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Autonomous Motion Article Robotics and Neuroscience Floreano, D., Ijspeert, A. J., Schaal, S. Current Biology, 24(18):R910-R920, sep 2014 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Master Thesis Learning Coupling Terms for Obstacle Avoidance Rai, A. École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, August 2014 () BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Robot Arm Pose Estimation through Pixel-Wise Part Classification Bohg, J., Romero, J., Herzog, A., Schaal, S. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2014, :3143-3150, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June 2014 () video code pdf DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Nonmyopic View Planning for Active Object Classification and Pose Estimation Atanasov, N., Sankaran, B., Le Ny, J., Pappas, G., Daniilidis, K. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, May 2014, clmc (Published) Web pdf URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Data-Driven Grasp Synthesis - A Survey Bohg, J., Morales, A., Asfour, T., Kragic, D. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 30:289 - 309, IEEE, April 2014 (Published) PDF DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Probabilistic Numerics Miscellaneous Local Gaussian Regression Meier, F., Hennig, P., Schaal, S. arXiv preprint, March 2014, clmc () Web URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Article A Limiting Property of the Matrix Exponential Trimpe, S., D’Andrea, R. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 59(4):1105-1110, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper A Self-Tuning LQR Approach Demonstrated on an Inverted Pendulum Trimpe, S., Millane, A., Doessegger, S., D’Andrea, R. In Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014 (Published) PDF Supplementary material DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Article An autonomous manipulation system based on force control and optimization Righetti, L., Kalakrishnan, M., Pastor, P., Binney, J., Kelly, J., Voorhies, R. C., Sukhatme, G. S., Schaal, S. Autonomous Robots, 36(1-2):11-30, January 2014 () DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Balancing experiments on a torque-controlled humanoid with hierarchical inverse dynamics Herzog, A., Righetti, L., Grimminger, F., Pastor, P., Schaal, S. In 2014 IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :981-988, IEEE, Chicago, USA, 2014 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Ph.D. Thesis Data-driven autonomous manipulation Pastor, P. University of Southern California, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 () BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Dual Execution of Optimized Contact Interaction Trajectories Toussaint, M., Ratliff, N., Bohg, J., Righetti, L., Englert, P., Schaal, S. In 2014 IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :47-54, IEEE, Chicago, USA, 2014 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Efficient Bayesian Local Model Learning for Control Meier, F., Hennig, P., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :2244 - 2249, IROS, 2014, clmc () PDF DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Article Event-Based State Estimation With Variance-Based Triggering Trimpe, S., D’Andrea, R. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 59(12):3266-3281, 2014 (Published) PDF Supplementary material DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Full Dynamics LQR Control of a Humanoid Robot: An Experimental Study on Balancing and Squatting Mason, S., Righetti, L., Schaal, S. In 2014 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, :374-379, IEEE, Madrid, Spain, 2014 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Incremental Local Gaussian Regression Meier, F., Hennig, P., Schaal, S. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27, :972-980, (Editors: Z. Ghahramani, M. Welling, C. Cortes, N.D. Lawrence and K.Q. Weinberger), 28th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2014), 2014, clmc () PDF URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning coupling terms for obstacle avoidance Rai, A., Meier, F., Ijspeert, A., Schaal, S. In International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, :512-518, IEEE, 2014, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Ph.D. Thesis Learning objective functions for autonomous motion generation Kalakrishnan, M. University of Southern California, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 () BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Article Learning of grasp selection based on shape-templates Herzog, A., Pastor, P., Kalakrishnan, M., Righetti, L., Bohg, J., Asfour, T., Schaal, S. Autonomous Robots, 36(1-2):51-65, January 2014 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Perspective: Intelligent Systems: Bits and Bots Spatz, J. P., Schaal, S. Nature, (509), 2014, clmc () PDF URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Stability Analysis of Distributed Event-Based State Estimation Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 (Published) PDF Supplementary material DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper State Estimation for a Humanoid Robot Rotella, N., Bloesch, M., Righetti, L., Schaal, S. In 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :952-958, IEEE, Chicago, USA, 2014 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning and Exploration in a Novel Dimensionality-Reduction Task Ebert, J., Kim, S., Schweighofer, N., Sternad, D., Schaal, S. In Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2009), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2014 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Probabilistic Object Tracking Using a Range Camera Wüthrich, M., Pastor, P., Kalakrishnan, M., Bohg, J., Schaal, S. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :3195-3202, IEEE, November 2013 () arXiv Video Code Video DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article 3-D Object Reconstruction of Symmetric Objects by Fusing Visual and Tactile Sensing Illonen, J., Bohg, J., Kyrki, V. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 33(2):321-341, Sage, October 2013 () Web DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Hypothesis Testing Framework for Active Object Detection Sankaran, B., Atanasov, N., Le Ny, J., Koletschka, T., Pappas, G., Daniilidis, K. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2013, clmc (Published) pdf BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Technical Report Learning and Optimization with Submodular Functions Sankaran, B., Ghazvininejad, M., He, X., Kale, D., Cohen, L. ArXiv, May 2013 () arxiv URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Action and Goal Related Decision Variables Modulate the Competition Between Multiple Potential Targets Enachescu, V., Christopoulos, V. N., Schrater, P. R., Schaal, S. In Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2013), February 2013 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Dynamical Movement Primitives: Learning Attractor Models for Motor Behaviors Ijspeert, A., Nakanishi, J., Pastor, P., Hoffmann, H., Schaal, S. Neural Computation, (25):328-373, 2013, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Fusing visual and tactile sensing for 3-D object reconstruction while grasping Ilonen, J., Bohg, J., Kyrki, V. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :3547-3554, 2013 () DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Objective Functions for Manipulation Kalakrishnan, M., Pastor, P., Righetti, L., Schaal, S. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013 () DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Task Error Models for Manipulation Pastor, P., Kalakrishnan, M., Binney, J., Kelly, J., Righetti, L., Sukhatme, G. S., Schaal, S. In 2013 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Optimal control of reaching includes kinematic constraints Mistry, M., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S., Kawato, M. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2013, clmc () PDF BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Article Optimal distribution of contact forces with inverse-dynamics control Righetti, L., Buchli, J., Mistry, M., Kalakrishnan, M., Schaal, S. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(3):280-298, March 2013 () DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Using Torque Redundancy to Optimize Contact Forces in Legged Robots Righetti, L., Buchli, J., Mistry, M., Kalakrishnan, M., Schaal, S. In Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems, 57:35-51, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013 () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Failure Recovery with Shared Autonomy Sankaran, B., Pitzer, B., Osentoski, S. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2012 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Towards Multi-DOF model mediated teleoperation: Using vision to augment feedback Willaert, B., Bohg, J., Van Brussel, H., Niemeyer, G. In IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games (HAVE), :25-31, October 2012 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Task-Based Grasp Adaptation on a Humanoid Robot Bohg, J., Welke, K., León, B., Do, M., Song, D., Wohlkinger, W., Aldoma, A., Madry, M., Przybylski, M., Asfour, T., et al. In 10th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, SyRoCo 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 5-7, 2012., :779-786, September 2012 () Video pdf DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Movement Segmentation and Recognition for Imitation Learning Meier, F., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S. In Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, La Palma, Canary Islands, Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics , April 2012 () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper An adaptive sensor foot for a bipedal and quadrupedal robot Fondahl, K., Kuehn, D., Beinersdorf, F., Bernhard, F., Grimminger, F., Schilling, M., Stark, T., Kirchner, F. In 2012 4th IEEE RAS EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), :270-275, June 2012 () DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Encoding of Periodic and their Transient Motions by a Single Dynamic Movement Primitive Ernesti, J., Righetti, L., Do, M., Asfour, T., Schaal, S. In 2012 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2012), :57-64, IEEE, Osaka, Japan, November 2012 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article From Dynamic Movement Primitives to Associative Skill Memories Pastor, P., Kalakrishnan, M., Meier, F., Stulp, F., Buchli, J., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2012 () BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Force Control Policies for Compliant Robotic Manipulation Kalakrishnan, M., Righetti, L., Pastor, P., Schaal, S. In ICML’12 Proceedings of the 29th International Coference on International Conference on Machine Learning, :49-50, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012 () BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Probabilistic depth image registration incorporating nonvisual information Wüthrich, M., Pastor, P., Righetti, L., Billard, A., Schaal, S. In 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, :3637-3644, IEEE, Saint Paul, USA, 2012 () DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Quadratic programming for inverse dynamics with optimal distribution of contact forces Righetti, L., Schaal, S. In 2012 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2012), :538-543, IEEE, Osaka, Japan, November 2012 () DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Template-based learning of grasp selection Herzog, A., Pastor, P., Kalakrishnan, M., Righetti, L., Asfour, T., Schaal, S. In 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, :2379-2384, IEEE, Saint Paul, USA, 2012 () DOI URL BibTeX