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, typically from 8:30am to 3:30pm, 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:

WS

Year:

2024

Course Number:

MA-INF 4213

Links:

Basis

Course Start Date:

09.10.2024

Course End Date:

22.01.2025

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.

09.10.2024, Wednesday,  10:00-11:00hs, Room 1.047

Introductory Meeting (mandatory)
[presentation slides]

13.10.2024, SundayRegistration deadline on our website
20.10.2024, SundayRegistration deadline in BASIS
22.01.2025, 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:

  • Pick2Place: Task-aware 6DoF Grasp Estimation via Object-Centric Perspective Affordance
    He et al.
    ICRA 2023
    Supervisor: Benedikt Kreis
    [PDF]
  • VisuoTactile 6D Pose Estimation of an In-Hand Object using Vision and Tactile Sensor Data
    Dikhale et al.
    RA-L 2022
    Supervisor: Benedikt Kreis
    [PDF]
  • Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Industrial Insertion
    Zhao et al.
    ICRA 2022
    Supervisor: Ahmed Shokry
    [PDF]
  • VARIQuery: VAE Segment-based Active Learning for Query Selection in Preference-based Reinforcement Learning 
    Marta et al.
    IROS 2023
    Supervisor: Jorge de Heuvel 
    [PDF]
  • Deep Koopman Operator with Control for Nonlinear Systems
    Shi et al.
    RA-L 2022
    Supervisor: Murad Dawood
    [PDF]
  • Mechanical Search on Shelves with Efficient Stacking and Destacking of Objects
    Huang et al.
    ISRR 2022
    Supervisor: Nils Dengler
    [PDF]
  • Leveraging 3D Reconstruction for Mechanical Search on Cluttered Shelves
    Kim et al.
    CoRL 2023
    Supervisor: Nils Dengler
    [PDF]
  • A Sparse Octree-Based CNN for Probabilistic Occupancy Prediction Applied to Next Best View Planning
    Monica et al.
    RA-L 2024
    Supervisor: Rohit Menon
    [PDF]
  • Multi-View Picking: Next-best-view Reaching for Improved Grasping in Clutter
    Morrison et al.
    ICRA 2019
    Supervisor: Rohit Menon
    [PDF]
  • GLiDE: Generalizable Quadrupedal Locomotion in Diverse Environments with a Centroidal Model
    Zhaoming et al.
    WAFR 2022
    Supervisor: Shahram Khorshidi
    [PDF]
  • A Unified MPC Framework for Whole-Body Dynamic Locomotion and Manipulation
    Sleiman et al.
    RA-L 2021
    Supervisor: Shahram Khorshidi
    [PDF]
  • FisherRF: Active View Selection and Uncertainty Quantification for 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]
  • Interactive Navigation in Environments with Traversable ObstaclesUsing Large Language and Vision-Language Models
    Zhang et al.
    ICRA 2024
    Supervisor: Subham Agrawal
    [PDF]
  • Arena 4.0: A Comprehensive ROS2 Development and Benchmarking Platform for Human-centric Navigation Using Generative-Model-based Environment Generation
    Shcherbyna et al.
    arXiv preprint 2024
    Supervisor: Subham Agrawal
    [PDF]
  • Solving Vision Tasks with Simple Photoreceptors Instead of Cameras
    Atanov et al.
    ECCV 2024
    Supervisor: Xuying Huang
    [PDF]