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

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Visual Analytics Approach to Study Anatomic Covariation Hermann, M., Schunke, A., Schultz, T., Klein, R. In Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2014, :161-168, March 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Adaptive Offset Correction for Intracortical Brain Computer Interfaces Homer, M. L., Perge, J. A., Black, M. J., Harrison, M. T., Cash, S. S., Hochberg, L. R. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 22(2):239-248, March 2014 () pdf DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Model-based Anthropometry: Predicting Measurements from 3D Human Scans in Multiple Poses Tsoli, A., Loper, M., Black, M. J. In Proceedings Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, :83-90, IEEE , IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) , March 2014 () pdf DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper 3D nanofabrication on complex seed shapes using glancing angle deposition Hyeon-Ho, J., Mark, A. G., Gibbs, J. G., Reindl, T., Waizmann, U., Weis, J., Fischer, P. In 2014 IEEE 27th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), :437-440, Piscataway, NJ, USA, January 2014 (Published) DOI 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

Empirical Inference Master Thesis A Novel Causal Inference Method for Time Series Shajarisales, N. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2014 (Published) PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Permutation-Based Kernel Conditional Independence Test Doran, G., Muandet, K., Zhang, K., Schölkopf, B. In Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2014), :132-141, (Editors: Nevin L. Zhang and Jin Tian), AUAI Press Corvallis, Oregon, UAI2014, 2014 () PDF BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article A Quantitative Analysis of Current Practices in Optical Flow Estimation and the Principles behind Them Sun, D., Roth, S., Black, M. J. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 106(2):115-137, 2014 () pdf full text code 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

Empirical Inference Article A few extreme events dominate global interannual variability in gross primary production Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M., v Buttlar, J., Harmeling, S., Jung, M., Rammig, A., Randerson, J., Schölkopf, B., Seneviratne, S., Tomelleri, E., et al. Environmental Research Letters, 9(3):035001, 2014 () PDF Web DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article A freely-moving monkey treadmill model Foster, J., Nuyujukian, P., Freifeld, O., Gao, H., Walker, R., Ryu, S., Meng, T., Murmann, B., Black, M., Shenoy, K. J. of Neural Engineering, 11(4):046020, 2014 () pdf Supplementary DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis A global analysis of extreme events and consequences for the terrestrial carbon cycle Zscheischler, J. Diss. No. 22043, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2014 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A unifying view of representer theorems Argyriou, A., Dinuzzo, F. In Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Machine Learning, 32:748-756, (Editors: Xing, E. P. and Jebera, T.), ICML, 2014 () PDF PDF BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Active Conformation Control of Unfolded Proteins by Hyperthermal Collision with a Metal Surface Rinke, G., Rauschenbach, S., Harnau, L., Albarghash, A., Pauly, M., Kern, K. Nano Letters, 14(10):5609-5615, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Active Learning of Linear Embeddings for Gaussian Processes Garnett, R., Osborne, M., Hennig, P. In Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, :230-239, (Editors: NL Zhang and J Tian), AUAI Press , Corvallis, Oregon, UAI2014, 2014, another link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6740 () PDF Web BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Active Microrheology of the Vitreous of the Eye applied to Nanorobot Propulsion Qiu, T., Schamel, D., Mark, A. G., Fischer, P. In 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), :3801-3806, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2014, Best Automation Paper Award – Finalist. () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Active Reward Learning Daniel, C., Viering, M., Metz, J., Kroemer, O., Peters, J. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science & Systems, (Editors: Fox, D., Kavraki, LE., and Kurniawati, H.), RSS, 2014 (Published) PDF BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Addressing of Micro-robot Teams and Non-contact Micro-manipulation Diller, E., Ye, Z., Giltinan, J., Sitti, M. In Small-Scale Robotics. From Nano-to-Millimeter-Sized Robotic Systems and Applications, :28-38, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Adsorption and Self-Assembly of M13 Phage into Directionally Organized Structures on C and SiO2 Films Moghimian, P., Srot, V., Rothenstein, D., Facey, S. J., Harnau, L., Bill, J., van Aken, P. A. Langmuir, 30:11428-11432, American Chemical Society, Columbus, OH, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Alignment of cylindrical colloids near chemically patterned substrates induced by critical Casimir torques Labbe-Laurent, M., Tröndle, M., Harnau, L., Dietrich, S. Soft Matter, 10(13):2270-2291, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper An Experimental Comparison of Bayesian Optimization for Bipedal Locomotion Calandra, R., Seyfarth, A., Peters, J., Deisenroth, M. In Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, :1951-1958, IEEE, ICRA, 2014 (Published) PDF 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

Empirical Inference Article An extended approach for spatiotemporal gapfilling: dealing with large and systematic gaps in geoscientific datasets v Buttlar, J., Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 21(1):203-215, 2014 () PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Analysis of Distance Functions in Graphs Alamgir, M. University of Hamburg, Germany, University of Hamburg, Germany, 2014 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Analytical modeling and experimental characterization of chemotaxis in serratia marcescens Zhuang, J., Wei, G., Carlsen, R. W., Edwards, M. R., Marculescu, R., Bogdan, P., Sitti, M. Physical Review E, 89(5):052704, American Physical Society, 2014 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Assessing attention and cognitive function in completely locked-in state with event-related brain potentials and epidural electrocorticography Bensch, M., Martens, S., Halder, S., Hill, J., Nijboer, F., Ramos, A., Birbaumer, N., Bodgan, M., Kotchoubey, B., Rosenstiel, W., et al. Journal of Neural Engineering, 11(2):026006, 2014 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Assessing randomness and complexity in human motion trajectories through analysis of symbolic sequences Peng, Z., Genewein, T., Braun, D. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8(168):1-13, March 2014 () DOI 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

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Bayesian Gait Optimization for Bipedal Locomotion Calandra, R., Gopalan, N., Seyfarth, A., Peters, J., Deisenroth, M. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization , LNCS 8426:274-290, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Pardalos, PM., Resende, MGC., Vogiatzis, C., and Walteros, JL.), Springer, LION, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bio-Hybrid Cell-Based Actuators for Microsystems Carlsen, R. W., Sitti, M. Small, 10(19):3831-3851, 2014 () DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Biocompatible, accurate, and fully autonomous: a sperm-driven micro-bio-robot Khalil, I. S. M., Magdanz, V., Sanchez, S., Schmidt, O. G., Misra, S. Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, 9(3-4):79-86, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Biopsy using a Magnetic Capsule Endoscope Carrying, Releasing and Retrieving Untethered Micro-Grippers Yim, S., Gultepe, E., Gracias, D. H., Sitti, M. IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 61(2):513-521, IEEE, 2014 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Can DC motors directly drive flapping wings at high frequency and large wing strokes? Campolo, D., Azhar, M., Lau, G., Sitti, M. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 19(1):109-120, 2014 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Capillary attraction induced collapse of colloidal monolayers at fluid interfaces Bleibel, J., Dominguez, A., Oettel, M., Dietrich, S. Soft Matter, 10(23):4091-4109, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Master Thesis Causal Discovery in the Presence of Time-Dependent Relations or Small Sample Size Huang, B. Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2014 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Causal Discovery with Continuous Additive Noise Models Peters, J., Mooij, J., Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 15:2009-2053, 2014 (Published) PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Causal and Anti-Causal Learning in Pattern Recognition for Neuroimaging Weichwald, S., Schölkopf, B., Ball, T., Grosse-Wentrup, M. In 4th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging (PRNI), IEEE , PRNI, 2014 () PDF Arxiv DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Causal discovery via reproducing kernel Hilbert space embeddings Chen, Z., Zhang, K., Chan, L., Schölkopf, B. Neural Computation, 26(7):1484-1517, 2014 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Chiral Nanomagnets Eslami, S., Gibbs, J. G., Rechkemmer, Y., van Slageren, J., Alarcon-Correa, M., Lee, T., Mark, A. G., Rikken, G. L. J. A., Fischer, P. ACS PHOTONICS, 1(11):1231-1236, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Circular polarization interferometry: circularly polarized modes of cholesteric liquid crystals Sanchez-Castillo, A., Eslami, S., Giesselmann, F., Fischer, P. OPTICS EXPRESS, 22(25):31227-31236, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Clay nanotube encapsulation for functional biocomposites Lvov, Y., Aerov, A. A., Aerov, A. A., Fakhrullin, R. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 207:189-198, 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Cluster analysis of sharp-wave ripple field potential signatures in the macaque hippocampus Ramirez-Villegas, J. F., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2014), 2014 (Published) BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Collapse and reversibility of the superhydrophobic state on nanotextured surfaces Checco, A., Ocko, B. M., Rahman, A., Black, C. T., Tasinkevych, M., Giacomello, A., Dietrich, S. Physical Review Letters, 112(21):216101, American Physical Society., Woodbury, N.Y., etc., 2014 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Concentration quenching of the luminescence from trivalent thulium, terbium, and erbium ions embedded in an AlN matrix Benz, F., Gonser, A., Volker, R., Walther, T., Mosebach, J. T., Schwanda, B., Mayer, N., Richter, G., Strunk, H. P. Journal of Luminescence, 145:855-858, 2014 () DOI BibTeX