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

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Intelligent Control Systems Poster Poster Abstract: Toward Fast Closed-loop Control over Multi-hop Low-power Wireless Networks Mager, F., Baumann, D., Trimpe, S., Zimmerling, M. Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 158-159, Porto, Portugal, April 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Probabilistic movement primitives under unknown system dynamics Paraschos, A., Rueckert, E., Peters, J., Neumann, G. Advanced Robotics, 32(6):297-310, April 2018 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Soft erythrocyte-based bacterial microswimmers for cargo delivery Alapan, Y., Yasa, O., Schauer, O., Giltinan, J., Tabak, A. F., Sourjik, V., Sitti, M. Science Robotics, 3(17):eaar4423, Science Robotics, April 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Solvent coarsening around colloids driven by temperature gradients Roy, S., Dietrich, S., Maciolek, A. Physical Review E, 97(4):042603, American Physical Society, Melville, NY, April 2018 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Self‐folded hydrogel tubes for implantable muscular tissue scaffolds Vannozzi, L., Yasa, I. C., Ceylan, H., Menciassi, A., Ricotti, L., Sitti, M. Macromolecular Bioscience, 18(4):1700377, March 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Cancer cells biomineralize ionic gold into nanoparticles-microplates via secreting defense proteins with specific gold-binding peptides Singh, A. V., Jahnke, T., Kishore, V., Park, B., Batuwangala, M., Bill, J., Sitti, M. Acta Biomaterialia, 71:61-71, March 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Redox metals homeostasis in multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a review Sheykhansari, S., Kozielski, K., Bill, J., Sitti, M., Gemmati, D., Zamboni, P., Singh, A. V. Cell Death \& Disease, 9(3):348, March 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A kernel-based approach to learning contact distributions for robot manipulation tasks Kroemer, O., Leischnig, S., Luettgen, S., Peters, J. Autonomous Robots, 42(3):581-600, March 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article An Algorithmic Perspective on Imitation Learning Osa, T., Pajarinen, J., Neumann, G., Bagnell, J., Abbeel, P., Peters, J. Foundations and Trends in Robotics, 7(1-2):1-179, March 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Arm-Worn Tactile Displays Kuchenbecker, K. J. Cross-Cutting Challenge Interactive Discussion presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, San Francisco, USA, March 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Assessing body image in anorexia nervosa using biometric self-avatars in virtual reality: Attitudinal components rather than visual body size estimation are distorted Mölbert, S. C., Thaler, A., Mohler, B. J., Streuber, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Zipfel, S., Karnath, H., Giel, K. E. Psychological Medicine, 48(4):642-653, March 2018 doi pdf DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Can Humans Infer Haptic Surface Properties from Images? Burka, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (3 pages) presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, San Francisco, USA, March 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Emotionally Supporting Humans Through Robot Hugs Block, A. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the HRI Pioneers Workshop, Chicago, USA, March 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Exercising with Baxter: Design and Evaluation of Assistive Social-Physical Human-Robot Interaction Fitter, N. T., Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Johnson, M. J. Workshop paper (6 pages) presented at the HRI Workshop on Personal Robots for Exercising and Coaching, Chicago, USA, March 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Haptipedia: An Expert-Sourced Interactive Device Visualization for Haptic Designers Seifi, H., MacLean, K. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Park, G. Work-in-progress paper (3 pages) presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, San Francisco, USA, March 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster Representation of sensory uncertainty in macaque visual cortex Goris, R., Henaff, O., Meding, K. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE), March 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Towards a Statistical Model of Fingertip Contact Deformations from 4D Data Gueorguiev, D., Tzionas, D., Pacchierotti, C., Black, M. J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (3 pages) presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, San Francisco, USA, March 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Using Probabilistic Movement Primitives in Robotics Paraschos, A., Daniel, C., Peters, J., Neumann, G. Autonomous Robots, 42(3):529-551, March 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Will People Like Your Image? Learning the Aesthetic Space Schwarz, K., Wieschollek, P., Lensch, H. P. A. 2018 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2048-2057, March 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Photogravitactic Microswimmers Singh, D. P., Uspal, W. E., Popescu, M. N., Wilson, L. G., Fischer, P. Advanced Functional Materials, 28(25):1706660, 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Chiral Plasmonic Hydrogen Sensors Matuschek, M., Singh, D. P., Hyeon-Ho, J., Nesterov, M., Weiss, T., Fischer, P., Neubrech, F., Na Liu, L. Small, 14(7):1702990, February 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Sparse-then-dense alignment-based 3D map reconstruction method for endoscopic capsule robots Turan, M., Pilavci, Y. Y., Ganiyusufoglu, I., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M. Machine Vision and Applications, 29(2):345-359, February 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Body size estimation of self and others in females varying in BMI Thaler, A., Geuss, M. N., Mölbert, S. C., Giel, K. E., Streuber, S., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Mohler, B. J. PLoS ONE, 13(2), February 2018 pdf DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Patent Co-Registration – Simultaneous Alignment and Modeling of Articulated 3D Shapes Black, M., Hirshberg, D., Loper, M., Rachlin, E., Weiss, A. February 2018, U.S.~Patent 9,898,848 text BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Immersive Low-Cost Virtual Reality Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain: Evidence from Two Cases Ambron, E., Miller, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Buxbaum, L. J., Coslett, H. B. Frontiers in Neurology, 9(67):1-7, February 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Independent actuation of two-tailed microrobots Khalil, I. S. M., Tabak, A. F., Hamed, Y., Tawakol, M., Klingner, A., Gohary, N. E., Mizaikoff, B., Sitti, M. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(3):1703-1710, February 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Leveraging the Crowd to Detect and Reduce the Spread of Fake News and Misinformation Kim, J., Tabibian, B., Oh, A., Schölkopf, B., Gomez Rodriguez, M. Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 324-332, (Editors: Yi Chang, Chengxiang Zhai, Yan Liu, and Yoelle Maarek), ACM, February 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Deep EndoVO: A recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN) based visual odometry approach for endoscopic capsule robots Turan, M., Almalioglu, Y., Araujo, H., Konukoglu, E., Sitti, M. Neurocomputing, 275:1861 - 1870, January 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article The grand challenges of Science Robotics Yang, G., Bellingham, J., Dupont, P., Fischer, P., Floridi, L., Full, R., Jacobstein, N., Kumar, V., McNutt, M., Merrifield, R., et al. Science Robotics, 3(eaar7650), January 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Article Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion Hu, W., Lum, G. Z., Mastrangeli, M., Sitti, M. Nature, 554:81-85, Nature, January 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Light‐driven janus hollow mesoporous TiO2–Au microswimmers Sridhar, V., Park, B., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 28(5):1704902, January 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Mechanical rubbing of blood clots using helical robots under ultrasound guidance Khalil, I. S. M., Mahdy, D., Sharkawy, A. E., Moustafa, R. R., Tabak, A. F., Mitwally, M. E., Hesham, S., Hamdi, N., Klingner, A., Mohamed, A., et al. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(2):1112-1119, January 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Recent advances in wearable transdermal delivery systems Amjadi, M., Sheykhansari, S., Nelson, B. J., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 30(7):1704530, January 2018 DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Acoustic Fabrication via the Assembly and Fusion of Particles Melde, K., Choi, E., Wu, Z., Palagi, S., Qiu, T., Fischer, P. Advanced Materials, 30(3):1704507, January 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Approximate Value Iteration Based on Numerical Quadrature Vinogradska, J., Bischoff, B., Peters, J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(2):1330-1337, January 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Biomimetic Tactile Sensors and Signal Processing with Spike Trains: A Review Yi, Z., Zhang, Y., Peters, J. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 269:41-52, January 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Optics and Sensing Laboratory Article Measurement of Spectral Functions of Ultracold Atoms in Disordered Potentials Volchkov, V., Pasek, M., Denechaud, V., Mukhtar, M., Aspect, A., Delande, D., Josse, V. Physical Review Letters, 120:060404, American Physical Society (APS), January 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Ph.D. Thesis A machine learning approach to taking EEG-based computer interfaces out of the lab Jayaram, V. Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, IMPRS, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Materials Article 3D Nanofabrication of High-Resolution Multilayer Fresnel Zone Plates Sanli, U. T., Jiao, C., Baluktsian, M., Grevent, C., Hahn, K., Wang, Y., Srot, V., Richter, G., Bykova, I., Weigand, M., et al. Advanced Science, 5(9), 2018 DOI BibTeX

Modern Magnetic Systems Physical Intelligence Article 3D nanoprinted plastic kinoform x-ray optics Sanli, U. T., Ceylan, H., Bykova, I., Weigand, M., Sitti, M., Schütz, G., Keskinbora, K. {Advanced Materials}, 30(36):1802503, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2018 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article A ferronematic slab in external magnetic fields Zarubin, G., Bier, M., Dietrich, S. Soft Matter, 14(48):9806-9818, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2018 DOI BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Article A probabilistic model for the numerical solution of initial value problems Schober, M., Särkkä, S., Hennig, P. Statistics and Computing, 29(1):99–122, 2018 (Published) PDF Code DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article A simultaneous calibration method for magnetic robot localization and actuation systems Son, D., Dong, X., Sitti, M. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 35(2):343-352, 2018 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Master Thesis A virtual reality environment for experiments in assistive robotics and neural interfaces Bustamante, S. Graduate School of Neural Information Processing, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, 2018 (Published) PDF BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Active microrheology in corrugated channels Puertas, A. M., Malgaretti, P., Pagonabarraga, I. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 149(17):174908, American Institute of Physics, Woodbury, N.Y., 2018 DOI BibTeX