For an overview of projects I worked on during my time as a researcher at the university of Freiburg please have a look at my university research website. Do not miss the videos!

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List of Publications

• K.M. Wurm, H. Kretzschmar, R. Kuemmerle, C. Stachniss, and W. Burgard.
  
  Identifying vegetation from laser data in structured outdoor environments
  In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013 (in press).
  [ bib | pdf | http  ]
• K.M. Wurm, C. Dornhege, B. Nebel, W. Burgard, and C. Stachniss.
  
  Coordinating heterogeneous teams of robots using temporal symbolic planning.
  In Autonomous Robots, May 2013, Volume 34, Issue 4, pp 277-294
  [ bib | .pdf | http  ]
• A. Hornung, K.M. Wurm, M. Bennewitz, C. Stachniss, and W. Burgard.
  
  OctoMap: An efficient probabilistic 3d mapping framework based on octrees.
  In Autonomous Robots, April 2013, Volume 34, Issue 3, pp 189-206
  [ bib | http  ]
• Kai M. Wurm
  Techniques for Multi-Robot Coordination and Navigation.
  PhD thesis, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Department of Computer Science,
  October 2012.
  [ bib | pdf | http ]
• A. Cunningham, K.M. Wurm, W. Burgard, and F. Dellaert.
  Fully distributed scalable smoothing and mapping with robust multi-robot data association.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA),
  Saint Paul, MN, USA, 2012.
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• K.M. Wurm, D. Hennes, D. Holz, R.B. Rusu, C. Stachniss, K. Konolige, and W. Burgard.
  Hierarchies of Octrees for Efficient 3D Mapping.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
  San Francisco, CA, USA, September 2011.
  [ bib | .pdf  ]
• K.M. Wurm, C. Dornhege, P. Eyerich, C. Stachniss, B. Nebel, and W. Burgard.
  Coordinated exploration with marsupial teams of robots using temporal symbolic planning.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
  Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010.
  [ bib | .pdf  ]
• A. Hornung, K.M. Wurm, and M. Bennewitz.
  Humanoid robot localization in complex indoor environments.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
  Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.
  [ bib | .pdf  ]
• K.M. Wurm, A. Hornung, M. Bennewitz, C. Stachniss, and W. Burgard.
  Octomap: A probabilistic, flexible, and compact 3d map representation for robotic systems.
  In Proc. of the ICRA 2010 Workshop on Best Practice in 3D Perception and Modeling
  for Mobile Manipulation, Anchorage, USA, 2010.
  [ bib  | .pdf ]
• M. Karg, K.M. Wurm, C. Stachniss, K. Dietmayer, and W. Burgard.
  Consistent mapping of multistory buildings by introducing global constraints to graph-based slam.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, USA, 2010.
  [ bib | .pdf  ]
• K.M. Wurm, C. Stachniss, and G. Grisetti.
  
  Bridging the gap between feature- and grid-based slam.
  In Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 58(2):140 - 148, 2010. [ bib | http ]
• K.M. Wurm, R. Kuemmerle, C. Stachniss, and W. Burgard.
  
  Improving robot navigation in structured outdoor environments by identifying vegetation from laser data.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, October 2009. [ bib | .pdf  ]
• K.M. Wurm, C. Stachniss, and W. Burgard.
  
  Coordinated multi-robot exploration using a segmentation of the environment.
  In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, September 2008.
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• K. M. Wurm, C. Stachniss, G. Grisetti, and W. Burgard.
  
  Improved simultaneous localization and mapping using a dual representation of the environment.
  In Proc. of the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), Freiburg, Germany, September 2007.
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• Kai M. Wurm.
  
  Robustes Lernen von Umgebungskarten durch Integration verschiedener Repräsentationen.
  Diplomarbeit, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, July 2007. In German.
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