Publications
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2026
Dual-Force: Enhanced Offline Diversity Maximization under Imitation Constraints
arXiv preprint
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2026
Differentiable Simulation of Hard Contacts with Soft Gradients for Learning and Control
The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations
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2026
Stochastic Decision Horizons for Survival-Based Constrained Reinforcement Learning
arXiv preprint
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2026
2025
Active Fine-Tuning of Multi-Task Policies
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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2025
Zero-Shot Offline Imitation Learning via Optimal Transport
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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2025
Adding Internal Audio Sensing to Internal Vision Enables Human-Like In-Hand Fabric Recognition with Soft Robotic Fingertips
Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)
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2025
SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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2025
Temporally Consistent Object-Centric Learning by Contrasting Slots
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
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2025
Advancing Out-of-Distribution Detection via Local Neuroplasticity
The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
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2025
On the Transfer of Object-Centric Representation Learning
The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
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2025
Offline vs. Online Learning in Model-based RL: Lessons for Data Collection Strategies
Reinforcement Learning Journal
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2025
Epistemically-guided forward-backward exploration
Reinforcement Learning Journal
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2025
Long-Horizon Planning with Predictable Skills
Reinforcement Learning Journal
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2025
Sensing multi-directional forces at superresolution using taxel value isoline theory
Nature Communications
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2025
Forecasting in Offline Reinforcement Learning for Non-stationary Environments
The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
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2025
2024
Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters from Vision-Towards Physical-Parameter-Aware Locomotion and Navigation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2024
Directed Exploration in Reinforcement Learning from Linear Temporal Logic
arXiv preprint
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2024
Modelling Microbial Communities with Graph Neural Networks
41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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2024
LPGD: A General Framework for Backpropagation through Embedded Optimization Layers
41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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2024
Learning with 3D rotations, a hitchhiker's guide to SO(3)
41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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2024
Causal Action Influence Aware Counterfactual Data Augmentation
41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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2024
Multi-View Causal Representation Learning with Partial Observability
The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
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2024
Learning Hierarchical World Models with Adaptive Temporal Abstractions from Discrete Latent Dynamics
The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations
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2024
Emergent mechanisms for long timescales depend on training curriculum and affect performance in memory tasks
The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations
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2024
The Expressive Leaky Memory Neuron: an Efficient and Expressive Phenomenological Neuron Model Can Solve Long-Horizon Tasks
The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
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2024
Offline Diversity Maximization Under Imitation Constraints
arXiv preprint
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2024
Machine learning of a density functional for anisotropic patchy particles
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
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2024
2023
Regularity as Intrinsic Reward for Free Play
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37
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2023
Object-Centric Learning for Real-World Videos by Predicting Temporal Feature Similarities
Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)
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2023
Online Learning under Adversarial Nonlinear Constraints
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36
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2023
Minsight: A Fingertip-Sized Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation
Advanced Intelligent Systems
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2023
Bridging the Gap to Real-World Object-Centric Learning
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations
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2023
Versatile Skill Control via Self-supervised Adversarial Imitation of Unlabeled Mixed Motions
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
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2023
Pink Noise Is All You Need: Colored Noise Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
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2023
Benchmarking Offline Reinforcement Learning on Real-Robot Hardware
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations
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2023
DEP-RL: Embodied Exploration for Reinforcement Learning in Overactuated and Musculoskeletal Systems
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
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2023
Backpropagation through Combinatorial Algorithms: Identity with Projection Works
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations
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2023
Learning Agile Skills via Adversarial Imitation of Rough Partial Demonstrations
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
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2023
Learning Diverse Skills for Local Navigation under Multi-constraint Optimality
arXiv preprint
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2023
Predicting the Force Map of an ERT-Based Tactile Sensor Using Simulation and Deep Networks
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
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2023
Efficient Learning of High Level Plans from Play
International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2023
2022
Embrace the Gap: VAEs Perform Independent Mechanism Analysis
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022)
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2022
Curious Exploration via Structured World Models Yields Zero-Shot Object Manipulation
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022)
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2022
A Sequential Group VAE for Robot Learning of Haptic Representations
Workshop paper (8 pages) presented at the CoRL Workshop on Aligning Robot Representations with Humans
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2022
Learning with Muscles: Benefits for Data-Efficiency and Robustness in Anthropomorphic Tasks
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
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2022
A Soft Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotic Fingertip Manipulation
Workshop paper (1 page) presented at the IROS Workshop on Large-Scale Robotic Skin: Perception, Interaction and Control
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2022
Developing hierarchical anticipations via neural network-based event segmentation
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2022)
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2022
On the Pitfalls of Heteroscedastic Uncertainty Estimation with Probabilistic Neural Networks
International Conference on Learning Representations
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2022
A Soft Thumb-Sized Vision-Based Sensor with Accurate All-Round Force Perception
Nature Machine Intelligence
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2022
Guiding the Design of Super-resolution Tactile Skins with Taxel Value Isolines Theory
Science Robotics
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2022
Risk-Averse Zero-Order Trajectory Optimization
Conference on Robot Learning
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2022
Uncertainty in Equation Learning
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO)
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2022
Intelligent problem-solving as integrated hierarchical reinforcement learning
Nature Machine Intelligence
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2022
2021
Sparsely Changing Latent States for Prediction and Planning in Partially Observable Domains
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)
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2021
Planning from Pixels in Environments with Combinatorially Hard Search Spaces
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)
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2021
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Timed Subgoals
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021)
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2021
Causal Influence Detection for Improving Efficiency in Reinforcement Learning
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34 (NeurIPS 2021)
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2021
Self-supervised Reinforcement Learning with Independently Controllable Subgoals
Conference on Robot Learning
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2021
Neuro-algorithmic Policies Enable Fast Combinatorial Generalization
Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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2021
The dynamical regime and its importance for evolvability, task performance and generalization
The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life
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2021
Demystifying Inductive Biases for (Beta-)VAE Based Architectures
Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
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2021
CombOptNet: Fit the Right NP-Hard Problem by Learning Integer Programming Constraints
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning
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2021
How to Train Your Differentiable Filter
Autonomous Robots
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2021
Machine learning time-local generators of open quantum dynamics
Phys. Rev. Research
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2021
Jumping over baselines with new methods to predict activation maps from resting-state fMRI
Scientific Reports
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2021
Self-supervised Visual Reinforcement Learning with Object-centric Representations
International Conference on Learning Representations
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2021
Extracting Strong Policies for Robotics Tasks from Zero-order Trajectory Optimizers
International Conference on Learning Representations
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2021
Informed Equation Learning
arXiv
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2021
2020
Deep Graph Matching via Blackbox Differentiation of Combinatorial Solvers
Computer Vision – ECCV 2020
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2020
Fast Non-Parametric Learning to Accelerate Mixed-Integer Programming for Online Hybrid Model Predictive Control
21rst IFAC World Congress
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2020
A Real-Robot Dataset for Assessing Transferability of Learned Dynamics Models
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
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2020
Analytical classical density functionals from an equation learning network
The Journal of Chemical Physics
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2020
Differentiation of blackbox combinatorial solvers
International Conference on Learning Representations
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2020
Optimizing Rank-based Metrics with Blackbox Differentiation
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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2020
Sample-efficient Cross-Entropy Method for Real-time Planning
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2020
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2020
2019
Assessing Aesthetics of Generated Abstract Images Using Correlation Structure
Proceedings 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)
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2019
Variational Autoencoders Pursue PCA Directions (by Accident)
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'19)
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2019
Falsification of Hybrid Systems using Symbolic Reachability and Trajectory Splicing
22nd ACM Intl. Conf. on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2019)
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2019
Autonomous Identification and Goal-Directed Invocation of Event-Predictive Behavioral Primitives
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
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2019
Control What You Can: Intrinsically Motivated Task-Planning Agent
Advances in Neural Information Processing (NeurIPS'19)
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2019
Machine Learning for Haptics: Inferring Multi-Contact Stimulation From Sparse Sensor Configuration
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
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2019
2018
Nonlinear decoding of a complex movie from the mammalian retina
PLOS Computational Biology
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2018
Learning equations for extrapolation and control
Proc. 35th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
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2018
Systematic self-exploration of behaviors for robots in a dynamical systems framework
Proc. Artificial Life XI
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2018
Robust and Cheap 3D Haptic Sensation using Deformation Patterns and Machine Learning
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2018)
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2018
Robust Affordable 3D Haptic Sensation via Learning Deformation Patterns
Proceedings International Conference on Humanoid Robots (IEEE Humanoids)
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2018
L4: Practical loss-based stepsize adaptation for deep learning
Advances in Neural Information Processing (NeurIPS'18)
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2018
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Event-Triggered Control
2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
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2018
2017
Self-Organized Behavior Generation for Musculoskeletal Robots
Frontiers in Neurorobotics
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2017
2016
Dynamical self-consistency leads to behavioral development and emergent social interactions in robots
2016 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob)
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2016
Compliant control for soft robots: emergent behavior of a tendon driven anthropomorphic arm.
2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
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2016
Extrapolation and learning equations
arXiv preprint
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2016
2015
Quantifying Emergent Behavior of Autonomous Robots
Entropy
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2015
Novel plasticity rule can explain the development of sensorimotor intelligence
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2015
2014
Self-Exploration of the Stumpy Robot with Predictive Information Maximization
Proc. From Animals to Animats, SAB 2014
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2014
Robot Learning by Guided Self-Organization
Guided Self-Organization: Inception
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2014
2013
Robustness of guided self-organization against sensorimotor disruptions
Advances in Complex Systems
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2013
Behavior as broken symmetry in embodied self-organizing robots
Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013
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2013
2012
Predictive information in reinforcement learning of embodied agents
Int. Workshop on Guided Self-Organization 5
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2012
Variants of guided self-organization for robot control
Theory in Biosci.
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2012
2011
Tipping the Scales: Guidance and Intrinsically Motivated Behavior
Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011
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2011
2010
LpzRobots: A free and powerful robot simulator
<http://robot.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/software>
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2010
Taming the Beast: Guided Self-organization of Behavior in Autonomous Robots
From Animals to Animats 11
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2010
Goal-Oriented Control of Self-Organizing Behavior in Autonomous Robots
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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2010
Playful Machines: Tutorial
<http://robot.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/tutorial?lang=en>
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2010
2009
2008
Emergence of Interaction Among Adaptive Agents
Proc. From Animals to Animats 10 (SAB 2008)
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2008
Structure from Behavior in Autonomous Agents
Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008)
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2008
2007
Guided Self-organisation for Autonomous Robot Development
Advances in Artificial Life 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007
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2007
2006
Let It Roll – Emerging Sensorimotor Coordination in a Spherical Robot
Proc, Artificial Life X
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2006
Rocking Stamper and Jumping Snake from a Dynamical System Approach to Artificial Life
Adaptive Behavior
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2006
From Motor Babbling to Purposive Actions: Emerging Self-exploration in a Dynamical Systems Approach to Early Robot Development
Proc. From Animals to Animats 9, SAB 2006
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2006
2005
Learning to Feel the Physics of a Body
Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, CIMCA 2005
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2005