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Physical Intelligence Article Innate turning preference of leaf-cutting ants in the absence of external orientation cues Endlein, T., Sitti, M. Journal of Experimental Biology, 221(14):jeb177006, The Company of Biologists Ltd, June 2018 DOI URL BibTeX
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Ph.D. Thesis Colloidal Chemical Nanomotors Alarcon-Correa, M. Colloidal Chemical Nanomotors, Cuvillier Verlag, Univ. of Stuttgart, June 2018 (Published) BibTeX
Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Conditional Affordance Learning for Driving in Urban Environments Conference on Robot Learning, 2018 pdf suppmat Video Project Page BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Delivering 6-DOF Fingertip Tactile Cues Young, E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (5 pages) presented at EuroHaptics, Pisa, Italy, June 2018 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Designing a Haptic Empathetic Robot Animal for Children with Autism Burns, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (4 pages) presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Robot-Mediated Autism Intervention: Hardware, Software and Curriculum, Pittsburgh, USA, June 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Frame-Recurrent Video Super-Resolution Sajjadi, M. S. M., Vemulapalli, R., Brown, M. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 6626-6634, June 2018 (Published) ArXiv DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Haptipedia: Exploring Haptic Device Design Through Interactive Visualizations Seifi, H., Fazlollahi, F., Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J., MacLean, K. E. Hands-on demonstration presented at EuroHaptics, Pisa, Italy, June 2018 (Published) BibTeX
Empirical Inference Probabilistic Learning Group Article Infinite Factorial Finite State Machine for Blind Multiuser Channel Estimation Ruiz, F. J. R., Valera, I., Svensson, L., Perez-Cruz, F. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 4(2):177-191, June 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Face Deblurring Fast and Wide Jin, M., Hirsch, M., Favaro, P. The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 745-753, June 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Multifunctional ferrofluid-infused surfaces with reconfigurable multiscale topography Wang, W., Timonen, J. V. I., Carlson, A., Drotlef, D., Zhang, C. T., Kolle, S., Grinthal, A., Wong, T., Hatton, B., Kang, S. H., et al. Nature, 559(7712):77-82, 2018 DOI BibTeX
Dynamic Locomotion Article Oncilla robot: a versatile open-source quadruped research robot with compliant pantograph legs Sproewitz, A., Tuleu, A., Ajallooeian, M., Vespignani, M., Moeckel, R., Eckert, P., D’Haene, M., Degrave, J., Nordmann, A., Schrauwen, B., et al. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 5(67), June 2018, arXiv: 1803.06259 (Published) c4science repository DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Reducing 3D Vibrations to 1D in Real Time Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at EuroHaptics, Pisa, Italy, June 2018 (Published) BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Soft Multi-Axis Boundary-Electrode Tactile Sensors for Whole-Body Robotic Skin Lee, H., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the RSS Pioneers Workshop, Pittsburgh, USA, June 2018 (Published) BibTeX
Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper Learning from Outside the Viability Kernel: Why we Should Build Robots that can Fail with Grace Heim, S., Sproewitz, A. Proceedings of SIMPAR 2018, 55-61, IEEE, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), May 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Self-sensing paper actuators based on graphite–carbon nanotube hybrid films Amjadi, M., Sitti, M. Advanced Science, 5(7):1800239, May 2018 DOI URL BibTeX
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Bioinspired microrobots Palagi, S., Fischer, P. Nature Reviews Materials, 3:113–124, May 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Article Assisting Movement Training and Execution With Visual and Haptic Feedback Ewerton, M., Rother, D., Weimar, J., Kollegger, G., Wiemeyer, J., Peters, J., Maeda, G. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 12, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Optics and Sensing Laboratory Conference Paper Automatic Estimation of Modulation Transfer Functions Bauer, M., Volchkov, V., Hirsch, M., Schölkopf, B. IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 1-12, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Causal Discovery Using Proxy Variables Rojas-Carulla, M., Baroni, M., Lopez-Paz, D. Workshop at 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fidelity-Weighted Learning Dehghani, M., Mehrjou, A., Gouws, S., Kamps, J., Schölkopf, B. 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Book Chapter Haptics and Haptic Interfaces Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Encyclopedia of Robotics, (Editors: Marcelo H. Ang and Oussama Khatib and Bruno Siciliano), Springer, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Dynamic Locomotion Talk Impact of Trunk Orientation for Dynamic Bipedal Locomotion Drama, Ö. Dynamic Walking Conference, May 2018 Impact of trunk orientation for dynamic bipedal locomotion [DW 2018] URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Inducing Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars for the Sequencing of Movement Primitives Lioutikov, R., Maeda, G., Veiga, F., Kersting, K., Peters, J. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), 1-8, IEEE, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Autonomous Vision Article Learning 3D Shape Completion under Weak Supervision Stutz, D., Geiger, A. Arxiv, May 2018 PDF Project Page BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Coupled Forward-Inverse Models with Combined Prediction Errors Koert, D., Maeda, G., Neumann, G., Peters, J. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), 2433-2439, IEEE, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Learning Disentangled Representations with Wasserstein Auto-Encoders Rubenstein, P. K., Schölkopf, B., Tolstikhin, I. Workshop at the 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Learning Sensor Feedback Models from Demonstrations via Phase-Modulated Neural Networks Sutanto, G., Su, Z., Schaal, S., Meier, F. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018, IEEE, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2018 (Published) pdf video BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Leave no Trace: Learning to Reset for Safe and Autonomous Reinforcement Learning Eysenbach, B., Gu, S., Ibarz, J., Levine, S. 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) Videos URL BibTeX
Autonomous Learning Article Nonlinear decoding of a complex movie from the mammalian retina Botella-Soler, V., Deny, S., Martius, G., Marre, O., Tkačik, G. PLOS Computational Biology, 14(5):1-27, Public Library of Science, May 2018 DOI BibTeX
Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Online Learning of a Memory for Learning Rates Meier, F., Kappler, D., Schaal, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018, IEEE, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2018, accepted pdf video code BibTeX
Autonomous Vision Conference Paper Robust Dense Mapping for Large-Scale Dynamic Environments Barsan, I. A., Liu, P., Pollefeys, M., Geiger, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018, IEEE, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2018 pdf Video Project Page BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Sample and Feedback Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences Pinsler, R., Akrour, R., Osa, T., Peters, J., Neumann, G. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), 596-601, IEEE, May 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Dynamic Locomotion Conference Paper Shaping in Practice: Training Wheels to Learn Fast Hopping Directly in Hardware Heim, S., Ruppert, F., Sarvestani, A., Sproewitz, A. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018, 5076-5081, IEEE, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2018 (Published) Video Youtube URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Sobolev GAN Mroueh, Y., Li*, C., Sercu*, T., Raj*, A., Cheng, Y. 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Soft Miniaturized Linear Actuators Wirelessly Powered by Rotating Permanent Magnets Qiu, T., Palagi, S., Sachs, J., Fischer, P. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 3595-3600, Piscataway, NJ, USA, May 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Tempered Adversarial Networks Sajjadi, M. S. M., Parascandolo, G., Mehrjou, A., Schölkopf, B. Workshop at the 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) arXiv BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Temporal Difference Models: Model-Free Deep RL for Model-Based Control Pong*, V., Gu*, S., Dalal, M., Levine, S. 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018, *equal contribution (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Wasserstein Auto-Encoders Tolstikhin, I., Bousquet, O., Gelly, S., Schölkopf, B. 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Wasserstein Auto-Encoders: Latent Dimensionality and Random Encoders Rubenstein, P. K., Schölkopf, B., Tolstikhin, I. Workshop at the 6th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), May 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Nanoparticles on the move for medicine Fischer, P. Physics World Focus on Nanotechnology, 26028, (Editors: Margaret Harris), IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors, April 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Graphene-silver hybrid devices for sensitive photodetection in the ultraviolet Paria, D., Jeong, H. H., Vadakkumbatt, V., Deshpande, P., Fischer, P., Ghosh, A., Ghosh, A. Nanoscale, 10:7685-7693, April 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX
Haptic Intelligence Article Automatically Rating Trainee Skill at a Pediatric Laparoscopic Suturing Task Oquendo, Y. A., Riddle, E. W., Hiller, D., Blinman, T. A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Surgical Endoscopy, 32(4):1840-1857, April 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Boosting Variational Inference: an Optimization Perspective Locatello, F., Khanna, R., Ghosh, J., Rätsch, G. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 84:464-472, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Amos Storkey and Fernando Perez-Cruz), PMLR, April 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Cause-Effect Inference by Comparing Regression Errors Blöbaum, P., Janzing, D., Washio, T., Shimizu, S., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) , 84:900-909, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Amos Storkey and Fernando Perez-Cruz), PMLR, April 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Coalescence preference and droplet size inequality during fluid phase segregation Roy, S. EPL, 121(3):34001, EDP Science, Les-Ulis, April 2018 DOI BibTeX
Intelligent Control Systems Conference Paper Evaluating Low-Power Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems Baumann, D., Mager, F., Singh, H., Zimmerling, M., Trimpe, S. In Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Networks and Systems (CPSBench), 13-18, IEEE Workshop on Benchmarking Cyber-Physical Networks and Systems (CPSBench), April 2018 (Published) arXiv PDF DOI BibTeX
Empirical Inference Conference Paper Group invariance principles for causal generative models Besserve, M., Shajarisales, N., Schölkopf, B., Janzing, D. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 84:557-565, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, (Editors: Amos Storkey and Fernando Perez-Cruz), PMLR, April 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX
Physical Intelligence Article Miniature soft robots – road to the clinic Sitti, M. Nature Reviews Materials, 3:74-75, April 2018 DOI URL BibTeX
Empirical Inference Article Mixture of Attractors: A Novel Movement Primitive Representation for Learning Motor Skills From Demonstrations Manschitz, S., Gienger, M., Kober, J., Peters, J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(2):926-933, April 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX
Perceiving Systems Ph.D. Thesis Model-based Optical Flow: Layers, Learning, and Geometry Wulff, J. Tuebingen University, April 2018 (Published) Official link DOI BibTeX