DEPARTMENTS

Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


Research Groups

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


Topics

Robot Learning

Conference Paper

2022

Autonomous Learning

Robotics

AI

Career

Award


Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Proton 2: Increasing the Sensitivity and Portability of a Visuo-haptic Surface Interaction Recorder Burka, A., Rajvanshi, A., Allen, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :439-445, Singapore, May 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper Scalable Pneumatic and Tendon Driven Robotic Joint Inspired by Jumping Spiders Sproewitz, A., Göttler, C., Sinha, A., Caer, C., Öztekin, M. U., Petersen, K., Sitti, M. In Proceedings 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :64-70, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2017 () Video DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Probabilistic Numerics Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Virtual vs. Real: Trading Off Simulations and Physical Experiments in Reinforcement Learning with Bayesian Optimization Marco, A., Berkenkamp, F., Hennig, P., Schoellig, A. P., Krause, A., Schaal, S., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :1557-1563, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, May 2017 (Published) PDF arXiv ICRA 2017 Spotlight presentation Virtual vs. Real - Video explanation DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Learning-based Shared Control Architecture for Interactive Task Execution Farraj, F. B., Osa, T., Pedemonte, N., Peters, J., Neumann, G., Giordano, P. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :329-335, IEEE, May 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous An Interactive Augmented-Reality Video Training Platform for the da Vinci Surgical System Carlson, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the ICRA Workshop on C4 Surgical Robots, Singapore, May 2017 (Published) BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired Composite Microfibers for Skin Adhesion and Signal Amplification of Wearable Sensors Drotlef, D., Amjadi, M., Yunusa, M., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 29(28):1701353, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Context-Driven Movement Primitive Adaptation Wilbers, D., Lioutikov, R., Peters, J. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , :3469-3475, IEEE, May 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Controllable load sharing for soft adhesive interfaces on three-dimensional surfaces Song, S., Drotlef, D., Majidi, C., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(22):E4344–E4353, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Dynamic and programmable self-assembly of micro-rafts at the air-water interface Wang, W., Giltinan, J., Zakharchenko, S., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 3(5):e1602522, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Empowered skills Gabriel, A., Akrour, R., Peters, J., Neumann, G. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :6435-6441, IEEE, May 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Frequency Peak Features for Low-Channel Classification in Motor Imagery Paradigms Jayaram, V., Schölkopf, B., Grosse-Wentrup, M. Proceedings of the 8th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), :321-324, May 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Haptic Feedback in Needle Insertion Modeling and Simulation Gourishetti, R., Manivannan, M. IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering , 10:63-77, IEEE, May 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis How Should Robots Hug? Block, A. E. University of Pennsylvania, May 2017, Robotics Degree Program () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Layered direct policy search for learning hierarchical skills End, F., Akrour, R., Peters, J., Neumann, G. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :6442-6448, IEEE, May 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Presentation of functional groups on self-assembled supramolecular peptide nanofibers mimicking glycosaminoglycans for directed mesenchymal stem cell differentiation Yasa, O., Uysal, O., Ekiz, M. S., Guler, M. O., Tekinay, A. B. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 5(25):4890-4900, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Propulsion and Chemotaxis in Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers Zhuang, J., Park, B., Sitti, M. Advanced Science, 4(9):1700109, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Categorical Reparametrization with Gumbel-Softmax Jang, E., Gu, S., Poole, B. Proceedings International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper DeepCoder: Learning to Write Programs Balog, M., Gaunt, A. L., Brockschmidt, M., Nowozin, S., Tarlow, D. Proceedings International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2017 (Published) Arxiv URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Q-Prop: Sample-Efficient Policy Gradient with An Off-Policy Critic Gu, S., Lillicrap, T., Ghahramani, Z., Turner, R. E., Levine, S. Proceedings International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), April 2017 (Published) PDF URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Distilling Information Reliability and Source Trustworthiness from Digital Traces Tabibian, B., Valera, I., Farajtabar, M., Song, L., Schölkopf, B., Gomez Rodriguez, M. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), :847-855, (Editors: Barrett, R., Cummings, R., Agichtein, E. and Gabrilovich, E. ), ACM, April 2017 (Published) Project DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Estimating B0 inhomogeneities with projection FID navigator readouts Loktyushin, A., Ehses, P., Schölkopf, B., Scheffler, K. 25th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM 2017), April 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Fast Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Hyperparameters on Large Datasets Klein, A., Falkner, S., Bartels, S., Hennig, P., Hutter, F. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 54:528-536, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Sign, Aarti and Zhu, Jerry), PMLR, April 2017 (Published) pdf URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Guiding Trajectory Optimization by Demonstrated Distributions Osa, T., Ghalamzan E., A. M., Stolkin, R., Lioutikov, R., Peters, J., Neumann, G. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2(2):819-826, April 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Hydrophobic pinning with copper nanowhiskers leads to bactericidal properties Singh, A. V., Baylan, S., Park, B., Richter, G., Sitti, M. PloS One, 12(4):e0175428, 2017 () BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Image Quality Improvement by Applying Retrospective Motion Correction on Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping and R2* Feng, X., Loktyushin, A., Deistung, A., Reichenbach, J. 25th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM 2017), April 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Local Group Invariant Representations via Orbit Embeddings Raj, A., Kumar, A., Mroueh, Y., Fletcher, T., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 54:1225-1235, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Aarti Singh and Jerry Zhu), April 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article Probabilistic Articulated Real-Time Tracking for Robot Manipulation Garcia Cifuentes, C., Issac, J., Wüthrich, M., Schaal, S., Bohg, J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2(2):577-584, April 2017 (Published) arXiv video code and dataset video PDF DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Soft 3D-Printed Phantom of the Human Kidney with Collecting System Adams, F., Qiu, T., Mark, A., Fritz, B., Kramer, L., Schlager, D., Wetterauer, U., Miernik, A., Fischer, P. Ann. of Biomed. Eng., 45(4):963-972, April 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Whole-body multi-contact motion in humans and humanoids: Advances of the CoDyCo European project Padois, V., Ivaldi, S., Babic, J., Mistry, M., Peters, J., Nori, F. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 90:97-117, April 2017, Special Issue on New Research Frontiers for Intelligent Autonomous Systems (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Book Chapter Chapter 8 - Micro- and nanorobots in Newtonian and biological viscoelastic fluids Palagi, S., (Walker) Schamel, D., Qiu, T., Fischer, P. In Microbiorobotics, :133 - 162, 8, Micro and Nano Technologies, Second edition, Elsevier, Boston, March 2017 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Automatic detection of motion artifacts in MR images using CNNs Meding, K., Loktyushin, A., Hirsch, M. 42nd IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), :811-815, March 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Automatic OSATS Rating of Trainee Skill at a Pediatric Laparoscopic Suturing Task Oquendo, Y. A., Riddle, E. W., Hiller, D., Blinman, T. A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Surgical Endoscopy, 31(Supplement 1):S28, Extended abstract presented as a podium presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Springer, Houston, USA, March 2017 (Published) BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Biohybrid microtube swimmers driven by single captured bacteria Stanton, M. M., Park, B., Miguel-López, A., Ma, X., Sitti, M., Sánchez, S. Small, 13(19):1603679, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Bioinspired tactile sensor for surface roughness discrimination Yi, Z., Zhang, Y., Peters, J. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 255:46-53, March 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Catching heuristics are optimal control policies Belousov, B., Neumann, G., Rothkopf, C., Peters, J. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Karniel Computational Motor Control Workshop, March 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Hand-Clapping Games with a Baxter Robot Fitter, N. T., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Vienna, Austria, March 2017 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous How Much Haptic Surface Data is Enough? Burka, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (5 pages) presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Interactive Multi-Sensory Object Perception for Embodied Agents, Stanford, USA, March 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Pre-Movement Contralateral EEG Low Beta Power Is Modulated with Motor Adaptation Learning Ozdenizci, O., Yalcin, M., Erdogan, A., Patoglu, V., Grosse-Wentrup, M., Cetin, M. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), :934-938, March 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Probabilistic Movement Primitives for Coordination of Multiple Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks Maeda, G., Neumann, G., Ewerton, M., Lioutikov, R., Kroemer, O., Peters, J. Autonomous Robots, 41(3):593-612, March 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Wireless micro-robots for endoscopic applications in urology Adams, F., Qiu, T., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Palagi, S., Miernik, A., Fischer, P. In Eur Urol Suppl, 16(3):e1914, March 2017 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Pattern formation and collective effects in populations of magnetic microswimmers Vach, P. J., (Walker) Schamel, D., Fischer, P., Fratzl, P., Faivre, D. J. of Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 50(11):11LT03, February 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper DiSMEC – Distributed Sparse Machines for Extreme Multi-label Classification Babbar, R., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), : 721-729, February 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article On-chip enzymatic microbiofuel cell-powered integrated circuits Mark, A. G., Suraniti, E., Roche, J., Richter, H., Kuhn, A., Mano, N., Fischer, P. Lab on a Chip, 17(10):1761-1768, February 2017, Recent HOT Article (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Policy Search with High-Dimensional Context Variables Tangkaratt, V., van Hoof, H., Parisi, S., Neumann, G., Peters, J., Sugiyama, M. Proceedings of the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), :2632-2638, (Editors: Satinder P. Singh and Shaul Markovitch), AAAI Press, February 2017 (Published) URL BibTeX

Dynamic Locomotion Article Spinal joint compliance and actuation in a simulated bounding quadruped robot Pouya, S., Khodabakhsh, M., Sproewitz, A., Ijspeert, A. Autonomous Robots, :437–452, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer, Dordrecht, New York, NY, February 2017 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article The use of clamping grips and friction pads by tree frogs for climbing curved surfaces Endlein, T., Ji, A., Yuan, S., Hill, I., Wang, H., Barnes, W. J. P., Dai, Z., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1849):20162867, 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Strong Rotational Anisotropies Affect Nonlinear Chiral Metamaterials Hooper, D. C., Mark, A. G., Kuppe, C., Collins, J. T., Fischer, P., Valev, V. K. Advanced Materials, 29(13):1605110, January 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX