@ARTICLE{Surmann2008,
  author = {Hartmut Surmann and Dirk Holz and Sebastian Blumenthal and Thorsten
	Linder and Peter Molitor and and Viatcheslav Tretyakov},
  title = {{Teleoperated Visual Inspection and Surveillance with Unmanned Ground
	and Aerial Vehicles}},
  journal = {{International Journal of Online Engineering 2008 (iJOE 2008)}},
  year = {2008},
  volume = {4},
  pages = {26-38},
  number = {4},
  month = {Nov.},
  note = {ISSN: 1861-2121},
  abstract = {This paper introduces our robotic system named UGAV (Unmanned Ground-Air
	Vehicle) consisting of two semi-autonomous robot platforms, an Unmanned
	Ground Vehicle (UGV) and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The paper
	focuses on three topics of the inspection with the combined UGV and
	UAV: (A) teleoperated control by means of cell or smart phones with
	a new concept of automatic configuration of the smart phone based
	on a RKI-XML description of the vehicles control capabilities, (B)
	the camera and vision system with the focus to real time feature
	extraction e.g. for the tracking of the UAV and (C) the architecture
	and hardware of the UAV},
  owner = {Thorsten Linder},
  timestamp = {2008.11.14},
  url = {http://www.online-journals.org/i-joe/}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Surmann2008a,
  author = {Hartmut Surmann and Ansgar Bredenfeld and Thomas Christaller and Reiner Frings and Ulrike Petersen and Thomas Wisspeintner},
  title = {The Volksbot},
  booktitle = {Workshop Proceedings of Intl. Conf. on SIMULATION, MODELING and PROGRAMMING
	for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (SIMPAR)},
  year = {2008},
  editor = {Emanuele Menegatti},
  pages = {551--561},
  month = {November},
  note = {ISBN 978-88-95872-01-8},
  abstract = {This paper presents our VolksBot robotic system. VolksBot is a flexible
and modular mobile robot construction kit based on high value components.
The concept behind the VolksBot system is the Physical Rapid Prototyping of mobile
service robots. The paper firstly presents the concept on the Volksbot kit and
secondly the current versions and already realized robotic variants and projects.},
  owner = {viatcheslav},
  timestamp = {2008.11.11}
}


@INPROCEEDINGS{Tretyakov2008,
  author = {Viatcheslav Tretyakov and Hartmut Surmann},
  title = {Hardware architecture of a four-rotor UAV for USAR/WSAR scenarios},
  booktitle = {Workshop Proceedings of Intl. Conf. on SIMULATION, MODELING and PROGRAMMING
	for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (SIMPAR)},
  year = {2008},
  editor = {Emanuele Menegatti},
  pages = {434--443},
  month = {November},
  note = {ISBN 978-88-95872-01-8},
  abstract = {This paper presents a hardware architecture approach on employing
	UAVs in USAR/WSAR scenarios. The UAV presented in the paper is a
	four-rotor helicopter. The project aims to develop a flying platform
	capable of working in cooperation with different ground or surface
	unmanned vehicles. To realize the goal, a fusion of different sensors
	is implemented and a hardware architecture is developed which enables
	automatic hovering, control from other devices (platforms), obstacles
	avoidance, localization and navigation both for indoor and outdoor
	use. The test results of first flights demonstrated promising results
	and pointed out on some problems which have to be resolved in the
	nearest future. The set of sensors used for the project consists
	of 3 gyros, 3D inertial sensor and a compass, HOKUYO laser scanner.
	The data processing is performed on an Atmel 20 MHz microcontroller
	and a Gamstix microcomputer.},
  owner = {viatcheslav},
  timestamp = {2008.11.11}
}


@INPROCEEDINGS{Blumenthal2008a,
  author = {Sebastian Blumenthal and David Droeschel and Dirk Holz and Thorsten
	Linder and Peter Molitor and Hartmut Surmann},
  title = {Omnidirectional sensors for mobile robots},
  booktitle = {Workshop Proceedings of Intl. Conf. on SIMULATION, MODELING and PROGRAMMING
	for AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS (SIMPAR)},
  year = {2008},
  editor = {Emanuele Menegatti},
  pages = {414-425},
  month = {November},
  note = {ISBN 978-88-95872-01-8},
  abstract = {This paper presents the different omnidirectional sensors developed
	at Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information
	Systems (IAIS) during the past decade. It envelops cheap USB / Firewire
	webcams to expensive high end cameras, continuously rotation 3D laser
	scanner, rotating infrared cameras and a new panoramic camera Spherecam.
	This new spherical camera is presented in detail compared to the
	other sensors. Beside the camera hardware we also categorize the
	omni cameras according to their price, connection and operating platform
	dependences and present the associated camera drivers and possible
	applications. Consider this paper as hardware descriptions of vision
	systems. Algorithms for ominidirectional vision systems are not discussed.},
  owner = {sblume},
  timestamp = {2008.11.07}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{Wisspeintner2008,
author = {Thomas Wisspeintner and Francesco Maurelli and David Droeschel and Stefan May and Hartmut Surmann and Kai Pervoelz},
title = {A 3D Laser Scanner System for Intersection Analysis and Autonomous Driving},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2008, Workshop on 3D-Mapping},
year = {2008},
}


@INPROCEEDINGS{Blumenthal2008,
  author = {Sebastian Blumenthal and Dirk Holz and Thorsten Linder and Peter
	Molitor and Hartmut Surmann and Viatcheslav Tretyakov},
  title = {Teleoperated Visual Inspection and Surveillance with Unmanned Ground
	and Aerial Vehicles},
  booktitle = {Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation 2008 (REV 2008)},
  year = {2008},
  month = {June},
  abstract = {This paper introduces our robotic system named UGAV (Unmanned Ground-Air
	Vehicle) consisting of two semi-autonomous robot platforms, an Unmanned
	Ground Vehicle (UGV) and an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The paper
	focus on three topics of the inspection with the combined UGV and
	UAV: (A) teleoperated control by means of cell or smart phones with
	a new concept of automatic configuration of the smart phone based
	on a RKI-XML description of the vehicle control capabilities, (B)
	the camera and vision system with the focus to real time feature
	extraction e.g. for the tracking of the UAV and (C) the architecture
	and hardware of the UAV.},
  keywords = {USAR, teleoperation, UGV, UAV, OCU, visual attention, computer vision},
  timestamp = {2008.08.05}
}