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Acknowledgment

The presented work was carried out in the connectionist research group
headed by Prof. Dr. Helge Ritter at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
First of all, I'd like to thank Helge: for introducing me to the exciting
field of learning in robotics, for his confidence when he asked me to build
up the robotics lab, for many discussions which have given me impulses,
and for his unlimited optimism which helped me to tackle a variety of
research problems. His encouragement, advice, cooperation, and support
have been very helpful to overcome small and larger hurdles.
In this context I want to mention and thank as well Prof. Dr. Gerhard
Sagerer, Bielefeld, and Prof. Dr. Sommer, Kiel, for accompanying me with
their advises during this time.
Thanks to Helge and Gerhard for refereeing this work.
Helge Ritter, Kostas Daniilidis, Ján Jokusch, Guido Menkhaus, Christof
Dücker, Dirk Schwammkrug, and Martina Hasenjäger read all or parts of
the manuscript and gave me valuable feedback. Many other colleagues
and students have contributed to this work making it an exciting and suc-
cessful time. They include Jörn Clausen, Andrea Drees, Gunther Heide-
mannn, Hartmut Holzgraefe, Ján Jockusch, Stefan Jockusch, Nils Jung-
claus, Peter Koch, Rudi Kaatz, Michael Krause, Enno Littmann, Rainer
Orth, Marc Pomplun, Robert Rae, Stefan Rankers, Dirk Selle, Jochen Steil,
Petra Udelhoven, Thomas Wengereck, and Patrick Ziemeck. Thanks to all
of them.
Last not least I owe many thanks to my Ingrid for her encouragement
and support throughout the time of this work.