Publications

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• B. Okal and K. O. Arras, “Learning socially normative robot navigation behaviors with Bayesian inverse reinforcement learning,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2016.
• B. Okal, R. Triebel, and K. O. Arras, “Real-time social activity detection for mobile service robots,” in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), August 2016.
• B. Okal, H. Gilbert, and K. O. Arras, “Efficient inverse reinforcement learning using adaptive state graphs,” in Proc. of Learning from Demonstration: Inverse optimal control, Reinforcement learning and Lifelong learning Workshop at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), July 2015.
• P. S. Thomas, B. Okal, “A notation for Markov decision processes”, arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.09075, 2015.
• R. Triebel, K. Arras, R. Alami, L. Beyer, S. Breuers, R. Chatila, M. Chetouani, D. Cremers, V. Evers, M. Fiore, H. Hung, O. A. I. Ramirez, M. Joosse, H. Khambhaita, T. Kucner, B. Leibe, A. J. Lilienthal, T. Linder, M. Lohse, M. Magnusson, B. Okal, L. Palmieri, U. Rafi, M. van Rooij, and L. Zhang, “Spencer: A socially aware service robot for passenger guidance and help in busy airports,” in Proc. of Field and Service Robotics (FSR), June 2015.
• B. Okal and K. O. Arras, “Towards group-level social activity recognition for mobile robots,” in Proc. of Assistive and Service Robotics Workshop at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2014.
• D. Vasquez, B. Okal, and K. O. Arras, “Inverse reinforcement learning algorithms and features for robot navigation: An experimental comparison,” in Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2014.
• B. Okal and A. Nüchter, “Sliced curvature scale space for representing and recognizing 3d objects,” in Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), November 2013.
• G. Demisse, R. Mihalyi, B. Okal, D. Poudel, J. Schauer, and A. Nüchter, “Mixed palletizing and task completion for virtual warehouses,” in Proc. of Virtual Manufacturing Automation Competition (VMAC) Workshop at IEEE International Conference Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2012.
• B. Okal and O. Dunkley, “Development of a cheap chess robot: Planning and perception,” in Springer Lecture Notes in Informatics, Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) Edition, March 2012.
• B. Okal, “Open source robotics: An enabling platform,” in Proc. of the 4th International Conference on ICT for Africa (ICIA), March 2011.