Dipl.-Inf. Axel Lankenau

Since 1997, I am working as Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Prof. Dr. Krieg-Brückner's working group in the Computer Science Department of the Universität Bremen.

Research Interests

Robotics

• The Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair "Rolland"
• Navigation and Self-Localisation of Mobile Robots
• Service- and Rehabilitation-Robotics
• Robots as Safety-Critical Systems
• Cognitive Robotics

Formal Methods

• Shared-Control Systems
• Mode Confusion
• Hazard Analysis

Publications

Papers

 

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2009     Back to top

Thomas Röfer, Christian Mandel, Axel Lankenau, Bernd Gersdorf, Udo Frese (2009). 15 Years of Rolland. In Berthold Hoffmann, Christoph Lüth, Till Mossakowski, Lutz Schröder (Eds.), Festschrift Dedicated to Bernd Krieg-Brückner on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday, pp. 255–272. Sichere Kognitive Systeme, DFKI Bremen.

2003     Back to top

Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer, Bernd Krieg-Brückner (2003). Self-Localization in Large-Scale Environments for the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair. In Christian Freksa, Wilfried Brauer, Christopher Habel, Karl F. Wender (Eds.), Spatial Cognition III, Vol. 2685, pp. 34–61, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer.

2002     Back to top

	J. Bredereke, A. Lankenau (2002). A Rigorous View of Mode Confusion. In Proc. of Safecomp 2002, 21st Int'l Conf. on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, No. 2434, pp. 19–31, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, D-69121 Heidelberg, Germany.
	A. Lankenau (2002). The Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair 'Rolland': Self-Localization and Shared Control.
	Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer (2002). Mobile Robot Self-Localization in Large-Scale Environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2002 (ICRA-2002), pp. 1359–1364. IEEE.
	Thomas Röfer, Axel Lankenau (2002). Route-Based Robot Navigation. In Christian Freksa (Ed.). Künstliche Intelligenz - Themenheft Spatial Cognition, pp. 29–31. Fachbereich 1 der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., arenDTaP.

2001     Back to top

	A. Lankenau (2001). Avoiding Mode Confusion in Service-Robots. In M. Mokhtari (Ed.), Integration of Assistive Technology in the Information Age, Proc. of the 7th Int. Conf. on Rehabilitation Robotics, pp. 162–167. IOS Press.
	Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer (2001). A Safe and Versatile Mobility Assistant. In Reinventing the Wheelchair. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 7, pp. 29–37.
	Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer (2001). Selbstlokalisation in Routengraphen. In Paul Levi, Michael Schanz (Eds.), Autonome Mobile Systeme 2001, pp. 157–163, Informatik aktuell. Springer.

2000     Back to top

	Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer (2000). Smart Wheelchairs - State of the Art in an Emerging Market. In Künstliche Intelligenz. Schwerpunkt Autonome Mobile Systeme, No. 4, pp. 37–39. Fachbereich 1 der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., arenDTaP.
	Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer (2000). The Role of Shared Control in Service Robots - The Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair as an Example. In Thomas Röfer, Axel Lankenau, Reinhard Moratz (Eds.), Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market. Workshop Notes, pp. 27–31.
	Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer (2000). Rollstuhl "Rolland" unterstützt ältere und behinderte Menschen. In FIfF-Kommunikation. Informationstechnik und Behinderung, No. 2, pp. 48–50. Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF).
	Rolf Müller, Thomas Röfer, Axel Lankenau, Alexandra Musto, Klaus Stein, Andreas Eisenkolb (2000). Coarse Qualitative Descriptions in Robot Navigation. In Christian Freksa, Wilfried Brauer, Christopher Habel, Karl F. Wender (Eds.), Spatial Cognition II, Vol. 1849, pp. 265–276, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer.
	Thomas Röfer, Axel Lankenau (2000). Architecture and Applications of the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair. In Paul P. Wang (Ed.), Information Sciences, Vol. 1-4 (126), pp. 1–20. Elsevier Science BV.
	Thomas Röfer, Axel Lankenau, Reinhard Moratz (Eds.) (2000). Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market. Workshop Notes. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2000 (ECAI-2000).

1999     Back to top

	A. Lankenau, O. Meyer (1999). Formal Methods in Robotics: Fault Tree Based Verification. In Proc. of Quality Week Europe.
	Thomas Röfer, Axel Lankenau (1999). Ensuring Safe Obstacle Avoidance in a Shared-Control System. In Josep M. Fuertes (Ed.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Emergent Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA-99), pp. 1405–1414.
	Thomas Röfer, Axel Lankenau (1999). Ein Fahrassistent für ältere und behinderte Menschen. In Günther Schmidt, Uwe Hanebeck, Franz Freyberger (Eds.), Autonome Mobile Systeme 1999, pp. 334–343, Informatik aktuell. Springer.

1998     Back to top

	A. Lankenau, O. Meyer, B. Krieg-Brückner (1998). Safety in Robotics: The Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair. In Proceedings of the 5th Int. Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC '98), pp. 524–529.
	Axel Lankenau, Thomas Röfer (1998). Architecture of the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair. In Bernd Hildebrand, Reinhard Moratz, Christian Scheering (Eds.), Architectures in Cognitive Robotics. Technical Report, No. 98/13, pp. 19–24. SFB 360 "Situierte Künstliche Kommunikatoren". Universität Bielefeld.
	Thomas Röfer, Axel Lankenau (1998). Architecture and Applications of the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair. In Paul P. Wang (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th Joint Conference on Information Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 365–368. Association for Intelligent Machinery.

1997     Back to top

	Jörg Kollmann, Axel Lankenau, Andreas Bühlmeier, Bernd Krieg-Brückner, Thomas Röfer (1997). Navigation of a Kinematically Restricted Wheelchair by the Parti-Game Algorithm. In Spatial Reasoning in Mobile Robots and Animals, AISB-97 Workshop, pp. 35–44. Manchester University.
	A. Lankenau, O. Meyer (1997). Der autonome Rollstuhl als sicheres eingebettetes System. Master's Thesis.
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Talks

• AISB Workshop "Spatial Reasoning in Mobile Robots and Animals" (Manchester, UK, 1997)
• Informatik-Kolloquium Uni Bremen (Bremen, Germany, 1997)
• DFKI-Kolloquium (Saarbrücken, Germany, 1997)
• Int. Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (Coimbra, Portugal, 1998)
• Themenkolloquium Raumkognition (Freiburg, Germany, 1999)
• Int. Conf. on Emergent Technology in Factory Automation (Barcelona, Spain, 1999)
• Workshop Service-Robotics, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Berlin, Germany, 2000)
• Thememkolloquium Raumkognition (Hamburg, Germany, 2001)
• Int. Conf. on Rehabilitation Robotics (Evry, France, 2001) Talk available as Windows Media Video File (15 MB)
• Autonome Mobile Systeme (Stuttgart, Germany, 2001)
• Robotik 2002 (Ludwigsburg, Germany, 2002)

Hobbies

• Chess
• Photography
• Inline-Skating
• Hiking

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