Mar 2026 // conference paper
Responsible Humanoids: A Contradiction in Terms?
Séverin Lemaignan; A. Jung Moon; Simon Coghlan; Emily C. Collins; Vanessa Evers; Nico Hochgeschwender; Sara Ljungblad; Michael Milford; Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen; Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera; Pericle Salvini; Yi Yang
Dec 2025 // journal-article
A Road Map for Responsible Robotics: Promoting Human Agency and Collaborative Efforts
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
Dejanira Araiza-Illan; Kevin Baum; Helen Beebee; Raja Chatila; Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen; Simon Coghlan; Emily Collins; S.Kate Conroy; Alcino Cunha; Anna Dobrosovestnova; Hein Duijf; Vanessa Evers; Michael Fisher; Nico Hochgeschwender; Nadin Kökciyan; Séverin Lemaignan; Francisco Rodriguez-Lera; Sara Ljungblad; Martin Magnusson; Masoumeh Mansouri; Michael Milford; AJung Moon; Thomas M. Powers; Pericle Salvini; Teresa Scantamburlo; Nick Schuster; Marija Slavkovik; Ufuk Topcu; Daniel Vanegas; Andrzej Wasowski; Yi Yang
Oct 2025 // conference paper
Automated Behavior-Driven Acceptance Testing of Robotic Systems
2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Minh Nguyen; Sebastian Wrede; Nico Hochgeschwender
May 2025 // conference-paper
From Developer Needs to Domain-Specific Languages: Defining Scenarios for Simulation-Based Validation of Mobile Robots
2025 IEEE Engineering Reliable Autonomous Systems (ERAS)
Argentina Ortega; Samuel Parra; Sven Schneider; Nico Hochgeschwender
Jan 2025 // journal-article
Semantic composition of robotic solver algorithms on graph structures
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Sven Schneider; Nico Hochgeschwender; Herman Bruyninckx
2025 // book-chapter
Planning Robot Placement for Object Grasping
Manish Saini; Melvin Paul Jacob; Minh Nguyen; Nico Hochgeschwender
2025 // book-chapter
Specification and Execution of Robotic Acceptance Tests for Object Sorting
Bastian Hunecke; Minh Nguyen; Nico Hochgeschwender; Sebastian Wrede
2025 // journal-article
From Composable Models to Correct-by-Construction Software for Contact-Rich Robotic Mobile-Manipulation Tasks
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Sven Schneider; Vamsi Kalagaturu; Herman Bruyninckx; Nico Hochgeschwender
Sep 2024 // journal-article
Future Directions in Software Engineering for Autonomous Robots: An Agenda for Trustworthiness [Opinion]
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
Davide Brugali; Ana Cavalcanti; Nico Hochgeschwender; Patrizio Pelliccione; Luciana Rebelo
Aug 2024 // conference-paper
Embodied Runtime Monitoring of Learning-enabled Robot Perception Components
2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Deebul Nair; Sathwik Panchangam; Miguel A. Olivares-Mendez; Nico Hochgeschwender
Aug 2024 // journal-article
Composable and executable scenarios for simulation-based testing of mobile robots
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Argentina Ortega; Samuel Parra; Sven Schneider; Nico Hochgeschwender
May 2024 // conference-paper
A Multimodal Handover Failure Detection Dataset and Baselines
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Santosh Thoduka; Nico Hochgeschwender; Juergen Gall; Paul G. Plöger
2024 // book-chapter
b-it-bots: Winners of RoboCup@Work 2023
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Gokul Chenchani; Kevin Patel; Ravisankar Selvaraju; Shubham Shinde; Vamsi Kalagaturu; Vivek Mannava; Deebul Nair; Iman Awaad; Mohammad Wasil; Santosh Thoduka; Sven Schneider; Nico Hochgeschwender; Paul G. Plöger
2024 // book-chapter
Trust in Robot Benchmarking and Benchmarking for Trustworthy Robots
Studies in Computational Intelligence
Santosh Thoduka; Deebul Nair; Praminda Caleb-Solly; Mauro Dragone; Filippo Cavallo; Nico Hochgeschwender
2023 // conference-paper
Domain-specific languages for kinematic chains and their solver algorithms:
lessons learned for composable models
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA
2023, London, UK, May 29 - June 2, 2023
Sven Schneider and
Nico Hochgeschwender and
Herman Bruyninckx
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160474
2023 // conference-paper
Analyzing the Safety and Security of a UV-C Disinfection Robot
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA
2023, London, UK, May 29 - June 2, 2023
Desiana Nurchalifah and
Sebastian Blumenthal and
Luigi Lo Iacono and
Nico Hochgeschwender
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160527
2023 // conference-paper
Automated Testing of Standard Conformance for Robots
19th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering,
CASE 2023, Auckland, New Zealand, August 26-30, 2023
Salman Omar Sohail and
Sven Schneider and
Nico Hochgeschwender
DOI: 10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260447
2023 // conference-paper
An Analysis of Behavior-Driven Requirement Specification for Robotic
Competitions
5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering,
RoSE@ICSE 2023, Melbourne, Australia, May 15, 2023
Minh Nguyen and
Nico Hochgeschwender and
Sebastian Wrede
DOI: 10.1109/ROSE59155.2023.00008
2022 // conference-paper
From Zero to Hero: Generating Training Data for Question-To-Cypher
models
2022 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Natural Language-Based
Software Engineering (NLBSE 2022), Co-located with ICSE 2022,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 8, 2022
Dominik Opitz and
Nico Hochgeschwender; Andrea Di Sorbo and
Sebastiano Panichella
DOI: 10.1145/3528588.3528655
2022 // journal-article
Maximum Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation: Robustness to Outliers
CoRR
Deebul S. Nair and
Nico Hochgeschwender and
Miguel A. Olivares-Méndez
DOI:
2022 // conference-paper
Testing Service Robots in the Field: An Experience Report
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,
IROS 2022, Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022
Argentina Ortega and
Nico Hochgeschwender and
Thorsten Berger
DOI: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981789
2022 // conference-paper
Maximum Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation: Robustness to Outliers
Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety 2022
(SafeAI 2022) co-located with the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2022), Virtual, February, 2022
Deebul S. Nair and
Nico Hochgeschwender and
Miguel A. Olivares-Méndez; Gabriel Pedroza and
José Hernández-Orallo and
Xin Cynthia Chen and
Xiaowei Huang and
Huáscar Espinoza and
Mauricio Castillo-Effen and
John A. McDermid and
Richard Mallah and
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
DOI:
2021 // conference-paper
Property-Based Testing in Simulation for Verifying Robot Action Execution
in Tabletop Manipulation
10th European Conference on Mobile Robots, ECMR 2021, Bonn, Germany,
August 31 - Sept. 3, 2021
Salman Omar Sohail and
Alex Mitrevski and
Nico Hochgeschwender and
Paul G. Plöger; Sven Behnke and
Emanuele Menegatti and
Chris McCool
DOI: 10.1109/ECMR50962.2021.9568837
2021 // journal-article
Property-Based Testing in Simulation for Verifying Robot Action Execution
in Tabletop Manipulation
CoRR
Salman Omar Sohail and
Alex Mitrevski and
Nico Hochgeschwender and
Paul G. Plöger
DOI:
2021 // conference-paper
Specifying QoS Requirements and Capabilities for Component-Based Robot
software
3rd IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering,
RoSE@ICSE 2021, Madrid, Spain, June 2, 2021
Samuel Parra and
Sven Schneider and
Nico Hochgeschwender
DOI: 10.1109/ROSE52553.2021.00012
