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most citedUnsupervised Real-Time Control through Variational Empowerment

11 citations · 15 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.RO20221 cited

CLAS: Coordinating Multi-Robot Manipulation with Central Latent Action Spaces

Elie Aljalbout, Maximilian Karl, Patrick van der Smagt

Multi-robot manipulation tasks involve various control entities that can be separated into dynamically independent parts. A typical example of such real-world tasks is dual-arm man…

cs.RO2020

Learning to Fly via Deep Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Philip Becker-Ehmck, Maximilian Karl, Jan Peters +1

Learning to control robots without requiring engineered models has been a long-term goal, promising diverse and novel applications. Yet, reinforcement learning has only achieved li…

cs.LG20191 cited

Beta DVBF: Learning State-Space Models for Control from High Dimensional Observations

Neha Das, Maximilian Karl, Philip Becker-Ehmck +1

Learning a model of dynamics from high-dimensional images can be a core ingredient for success in many applications across different domains, especially in sequential decision maki…

stat.ML201711 cited

Unsupervised Real-Time Control through Variational Empowerment

Maximilian Karl, Maximilian Soelch, Philip Becker-Ehmck +3

We introduce a methodology for efficiently computing a lower bound to empowerment, allowing it to be used as an unsupervised cost function for policy learning in real-time control.…

cs.RO20162 cited

Unsupervised preprocessing for Tactile Data

Maximilian Karl, Justin Bayer, Patrick van der Smagt

Tactile information is important for gripping, stable grasp, and in-hand manipulation, yet the complexity of tactile data prevents widespread use of such sensors. We make use of an…

cs.RO2016

ML-based tactile sensor calibration: A universal approach

Maximilian Karl, Artur Lohrer, Dhananjay Shah +5

We study the responses of two tactile sensors, the fingertip sensor from the iCub and the BioTac under different external stimuli. The question of interest is to which degree both…