Vice-coordinator of the German cluster of excellence

(Cognition for Technical Systems)

Michael Beetz is a professor for Computer Science at the Department of Informatics of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and heads the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group.  He is vice coordinator of the German national cluster of excellence COTESYS (Cognition for Technical Systems) where he is also co-coordinator of the research area ``Knowledge and Learning''.

Michael Beetz received his diploma degree in Computer Science with distinction from the University of Kaiserslautern. He received his MSc, MPhil, and PhD degrees from Yale University in 1993, 1994, and 1996 and his Venia Legendi from the University of Bonn in 2000. Michael Beetz was a member of the steering committee of the European network of excellence in AI planning (PLANET) and coordinating the research area ``robot planning''. He is associate editor of the AI Journal. His research interests include plan-based control of robotic agents, knowledge processing and representation for robots, integrated robot learning, and cognitive perception.

Upcoming and recent activities:

• Workshop co-chair at the at the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10) http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai10.php
• Robotics Track Chair at the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/
• Area chair 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - ECAI 2010.
• Associate editor Artificial Intelligence
• Coordinator Dagstuhl seminar Probabilistic Methods for Perceiving, Learning and Reasoning about Everyday Activities http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=10251
• Guest editor (together with Alexandra Kirsch) of KI Special Issue Cognition for Technical Systems (Fall 2010)
• Guest editor for a special IJRR (International Journal of Robotics Research) journal issue on Semantic Perception for Robots in Indoor Environments Radu Rusu, Gary Bradski, Kurt Konolige, and Michael Beetz. The submission deadline is 15th of July. Looking forward to get your contributions!
• Co-organizer Dagstuhl seminar 2010 Cognition, Control and Learning for Robot Manipulation in Human Environments together with Oliver Brock, Gordon Cheng, and Jan Peters.
• Co-organizer Dagstuhl seminar 2009 - Cognition, Control and Learning for Robot Manipulation in Human Environments The seminar was held from 16.08.2009 to 21.08.2009 at castle Dagstuhl Germany. The goal of the seminar was to make significant progress towards closing the gap between human and robot manipulation in uncertain environments inhabited by humans. Therefore, this Dagstuhl seminar attempted to get internationally renowned researchers across a range of disciplines together in order to discuss robot manipulation from different points of view. The event was sponsored by the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.

  INFO: http://www9.in.tum.de/events/Dagstuhl-2009

Selected Publications

• Michael Beetz , Freek Stulp , Piotr Esden-Tempski , Andreas Fedrizzi , Ulrich Klank , Ingo Kresse , Alexis Maldonado , Federico Ruiz-Ugalde , Generality and Legibility in Mobile Manipulation, 2010, Autonomous Robots Journal (Special Issue on Mobile Manipulation),

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• Michael Beetz , Dominik Jain , Lorenz Mösenlechner , Moritz Tenorth , Towards Performing Everyday Manipulation Activities, 2010, Robotics and Autonomous Systems,

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• Michael Beetz , Moritz Tenorth , Dominik Jain , Jan Bandouch , Towards Automated Models of Activities of Daily Life, 2010, Technology and Disability,

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• Radu Bogdan Rusu , Aravind Sundaresan, Benoit Morisset, Kris Hauser, Motilal Agrawal, Jean-Claude Latombe, Michael Beetz , Leaving Flatland: Efficient Real-Time 3D Navigation, 2009, Journal of Field Robotics (JFR),

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• Michael Beetz , Nicolai v. Hoyningen-Huene , Bernhard Kirchlechner , Suat Gedikli , Francisco Siles , Murat Durus , Martin Lames, ASpoGAMo: Automated Sports Game Analysis Models, 2009, International Journal of Computer Science in Sport,

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• Radu Bogdan Rusu , Jan Bandouch , Franziska Meier, Irfan Essa, Michael Beetz , Human Action Recognition using Global Point Feature Histograms and Action Shapes, 2009, Advanced Robotics journal, Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ),

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• Radu Bogdan Rusu , Zoltan-Csaba Marton , Nico Blodow , Mihai Emanuel Dolha , Michael Beetz , Towards 3D Point Cloud Based Object Maps for Household Environments, 2008, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Semantic Knowledge),

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• Freek Stulp , Michael Beetz , Refining the execution of abstract actions with learned action models, 2008, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR),

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• Freek Stulp , Michael Beetz , Combining Declarative, Procedural and Predictive Knowledge to Generate and Execute Robot Plans Efficiently and Robustly, 2008, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Semantic Knowledge),

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• Radu Bogdan Rusu , Brian Gerkey, Michael Beetz , Robots in the kitchen: Exploiting ubiquitous sensing and actuation, 2008, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Special Issue on Network Robot Systems),

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• Michael Beetz , Martin Buss, Learning from Humans --- Cognition-enabled Computational Models of Everyday Activity, 2010, K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz,

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