DFG-Project: Relational exploration, learning and inference — Foundations of autonomous learning in natural environments
| This is a project within the DFG priority program Autonomous Learning. It is in collaboration with Fraunhofer IAIS. The project investigates exploration, learning and goal-directed behavior for object manipulation in natural environments. It targets the advancement of statistical relational inference and learning methods for robotics. |
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DFG Priority Program Autonomous Learning
| The German science foundation DFG funds the priority program Autonomous Learning for the years 2012-2018. This program focuses on fundamental research in learning in artificial and biological systems. 15 projects are financed by the program. |
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EU-Project TOMSY
| The "Topology Based Motion Synthesis for Dexterous Manipulation" project is devoted to learning and exploiting appropriate topological representations and testing them on challenging domains of flexible, multi-object manipulation and close contact robot control and computer animation. |
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Bernstein Graduate School Neural and Sensory Computation
| The International Doctoral Program at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary research program. Understanding the functioning of the brain requires the collaborative efforts of neurobiologists, neuropsychologists, cognitive scientists, medical researchers, computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists and engineers. |
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Emmy Noether
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The group is mainly funded by the Emmy Noether excellence programme of the German Research Foundation under the title of
Machine Learning and internal representations
in behaviour planning, motor control, and robotics. |
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Fluent and robust grasping under uncertainty using recursive information processing for the integration of goals, constraints and information on multiple sensor and motor representations
| This project is funded by the collaboration with the Honda Research Institute Europe (Offenbach) and the Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab) (Bielefeld). |
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