
R:SS Sim2Real Workshop
I am the lead organizer of the sim2real for robotics workshop, that has been colocated with R:SS 2019 and R:SS 2020. Together with the debaters, we have written a summary paper about the 2020 edition of the workshop.
Lachine Mearning. Borotics. Irtificial Antelligence.
I am working as an Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics AI. Before that, I received my PhD from the Robotics & Biology Lab, TU Berlin. My research activities focus on robotics and machine learning. In some of my spare time, I make music
20/12/2020: We published a summary paper about the 2nd RSS 2020 workshop on “Closing the Reality Gap in Sim2Real Transfer for Robotics”. Thanks to all the workshop participants for making the workshop such a success and interesting enough to write about it!
I am the lead organizer of the sim2real for robotics workshop, that has been colocated with R:SS 2019 and R:SS 2020. Together with the debaters, we have written a summary paper about the 2020 edition of the workshop.
I'm passionate about teaching non-tech people about artificial intelligence. Check out my latest introductory paper (German only) on this topic, as well as my blog on teaching machine learning without formal math.
In May 2015, our Team RBO won a prestigious international robotics challenge.
The lessons learned paper won the Best Systems Paper award at RSS 2016; the paper on the perception system got nominated for Best Paper Award at IROS 2016 (see here for extended journal version).
Research paper on learning state representations in multi-task reinforcement learning.
The paper has been presented at the NIPS Workshop on Deep Learning for Action and Interaction. The spotlight talk is online on youtube.
Our paper No free lunch in ball catching: A comparison of Cartesian and angular representations for control sheds some new light on 50 years of scientific debate about the gaze heuristic. Starring: (non-)optimal heuristics and (non-)optimal optimal control.
In my thesis, I studied two problems in robot learning, ball catching and learning manipulate articulated object, and I developed a conceptual framework for understanding solutions to these problems: the spectrum of decomposability.
Email me at mail - at - firstnamelastname - dot - de.
Disclaimer: All opinions and work presented here are my own and do not reflect the opinion of my employer.