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Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Article A Limiting Property of the Matrix Exponential Trimpe, S., D’Andrea, R. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 59(4):1105-1110, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Master Thesis A Novel Causal Inference Method for Time Series Shajarisales, N. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2014 (Published) PDF BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper A Permutation-Based Kernel Conditional Independence Test Doran, G., Muandet, K., Zhang, K., Schölkopf, B. In Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2014), 132-141, (Editors: Nevin L. Zhang and Jin Tian), AUAI Press Corvallis, Oregon, UAI2014, 2014 PDF BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Article A Quantitative Analysis of Current Practices in Optical Flow Estimation and the Principles behind Them Sun, D., Roth, S., Black, M. J. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 106(2):115-137, 2014 pdf full text code BibTeX
Autonomous Motion Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper A Self-Tuning LQR Approach Demonstrated on an Inverted Pendulum Trimpe, S., Millane, A., Doessegger, S., D’Andrea, R. In Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014 (Published) PDF Supplementary material DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Article A few extreme events dominate global interannual variability in gross primary production Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M., v Buttlar, J., Harmeling, S., Jung, M., Rammig, A., Randerson, J., Schölkopf, B., Seneviratne, S., Tomelleri, E., et al. Environmental Research Letters, 9(3):035001, 2014 PDF Web DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Article A freely-moving monkey treadmill model Foster, J., Nuyujukian, P., Freifeld, O., Gao, H., Walker, R., Ryu, S., Meng, T., Murmann, B., Black, M., Shenoy, K. J. of Neural Engineering, 11(4):046020, 2014 pdf Supplementary DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis A global analysis of extreme events and consequences for the terrestrial carbon cycle Zscheischler, J. Diss. No. 22043, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2014 BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper A unifying view of representer theorems Argyriou, A., Dinuzzo, F. In Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Machine Learning, 32:748-756, (Editors: Xing, E. P. and Jebera, T.), ICML, 2014 PDF PDF BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Active Conformation Control of Unfolded Proteins by Hyperthermal Collision with a Metal Surface Rinke, G., Rauschenbach, S., Harnau, L., Albarghash, A., Pauly, M., Kern, K. Nano Letters, 14(10):5609-5615, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Active Learning of Linear Embeddings for Gaussian Processes Garnett, R., Osborne, M., Hennig, P. In Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 230-239, (Editors: NL Zhang and J Tian), AUAI Press , Corvallis, Oregon, UAI2014, 2014, another link: http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6740 PDF Web BibTeX
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Active Microrheology of the Vitreous of the Eye applied to Nanorobot Propulsion Qiu, T., Schamel, D., Mark, A. G., Fischer, P. In 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA), 3801-3806, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2014, Best Automation Paper Award – Finalist. BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Active Reward Learning Daniel, C., Viering, M., Metz, J., Kroemer, O., Peters, J. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science & Systems, (Editors: Fox, D., Kavraki, LE., and Kurniawati, H.), RSS, 2014 (Published) PDF BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Book Chapter Addressing of Micro-robot Teams and Non-contact Micro-manipulation Diller, E., Ye, Z., Giltinan, J., Sitti, M. In Small-Scale Robotics. From Nano-to-Millimeter-Sized Robotic Systems and Applications, 28-38, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Adsorption and Self-Assembly of M13 Phage into Directionally Organized Structures on C and SiO2 Films Moghimian, P., Srot, V., Rothenstein, D., Facey, S. J., Harnau, L., Bill, J., van Aken, P. A. Langmuir, 30:11428-11432, American Chemical Society, Columbus, OH, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Alignment of cylindrical colloids near chemically patterned substrates induced by critical Casimir torques Labbe-Laurent, M., Tröndle, M., Harnau, L., Dietrich, S. Soft Matter, 10(13):2270-2291, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper An Experimental Comparison of Bayesian Optimization for Bipedal Locomotion Calandra, R., Seyfarth, A., Peters, J., Deisenroth, M. In Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1951-1958, IEEE, ICRA, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX
Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Article An autonomous manipulation system based on force control and optimization Righetti, L., Kalakrishnan, M., Pastor, P., Binney, J., Kelly, J., Voorhies, R. C., Sukhatme, G. S., Schaal, S. Autonomous Robots, 36(1-2):11-30, January 2014 DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Article An extended approach for spatiotemporal gapfilling: dealing with large and systematic gaps in geoscientific datasets v Buttlar, J., Zscheischler, J., Mahecha, M. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 21(1):203-215, 2014 PDF DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis Analysis of Distance Functions in Graphs Alamgir, M. University of Hamburg, Germany, University of Hamburg, Germany, 2014 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Analytical modeling and experimental characterization of chemotaxis in serratia marcescens Zhuang, J., Wei, G., Carlsen, R. W., Edwards, M. R., Marculescu, R., Bogdan, P., Sitti, M. Physical Review E, 89(5):052704, American Physical Society, 2014 BibTeX
Empirical Inference Article Assessing attention and cognitive function in completely locked-in state with event-related brain potentials and epidural electrocorticography Bensch, M., Martens, S., Halder, S., Hill, J., Nijboer, F., Ramos, A., Birbaumer, N., Bodgan, M., Kotchoubey, B., Rosenstiel, W., et al. Journal of Neural Engineering, 11(2):026006, 2014 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Article Assessing randomness and complexity in human motion trajectories through analysis of symbolic sequences Peng, Z., Genewein, T., Braun, D. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8(168):1-13, March 2014 DOI BibTeX
Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Balancing experiments on a torque-controlled humanoid with hierarchical inverse dynamics Herzog, A., Righetti, L., Grimminger, F., Pastor, P., Schaal, S. In 2014 IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 981-988, IEEE, Chicago, USA, 2014 DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Bayesian Gait Optimization for Bipedal Locomotion Calandra, R., Gopalan, N., Seyfarth, A., Peters, J., Deisenroth, M. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization , LNCS 8426:274-290, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (Editors: Pardalos, PM., Resende, MGC., Vogiatzis, C., and Walteros, JL.), Springer, LION, 2014 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Bio-Hybrid Cell-Based Actuators for Microsystems Carlsen, R. W., Sitti, M. Small, 10(19):3831-3851, 2014 DOI URL BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Biocompatible, accurate, and fully autonomous: a sperm-driven micro-bio-robot Khalil, I. S. M., Magdanz, V., Sanchez, S., Schmidt, O. G., Misra, S. Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, 9(3-4):79-86, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Biopsy using a Magnetic Capsule Endoscope Carrying, Releasing and Retrieving Untethered Micro-Grippers Yim, S., Gultepe, E., Gracias, D. H., Sitti, M. IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 61(2):513-521, IEEE, 2014 BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Master Thesis Brownsche Bewegung schraubenförmiger Nanoteilchen Gehrmann, C. Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 2014 BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Can DC motors directly drive flapping wings at high frequency and large wing strokes? Campolo, D., Azhar, M., Lau, G., Sitti, M. IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, 19(1):109-120, 2014 BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Capillary attraction induced collapse of colloidal monolayers at fluid interfaces Bleibel, J., Dominguez, A., Oettel, M., Dietrich, S. Soft Matter, 10(23):4091-4109, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Catalytic nanomotors for environmental monitoring and water remediation Soler, L., Sanchez, S. Nanoscale, 6(13):7175-7182, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Master Thesis Causal Discovery in the Presence of Time-Dependent Relations or Small Sample Size Huang, B. Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany, 2014 BibTeX
Empirical Inference Article Causal Discovery with Continuous Additive Noise Models Peters, J., Mooij, J., Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 15:2009-2053, 2014 (Published) PDF Web BibTeX
Empirical Inference Talk Causal Inference from Passive Observations Janzing, D. 24th Summer School University of Jyväskylā, Finland, August, 2014 slides_Monday slides_Tuesday slides_Wednesday slides_Thursday slides_Friday BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Causal and Anti-Causal Learning in Pattern Recognition for Neuroimaging Weichwald, S., Schölkopf, B., Ball, T., Grosse-Wentrup, M. In 4th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging (PRNI), IEEE , PRNI, 2014 PDF Arxiv DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Article Causal discovery via reproducing kernel Hilbert space embeddings Chen, Z., Zhang, K., Chan, L., Schölkopf, B. Neural Computation, 26(7):1484-1517, 2014 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Chiral Nanomagnets Eslami, S., Gibbs, J. G., Rechkemmer, Y., van Slageren, J., Alarcon-Correa, M., Lee, T., Mark, A. G., Rikken, G. L. J. A., Fischer, P. ACS PHOTONICS, 1(11):1231-1236, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Circular polarization interferometry: circularly polarized modes of cholesteric liquid crystals Sanchez-Castillo, A., Eslami, S., Giesselmann, F., Fischer, P. OPTICS EXPRESS, 22(25):31227-31236, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Clay nanotube encapsulation for functional biocomposites Lvov, Y., Aerov, A. A., Aerov, A. A., Fakhrullin, R. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 207:189-198, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Poster Cluster analysis of sharp-wave ripple field potential signatures in the macaque hippocampus Ramirez-Villegas, J. F., Logothetis, N. K., Besserve, M. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2014), 2014 (Published) BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Collapse and reversibility of the superhydrophobic state on nanotextured surfaces Checco, A., Ocko, B. M., Rahman, A., Black, C. T., Tasinkevych, M., Giacomello, A., Dietrich, S. Physical Review Letters, 112(21):216101, American Physical Society., Woodbury, N.Y., etc., 2014 DOI BibTeX
Materials Article Concentration quenching of the luminescence from trivalent thulium, terbium, and erbium ions embedded in an AlN matrix Benz, F., Gonser, A., Volker, R., Walther, T., Mosebach, J. T., Schwanda, B., Mayer, N., Richter, G., Strunk, H. P. Journal of Luminescence, 145:855-858, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Consistency of Causal Inference under the Additive Noise Model Kpotufe, S., Sgouritsa, E., Janzing, D., Schölkopf, B. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Machine Learning, W&CP 32 (1), 478-495, (Editors: Eric P. Xing and Tony Jebara), JMLR, ICML, 2014 PDF BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Continuously distributed magnetization profile for millimeter-scale elastomeric undulatory swimming Diller, E., Zhuang, J., Zhan Lum, G., Edwards, M. R., Sitti, M. Applied Physics Letters, 104(17):174101, AIP, 2014 DOI URL BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Control of Self-Propelled Microjets Inside a Microchannel With Time-Varying Flow Rates Magdanz, V., Sanchez, S., Schmidt, O. G., Khalil, I. S. M., Misra, S. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 49-58, IEEE, New York, NY, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Conference Paper Cosmology in a petri dish? Simulation of collective dynamics of colloids at fluid interfaces Bleibel, J. In EPJ Web of Conferences, 70, EDP Sciences, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Article Cost-Sensitive Active Learning With Lookahead: Optimizing Field Surveys for Remote Sensing Data Classification Persello, C., Boularias, A., Dalponte, M., Gobakken, T., Naesset, E., Schölkopf, B. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 10(52):6652 - 6664, 2014 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Critical Casimir interactions around the consolute point of a binary solvent Mohry, T. F., Kondrat, S., Maciolek, A., Dietrich, S. Soft Matter, 10(30):5510-5522, 2014 DOI BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Critical Casimir interactions between spherical particles in the presence of bulk ordering fields Vasilyev, O. Physical Review E, 90, American Physical Society, Melville, NY, 2014 DOI BibTeX