Seminar Humanoid Robots

In this seminar, we cover state-of-the-art research papers from conferences and journals in the field of humanoid robotics and related fields. The available topics are presented in the mandatory Introductory Meeting and can be selected during the registration for the seminar on our website. In the Introductory Meeting, we will present the available topics, the registration process, the requirements, and answer your questions.

Participants of the seminar have to prepare a talk of 20 minutes which will be given on the Seminar Day at the end of the semester. After the talk, there will be a Q&A of about 5 minutes where you will be asked questions by the staff and other participants of the seminar. Bachelor students can choose to present their topic in German, master students must give their presentation in English.

The Seminar Day is a whole day event, which takes place towards the end of the semester. All participants are required to be present on the Seminar Day, to give their presentation, and also to listen to the talks of the other participants. Active participation during the Q&A sessions counts as a bonus towards your final score.

Participating students are also required to write a summary and discussion of their assigned topic. The summary and discussion should be written in LaTeX using template listed below under files. The document should be 7 pages long not including images and references!

Each participant will be paired up with a supervisor who monitors their progress and is available to help with questions or difficulties. Students can work freely during the semester to prepare their material. The written summary and the presentation slides must be submitted by the morning of the Seminar Day.


Semester:

SS

Year:

2025

Course Number:

MA-INF 4213

Links:

Basis

Course Start Date:

10.04.2025

Course End Date:

30.09.2025

ECTS:

4

Responsible HRL Lecturers:


Important dates:

All interested students have to attend the Introductory Meeting. In the Introductory Meeting, we will present the topics, the schedule, the registration process, and answer your questions.

10.04.2025, Thursday, 10:00hs-11:00hs (room 1.047)

Introductory Meeting (mandatory)
[presentation slides]

13.04.2025, SundayRegistration deadline on our website
20.04.2025, SundayRegistration deadline in BASIS
25.06.2025, WednesdaySeminar Day and written summary deadline

After the Introductory Meeting, each participant arranges an individual schedule with the respective supervisor.

Registration

The registration is closed.

Report template

Please use the following template for the written summary:
[Report template]

Topics:

  • ASC: Adaptive Skill Coordination for Robotic Mobile Manipulation
    Yokoyama et al.
    RA-L 2024
    Supervisor: Ahmed Shokry
    [PDF]
  • When Should We Prefer State-to-Visual DAgger Over Visual Reinforcement Learning?
    Mu et al.
    AAAI 2025
    Supervisor: Benedikt Kreis
    [PDF]
  • Vi-LAD: Vision-Language Attention Distillation for Socially-Aware Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments
    Elnoor et al.
    arXiv preprint 2025
    Supervisor: Jorge de Heuvel
    [PDF]

  • Deep Koopman Operator with Control for Nonlinear Systems
    Shi et al.
    RA-L 2022
    Supervisor: Murad Dawood
    [PDF]
  • 3D Diffusion Policy: Generalizable Visuomotor Policy Learning via Simple 3D Representations
    Ze et al.
    RSS 2024
    Supervisor: Nils Dengler
    [PDF]
  • BaB-ND: Long-Horizon Motion Planning with Branch-and-Bound and Neural Dynamics
    Shen et al.
    ICLR 2024
    Supervisor: Nils Dengler
    [PDF]
  • Language-Grounded Dynamic Scene Graphs for Interactive Object Search with Mobile Manipulation
    Honerkamp et al.
    RA-L 2024
    Supervisor: Rohit Menon
    [PDF]
  • Closed-Loop Next-Best-View Planning for Target-Driven Grasping
    Breyer et al.
    IROS 2022
    Supervisor: Rohit Menon
    [PDF]
  • Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters from Vision -- Towards Physical-Parameter-Aware Locomotion and Navigation
    Chen et al.
    RA-L 2024
    Supervisor: Shahram Khorshidi
    [PDF]
  • Learning Multi-Agent Loco-Manipulation for Long-Horizon Quadrupedal Pushing
    Feng et al.
    arXiv preprint 2024
    Supervisor: Shahram Khorshidi
    [PDF]
  • FisherRF: Active View Selection and Mapping with Radiance Fields using Fisher Information
    Jiang et al.
    ECCV 2024
    Supervisor: Sicong Pan
    [PDF]
  • AIR-Embodied: An Efficient Active 3DGS-based Interaction and Reconstruction Framework with Embodied Large Language Model
    Qi et al.
    arXiv preprint 2024
    Supervisor: Sicong Pan
    [PDF]
  • DR-MPC: Deep Residual Model Predictive Control for Real-world Social Navigation
    Han et al.
    RA-L 2025
    Supervisor: Subham Agrawal
    [PDF]
  • Solving Vision Tasks with Simple Photoreceptors Instead of Cameras
    Atanov et al.
    ECCV 2024
    Supervisor: Xuying Huang
    [PDF]