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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

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Empirical Inference Poster Autofocusing-based correction of B0 fluctuation-induced ghosting Loktyushin, A., Ehses, P., Schölkopf, B., Scheffler, K. 24th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM 2016), May 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Auxetic Metamaterial Simplifies Soft Robot Design Mark, A. G., Palagi, S., Qiu, T., Fischer, P. In 2016 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :4951-4956, Piscataway, NJ, USA, May 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Batch Bayesian Optimization via Local Penalization González, J., Dai, Z., Hennig, P., Lawrence, N. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 51:648-657, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: Gretton, A. and Robert, C. C.), May 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Communication Rate Analysis for Event-based State Estimation Ebner, S., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Discrete Event Systems, May 2016 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Drifting Gaussian Processes with Varying Neighborhood Sizes for Online Model Learning Meier, F., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2016, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2016 () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Implications of Action-Oriented Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive Science Dominey, P. F., Prescott, T. J., Bohg, J., Engel, A. K., Gallagher, S., Heed, T., Hoffmann, M., Knoblich, G., Prinz, W., Schwartz, A. In The Pragmatic Turn - Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science, 18:333-356, 20, Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 18, J. Lupp, series editor, (Editors: Andreas K. Engel and Karl J. Friston and Danica Kragic), The MIT Press, 18th Ernst Strüngmann Forum, May 2016, In press (In press) The Pragmatic Turn - Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science 18th Ernst Strüngmann Forum Bibliography Chapter URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Learning Action-Perception Cycles in Robotics: A Question of Representations and Embodiment Bohg, J., Kragic, D. In The Pragmatic Turn - Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science, 18:309-320, 18, Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 18, J. Lupp, series editor, (Editors: Andreas K. Engel and Karl J. Friston and Danica Kragic), The MIT Press, 18th Ernst Strüngmann Forum, May 2016, In press (In press) 18th Ernst Strüngmann Forum The Pragmatic Turn- Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science Bibliography Chapter URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning soft task priorities for control of redundant robots Modugno, V., Neumann, G., Rueckert, E., Oriolo, G., Peters, J., Ivaldi, S. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :221-226, IEEE, May 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Movement Primitives with Multiple Phase Parameters Ewerton, M., Maeda, G., Neumann, G., Kisner, V., Kollegger, G., Wiemeyer, J., Peters, J. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :201-206, IEEE, May 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper MuProp: Unbiased Backpropagation for Stochastic Neural Networks Gu, S., Levine, S., Sutskever, I., Mnih, A. 4th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2016 () Arxiv BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Conference Paper On the Reliability of Information and Trustworthiness of Web Sources in Wikipedia Tabibian, B., Farajtabar, M., Valera, I., Song, L., Schölkopf, B., Gomez Rodriguez, M. Wikipedia workshop at the 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), May 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Patterned and Specific Attachment of Bacteria on Biohybrid Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers Singh, A. V., Sitti, M. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 5(18):2325-2331, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Phase Change of Gallium Enables Highly Reversible and Switchable Adhesion (Adv. Mater. 25/2016) Ye, Z., Lum, G. Z., Song, S., Rich, S., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 28(25):5088-5092, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Probabilistic Approximate Least-Squares Bartels, S., Hennig, P. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 51:676-684, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: Gretton, A. and Robert, C. C. ), May 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Article Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter Lum, G. Z., Ye, Z., Dong, X., Marvi, H., Erin, O., Hu, W., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(41):E6007–E6015, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Sperm-shaped magnetic microrobots: Fabrication using electrospinning, modeling, and characterization Khalil, I. S., Tabak, A. F., Hosney, A., Mohamed, A., Klingner, A., Ghoneima, M., Sitti, M. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :1939-1944, May 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper TerseSVM : A Scalable Approach for Learning Compact Models in Large-scale Classification Babbar, R., Muandet, K., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 2016 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), :234-242, (Editors: Sanjay Chawla Venkatasubramanian and Wagner Meira), May 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Ph.D. Thesis Chiral Metamaterials Eslami, S. Univ. of Stuttgart, April 2016 () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Poster Distinct adaptation to abrupt and gradual torque perturbations with a multi-joint exoskeleton robot Oh, Y., Sutanto, G., Mistry, M., Schweighofer, N., Schaal, S. Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2016), Montego Bay, Jamaica, April 2016 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Peer Grading in a Course on Algorithms and Data Structures: Machine Learning Algorithms do not Improve over Simple Baselines Sajjadi, M. S. M., Alamgir, M., von Luxburg, U. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Learning @ Scale, :369-378, (Editors: Haywood, J. and Aleven, V. and Kay, J. and Roll, I.), ACM, L@S, April 2016, (An earlier version of this paper had been presented at the ICML 2015 workshop for Machine Learning for Education.) (Published) Arxiv Peer-Grading dataset request BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Towards Photo-Induced Swimming: Actuation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer in Water cerretti, G., Martella, D., Zeng, H., Parmeggiani, C., Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Qiu, T., Fischer, P., Wiersma, D. In Proc. of SPIE 9738, :Laser 3D Manufacturing III, 97380T, Bellingham, Washington, April 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Chemotaxis of bio-hybrid multiple bacteria-driven microswimmers Zhuang, J., Sitti, M. Scientific reports, 6(1):1-10, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Dispersion and shape engineered plasmonic nanosensors Jeong, H. H., Mark, A. G., Alarcon-Correa, M., Kim, I., Oswald, P., Lee, T. C., Fischer, P. Nature Communications, 7:11331, March 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Inflated soft actuators with reversible stable deformations Hines, L., Petersen, K., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 28(19):3690-3696, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Remotely addressable magnetic composite micro-actuators Sitti, M., Diller, E., Miyashita, S. February 2016, US Patent 9,281,112 () URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Appealing female avatars from 3D body scans: Perceptual effects of stylization Fleming, R., Mohler, B., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Breidt, M. In 11th Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), February 2016 () pdf BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Parallel microcracks-based ultrasensitive and highly stretchable strain sensors Amjadi, M., Turan, M., Clementson, C. P., Sitti, M. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 8(8):5618-5626, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Miscellaneous Remotely addressable magnetic composite micro-actuators Sitti, M., Diller, E., Miyashita, S. 2016, US Patent 9,281,112 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Stretchable, Skin-Mountable, and Wearable Strain Sensors and Their Potential Applications: A Review Amjadi, M., Kyung, K., Park, I., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 26(11):1678-1698, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fabular: Regression Formulas As Probabilistic Programming Borgström, J., Gordon, A. D., Ouyang, L., Russo, C., Ścibior, A., Szymczak, M. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), :271-283, POPL ’16, ACM, January 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Human Pose Estimation from Video and IMUs Marcard, T. V., Pons-Moll, G., Rosenhahn, B. Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence PAMI, 38(8):1533-1547, January 2016 (Published) data pdf dataset_documentation BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Magnetic Propulsion of Microswimmers with DNA-Based Flagellar Bundles Maier, A. M., Weig, C., Oswald, P., Frey, E., Fischer, P., Liedl, T. Nano Letters, 16(2):906-910, January 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article On estimation of functional causal models: General results and application to post-nonlinear causal model Zhang, K., Wang, Z., Zhang, J., Schölkopf, B. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, 7(2):article no. 13, January 2016 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Size optimization of a magnetic system for drug delivery with capsule robots Munoz, F., Alici, G., Li, W., Sitti, M. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 52(5):1-11, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster PGO wave-triggered functional MRI: mapping the networks underlying synaptic consolidation Logothetis, N. K., Murayama, Y., Ramirez-Villegas, J. F., Besserve, M., Evrard, H. 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2016), 2016 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Causal, Data-driven Approach to Modeling the Kepler Data Wang, D., Hogg, D. W., Foreman-Mackey, D., Schölkopf, B. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128(967):094503, 2016, Astrophysics Source Code Library ascl: 2107.024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper A Convex Model of Momentum Dynamics for Multi-Contact Motion Generation Ponton, B., Herzog, A., Schaal, S., Righetti, L. In 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots Humanoids, :842-849, IEEE, Cancun, Mexico, 2016 () DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Population Based Gaussian Mixture Model Incorporating 18F-FDG-PET and DW-MRI Quantifies Tumor Tissue Classes Divine, M. R., Katiyar, P., Kohlhofer, U., Quintanilla-Martinez, L., Disselhorst, J. A., Pichler, B. J. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 57(3):473-479, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Optics and Sensing Laboratory Article A Quaternary fault database for central Asia Mohadjer, S. E. T. A. B. R. S. K., Strube, T. A. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 16(16):529-542, 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter A cognitive brain–computer interface for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Hohmann, M., Fomina, T., Jayaram, V., Widmann, N., Förster, C., Just, J., Synofzik, M., Schölkopf, B., Schöls, L., Grosse-Wentrup, M. In Brain-Computer Interfaces: Lab Experiments to Real-World Applications, 228(Supplement C):221-239, 8, Progress in Brain Research, (Editors: Damien Coyle), Elsevier, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article A dynamic DFT approach to generalized diffusion equations in a system with long-ranged and hydrodynamic interactions Bleibel, J., Dominguez, A., Oettel, M. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 28(24), IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article A flexible method for the preparation of thin film samples for in situ TEM characterization combining shadow-FIB milling and electron beam-assisted etching Liebig, J. P., Goken, M., Richter, G., Mackovic, M., Przybilla, T., Spiecker, E., Pierron, O. N., Merle, B. Ultramicroscopy, 171:82-88, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Miscellaneous A note on the expected minimum error probability in equientropic channels Weichwald, S., Fomina, T., Schölkopf, B., Grosse-Wentrup, M. 2016 (Published) PDF Arxiv BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Active colloids at fluid interfaces Malgaretti, P., Popescu, M. N., Dietrich, S. Soft Matter, 12(17):4007-4023, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2016 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Algorithmic independence of initial condition and dynamical law in thermodynamics and causal inference Janzing, D., Chaves, R., Schölkopf, B. New Journal of Physics, 18(9):article no. 093052, 2016 (Published) PDF DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article An overview of quantitative approaches in Gestalt perception Jäkel, F., Singh, M., Wichmann, F. A., Herzog, M. H. Vision Research, 126:3-8, 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX