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Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Descriptions and challenges of AFM based nanorobotic systems Xie, H., Onal, C., Régnier, S., Sitti, M. In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics, :13-29, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Design and analysis of a magnetically actuated and compliant capsule endoscopic robot Yim, S., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, :4810-4815, 2011 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Design of a miniature integrated multi-modal jumping and gliding robot Woodward, M. A., Sitti, M. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :556-561, 2011 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Development of a Low-Pressure Fluidic Servo-Valve for Wearable Haptic Interfaces and Lightweight Robotic Systems" Folgheraiter, M., Jordan, M., Benitez, L. M. V., Grimminger, F., Schmidt, S., Albiez, J., Kirchner, F. In Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, :239-252, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Master Thesis Diffusion in Wandnähe Müller, J. Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 2011 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Dynamics of colloids in confined geometries Almenar, L., Rauscher, M. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 23(18), 2011 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficient Similarity Search for Covariance Matrices via the Jensen-Bregman LogDet Divergence Cherian, A., Sra, S., Banerjee, A., Papanikolopoulos, N. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2011, :2399-2406, (Editors: DN Metaxas and L Quan and A Sanfeliu and LJ Van Gool), IEEE, 13th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2011), 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficient inference in matrix-variate Gaussian models with iid observation noise Stegle, O., Lippert, C., Mooij, J., Lawrence, N., Borgwardt, K. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, :630-638, (Editors: J Shawe-Taylor and RS Zemel and P Bartlett and F Pereira and KQ Weinberger), Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () PDF Web BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Electrostatic interactions in critical solvents Bier, M., Gambassi, A., Oettel, M., Dietrich, S. Europhysics Letters, 95(6):60001, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Enhancing adhesion of biologically inspired polymer microfibers with a viscous oil coating Cheung, E., Sitti, M. The Journal of Adhesion, 87(6):547-557, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Expectation Propagation for the Estimation of Conditional Bivariate Copulas Hernandez-Lobato, J., Lopez-Paz, D., Gharhamani, Z. In :2, NIPS 2011, Workshop on Copulas in Machine Learning, 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fast Newton-type Methods for Total-Variation with Applications Barbero, A., Sra, S. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2011, :313-320, (Editors: L Getoor and T Scheffer), Omnipress, 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2011), 2011 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fast projections onto L1,q-norm balls for grouped feature selection Sra, S. In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, LNCS vol 6913, Part III, :305-317, (Editors: D Gunopulos and T Hofmann and D Malerba and M Vazirgiannis), Springer, 22th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2011), 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Free flight simulations and pitch and roll control experiments of a sub-gram flapping-flight micro aerial vehicle Hines, L. L., Arabagi, V., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, :1-7, 2011 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generalized Dictionary Learning for Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices with Application to Nearest Neighbor Retrieval Sra, S., Cherian, A. In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, LNCS vol 6913, Part III, :318-332, (Editors: D Gunopulos and T Hofmann and D Malerba and M Vazirgiannis), Springer, 22th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2011), 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Handbook of Statistical Bioinformatics Lu, H., Schölkopf, B., Zhao, H. :627, Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2011 () Web DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Hierarchical Multitask Structured Output Learning for Large-scale Sequence Segmentation Görnitz, N., Widmer, C., Zeller, G., Kahles, A., Sonnenburg, S., Rätsch, G. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, :2690-2698, (Editors: J Shawe-Taylor and RS Zemel and P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, USA, Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article High-resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy of BaTiO_3: Experiment and first-principles calculations Chassé, A., Borek, S., Schindler, K., Trautmann, M., Huth, M., Steudel, F., Makhova, L., Gräfe, J., Denecke, R. Physical Review B, 84:195135, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Instrumentation Issues of an AFM Based Nanorobotic System Xie, H., Onal, C., Régnier, S., Sitti, M. In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics, :31-86, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Intelligent Mobility—Autonomous Outdoor Robotics at the DFKI Joyeux, S., Schwendner, J., Kirchner, F., Babu, A., Grimminger, F., Machowinski, J., Paranhos, P., Gaudig, C. KI, 25(2):133-139, May 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Interaction strength between proteins and polyelectrolyte brushes: A small angle X-ray scattering study Henzler, K., Haupt, B., Rosenfeldt, S., Harnau, L., Narayanan, T., Ballauff, M. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13:17599-17605, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Introducing the detection of auditory error responses based on BCI technology for passive interaction Zander, T., Klippel, D., Scherer, R. In Proceedings of the 5th International Brain–Computer Interface Conference, :252-255, (Editors: GR Müller-Putz and R Scherer and M Billinger and A Kreilinger and V Kaiser and C Neuper), Graz: Verlag der Technischen Universität, 2011 () BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Inverse Dynamics Control of Floating-Base Robots with External Constraints: a Unified View Righetti, L., Buchli, J., Mistry, M., Schaal, S. In 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, :1085-1090, IEEE, Shanghai, China, 2011 () DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Ph.D. Thesis Iterative path integral stochastic optimal control: Theory and applications to motor control Theodorou, E. A. University of Southern California, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Kernel Bayes’ Rule Fukumizu, K., Song, L., Gretton, A. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, :1737-1745, (Editors: J Shawe-Taylor and RS Zemel and P Bartlett and F Pereira and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, USA, Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Kernel Belief Propagation Song, L., Gretton, A., Bickson, D., Low, Y., Guestrin, C. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Vol. 15, :707-715, (Editors: G Gordon and D Dunson and M Dudík), JMLR, AISTATS, 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Kernel Methods in Bioinformatics Borgwardt, K. In Handbook of Statistical Bioinformatics, :317-334, Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics ; 3, (Editors: Lu, H.H.-S., Schölkopf, B. and Zhao, H.), Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2011 () PDF DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Master Thesis Learning of grasp selection based on shape-templates Herzog, A. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 2011 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning to grasp under uncertainty Stulp, F., Theodorou, E., Buchli, J., Schaal, S. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, Shanghai, China, May 9-13, 2011, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Learning variable impedance control Buchli, J., Stulp, F., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S. International Journal of Robotics Research, 2011, clmc () URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Force Control Policies for Compliant Manipulation Kalakrishnan, M., Righetti, L., Pastor, P., Schaal, S. In 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :4639-4644, IEEE, San Francisco, USA, sep 2011 () DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Motion Primitive Goals for Robust Manipulation Stulp, F., Theodorou, E., Kalakrishnan, M., Pastor, P., Righetti, L., Schaal, S. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :325-331, IEEE, San Francisco, USA, sep 2011 () DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Long-wavelength anomalies in the asymptotic behavior of mode-coupling theory Schnyder, S. K., Höfling, F., Franosch, T., Voigtmann, T. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 23(23), 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Magnetization of multicomponent ferrofluids Szalai, I., Dietrich, S. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 23(32):326004, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Micro-rheology on (polymer-grafted) colloids using optical tweezers Gutsche, C., Elmahdy, M. M., Kegler, K., Semenov, I., Stangner, T., Otto, O., Ueberschär, O., Keyser, U. F., Krüger, M., Rauscher, M., et al. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 23(18), IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2011 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Micro-scale propulsion using multiple flexible artificial flagella Singleton, J., Diller, E., Andersen, T., Regnier, S., Sitti, M. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :1687-1692, 2011 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Model Learning in Robot Control Nguyen-Tuong, D. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 2011 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Modeling of stochastic motion of bacteria propelled spherical microbeads Arabagi, V., Behkam, B., Cheung, E., Sitti, M. Journal of Applied Physics, 109(11):114702, AIP, 2011 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Movement segmentation using a primitive library Meier, F., Theodorou, E., Stulp, F., Schaal, S. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), Sept. 25-30, San Francisco, CA, 2011, clmc () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Nanomechanics of AFM based nanomanipulation Xie, H., Onal, C., Régnier, S., Sitti, M. In Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics, :87-143, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011 () BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Neural control of cursor trajectory and click by a human with tetraplegia 1000 days after implant of an intracortical microelectrode array Simeral, J. D., Kim, S., Black, M. J., Donoghue, J. P., Hochberg, L. R. J. of Neural Engineering, 8(2):025027, 2011 () pdf URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Technical Report Nonconvex proximal splitting: batch and incremental algorithms Sra, S. (2), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany, 2011 () PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On Causal Discovery with Cyclic Additive Noise Models Mooij, J., Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B., Heskes, T. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, :639-647, (Editors: J Shawe-Taylor and RS Zemel and PL Bartlett and FCN Pereira and KQ Weinberger), Curran Associates, Inc., Red Hook, NY, USA, Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On Fast Approximate Submodular Minimization Jegelka, S., Lin, H., Bilmes, J. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24, :460-468, (Editors: J Shawe-Taylor and RS Zemel and P Bartlett and F Pereira and KQ Weinberger), Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2011), 2011 () PDF Web BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Online movement adaptation based on previous sensor experiences Pastor, P., Righetti, L., Kalakrishnan, M., Schaal, S. In 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :365-371, IEEE, San Francisco, USA, sep 2011 () DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Operational Space Control of Constrained and Underactuated Systems Mistry, M., Righetti, L. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 2011 () DOI URL BibTeX