Autonomous Motion
News
14-12-2018
Launch of Playful, a success
The robotic behavior orchestration software is now available to academia and industry.
Vincent Berenz
Autonomous Motion
News
28-09-2018
Finalist Amazon Robotics Best Paper Awards
AMD is one of three finalists for the Best Systems Paper
Our paper on “Real-time Perception meets Reactive Motion Generation” was considered for the 2018 Amazon Robotics Best Paper Awards in Manipulation. Amazon Robotics selected our paper as one of three Finalists for Best Systems Paper. They received so many high quality submissions and wanted to acknowledge your paper as one of the best.
Daniel Kappler
Franzi Meier
Jan Issac
Jim Mainprice
Cristina Garcia Cifuentes
Manuel Wüthrich
Vincent Berenz
Stefan Schaal
Nathan Ratliff
Jeannette Bohg
Autonomous Motion
News
25-04-2018
Best paper award in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"Probabilistic Articulated Real-Time Tracking for Robot Manipulation"
The paper has been published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 577-584, April 2017. It has been considered the best paper published on IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters in 2017. IEEE RA-L published 305 papers in 2017.
Cristina Garcia Cifuentes
Manuel Wüthrich
Stefan Schaal
Jeannette Bohg
Jan Issac
Autonomous Motion
News
03-04-2018
Best paper finalist at ICRA 2018
This paper is among the 5 best of about 2500 submissions. The 2018 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will take place from 21 until 25 May 2018 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia.
Franzi Meier
Daniel Kappler
Stefan Schaal
Autonomous Motion
News
11-10-2017
Jeannette Bohg is a woman in robotics you should know about!
Robohub 2017 list of 25 women in Robotics you need to know about
On the occasion of Ada Lovelace Day on 10 October 2017, robohub presented their annual list of “25 women in robotics you need to know about”. Recently, Jeannette Bohg became Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford. She is Guest Researcher at the Autonomous Motion Department of MPI, where she did her research on robotics between 2012 and 2017.
Congratulations!
Jeannette Bohg
Autonomous Motion
Movement Generation and Control
News
07-06-2017
Awards for Two Master Theses
Cédric de Crousaz and Julian Viereck receive the ETH Medal for their outstanding Master Theses
Sebastian Trimpe
Ludovic Righetti
Julian Viereck
Alexander Herzog
Autonomous Motion
News
01-06-2017
Finalist for the Best Robotic Vision Paper
at the 2017 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation
The paper "Probabilistic Articulated Real-Time Tracking for Robot Manipulation" by Cristina Garcia Cifuentes, Jan Issac, Manuel Wüthrich, Stefan Schaal and Jeannette Bohg was finalist for the Best Robotic Vision paper at the 2017 IEEE/RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
Cristina Garcia Cifuentes
Manuel Wüthrich
Jan Issac
Stefan Schaal
Jeannette Bohg
Autonomous Motion
News
29-05-2017
Release of Bayesian Articulated Object Tracking Libraries
Robust and real-time Bayesian articulated object tracking methods, implemented in C++ and CUDA.
We release open-source code and data sets on Bayesian articulated object tracking. The library contains approaches towards problems ranging from single object tracking to full robot arm pose estimation. The data sets allow the quantitative evaluation of alternative approaches thanks to accurate ground-truth annotations.
Cristina Garcia Cifuentes
Jan Issac
Manuel Wüthrich
Jeannette Bohg
Autonomous Motion
News
24-05-2017
ICRA 2017 - Awards for our Robotics Researchers
ICRA CEB award for best reviewers
Jeannette Bohg
Cristina Garcia Cifuentes
Autonomous Motion
News
28-04-2017
Local networking event for women researchers from Tübingen
Hosted this time by Jeannette Bohg
Jeannette Bohg
Autonomous Motion
News
01-03-2017
DOOMED - A new online learning approach from AMD in the spotlight
Text: Kathryn Ryan. New Rochelle, February 21, 2017.
Robotics researchers have developed a novel adaptive control approach based on online learning that allows for the correction of dynamics errors in real time using the data stream from the robot. The strategy is described in an article published in Big Data, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Big Data website until March 14, 2017.
Franzi Meier
Daniel Kappler
Nathan Ratliff
Stefan Schaal
Autonomous Motion
News
02-01-2017
Big Data in Robotics
Guest edited by Jeannette Bohg, Matei Ciocarlie, Javier Civera, Lydia E. Kavraki.
... new big data methods have the potential to allow robots to understand and operate in significantly more complex environments than was possible even in the recent past. This should lead to a qualitative leap in the performance and deployability of robotics in a wide array of practical applications and real settings.
Jeannette Bohg
Autonomous Motion
News
17-11-2016
Finalist for the Best Interactive Session Paper
at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2016)
Brahayam Ponton
Alexander Herzog
Ludovic Righetti
Stefan Schaal
Autonomous Motion
News
28-10-2016
Finalist for Best Paper Award
at the 4th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics
(ICROM).
Ludovic Righetti
Alexander Herzog
Majid Khadiv
Stefan Schaal
Autonomous Motion
News
01-06-2016
Finalist for WODES 2016 Best Student Paper
Simon Ebner´s paper on the results of his master thesis
Topic: "Communication rate analysis for event-based state estimation"
Simon Ebner
Autonomous Motion
Movement Generation and Control
News
18-05-2016
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2016 for Ludovic Righetti
Medal-Marathon for Robotics Researcher
Tübingen – Stockholm – Berlin – Stockholm – Tübingen; Ludovic Righetti receives within 24 hours two renowned prizes for young researchers for his outstanding science on movements of robots
Ludovic Righetti
Autonomous Motion
Movement Generation and Control
Award
31-03-2016
Ludovic Righetti receives the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2016. It is awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It is considered the most prestigious award in Germany for early career researchers across all disciplines who have established an independent scientific career since having gained their doctorates.
Autonomous Motion
Movement Generation and Control
News
05-02-2016
2016 RAS Early Career Award (Academic)
for Ludovic Righetti, Group Leader AM Department
recognizing "his contributions to the theory of, and experiments in, robot locomotion and manipulation".
Ludovic Righetti
Autonomous Motion
Movement Generation and Control
Award
05-02-2016
Ludovic Righetti receives the IEEE-RAS Early Career Award (Academic) for "his contributions to the theory of, and experiments in, robot locomotion and manipulation". It is awarded by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society to “individuals in the early stage of their career who have made an identifiable contribution or contributions which have had a major impact on the robotics and/or automation fields”.
Autonomous Motion
News
14-01-2016
Roboter machen Schule - Robots set standards
Autonomous Robots made in Tübingen
Als Haushaltshilfe, Pflegeassistent oder Katastrophenschützer taugen Roboter nur, wenn sie lernfähig sind und zumindest ansatzweise selbstständig handeln können. Stefan Schaal und die Mitarbeiter seiner Abteilung am Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme in Tübingen bringen den Maschinen diese Flexibilität und Autonomie bei.
Sebastian Trimpe
Ludovic Righetti
Jeannette Bohg
Stefan Schaal
Autonomous Motion
Smart Nanoplasmonics
Movement Generation and Control
News
20-01-2015
Scientists at the MPI for Intelligent Systems receive more than 3 Million Euro ERC Starting Grants
Intelligent Systems Research: Spanning the Length Scale
Stuttgart / Tübingen. Five years of basic research is secured: The physicist Dr. Laura Na Liu and the computer scientist Dr. Ludovic Righetti, both from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, receive an ERC Starting Grant of 1,5 Million Euro, respectively. Prof. Jan Peters, head of the robot learning group at the institute (while mainly active as full professor at the TU Darmstadt) will invest part of his ERC starting grant into his research group at the institute. The researchers have won against 3.273 applicants - only 10 per cent of the submitted project appraisals receive the requested award, granted by the European Research Council (ERC).
Ludovic Righetti
Jan Peters
Laura Na Liu
Autonomous Motion
News
18-12-2014
Robot on board
The robot "Athena" carries new impulses for robotics research in its luggage
Travelling from Los Angeles to Frankfurt onboard of Lufthansa flight LH 457, the passenger arrived on December 16, at 11.05 a.m. with no signs of jet lag: this was no ordinary holidaymaker, after all, but the first humanoid robot to take up a seat on a commercial flight. And despite causing quite a stir when boarding the plane in Los Angeles, Athena, dressed in a T-shirt and fetching red shoes, received no special treatment: like most of us, she flew economy class. During the nine-hour flight, the robotic creation was accompanied by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Athena made her way from Los Angeles to Tübingen in order to acquire many new skills: standing, balancing, walking - and various other meaningful activities, which she can use to assist people in daily life.
Jeannette Bohg
Alexander Herzog
Stefan Schaal
Autonomous Motion
News
09-10-2014
Intelligent Communication: Only if there is something to say
Klaus Tschira Award 2014 for Science Communication in the field of Computer Science
Tübingen / Heidelberg, October 9, 2014. Science in clear words: Dr. Sebastian Trimpe, a research scientist in the “Autonomous Motion Department" (Stefan Schaal) at the Tübingen Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, has written a short, comprehensible text (in German) that describes the research he conducted during his PhD at ETH Zurich. As winner in the category of computer science, he is one of six awardees who received the Klaus Tschira Award for achievements in public understanding of science on Thursday, October 9, 2014 in Heidelberg.
Sebastian Trimpe
Autonomous Motion
News
01-11-2013
Stefan Schaal elected IEEE Fellow 2014
For his contributions to robot learning and modular motion planning.
Stefan Schaal
