdiger Dillmann and Christian Plagemann and Nikolaus Vahrenkamp},
  organization = {IAS Society},
  pages = {211--220},
  publisher = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems},
  year = 2008, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2085e69455f7b5c3c9d6903554327e8b7/phbaer},
  keywords = {carpe development geminga noctem phbaer-diss phbaer-pub robocup robot software spica year:2008},
  }
• [2008,inproceedings] bibtex
  P. A. Baer, T. Weise, and K. Geihs, "Geminga: Service Discovery for Mobile Robotics," in The Third International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, 2008.
  @inproceedings{phbaer2008-geminga, title = {Geminga: Service Discovery for Mobile Robotics},
  author = {Philipp A. Baer and Thomas Weise and Kurt Geihs},
  booktitle = {The Third International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications},
  note = {To appear},
  publisher = {The Third International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications},
  year = 2008, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/299614cda1270f95fd89f17f4d66c7df3/phbaer},
  keywords = {carpe discovery geminga noctem phbaer-diss phbaer-pub resource robocup robot service spica year:2008},
  }
• [2007,inproceedings] bibtex
  P. A. Baer, R. Reichle, M. Zapf, T. Weise, and K. Geihs, "A Generative Approach to the Development of Autonomous Robot Software," in Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, 2007, pp. 43-52.
  @inproceedings{BRZWG07a, title = {A Generative Approach to the Development of Autonomous Robot Software},
  author = {Philipp A. Baer and Roland Reichle and Michael Zapf and Thomas Weise and Kurt Geihs},
  booktitle = {Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems},
  editor = {Ted Bapty Roy Sterrit},
  organization = {IEEE},
  pages = {43--52},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  year = 2007, url = {http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/publications/2007/BRZWG07a},
  month = {March},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/221018e3a17339a135e70a28855dcbd7f/phbaer},
  keywords = {developent heterogeneity imported phbaer-diss phbaer-pub robot robotic software spica year:2007},
  }
• [2007,inproceedings] bibtex
  U. Kaufmann, R. Reichle, C. Hoppe, and P. A. Baer, "An Unsupervised Approach for Adaptive Color Segmentation," in International Workshop on Robot Vision, VISAPP 2007, 2007.
  @inproceedings{KRHB07, title = {An Unsupervised Approach for Adaptive Color Segmentation},
  author = {Ulrich Kaufmann and Roland Reichle and Christof Hoppe and Philipp A. Baer},
  booktitle = {International Workshop on Robot Vision, VISAPP 2007},
  note = {accepted},
  year = 2007, url = {http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/publications/2007/KRHB07},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2da13e081815f82dd24ad6878518304aa/phbaer},
  keywords = {color imported phbaer-diss phbaer-pub robot robotic segmentation year:2007},
  }

Book Chapters

• [2007,inbook] bibtex
  P. A. Baer and R. Reichle, "Communication and Collaboration in Heterogeneous Teams of Soccer Robots," , Lima, P., Ed., Vienna, Austria: I-Tech Education and Publishing, 2007, pp. 1-28.
  @inbook{BR07-SoccerRobots, title = {Communication and Collaboration in Heterogeneous Teams of Soccer Robots},
  address = {Vienna, Austria},
  author = {Philipp A. Baer and Roland Reichle},
  chapter = 1, editor = {Pedro Lima},
  pages = {1--28},
  publisher = {I-Tech Education and Publishing},
  year = 2007, url = {http://s.i-techonline.com/Book/Robotic-Soccer/ISBN978-3-902613-21-9.html},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/274a19ecc58fc869f5caef6c4dd194320/phbaer},
  keywords = {Communication Robots Soccer Team collaboration communication phbaer-diss phbaer-pub year:2007},
  }

Theses

• [2008,phdthesis] bibtex
  P. A. Baer, "Platform-Independent Development of Robot Communication Software," PhD Thesis , 2008.
  @phdthesis{phbaer2008-diss, title = {Platform-Independent Development of Robot Communication Software},
  author = {Philipp A. Baer},
  school = {University of Kassel, Germany},
  year = 2008, url = {http://www.upress.uni-kassel.de/publi/abstract.php?978-3-89958-644-2},
  month = dec, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26c5ce1d46726f4476a3882c06dc8c09e/phbaer},
  keywords = {phbaer-diss phbaer-pub year:2008},
  }

Selected Talks

das.pdf (1.44 MB)

Distributed Autonomous Systems. Introductory Talk (German).
31 August 2005

diss-talk-20081204.pdf (1.82 MB)

Disputation talk (in German)
26 March 2009

rc2007.pdf (1.73 MB)

The Distributes Systems Group Research Colloquium 2007.
14 September 2007

slides-kt3.pdf (567.07 KB)

Designing Secure Protocol Implementations. These are the slides I presented at the third Kryptotag in Darmstadt.
17 September 2005

spica-talk-fh-brs.pdf (1.63 MB)

A talk on Spica I held last year at the FH-Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
26 March 2009

spica_v4.pdf (472.03 KB)

A Generative Approach to the Development of Autonomous Robot Software. Presentation held at the EASe2007 workshop, Tucson, AZ, USA. (These slides have been prepared with PowerPoint – I'm very sorry about that).
14 September 2007