Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems

AUTHORS: Francesco Locatello*, Anant Raj*, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy, Gunnar Rätsch, Bernhard Schölkopf, Sebastian U. Stich, Martin Jaggi; * shared first authorship

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research

2018

Self-Folded Hydrogel Tubes for Implantable Muscular Tissue Scaffolds

AUTHORS: Lorenzo Vannozzi, Immihan Ceren Yasa, Hakan Ceylan, Arianna Menciassi, Leonardo Ricotti, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: Macromolecular Bioscience

2018

Learning-based Model Predictive Control for Safe Exploration and Reinforcement Learning

AUTHORS: Torsten Koller, Felix Berkenkamp, Matteo Turchetta, Andreas Krause

PUBLISHED: Preprint arXiv:1803.08287

2018

Self-Sensing Paper Actuators Based on Graphite-Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Films

AUTHORS: Morteza Amjadi, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: Advanced Science

2018

Magnetic-Visual Sensor Fusion-based Dense 3D Reconstruction and Localization for Endoscopic Capsule Robots

AUTHORS: Mehmet Turan, Yasin Almalioglu, Evin Pinar Ornek, Helder Araujo, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

2018

Unsupervised Odometry and Depth Learning for Endoscopic Capsule Robots

AUTHORS: Mehmet Turan, Evin Pinar Ornek, Nail Ibrahimli, Can Giracoglu, Yasin Almalioglu, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

2018

Tempered Adversarial Networks

AUTHORS: Mehdi S.M. Sajjadi, Giambattista Parascandolo, Arash Mehrjou, Bernhard Schölkopf

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018

2018

Sensing Paper Actuators Based on Graphite-Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Films

AUTHORS: Morteza Amjadi and Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: Advanced Science

2018

Emotionally Supporting Humans Through Robot Hugs

AUTHORS: Alexis E. Block and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

PUBLISHED: Companion Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

2018

Learning Independent Causal Mechanisms

AUTHORS: Giambattista Parascandolo, Niki Kilbertus, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Bernhard Schölkopf

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018

2018

A Conditional Gradient Framework for Composite Convex Minimization with Applications to SDP

AUTHORS: Alp Yurtsever, Olivier Fercoq, Francesco Locatello, Volkan Cevher

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2018

2018

RayNet: Learning Volumetric 3D Reconstruction with Ray Potentials

AUTHORS: Despoina Paschalidou, Ali Osman Ulusoy, Carolin Schmitt, Luc van Gool, Andreas Geiger

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

2018

Boosting Variational Inference: an Optimization Perspective

AUTHORS: Francesco Locatello, Rajiv Khanna, Joydeep Ghosh, Gunnar Rätsch

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2018, Lanzarote, Spain. PMLR: Volume 84.

2018

Recent Advances in Wearable Transdermal Delivery Systems

AUTHORS: Morteza Amjadi, Sahar Sheykhansari, Bradley J. Nelson, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: Advanced Materials

2017

Real-Time Motion Planning of Legged Robots: A Model Predictive Control Approach

AUTHORS: Farbod Farshidian, Edo Jelavic, Asutosh Satapathy, Markus Giftthaler, Jonas Buchli

PUBLISHED: IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids)

2017

Robust Whole-Body Motion Control of Legged Robots

AUTHORS: Farbod Farshidian, Edo Jelavic, Alexander W. Winkler, Jonas Buchli

PUBLISHED: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

2017

Scalable Pneumatic and Tendon Driven Robotic Joint Inspired by Jumping Spiders

AUTHORS: Alexander Spröwitz, Chantal Göttler, Ayush Sinha, Corentin Caer, Mehmet Ugur Öoztekin, Kirstin Petersen, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

2017

Distributed Event-based State Estimation

AUTHORS: Sebastian Trimpe

PUBLISHED: Preprint arXiv:1511.05223

2017

Parallel Coordinate Descent Newton Method for Efficient L1-Regularized Loss Minimization

AUTHORS: An Bian, Xiong Li, Yuncai Liu, Ming-Hsuan Yang

PUBLISHED: Preprint arXiv:1306.4080

2017

Guarantees for Greedy Maximization of Non-submodular Functions with Applications

AUTHORS: Andrew An Bian, Joachim M. Buhmann, Andreas Krause, Sebastian Tschiatschek

PUBLISHED: Preprint arXiv:1703.02100

2017

Estimation-Based Control of a Magnetic Endoscope without Device Localization

AUTHORS: Janis Edelmann, Andrew J. Petruska, Bradley J. Nelson

PUBLISHED: Journal of Medical Robotics Research

2017

Yield prediction in parallel homogeneous assembly

AUTHORS: Dhananjay Ipparthi, Andrew Winslow, Metin Sitti, Marco Dorigo, Massimo Mastrangeli

PUBLISHED: Soft Matter

2017

Event-based state estimation: an emulation-based approach

AUTHORS: Sebastian Trimpe

PUBLISHED: Institution of Engineering and Technology Control Theory & Applications

2017

Semantic Video CNNs through Representation Warping

AUTHORS: Raghudeep Gadde, Varun Jampani, Peter V. Gehler

PUBLISHED: International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

2017

Self-Assembly of Micro/Nanosystems across Scales and Interfaces

AUTHORS: Massimo Mastrangeli

PUBLISHED: International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS)

2017

On the Design of LQR Kernels for Efficient Controller Learning

AUTHORS: Alonso Marco, Philipp Hennig, Stefan Schaal, Sebastian Trimpe

PUBLISHED: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

2017

Optical Flow in Mostly Rigid Scenes

AUTHORS: Jonas Wulff, Laura Sevilla-Lara, Michael J. Black

PUBLISHED: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

2017

Momentum-Centered Control of Contact Interactions

AUTHORS: Ludovic Righetti, Alexander Herzog

PUBLISHED: Geometric and Numerical Foundations of Movements

2017

On the effect of pooling on the geometry of representations

AUTHORS: Gary Bécigneul

PUBLISHED: Preprint arXiv:1703.06726

2017

Soft Micro-Robots for Military Medicine

AUTHORS: Hen-Wei Huang, Andrew J. Petruska, Bradley J. Nelson

PUBLISHED: HDIAC Journal

2017

CONVWAVE: Searching for Gravitational Waves with Fully Convolutional Neural Nets

AUTHORS: Timothy Gebhard, Niki Kilbertus, Ian Harry, Giambattista Parascandolo, Bernhard Schölkopf

PUBLISHED: Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)

2017

MRI-Based Surgical Planning for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

AUTHORS: Gabriele Abbati, Stefan Bauer, Sebastian Winklhofer, Peter J. Schüffler, Ulrike Held, Jakob M. Burgstaller, Johann Steurer, Joachim M. Buhmann

PUBLISHED: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)

2017

Locomotion of light-driven soft microrobots through a hydrogel via local melting

AUTHORS: Stefano Palagi, Andrew G. Mark, Kai Melde, Tian Qiu, Hao Zeng, Camilla Parmeggiani, Daniele Martella, Diederik S. Wiersma, Peer Fischer

PUBLISHED: International Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS)

2017

Efficient and Flexible Inference for Stochastic Systems

AUTHORS: Stefan Bauer, Nico S. Gorbach, Djordje Miladinovic, Joachim M. Buhmann

PUBLISHED: Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)

2017

Group invariance principles for causal generative models

AUTHORS: Michel Besserve, Naji Shajarisales, Bernhard Schölkopf, Dominik Janzing

PUBLISHED: Preprint arXiv:1705.02212

2017

Sequential Linear Quadratic Optimal Control for Nonlinear Switched Systems

AUTHORS: Farbod Farshidian, Maryam Kamgarpour, Diego Pardo, Jonas Buchli

PUBLISHED: International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

2017

Model Selection for Gaussian Process Regression

AUTHORS: Nico S. Gorbach, Andrew An Bian, Benjamin Fischer, Stefan Bauer, Joachim M. Buhmann

PUBLISHED: German Conference on Pattern Recognition

2017

Scalable Variational Inference for Dynamical Systems

AUTHORS: Nico S. Gorbach, Stefan Bauer, Joachim M. Buhmann

PUBLISHED: Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)

2017

Continuous DR-submodular Maximization: Structure and Algorithms

AUTHORS: An Bian, Kfir Levy, Andreas Krause, Joachim M. Buhmann

PUBLISHED: Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)

2017

Optical Flow Estimation using a Spatial Pyramid Network

AUTHORS: Anurag Ranjan, Michael J. Black

PUBLISHED: IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

2017

Avoiding Discrimination through Causal Reasoning

AUTHORS: Niki Kilbertus, Moritz Hardt, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Dominik Janzing, Giambattista Parascandolo, Bernhard Schölkopf

PUBLISHED: Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2017

2017

Mobile microrobots for bioengineering applications

AUTHORS: Hakan Ceylan, Joshua Giltinan, Kristen Kozielskia, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: Lab Chip

2017

Soft Actuators for Small-Scale Robotics

AUTHORS: Lindsey Hines, Kirstin Petersen, Guo Zhan Lum, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: Advanced Materials

2017

3D Chemical Patterning of Micromaterials for Encoded Functionality

AUTHORS: Hakan Ceylan, Immihan Ceren Yasa, Metin Sitti*

PUBLISHED: Advanced Materials

2017

Surface tension-driven self-alignment

AUTHORS: Massimo Mastrangeli, Quan Zhou, Veikko Sariola, Pierre Lambert

PUBLISHED: Soft Matter

2017

A deep learning based fusion of RGB camera information and magnetic localization information for endoscopic capsule robots

AUTHORS: Mehmet Turan, Jahanzaib Shabbir, Helder Araujo, Ender Konukoglu, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications

2017

A non-rigid map fusion-based direct SLAM method for endoscopic capsule robots

AUTHORS: Mehmet Turan, Yasin Almalioglu, Helder Araujo, Ender Konukoglu, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications

2017

Deep EndoVO: A recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN) based visual odometry approach for endoscopic capsule robots

AUTHORS: Mehmet Turan, Yasin Almalioglu, Helder Araujo, Ender Konukoglu, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: Neurocomputing

2017

Sparse-then-dense alignment-based 3D map reconstruction method for endoscopic capsule robots

AUTHORS: Mehmet Turan, Yusuf Yigit Pilavci, Ipek Ganiyusufoglu, Helder Araujo, Ender Konukoglu, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: Machine Vision and Applications

2017

Safe Model-based Reinforcement Learning with Stability Guarantees

AUTHORS: Felix Berkenkamp, Matteo Turchetta, Angela P. Schoellig, Andreas Krause

PUBLISHED: Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2017

2017

Bioinspired Composite Microfibers for Skin Adhesion and Signal Amplification of Wearable Sensors

AUTHORS: Dirk-M. Drotlef, Morteza Amjadi, Muhammad Yunusa, Metin Sitti

PUBLISHED: Advanced Materials

2017

Recent Advances in Skin Penetration Enhancers for Transdermal Gene and Drug Delivery

AUTHORS: Amjadi M., Mostaghaci B., Sitti M.

PUBLISHED: Current Gene Therapy

2017

Greedy Algorithms for Cone Constrained Optimization with Convergence Guarantees

AUTHORS: Francesco Locatello, Michael Tschannen, Gunnar Raetsch, Martin Jaggi

PUBLISHED: Pre-proceedings of the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017)

2017

Optimization-based motion generation for multiped robots in contact scenarios

AUTHORS: Alexander Herzog

PUBLISHED: Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich

2017

Planning and Control in Face of Uncertainty with Applications to Legged Robots

AUTHORS: Farbod Farshidian

PUBLISHED: Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich

2017

Causal models for decision making via integrative inference

AUTHORS: Philipp Geiger

PUBLISHED: Doctoral Thesis, University of Stuttgart

2017

Causal Consistency of Structural Equation Models

AUTHORS: Paul K. Rubenstein*, Sebastian Weichwald*, Stephan Bongers, Joris M. Mooij, Dominik Janzing, Moritz Grosse-Wentrup, Bernhard Schölkopf (* joint first authorship)

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)

2017

Guaranteed Non-convex Optimization: Submodular Maximization over Continuous Domains

AUTHORS: Andrew An Bian, Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Joachim M. Buhmann, Andreas Krause

PUBLISHED: 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2017

2017

Nonparametric Disturbance Correction and Nonlinear Dual Control

AUTHORS: Edgar D. Klenske

PUBLISHED: Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich

2017

Virtual vs. Real: Trading Off Simulations and Physical Experiments in Reinforcement Learning with Bayesian Optimization

AUTHORS: Alonso Marco, Felix Berkenkamp, Philipp Hennig, Angela P. Schoellig, Andreas Krause, Stefan Schaal, Sebastian Trimpe

PUBLISHED: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

2017

A Unified Optimization View on Generalized Matching Pursuit and Frank-Wolfe

AUTHORS: Francesco Locatello, Rajiv Khanna, Michael Tschannen, Martin Jaggi

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2017, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

2017

Online Walking Motion and Contact Optimization for Quadruped Robots

AUTHORS: Alexander W. Winkler, Farbod Farshidian, Michael Neunert, Diego Pardo, Jonas Buchli

PUBLISHED: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

2017

Efficient Kinematic Planning for Mobile Manipulators with Non-holonomic Constraints Using Optimal Control

AUTHORS: Markus Giftthaler, Farbod Farshidian, Timothy Sandy, Lukas Stadelmann, Jonas Buchli

PUBLISHED: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

2017

An Efficient Optimal Planning and Control Framework For Quadrupedal Locomotion

AUTHORS: Farbod Farshidian, Michael Neunert, Alexander W. Winkler, Gonzalo Rey, Jonas Buchli

PUBLISHED: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

2016

Modeling confounding by half-sibling regression

AUTHORS: Bernhard Schölkopf, David W. Hogg, Dun Wang, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Dominik Janzing, Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel, Jonas Peters

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

2016

Predictive and self triggering for event-based state estimation

AUTHORS: Sebastian Trimpe

PUBLISHED: IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

2016

A Convex Model of Humanoid Momentum Dynamics for Multi-Contact Motion Generation

AUTHORS: Brahayam Ponton, Alexander Herzog, Stefan Schaal, Ludovic Righetti

PUBLISHED: Preprint arXiv:1607.08644

2016

Communication Rate Analysis for Event-based State Estimation

AUTHORS: Simon Ebner, Sebastian Trimpe

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Discrete Event

2016

Automatic LQR tuning based on Gaussian process global optimization

AUTHORS: Alonso Marco, Philipp Hennig, Jeannette Bohg, Stefan Schaal, Sebastian Trimpe

PUBLISHED: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

2016

A new perspective and extension of the Gaussian Filter

AUTHORS: Manuel Wüthrich, Sebastian Trimpe, Cristina Garcia Cifuentes, Daniel Kappler, Stefan Schaal

PUBLISHED: International Journal of Robotics Research

2016

Information-Theoretic Analysis of MaxCut Algorithms

AUTHORS: An Bian, Alexey Gronskiy, Joachim M. Buhmann

PUBLISHED: Information Theory and Applications

2016

The Role of Measurement Uncertainty in Optimal Control for Contact Interactions

AUTHORS: Brahayam Ponton, Stefan Schaal, Ludovic Righetti

PUBLISHED: The 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR)

2016

Model Selection for Gaussian Process Regression by Approximation Set Coding

AUTHORS: Benjamin Fischer, Nico Gorbach, Stefan Bauer, Yatao Bian, Joachim M. Buhmann

PUBLISHED: Preprint arXiv:1610.00907

2016

Multi-Organ Cancer Classification and Survival Analysis

AUTHORS: Stefan Bauer, Nicolas Carion, Peter Schüffler, Thomas Fuchs, Peter Wild, Joachim M. Buhmann

PUBLISHED: Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)

2016

Stretchable, Skin-Mountable, and Wearable Strain Sensors and Their Potential Applications: A Review

AUTHORS: Morteza Amjadi, Ki-Uk Kyung, Inkyu Park*, Metin Sitti*

PUBLISHED: Advanced Functional Materials

2016

Causal inference in semiparametric and nonparametric structural equation models

AUTHORS: Jan Ernest

PUBLISHED: Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich

2016

Nonparametric causal inference from observational time series through marginal integration

AUTHORS: Shu Li, Jan Ernest, Peter Bühlmann

PUBLISHED: Methodology (stat.ME)

2016

Causal inference in partially linear structural equation models

AUTHORS: Jan Ernest, Dominik Rothenhäusler, Peter Bühlmann

PUBLISHED: Preprint arXiv:1607.05980

2016

Safe Exploration in Finite Markov Decision Processes with Gaussian Processes

AUTHORS: Matteo Turchetta, Felix Berkenkamp, Andreas Krause

PUBLISHED: 29th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2016), Barcelona, Spain

2016

Structured contact force optimization for kino-dynamic motion generation

AUTHORS: Alexander Herzog, Stefan Schaal, Ludovic Righetti

PUBLISHED: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2016

2016

Step Timing Adjustment: A Step toward Generating Robust Gaits

AUTHORS: Majid Khadiv, Alexander Herzog, S. Ali. A. Moosavian, and Ludovic Righetti

PUBLISHED: Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

2016

Stepping Stabilization Using a Combination of DCM Tracking and Step Adjustment

AUTHORS: Majid Khadiv, Sebastien Kleff, Alexander Herzog, S. Ali. A. Moosavian, Stefan Schaal, and Ludovic Righetti

PUBLISHED: 4th RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics

2016

Soft continuous microrobots with multiple intrinsic degrees of freedom

AUTHORS: Stefano Palagi, Andrew G. Mark, Kai Melde, Hao Zeng, Camilla Parmeggiani, Daniele Martella, Diederik S. Wiersma, Peer Fischer

PUBLISHED: IEEE Xplore

2016

Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots

AUTHORS: Stefano Palagi, Andrew G. Mark, Shang Yik Reigh, Kai Melde, Tian Qiu, Hao Zeng, Camilla Parmeggiani, Daniele Martella, Alberto Sanchez-Castillo, Nadia Kapernaum, Frank Giesselmann, Diederik S. Wiersma, Eric Lauga and Peer Fischer

PUBLISHED: Nature Materials

2016