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Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


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Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

Probabilistic Learning Group


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Empirical Inference Article Tangent space spatial filters for interpretable and efficient Riemannian classification Xu, J., Grosse-Wentrup, M., Jayaram, V. Journal of Neural Engineering, 17(2), IOP Publishing, April 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Towards causal generative scene models via competition of experts von Kügelgen*, J., Ustyuzhaninov*, I., Gehler, P., Bethge, M., Schölkopf, B. ICLR 2020 Workshop "Causal Learning for Decision Making", April 2020, *equal contribution (Published) arXiv PDF BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Article Trunk pitch oscillations for energy trade-offs in bipedal running birds and robots Drama, Ö., Badri-Spröwitz, A. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 15(3):036013, March 2020 (Published) Youtube Video DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Fabric-Based Sensing System for Recognizing Social Touch Burns, R. B., Lee, H., Seifi, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (3 pages) presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, March 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Adaptation and Robust Learning of Probabilistic Movement Primitives Gomez-Gonzalez, S., Neumann, G., Schölkopf, B., Peters, J. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 36(2):366-379, IEEE, March 2020 (Published) arXiv DOI BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article Advancing Rational Analysis to the Algorithmic Level Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, Cambridge University Press, March 2020 (Published) Advancing rational analysis to the algorithmic level DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Attractiveness and Confidence in Walking Style of Male and Female Virtual Characters Thaler, A., Bieg, A., Mahmood, N., Black, M. J., Mohler, B. J., Troje, N. F. In 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW 2020), :678-679, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW 2020), March 2020 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Changes in Normal Force During Passive Dynamic Touch: Contact Mechanics and Perception Gueorguiev, D., Lambert, J., Thonnard, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), :746-752, IEEE Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS 2020), March 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Do Touch Gestures Affect How Electrovibration Feels? Vardar, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration (1 page) presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, Washington, DC, USA, March 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Evaluation of the Handshake Turing Test for Anthropomorphic Robots Stock-Homburg, R., Peters, J., Schneider, K., Prasad, V., Nukovic, L. Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), :456-458, (Editors: Tony Belpaeme and James Young and Hatice Gunes and Laurel D. Riek), ACM, March 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Haptic Object Parameter Estimation during Within-Hand-Manipulation with a Simple Robot Gripper Mohtasham, D., Narayanan, G., Calli, B., Spiers, A. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), :140-147, March 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Intermediate Ridges Amplify Mechanoreceptor Strains in Static and Dynamic Touch Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, March 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article The iReAct study - A biopsychosocial analysis of the individual response to physical activity Thiel, A., Sudeck, G., Gropper, H., Maturana, F. M., Schubert, T., Srismith, D., Widmann, M., Behrens, S., Martus, P., Munz, B., et al. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications , 17:100508, March 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Using Affective Touch for Emotional Support with a Hugging Robot Block, A. E., Hilliges, O., Gassert, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the 2020 Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Workshop on Affect and Embodiment, Cambridge, UK, March 2020 () BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Ph.D. Thesis Viability in State-Action Space. Connecting Morphology, Control, and Learning Heim, S. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, February 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Commentary on the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations Locatello, F., Bauer, S., Lucic, M., Rätsch, G., Gelly, S., Schölkopf, B., Bachem, O. Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 34(9):13681-13684, AAAI Press, February 2020, Sister Conference Track (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Acoustofluidic Tweezers for the 3D Manipulation of Microparticles Guo, X., Ma, Z., Goyal, R., Jeong, M., Pang, W., Fischer, P., Dian, X., Qiu, T. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), :11392-11397, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Chained Representation Cycling: Learning to Estimate 3D Human Pose and Shape by Cycling Between Representations Rueegg, N., Lassner, C., Black, M. J., Schindler, K. In The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 4:5561-5569, AAAI Press, Palo Alto, CA, Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020), February 2020 (Published) pdf DOI BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Article Convergence Analysis of Deterministic Kernel-Based Quadrature Rules in Misspecified Settings Kanagawa, M., Sriperumbudur, B. K., Fukumizu, K. Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 20:155-1944, February 2020 (Published) arXiv DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article DeepMAsED: evaluating the quality of metagenomic assemblies Mineeva*, O., Rojas-Carulla*, M., Ley, R. E., Schölkopf, B., Youngblut, N. D. Bioinformatics, 36(10):3011-3017, February 2020, *equal contribution (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Exercising with Baxter: Preliminary Support for Assistive Social-Physical Human-Robot Interaction Fitter, N. T., Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Johnson, M. J. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 17:1-22, February 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Gripping apparatus and method of producing a gripping apparatus Song, S., Sitti, M., Drotlef, D., Majidi, C. Google Patents, February 2020, US Patent App. 16/610,209 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Interpretable and Differentially Private Predictions Harder, F., Bauer, M., Park, M. Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 34(4):4083-4090, AAAI Press, February 2020, AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Counterfactual Representations for Estimating Individual Dose-Response Curves Schwab, P., Linhardt, L., Bauer, S., Buhmann, J. M., Karlen, W. Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 34(4):5612-5619, AAAI Press, February 2020, AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Learning to Predict Perceptual Distributions of Haptic Adjectives Richardson, B. A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 13:1-16, February 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper ODIN: ODE-Informed Regression for Parameter and State Inference in Time-Continuous Dynamical Systems Wenk, P., Abbati, G., Osborne, M. A., Schölkopf, B., Krause, A., Bauer, S. Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 34(4):6364-6371, AAAI Press, February 2020, AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Radial and Directional Posteriors for Bayesian Deep Learning Oh, C., Adamczewski, K., Park, M. Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 34(4):5298-5305, AAAI Press, February 2020, AAAI Technical Track: Machine Learning (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Article Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, E1, February 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Article Robust Humanoid Contact Planning with Learned Zero-and One-Step Capturability Prediction Lin, Y., Righetti, L., Berenson, D. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters, 5:2451-2458, IEEE, February 2020 (Published) BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Investigating photoresponsivity of graphene-silver hybrid nanomaterials in the ultraviolet Deshpande, P., Suri, P., Jeong, H., Fischer, P., Ghosh, A., Ghosh, G. Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(4):044709, January 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article A High-Fidelity Phantom for the Simulation and Quantitative Evaluation of Transurethral Resection of the Prostate Choi, E., Adams, F., Gengenbacher, A., Schlager, D., Palagi, S., Müller, P., Wetterauer, U., Miernik, A., Fischer, P., Qiu, T. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 48(1):437-446, January 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Article Sliding Mode Control with Gaussian Process Regression for Underwater Robots Lima, G. S., Trimpe, S., Bessa, W. M. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 99(3-4):487-498, January 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Vision Statement: Interactive Materials–Drivers of Future Robotic Systems Fischer, P. Advanced Materials, 32(20):1905953, January 2020, Invited Vision Statement () DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Patent Machine learning systems and methods for augmenting images Black, M., Rachlin, E., Lee, E., Heron, N., Loper, M., Weiss, A., Smith, D. (US Patent 10,529,137 B1), January 2020 () BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Poster Potential for elastic soft tissue deformation and mechanosensory function within the lumbosacral spinal canal of birds Kamska, V., Daley, M., Badri-Spröwitz, A. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB Annual Meeting 2020), January 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Compensating for Fingertip Size to Render Tactile Cues More Accurately Young, E. M., Gueorguiev, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Pacchierotti, C. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 13(1):144-151, January 2020, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and Claudio Pacchierotti contributed equally to this publication. Presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (Published) DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Article Control-guided Communication: Efficient Resource Arbitration and Allocation in Multi-hop Wireless Control Systems Baumann, D., Mager, F., Zimmerling, M., Trimpe, S. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 4(1):127-132, January 2020 (Published) arXiv PDF DOI BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Article Hierarchical Event-triggered Learning for Cyclically Excited Systems with Application to Wireless Sensor Networks Beuchert, J., Solowjow, F., Raisch, J., Trimpe, S., Seel, T. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 4(1):103-108, January 2020 (Published) arXiv PDF DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Patent Method of actuating a shape changeable member, shape changeable member and actuating system Hu, W., Lum, G. Z., Mastrangeli, M., Sitti, M. Google Patents, January 2020, US Patent App. 16/477,593 () BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Scalable Active Learning for Object Detection Haussmann, E. F. M. C. K. I. J. X. H. R. D. M. A. K. N. F. C. A. J. M. Proceedings 31st IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), :1430-1435, IEEE, 31st IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2020, Accepted (Accepted) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article 3D microprinting of iron platinum nanoparticle-based magnetic mobile microrobots Giltinan, J., Sridhar, V., Bozuyuk, U., Sheehan, D., Sitti, M. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 3(1):2000204, 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article 3D microstructures of liquid crystal networks with programmed voxelated director fields Guo, Y., Shahsavan, H., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 32(38):2002753, 2020 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A 32-channel multi-coil setup optimized for human brain shimming at 9.4T Aghaeifar, A., Zhou, J., Heule, R., Tabibian, B., Schölkopf, B., Jia, F., Zaitsev, M., Scheffler, K. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 83(2):749-764, 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Conference Paper A Probabilistic Framework for Constrained Manipulations and Task and Motion Planning under Uncertainty Ha, J., Driess, D., Toussaint, M. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), :6745-6751, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX