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  Journal and book publications

authors in alphabetical order for authors from Umeå University until 2012

 

 

A software framework for agricultural and forestry robots
Thomas Hellström, Ola Ringdahl. Industrial Robot, Industrial Robot, 40(1): 20-26, 2013.

 

On the moral responsibility of military robots
Thomas Hellström. Ethics and Information Technology (ETIN). September 2012.

 

Estimating wheel slip for a forest machine using RTK-DGPS
Ola Ringdahl, Iwan Wästerlund, Thomas Hellström, and Ola Lindroos. Journal of Terramechanics. 49(5): 271-279, 2012.

 

Potentials of possible machine systems for directly loading logs in cut-to-length harvesting
Ola Ringdahl, Thomas Hellström, and Ola Lindroos. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 42(5):970-985, 2012.

 

Path tracking in forest terrain by an autonomous forwarder
Ola Ringdahl, Ola Lindroos, Thomas Hellström, Dan Bergström, Dimitris Athanassiadis, and Tomas Nordfjell. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 26(4), pp.350–359, 2011.

 

Robot Learning from Demonstration using Predictive Sequence Learning
Erik A. Billing, Thomas Hellström, and Lars-Erik Janlert. In A. Dutta, editor, Robotic Systems - Applications, Control and Programming, Tech Open Access, 2011.

 

A Formalism for Learning from Demonstration
Erik A. Billing , Thomas Hellström, PALADYN Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 1(1), pp.1-13, 2010.

 

Real-time path planning using a simulator-in-the-loop
Thomas Hellstrom, Ola Ringdahl, International Journal of Vehicles Autonomous Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1/2, pp. 56-72, 2009.

 

Autonomous Forest Vehicles – Historic, envisioned and state-of-the-art
Thomas Hellstrom, Pär Lärkeryd, Tomas Nordfjell and Ola Ringdahl, Journal for Forest Engineering, Vol. 20, No.1, pp.31-38, 2009.

 

Autonomous Forest Machines - Techniques and Algorithms for Unmanned Vehicles
Ola Ringdahl, Thomas Hellström, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 148 pages, 2008.

 

Development of an Autonomous Forest Machine for Path Tracking

Thomas Hellstrom, Thomas Johansson and Ola Ringdahl, Field and Service Robotics, Results of the 5th International Conference Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics , Vol. 25, Corke, Peter; Sukkarieh, Salah (Eds.), pp. 603-614, 2006.

 

Follow the Past - a Path Tracking Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicles
Thomas Hellstrom, Ola Ringdahl, International Journal of Vehicles Autonomous Systems, Vol. 4, Nos. 2-4, pp. 216-224, 2006.

 

Requirements and system design for a robot performing selective cleaning in young forest stands

Karin Vestlund, Thomas Hellstrom, Journal of Terramechanics, Volume 43, Issue 4, October 2006, pp. 505-525.

 

Optimization of fuel consumption at large ferries
Thomas Hellstrom, Schiff und Hafen, Seewirtschaft, June, 2005.

 

Optimal Pitch, Speed and Fuel Control at Sea
Thomas Hellstrom, Journal of Marine Science and Technology, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 71-77, 2004.

 

A Statistical Study of Ion Energization at 1700 km in the  Auroral Region
M. Hamrin, Thomas Hellstrom, P. Norqvist, M. André, A.I. Eriksson. Annales Geophysicae,20:1943-1958, 2002.

 

Trends and Calendar Effects in Stock Returns
Thomas Hellstrom, Australian Technical Analysts Association ATAA Journal, Sept-Oct 2002.

 

Global Optimization of Costly Nonconvex Functions, with Financial Applications
Thomas Hellstrom, K.Holmström, Theory of Stochastic Processes, 2001.

 

Techniques and Software for Development and Evaluation of Trading Strategies
Thomas Hellstrom, ISBN 91-7305-023-7, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computing Science. Umeå University Sweden 2001.

 

Optimization of Trading Rules with a Penalty Term for Increased Risk-Adjusted Performance

Thomas Hellstrom, Advanced Modeling and Optimization, 2(3):135-149, 2000.

 

Outlier Removal for Prediction of Covariance Matrices with an Application to Portfolio Optimization
Thomas Hellstrom, Theory of Stochastic Processes, 6(22)(3-4):47-63, 2000.

 

Predicting a Rank Measure for Stock Returns
Thomas Hellstrom, Theory of Stochastic Processes, 6(22)(3-4):64-83, 2000.

 

The Relevance of Trends for Prediction of Stock Returns
Thomas Hellstrom, K.Holmström, International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance & Management , 9(1):23-34, 2000.

 

ASTA - a Tool for Development of Stock Prediction Algorithms
Thomas Hellstrom, Theory of Stochastic Processes, 5(21)(1-2):22-32, 1999.

 

Data Snooping in the Stock Market
Thomas Hellstrom, Theory of Stochastic Processes, 5(21)(1-2):33-50, 1999.

 

A Random Walk through the Stock Market
Thomas Hellstrom, UMINF-98.16 ISSN-0348-0542, Licentiate thesis, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 1998.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conference proceedings  

 

 

 

Towards Goal Based Architecture Design for Learning High-Level Representation of Behaviors from Demonstration

Benjamin Fonooni, Thomas Hellström, and Lars-Erik Janlert, 2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA): 67-74, 2013.

 

A software framework for agricultural and forestry robotics

Thomas Hellström and Ola Ringdahl. In Proceedings of First International Conference on Robotics and associated High-technologies and Equipment for Agriculture (RHEA-2012), Pisa, Italy, September 19-20-21, 2012.

 

Integrating Kinect Depth Data with a Stochastic Object Classification Framework for Forestry Robots

Mostafa Pordel, Thomas Hellström, and Ahmad Ostovar. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics ICINCO, Rome, Italy, July 28-31, 2012.

 

Learning high-level behaviors from demonstration through semantic networks

Benjamin Fonooni, Thomas Hellström, and Lars-Erik Janlert. In Proceedings from 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2012.

 

Predictive learning from demonstration
Erik A. Billing, Thomas Hellström, and Lars-Erik Janlert. In Ana Fred Joaquim Filipe and Bernadette Sharp, editors, Agents and artificial Intelligence: Revised Selected Papers, volume 129 of Communications in Computer and Information Science, pages 186–200. Springer, 2011.

 

On ambiguity in robot learning from demonstration

Suna Bensch and Thomas Hellström. In Henrik I. Christensen, Frans Groen, and Emil Petriu, editors, Intelligent Autonomous Systems 11 - IAS-11, pages 47– 56. 2010.

 

Behavior recognition for learning from demonstration
Erik A. Billing, Thomas Hellström, and Lars-Erik Janlert. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), pages 866–872, Anchorage, Alaska, 2010.

 

Parameterized Sensor Model and an Approach for Measuring Goodness of Robotic Maps
Y. Arafat, T. Hellstrom, and J. Rashid.  In Proc. of the 15th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA 2010).
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2010.

 

Path tracking for autonomous forwarders in forest terrain

Dimitris Athanassiadis, Dan Bergström, Thomas Hellström, Ola Lindroos, Tomas Nordfjell and Ola Ringdahl. In proceedings of the International Precision Forestry Symposium, Stellenbosch, South Africa, pp. 42-43, 2010.

 

Model-Free Learning from Demonstration
Billing, E. A., Hellström, T and Janlert, L. E.
  In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Valencia, Spain, January 22-24, 2010. Best Student Paper Award

 

A simulator driven path planner for autonomous off-road vehicles – initial results
Thomas Hellström and Ola Ringdahl. In Proceedings of the Israel Conference on Robotics (ICR08), Herzliya,  8 pages, 2008.

 

A Java-based Middleware for Control and Sensing in Mobile Robotics
Thomas Hellström, Thomas Johansson and Ola Ringdahl.
International Conference on Intelligent Automation and Robotics 2008 (ICIAR´08), San Francisco USA, pp. 649-654, 2008.

 

Visual Tree Detection for Autonomous Navigation in Forest Environment  
Wajid Ali.
Fredrik Georgsson, Thomas Hellstrom, IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Eindhoven, Holland, pp. 560-565, 2008.

 

Behavior recognition for segmentation of demonstrated tasks
Erik Billing and Thomas Hellstrom, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Human-Machine Systems,
Athens, Greece, pp. 228-234, 2008.

 

Voice User Interface in Robotics - Common Issues and Problem
Thomas Hellstrom, Shafkat Kibria. Proceedings of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland Chapter 6th Conference on Cybernetic Systems , September 6-7, 2007 University College Dublin, Ireland, pp. 69-73, 2007.

 

Behavior and Task Learning from Demonstration
Erik Billing. Thomas Hellstrom, Proceedings from the 23rd Annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS06), page 151, 2006.

 

An Ecological Framework for Evolutionary Robotics
Thomas Hellstrom, Fabian Lagriffoul. Proceedings from the 23rd Annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS06), page 153, 2006.

 

Autonomous navigation in forest environment
Thomas Hellstrom, Ola Ringdahl. Proceedings from the 23rd Annual workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society (SAIS06), page 155, 2006.

 

Path tracking and localization techniques for forest environment
Thomas Hellstrom, Ola Ringdahl, and Arsalan Siddiqui. In Proceedings of the Israel Conference on Robotics (ICR06), Tel Aviv, 8 pages, 2006.

 

Follow the Past - A Path Tracking Method Using Recorded Orientation and Steering Commands
Thomas Hellstrom, Ola Ringdahl. In Proceedings of 3rd Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics 2005 (SWAR'05), p10-11, Stockholm 2005.

 

A software infrastructure for sensors, actuators, and communication
Thomas Hellstrom, Thomas Johansson. In Proceedings of 3rd Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics 2005 (SWAR'05), p48-49, Stockholm 2005.

 

Development of an Autonomous Path Tracking Forest Machine
Thomas Hellstrom, Thomas Johansson, Ola Ringdahl, Fredrik Georgsson Kalle Prorok and Urban Sandström, Proceedings from 5th Int. Conf. on Field and Service Robotics (FSR05) , Port Douglas, p404-415, 2005.

 

Autonomous Path Tracking Using Recorded Orientation and Steering Commands
Thomas Hellstrom, Ola Ringdahl. Proceedings of the TAROS (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems) intl. conference, p81-88, ISBN 0-905247-03-5, London, 2005.

 

Teaching a Robot to Behave like a Cockroach
Thomas Hellstrom, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts in Hatfield UK, p54-61, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, 2005.

 

Learning Robotic Behaviors with Association Rules
Thomas Hellstrom, WSEAS transactions on systems. Editor: Nikos Mastorakis. ISBN 1109-2777. 2003.

 

Three Levels of Fuel Optimization at Sea
Thomas Hellstrom, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Technology in the Marine Industries (COMPIT'2003), Hamburg, April 2003.

 

Post processing trading signals for improved trading performance
Thomas Hellstrom, Luis Torgo, In A. Zanasi, C. A. Brebbia, N. F. F. E. Ebecken, P. Melli (editors), Data Mining III, pages 437-447, WIT Press, 2002.

 

Optimizing the Sharpe Ratio for a Rank Based Trading System
Thomas Hellstrom, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNA 2258), Springer Verlag, 2001.

 

A Rank Based Decision Support System for Stock Picking
Thomas Hellstrom, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence IC-AI’2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 25-28,2001.

 

Optimization of Trading Rules with a Penalty Term
Thomas Hellstrom, Proceedings, Computational Intelligence: Methods and Applications (CIMA 2001), University of Wales, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom, June 19-22, 2001.

 

Parameter Tuning in Trading Algorithms using ASTA
Thomas Hellstrom, K.Holmström, In Y.S. Abu-Mostafa, B.LeBaron, A.W. Lo, and A.S. Weigend (Editors), Computational Finance 1999, p343-357, MIT Press, 1999.

 

Relevance of Trends for Prediction of Stock Returns
Thomas Hellstrom, K.Holmström, Workshop Notes from the Application of Machine Learning and Data Mining in Finance at the 10th European Conference on Machine Learning, , Chemnitz, Germany, April 20-24, 1998. E. Steurer, Ed., Chemnitz University of Technology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Technical reports  

 

An intelligent rollator with steering by braking

Thomas Hellström. UMINF-12.19, ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, 2012. 8 pages.

 

Simultaneous control and recognition of demonstrated behavior

Erik A. Billing, Thomas Hellström, and Lars-Erik Janlert. UMINF-11.15, ISSN- 0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, 22 pages, 2011.

 

Attention and Cognitive Control in Humans, Animals and Intelligent Systems

Thomas Hellström, UMINF-09.16, ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 27 pages, 2009.

 

Imitation and Priming in Humans, Animals and Machines
Thomas Hellström UMINF-09.17, ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 19 pages, 2009.

 

Formalising Learning from Demonstration
Erik Billing, Thomas Hellstrom, UMINF-08.10, ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2008.

 

Autonomous Forest Machines - Past, Present and Future
Thomas Hellstrom, Pär Lärkeryd, Tomas Nordfjell3 and Ola Ringdahl, UMINF-08.06, ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2008.

 

Path planning for off-road vehicles with a simulator-in-the-loop
Thomas Hellstrom, Ola Ringdahl, UMINF-08.07, ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2008.

 

A Software Framework for Control and Sensing in Mobile Robotics
Thomas Hellstrom, Thomas Johansson and Ola Ringdahl, UMINF-07.05, ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2007.

 

Laser-based localization of vehicles and robots in natural and unstructured environments
Thomas Hellstrom, Arsalan Siddiqui, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, September 2005.

 

Development of an Autonomous Path Tracking Forest Machine - a status report
Thomas Hellstrom, Fredrik Georgsson, Thomas Johansson, Kalle Prorok, Ola Ringdahl and Urban Sandström, UMINF-05.08 ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2005.

 

Follow The Past - a Path Tracking Algorithm for Autonomous Forest Vehicles
Thomas Hellstrom, Ola Ringdahl, UMINF-04.11 ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2004.

 

Association Rules for Learning Behavioral Mappings in Robotics
Thomas Hellstrom, UMINF-03.12 ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2003.

 

Autonomous Navigation for Forest Machines – a Pre-Study
Thomas Hellstrom, UMINF-02.13 ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2002.

 

Optimizing Control at Sea - The Experience of the Seapacer Project
Thomas Hellstrom, UMINF-02.08 ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2002.

 

Outlier Removal for Prediction of Covariance Matrices with an Application to Portfolio Optimization
Thomas Hellstrom, UMINF-00.19 ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2000

 

Predicting a Rank Measure for Portfolio Selection
Thomas Hellstrom, UMINF-00.18 ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2000.

 

CLS - a Work  Bench for Classification Algorithms
Thomas Hellstrom, UMINF-00.17 ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2000.

 

ASTA - User's Reference Guide
Thomas Hellstrom, UMINF-00.16 ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 2000.

 

ASTA - a Test bench and Development Tool for Trading Algorithms

Thomas Hellstrom, UMINF 98.12 ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 1998.

 

Predictable Patterns in Stock Returns

Thomas Hellstrom, K.Holmström. Opuscula ISRN HEV-BIB-OP-30-SE 30 (1998), Mälardalen University. Technical Report IMa-TOM-1997-09, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Mälardalen University, Sweden.

 

ASTA - A Test Bench and Development Tool for Trading Algorithms
Thomas Hellstrom, K.Holmström.
Opuscula ISRN HEV-BIB-OP-26-SE 26 (1998), Department of Mathematics and Physics, Mälardalen University, Sweden.

 

Parameter Tuning in Trading Algorithms using ASTA
Thomas Hellstrom, K.Holmström.
Opuscula ISRN HEV-BIB-OP-26-SE 26 (1998), Department of Mathematics and Physics, Mälardalen University, Sweden.

 

The Relevance of Trends for Prediction of Stock Returns

Thomas Hellstrom, K.Holmström. Opuscula ISRN HEV-BIB-OP-26-SE 26 (1998), IMa- TOM-1998-02, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Mälardalen University, Sweden.

 

Predicting the Stock Market

Thomas Hellstrom, K.Holmström. Opuscula ISRN HEV-BIB-OP-26-SE 26 (1998), IMa-TOM-1997-07, Department

of Mathematics and Physics, Mälardalen University, Sweden.

 

EISCAT Experiment Preparation Manual
Thomas Hellstrom, A Farmer, B Tørustad.
European Incoherent Scattering Facility Tromsö Norway 1982.

 

Plös-Eva - a Tiny Interpreter for Predicate Logic
Thomas Hellstrom, ISBN-0348-0542 Dept. of Information Processing University of Umeå Sweden 1981.

 

 

 

 

 Teaching and commercial papers   

 

 

Kinematics Equations for Differential Drive and Articulated Steering

Thomas Hellström, UMINF-11.19, ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 12 pages, 2011.

 

Robot Navigation with Potential Fields

Thomas Hellström, UMINF-11.18, ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing

Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 19 pages, 2011.

 

Biological Foundations of Robot Behavior

Thomas Hellström, UMINF-11.17, ISSN-0348-0542, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, 18 pages, 2011.

 

Tutorial Neural Networks
Computational Intelligence (inductive learning, data mining, neural networks)

Seapacer User's Guide
Top-level control computer for speed optimization on ferries (e.g.: Stena Line, TT Line, EstLine).
Seapacer AB 1999.

SeaPatrol User's Guide
Patrolling system for shipping. (TT Line, EstLine). Seapacer AB 2000.

Yacas User's Guide
Call accounting system for marine telephone systems (Star Cruise Ltd,
Malaysia). Seapacer AB 1996.

SeaRep User's Guide
Registration and report system for telephone-based error report handling on ferries. (Silja Line). Seapacer AB 2002.

SeaClean User's Guide
Registration and report system for telephone-based ordering system for cabin cleaning on ferries.
(Silja Line). Seapacer AB 1998.

 

 

 

 

Description:  newspaper Popular science and media   

 

Rätt att döda
Thomas Hellström, Forskning & Framsteg Nr.5/6-2012, pp.26-29.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Styrutrustning för hjulförsett gånghjälpmedel

Thomas Hellström, Swedish patent SE535373 July 10, 2012.