Publications

• Physically Based Real-Time Rendering of Atmospheres using Mie Theory
  Simon Schneegans, Tim Meyran, Ingo Ginkel, Gabriel Zachmann, and Andreas Gerndt. Computer Graphics Forum (Vol. 43, No. 2), 2024.
• VaMEx3: Autonomously Exploring Mars with a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm
  Leon Danter, Joachim Clemens, Andreas Serov, Anne Schattel, Michael Schleiss, Cedric Liman, Mario Gäbel, Andre Mühlenbrock, and Gabriel Zachmann. 17th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA) 2023, Leiden, Netherlands, October 18-20, 2023
• Evaluation of aerial vehicle configurations for high-range Mars missions
  Victor Zappek, Markus Rinker, Lukas Daxer and Manfred Hajek. Evaluation of aerial vehicle configurations for high-range Mars missions. CEAS Space Journal, 1-15. 2023.
• VR-Interactions for Planning Planetary Swarm Exploration Missions in VaMEx-Vtb
  Rene Weller, Christoph Schröder, Jörn Teuber, Philipp Dittmann and Gabriel Zachmann. IEEE Aerospace Conference (AeroConf) 2021, held online.
• Design and Evaluation of an Active Artificial Spine in a Hominid Robot
  Daniel Kuehn, Alexander Dettmann and Frank Kirchner. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research Vol. 9, No. 3, March 2020.
• VaMEx-VTB — A Modular Virtual Testbed for Multimodal Autonomous Planetary Missions
  Jörn Teuber, René Weller, Luisa Buinhas, Daniel Kühn, Philipp Dittmann, Abhishek Srinivas, Frank Kirchner, Roger Förstner, Oliver Funke and Gabriel Zachmann. 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2019, Washington, DC, USA, October 21 – 25, 2019.
• MARS / EUROPA INPPS Flagship High Power Space Transportation
  Frank Jansen, Benedikt Bergmann, Tim Brandt, Friedrich Damme, Emmanouil Detsis, Simona Ferraris, James AP Findlay, Ikkoh Funaki, Oliver Funke et al.
  70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2019, Washington, DC, USA, October 21 – 25, 2019.
• Navigation and communication network for the Valles Marineris Explorer (VaMEx)
  Luisa Buinhas, Peytaví G. Graciela and Roger Förstner. Acta Astronautica. Volume 160, Pages 280-296, July 2019
• Virtual Validation and Verification of the VaMEx Initiative
  Jörn Teuber, René Weller, Luisa Buinhas, Daniel Kühn, Philipp Dittmann, Abhishek Srinivas, Frank Kirchner, Roger Foerstner, Oliver Funke and Gabriel Zachmann. In Proceedings of the 16th International Planetary Probe Workshop, (IPPW-2019), 08.7.-12.7.2019, Oxford, o.A., 2019.
• Active Asteroid-SLAM
  David Nakath, Joachim Clemens, Carsten Rachuy. In Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2019.
• The Search for Signatures of Life and Habitability on Planets and Moons of Our Solar System
  Oliver Funke & Gerda Horneck.Biological, physical and technical basics of cell engineering. 457-481. 2018.
• Exploration in Inaccessible Terrain Using Visual and Proprioceptive Data
  Alexander Dettmann, Daniel Kuehn, Dominik Van Opdenbosch, Tobias Stark, Heiner Peters, Sankaranarayanan Natarajan, Sebastian Kasperski, Arne Böckmann, Adrian Garcea, Eckehard Steinbach, Frank Kirchner. Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, (iSAIRAS-2018), 04.6.-06.6.2018, Madrid, o.A., Jun/2018.
• Multi-Sensor Fusion and Active Perception for Autonomous Deep Space Navigation
  David Nakath, Joachim Clemens, Kerstin Schill. In 21st International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), IEEE, 2018.
• VaMEx-LAOLa-Valles Marineris Exploration Lokales Ad-hoc Ortungs-und Landesystem
  Sergio Montenegro, Thomas Walter, Erik Dilger and M. Becker. Proceedings 4S Symposium, pp. 1-5. 2018.
• Improved Locomotion Capabilities for Quadrupeds Through Active Multi-Point-Contact Feet
  Alexander Dettmann, Daniel Kuehn and Frank Kirchner. 2018 4th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), (ICCAR-2018), 20.4.-23.4.2018, Auckland, IEEE, Apr/2018.
• Multi-robot in-ice localization using graph optimization
  Joachim Clemens. In International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), IEEE, 2017.
• An evidential approach to SLAM, path planning, and active exploration
  Joachim Clemens, Thomas Reineking, Tobias Kluth. In International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Elsevier, volume 73, 2016.
• Fault Tolerant Control for a Hexarotor System using Incremental Backstepping
  Guillermo P. Falconí, Valentin A. Marvakov and Florian Holzapfel. IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA). 2016

Dissertations

• Experience-Based Behavior Adaptation of Kinematically-Complex Robots
  Alexander Dettmann. Universität Bremen. Feb/2021.
• Cooperative Vision for Swarm Navigation
  Chen Zhu. Technische Universität München. Jun/2019.
• Design and development of a hominid robot with local control in its adaptable feet to enhance locomotion capabilities
  Daniel Kühn. Universität Bremen. Dec/2016.
• Round-Trip Delay Ranging with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex Signals
  Emanuel Staudinger. Universität Bremen. May/2015.

Reports

• VaMEx – Mars High Range Scout : Abschlussbericht VaMEx-MaHRS (2022)
• VaMEx – IRExA – Intelligent Robotic Exploration Assistant : Schlussbericht (2021)
• VaMEx LAOLa – Lokales Ad-hoc Ortungs- und Landesystem: Schlussbericht (2019)
• Exploration in schwer zugänglichem Terrain anhand visueller und propriozeptiver Daten im Valles Marineris (VaMEx-VIPE) : Abschlussbericht (2018)
• VaMEx CoSMiC : Abschlussbericht (2018)
• Valles Marineris Explorer : VaMEx : Abschlussbericht (2015)