Publications- TU Berlin-Robotics and Biology Laboratory

Sebastian Höfer, Michael Spranger and Manfred Hild. Posture Recognition Based on Slow Feature Analysis. Language Grounding in Robots 111-130, 2012.

Katrien Beuls, Luc Steels und Sebastian Höfer. The Emergence of Internal Agreement Systems. Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution 233-256, 2012.

Luc Steels, Michael Spranger, Remi van Trijp, Sebastian Höfer and Manfred Hild. Emergent Action Language on Real Robots. Language Grounding in Robots 255-276, 2012.

Robert Gaschler, Dov Katz, Martin Grund, Peter A. Frensch and Oliver Brock. Intelligent Object Exploration. Human Machine Interaction 01-26, 2012.

Ingo Kossyk, Jonas Dörr, Lars Raschendörfer and Konstantin Kondak. Usability of a virtual reality system based on a wearable haptic interface. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 3474-3479, 2011.

aphael Deimel. An Integrative View on Understanding Action an Observation. University of Vienna Master Thesis , 2011.

Andreas Orthey. 3D Joint Detection. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Berlin University of Technology Bachelor's thesis 01-59, 2011.

Katrien Beuls and Sebastian Höfer. Simulating the Emergence of Grammatical Agreement in Multi-agent Language Games. Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 61-66, 2011.

Sebastian Höfer. Anwendungen der Slow Feature Analysis in der humanoiden Robotik. Humboldt University of Berlin Diploma Thesis , 2011.

Oliver Brock (Editor). Berlin Summit on Robotics. Conference Report, 2011.

Oliver Brock and Charles Kemp. Guest editorial: special issue on autonomous mobile manipulation. Autonomous Robots 28(1):1-3, 2010.

Yuandong Yang and Oliver Brock. Elastic roadmaps - motion generation for autonomous mobile manipulation. Autonomous Robots 28(1):113-130, 2010.

Dov Katz, Andreas Orthey and Oliver Brock. Interactive Perception of Articulated Objects. 12th International Symposium of Experimental Robotics 01-15, 2010.

Ingo Kossyk, Jonas Dörr and Konstantin Kondak. Design and evaluation of a wearable haptic interface for large workspaces. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 4674-4679, 2010.

Florian Kamm. Using tree-based robot motion planning algorithms for protein loop closure. Institute of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin Diploma Thesis , 2010.

D. Surdilovic, Y. Yakut, T-M. Nguyen, X. B. Pham, A. Vick and R. Martin Martin. Compliance Control with Dual-Arm Humanoid Robots: Design, Planning and Programming. International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2010.

Sebastian Höfer, Manfred Hild and Matthias Kubisch. Using Slow Feature Analysis to Extract Behavioural Manifolds Related to Humanoid Robot Postures. Tenth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics 43-50, 2010.

Sebastian Höfer and Manfred Hild. Using Slow Feature Analysis to Improve the Reactivity of a Humanoid Robot's Sensorimotor Gait Pattern. International Conference on Neural Computation 212-219, 2010.

Raphael Deimel. Contextual Slow Feature Extraction. Technical Report , Austrian Institute for Artificial Intelligence, 2009.

Michael Schneider, Xiaoran FU and Amy E. Feating X-ray vs. NMR structures as templates for computational protein design. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics 77(1):97-110, 2009.

Felix Faber, Maren Bennewitz, Clemens Eppner, Attila Goeroeg, Christoph Gonsior, Dominik Joho, Michael Schreiber und Sven Behnke. The Humanoid Museum Tour Guide Robotinho. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot an Human, 2009.

Christos Bergeles, Georgios Fagogenis, Jake J. Abbott and Bradley J. Nelson. Tracking Intraocular Microdevices Based on Colorspace Evaluation and Statistical Color/Shape Information. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2009.

Clemens Eppner, Juergen Sturm, Maren Bennewitz, Cyrill Stachniss and Wolfram Burgard. Imitation Learning with Generalized Task Descriptions. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 3968-3974, 2009.

Jacqueline Kenney, Thomas Buckley and Oliver Brock. Interactive Segmentation for Manipulation in Unstructured Environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation . IEEE Press 1343-1348, 2009.

Dov Katz and Oliver Brock. A Factorization Approach to Manipulation in Unstructured Environments. 14th International Symposium of Robotics Research . Springer Verlag 1-16, 2009.

Christian Fleischer, Konstantin Kondak, Andreas Wege and Ingo Kossyk. Research on Exoskeletons at the TU Berlin. Advances in Robotics Research 10 335-346, 2009.

Michael Spranger, Sebastian Höfer and Manfred Hild. Biologically Inspired Posture Recognition and Posture Change Detection for Humanoid Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics 562-567, 2009.

Dov Katz and Oliver Brock. Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception. In Unifying Perspectives In Computational and Robot Vision (8):11-23, 2008.

Dov Katz and Oliver Brock. Manipulating Articulated Objects with Interactive Perception. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2008.

David G. Cooper, Dov Katz and Hava T. Siegelmann. Emotional Robotics: Tug of War. In the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium on Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior 1-7, 2008.

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock and Brian N. Levine. MORA routing and capacity building in disruption-tolerant networks. Ad Hoc Networks 6 (4)600-620, 2008.

TJ Brunette and Oliver Brock Guiding conformation space search with an all-atom energy potential. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics 73(4):958-972, 2008

Dov Katz, Jacqueline Kenney and Oliver Brock. How Can Robots Succed in Unstructured Environments. Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Intelligence in Human Environments at Robotics 01-06, 2008.

Dov Katz, Yuri Pyuro and Oliver Brock. Learning to Manipulate Articulated Objects in Unstructured Environments Using a Grounded Relational Representation. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems IV 254-261, 2008.

Markus Rickert, Oliver Brock and Alois Knoll. Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Motion Planning. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2812-2817, 2008.

Filip Jagodzinski and Oliver Brock. Using a Mechanistic Perspective to Simulate Protein Backbone Motion. Poster presentation at Annual Symposium of the Protein Society 510, 2007.

Avi Herscovici and Oliver Brock. Improved Search for Structure Learning of Large Bayesian Networks. TR-07-38, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007.

Filip Jagodzinski and Oliver Brock. Towards a Mechanistic View of Protein Motion. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 4557-4562, 2007.

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Sampling-Based Motion Planning with Sensing Uncertainty. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007.

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Single-Query Motion Planning with Utility-Guided Random Trees. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007.

TJ Brunette and Oliver Brock. Search Improvements Lead to Improved Accuracy in Protein Structure Prediction. Poster presentation at Annual Symposium of the Protein Society , 2007.

Dov Katz and Oliver Brock. Interactive Perception: Closing the Gap Between Action and Perception. Workshop: From features to actions - Unifying perspectives in computational and robot vision at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 1-9, 2007.

Dov Katz and Oliver Brock. Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception. Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Sensing and Adapting to the Real World at Robotics: Science and Systems 01-06, 2007.

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Utility-Guided Random Trees. Technical Report TR-06-29, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006.

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Uncertain Knowledge. Technical Report TR-06-30, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006.

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock and Brian Neil Levine. Autonomous Enhancement of Disruption Tolerant Networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2006.

Dov Katz, Emily Horrell, Yuandong Yang, Brendan Burns, Thomas Buckley, Anna Grishkan, Volodymyr Zhylkovsky, Oliver Brock and Erik Learned-Miller. The UMass Mobile Manipulator UMan: An Experimental Platform for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation. Workshop on Manipulation in Human Environments at Robotics: Science and Systems 01-08, 2006.

Robert Platt, Robert Burridge, Myron Diftler, Jodi Graf, Mike Goza, Eric Huber and Oliver Brock. Humanoid Mobile Manipulation Using Controller Refinement. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots 94-101, 2006

Avi Herscovici and Oliver Brock. Improving High-Dimensional Bayesian Network Structure Learning by Exploiting Search Space Information. Technical Report TR-06-49, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006.

Audrey Lee, Oliver Brock and Ileana Streinau. A Methodology for Efficiently Sampling the Conformation Space of Molecular Structures. Technical Report TR-05-40, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

Oliver Brock and Roderic Grupen. NSF/NASA Workshop on Autonomous Mobile Manipulation (AMM). Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock and Brian Neil Levine. MV Routing and Autonomous Capacity Building in Disruption Tolerant Networks. Proceedings of the Conference of the IEEE Communications Society (INFOCOM) 1-11, 2005.

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Single-Query Entropy-Guided Path Planning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics 2124-2129, 2005.

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Toward Optimal Configuration Space Sampling. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems 105-112, 2005.

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Predictive Models. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics 3120-3125, 2005.

Oliver Brock, Andrew Fagg, Roderic Grupen, Robert Platt, Michael Rosenstein and John Sweeney A Framework for Learning and Control in Intelligent Humanoid Robots. International Journal of Humanoid Robots 2(3):301-336, 2005.

Oliver Brock and Roderic Grupen. Final Report for the NSF/NASA Workshop on Autonomous Mobile Manipulation (AMM). Technical Report , Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

Yuandong Yang and Oliver Brock. Efficient Motion Planning Based on Disassembly. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Cambridge 01-08, 2005.

Oliver Brock and TJ Brunette. Predicting Protein Structure with Guided Conformation Space Search. Technical Report TR-05-63, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

Audry Lee, Ileana Streinu und Oliver Brock. A methodology for efficiently sampling the conformation space of molecular structures. Physical Biology 2(4):108-115, 2005.

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock and Brian Neil Levine. \textitMV Routing and Autonomous Capacity Building in Disruption Tolerant Networks. TR-04-68, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Model-Based Motion Planning. TR-04-32, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Single-Query Entropy-Guided Motion Planning. Technical Report TR-04-76, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.

Oliver Brock and Roderic Grupen.. Integrating Manual Dexterity with Mobility for Human-Scale Service Robotics-The Case for Concentrated Research into Science and Technology Supporting Next-Generation Robotic Assistants. , 2004.

Oussama Khatib, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, Diego Ruspini, Luis Sentis and Sriram Viji Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic Simulation. International Journal of Robotics Research 23(2):167-178, 2004.

Mike Rosenstein, Robert Platt, Patrick Deegan, John Sweeney, Oliver Brock, Andrew Fagg and Roderic Grupen. Haptic Coupling of Dexterous Manipulation and Dynamic Mobility. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Video, 2004.

Bryan Thibodeau, Stephen W. Hart, Deepak R. Karuppiah, John D. Sweeney and Oliver Brock. A Cascaded Filter Approach to Multi-objective Control. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics 3877-3882, 2004.

Yuandong Yang and Oliver Brock. Viewing Motion Planning as Disassembly: A Decomposition-Based Approach for Non-Stationary Robots. Technical Report TR-04-108, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.

TJ Brunette and Oliver Brock. Model-Based Search to Determine Minima in Molecular Energy Landscapes. Technical Report TR-04-48, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.

Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock. Information Theoretic Construction of Probabilistic Roadmaps. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 1 650-655, 2003.

Robert Platt, Oliver Brock, Andrew H. Fagg, Deepak Karupiah, Michael Rosenstein, Jefferson Coelho, Manfred Huber, Justus Piater, David Wheeler and Roderic A. Grupen. A Framework for Humanoid Control and Intelligence. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots 01-20, 2003.

Oussama Khatib, Oliver Brock, Kwang-chih Chang, Diego Ruspini, Luis Sentis and Srinivasan Viji. Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic. Robotics Research 6:239-253, 2003.

Yuandong Yang, Oliver Brock and Roderic A. Grupen. Exploiting redundancy to implement multi-objective behavior. Internationale Conference on Robotics and Automation 3385-3390, 2003.

Oliver Brock, Oussama Khatib and Sriram Viji. Task-Consistent Obstacle Avoidance and Motion Behavior for Mobile Manipulation. Video Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 388-394, 2002.

Oliver Brock, Oussama Khatib and Sriram Viji. Task-Consistent Obstacle Avoidance and Motion Behavior for Mobile Manipulation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics 1 388-393, 2002.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib Elastic Strips: A Framework for Motion Generation in Human Environments. International Journal of Robotics Research 21(12):1031-1052, 2002.

Oussama Khatib, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, Francois Conti, Diego Ruspini and Luis Sentis Robotics and Interactive Simulation. Communications of the ACM 45(3):46-51, 2002.

Oliver Brock and Lydia E. Kavraki. Decomposition-based Motion Planning: A Framework for Real-time Motion Planning in High-dimensional Configuration Spaces. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics 1469-1474, 2001.

Oussama Khatib, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, Diego Ruspini, Luis Sentis and Sriram Viji. Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic Simulation. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Robotics Research 01-10, 2001.

Oussama Khatib, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang and Arancha Casal Robots in Human Environments. Archives of Control Sciences 11(3/4):123-138, 2001.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib. Integrated Planning and Execution: Elastic Strips. Proceedings of the World Automation Congress 025, 2000.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib. Real-Time Replanning in High-Dimensional Configuration Spaces Using Sets of Homotopic Paths. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2000.

Oliver Brock. Generating Robot Motion: The Integration of Planning and Execution. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University Ph.D.Thesis 202, 2000.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib. High-Speed Navigation Using the Global Dynamic Window Approach. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Video, 2000.

Oliver Brock and Lydia E. Kavraki. Towards Real-time Motion Planning in High-dimensional Configuration Spaces. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics and Automation 81-86, 2000.

Oliver Brock and Lydia E. Kavraki. Towards Real-time Motion Planning for Robots with Many Degrees of Freedom. International Conference, Robotics and Automation 01-30, 2000.

Oliver Brock and Lydia E. Kavraki. Decomposition-based Motion Planning: Towards Real-time Planning for Robots with Many Degrees of Freedom. Technical Report TR-00-367:, 2000.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib. Elastic Strips: A Framework for Integrated Planning and Execution. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics . Springer Verlag 250 328-338, 1999.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib. High-Speed Navigation Using the Global Dynamic Window Approach. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics 1 341-346, 1999.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib. Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance and Motion Coordination in a Multi-Robot Workcell. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Assembly and Task Planning 274-279, 1999.

Oussama Khatib, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, Bob Holmberg and Alan Bowling.. Dancing with Juliet.. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Video, 1999.

Oussama Khatib, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang and Arancha Casal Robots In Human Environments: Basic Autonomous Capabilities. International Journal of Robotics Research 18(7):684-696, 1999.

Oussama Khatib, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang and Arancha Casal. Robots in Human Environments. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Robot Motion Control RoMoCo 213-221, 1999.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib. Mobile Manipulation: Collision-Free Path Modification and Motion Coordination. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications 4 839-845, 1998.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib. Executing Motion Plans for Robots with Many Degrees of Freedom in Dynamic Environments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics 1 1-6, 1998.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib. Elastic Strips: Real-Time Path Modification for Mobile Manipulation. International Symposium of Robotics Research . Springer Verlag 05-13, 1998.

Oliver Brock and Oussama Khatib. Elastic Strips: Real-Time Path Modification for Mobile Manipulation. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Robotics Research 117-122, 1997.

Oliver Brock. Evolving Reusable Subroutines for Genetic Programming. Artificial Life at Stanford . Stanford Bookstore 11-19, 1994.