Mar 2026 // Conference paper
Responsible Humanoids: A Contradiction in Terms?
Séverin Lemaignan; AJung 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 Behaviour-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: Specifying Sceneries 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 // 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
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
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
An Analysis of Behaviour-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
2023 // Conference paper
Analysing 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
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
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
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
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
2022 // Journal article
Maximum Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation: Robustness to Outliers
CoRR
Deebul S. Nair and
Nico Hochgeschwender and
Miguel A. Olivares-Méndez
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
2021 // Journal article
A qualitative study of Machine Learning practices and engineering
challenges in Earth Observation
it Inf. Technol.
Sophie F. Jentzsch and
Nico Hochgeschwender
2021 // Conference paper
Benchmarking Robots by Inducing Failures in Competition Scenarios
Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics
and Risk Management. AI, Product and Service - 12th International
Conference, DHM 2021, Held as Part of the 23rd HCI International
Conference, HCII 2021, Virtual Event, July 24-29, 2021, Proceedings,
Part II
Santosh Thoduka and
Nico Hochgeschwender; Vincent G. Duffy
2021 // Conference paper
Grammar-Constrained Neural Semantic Parsing with LR Parsers
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL/IJCNLP
2021, Online Event, August 1-6, 2021
Artur Baranowski and
Nico Hochgeschwender; Chengqing Zong and
Fei Xia and
Wenjie Li and
Roberto Navigli
