This page lists older publications of Andreas Birk, i.e., from his time at the AI-lab of the Flemish Free University of Brussels (VUB) and at the Universität des Saarlandes. For his recent publications from Fall 2001 on, please visit the publications webpages on the Constructor University Robotics website: http://robotics.constructor.university/publications.htm
Edited Books
Andreas Birk, Silvia Coradeschi, Satoshi Tadokoro (Eds.)
RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 2377, 763 pp,
ISBN 3-540-43912-9
Springer, 2002
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45603-1
John Demiris, Andreas Birk (Eds.)
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Robot Learning
Robotics and Intelligent Systems Series,
ISBN 981-02-4320-0
World Scientific, 2000
https://doi.org/10.1142/4436
Andreas Birk, John Demiris (Eds.)
Learning Robots
Proceedings of EWLR-6, Brighton, UK,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 1545,
ISBN 3-540-65480-1
Springer, 1998
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49240-2
Journal and Conference Publications
A. Birk, H. Kenn, and L. Steels, “Programming with Behavior Processes,” International Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 39, pp. 115–127, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8890(02)00198-7 [Preprint PDF]
A. Birk and J. Wiernik, “An N-Players Prisoner’s Dilemma in a Robotic Ecosystem,” International Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 39, pp. 223–233, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0921-8890(02)00206-3 [Preprint PDF]
A. Birk and H. Kenn, “RoboGuard, a Teleoperated Mobile Security Robot,” Control Engineering Practice, vol. 10, pp. 1259-1264, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0661(02)00088-6 [Preprint PDF]
A. Birk and H. Kenn, “An Industrial Application of Behavior-Oriented Robotics,” presented at the Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2001. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2001.932640 [Preprint PDF]
A. Birk and H. Kenn, “Efficient Scheduling of Behavior-Processes on Different Time-Scales,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA’2001, ed: IEEE Press, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2001.932569 [Preprint PDF]
A. Birk and H. Kenn, “Applying Behavior-Oriented Robotics to a Mobile Security Device,” in Advances in Artificial Intelligence. vol. 2112, R. Kowalczyk, S. W. Loke, N. E. Reed, and G. Williams, Eds., ed: Springer, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45408-X_2 [Preprint PDF]
A. Birk and H. Kenn, “RoboGuard, a Teleoperated Mobile Security Robot,” in Telematics Applications in Automation and Robotics, K. Schilling and H. Roth, Eds., ed: Elsevier Science, 2001.
A. Birk, “Learning to Trust,” in Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies, R. Falcone, M. Singh, and Y.-H. Tan, Eds., ed: Springer, 2001, pp. 133-144.
T. Belpaeme and A. Birk, “Hungry Robots,” ACM Crossroads (XRDS), vol. 8, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1145/567155.567160 [Preprint PDF]
A. Birk and J. Wiernik, A Successful Strategy for a Real-World Instance of the N-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma with Continuous Degrees of Cooperation: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-Laboratory, 2000.
A. Birk and J. Wiernik, “Partner-based Strategies for a Real-World Instance of the N-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma with Continuous Degrees of Cooperation,” in From Animals to Animats 6, SAB 2000 Proceedings Supplement Book, Meyer, Berthoz, Floreano, Roitblat, and Wilson, Eds., ed: The International Society for Adaptive Behavior, 2000.
A. Birk and J. Wiernik, “An N-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma in a Robotic Ecosystem,” in 8th International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems, SIRS’00, ed, 2000.
A. Birk, H. Kenn, and T. Walle, “On-board Control in the RoboCup Small Robots League,” Advanced Robotics Journal, vol. 14, pp. 27 – 36, 2000. https://doi.org/10.1163/156855300741410 [Preprint PDF]
A. Birk, H. Kenn, and L. Steels, “Efficient Behavioral Processes,” in From Animals to Animats 6, SAB 2000 Proceedings Supplement Book, Meyer, Berthoz, Floreano, Roitblat, and Wilson, Eds., ed: The International Society for Adaptive Behavior, 2000.
A. Birk and H. Kenn, “Programming with Behavior-Processes,” in 8th International Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems, SIRS’00, ed, 2000.
A. Birk and W. J. Paul, “Schemas and Genetic Programming,” in Prerational Intelligence. vol. 2, Ritter, Cruse, and Dean, Eds., ed: Kluwer, 2000.
A. Birk, W. Günther, and H. Kenn, “Development of an Advanced Robotics-Kit for Education and Entertainment of Non-Experts,” in 1st International Workshop on Edutainment Robotics, 2000.
A. Birk, “Boosting Cooperation by Evolving Trust,” Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal, vol. 14, September 2000. https://doi.org/10.1080/08839510050127542 [Preprint PDF]
M. Asada, R. D’Andrea, A. Birk, H. Kitano, and M. Veloso, “Robotics in Edutainment,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), ed: IEEE Presse, 2000.
M. Asada, A. Birk, E. Pagello, M. Fujita, I. Noda, S. T. D. Duhaut, P. Stone, M. Veloso, T. Balch, H. Kitano, and B. Thomas, “Progress in RoboCup Soccer Research in 2000,” in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, ISER’2000, ed, 2000.
P.-Y. Oudeyer, A. Birk, and J.-L. Koning, Interaction Protocols with Operational Semantics and the Coordination of Heterogeneous Soccer-Robots: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-Laboratory, 1999.
A. Birk, T. Walle, T. Belpaeme, and H. Kenn, “The VUB AI-lab RoboCup’99 Small League Team,” in Proc. of the Third RoboCup, ed: Springer, 1999.
A. Birk and H. Kenn, “Heterogeneity and On-Board Control in the Small Robots League,” in RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, M. Veloso, E. Pagello, and H. Kitano, Eds., ed: Springer, 1999, pp. 196 – 209.
A. Birk, Evolution of Continuous Degrees of Cooperation in an N-Player Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-Laboratory, 1999.
A. Birk, A Fast Pathplanning Algorithm for Mobile Robots: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-Laboratory, 1999.
A. Birk and J. Wiernik, “Economic aspects of a real-world ecosystem featuring several robot species,” in 2nd Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, ed: Elgar, 1998.
A. Birk, T. Walle, T. Belpaeme, J. Parent, T. D. Vlaminck, and H. Kenn, “The small league RoboCup team of the VUB AI-lab,” in Proc. of The Second International Workshop on RoboCup, ed: Springer, 1998.
A. Birk, H. Kenn, and T. Walle, “RoboCube: an “universal” “special-purpose” Hardware for the RoboCup small robots league,” in 4th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, 1998. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72198-4_32
A. Birk, H. Kenn, and T. Walle, VisionCube, an intelligent autonomous vision device: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-Laboratory, 1998.
A. Birk and W. J. Paul, Unsupervised Learning of Eye-Hand-Coordination: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-Lab memo, 1998.
A. Birk and T. Belpaeme, A Multi-Agent-System based on Heterogeneous Robots: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-Laboratory, 1998.
A. Birk and T. Belpaeme, “A Multi-Agent-System based on Heterogeneous Robots,” in Collective Robotics, CRW’98, A. Drogoul, M. Tambe, and T. Fukuda, Eds., ed: Springer, 1998.
A. Birk, “Learning of an Anticipatory World-Model and the Quest for General versus Reinforced Knowledge,” in First International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems, ed: AIP Press, 1998.
A. Birk, “Robot Learning and Self-Sufficiency: What the energy-level can tell us about a robot’s performance,” in Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on Learning Robots, ed: Springer, 1998.
A. Birk, “Behavior-based Robotics, its scope and its prospects,” in The 24th Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), ed: IEEE Press, 1998.
A. Birk, “Tutorial: How to build animats,” in From Animals to Animats 5. Proc.~of the Fifth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, ed: The MIT Press/Bradford Books, Cambridge, 1998.
A. Birk and W. J. Paul, Stimulus Response Learning of Eye-Hand-coordination: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, AI-Laboratory, 1997.
A. Birk, “Autonomous Recharging of Mobile Robots,” in Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Automative Technology and Automation, ed, 1997.
T. Belpaeme and A. Birk, “On the Watch,” in Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Automative Technology and Automation, ed, 1997.
A. Birk and J. Wiernik, “Behavioral AI Experiments and Economics,” in Workshop Empirical AI, 12th European Conference on AI, Budapest, ed, 1996.
A. Birk, “Learning Geometric Concepts with an Evolutionary Algorithm,” in Proceedings of The Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming, ed: The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1996. [Preprint PDF]
A. Birk, “Robotic Control via Stimulus Response Learning,” in The Sixth International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing, 1996.
A. Birk, “Learning to Survive,” in Fifth European Workshop on Learning Robots, Bari, 1996.
A. Birk and W. J. Paul, “Schemas and Genetic Programming,” in Intern. Conf. on the Integration of Elementary Functions into Complex Behavior, 1994.