Publications


A study on the predictive capabilities of digital twins for object transfers in a remanufacturing demonstration environment
Klein, J.-F.; Furmans, K.
2026. Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 97, Article no: 103063. doi:10.1016/j.rcim.2025.103063
How to deal with products in circular economy: an approach to model specific design knowledge illustrated at the example of a circular factory for angle grinders
Hemmerich, J.; Kirn, A.; Walter, G.; Wittig, C.; Grauberger, P.; Matthiesen, S.
2025. Proceedings of the Design Society, 5, 1983–1992. doi:10.1017/pds.2025.10212
From Toy Problems to Industrial Reality: The wbk Assembly Benchmark
Baumgärtner, J.; Kreft, L.; Puchta, A.; Fleischer, J.
2025, July 3. doi:10.35097/3c5yh8z8asafagby
Data-Driven Decision-Making: Leveraging Digital Twins for Reprocessing in the Circular Factory
Afifi, N.; Mas, V.; Hemmerich, J.; Leitenberger, F.; Hoffmann, L.; Darijani, A.; Grauberger, P.; Heizmann, M.; Beyerer, J.; Matthiesen, S.
2025. Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb, 120 (s1), 170–176. doi:10.1515/zwf-2024-0160
Influence of base plate preheating temperature on fatigue strength of AISI 4140 manufactured by laser powder bed fusion
Schüßler, P.; Dollhofer, B.; Krämer, C.; Englert, L.; Hinrichs, F.; Schulze, V.; Dietrich, S.
2025. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 35, 1358–1368. doi:10.1016/j.jmrt.2025.01.073
Simulating X-ray beam energy and detector signal processing of an industrial CT using implicit neural representations
Blum, E.; Burmeister, M.; Stamer, F.; Lanza, G.
2025. implicit neural representations Hrsg.: Sijbers, Jan, 30 (2). doi:10.58286/30752
Conceptual Framework for Synthetic Data Generation in Remanufacturing
Koch, D.; Stamer, F.; Lanza, G.
2025. Production at the Leading Edge of Technology : Proceedings of the 14th Congress of the German Academic Association for Production Technology (WGP), Chemnitz University of Technology, December 2024. Ed.: W.-G. Drossel, 317–325, Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-86893-1_35
Uncertainty Quantification and The Need for Better Understanding of Monte Carlo and Random Number Generation
Darijani, A.
2025. Proceedings of the 2024 Joint Workshop of Fraunhofer IOSB and Institute for Anthropomatics, Vision and Fusion Laboratory, 19–32, KIT Scientific Publishing
Enhancing Visual Inspection in Remanufacturing: A Reinforcement Learning Approach with Integrated Robot Simulation
Koch, D.; Kaiser, J.-P.; Stamer, F.; Stark, R.; Lanza, G.
2025. Procedia CIRP, 134 (1), 939–944. doi:10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.228
Laser Tracker Placement Optimization for Highly Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Goebels, M.; Baumgärtner, J.; Puchta, A.; Fleischer, J.
2025. Production at the Leading Edge of Technology. Ed.: W.-G. Drossel, 334–341, Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-86893-1_37
Methodical Approach to Instance-Specific Reliability Modeling for the Perpetual Innovative Product in the Circular Factory
Leitenberger, F.; Dörr, M.; Gwosch, T.; Matthiesen, S.
2025. ASME 2024 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) : Vol. 11: Safety Engineering, Risk and Reliability Analysis, Article: V011T14A024, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). doi:10.1115/IMECE2024-144013
TOP-ERL: Transformer-based Off-Policy Episodic Reinforcement Learning
Li, G.; Tian, D.; Zhou, H.; Jiang, X.; Lioutikov, R.; Neumann, G.
2025. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations
Unlocking the Potential of Remanufacturing Through Machine Learning and Data-Driven Models - A Survey
Kim, Y. H.; Ye, W.; Kumar, R.; Bail, F.; Dvorak, J.; Tan, Y.; May, M. C.; Chang, Q.; Athinarayanan, R.; Lanza, G.; Sutherland, J. W.; Li, X.; Nath, C.
2024. Algorithms, 17 (562), n.a. doi:10.3390/a17120562
Learning Spatial Bimanual Action Models Based on Affordance Regions and Human Demonstrations
Plonka, B. S.; Dreher, C.; Meixner, A.; Kartmann, R.; Asfour, T.
2024. 2024 IEEE-RAS 23rd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Nancy, 22nd-24th November 2024, 234–241, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/Humanoids58906.2024.10769851
Towards Video-based Activated Muscle Group Estimation in the Wild
Peng, K.; Schneider, D.; Roitberg, A.; Yang, K.; Zhang, J.; Deng, C.; Zhang, K.; Sarfraz, M. S.; Stiefelhagen, R.
2024. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 4495–4504, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi:10.1145/3664647.3680630
Skeleton-Based Human Action Recognition with Noisy Labels
Xu, Y.; Peng, K.; Wen, D.; Liu, R.; Zheng, J.; Chen, Y.; Zhang, J.; Roitberg, A.; Yang, K.; Stiefelhagen, R.
2024. 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 4716–4723, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801681
Enabling the vision of a perpetual innovative product – predicting function fulfillment of new product generations in a circular factory
Grauberger, P.; Dörr, M.; Lanza, G.; Kaiser, J.-P.; Albers, A.; Düser, T.; Tusch, L.; Seidler, M.; Dietrich, S.; Schulze, V.; Matthiesen, S.
2024. at - Automatisierungstechnik, 72 (9), 815–828. doi:10.1515/auto-2024-0010
Perpetual innovative products from circular factories for sustainable production
Lanza, G.; Martin, M.; Bretthauer, G.
2024. at - Automatisierungstechnik, 72 (9), 771–773. doi:10.1515/auto-2024-0107
The role of an ontology-based knowledge backbone in a circular factory
Hofmann, C.; Staab, S.; Selzer, M.; Neumann, G.; Furmans, K.; Heizmann, M.; Beyerer, J.; Lanza, G.; Pfrommer, J.; Düser, T.; Klein, J.-F.
2024. at - Automatisierungstechnik, 72 (9), 875–883. doi:10.1515/auto-2024-0006
Self-learning and autonomously adapting manufacturing equipment for the circular factory
Fleischer, J.; Zanger, F.; Schulze, V.; Neumann, G.; Stricker, N.; Furmans, K.; Pfrommer, J.; Lanza, G.; Hansjosten, M.; Fischmann, P.; Dvorak, J.; Klein, J.-F.; Rauscher, F.; Ebner, A.; May, M. C.; Gönnheimer, P.
2024. at - Automatisierungstechnik, 72 (9), 861–874. doi:10.1515/auto-2024-0005
Learning human actions from complex manipulation tasks and their transfer to robots in the circular factory = Erlernen menschlicher Handlungen aus komplexen Manipulationsaufgaben und deren Übertragung auf Roboter in einer Kreislauffabrik
Zaremski, M.; Handwerker, B.; Dreher, C. R. G.; Leven, F.; Schneider, D.; Roitberg, A.; Stiefelhagen, R.; Neumann, G.; Heizmann, M.; Asfour, T.; Deml, B.
2024. at - Automatisierungstechnik, 72 (9), 844–860. doi:10.1515/auto-2024-0008
The vision of the circular factory for the perpetual innovative product
Lanza, G.; Deml, B.; Matthiesen, S.; Martin, M.; Brützel, O.; Hörsting, R.
2024. at - Automatisierungstechnik, 72 (9), 774–788. doi:10.1515/auto-2024-0012
Managing uncertainty in product and process design for the circular factory
Heizmann, M.; Beyerer, J.; Dietrich, S.; Hoffmann, L.; Kaiser, J.-P.; Lanza, G.; Roitberg, A.; Stiefelhagen, R.; Stricker, N.; Wexel, H.; Zanger, F.
2024. at - Automatisierungstechnik, 72 (9), 829–843. doi:10.1515/auto-2024-0009
Multi-Objective Mathematical Optimization in Assisted Production Planning
Schäfer, L.; Tse, S.; May, M. C.; Lanza, G.
2024. EurOMA - Transforming People and Processes for a better World, Barcelona, 29.06.-04.07.2024
Circularity in product engineering – towards a forward-looking approach across product generations
Albers, A.; Tusch, L.; Jäckle, M.; Seidler, M.; Kempf, C.
2024. Proceedings of the Design Society, 4, 1 – 12. doi:10.1017/pds.2024.3
Elevating Skeleton-Based Action Recognition with Efficient Multi-Modality Self-Supervision
Wei, Y.; Peng, K.; Roitberg, A.; Zhang, J.; Zheng, J.; Liu, R.; Chen, Y.; Yang, K.; Stiefelhagen, R.
2024. ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, 14th-19th April 2024, 6040 – 6044, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447178
Referring atomic video action recognition
Peng, K.; Fu, J.; Yang, K.; Wen, D.; Chen, Y.; Liu, R.; Zheng, J.; Zhang, J.; Sarfraz, M. S.; Stiefelhagen, R.; Roitberg, A.
2024. Computer Vision – ECCV 2024. Ed.: A. Leonardis, 166–185, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-72655-2_10
Learning Symbolic and Subsymbolic Temporal Task Constraints from Bimanual Human Demonstrations
Dreher, C.; Asfour, T.
2024. 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 5160–5167, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi:10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802525
Towards Design for Cross-Generational Remanufacturing: A Literature Review and Concept Proposal
Tusch, L.; Jackle, M.; Albers, A.
2024. DS 130: Proceedings of NordDesign 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland, 12th - 14th August 2024. Ed.: J. Malmqvist, M. Candi, R. J. Sæmundsson, F. Byström, O. Isaksson, 206–215, The Design Society. doi:10.35199/NORDDESIGN2024.23
Data pipelines for product function prediction in circular factories
Hemmerich, J.; Dörr, L.; Wittig, C.; Grauberger, P.; Meyer, A.; Matthiesen, S.
2024. 35th Symposium Design for X (DFX2024), Bamberg 12th-13th September 2024. Proceedings, 105–114, The Design Society. doi:10.35199/dfx2024.11
Advancing Open-Set Domain Generalization Using Evidential Bi-Level Hardest Domain Scheduler
Peng, K.; Wen, D.; Yang, K.; Luo, A.; Chen, Y.; Fu, J.; Sarfraz, M. S.; Roitberg, A.; Stiefelhagen, R.
2024. 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)
Acquiring Diverse Skills using Curriculum Reinforcement Learning with Mixture of Experts
Celik, O.; Taranovic, A.; Neumann, G.
2024. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning. Ed.: R. Salakhutdinov, 5907–5933, PMLR
Sonderforschungsbereich 1574: Kreislauffabrik für das ewige innovative Produkt – Integrierte lineare und zirkuläre Produktion mittels hochvernetztem Produkt-Produktions-CoDesign
Lanza, G.; Klenk, F.; Martin, M.; Brützel, O.; Hörsting, R.
2023. Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb, 118 (12), 820–825. doi:10.1515/zwf-2023-1164

CRC Publications outside KIT

Predicate-Conditional Conformalized Answer Sets for Knowledge Graph Embeddings
Yuqicheng Zhu, Daniel Hernández, Yuan He, Zifeng Ding, Bo Xiong, Evgeny Kharlamov, Steffen Staab

2025. ACL (Findings) 2025: 4145-4167

 

Flexible RML-Based Mapping of Property Graphs to RDF

Ali Elhalawati, Anastasia Dimou, Olaf Hartig, Daniel Hernández

2025. EDBT/ICDT Workshops

 

A Roadmap to Create a Knowledge Graph for the Circular Factory for the Perpetual Product

Ratan Bahadur Thapa, Daniel Hernández, Nico Brandt, Jan-Felix Klein, Etienne Hoffmann, Steffen Staab, Michael Selzer, Gisela Lanza

2025. KG4S@ESWC 2025: 46-52

 

DAGE: DAG Query Answering via Relational Combinator with Logical Constraints

Eva Blomqvist, Raúl García-Castro, Daniel Hernández, Pascal Hitzler, Mikael Lindecrantz, María Poveda-Villalón

2025. Proceedings of The 3rd International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability (KG4S 2025) co-located with the 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2025), Portoroz, Slovenia, June 1st, 2025. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 4002, CEUR-WS.org 2025