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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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Robot Learning

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2022

Autonomous Learning

Robotics

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Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning-based solution to phase error correction in T2*-weighted GRE scans Loktyushin, A., Ehses, P., Schölkopf, B., Scheffler, K. 1st International conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL), July 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Nonstationary GANs: Analysis as Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems Mehrjou, A., Schölkopf, B. Workshop on Theoretical Foundations and Applications of Deep Generative Models at ICML, July 2018 (Published) PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper On Matching Pursuit and Coordinate Descent Locatello, F., Raj, A., Praneeth Karimireddy, S., Rätsch, G., Schölkopf, B., Stich, S. U., Jaggi, M. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 80:3204-3213, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Dy, Jennifer and Krause, Andreas), PMLR, July 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper PIPPS: Flexible Model-Based Policy Search Robust to the Curse of Chaos Parmas, P., Rasmussen, C., Peters, J., Doya, K. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 80:4065-4074, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Dy, Jennifer and Krause, Andreas), PMLR, July 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Probabilistic Recurrent State-Space Models Doerr, A., Daniel, C., Schiegg, M., Nguyen-Tuong, D., Schaal, S., Toussaint, M., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2018 (Published) arXiv pdf BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Real-time Perception meets Reactive Motion Generation Kappler, D., Meier, F., Issac, J., Mainprice, J., Garcia Cifuentes, C., Wüthrich, M., Berenz, V., Schaal, S., Ratliff, N., Bohg, J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(3):1864-1871, July 2018 (Published) arxiv video video DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Movement Generation and Control Article Robust Physics-based Motion Retargeting with Realistic Body Shapes Borno, M. A., Righetti, L., Black, M. J., Delp, S. L., Fiume, E., Romero, J. Computer Graphics Forum, 37:6:1-12, July 2018 () pdf video BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Robust Visual Augmented Reality in Robot-Assisted Surgery Forte, M. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, July 2018, Department of Electronic, Information, and Biomedical Engineering () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Task-Driven PCA-Based Design Optimization of Wearable Cutaneous Devices Pacchierotti, C., Young, E. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(3):2214-2221, July 2018, Presented at ICRA 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Teaching a Robot Bimanual Hand-Clapping Games via Wrist-Worn IMUs Fitter, N. T., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, 5(85), July 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Tempered Adversarial Networks Sajjadi, M. S. M., Parascandolo, G., Mehrjou, A., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 80:4448-4456, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Dy, Jennifer and Krause, Andreas), PMLR, July 2018 (Published) arXiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper The Mirage of Action-Dependent Baselines in Reinforcement Learning Tucker, G., Bhupatiraju, S., Gu, S., Turner, R., Ghahramani, Z., Levine, S. Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 80:5022-5031, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Dy, Jennifer and Krause, Andreas), PMLR, July 2018 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Motility and chemotaxis of bacteria-driven microswimmers fabricated using antigen 43-mediated biotin display Schauer, O., Mostaghaci, B., Colin, R., Hürtgen, D., Kraus, D., Sitti, M., Sourjik, V. Scientific Reports, 8(1):9801, Nature Publishing Group, June 2018 () DOI URL BibTeX

Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Event-triggered Learning for Resource-efficient Networked Control Solowjow, F., Baumann, D., Garcke, J., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), :6506 - 6512, American Control Conference, June 2018 (Published) arXiv PDF DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Innate turning preference of leaf-cutting ants in the absence of external orientation cues Endlein, T., Sitti, M. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(14):jeb177006, The Company of Biologists Ltd, June 2018 () DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Ph.D. Thesis Colloidal Chemical Nanomotors Alarcon-Correa, M. Colloidal Chemical Nanomotors, Cuvillier Verlag, Univ. of Stuttgart, June 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Delivering 6-DOF Fingertip Tactile Cues Young, E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (5 pages) presented at EuroHaptics, Pisa, Italy, June 2018 () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Designing a Haptic Empathetic Robot Animal for Children with Autism Burns, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (4 pages) presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Robot-Mediated Autism Intervention: Hardware, Software and Curriculum, Pittsburgh, USA, June 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Frame-Recurrent Video Super-Resolution Sajjadi, M. S. M., Vemulapalli, R., Brown, M. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , :6626-6634, June 2018 (Published) ArXiv DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Haptipedia: Exploring Haptic Device Design Through Interactive Visualizations Seifi, H., Fazlollahi, F., Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J., MacLean, K. E. Hands-on demonstration presented at EuroHaptics, Pisa, Italy, June 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Article Infinite Factorial Finite State Machine for Blind Multiuser Channel Estimation Ruiz, F. J. R., Valera, I., Svensson, L., Perez-Cruz, F. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 4(2):177-191, June 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Face Deblurring Fast and Wide Jin, M., Hirsch, M., Favaro, P. The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, :745-753, June 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Multifunctional ferrofluid-infused surfaces with reconfigurable multiscale topography Wang, W., Timonen, J. V. I., Carlson, A., Drotlef, D., Zhang, C. T., Kolle, S., Grinthal, A., Wong, T., Hatton, B., Kang, S. H., et al. Nature, 559(7712):77-82, 2018 () DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Article Oncilla robot: a versatile open-source quadruped research robot with compliant pantograph legs Sproewitz, A., Tuleu, A., Ajallooeian, M., Vespignani, M., Moeckel, R., Eckert, P., D’Haene, M., Degrave, J., Nordmann, A., Schrauwen, B., et al. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5(67), June 2018, arXiv: 1803.06259 (Published) c4science repository DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Passive Probing Perception: Effect of Latency in Visual-Haptic Feedback Gourishetti, R., Isaac, J. H. R., Manivannan, M. In :186-198, Springer, Cham, EuroHaptics, June 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Reducing 3D Vibrations to 1D in Real Time Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at EuroHaptics, Pisa, Italy, June 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Soft Multi-Axis Boundary-Electrode Tactile Sensors for Whole-Body Robotic Skin Lee, H., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the RSS Pioneers Workshop, Pittsburgh, USA, June 2018 () BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper Learning from Outside the Viability Kernel: Why we Should Build Robots that can Fail with Grace Heim, S., Sproewitz, A. Proceedings of SIMPAR 2018, :55-61, IEEE, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), May 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Bioinspired microrobots Palagi, S., Fischer, P. Nature Reviews Materials, 3:113–124, May 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Assisting Movement Training and Execution With Visual and Haptic Feedback Ewerton, M., Rother, D., Weimar, J., Kollegger, G., Wiemeyer, J., Peters, J., Maeda, G. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 12, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Optics and Sensing Laboratory Conference Paper Automatic Estimation of Modulation Transfer Functions Bauer, M., Volchkov, V., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B. IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), :1-12, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Causal Discovery Using Proxy Variables Rojas-Carulla, M., Baroni, M., Lopez-Paz, D. Workshop at 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fidelity-Weighted Learning Dehghani, M., Mehrjou, A., Gouws, S., Kamps, J., Schölkopf, B. 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Book Chapter Haptics and Haptic Interfaces Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Encyclopedia of Robotics, (Editors: Marcelo H. Ang and Oussama Khatib and Bruno Siciliano), Springer, May 2018 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Inducing Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars for the Sequencing of Movement Primitives Lioutikov, R., Maeda, G., Veiga, F., Kersting, K., Peters, J. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), :1-8, IEEE, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Coupled Forward-Inverse Models with Combined Prediction Errors Koert, D., Maeda, G., Neumann, G., Peters, J. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), :2433-2439, IEEE, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Disentangled Representations with Wasserstein Auto-Encoders Rubenstein, P. K., Schölkopf, B., Tolstikhin, I. Workshop at the 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Sensor Feedback Models from Demonstrations via Phase-Modulated Neural Networks Sutanto, G., Su, Z., Schaal, S., Meier, F. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018, IEEE, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2018 (Published) pdf video BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Leave no Trace: Learning to Reset for Safe and Autonomous Reinforcement Learning Eysenbach, B., Gu, S., Ibarz, J., Levine, S. 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) Videos URL BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article Nonlinear decoding of a complex movie from the mammalian retina Botella-Soler, V., Deny, S., Martius, G., Marre, O., Tkačik, G. PLOS Computational Biology, 14(5):1-27, Public Library of Science, May 2018 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Online Learning of a Memory for Learning Rates Meier, F., Kappler, D., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018, IEEE, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2018, accepted () pdf video code BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Robust Dense Mapping for Large-Scale Dynamic Environments Barsan, I. A., Liu, P., Pollefeys, M., Geiger, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018, IEEE, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2018 () pdf Video Project Page BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Sample and Feedback Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences Pinsler, R., Akrour, R., Osa, T., Peters, J., Neumann, G. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), :596-601, IEEE, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper Shaping in Practice: Training Wheels to Learn Fast Hopping Directly in Hardware Heim, S., Ruppert, F., Sarvestani, A., Sproewitz, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018, :5076-5081, IEEE, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2018 (Published) Video Youtube URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Sobolev GAN Mroueh, Y., Li*, C., Sercu*, T., Raj*, A., Cheng, Y. 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Soft Miniaturized Linear Actuators Wirelessly Powered by Rotating Permanent Magnets Qiu, T., Palagi, S., Sachs, J., Fischer, P. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :3595-3600, Piscataway, NJ, USA, May 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX