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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 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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Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Applying the episodic natural actor-critic architecture to motor primitive learning Peters, J., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the 2007 European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), Bruges, Belgium, April 25-27, 2007, clmc () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Autonomous 2D microparticle manipulation based on visual feedback Onal, C. D., Sitti, M. In Advanced intelligent mechatronics, 2007 IEEE/ASME international conference on, :1-6, 2007 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Bacteria integrated swimming microrobots Behkam, B., Sitti, M. In 50 years of artificial intelligence, :154-163, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Bacterial flagella assisted propulsion of patterned latex particles: Effect of particle size Behkam, B., Sitti, M. In Nanotechnology, 2007. IEEE-NANO 2007. 7th IEEE Conference on, :723-727, 2007 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bacterial flagella-based propulsion and on/off motion control of microscale objects Behkam, B., Sitti, M. Applied Physics Letters, 90(2):023902, AIP, 2007 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Bayesian Nonparametric Regression with Local Models Ting, J., Schaal, S. In Workshop on Robotic Challenges for Machine Learning, NIPS 2007, 2007, clmc () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Binary reactive adsorbate on a random catalytic substrate Popescu, M. N., Dietrich, S., Oshanin, G. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 19(6):065126, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Bridging grain boundary volume to segregation at symmetric grain boundaries Moon, J., Richter, G., Sigle, W., Ruhle, M. Materials Science and Engineering a-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing, 448(1-2):299-302, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Circular differential double diffraction in chiral media Ghosh, A., Fazal, F. M., Fischer, P. OPTICS LETTERS, 32(13):1836-1838, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Complete wetting of pits and grooves Tasinkevych, M., Dietrich, S. European Physical Journal E, 23(1):117-128, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Conceptual aspects of line tensions Schimmele, L., Napiorkowski, M., Dietrich, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 127(16):164715, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Contact line stability of ridges and drops Mechkov, S., Oshanin, G., Rauscher, M., Brinkmann, M., Cazabat, A. M., Dietrich, S. Europhysics Letters, 80(6):66002, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Critical Casimir effect in superfluid wetting films Maciolek, A., Gambassi, A., Dietrich, S. Physical Review E, 76(3):031124, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Critical adsorption on nonspherical colloidal particles Kondrat, S., Harnau, L., Dietrich, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 126(17):174902, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Dry spinning polymeric nano/microfiber arrays using glass micropipettes with controlled porosities and fiber diameters Nain, A. S., Gupta, A., Amon, C., Sitti, M. In Nanotechnology, 2007. IEEE-NANO 2007. 7th IEEE Conference on, :728-732, 2007 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Dynamic crossover in the global persistence at criticality Paul, R., Gambassi, A., Schehr, G. Europhysics Letters, 78(1), 2007 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Dynamics systems vs. optimal control ? a unifying view Schaal, S., Mohajerian, P., Ijspeert, A. In Progress in Brain Research, (165):425-445, 2007, clmc () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Effect of backing layer thickness on adhesion of single-level elastomer fiber arrays Kim, S., Sitti, M., Hui, C., Long, R., Jagota, A. Applied Physics Letters, 91(16):161905, AIP, 2007 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Effective forces induced by a fluctuating interface: exact results Abraham, D., Essler, F., Maciolek, A. Physical Review Letters, 98(17), 2007 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Enhanced friction of elastomer microfiber adhesives with spatulate tips Kim, S., Aksak, B., Sitti, M. Applied Physics Letters, 91(22):221913, AIP, 2007 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Empirical Inference Conference Paper Evaluation of Policy Gradient Methods and Variants on the Cart-Pole Benchmark Riedmiller, M., Peters, J., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, :254-261, ADPRL, 2007, clmc () PDF BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Experimental observation of structural crossover in binary mixtures of colloidal hard spheres Baumgartl, J., Dullens, R. P. A., Dijkstra, M., Roth, R., Bechinger, C. Physical Review Letters, 98, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article First observation of a hexagonal close packed metastable intermetallic phase between Cu and Al bilayer films Cha, L., Scheu, C., Richter, G., Wagner, T., Sturm, S., Ruhle, M. International Journal of Materials Research, 98(8):692-699, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Fluctuation spectra of free and supported membrane pairs Merath, R., Seifert, U. European Physical Journal e - Soft Matter, 23(1):103-116, 2007 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Friction of partially embedded vertically aligned carbon nanofibers inside elastomers Aksak, B., Sitti, M., Cassell, A., Li, J., Meyyappan, M., Callen, P. Applied Physics Letters, 91(6):061906, AIP, 2007 () BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Conference Paper Guided Self-organisation for Autonomous Robot Development Martius, G., Herrmann, J. M., Der, R. In Advances in Artificial Life 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, 4648:766-775, LNCS, Springer, 2007 () BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Hand placement during quadruped locomotion in a humanoid robot: A dynamical system approach Degallier, S., Righetti, L., Ijspeert, A. In 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :2047-2052, IEEE, San Diego, USA, 2007 () DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Book Chapter Inhomogeneous platelet and rod fluids Harnau, L., Dietrich, S. In Soft Matter, 3:159-317, (Editors: Gompper, G. and Schick, M.), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Intermittent random walks for an optimal search strategy: one-dimensional case Oshanin, G., Wio, H. S., Lindenberg, K., Burlatsky, S. F. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 19(6), 2007 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Interplay of critical Casimir and dispersion forces Dantchev, D., Schlesener, F., Dietrich, S. Physical Review E, 76(1):011121, 2007 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Inverse dynamics control with floating base and constraints Nakanishi, J., Mistry, M., Schaal, S. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2007), :1942-1947, Rome, Italy, April 10-14, 2007, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Kernel carpentry for onlne regression using randomly varying coefficient model Edakunni, N. U., Schaal, S., Vijayakumar, S. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India: Jan. 6-12, 2007, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Technical Report Learning an Outlier-Robust Kalman Filter Ting, J., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S. CLMC Technical Report: TR-CLMC-2007-1, Los Angeles, CA, 2007, clmc () PDF BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Lower body realization of the baby humanoid - ‘iCub’ Tsagarakis, N., Becchi, F., Righetti, L., Ijspeert, A., Caldwell, D. In 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, :3616-3622, IEEE, San Diego, USA, 2007 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Miscellaneous Mathematik der Wahrnehmung: Wendepunkte Wichman, F., Ernst, M. Akademische Mitteilungen zw{\"o}lf: F{\"u}nf Sinne, :32-37, 2007 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Microrobotically fabricated biological scaffolds for tissue engineering Nain, A. S., Chung, F., Rule, M., Jadlowiec, J. A., Campbell, P. G., Amon, C., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation, 2007 IEEE International Conference on, :1918-1923, 2007 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Microscale and nanoscale robotics systems [grand challenges of robotics] Sitti, M. IEEE Robotics \& Automation Magazine, 14(1):53-60, IEEE, 2007 () BibTeX

Materials Article Microstructural characteristics of TZP/Ni cermets plastically deformed at high temperature Morales-Rodriguez, A., Richter, G., Ruhle, M., Bravo-Leon, A., Dominguez-Rodriguez, A., Jimenez-Melendo, M. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 27(4):2053-2059, 2007 () DOI BibTeX