Contact
Dr.-Ing. Jens Kober
Associate Professor, Cognitive Robotics department (CoR)
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Mekelweg 2 (3mE Building)
2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands
🖂 j.kober (at) tudelft.nl
🕿 +31 (0)15 27 85150
Office: F-2-380
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jens-kober/
Research interests
Robotics, Motor Skill Learning, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, Deep Learning, Interactive Learning
News
- new conference paper:
. Smooth Exploration for Robotic Reinforcement Learning. In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021.
- Jens Kober is co-organizing the NeurIPS 2021 4th Robot Learning Workshop: Self-Supervised and Lifelong Learning
details see here - new journal paper:
. Learning Assembly Tasks in a Few Minutes by Combining Impedance Control and Residual Recurrent Reinforcement Learning. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021.
- Best Late Breaking Results Poster Award, AIM 2021 for
Giovanni Franzese, Anna Mészáros, Luka Peternel, and Jens Kober. ILoSA: Interactive Learning of Stiffness and Attractors. - two new conference papers:
. DeepKoCo: Efficient Latent Planning with an Invariant Koopman Representation. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
. ILoSA: Interactive Learning of Stiffness and Attractors. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
- new conference paper:
. Interactive Learning of Sensor Policy Fusion. In 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 665-670, 2021.
- new workshop paper:
. Learning Task Controllers on a Humanoid Robot using Multi-objective Optimization. In ICRA 2021: 5th Full-Day Workshop on Legged Robots (Virtual), 2021.
- new journal paper (with IROS presentation):
. GEM: Glare or Gloom, I Can Still See You – End-to-End Multimodal Object Detector. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(4):6321–6328, 2021. The contents of this paper were also selected by IROS'21 Program Committee for presentation at the Conference.
- two new journal papers:
. Robot Technology in Dentistry, Part One of a Systematic Review: Literature Characteristics. Dental Materials, 37(8):1217–1226, 2021.
. Robot Technology in Dentistry, Part Two of a Systematic Review: An Overview of Initiatives. Dental Materials, 37(8):1227–1236, 2021.
- new journal paper:
. A Deep Learning Framework for Recognizing Both Static and Dynamic Gestures. Sensors, 21(6), 2021.
- new conference paper:
. Imitation Learning with Inconsistent Demonstrations through Uncertainty-based Data Manipulation. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.
- new preprint:
. Random Shadows and Highlights: A New Data Augmentation Method for Extreme Lighting Conditions. arXiv:2101.05361 [cs.CV], 2021.
- Jens Kober was appointed ELLIS Scholar
- new conference paper:
. Learning Interactively to Resolve Ambiguity in Reference Frame Selection. In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020.
- new conference paper:
. Interactive Imitation Learning in State-Space. In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020.
- new conference paper:
. Tactile-based Self-supervised Pose Estimation for Robust Grasping. In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) (Bruno Siciliano, Cecilia Laschi, Oussama Khatib, eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 277–284, 2021.
- new journal paper:
. Learning Sequential Force Interaction Skills. Robotics, 9(2):45, 2020.
- new report about our NWO OpenMind project (Dutch only) Hoe trek je een kies?
- new report about our NWO OpenMind project Understanding tooth extraction thanks to robot
- new conference paper:
. Robot Technology in Analyzing Tooth Removal – a Proof of Concept. In Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 4721–4727, 2020.
- new journal paper:
. Interactive Learning of Temporal Features for Control: Shaping Policies and State Representations From Human Feedback. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 27(2):46–54, 2020.
- new conference paper:
. Fine-tuning Deep RL with Gradient-Free Optimization. In 21th IFAC World Congress, pp. 8049-8056, 2020.
- new conference paper:
. Predicting and Optimizing Ergonomics in Physical Human-Robot Cooperation Tasks. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1799–1805, 2020.
- Tim de Bruin successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congrats!
- Jens Kober is co-organizing the Workshop on Interactive Robot Learning@ICRA2020