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


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Physical Intelligence Article Control of multiple heterogeneous magnetic microrobots in two dimensions on nonspecialized surfaces Diller, E., Floyd, S., Pawashe, C., Sitti, M. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 28(1):172-182, IEEE, 2012 BibTeX

Materials Article Cross-Sectional Characterization of Electrodeposited, Monocrystalline Au Nanowires in Parallel Arrangement Schneckenburger, M., Kelsch, M., van Aken, P. A., Richter, G., Spatz, J. P., Rustom, A. Small, 8(22):3396-3399, 2012 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Crystalline inverted membrane grown on surfaces by electrospray ion beam deposition in vacuum Rauschenbach, S., Rinke, G., Malinowski, N., Weitz, R., Dinnebier, R., Thontasen, N., Deng, Z., Lutz, T., Rollo, P., Costantini, G., et al. Advanced Materials, 24:2761-2767, 2012 DOI BibTeX

Materials Article Cyclic Cantilever Bending of Copper Nanowhiskers Schopf, C., Schamel, M., Strunk, H. P., Richter, G. Advanced Engineering Materials, 14(11):975-980, 2012 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Design and manufacturing of a controllable miniature flapping wing robotic platform Arabagi, V., Hines, L., Sitti, M. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 31(6):785-800, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England, 2012 BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Design and rolling locomotion of a magnetically actuated soft capsule endoscope Yim, S., Sitti, M. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 28(1):183-194, IEEE, 2012 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Design of a Haptic Interface for a Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Simulation Yu, S., Woo, H. S., Son, H. I., Ahn, W., Jung, H., Lee, D. Y., Yi, S. Y. Advanced Robotics, 26(18):2115-2143, 2012 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Destination Flow for Crowd Simulation Pellegrini, S., Gall, J., Sigal, L., van Gool, L. In Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams, 7585:162-171, LNCS, Springer, 2012 pdf BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Distributed multisensory signals acquisition and analysis in dyadic interactions Tawari, A., Tran, C., Doshi, A., Zander, T. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, 2261-2266, (Editors: JA Konstan and EH Chi and K Höök), ACM, New York, NY, USA, CHI, 2012 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Effect of MR contrast agents on quantitative accuracy of PET in combined whole-body PET/MR imaging Lois, C., Bezrukov, I., Schmidt, H., Schwenzer, N., Werner, M., Kupferschläger, J., Beyer, T. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 39(11):1756-1766, 2012 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Effect of retraction speed on adhesion of elastomer fibrillar structures Abusomwan, U., Sitti, M. Applied Physics Letters, 101(21):211907, AIP, 2012 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficient Training of Graph-Regularized Multitask SVMs Widmer, C., Kloft, M., Görnitz, N., Rätsch, G. In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML/PKDD 2012, LNCS Vol. 7523, 633-647, (Editors: PA Flach and T De Bie and N Cristianini), Springer, Berlin, Germany, ECML, 2012 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Efficiently mapping phenotypes to networks of genetic loci Azencott, C., Grimm, D., Kawahara, Y., Borgwardt, K. In NIPS 2012 Workshop on Machine Learning in Computational Biology (MLCB 2012), 2012 (Submitted) BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Eine neue Form von Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy Petermann, C., Fischer, P. DE Gruyter, 79(1), 2012, Best paper award OPTO 2011 URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Elastomer surfaces with directionally dependent adhesion strength and their use in transfer printing with continuous roll-to-roll applications Yang, S. Y., Carlson, A., Cheng, H., Yu, Q., Ahmed, N., Wu, J., Kim, S., Sitti, M., Ferreira, P. M., Huang, Y., et al. Advanced Materials, 24(16):2117-2122, WILEY-VCH Verlag, 2012 BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Encoding of Periodic and their Transient Motions by a Single Dynamic Movement Primitive Ernesti, J., Righetti, L., Do, M., Asfour, T., Schaal, S. In 2012 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2012), 57-64, IEEE, Osaka, Japan, November 2012 DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Evaluation of Whole-Body MR-Based Attenuation Correction in Bone and Soft Tissue Lesions Bezrukov, I., Mantlik, F., Schmidt, H., Schwenzer, N., Brendle, C., Schölkopf, B., Pichler, B. Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS-MIC 2012), 2012 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Evaluation of marginal likelihoods via the density of states Habeck, M. In Journal of Machine Learning Research, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2012) , 22:486-494, (Editors: N Lawrence and M Girolami), JMLR: W&CP 22, AISTATS, 2012 PDF BibTeX

Materials Article Existence of two twinning-mediated plastic deformation modes in Au nanowhiskers Sedlmayr, A., Bitzek, E., Gianola, D. S., Richter, G., Monig, R., Kraft, O. Acta Materialia, 60(9):3985-3993, 2012 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Existential neuroscience: a functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of neural responses to reminders of one’s mortality Quirin, M., Loktyushin, A., Arndt, J., Küstermann, E., Lo, Y., Kuhl, J., Eggert, L. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(2):193-198, 2012 Web DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Field-induced breakup of emulsion droplets stabilized by colloidal particles Kim, E. G., Stratford, K., Clegg, P. S., Cates, M. E. Physical Review E, 85(2), 2012 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article First SN Discoveries from the Dark Energy Survey Abbott, T., Abdalla, F., Achitouv, I., Ahn, E., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Alonso, D., Amara, A., Annis, J., Antonik, M., et al. The Astronomer's Telegram, 4668:1, 2012 (Published) BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article First passages in bounded domains: When is the mean first passage time meaningful? Mattos, T. G., Mejia-Monasterio, C., Metzler, R., Oshanin, G. Physical Review E, 86(3), Published by the American Physical Society through the American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2012 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Flapping Wings with DC-Motors via Direct, Elastic Transmissions Azhar, M., Campolo, D., Lau, G., Sitti, M. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems, 8, 2012 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Free Energy and the Generalized Optimality Equations for Sequential Decision Making Ortega, P., Braun, D. 1-10, 10th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL 2012), July 2012 URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper From Deformations to Parts: Motion-based Segmentation of 3D Objects Ghosh, S., Sudderth, E., Loper, M., Black, M. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25 (NIPS), 2006-2014, (Editors: P. Bartlett and F.C.N. Pereira and C.J.C. Burges and L. Bottou and K.Q. Weinberger), MIT Press, 2012 pdf supplemental code poster URL BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Article From Dynamic Movement Primitives to Associative Skill Memories Pastor, P., Kalakrishnan, M., Meier, F., Stulp, F., Buchli, J., Theodorou, E., Schaal, S. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2012 BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article GPU-accelerated simulation of colloidal suspensions with direct hydrodynamic interactions Kopp, M., Höfling, F. The European Physical Journal - Special Topics, 210(1):101-117, 2012 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Gecko-Inspired Controllable Adhesive Structures Applied to Micromanipulation Mengüç, Y., Yang, S. Y., Kim, S., Rogers, J. A., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 22(6):1245-1245, WILEY-VCH Verlag, 2012 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Generalization of Human Grasping for Multi-Fingered Robot Hands Ben Amor, H., Kroemer, O., Hillenbrand, U., Neumann, G., Peters, J. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems , 2043-2050, IROS, 2012 PDF DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Gradient Weights help Nonparametric Regressors Kpotufe, S., Boularias, A. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25, 2870-2878, (Editors: P Bartlett and FCN Pereira and CJC. Burges and L Bottou and KQ Weinberger), 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2012), 2012 PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter Higher-Order Tensors in Diffusion MRI Schultz, T., Fuster, A., Ghosh, A., Deriche, R., Florack, L., Lim, L. In Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data, (Editors: Westin, C. F., Vilanova, A. and Burgeth, B.), Springer, 2012 (Accepted) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Hilbert Space Embeddings of POMDPs Nishiyama, Y., Boularias, A., Gretton, A., Fukumizu, K. In Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2012), 2012 PDF Web BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Hilbert space embedding for Dirichlet Process mixtures Muandet, K. In NIPS 2012 Workshop on confluence between kernel methods and graphical models, 2012 (Published) arXiv BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Book Chapter Home 3D body scans from noisy image and range data Weiss, A., Hirshberg, D., Black, M. J. In Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision: Research Topics and Applications, 99-118, 6, (Editors: Andrea Fossati and Juergen Gall and Helmut Grabner and Xiaofeng Ren and Kurt Konolige), Springer-Verlag, 2012 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Hypothesis testing using pairwise distances and associated kernels Sejdinovic, D., Gretton, A., Sriperumbudur, B., Fukumizu, K. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning, 1111-1118, (Editors: J Langford and J Pineau), Omnipress, New York, NY, USA, ICML, 2012 PDF BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Identifying endogenous rhythmic spatio-temporal patterns in micro-electrode array recordings Besserve, M., Panagiotaropoulos, T., Crocker, B., Kapoor, V., Tolias, A., Panzeri, S., Logothetis, N. 9th annual Computational and Systems Neuroscience meeting (Cosyne 2012), 2012 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Image analysis for cosmology: results from the GREAT10 Galaxy Challenge Kitching, T. D., Balan, S. T., Bridle, S., Cantale, N., Courbin, F., Eifler, T., Gentile, M., Gill, M. S. S., Harmeling, S., Heymans, C., et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 423(4):3163-3208, Oxford University Press, 2012 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Impact and Surface Tension in Water: a Study of Landing Bodies Shih, B., Laham, L., Lee, K. J., Krasnoff, N., Diller, E., Sitti, M. Bio-inspired Robotics Final Project, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Improved Linear Mixed Models for Genome-Wide Association Studies Listgarten, J., Lippert, C., Kadie, C., Davidson, R., Eskin, E., Heckerman, D. Nature Methods, 9:525–526, 2012 DOI BibTeX