DEPARTMENTS

Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


Research Groups

Autonomous Vision

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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Robot Learning

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2022

Autonomous Learning

Robotics

AI

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Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficient Bregman Range Search Cayton, L. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, :243-251, (Editors: Bengio, Y. , D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. Williams, A. Culotta), Curran, Red Hook, NY, USA, 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009), 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Enhanced adhesion by gecko-inspired hierarchical fibrillar adhesives Murphy, M. P., Kim, S., Sitti, M. ACS applied materials \& interfaces, 1(4):849-855, American Chemical Society, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Enhanced reversible adhesion of dopamine methacrylamide-coated elastomer microfibrillar structures under wet conditions Glass, P., Chung, H., Washburn, N. R., Sitti, M. Langmuir, 25(12):6607-6612, ACS Publications, 2009 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fast subtree kernels on graphs Shervashidze, N., Borgwardt, K. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, :1660-1668, (Editors: Bengio, Y. , D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. Williams, A. Culotta), Curran, Red Hook, NY, USA, 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009), 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Free-energy function based on an all-atom model for proteins Yoshidome, T., Oda, K., Harano, Y., Roth, R., Sugita, Y., Ikeguchi, M., Kinoshita, M. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 77(4):950-961, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Full phase and amplitude control in computer-generated holography Fratz, M., Fischer, P., Giel, D. M. OPTICS LETTERS, 34(23):3659-3661, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Gecko-Inspired Directional and Controllable Adhesion Murphy, M. P., Aksak, B., Sitti, M. Small, 5(2):170-175, WILEY-VCH Verlag, 2009 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Graphical models for decoding in BCI visual speller systems Martens, S., Farquhar, J., Hill, J., Schölkopf, B. In :470-473, IEEE, 4th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER 2009), 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article High-resolution TEM investigation of structure and composition of polar Pd/ZnO interfaces Saito, M., Wagner, T., Richter, G., Ruhle, M. Physical Review B, 80(13), 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Human optimization strategies under reward feedback Hoffmann, H., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S. In Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2009), Waikoloa, Hawaii, 2009, 2009, clmc () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Incorporating Muscle Activation-Contraction dynamics to an optimal control framework for finger movements Theodorou, E. A., Valero-Cuevas, F. J. Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2009), 2009, clmc () PDF BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Inertial parameter estimation of floating-base humanoid systems using partial force sensing Mistry, M., Schaal, S., Yamane, K. In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2009), Paris, Dec.7-10, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Interaction of cylindrical polymer brushes in dilute and semi-dilute solution Bolisetty, S., Rosenfeldt, S., Rochette, C. N., Harnau, L., Lindner, P., Xu, Y., Mueller, A. H. E., Ballauff, M. Colloid and Polymer Science, 287:129-138, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Interplay of complete wetting, critical adsorption, and capillary condensation Drzewinski, A., Maciolek, A., Barasinski, A., Dietrich, S. Physical Review E, 79(4):041145, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Investigation of the Bulge Test Response of Molybdenum Thin Films at Room Temperature and at 100 degrees C Walter, M. E., Schneider, A. S., Wubben, T., Richter, G., Arzt, E. Strain, 45(3):238-248, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Kernel Choice and Classifiability for RKHS Embeddings of Probability Distributions Sriperumbudur, B., Fukumizu, K., Gretton, A., Lanckriet, G., Schölkopf, B. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, :1750-1758, (Editors: Y Bengio and D Schuurmans and J Lafferty and C Williams and A Culotta), Curran, Red Hook, NY, USA, 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009), 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Layering of (BMIM)+-based ionic liquids at a charged sapphire interface Mezger, M., Schramm, S., Schröder, H., Reichert, H., Deutsch, M., de Souza, E. J., Okasinski, J. S., Ocko, B. M., Honkimäki, V., Dosch, H. Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning and generalization of motor skills by learning from demonstration Pastor, P., Hoffmann, H., Asfour, T., Schaal, S. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009), Kobe, Japan, May 12-19, 2009, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning locomotion over rough terrain using terrain templates Kalakrishnan, M., Buchli, J., Pastor, P., Schaal, S. In Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :167-172, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Line tension and the shape of nanodroplets Schimmele, L., Dietrich, S. European Physical Journal E, 30(4):427-430, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Local dimensionality reduction for non-parametric regression Hoffman, H., Schaal, S., Vijayakumar, S. Neural Processing Letters, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Magnetic mobile micro-robots Pawashe, C., Floyd, S., Sitti, M. 7eme Journees Nationales de la Recherche en Robotique, 2009 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Manipulating cylindrical polyelectrolyte brushes on the nanoscale by counterions: collapse transition to helical structures Xu, Y., Bolisetty, S., Drechsler, M., Fang, B., Yuan, J., Harnau, L., Ballauff, M., Mueller, A. H. E. Soft Matter, 5:379-384, 2009 () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Microparticle manipulation using multiple untethered magnetic micro-robots on an electrostatic surface Floyd, S., Pawashe, C., Sitti, M. In Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :528-533, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Miniature devices: Voyage of the microrobots Sitti, M. Nature, 458(7242):1121-1122, Nature Publishing Group, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Modeling and experimental characterization of an untethered magnetic micro-robot Pawashe, C., Floyd, S., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 28(8):1077-1094, Sage Publications, 2009 () BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Modelling the interplay of central pattern generation and sensory feedback in the neuromuscular control of running Daley, M., Righetti, L., Ijspeert, A. In Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology. Annual Main Meeting for the Society for Experimental Biology, 153, Glasgow, Scotland, 2009 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Thesis Motor Control and Learning in Table Tennis Mülling, K. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Gerrmany, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Multiple magnetic microrobot control using electrostatic anchoring Pawashe, C., Floyd, S., Sitti, M. Applied Physics Letters, 94(16):164108, AIP, 2009 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Nano-droplets on structured substrates Rauscher, M. A., Dietrich, S. Soft Matter, 5(16):2997-3001, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Non-linear System Identification: Visual Saliency Inferred from Eye-Movement Data Wichmann, F., Kienzle, W., Schölkopf, B., Franz, M. Journal of Vision, 9(8):article 32, 2009 () Web DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Nonlinear dielectric effect of dipolar fluids Szalai, I., Nagy, S., Dietrich, S. Journal of Chemical Physics, 131(15):154905, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Nonlinear directed acyclic structure learning with weakly additive noise models Tillman, R., Gretton, A., Spirtes, P. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, :1847-1855, (Editors: Bengio, Y. , D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. Williams, A. Culotta), Curran, Red Hook, NY, USA, 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009), 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Normal and lateral critical Casimir forces between colloids and patterned substrates Tröndle, M., Kondrat, S., Gambassi, A., Harnau, L., Dietrich, S. EPL, 88(4):40004, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article On scale-free and poly-scale behaviors of random hierarchical networks Avetisov, V. A., Chertovitch, A. V., Nechaev, S. .., Vasilyev, O. A. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, July 2009, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article On-line learning and modulation of periodic movements with nonlinear dynamical systems Gams, A., Ijspeert, A., Schaal, S., Lenarčič, J. Autonomous Robots, 27(1):3-23, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article On-line learning and modulation of periodic movements with nonlinear dynamical systems Gams, A., Ijspeert, A., Schaal, S., Lenarčič, J. Autonomous Robots, 27(1):3-23, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Path integral-based stochastic optimal control for rigid body dynamics Theodorou, E. A., Buchli, J., Schaal, S. In Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, 2009. ADPRL ’09. IEEE Symposium on, :219-225, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Phase transitions and ordering of confined dipolar fluids Szalai, I., Dietrich, S. European Physical Journal E, 28(3):347-359, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Piezoelectric ultrasonic resonant micromotor with a volume of less than 1 mm 3 for use in medical microbots Watson, B., Friend, J., Yeo, L., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation, 2009. ICRA’09. IEEE International Conference on, :2225-2230, 2009 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Proprioceptive control of a hybrid legged-wheeled robot Eich, M., Grimminger, F., Kirchner, F. In 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, :774-779, February 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Reversible dry micro-fibrillar adhesives with thermally controllable adhesion Kim, S., Sitti, M., Xie, T., Xiao, X. Soft Matter, 5(19):3689-3693, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Robot ceiling climbers harness new tricks Marks, P. New Scientist, 202(2705):18-19, Reed Business Information, 2009 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Self-assembly of Janus cylinders into hierarchical superstructures Walther, A., Drechsler, M., Rosenfeldt, S., Harnau, L., Ballauff, M., Abetz, V., Müller, A. H. E. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131:4720-4728, 2009 () DOI BibTeX