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
- 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.
- Podcast (in Dutch): Career Advice for Robots
- new conference paper:
. Smooth Exploration for Robotic Reinforcement Learning. In 5th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) (Aleksandra Faust, David Hsu, Gerhard Neumann, eds.), PMLR, vol. 164 of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pp. 1634–1644, 2022.
- 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, 4(1):2100095, 2022.
- 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:
. ILoSA: Interactive Learning of Stiffness and Attractors. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 7778–7785, 2021.
. DeepKoCo: Efficient Latent Planning with an Invariant Koopman Representation. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 183–189, 2021.
- new preprint:
- 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), pp. 3655–3661, 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 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) (Jens Kober, Fabio Ramos, Claire Tomlin, eds.), PMLR, vol. 155 of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pp. 1298–1311, 2021.
- new conference paper:
. Interactive Imitation Learning in State-Space. In 2020 Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) (Jens Kober, Fabio Ramos, Claire Tomlin, eds.), PMLR, vol. 155 of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pp. 682–692, 2021.
- 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 42nd 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