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Lars Karlsson

Title: Professor School/office: School of Science and Technology

Email: lars.karlsson@oru.se

Phone: +46 19 303355

Room: T2229

Research subject

Computer Science

Research environments

Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS)

About Lars Karlsson

Lars Karlsson is a professor in computer science within the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) at the Schoool of Science and Technology. He is also head of unit for the Centre.

He does research about robotics and artificial intelligence with a focus on planning. This includes how a robot can combine task and motion planning, how a network of sensors and robots can be configured to solve a task, and how robots can adapt their plans to human activities.

Lars Karlsson teaches the course Software engineering for MSc in engineering.

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Research teams

Cognitive Robotic Systems Lab

Publications

Articles in journals

Alirezaie, M. , Renoux, J. , Köckemann, U. , Kristoffersson, A. , Karlsson, L. , Blomqvist, E. , Tsiftes, N. , Voigt, T. & et al. (2017). An Ontology-based Context-aware System for Smart Homes: E-care@home. Sensors, 17 (7).
Bidot, J. , Karlsson, L. , Lagriffoul, F. & Saffiotti, A. (2017). Geometric backtracking for combined task and motion planning in robotic systems. Artificial Intelligence, 247, 229-265.
Andreasson, H. , Bouguerra, A. , Cirillo, M. , Dimitrov, D. N. , Driankov, D. , Karlsson, L. , Lilienthal, A. J. , Pecora, F. & et al. (2015). Autonomous transport vehicles: where we are and what is missing. IEEE robotics & automation magazine, 22 (1), 64-75.
d. C. Silva-Lopez, L. S. , Broxvall, M. , Loutfi, A. & Karlsson, L. (2015). Towards configuration planning with partially ordered preferences: representation and results. Künstliche Intelligenz, 9 (2), 173-183.
Lagriffoul, F. , Dimitrov, D. , Bidot, J. , Saffiotti, A. & Karlsson, L. (2014). Efficiently combining task and motion planning using geometric constraints. The international journal of robotics research, 33 (14), 1726-1747.
Palumbo, F. , Ullberg, J. , Stimec, A. , Furfari, F. , Karlsson, L. & Coradeschi, S. (2014). Sensor Network Infrastructure for a Home Care Monitoring System. Sensors, 14 (3), 3833-3860.
Cirillo, M. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2012). Human-aware planning for robots embedded in ambient ecologies. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 8 (4), 542-561.
Längkvist, M. , Karlsson, L. & Loutfi, A. (2012). Sleep stage classification using unsupervised feature learning. Advances in Artificial Neural Systems, 107046.
Cirillo, M. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2010). Human-aware task planning: an application to mobile robots. ACM transactions on interactive intelligent systems, 1 (2), Article 15.
Lundh, R. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2008). Autonomous functional configuration of a network robot system. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 56 (10), 819-830.
Bouguerra, A. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2008). Monitoring the execution of robot plans using semantic knowledge. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 56 (11), 942-954.
Karlsson, L. , Bouguerra, A. , Broxvall, M. , Coradeschi, S. & Saffiotti, A. (2008). To secure an anchor: a recovery planning approach to ambiguity in perceptual anchoring. AI Communications, 21 (1), 1-14.
Pettersson, O. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2007). Model-Free Execution Monitoring in Behavior-Based Robotics. IEEE transactions on systems, man and cybernetics. Part B. Cybernetics, 37 (4), 890-901.
Loutfi, A. , Broxvall, M. , Coradeschi, S. & Karlsson, L. (2005). Object recognition: a new application for smelling robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 52 (4), 272-289.
Bouguerra, A. & Karlsson, L. (2005). PC-SHOP: a probabilstic-conditional hierarchical task planner. Intelligenza Artificiale, 2 (4), 44-50.

Articles, reviews/surveys

Längkvist, M. , Karlsson, L. & Loutfi, A. (2014). A review of unsupervised feature learning and deep learning for time-series modeling. Pattern Recognition Letters, 42 (1), 11-24.

Chapters in books

Lundh, R. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2007). Dynamic self-configuration of an ecology of robots. In: Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007. IROS 2007. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on (pp. 3409-3415). NEW YORK: IEEE.
Bouguerra, A. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2007). Handling uncertainty in semantic-knowledge based execution monitoring. In: Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007. IROS 2007. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Oct. 29 2007-Nov. 2 2007 (pp. 443-449). NEW YORK: IEEE.

Conference papers

Köckemann, U. , Alirezaie, M. , Karlsson, L. & Loutfi, A. (2018). Integrating Ontologies for Context-based Constraint-based Planning. In: MRC 2018 Modelling and Reasoning in Context. Paper presented at Tenth InternationalWorkshop Modelling and Reasoning in Context (MRC), Stockholm, Sweden, July 13, 2018 (pp. 22-29).
Köckemann, U. & Karlsson, L. (2017). Configuration Planning with Temporal Constraints. In: Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17). Paper presented at Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), San Francisco, California, USA, February 4-9, 2017. AAAI Press.
Renoux, J. , Alirezaie, M. , Karlsson, L. , Köckemann, U. , Pecora, F. & Loutfi, A. (2017). Context Recognition in Multiple Occupants Situations: Detecting the Number of Agents in a Smart Home Environment with Simple Sensors. In: Knowledge-based techniques for problem solving and reasoning(KnowProS 2017) A workshop at AAAI 2017, February 5, 2017, San Francisco, U.S.A.. Paper presented at Workshop on Knowledge-Based Techniques for Problem Solving and Reasoning (KnowProS’17) (pp. 758-764). Palo Alto: AAAI Press.
Loutfi, A. , Jönsson, A. , Karlsson, L. , Lind, L. , Lindén, M. , Pecora, F. & Voigt, T. (2016). Ecare@Home: A Distributed Research Environment on Semantic Interoperability. In: Internet of Things Technologies for HealthCare. HealthyIoT 2016. Paper presented at The 3rd EAI International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare (HealthyIoT), Västerås, Sweden, October 18-19, 2016 (pp. 3-8). Springer.
Eriksen, N. , Hilmerby, S. , Johansson, M. , Karlsson, L. & Loutfi, A. (2016). Starting from Scratch: Implementing CDIO in a new Master of Science in Engineering. Paper presented at NU 2016, Malmö, Sweden, June 15-17, 2016.
Köckemann, U. , Pecora, F. & Karlsson, L. (2015). Inferring Context and Goals for Online Human-Aware Planning. In: International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI). Paper presented at 27th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Vietri sul Mare, Italy, November 9-11, 2015 (pp. 550-557). IEEE Computer Society.
Köckemann, U. , Pecora, F. & Karlsson, L. (2014). Grandpa Hates Robots - Interaction Constraints for Planning in Inhabited Environments. In: Proceedings of the 28th National Conference on Artifical Intelligence (AAAI 2014). Paper presented at 28th National Conference on Artifical Intelligence July 27–31, 2014 in Québec City, Québec, Canada (pp. 2293-2299). AAAI Press.
Lagriffoul, F. , Karlsson, L. , Bidot, J. & Saffiotti, A. (2013). Combining Task and Motion Planning is Not Always a Good Idea. Paper presented at 2013 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (Workshop "Combined Robot Motion Planning and AI Planning for Practical Applications").
Köckemann, U. , Pecora, F. & Karlsson, L. (2013). Expressive Planning Through Constraints. In: Manfred Jaeger, Thomas Dyhre Nielsen, Paolo Viappiani, Twelfth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Paper presented at Twelfth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 20th to 22nd of November, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark (pp. 155-164). IOS Press.
Coradeschi, S. , Cesta, A. , Cortellessa, G. , Coraci, L. , Gonzalez, J. , Karlsson, L. , Furfari, F. , Loutfi, A. & et al. (2013). GiraffPlus: combining social interaction and long term monitoring for promoting independent living. In: 2013 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN SYSTEM INTERACTIONS (HSI). Paper presented at 6th International Conference on Human System Interactions (HSI), JUN 06-08, 2013, Gdansk, POLAND (pp. 578-585). New York:
Silva-Lopez, L. S. d. C. , Ullberg, J. & Karlsson, L. (2013). On combining a context recognition system and a configuration planner for personalised ambient assisted living. In: Juan Carlos Augusto, Reiner Wichert, Rem Collier, David Keyson, Ali Salah, and Ah-Hwee Tan, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Paper presented at Fourth International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence AmI-2013. Örebro: Örebro universitet.
Karlsson, L. , Bidot, J. , Lagriffoul, F. , Saffiotti, A. , Hillenbrand, U. & Schmidt, F. (2012). Combining task and path planning for a humanoid two-arm robotic system. In: Marcello Cirillo, Brian Gerkey, Federico Pecora, Mike Stilman, TAMPRA 2012 Proceedings of the Workshop on Combining Task and Motion Planning for Real-World Applications. Paper presented at 2012 TAMPRA Workshop, June 26, 2012, Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil (pp. 13-20).
Lagriffoul, F. , Dimitrov, D. , Saffiotti, A. & Karlsson, L. (2012). Constraint propagation on interval bounds for dealing with geometric backtracking. In: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012). Paper presented at 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)OCT 07-12, 2012, Algarve, Spain (pp. 957-964). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Lagriffoul, F. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2012). Constraints on intervals for reducing the search space of geometric configurations. In: Marcello Cirillo, Brian Gerkey, Federico Pecora, Mike Stilman, Combining Task and Motion Planning for Real-World Applications (ICAPS workshop). Paper presented at 2012 TAMPRA Workshop, June 26, 2012, Atibaia, São Paulo, Brazil (pp. 5-12).
Karlsson, L. , Bidot, J. , Lagriffoul, F. , Saffiotti, A. , Hillenbrand, U. & Schmidt, F. (2012). Progress and challenges in planning for a two-arm robot. Paper presented at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-12, 2012.
Köckemann, U. , Pecora, F. & Karlsson, L. (2012). Towards planning with very expressive languages via problem decomposition into multiple CSPs. In: Miguel A. Salido; Roman Barták, Coplas 2012 proceedings of the workshop on constraint satisfaction techniques for planning and scheduling problems. Paper presented at Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems (COPLAS), (ICAPS workshop), Atibaia, Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 25-29, 2012 (pp. 33-42).
Cirillo, M. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2009). A human-aware robot task planner. In: Alfonso Gerevini, Adele Howe, Amedeo Cesta, Ioannis Refanidis, Proceedings of the 19th international conference on automated planning and scheduling, ICAPS 2009. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2009, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 19-23 (pp. 58-65). Menlo Park: AAAI press.
Cirillo, M. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2009). Human-aware task planning for mobile robots. In: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on advanced robotics, ICAR 2009. Paper presented at International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2009, 22-26 June, Munic (pp. 172-178). New York: IEEE conference proceedings.
Klügl, F. & Karlsson, L. (2009). Towards Pattern-Oriented Design of Agent-Based Simulation Models. In: Braubach, L; VanderHoek, W; Petta, P; Pokahr, A, MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES, PROCEEDINGS. Paper presented at 7th German Conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies, SEP 09-11, 2009, Hamburg, GERMANY (pp. 41-53). Berlin, Germany: Springer.
Cirillo, M. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2008). A framework for human-aware robot planning. In: A. Holst, P. Kreuger, P. Funk, Tenth Scandinavian conference on artificial intelligence. Paper presented at 10th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2008), Stockholm, Sweden (pp. 52-59). Amsterdam: IOS press.
Lundh, R. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2008). Automatic configuration of multi-robot systems: planning for multiple steps. In: Malik Ghallab, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, Nikos Fakotakis, Nikos Avouris, Proceeding of the 2008 conference on ECAI 2008 18th European conference on artificial intelligence. Paper presented at 18th European conference on artificial intelligence (pp. 616-620). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
Lundh, R. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2008). Automatic configuration of multi-robot systems: planning for multiple steps. In: ECAI 2008, PROCEEDINGS. Paper presented at 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, JUL 21-25, 2008, Patras, GREECE (pp. 616-620).
Bouguerra, A. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2007). Active execution monitoring using planning and semantic knowledge. In: Proc. of the ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Plan Execution for Real-World Systems, Providence, RI, 2007. Paper presented at ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Plan Execution for Real-World Systems, Providence, RI, 2007 (pp. 9-15).
Lundh, R. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2007). Dynamic self-configuration of an ecology of robots. In: IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems, 2007. IROS 2007. Paper presented at IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems, 2007. IROS 2007 - 29 Oct-1 Nov 2007 - San Diego CA (pp. 3403-3409).
Bouguerra, A. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2007). Handling uncertainty in semantic-knowledge based execution monitoring. In: IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems, IROS 2007 San Diego, CA, 2007. Paper presented at IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems, IROS 2007, Oct 29 - Nov 2, San Diego, CA (pp. 437-443). New York: IEEE.
Lundh, R. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2007). Plan-based configuration of an ecology of robots. In: 2007 IEEE international conference on robotics and automation. Paper presented at 2007 IEEE international conference on robotics and automation, ICRA 2007 - 10-14 April 2007 - Rome Italy (pp. 64-70).
Bouguerra, A. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2007). Semantic knowledge-based execution monitoring for mobile robots. In: 2007 IEEE international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA). Paper presented at 2007 IEEE international conference on robotics and automation ICRA 2007 - 10-14 April 2007 Rome, Italy (pp. 3693-3698).
Lundh, R. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2006). Plan-based configuration of a group of robots. In: Gerhard Brewka, Silvia Coradeschi, Anna Perini, Paolo Traverso, 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). Paper presented at 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Riva del Garda, Italy, August 29 - September 1 2006 (pp. 683-692). IOS Press.
Bouguerra, A. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2006). Situation assessment for sensor-based recovery planning. In: Gerhard Brewka, Silvia Coradeschi, Anna Perini, Paolo Traverso, 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). Paper presented at 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Riva del Garda, Italy, August 29 - September 1 2006 (pp. 673-677). IOS Press.
Lundh, R. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2005). Can Emil help Pippi?. Paper presented at ICRA-05 Workshop on Cooperative Robotics, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.
Pettersson, O. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2005). Model-free execution monitoring by learning from simulation. In: 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation CIRA 2005. Paper presented at 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2005 (pp. 505-511).
Loutﬁ, A. , Coradeschi, S. , Karlsson, L. & Broxvall, M. (2005). Putting olfaction into action: anchoring symbols to sensor data using olfaction and planning. In: Workshop on planning and learning in a priori unknown or dynamic domains Proceedings of the 19th IJCAI conference Edinburgh, UK, August 2005. Paper presented at 19th IJCAI conference, Edinburgh, UK, August 2005 (pp. 35-40).
Broxvall, M. , Coradeschi, S. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2005). Recovery planning for ambiguous cases in perceptual anchoring. In: Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence, AAAI-05 volume 3. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 20th national conference on Artificial intelligence, AAAI-05, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (pp. 1254-1260).
Bouguerra, A. & Karlsson, L. (2005). Symbolic probabilistic-conditional plans execution by a mobile robot. Paper presented at IJCAI Workshop Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics, Edinburgh, UK, August 2005.
Bouguerra, A. & Karlsson, L. (2005). Synthesizing plans for multiple domains. In: Jean-Daniel Zucker, Lorenza Saitta, Abstraction, reformulation and approximation Proceedings of the 6th international symposium, SARA 2005. Paper presented at 6th international symposium, SARA 2005, Airth castle, Scotland UK, July 26-29 2005 (pp. 30-43). Springer Berlin/Heidelberg.
Lundh, R. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2004). Dynamic configuration of a team of robots. In: Proceedings of the ECAI-04 workshop on agents in dynamic and real-time environments. Paper presented at ECAI-04 Workshop on Agents in Dynamic and Real-Time Environments, Valencia, Spain, 2004 (pp. 57-62).
Broxvall, M. , Coradeschi, S. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2004). Have another look on failures and recovery planning in perceptual anchoring. Paper presented at ECAI-04 Workshop on Cognitive Robotics, Valencia, Spain, 2004.
Bouguerra, A. & Karlsson, L. (2004). Hierarchical task planning under uncertainty. Paper presented at The 3rd Italian Workshop on Planning and Scheduling, Perugia, Italy, 2004.
Loutﬁ, A. , Coradeschi, S. , Karlsson, L. & Broxvall, M. (2004). Putting olfaction into action: using an electronic nose on an multi-sensing mobile robot. In: Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS 2004). Paper presented at The 2004 IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS 2004), Sendai, Japan, 28 Sept.-2 Oct (pp. 337-342).
Broxvall, M. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2004). Steps toward detecting and recovering from perceptual failures. In: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on intelligent autonomous systems. Paper presented at 8th international conference on intelligent autonomous systems, IAS, Amsterdam (pp. 793-800).
Pettersson, O. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2003). Model-free execution monitoring in behavior-based mobile robotics. Paper presented at The 11th Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics, ICAR - Coimbra, PT, 2003.
Karlsson, L. & Schiavinotto, T. (2002). Progressive planning for mobile robots: a progress report. In: Michael Beetz, Joachim Hertzberg, Malik Ghallab, Martha E. Pollack, Advances in Plan-Based Control of Robotic Agents. Paper presented at International Seminar on Advances in Plan-Based Control of Robotic Agents, Dagstuhl castle, Germany, October 21-26, 2001 (pp. 273-297).
Pettersson, O. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2002). Steps towards model-free execution monitoring on mobile robots. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Swedish workshop on autonomous robots. Paper presented at 2nd Swedish workshop on autonomous robots, SWAR Stockholm, Sweden, 2002 (pp. 45-52).
Karlsson, L. (2001). Conditional progressive planning under uncertainty. Paper presented at 17th IJCAI, Seattle, 2001.
Coradeschi, S. , Driankov, D. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2001). Fuzzy anchoring. In: The 10th IEEE international conference on fuzzy systems. Paper presented at The 10th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 2001 (pp. 111-114).

Manuscripts

Längkvist, M. , Loutfi, A. & Karlsson, L. Selective attention auto-encoder for automatic sleep staging.
Bidot, J. , Karlsson, L. , Lagriffoul, F. & Saffiotti, A. Geometric backtracking for combined task and path planning in robotic systems.

Reports

Lundh, R. , Karlsson, L. & Saffiotti, A. (2007). An algorithm for generating configurations of groups of robots. Örebro: Örebro university (Studies from the Department of Technology at Örebro University ).