Contact
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Dr.-Ing. Jens Kober
Associate Professor, Cognitive Robotics department (CoR)
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Mekelweg 2 (ME Building)
2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands
🖂 j.kober (at) tudelft.nl
🕿 +31 (0)15 27 85150
Office: F-2-080
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jens-kober/
Research interests
Robotics, Motor Skill Learning, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, Deep Learning, Interactive Learning
News
- 1 accepted journal paper:
EAGERx: Graph-Based Framework for Sim2real Robot Learning. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2024. .
- 1 accepted conference paper:
Learning Multi-Reference Frame Skills from Demonstration with Task-Parameterized Gaussian Processes. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024. .
- 2 accepted conference papers:
Demonstrating Adaptive Mobile Manipulation in Retail Environments. In Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), 2024. .
An Open-Loop Baseline for Reinforcement Learning Locomotion Tasks. Reinforcement Learning Journal, 1(1), 2024. Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC). .
- 3 accepted journal papers:
Simultaneously Learning Intentions and Preferences during Physical Human-Robot Cooperation. Autonomous Robots, 48(4):11, 2024. .
RACP: Risk-Aware Contingency Planning with Multi-Modal Predictions. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, :1-16, 2024. .
Quadrupedal Locomotion with Parallel Compliance: E-Go Design, Modelling and Control. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, :1-10, 2024. .
- 3 accepted journal papers:
Robust Quadrupedal Jumping with Impact-Aware Landing: Exploiting Parallel Elasticity. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 40():3212-3231, 2024. .
Quadratic Programming-based Reference Spreading Control for Dual-Arm Robotic Manipulation with Planned Simultaneous Impacts. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 40:3341–3355, 2024. .
Efficient Parallelized Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024. Reproducibility Certification. .
- 1 new preprint:
Generalization of Task Parameterized Dynamical Systems using Gaussian Process Transportation. arXiv:2404.13458 [cs.RO], 2024. .
- 3 accepted conference papers:
An Empirical Investigation on Variational Autoencoder-Based Dynamic Modeling of Deformable Objects from RGB Data. In 32nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), pp. 921-928, 2024. .
TrajFlow: Learning Distributions over Trajectories for Human Behavior Prediction. In IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), pp. 184–191, 2024. .
ROME: Robust Multi-Modal Density Estimation. In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024. .
- 1 new preprint:
ExploRLLM: Guiding Exploration in Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models. arXiv:2403.09583 [cs.RO], 2024. .
- 1 accepted journal paper:
A review on machine learning in flexible surgical and interventional robots: Where we are and where we are going. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 93:106179, 2024. .
- 1 new preprint:
Curriculum-Based Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Jumping: A Reference-free Design. arXiv:2401.16337 [cs.RO], 2024. .
- In the news: Independent Two arms are better than one for robot dressers, says researcher
- 1 accepted journal paper:
Do You Need a Hand? - A Bimanual Robotic Dressing Assistance Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 40:1906–1919, 2024. .