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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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Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Liquid bridging of cylindrical colloids in near-critical solvents Labbe-Laurent, M., Law, A. D., Dietrich, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 147(10):104701, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Manifold-based multi-objective policy search with sample reuse Parisi, S., Pirotta, M., Peters, J. Neurocomputing, 263:3-14, (Editors: Madalina Drugan, Marco Wiering, Peter Vamplew, and Madhu Chetty), 2017, Special Issue on Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Many-body heat radiation and heat transfer in the presence of a nonabsorbing background medium Müller, B., Incardone, R., Antezza, M., Emig, T., Krüger, M. Physical Review B, 95(8), American Physical Society, Woodbury, NY, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Measurement of second-order response without perturbation Helden, L., Basu, U., Krüger, M., Bechinger, C. EPL, 116(6), IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Mesoscopic Correlation Functions in Heterogeneous Ionic Liquids Weiss, H., Mars, J., Li, H., Kircher, G., Ivanova, O., Feoktystov, A., Soltwedel, O., Bier, M., Mezger, M. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121(3):620-629, American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Methods and measurements to compare men against machines Wichmann, F. A., Janssen, D. H. J., Geirhos, R., Aguilar, G., Schütt, H. H., Maertens, M., Bethge, M. Electronic Imaging, :36-45(10), 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Microbots Decorated with Silver Nanoparticles Kill Bacteria in Aqueous Media Vilela, D., Stanton, M. M., Parmar, J., Sánchez, S. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9(27):22093-22100, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Microemulsion-Based Soft Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers for Active Cargo Delivery Singh, A. V., Hosseinidoust, Z., Park, B., Yasa, O., Sitti, M. ACS Nano, 11(10):9759-9769, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Minimax Estimation of Kernel Mean Embeddings Tolstikhin, I., Sriperumbudur, B., Muandet, K. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 18(86):1-47, 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Book Mobile Microrobotics Sitti, M. Mobile Microrobotics, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2017 (Published) Mobile Microrobotics By Metin Sitti - Chapter 1 (PDF) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications Ceylan, H., Giltinan, J., Kozielski, K., Sitti, M. Lab on a Chip, 17(10):1705-1724, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Mode Evolution in Strongly Coupled Plasmonic Dolmens Fabricated by Templated Assembly Flauraud, V., Bernasconi, G. D., Butet, J., Mastrangeli, M., Alexander, D. T. L., Martin, O. J. F., Brugger, J. ACS Photonics, 4(7):1661-1668, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Model Selection for Gaussian Mixture Models Huang, T., Peng, H., Zhang, K. Statistica Sinica, 27(1):147-169, 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Model microswimmers in channels with varying cross section Malgaretti, P., Stark, H. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 146(17):174901, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Model-based Contextual Policy Search for Data-Efficient Generalization of Robot Skills Kupcsik, A., Deisenroth, M., Peters, J., Ai Poh, L., Vadakkepat, V., Neumann, G. Artificial Intelligence, 247:415-439, 2017, Special Issue on AI and Robotics (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Book Chapter Momentum-Centered Control of Contact Interactions Righetti, L., Herzog, A. In Geometric and Numerical Foundations of Movements, 117:339-359, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Springer, Cham, 2017 () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Multi-fractal characterization of bacterial swimming dynamics: a case study on real and simulated Serratia marcescens Koorehdavoudi, H., Bogdan, P., Wei, G., Marculescu, R., Zhuang, J., Carlsen, R. W., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 473(2203), 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Multiaxial Polarity Determines Individual Cellular and Nuclear Chirality Raymond, M. J., Ray, P., Kaur, G., Fredericks, M., Singh, A. V., Wan, L. Q. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 10(1):63-74, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Nematic films at chemically structured surfaces Silvestre, N. M., Telo da Gama, M. M., Tasinkevych, M. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 29(7), IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Article New Directions for Learning with Kernels and Gaussian Processes (Dagstuhl Seminar 16481) Gretton, A., Hennig, P., Rasmussen, C., Schölkopf, B. Dagstuhl Reports, 6(11):142-167, 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Non-parametric Policy Search with Limited Information Loss van Hoof, H., Neumann, G., Peters, J. Journal of Machine Learning Research , 18(73):1-46, 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Nonadditive interactions and phase transitions in strongly confined colloidal systems Vasilyev, O., Dietrich, S., Kondrat, S. Soft Matter, 14(4):586-596, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Nonequilibrium Fluctuational Quantum Electrodynamics: Heat Radiation, Heat Transfer, and Force Bimonte, G., Emig, T., Kardar, M., Krüger, M. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 8:119-143, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article On Maximum Entropy and Inference Gresele, L., Marsili, M. Entropy, 19(12):article no. 642, 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Onset of anomalous diffusion in colloids confined to quasimonolayers Bleibel, J., Dominguez, A., Oettel, M. Physical Review E, 95, American Physical Society, Melville, NY, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Particles with nonlinear electric response: Suppressing van der Waals forces by an external field Soo, H., Dean, D. S., Krüger, M. Physical Review E, 95(1), American Physical Society, Melville, NY, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Pattern Generation for Walking on Slippery Terrains Khadiv, M., Moosavian, S. A. A., Herzog, A., Righetti, L. In 2017 5th International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICROM), Iran, August 2017 () URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Perils of ad hoc approximations for the activity function of chemically powered colloids Popescu, M. N., Uspal, W. E., Tasinkevych, M., Dietrich, S. The European Physical Journal E, 40(4):42, EDP Sciences; Società Italiana di Fisica; Springer, Les Ulis; Bologna; Heidelberg, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Phase Estimation for Fast Action Recognition and Trajectory Generation in Human-Robot Collaboration Maeda, G., Ewerton, M., Neumann, G., Lioutikov, R., Peters, J. International Journal of Robotics Research, 36(13-14):1579-1594, 2017, Special Issue on the Seventeenth International Symposium on Robotics Research (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Planning spin-walking locomotion for automatic grasping of microobjects by an untethered magnetic microgripper Dong, X., Sitti, M. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :6612-6618, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Platinum-free cobalt ferrite based micromotors for antibiotic removal Parmar, J., Villa, K., Vilela, D., Sánchez, S. Applied Materials Today, 9:605-611, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Policy Gradient Methods Peters, J., Bagnell, J. In Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining, :982-985, 2nd, (Editors: Sammut, Claude and Webb, Geoffrey I.), Springer US, 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Prediction of intention during interaction with iCub with Probabilistic Movement Primitives Dermy, O., Paraschos, A., Ewerton, M., Charpillet, F., Peters, J., Ivaldi, S. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4:45, 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Pushing Bacterial Biohybrids to In Vivo Applications Stanton, M. M., Sánchez, S. Trends in Biotechnology, 35(10):910-913, Elsevier Current Trends, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Recent Advances in Skin Penetration Enhancers for Transdermal Gene and Drug Delivery Amjadia, M., Mostaghacia, B., Sittia, M. Current Gene Therapy, 17(2):139-146, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Reliability of Single Crystal Silver Nanowire-Based Systems: Stress Assisted Instabilities Ramachandramoorthy, R., Wang, Y. M., Aghaei, A., Richter, G., Cai, W., Espinosa, H. D. Acs Nano, 11(5):4768-4776, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Optics and Sensing Laboratory Article Review of GPS and Quaternary fault slip rates in the Himalaya-Tibet orogen Mohadjer, S. E. T. A. B. R., Mutz, S. G. Earth-Science Reviews , 174(174):39-52, 2017 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Motion Book Chapter Robot Learning Peters, J., Lee, D., Kober, J., Nguyen-Tuong, D., Bagnell, J., Schaal, S. In Springer Handbook of Robotics, :357-394, 15, 2nd, (Editors: Siciliano, Bruno and Khatib, Oussama), Springer International Publishing, 2017 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Robot Learning Peters, J., Tedrake, R., Roy, N., Morimoto, J. In Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining, :1106-1109, 2nd, (Editors: Sammut, Claude and Webb, Geoffrey I.), Springer US, 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Rotational motion of dimers of Janus particles Majee, A. European Physical Journal E, 40(3), Springer, Berlin, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article SUV-quantification of physiological lung tissue in an integrated PET/MR-system: Impact of lung density and bone tissue Seith, F., Schmidt, H., Gatidis, S., Bezrukov, I., Schraml, C., Pfannenberg, C., la Fougère, C., Nikolaou, K., Schwenzer, N. PLOS ONE, 12(5):1-13, 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX