Jens Kober

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2008-2024
Publications (10 Years): 97

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Darmstadt University of Technology (PHD)

Education History

Darmstadt University of Technology

PHD

Publications

Di Wu, Renchi Zhang, Ameya Pore, Diego Dall'Alba, Xuan Thao Ha, Zhen Li, Yao Zhang, Fernando Herrera, Mouloud Ourak, Wojtek Kowalczyk, Elena De Momi, Alícia Casals, Jenny Dankelman, Jens Kober, Arianna Menciassi, Paolo Fiorini, Emmanuel B. Vander Poorten
A review on machine learning in flexible surgical and interventional robots: Where we are and where we are going. Biomed. Signal Process. Control. 93 (2024)
Tomás Coleman, Robert Babuska, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina
An Empirical Investigation on Variational Autoencoder-Based Dynamic Modeling of Deformable Objects from RGB Data. MED (2024)
Khaled A. Mustafa, Daniel Jarne Ornia, Jens Kober, Javier Alonso-Mora
RACP: Risk-Aware Contingency Planning with Multi-Modal Predictions. CoRR (2024)
Jiatao Ding, Mees A. van Löben Sels, Franco Angelini, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina
Robust Jumping With an Articulated Soft Quadruped Via Trajectory Optimization and Iterative Learning. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 9 (1) (2024)
Anna Mészáros, Julian Frederik Schumann, Javier Alonso-Mora, Arkady Zgonnikov, Jens Kober
TrajFlow: Learning Distributions over Trajectories for Human Behavior Prediction. IV (2024)
Anna Mészáros, Julian Frederik Schumann, Javier Alonso-Mora, Arkady Zgonnikov, Jens Kober
Robust Multi-Modal Density Estimation. CoRR (2024)
Jihong Zhu, Michael Gienger, Giovanni Franzese, Jens Kober
Do You Need a Hand? - A Bimanual Robotic Dressing Assistance Scheme. IEEE Trans. Robotics 40 (2024)
Jiatao Ding, Vassil Atanassov, Edoardo Panichi, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina
Robust Quadrupedal Jumping With Impact-Aware Landing: Exploiting Parallel Elasticity. IEEE Trans. Robotics 40 (2024)
Bas van der Heijden, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
Efficient Parallelized Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems. Trans. Mach. Learn. Res. 2024 (2024)
Bas van der Heijden, Jelle Luijkx, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
EAGERx: Graph-Based Framework for Sim2real Robot Learning. CoRR (2024)
Francesco Vezzi, Jiatao Ding, Antonin Raffin, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina
Two-Stage Learning of Highly Dynamic Motions with Rigid and Articulated Soft Quadrupeds. ICRA (2024)
Jari J. van Steen, Gijs van den Brandt, Nathan van de Wouw, Jens Kober, Alessandro Saccon
Quadratic Programming-Based Reference Spreading Control for Dual-Arm Robotic Manipulation With Planned Simultaneous Impacts. IEEE Trans. Robotics 40 (2024)
Julian F. Schumann, Jens Kober, Arkady Zgonnikov
Extended Abstract: Benchmarking Behavior Prediction Models in Gap Acceptance Scenarios. IV (2024)
Runyu Ma, Jelle Luijkx, Zlatan Ajanovic, Jens Kober
ExploRLLM: Guiding Exploration in Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models. CoRR (2024)
Vassil Atanassov, Jiatao Ding, Jens Kober, Ioannis Havoutis, Cosimo Della Santina
Curriculum-Based Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Jumping: A Reference-free Design. CoRR (2024)
Linda F. van der Spaa, Jens Kober, Michael Gienger
Simultaneously learning intentions and preferences during physical human-robot cooperation. Auton. Robots 48 (4-5) (2024)
Giovanni Franzese, Ravi Prakash, Jens Kober
Generalization of Task Parameterized Dynamical Systems using Gaussian Process Transportation. CoRR (2024)
Daniel Jarne Ornia, Giannis Delimpaltadakis, Jens Kober, Javier Alonso-Mora
Predictable Reinforcement Learning Dynamics through Entropy Rate Minimization. CoRR (2023)
Julian Frederik Schumann, Jens Kober, Arkady Zgonnikov
Benchmarking Behavior Prediction Models in Gap Acceptance Scenarios. IEEE Trans. Intell. Veh. 8 (3) (2023)
Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Cosimo Della Santina, Jens Kober
Deep Metric Imitation Learning for Stable Motion Primitives. CoRR (2023)
Khaled A. Mustafa, Oscar de Groot, Xinwei Wang, Jens Kober, Javier Alonso-Mora
Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Chance-Constrained Collision Avoidance in Uncertain Dynamic Environments. ICRA (2023)
Jianyong Sun, Jihong Zhu, Jens Kober, Michael Gienger
Learning from Few Demonstrations with Frame-Weighted Motion Generation. CoRR (2023)
Julian Frederik Schumann, Aravinda Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, Jens Kober, Gustav Markkula, Arkady Zgonnikov
Using Models Based on Cognitive Theory to Predict Human Behavior in Traffic: A Case Study. CoRR (2023)
Francesco Vezzi, Jiatao Ding, Antonin Raffin, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina
Two-Stage Learning of Highly Dynamic Motions with Rigid and Articulated Soft Quadrupeds. CoRR (2023)
Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Jens Kober
Stable Motion Primitives via Imitation and Contrastive Learning. CoRR (2023)
Yulei Qiu, Jihong Zhu, Cosimo Della Santina, Michael Gienger, Jens Kober
Robotic Fabric Flattening with Wrinkle Direction Detection. CoRR (2023)
Armin Avaei, Linda F. van der Spaa, Luka Peternel, Jens Kober
An Incremental Inverse Reinforcement Learning Approach for Motion Planning with Human Preferences. CoRR (2023)
Julian Frederik Schumann, Aravinda Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, Jens Kober, Gustav Markkula, Arkady Zgonnikov
Using Models Based on Cognitive Theory to Predict Human Behavior in Traffic: A Case Study. ITSC (2023)
Carlos Celemin, Jens Kober
Knowledge- and ambiguity-aware robot learning from corrective and evaluative feedback. Neural Comput. Appl. 35 (23) (2023)
Anna Mészáros, Javier Alonso-Mora, Jens Kober
TrajFlow: Learning the Distribution over Trajectories. CoRR (2023)
Jihong Zhu, Michael Gienger, Giovanni Franzese, Jens Kober
Do You Need a Hand? - An Interactive Robotic Dressing Assistance Scheme. CoRR (2023)
Antonin Raffin, Olivier Sigaud, Jens Kober, Alin Albu-Schäffer, João Silvério, Freek Stulp
A Simple Open-Loop Baseline for Reinforcement Learning Locomotion Tasks. CoRR (2023)
Khaled A. Mustafa, Oscar de Groot, Xinwei Wang, Jens Kober, Javier Alonso-Mora
Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Chance-Constrained Collision Avoidance in Uncertain Dynamic Environments. CoRR (2023)
Armin Avaei, Linda F. van der Spaa, Luka Peternel, Jens Kober
An Incremental Inverse Reinforcement Learning Approach for Motion Planning with Separated Path and Velocity Preferences. Robotics 12 (2) (2023)
Eveline Drijver, Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina, Zlatan Ajanovic
Robotic Packaging Optimization with Reinforcement Learning. CASE (2023)
Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Jens Kober
Stable Motion Primitives via Imitation and Contrastive Learning. IEEE Trans. Robotics 39 (5) (2023)
Eveline Drijver, Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Jens Kober, Cosimo Della Santina, Zlatan Ajanovic
Robotic Packaging Optimization with Reinforcement Learning. CoRR (2023)
Jari J. van Steen, Gijs van den Brandt, Nathan van de Wouw, Jens Kober, Alessandro Saccon
Quadratic Programming-based Reference Spreading Control for Dual-Arm Robotic Manipulation with Planned Simultaneous Impacts. CoRR (2023)
Mariano Ramirez Montero, Giovanni Franzese, Jeroen Zwanepol, Jens Kober
Solving Robot Assembly Tasks by Combining Interactive Teaching and Self-Exploration. CoRR (2022)
Jihong Zhu, Andrea Cherubini, Claire Dune, David Navarro-Alarcon, Farshid Alambeigi, Dmitry Berenson, Fanny Ficuciello, Kensuke Harada, Jens Kober, Xiang Li, Jia Pan, Wenzhen Yuan, Michael Gienger
Challenges and Outlook in Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 29 (3) (2022)
Yurui Du, Flavia Sofia Acerbo, Jens Kober, Tong Duy Son
Learning from Demonstrations of Critical Driving Behaviours Using Driver's Risk Field. CoRR (2022)
Carlos Celemin, Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Eugenio Chisari, Giovanni Franzese, Leandro de Souza Rosa, Ravi Prakash, Zlatan Ajanovic, Marta Ferraz, Abhinav Valada, Jens Kober
Interactive Imitation Learning in Robotics: A Survey. CoRR (2022)
Carlos Celemin, Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Eugenio Chisari, Giovanni Franzese, Leandro de Souza Rosa, Ravi Prakash, Zlatan Ajanovic, Marta Ferraz, Abhinav Valada, Jens Kober
Interactive Imitation Learning in Robotics: A Survey. Found. Trends Robotics 10 (1-2) (2022)
Nikolaos Passalis, S. Pedrazzi, Robert Babuska, Wolfram Burgard, D. Dias, F. Ferro, Moncef Gabbouj, O. Green, Alexandros Iosifidis, E. Kayacan, Jens Kober, O. Michel, Nikos Nikolaidis, Paraskevi Nousi, R. Pieters, Maria Tzelepi, Abhinav Valada, Anastasios Tefas
OpenDR: An Open Toolkit for Enabling High Performance, Low Footprint Deep Learning for Robotics. IROS (2022)
Maaike G. Beuling, Tom C. T. van Riet, Jan van Frankenhuyzen, Reinier van Antwerpen, Bas de Blocq van Scheltinga, Arnout H. H. Dourleijn, Dzan Ireiz, Sander Streefkerk, Jonathan C. van Zanten Jan de Lange, Jens Kober, Dimitra Dodou
Development and testing of a prototype of a dental extraction trainer with real-time feedback on forces, torques, and angular velocity. EMBC (2022)
Jelle Luijkx, Zlatan Ajanovic, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober
PARTNR: Pick and place Ambiguity Resolving by Trustworthy iNteractive leaRning. CoRR (2022)
Evelyn D'Elia, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Jens Kober, Serena Ivaldi
Automatic Tuning and Selection of Whole-Body Controllers. IROS (2022)
Julian Frederik Schumann, Jens Kober, Arkady Zgonnikov
Benchmark for Models Predicting Human Behavior in Gap Acceptance Scenarios. CoRR (2022)
Padmaja Kulkarni, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska, Cosimo Della Santina
Learning Assembly Tasks in a Few Minutes by Combining Impedance Control and Residual Recurrent Reinforcement Learning. Adv. Intell. Syst. 4 (1) (2022)
Jihong Zhu, Michael Gienger, Jens Kober
Learning Task-Parameterized Skills From Few Demonstrations. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 7 (2) (2022)
Giovanni Franzese, Leandro de Souza Rosa, Tim Verburg, Luka Peternel, Jens Kober
Interactive Imitation Learning of Bimanual Movement Primitives. CoRR (2022)
Nikolaos Passalis, S. Pedrazzi, Robert Babuska, Wolfram Burgard, D. Dias, F. Ferro, Moncef Gabbouj, O. Green, Alexandros Iosifidis, E. Kayacan, Jens Kober, O. Michel, N. Nikolaidis, Paraskevi Nousi, R. Pieters, Maria Tzelepi, Abhinav Valada, Anastasios Tefas
OpenDR: An Open Toolkit for Enabling High Performance, Low Footprint Deep Learning for Robotics. CoRR (2022)
Antonin Raffin, Daniel Seidel, Jens Kober, Alin Albu-Schäffer, João Silvério, Freek Stulp
Learning to Exploit Elastic Actuators for Quadruped Locomotion. CoRR (2022)
Jihong Zhu, Michael Gienger, Jens Kober
Learning Task-Parameterized Skills from Few Demonstrations. CoRR (2022)
Anna Mészáros, Giovanni Franzese, Jens Kober
Learning to Pick at Non-Zero-Velocity From Interactive Demonstrations. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 7 (3) (2022)
Peter Valletta, Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Jens Kober
Imitation Learning with Inconsistent Demonstrations through Uncertainty-based Data Manipulation. ICRA (2021)
Osama Mazhar, Robert Babuska, Jens Kober
GEM: Glare or Gloom, I Can Still See You - End-to-End Multi-Modal Object Detection. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 6 (4) (2021)
Bart Bootsma, Giovanni Franzese, Jens Kober
Interactive Learning of Sensor Policy Fusion. RO-MAN (2021)
Antonin Raffin, Jens Kober, Freek Stulp
Smooth Exploration for Robotic Reinforcement Learning. CoRL (2021)
Osama Mazhar, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
GEM: Glare or Gloom, I Can Still See You - End-to-End Multimodal Object Detector. CoRR (2021)
Giovanni Franzese, Anna Mészáros, Luka Peternel, Jens Kober
ILoSA: Interactive Learning of Stiffness and Attractors. IROS (2021)
Anna Mészáros, Giovanni Franzese, Jens Kober
Teaching Robots to Grasp Like Humans: An Interactive Approach. CoRR (2021)
Giovanni Franzese, Anna Mészáros, Luka Peternel, Jens Kober
ILoSA: Interactive Learning of Stiffness and Attractors. CoRR (2021)
Osama Mazhar, Jens Kober
Random Shadows and Highlights: A new data augmentation method for extreme lighting conditions. CoRR (2021)
Carlos Celemin, Jens Kober
Uncertainties based queries for Interactive policy learning with evaluations and corrections. ICMI Companion (2021)
Bas van der Heijden, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
DeepKoCo: Efficient latent planning with a task-relevant Koopman representation. IROS (2021)
Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Carlos Celemin, Giovanni Franzese, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Jens Kober
Interactive Learning of Temporal Features for Control: Shaping Policies and State Representations From Human Feedback. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 27 (2) (2020)
Linda F. van der Spaa, Michael Gienger, Tamas Bates, Jens Kober
Predicting and Optimizing Ergonomics in Physical Human-Robot Cooperation Tasks. ICRA (2020)
Simon Manschitz, Michael Gienger, Jens Kober, Jan Peters
Learning Sequential Force Interaction Skills. Robotics 9 (2) (2020)
Snehal Jauhri, Carlos Celemin, Jens Kober
Interactive Imitation Learning in State-Space. CoRL (2020)
Bas van der Heijden, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
DeepKoCo: Efficient latent planning with an invariant Koopman representation. CoRR (2020)
Giovanni Franzese, Carlos Celemin, Jens Kober
Learning Interactively to Resolve Ambiguity in Reference Frame Selection. CoRL (2020)
Padmaja Kulkarni, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
Tactile-Based Self-supervised Pose Estimation for Robust Grasping. ISER (2020)
Fabio Bonsignorio, David Hsu, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Jens Kober
Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Robotics [From the Guest Editors]. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 27 (2) (2020)
Snehal Jauhri, Carlos Celemin, Jens Kober
Interactive Imitation Learning in State-Space. CoRR (2020)
Tom C. T. van Riet, Willem M. de Graaf, Reinier van Antwerpen, Jan van Frankenhuyzen, Jan de Lange, Jens Kober
Robot Technology in Analyzing Tooth Removal - a Proof of Concept. EMBC (2020)
Nikolaos Moustakis, Sebastiaan Paul Mulders, Jens Kober, Jan-Willem van Wingerden
A Practical Bayesian Optimization Approach for the Optimal Estimation of the Rotor Effective Wind Speed. ACC (2019)
Carlos Celemin, Jens Kober
Simultaneous Learning of Objective Function and Policy from Interactive Teaching with Corrective Feedback. AIM (2019)
Jan Scholten, Daan Wout, Carlos Celemin, Jens Kober
Deep Reinforcement Learning with Feedback-based Exploration. CoRR (2019)
Carlos Celemin, Guilherme Maeda, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Jan Peters, Jens Kober
Reinforcement learning of motor skills using Policy Search and human corrective advice. Int. J. Robotics Res. 38 (14) (2019)
Yudha P. Pane, Subramanya P. Nageshrao, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
Reinforcement learning based compensation methods for robot manipulators. Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. 78 (2019)
Carlos Celemin, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Jens Kober
A fast hybrid reinforcement learning framework with human corrective feedback. Auton. Robots 43 (5) (2019)
Jan Scholten, Daan Wout, Carlos Celemin, Jens Kober
Deep Reinforcement Learning with Feedback-based Exploration. CDC (2019)
Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Carlos Celemin, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Jens Kober
Continuous Control for High-Dimensional State Spaces: An Interactive Learning Approach. ICRA (2019)
Daan Wout, Jan Scholten, Carlos Celemin, Jens Kober
Learning Gaussian Policies from Corrective Human Feedback. CoRR (2019)
Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Carlos Celemin, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Jens Kober
Continuous Control for High-Dimensional State Spaces: An Interactive Learning Approach. CoRR (2019)
Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Carlos Celemin, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Jens Kober
Interactive Learning with Corrective Feedback for Policies based on Deep Neural Networks. CoRR (2018)
Tamas Bates, Jens Kober, Michael Gienger
Head-tracked off-axis perspective projection improves gaze readability of 3D virtual avatars. SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Briefs (2018)
Michael Gienger, Dirk Ruiken, Tamas Bates, Mohamed Regaieg, Michael MeiBner, Jens Kober, Philipp Seiwald, Arne-Christoph Hildebrandt
Human-Robot Cooperative Object Manipulation with Contact Changes. IROS (2018)
Simon Manschitz, Michael Gienger, Jens Kober, Jan Peters
Mixture of Attractors: A Novel Movement Primitive Representation for Learning Motor Skills From Demonstrations. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 3 (2) (2018)
Rodrigo Pérez-Dattari, Carlos Celemin, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Jens Kober
Interactive Learning with Corrective Feedback for Policies Based on Deep Neural Networks. ISER (2018)
Lucian Busoniu, Tim de Bruin, Domagoj Tolic, Jens Kober, Ivana Palunko
Reinforcement learning for control: Performance, stability, and deep approximators. Annu. Rev. Control. 46 (2018)
Tim de Bruin, Jens Kober, Karl Tuyls, Robert Babuska
Experience Selection in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Control. J. Mach. Learn. Res. 19 (2018)
Tim de Bruin, Jens Kober, Karl Tuyls, Robert Babuska
Integrating State Representation Learning Into Deep Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 3 (2) (2018)
Simon Manschitz, Michael Gienger, Jens Kober, Jan Peters
Probabilistic decomposition of sequential force interaction tasks into Movement Primitives. IROS (2016)
Jelle Munk, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
Learning state representation for deep actor-critic control. CDC (2016)
Tim de Bruin, Jens Kober, Karl Tuyls, Robert Babuska
Improved deep reinforcement learning for robotics through distribution-based experience retention. IROS (2016)
Jens Kober, Michael Gienger, Jochen J. Steil
Learning movement primitives for force interaction tasks. ICRA (2015)
Simon Manschitz, Jens Kober, Michael Gienger, Jan Peters
Learning movement primitive attractor goals and sequential skills from kinesthetic demonstrations. Robotics Auton. Syst. 74 (2015)
Simon Manschitz, Jens Kober, Michael Gienger, Jan Peters
Probabilistic progress prediction and sequencing of concurrent movement primitives. IROS (2015)

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