publications | Dr.-Ing. Tanja Katharina Kaiser

2024

Conference

Learning from Evolution: Improving Collective Decision-Making Mechanisms using Insights from Evolutionary Robotics

Tanja Katharina Kaiser

In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’24), 2024

@inproceedings{10.1145/3638529.3653988,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina},
  title = {Learning from Evolution: Improving Collective Decision-Making Mechanisms using Insights from Evolutionary Robotics},
  year = {2024},
  isbn = {979-8-4007-0494-9/24/07},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3638529.3653988},
  booktitle = {Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '24)},
  pages = {},
  numpages = {9},
  keywords = {},
  location = {Melbourne, VIC, Australia},
  series = {GECCO '24},
}

Proceedings

Swarm Intelligence: 14th International Conference

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2024

2023

Conference

Evolution of Collective Decision-Making Mechanisms for Collective Perception

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Tristan Potten, and Heiko Hamann

In 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2023

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@inproceedings{CEC2023,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Potten, Tristan and Hamann, Heiko},
  title = {Evolution of Collective Decision-Making Mechanisms for Collective Perception},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)},
  pages = {1-8},
  year = {2023},
  month = {},
  doi = {10.1109/CEC53210.2023.10253996},
}

Conference

Evolving Dynamic Collective Behaviors by Minimizing Surprise

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Christopher Kluth, and Heiko Hamann

In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, Jul 2023

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@inproceedings{Alife2023,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Kluth, Christopher and Hamann, Heiko},
  title = {{Evolving Dynamic Collective Behaviors by Minimizing Surprise}},
  booktitle = {Artificial Life Conference Proceedings},
  volume = {35},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  pages = {},
  year = {2023},
  month = jul,
  doi = {10.1162/isal_a_00650}
}

Conference

Social Neural Network Soups with Surprise Minimization

Maximilian Zorn, Steffen Illium, Thomy Phan, Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, and Thomas Gabor

In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, Jul 2023

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@inproceedings{Alife20232,
  author = {Zorn, Maximilian and Illium, Steffen and Phan, Thomy and Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Linnhoff-Popien, Claudia and Gabor, Thomas},
  title = {{Social Neural Network Soups with Surprise Minimization}},
  booktitle = {Artificial Life Conference Proceedings},
  volume = {35},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  pages = {},
  year = {2023},
  month = jul,
  doi = {10.1162/isal_a_00671},
}

Article

Der vorhersagende Schwarm: Künstliche Evolution kollektiver Verhaltensweisen für Roboterschwärme durch Minimierung von Überraschung

Tanja Katharina Kaiser

In Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2022 - Komplettband, Jul 2023

to appear

Bib

@incollection{GI2022,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina},
  title = {{Der vorhersagende Schwarm: K\"unstliche Evolution kollektiver Verhaltensweisen für Roboterschw\"arme durch Minimierung von \"Uberraschung}},
  booktitle = {Ausgezeichnete Informatikdissertationen 2022 - Komplettband},
  year = {2023},
  address = {Bonn},
  note = {to appear}
}

Book

The Predicting Swarm: Evolving Collective Behaviors for Robot Swarms by Minimizing Surprise

Tanja Katharina Kaiser

Jul 2023

Dissertation

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@book{kaiser2022,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina},
  title = {The Predicting Swarm: Evolving Collective Behaviors for Robot Swarms by Minimizing Surprise},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {University of Lübeck},
  note = {Dissertation},
}

2022

Journal

Innate Motivation for Robot Swarms by Minimizing Surprise: From Simple Simulations to Real-World Experiments

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, and Heiko Hamann

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Jul 2022

Bib

@article{9813360,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Hamann, Heiko},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  title = {Innate Motivation for Robot Swarms by Minimizing Surprise: From Simple Simulations to Real-World Experiments},
  year = {2022},
  volume = {38},
  number = {6},
  pages = {3582-3601},
  doi = {10.1109/TRO.2022.3181004}
}

Conference

ROS2SWARM - A ROS 2 Package for Swarm Robot Behaviors

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Marian Johannes Begemann, Tavia Plattenteich, Lars Schilling, Georg Schildbach, and Heiko Hamann

In 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Jul 2022

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@inproceedings{9812417,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Begemann, Marian Johannes and Plattenteich, Tavia and Schilling, Lars and Schildbach, Georg and Hamann, Heiko},
  booktitle = {2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  title = {ROS2SWARM - A ROS 2 Package for Swarm Robot Behaviors},
  year = {2022},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {6875-6881},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9812417},
}

Conference

An Innate Motivation to Tidy Your Room: Online Onboard Evolution of Manipulation Behaviors in a Robot Swarm

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Christine Lang, Florian Andreas Marwitz, Christian Charles, Sven Dreier, Julian Petzold, Max Ferdinand Hannawald, Marian Johannes Begemann, and Heiko Hamann

In Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Jul 2022

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@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-92790-5_15,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Lang, Christine and Marwitz, Florian Andreas and Charles, Christian and Dreier, Sven and Petzold, Julian and Hannawald, Max Ferdinand and Begemann, Marian Johannes and Hamann, Heiko},
  editor = {Matsuno, Fumitoshi and Azuma, Shun-ichi and Yamamoto, Masahito},
  title = {An Innate Motivation to Tidy Your Room: Online Onboard Evolution of Manipulation Behaviors in a Robot Swarm},
  booktitle = {Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  address = {Cham},
  pages = {190--201},
  isbn = {978-3-030-92790-5},
}

Conference
Minimize Surprise MAP-Elites: A Task-Independent MAP-Elites Variant for Swarms

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, and Heiko Hamann

In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Jul 2022

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Swarm robotics controllers are often automatically generated using methods of evolutionary computation with a task-specific fitness function to guide the optimization process. By contrast, our minimize surprise approach uses a task-independent fitness function to generate diverse behaviors over several independent evolutionary runs. Alternatives are divergent search algorithms rewarding behavioral novelty, such as novelty search, and quality-diversity algorithms generating diverse high-quality solutions, such as MAP-Elites. These approaches usually rely on task-dependent measures. We propose Minimize Surprise MAP-Elites, a task-independent MAP-Elites variant that combines MAP-Elites with our minimize surprise approach. Our first experiments result in high-quality solutions that lead to behavioral diversity across tasks and within tasks.
@inproceedings{10.1145/3520304.3528773, author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Hamann, Heiko}, title = {Minimize Surprise MAP-Elites: A Task-Independent MAP-Elites Variant for Swarms}, year = {2022}, isbn = {9781450392686}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, doi = {10.1145/3520304.3528773}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion}, pages = {116–119}, numpages = {4}, keywords = {swarm robotics, behavioral diversity, quality-diversity algorithms}, location = {Boston, Massachusetts}, series = {GECCO '22}, }

2020

Conference

Diversity in Swarm Robotics with Task-Independent Behavior Characterization

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, and Heiko Hamann

In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Jul 2020

Bib

@inproceedings{10.1145/3377929.3389949,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Hamann, Heiko},
  title = {Diversity in Swarm Robotics with Task-Independent Behavior Characterization},
  year = {2020},
  isbn = {9781450371278},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3377929.3389949},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion},
  pages = {83–84},
  numpages = {2},
  keywords = {evolutionary robotics, behavioral diversity, swarm robotics},
  location = {Canc\'{u}n, Mexico},
  series = {GECCO '20},
}

Conference

Evolution of Diverse Swarm Behaviors with Minimal Surprise

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, and Heiko Hamann

In Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, Jul 2020

Bib

@inproceedings{10.1162/isal_a_00266,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Hamann, Heiko},
  title = {{Evolution of Diverse Swarm Behaviors with Minimal Surprise}},
  booktitle = {Artificial Life Conference Proceedings},
  volume = {32},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  pages = {384-392},
  year = {2020},
  month = jul,
  doi = {10.1162/isal_a_00266},
}

2019

Workshop

Self-Organized Construction by Minimal Surprise

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, and Heiko Hamann

In 2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W), Jul 2019

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@inproceedings{8792011,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Hamann, Heiko},
  booktitle = {2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W)},
  title = {Self-Organized Construction by Minimal Surprise},
  year = {2019},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {213-218},
  doi = {10.1109/FAS-W.2019.00057},
}

Conference

Self-assembly in Patterns with Minimal Surprise: Engineered Self-organization and Adaptation to the Environment

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, and Heiko Hamann

In Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Jul 2019

Bib

@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-05816-6_13,
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Hamann, Heiko},
  editor = {Correll, Nikolaus and Schwager, Mac and Otte, Michael},
  title = {Self-assembly in Patterns with Minimal Surprise: Engineered Self-organization and Adaptation to the Environment},
  booktitle = {Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  address = {Cham},
  pages = {183--195},
  isbn = {978-3-030-05816-6}
}

Journal

Engineered self-organization for resilient robot self-assembly with minimal surprise

Tanja Katharina Kaiser, and Heiko Hamann

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Jul 2019

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@article{KAISER2019103293,
  title = {Engineered self-organization for resilient robot self-assembly with minimal surprise},
  journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  volume = {122},
  pages = {103293},
  year = {2019},
  issn = {0921-8890},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2019.103293},
  author = {Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Hamann, Heiko},
  keywords = {Self-assembly, Evolutionary swarm robotics, Pattern formation, Self-organization},
}

Journal

Swarm robotics: Robustness, scalability, and self-X features in industrial applications

Mary Katherine Heinrich, Mohammad Divband Soorati, Tanja Katharina Kaiser, Mostafa Wahby, and Heiko Hamann

it - Information Technology, Jul 2019

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@article{HeinrichSooratiKaiserWahbyHamann+2019+159+167,
  title = {Swarm robotics: Robustness, scalability, and self-X features in industrial applications},
  author = {Heinrich, Mary Katherine and {Divband Soorati}, Mohammad and Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Wahby, Mostafa and Hamann, Heiko},
  pages = {159--167},
  volume = {61},
  number = {4},
  journal = {it - Information Technology},
  doi = {doi:10.1515/itit-2019-0003},
  year = {2019},
  lastchecked = {2023-01-14},
}

2018

Conference

Combining Self-Organisation with Decision-Making and Planning

Christopher-Eyk Hrabia, Tanja Katharina Kaiser, and Sahin Albayrak

In Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies, Jul 2018

Bib

@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-01713-2_27,
  author = {Hrabia, Christopher-Eyk and Kaiser, Tanja Katharina and Albayrak, Sahin},
  editor = {Belardinelli, Francesco and Argente, Estefan{\'i}a},
  title = {Combining Self-Organisation with Decision-Making and Planning},
  booktitle = {Multi-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies},
  year = {2018},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
  address = {Cham},
  pages = {385--399},
  isbn = {978-3-030-01713-2}
}