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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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Physical Intelligence Article 3D microprinting of iron platinum nanoparticle-based magnetic mobile microrobots Giltinan, J., Sridhar, V., Bozuyuk, U., Sheehan, D., Sitti, M. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 3(1):2000204, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A 32-channel multi-coil setup optimized for human brain shimming at 9.4T Aghaeifar, A., Zhou, J., Heule, R., Tabibian, B., Schölkopf, B., Jia, F., Zaitsev, M., Scheffler, K. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 83(2):749-764, 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Conference Paper A Probabilistic Framework for Constrained Manipulations and Task and Motion Planning under Uncertainty Ha, J., Driess, D., Toussaint, M. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), 6745-6751, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2020), 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Probabilistic Framework for Imitating Human Race Driver Behavior Löckel, S., Peters, J., van Vliet, P. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(2):2086-2093, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Autonomous Learning Autonomous Motion Movement Generation and Control Conference Paper A Real-Robot Dataset for Assessing Transferability of Learned Dynamics Models Agudelo-España, D., Zadaianchuk, A., Wenk, P., Garg, A., Akpo, J., Grimminger, F., Viereck, J., Naveau, M., Righetti, L., Martius, G., et al. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 8151-8157, IEEE, 2020 (Published) Project Page PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Sober Look at the Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled Representations and their Evaluation Locatello, F., Bauer, S., Lucic, M., Raetsch, G., Gelly, S., Schölkopf, B., Bachem, O. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 21:1-62, 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Rationality Enhancement Software Workshop Conference Paper ACTrain: Ein KI-basiertes Aufmerksamkeitstraining für die Wissensarbeit Wirzberger, M., Oreshnikov, I., Passy, J., Lado, A., Shenhav, A., Lieder, F. 66th Spring Conference of the German Ergonomics Society, 2020 URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Acoustic Vibration-Induced Actuation of Multiple Microrotors in Microfluidics Zhou, Y., Wang, H., Ma, Z., Yang, J. K. W., Ai, Y. Advanced Materials Technologies, 5(9):2000323, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Acoustically powered surface-slipping mobile microrobots Aghakhani, A., Yasa, O., Wrede, P., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(7):3469-3477, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Activated diffusiophoresis Rohwer, C. M., Kardar, M., Krüger, M. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(8):084109, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2020 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Additive manufacturing of cellulose-based materials with continuous, multidirectional stiffness gradients Giachini, P. A. G. S., Gupta, S. S., Wang, W., Wood, D., Yunusa, M., Baharlou, E., Sitti, M., Menges, A. Science Advances, 6(8):eaay0929, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Book Chapter Adopting the Boundary Homogenization Approximation from Chemical Kinetics to Motile Chemically Active Particles Popescu, M. N., Uspal, W. E. In Chemical Kinetics, 517-540, (Editors: Lindenberg, Katja and Metzler, Ralf and Oshanin, Gleb), World Scientific, New Jersey, NJ, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article An Adaptive Optimizer for Measurement-Frugal Variational Algorithms Kübler, J. M., Arrasmith, A., Cincio, L., Coles, P. J. Quantum, 4, 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Conference Paper An Interior Point Method Solving Motion Planning Problems with Narrow Passages Mainprice, J., Ratliff, N., Toussaint, M., Schaal, S. In 2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020), 547-552, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020), 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Article Analytical classical density functionals from an equation learning network Lin, S., Martius, G., Oettel, M. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 152(2):021102, 2020 (Published) arXiv Supplementary Preprint_PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Article Analytical probabilistic modeling of dose-volume histograms Wahl, N., Hennig, P., Wieser, H., Bangert, M. Medical Physics, 47(10):5260-5273, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Apparent phototaxis enabled by Brownian motion Niese, L., Wang, L., Das, S., Simmchen, J. Soft Matter, 16(47):10585-10590, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Assisted teleoperation in changing environments with a mixture of virtual guides Ewerton, M., Arenz, O., Peters, J. Advanced Robotics, 34(18):1157-1170, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Axisymmetric spheroidal squirmers and self-diffusiophoretic particles Pöhnl, R., Popescu, M. N., Uspal, W. E. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 32(16):164001, IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Materials Article Bandgap-adjustment and enhanced surface photovoltage in Y-substituted LaTaIVO2N Bubeck, C., Widenmeyer, M., De Denko, A. T., Richter, G., Coduri, M., Salas-Colera, E., Goering, E., Zhang, H., Yoon, S., Osterloh, F. E., et al. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8(23):11837-11848, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Behavior of the van der Waals force between a plate and a single-walled carbon nanotube under uniform hydrostatic pressure: a theoretical study Valchev, G., Djondjorov, P., Vassilev, V., Dantchev, D. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 32(40):405001, IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Article Bioinspired cilia arrays with programmable nonreciprocal motion and metachronal coordination Dong, X., Lum, G. Z., Hu, W., Zhang, R., Ren, Z., Onck, P. R., Sitti, M. Science Advances, 6(45):eabc9323, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Bioinspired underwater locomotion of light-driven liquid crystal gels Shahsavan, H., Aghakhani, A., Zeng, H., Guo, Y., Davidson, Z. S., Priimagi, A., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(10):5125-5133, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Biosynthetic self-healing materials for soft machines Pena-Francesch, A., Jung, H., Demirel, M. C., Sitti, M. Nature Materials, 19(11):1230-1235, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Blessing and Curse: How a Supercapacitor Large Capacitance Causes its Slow Charging Lian, C., Janssen, M., Liu, H., van Roij, R. Physical Review Letters, 124(7):076001, American Physical Society, Woodbury, N.Y., 2020 DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Bound and stable vortex-antivortex pairs in high-Tc superconductors Simmendinger, J., Bihler, M., Ionescu, A. M., Weigand, M., Schütz, G., Albrecht, J. New Journal of Physics, 22(12):123035, IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Bridging transitions and capillary forces for colloids in a slit Vasilyev, O. A., Labbe-Laurent, M., Dietrich, S., Kondrat, S. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(1):014901, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2020 DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Building blocks for magnon optics: Emission and conversion of short spin waves Groß, F., Zelent, M., Träger, N., Förster, J., Sanli, U. T., Sauter, R., Decker, M., Back, C. H., Weigand, M., Keskinbora, K., et al. ACS Nano, 14(12):17184-17193, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Bulk ionic screening lengths from extremely large-scale molecular dynamics simulations Zeman, J., Kondrat, S., Holm, C. Chemical Communications, 56(100):15635-15638, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Carbon nitride-based light-driven microswimmers with intrinsic photocharging ability Sridhar, V., Podjaski, F., Kröger, J., Jiménez-Solano, A., Park, B., Lotsch, B. V., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(40):24748-24756, 2020 DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Cassie-Wenzel transition of a binary liquid mixture on a nanosculptured surface Singh, S. L., Schimmele, L., Dietrich, S. Physical Review E, 101(5):052115, American Physical Society, Melville, NY, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Causal Discovery from Heterogeneous/Nonstationary Data Huang, B., Zhang, K., Zhang, J., Ramsey, J., Sanchez-Romero, R., Glymour, C., Schölkopf, B. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 21(1):1-53, 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Charge symmetry broken complex coacervation Majee, A., Bier, M., Blossey, R., Podgornik, R. Physical Review Research, 2(4):043417, American Physical Society (APS), College Park, Maryland, United States, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Chemically Active Particles: From One to Few on the Way to Many Popescu, M. N. Langmuir, 36(25):6861-6870, American Chemical Society, Columbus, OH, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Clinical Predictive Models for COVID-19: Systematic Study Schwab, P., DuMont Schütte, A., Dietz, B., Bauer, S. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(10), 2020 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Cohesive self-organization of mobile microrobotic swarms Yigit, B., Alapan, Y., Sitti, M. Soft Matter, 16(8):1996-2004, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Communication - Highly Sensitive Glassy Carbon Electrode Altered by Nanoporous Gold for the Electrochemical Detection of Nitrite Zhang, A., Yang, Z., Chen, Y., Schützendübe, P., Huang, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, Z. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 167(8):086504, Electrochemical Society, New York, NY, USA, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Vision Book Computer Vision for Autonomous Vehicles: Problems, Datasets and State-of-the-Art Janai, J., Güney, F., Behl, A., Geiger, A. 12(1-3), Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision, now Publishers Inc., Hanover, MA, 2020 (Published) pdf Project Page link DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Conjugate Gradients for Kernel Machines Bartels, S., Hennig, P. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 21(55):1-42, 2020 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Controlling two-dimensional collective formation and cooperative behavior of magnetic microrobot swarms Dong, X., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 39(5):617-638, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Probabilistic Numerics Article Convergence rates of Gaussian ODE filters Kersting, H., Sullivan, T. J., Hennig, P. Statistics and Computing, 30(6):1791-1816, 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Article Creating zero-field skyrmions in exchange-biased multilayers through X-ray illumination Guang, Y., Bykova, I., Liu, Y., Yu, G., Goering, E., Weigand, M., Gräfe, J., Kim, S. K., Zhang, J., Zhang, H., et al. Nature Communications, 11:949, Nature Publishing Group, London, 2020 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Critical Casimir interaction between colloidal Janus-type particles in two spatial dimensions Squarcini, A., Maciolek, A., Eisenriegler, E., Dietrich, S. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2020(4):043208, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, England, 2020 DOI BibTeX