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05.03.2025 - 05.03.2025 | Stuttgart

Distinguished Lecture - Robots Learning Through Interactions

How can robots acquire and improve motor skills? And how can the interaction between humans and robots be used efficiently for such learning processes? Jens Kober, ELLIS Fellow at TU Delft, uses methods and experiments to investigate these questions and will present his findings in the upcoming ELLIS Distinguished Lecture.

We are pleased to announce our upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Jens Kober (TU Delft)! The talk will take place in person on March 5, in room UN32.101. Professor Kober will also be available for meetings on March 5. If you are interested in scheduling a meeting, please email ellis-office@uni-stuttgart.de.

Jens Kober is an associate professor at the TU Delft, Netherlands and an ELLIS Fellow. He worked as a postdoctoral scholar jointly at the CoR-Lab, Bielefeld University, Germany and at the Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany. He graduated in 2012 with a PhD Degree in Engineering from TU Darmstadt and the MPI for Intelligent Systems. For his research he received the annually awarded Georges Giralt PhD Award for the best PhD thesis in robotics in Europe, the 2018 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award, the 2022 RSS Early Career Award, and has received an ERC Starting grant. His research interests include motor skill learning, (deep) reinforcement learning, imitation learning, interactive learning, and machine learning for control.

Robots Learning Through Interactions

The acquisition and self-improvement of novel motor skills is among the most important problems in robotics. Complexity arises from interactions with their environment and humans, dealing with high-dimensional input data, non-linear dynamics in general and contacts in particular, multiple reference frames, and variability in objects, environments, tasks, and human behavior. A human teacher is always involved in the learning process, either directly (providing data) or indirectly (designing the optimization criterion), which raises the question: How to best make use of the interactions with the human teacher to render the learning process efficient and effective? In this talk I’ll argue that there are tremendous benefits in having a human teacher intermittently interact with a robot also while it is learning. I will discuss various methods we have developed in the fields of supervised learning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and interactive learning. All these concepts will be illustrated with benchmark tasks and real robot experiments ranging from fun (ball-in-a-cup) to more applied (retail environments).

Hinweise zur Teilnahme:
No registration necessary.

Termin:

05.03.2025 ab 11:30

Veranstaltungsort:

Campus Vaihingen
Universitätstraße 32
Room 101101
70569 Stuttgart
Baden-Württemberg
Deutschland

Zielgruppe:

Journalisten, Wissenschaftler

Relevanz:

regional

Sachgebiete:

Elektrotechnik, Informationstechnik, Mathematik

Arten:

Vortrag / Kolloquium / Vorlesung

Eintrag:

25.02.2025

Absender:

Dina Schwedl

Abteilung:

Stabsstelle Hochschulkommunikation

Veranstaltung ist kostenlos:

nein

Textsprache:

Englisch

URL dieser Veranstaltung: http://idw-online.de/de/event78760


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