Publications

Publications by categories in reversed chronological order.

PhD dissertation (preview): Neurosymbolic Robot Programming: A Framework for AI-Enabled Programming of Robot Manipulation Tasks

2024

  1. BANSAI: Towards Bridging the AI Adoption Gap in Industrial Robotics with Neurosymbolic Programming
    Benjamin Alt, Julia Dvorak, Darko Katic, and 3 more authors
    In 57th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2024, May 2024
  2. Domain-Specific Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models for Interactive Robot Programming
    Benjamin Alt, Urs Keßner, Aleksandar Taranovic, and 4 more authors
    In European Robotics Forum 2024, Mar 2024
  3. Human-AI Interaction in Industrial Robotics: Design and Empirical Evaluation of a User Interface for Explainable AI-Based Robot Program Optimization
    Benjamin Alt, Johannes Zahn, Claudius Kienle, and 7 more authors
    In 57th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2024, Apr 2024
  4. RoboGrind: Intuitive and Interactive Surface Treatment with Industrial Robots
    Benjamin Alt, Florian Stöckl, Silvan Müller, and 10 more authors
    In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2024
  5. Shadow Program Inversion with Differentiable Planning: A Framework for Unified Robot Program Parameter and Trajectory Optimization
    Benjamin Alt, Claudius Kienle, Darko Katic, and 2 more authors
    Sep 2024
  6. MuTT: A Multimodal Trajectory Transformer for Robot Skills
    Claudius Kienle, Benjamin Alt, Onur Celik, and 4 more authors
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Aug 2024
  7. QueryCAD: Grounded Question Answering for CAD Models
    Claudius Kienle, Benjamin Alt, Darko Katic, and 1 more author
    Sep 2024
  8. EASY: Energy-Efficient Analysis and Control Processes in the Dynamic Edge-Cloud Continuum for Industrial Manufacturing
    Alexander Schultheis, Benjamin Alt, Sebastian Bast, and 14 more authors
    KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, Sep 2024

2023

  1. EfficientPPS: Part-aware Panoptic Segmentation of Transparent Objects for Robotic Manipulation
    Benjamin Alt, Minh Dang Nguyen, Andreas Hermann, and 4 more authors
    In ISR Europe 2023, Sep 2023
  2. Knowledge-Driven Robot Program Synthesis from Human VR Demonstrations
    Benjamin Alt, Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Andrei Haidu, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Sep 2023
  3. Artificial Neural Network Guided Compensation of Nonlinear Payload and Wear Effects for Industrial Robots
    Julian Raible, Oliver Rettig, Benjamin Alt, and 7 more authors
    In 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Aug 2023
  4. Autonomous Surface Grinding of Wind Turbine Blades
    Florian Stöckl, Marcus Strand, Silvan Müller, and 6 more authors
    In Intelligent Autonomoous Systems 18, Jul 2023

2022

  1. Heuristic-Free Optimization of Force-Controlled Robot Search Strategies in Stochastic Environments
    Benjamin Alt, Darko Katic, Rainer Jäkel, and 1 more author
    In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct 2022
  2. LapSeg3D: Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Point Clouds Representing Laparoscopic Scenes
    Benjamin Alt, Christian Kunz, Darko Katic, and 5 more authors
    In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct 2022
  3. Method and System for Determining Optimized Program Parameters for a Robot Program
    Benjamin Alt, Rainer Jäkel, and Darko Katic
    Feb 2022
  4. Mensch-Roboter-Kollaboration in KMU – Potenziale identifizieren, analysieren und realisieren
    Lina Kluy, Lena Kölmel, Benjamin Alt, and 11 more authors
    In Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt im Mittelstand 1: Ergebnisse und Best Practice des BMBF-Forschungsschwerpunkts "Zukunft der Arbeit: Mittelstand – innovativ und sozial", Feb 2022

2021

  1. Robot Program Parameter Inference via Differentiable Shadow Program Inversion
    Benjamin Alt, Darko Katic, Rainer Jäkel, and 2 more authors
    In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2021
  2. Localization and Tracking of User-Defined Points on Deformable Objects for Robotic Manipulation
    Sven Dittus, Benjamin Alt, Andreas Hermann, and 3 more authors
    In IEEE ICRA Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects, May 2021

2020

  1. Modulare, Datengetriebene Roboterprogrammierung Für Die Lösung Komplexer Handhabungsaufgaben in Alltagsumgebungen
    Benjamin Alt, Florian Aumann, Lennart Gienger, and 4 more authors
    In AAL-Kongress 2020, May 2020
  2. RoPHa - Robuste Wahrnehmungsfähigkeiten Für Roboter Zur Unterstützung Älterer Nutzer Im Häuslichen Umfeld
    Birgit Graf, Florian Jordan, Gabriele Blume, and 8 more authors
    In Autonome Roboter Für Assistenzfunktionen, May 2020