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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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Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Confinement effects on diffusiophoretic self-propellers Popescu, M. N., Dietrich, S., Oshanin, G. Journal of Chemical Physics, 130(19):194702, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Controlled Propulsion of Artificial Magnetic Nanostructured Propellers Ghosh, A., Fischer, P. NANO LETTERS, 9(6):2243-2245, 2009, Featured highlight ‘Nanotechnology: The helix that delivers’ Nature 459, 13 (2009). () Video - Nanospropellers DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Coupling of rotational motion with shape fluctuations of core-shell microgels having tunable softness Bolisetty, S., Hoffmann, M., Lekkala, S., Hellweg, T., Ballauff, M., Harnau, L. Macromolecules, 42:1264-1269, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Covariate shift and local learning by distribution matching Gretton, A., Smola, A., Huang, J., Schmittfull, M., Borgwardt, K., Schölkopf, B. In Dataset Shift in Machine Learning, :131-160, (Editors: Quiñonero-Candela, J., Sugiyama, M., Schwaighofer, A. and Lawrence, N. D.), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Critical Casimir effect in classical binary liquid mixtures Gambassi, A., Maciolek, A., Hertlein, C., Nellen, U., Helden, L., Bechinger, C., Dietrich, S. Physical Review E, 80(6):061143, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Critical Casimir interaction of ellipsoidal colloids with a planar wall Kondrat, S., Harnau, L., Dietrich, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 131(20):204902, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Conference Paper Critical and multicritical behavior of the +/-J Ising model in two and three dimensions Hasenbusch, M., Parisen Toldin, F., Pelissetto, A., Vicari, E. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 145, Braunschweig, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Critical wetting transitions in two-dimensional systems subject to long-ranged boundary fields Drzewinski, A., Maciolek, A., Barasinski, A., Dietrich, S. Physical Review E, 79(4):041144, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Dangling chain elastomers as repeatable fibrillar adhesives Sitti, M., Cusick, B., Aksak, B., Nese, A., Lee, H., Dong, H., Kowalewski, T., Matyjaszewski, K. ACS applied materials \& interfaces, 1(10):2277-2287, American Chemical Society, 2009 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Derivation of a non-local interfacial model for 3D wetting in an external field Bernardino, N. R., Parry, A. O., Rascon, C., Romero-Enrique, J. M. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 21(46), 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Discussion of: Brownian Distance Covariance Gretton, A., Fukumizu, K., Sriperumbudur, B. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 3(4):1285-1294, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Dry spinning based spinneret based tunable engineered parameters (STEP) technique for controlled and aligned deposition of polymeric nanofibers Nain, A. S., Sitti, M., Jacobson, A., Kowalewski, T., Amon, C. Macromolecular rapid communications, 30(16):1406-1412, WILEY-VCH Verlag, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Dynamic modeling and analysis of pitch motion of a basilisk lizard inspired quadruped robot running on water Park, H. S., Floyd, S., Sitti, M. In Robotics and Automation, 2009. ICRA’09. IEEE International Conference on, :2655-2660, 2009 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Dynamics of nanodroplets on topographically structured substrates Moosavi, A., Rauscher, M., Dietrich, S. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 21(46):464120, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Effective interactions of colloids on nematic films Oettel, M., Dominguez, A., Tasinkevych, M., Dietrich, S. European Physical Journal E, 28(2):99-111, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficient Bregman Range Search Cayton, L. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, :243-251, (Editors: Bengio, Y. , D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. Williams, A. Culotta), Curran, Red Hook, NY, USA, 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009), 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Enhanced adhesion by gecko-inspired hierarchical fibrillar adhesives Murphy, M. P., Kim, S., Sitti, M. ACS applied materials \& interfaces, 1(4):849-855, American Chemical Society, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Enhanced reversible adhesion of dopamine methacrylamide-coated elastomer microfibrillar structures under wet conditions Glass, P., Chung, H., Washburn, N. R., Sitti, M. Langmuir, 25(12):6607-6612, ACS Publications, 2009 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fast subtree kernels on graphs Shervashidze, N., Borgwardt, K. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, :1660-1668, (Editors: Bengio, Y. , D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. Williams, A. Culotta), Curran, Red Hook, NY, USA, 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009), 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Free-energy function based on an all-atom model for proteins Yoshidome, T., Oda, K., Harano, Y., Roth, R., Sugita, Y., Ikeguchi, M., Kinoshita, M. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 77(4):950-961, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Full phase and amplitude control in computer-generated holography Fratz, M., Fischer, P., Giel, D. M. OPTICS LETTERS, 34(23):3659-3661, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Gecko-Inspired Directional and Controllable Adhesion Murphy, M. P., Aksak, B., Sitti, M. Small, 5(2):170-175, WILEY-VCH Verlag, 2009 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Graphical models for decoding in BCI visual speller systems Martens, S., Farquhar, J., Hill, J., Schölkopf, B. In :470-473, IEEE, 4th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER 2009), 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article High-resolution TEM investigation of structure and composition of polar Pd/ZnO interfaces Saito, M., Wagner, T., Richter, G., Ruhle, M. Physical Review B, 80(13), 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Human optimization strategies under reward feedback Hoffmann, H., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S. In Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2009), Waikoloa, Hawaii, 2009, 2009, clmc () BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Incorporating Muscle Activation-Contraction dynamics to an optimal control framework for finger movements Theodorou, E. A., Valero-Cuevas, F. J. Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2009), 2009, clmc () PDF BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Inertial parameter estimation of floating-base humanoid systems using partial force sensing Mistry, M., Schaal, S., Yamane, K. In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2009), Paris, Dec.7-10, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Interaction of cylindrical polymer brushes in dilute and semi-dilute solution Bolisetty, S., Rosenfeldt, S., Rochette, C. N., Harnau, L., Lindner, P., Xu, Y., Mueller, A. H. E., Ballauff, M. Colloid and Polymer Science, 287:129-138, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Interplay of complete wetting, critical adsorption, and capillary condensation Drzewinski, A., Maciolek, A., Barasinski, A., Dietrich, S. Physical Review E, 79(4):041145, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Investigation of the Bulge Test Response of Molybdenum Thin Films at Room Temperature and at 100 degrees C Walter, M. E., Schneider, A. S., Wubben, T., Richter, G., Arzt, E. Strain, 45(3):238-248, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Kernel Choice and Classifiability for RKHS Embeddings of Probability Distributions Sriperumbudur, B., Fukumizu, K., Gretton, A., Lanckriet, G., Schölkopf, B. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22: 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2009, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, :1750-1758, (Editors: Y Bengio and D Schuurmans and J Lafferty and C Williams and A Culotta), Curran, Red Hook, NY, USA, 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009), 2009 () PDF Web BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Layering of (BMIM)+-based ionic liquids at a charged sapphire interface Mezger, M., Schramm, S., Schröder, H., Reichert, H., Deutsch, M., de Souza, E. J., Okasinski, J. S., Ocko, B. M., Honkimäki, V., Dosch, H. Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning and generalization of motor skills by learning from demonstration Pastor, P., Hoffmann, H., Asfour, T., Schaal, S. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009), Kobe, Japan, May 12-19, 2009, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning locomotion over rough terrain using terrain templates Kalakrishnan, M., Buchli, J., Pastor, P., Schaal, S. In Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :167-172, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Line tension and the shape of nanodroplets Schimmele, L., Dietrich, S. European Physical Journal E, 30(4):427-430, 2009 () DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Local dimensionality reduction for non-parametric regression Hoffman, H., Schaal, S., Vijayakumar, S. Neural Processing Letters, 2009, clmc () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Magnetic mobile micro-robots Pawashe, C., Floyd, S., Sitti, M. 7eme Journees Nationales de la Recherche en Robotique, 2009 () BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Manipulating cylindrical polyelectrolyte brushes on the nanoscale by counterions: collapse transition to helical structures Xu, Y., Bolisetty, S., Drechsler, M., Fang, B., Yuan, J., Harnau, L., Ballauff, M., Mueller, A. H. E. Soft Matter, 5:379-384, 2009 () URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Microparticle manipulation using multiple untethered magnetic micro-robots on an electrostatic surface Floyd, S., Pawashe, C., Sitti, M. In Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, :528-533, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Miniature devices: Voyage of the microrobots Sitti, M. Nature, 458(7242):1121-1122, Nature Publishing Group, 2009 () BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Modeling and experimental characterization of an untethered magnetic micro-robot Pawashe, C., Floyd, S., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 28(8):1077-1094, Sage Publications, 2009 () BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper Modelling the interplay of central pattern generation and sensory feedback in the neuromuscular control of running Daley, M., Righetti, L., Ijspeert, A. In Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology. Annual Main Meeting for the Society for Experimental Biology, 153, Glasgow, Scotland, 2009 () DOI URL BibTeX