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. My dis­ser­ta­tion is avail­able for down­load on this page.

Rel­ev­ant Publications

Art­icles

• [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,
  author = {Philipp A. Baer and Roland Reichle and Kurt Geihs},
  booktitle = {IAS-10},
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  editor = {Wolfram Burgard and Rüdiger Dillmann and Christian Plagemann and Nikolaus Vahrenkamp},
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  organization = {IAS Society},
  pages = {211--220},
  publisher = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems},
  title = {{The Spica Development Framework -- Model-Driven Software Development for Autonomous Mobile Robots}},
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  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2085e69455f7b5c3c9d6903554327e8b7/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.
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  author = {Philipp A. Baer and Kurt Geihs},
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  journal = {Microsoft Technical Summit, Microsoft Academic Days 2008},
  title = {{Robot Control Architectures -- Another Tower of Babel?}},
  year = 2008, keywords = {imported phbaer-diss phbaer-pub phbaer-spica-pub year:2008},
  added-at = {2008-12-09T09:10:42.000+0100},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2fd3c66c745718a31a1127a057fd2d2ba/phbaer},
  month = {November}
}
• [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,
  author = {Kurt Geihs and Philipp A. Baer and Roland Reichle and Jens Wollenhaupt},
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  journal = {Sixth IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2008)},
  title = {{Ontology-based Automatic Model Transformations}},
  year = 2008, timestamp = {2008-08-23},
  keywords = {imported ontology phbaer-diss phbaer-pub phbaer-spica-pub year:2008},
  added-at = {2008-11-04T16:51:53.000+0100},
  owner = {phbaer},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c1e3a926ca23b3c48bad93599fa8f394/phbaer}
}
• [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,
  author = {Philipp A. Baer and Thomas Weise and Kurt Geihs},
  booktitle = {The Third International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications},
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  note = {To appear},
  publisher = {The Third International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications},
  title = {Geminga: Service Discovery for Mobile Robotics},
  year = 2008, keywords = {carpe discovery geminga noctem phbaer-diss phbaer-pub phbaer-spica-pubyear:2008 resource robocup robot service spica},
  added-at = {2008-07-25T11:52:44.000+0200},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/299614cda1270f95fd89f17f4d66c7df3/phbaer}
}
• [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,
  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},
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  organization = {IEEE},
  pages = {43--52},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  title = {A Generative Approach to the Development of Autonomous Robot Software},
  url = {http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/publications/2007/BRZWG07a},
  year = 2007, keywords = {developent heterogeneity imported phbaer-diss phbaer-pub phbaer-spica-pub robot robotic software spica year:2007},
  added-at = {2008-06-01T13:36:04.000+0200},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/221018e3a17339a135e70a28855dcbd7f/phbaer},
  month = {March}
}
• [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,
  author = {Ulrich Kaufmann and Roland Reichle and Christof Hoppe and Philipp A. Baer},
  booktitle = {International Workshop on Robot Vision, VISAPP 2007},
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  intrahash = {da13e081815f82dd24ad6878518304aa},
  note = {accepted},
  title = {An Unsupervised Approach for Adaptive Color Segmentation},
  url = {http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/publications/2007/KRHB07},
  year = 2007, keywords = {color imported phbaer-diss phbaer-pub robot robotic segmentation year:2007},
  added-at = {2008-06-01T13:37:41.000+0200},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2da13e081815f82dd24ad6878518304aa/phbaer}
}

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.
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  author = {Philipp A. Baer and Roland Reichle},
  chapter = 1, editor = {Pedro Lima},
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  pages = {1--28},
  publisher = {I-Tech Education and Publishing},
  title = {Communication and Collaboration in Heterogeneous Teams of Soccer Robots},
  url = {http://intechweb.org/book.php?id=18},
  year = 2007, keywords = {Communication Robots Soccer Team collaboration communication phbaer-diss phbaer-pub phbaer-spica-pub year:2007},
  added-at = {2009-11-17T17:27:16.000+0100},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/274a19ecc58fc869f5caef6c4dd194320/phbaer}
}

Theses

• [2008,phdthesis] bib­tex
  P. A. Baer, “Platform-Independent Devel­op­ment of Robot Com­mu­nic­a­tion Soft­ware,” PhD Thesis , 2008.
  @phdthesis{phbaer2008-diss,
  author = {Philipp A. Baer},
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  school = {University of Kassel, Germany},
  title = {Platform-Independent Development of Robot Communication Software},
  url = {http://www.upress.uni-kassel.de/publi/abstract.php?978-3-89958-644-2},
  year = 2008, keywords = {phbaer-diss phbaer-pub phbaer-spica-pub year:2008},
  added-at = {2009-03-11T16:37:07.000+0100},
  biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26c5ce1d46726f4476a3882c06dc8c09e/phbaer},
  month = dec }

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