Contact
Dr.-Ing. Jens Kober
Associate Professor, Cognitive Robotics department (CoR)
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Mekelweg 2 (ME Building)
2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands
🖂 j.kober (at) tudelft.nl
🕿 +31 (0)15 27 85150
Office: F-2-380
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jens-kober/
Research interests
Robotics, Motor Skill Learning, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, Deep Learning, Interactive Learning
News
- 1 accepted conference paper:
An Empirical Investigation on Variational Autoencoder-Based Dynamic Modeling of Deformable Objects from RGB Data. In 32nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), 2024. .
- 1 accepted conference paper:
TrajFlow: Learning Distributions over Trajectories for Human Behavior Prediction. In IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2024. .
- 1 new preprint:
ExploRLLM: Guiding Exploration in Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models. arXiv:2403.09583 [cs.RO], 2024. .
- 1 accepted journal paper:
A review on machine learning in flexible surgical and interventional robots: Where we are and where we are going. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 93:106179, 2024. .
- 3 new preprints:
Curriculum-Based Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Jumping: A Reference-free Design. arXiv:2401.16337 [cs.RO], 2024. .
RACP: Risk-Aware Contingency Planning with Multi-Modal Predictions. arXiv:2402.17387 [cs.RO], 2024. .
Robust Multi-Modal Density Estimation. arXiv:2401.10566 [cs.LG], 2024. .
- In the news: Independent Two arms are better than one for robot dressers, says researcher
- 1 accepted journal paper:
Do You Need a Hand? - A Bimanual Robotic Dressing Assistance Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 40:1906–1919, 2024. .
- 1 accepted conference paper:
Two-Stage Learning of Highly Dynamic Motions with Rigid and Articulated Soft Quadrupeds. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024. .
- 1 new preprint:
Predictable Reinforcement Learning Dynamics through Entropy Rate Minimization. arXiv:2311.18703 [cs.LG], 2023. .
- 1 accepted journal paper:
Robust Jumping with an Articulated Soft Quadruped via Trajectory Optimization and Iterative Learning. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 9(1):255–262, 2024. .