M.Sc.

Nils Dengler

Ph.D. Student

Nils Dengler

Research Interest:

  • Semantic mapping
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Object manipulation

Contact:

Room:
Room 2.045
Tel.:
+49 (0)228 73-60829
Email:
dengler_at_cs.uni-bonn.de
Links:

About me:

I am a Ph.D. student at the Humanoid Robots Lab headed by Maren Bennewitz at the University of Bonn. I received my master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Bonn in 2021.


My Publications

Pedestrians and Robots: A Novel Dataset for Learning Distinct Social Navigation Forces

S. Agrawal, N. Ostermann-Myrau, N. Dengler, M. Bennewitz
Arxiv Pre-print, 2025
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Learning Goal-Directed Object Pushing in Cluttered Scenes with Location-Based Attention

N. Dengler, J. Del Aguila Ferrandis, J. Moura, S. Vijayakumar, M. Bennewitz
Arxiv Pre-print, 2025
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Map Space Belief Prediction for Manipulation-Enhanced Mapping

J.M.C Marques, N. Dengler, T. Zaenker, J. Mücke, S. Wang, M. Bennewitz, K. Hauser
Arxiv Pre-print, 2025
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Integrating One-Shot View Planning with a Single Next-Best View via Long-Tail Multiview Sampling

S. Pan, H. Hu, H. Wei, N. Dengler, T. Zaenker, M. Dawood, M. Bennewitz
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2024
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Evaluating Robot Influence on Pedestrian Behavior Models for Crowd Simulation and Benchmarking

S. Agrawal, N. Dengler, M. Bennewitz
Accepted to International Conference on Social Robotics +AI (ICSR), 2024
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Compact Multi-Object Placement Using Adjacency-Aware Reinforcement Learning

B. Kreis, N. Dengler, J. de Heuvel, R. Menon, H. D. Perur, M. Bennewitz
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2024
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Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Behavior-Based Cooperative Navigation

M. Dawood, S. Pan, N. Dengler, S. Zhou, A. Schoellig, M. Bennewitz
Arxiv Pre-print, 2024
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RHINO-VR Experience: Teaching Mobile Robotics Concepts in an Interactive Museum Exhibit

E. Schlachhoff, N. Dengler, L. Van Holland, P. Stotko, J. de Heuvel, R. Klein, M. Bennewitz
IEEE International on Human & Robot Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2024
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Trust, (Dis)Comfort, and Voice Quality: Anthropomorphism in Verbal Interactions with NAO

C. Thimm, P. Engelhardt, P. Nehls, J. Hens, M. Biehler, C. Hermanns, P. Huzel, M. Bennewitz, J. Mücke, N. Dengler
HCI International 2024 Posters, 2024
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DawnIK: Decentralized Collision-Aware Inverse Kinematics Solver for Heterogeneous Multi-Arm Systems

S. Marangoz, R. Menon, N. Dengler, M. Bennewitz
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2023
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Viewpoint Push Planning for Mapping of Unknown Confined Spaces

N. Dengler, S. Pan, V. Kalagaturu, R. Menon, M. Dawood, M. Bennewitz
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
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NBV-SC: Next Best View Planning based on Shape Completion for Fruit Mapping and Reconstruction

R. Menon, T. Zaenker, N. Dengler, M. Bennewitz
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
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Handling Sparse Rewards in Reinforcement Learning Using Model Predictive Control

M. Dawood, N. Dengler, J. de Heuvel, M. Bennewitz
IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2023
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Learning Goal-Directed Non-Prehensile Pushing in Cluttered Scenes

N. Dengler, D. Großklaus, M. Bennewitz
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
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Sensor-Based Navigation Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

C. Gebauer, N. Dengler, M. Bennewitz
International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-17), 2022
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Online Object-Oriented Semantic Mapping and Map Updating

N. Dengler, T. Zaenker, F. Verdoja, M. Bennewitz
European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2021
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Predicting Human Navigation Goals based on Bayesian Inference and Activity Regions.

L . Bruckschen, K. Bungert, N. Dengler, M. Bennewitz
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), 2020
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Human-Aware Robot Navigation by Long-Term Movement Prediction

L. Bruckschen, K. Bungert, N. Dengler, M. Bennewitz
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
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Human Motion Prediction Based on Object Interactions

L. Bruckschen, N. Dengler, M. Bennewitz
Proceedings of the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2019
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