Kai Oliver Arras
Ph.D.
Post-doc.

Center for Autonomous Systems
Royal Institute of Technology
SE – 10044 Stockholm
Sweden

tel: +46 8 790 67 31
fax: +46 8 723 03 02
email:

Projects
  •  A Matlab Toolbox for Robot Localization and Mapping
  •  (Line-Based) SLAM
  •  MHT Localization Under Geometric Constraints
  •  Robots in exhibitions and the fine and scenic arts
  •  Nurobot Automation and Artefacts GmbH
  •  (too) many more...

  • Videos
    Line-Based SLAM (2003)
    Data sets recorded at CAS, KTH using the Hannover 3D sensor
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    Expo.02 Robotics Exhibition (2002)
    (a) Scenes from the exhibition, (b) One day in time-lapse, (c) IROS'02 at Expo.02
    (a)
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    (b)
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    (c)
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    MHT Localization and Tracking Using Geometric Constraints (2002)
    (a) Hypothesis generation, tracking and rejection in simulation (b) ...with the real robot (Pygmalion)
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    (b)
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    Not-So-Unrobust Feature-Based Localization (1998)
    Robot Pygmalion ("Piggy") and the (unforgettable) Acuity AccuRange 4000 laser scanner
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    Publications
    Thesis
    Ph.D. Thesis “Feature-Based Robot Navigation in Known and Unknown Environments”, Thèse N° 2765 (2003), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. [pdf-file, 59.1 Mbytes]

    Edited Books
    Baerfeldt A., Arras K.O., Balkenius C. (eds.), Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, Best papers of Eurobot’01, vol. 44, issue 1, 2003
    Arras K.O., Burgard W. (eds.), “Robots in Exhibitions”, IROS’02 Workshop Proceedings, 2002. [pdf-file, 11.7 Mbytes]
    Arras K.O., Balkenius C., Baerfeldt A., Burgard W., Siegwart R. (eds.): Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots (Eurobot’01), Lund, Sweden, September 2001.

    Book Chapters
    Arras K.O., Tomatis N., Siegwart R., “Robox, a Remarkable Mobile Robot for the Real World,” Experimental Robotics VIII, Siciliano B. and Dario P. (eds.), Advanced Robotics Series, Springer, 2003.

    Journal Publications
    Arras K.O., Castellanos J.A., Schilt M., Siegwart R., “Feature-Based Multi-Hypothesis Localization and Tracking Using Geometric Constraints,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, vol. 44, issue 1, 2003. [pdf-file, 490 kbytes]
    Siegwart R., Arras K.O., Bouabdallah S., Burnier D., Froidevaux G., Greppin X., Jensen B., Lorotte A., Mayor L., Meisser M., Philippsen R., Piguet R., Ramel G., Terrien G., Tomatis N., “Robox at Expo.02: A Large-Scale Installation of Personal Robots “, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 42, issue 3-4, pp. 203-222, March 2003. [pdf-file, 980 kbytes]
    Arras K.O., Tomatis N., Jensen B., Siegwart R., “Multisensor On-the-Fly Localization: Precision and Reliability for Applications,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 34, issue 2-3, pp. 131-143, February 2001. [pdf-file, 570 kbytes]

    Conference Proceedings (selection)
    (for a full list see my alumni homepage at EPFL)
    Arras K.O., Philippsen R., Tomatis N., de Battista M., Schilt M., Siegwart R., “A Navigation Framework for Multiple Mobile Robots and its Application at the Expo.02 Exhibition,” IEEE International Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’03), Taipei, Taiwan, 2003. [pdf-file, 760 kbytes]
    Arras K.O., Castellanos J.A., Siegwart R., “Feature-Based Multi-Hypothesis Localization and Tracking for Mobile Robots Using Geometric Constraints,” IEEE International Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’02), Washington DC, USA, 2002. [pdf-file, 370 kbytes]
    Arras K.O., Persson J., Tomatis N., Siegwart R., “Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance For Polygonal Robots With A Reduced Dynamic Window,” IEEE International Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’02), Washington DC, USA, 2002. [pdf-file, 720 kbytes]
    Arras K.O., Tomatis N., Siegwart R., “Multisensor On-the-Fly Localization Using Laser and Vision”, IEEE/RSJ International Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’00), Takamatsu, Japan, 2000. [pdf-file, 210 kbytes]
    Arras K.O., Vestli S.J., “Hybrid, high-precision localisation for the mail distributing mobile robot system MOPS”, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’98), Leuven, Belgium, 1998. [pdf-file, 760 kbytes]
    Arras K.O., Siegwart R.Y., “Feature Extraction and Scene Interpretation for Map-Based Navigation and Map Building”, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 3210, Mobile Robotics XII, p. 42-53, Pittsburgh, USA, 1997. [pdf-file, 240 kbytes]

    Technical Reports
    Arras K.O., “An Introduction to Error Propagation: Derivation, Meaning and Examples of Cy = Fx Cx Fx' “, Technical Report of the Autonomous Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, EPFL-ASL-TR-98-01 R3, September 1998. [pdf-file, 810 kbytes]