Ruth Schulz

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Book Chapter

• Wyeth, G., Milford, M., Schulz, R., and Wiles, J. (2011) The RatSLAM project: robot spatial navigation, In J. L. Krichmar & H. Wagatsuma (Eds.), Neuromorphic and Brain-Based Robotics (pp. 87-108). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Journal Papers

• Schulz, R., Kratzer, P., & Toussaint, M. (2018). Preferred interaction styles for human-robot collaboration vary over tasks with different action types. Frontiers in neurorobotics, 12, 36.
• Milford, M. & Schulz, R. (2014) Principles of goal-directed spatial robot navigation in biomimetic models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B : Biological Sciences, 369(1655), pp. 1-13.
• Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., and Wiles, J., (2012). Beyond here-and-now: Extending shared physical experiences to shared conceptual experiences, Adaptive Behavior
• Heath, S., Schulz, R., Ball, D., and Wiles, J. (2012). Long summer days: Grounded learning of words for the uneven cycles of real world events, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development.
• Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2011). Lingodroids: Socially grounding place names in privately grounded cognitive maps. Adaptive Behavior, 19 6: 409-424.
• Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2011) Are we there yet? Grounding temporal concepts in shared journeys, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 3(2), 163-175
• Milford, M., Schulz, R., Prasser, D., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2007). Learning spatial concepts from RatSLAM representations. Robotics and Autonomous Systems – From Sensors to Human Spatial Concepts, 55(5), 403-410.

Conference Papers

• Schulz, R., Kratzer, P., & Toussaint, M. (2017) Building a bridge with a robot: A system for collaborative on-table task execution. HAI 2017, 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction. Bielefeld, Germany, October 2017.
• Schulz, R. (2017) Collaborative robots learning spatial language for picking and placing objects on a table. HAI 2017, 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction. Bielefeld, Germany, October 2017.
• Talbot, B., Lam, O., Schulz, R., Dayoub, F., Upcroft, B., & Wyeth, G. (2016) Find my office: Navigating real space from semantic descriptions. ICRA 2016, The International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2016.
• Sunderhauf, N., Dayoub, F., McMahon, S., Talbot, B., Schulz, R., Corke, P., Wyeth, G., Upcroft, B., & Milford, M. (2016) Place categorization and semantic mapping on a mobile robot. ICRA 2016, The International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2016.
• Lam, O., Dayoub, F., Schulz, R., & Corke, P. (2015) Automated topometric graph generation from floor plan analysis. ACRA 2015, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T, 2-4 December 2015.
• Talbot, B., Schulz, R., Upcroft, B., & Wyeth, G. (2015). Reasoning about natural language phrases for semantic goal driven exploration. ACRA 2015, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T, 2-4 December 2015.
• Hou, J., Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Nayak, R. (2015). Finding within-organisation spatial information on the web. In Maher, Michael & Thiebaux, Sylvie (Eds.) 28th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2015), 30 November – 4 December 2015, Canberra, A.C.T.
• Schulz, R., Talbot, B., Upcroft, B., & Wyeth, G. (2015). Constructing abstract maps from spatial descriptions for goal-directed exploration. Robotics: Science and Systems 2015 Workshop on Model Learning for Human-Robot Communication, Rome, Italy, July 2015.
• Schulz, R., Talbot, B., Lam, O., Dayoub, F., Corke, P., Upcroft, B., & Wyeth, G., (2015). Robot navigation using human cues: A robot navigation system for symbolic goal-directed exploration, ICRA 2015, The International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, USA, May 2015.
• Lam, O., Dayoub, F., Schulz, R., & Corke, P. (2014) Text recognition approaches for indoor robotics : a comparison. In 2014 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2-4 December 2014, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC.
• Heath, S., Ball, D., Schulz, R., Wiles, J., “Communication between Lingodroids with different cognitive capabilities,” 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), vol., no., pp.490,495, 6-10 May 2013
• Heath, S., Schulz, R., Ball, D., and Wiles, J., (2012). Lingodroids: learning terms for time, ICRA 2012, The International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 2012.
• Schulz, R., Whittington, M., and Wiles, J., (2012). Language change in socially structured populations, In T. C. Scott-Phillips, M. Tamariz, E. A. Cartmill, and J. R. Hurford (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference (EVOLANG9) (pp312-319). Singapore: World Scientific Press.
• Schulz, R., Glover, A., Milford, M., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2011) Lingodroids: Studies in Spatial Cognition and Language, ICRA 2011, The International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, May 2011
• Schulz, R., Glover, A., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2010). Robots, communication, and language: An overview of the Lingodroid Project, in Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 2010.
• Glover, A., Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2010). Grounding action in visuo-haptic space using experience networks, in Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, 2010.
• Schulz, R., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2010), Language change across generations for robots using cognitive maps. In H. Fellermann, M. Dörr, M. M. Hanczyc, L. L. Laursen, S. Maurer, D. Merkle, P.-A. Monnard, K. Stoy and S. Rasmussen (Eds.), Artificial Life XII: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems. (pp. 581-588). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
• Schulz, R., Prasser, D., Stockwell, P., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2008). The formation, generative power, and evolution of toponyms: Grounding a spatial vocabulary in a cognitive map. In A. D. M. Smith, K. Smith & R. Ferrer i Cancho (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG7) (pp. 267-274). Singapore: World Scientific Press.
• Schulz, R., Stockwell, P., Wakabayashi, M., & Wiles, J. (2006). Towards a spatial language for mobile robots. In A. Cangelosi, A. D. M. Smith & K. Smith (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language.Singapore: World Scientific Press.
• Schulz, R., Stockwell, P., Wakabayashi, M., & Wiles, J. (2006). Generalization in languages evolved for mobile robots. In L. M. Rocha, L. S. Yaeger, M. A. Bedau, D. Floreano, R. L. Goldstone & A. Vespignani (Eds.), ALIFE X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. (pp. 486-492). Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
• Wiles, J., Schulz, R., Bolland, S., Tonkes, B., & Hallinan, J. (2001). Selection procedures for module discovery: Exploring evolutionary algorithms for cognitive science. In J. D. Moore & K. Stenning (Eds), Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2001). (pp. 1124-1129). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Wiles, J., Schulz, R., Hallinan, J., Bolland, S. & Tonkes, B. (2001). Probing the persistent question marks. In L. Spector, E. Goodman, A. Wu, W. B. Langdon, H.-M. Voigt, M. Gen, S. Sen, M. Dorigo, S. Pezeshk, M. Garzon & E. Burke (Eds), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001).  (pp. 710-717). San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

Workshop Papers

• Schulz, R., Ward, B., Roberts, J., (2013). Interactions with a Museum Telepresence Robot, ICRA 2013 Workshop Human Robot Interaction (HRI) for Assistance and Industrial Robots, Scientific Knowledge, Standards and Regulatory Framework. How do I design for the real world?, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013.
• Schulz, R., Milford, M. J., Prasser, D., Wyeth, G., & Wiles, J. (2006). Learning spatial concepts from RatSLAM representations. Paper presented at “From sensors to human spatial concepts” at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing,China.