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
- 2 new preprints:
. Solving Robot Assembly Tasks by Combining Interactive Teaching and Self-Exploration. arXiv:2209.11530 [cs.RO], 2022.
. Learning to Exploit Elastic Actuators for Quadruped Locomotion. arXiv:2209.07171 [cs.RO], 2022.
- new journal paper:
. Visually-Guided Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving from Interactive Demonstrations. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 116:105277, 2022.
- new journal paper:
. A Multiclass Classification Model for Tooth Removal Procedures. Journal of Dental Research, 2022.
- 2 new conference papers:
. OpenDR: An Open Toolkit for Enabling High Performance, Low Footprint Deep Learning for Robotics. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022.
. Automatic Tuning and Selection of Whole-Body Controllers. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022.
- Jens will speak at munich_i
- Henny Admoni (CMU) and Jens Kober (TU Delft) have been selected as Early Career Spotlight keynote speakers at #RSS2022!
- Recording of Jens's talk at the ICRA 2022 Workshop Releasing Robotics into the Wild here
- new workshop paper:
. Disagreement-Aware Variable Impedance Control for Online Learning of Physical Human-Robot Cooperation Tasks. In ICRA 2022 full day workshop - Shared Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Adaptability and Trust, 2022.
- new journal paper:
. Learning to Pick at Non-Zero-Velocity From Interactive Demonstrations. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(3):6052-6059, 2022.
- new journal paper:
. Learning Task-Parameterized Skills from Few Demonstrations. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022. The contents of this paper were also selected by ICRA'22 Program Committee for presentation at the Conference.
- new journal paper:
. Challenges and Outlook in Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, :2-12, 2022.
- ICRA2022 Tutorial: Tools for Robotic Reinforcement Learning: Hands-on RL for Robotics with EAGER and Stable-Baselines3 accepted.