Oliver Kroemer Member
Oliver Kroemer
Oliver Barnabas Kroemer joined Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (translates roughly as Darmstadt University of Technology) on September 1, 2011. Before coming to TU Darmstadt, he had been with the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics since July 2008, originally as an intern and subsequently a Ph.D. student with a scholarship. 
In 2011, Oliver Kroemer was a JSPS Scholarship Awardee and spent the summer at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR) working on Robot Grasping.
Oliver did a Master's and Bachelor's degree in engineering at Cambridge University. While at Cambridge, he was a member and senior scholar of Trinity college. His studies focused on Instrumentation and Control Engineering, which combines elements of information, electrical, and mechanical engineering disciplines. The selection of courses was specifically chosen for a future career in learning robots. In his last year at Cambridge, Oliver wrote his Master's thesis under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Wolpert, and won multiple prizes for his work.
After a six month internship, Oliver became a full Ph.D. student on January 1st of 2009. He now specializes in robots learning to grasp and manipulate objects. This area of research has existed a long time in the robotics community as it is one of the most fundamental abilities for any humanoid. Do to its interdisciplinary nature, reliance on advanced endeffectors, and the inherent complexity of the task, robot grasping remains a challenge. It is also these qualities that drew Oliver to the topic.
Although having been born in Germany, Oliver has spent the majority of his life abroad. The longest amount of time spent in a country was eight years in England, but he has also lived in Norway and the United States, all of which he has fond memories of. This multicultural upbringing has also made Oliver bilingual, which is perfectly suited to the Robot Learning Lab environment.
Oliver is co-organizing the workshop "Beyond Robot Grasping: Modern Approaches for Dynamic Manipulation" at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012).
Oliver can be found on Google Citations and DBLP.
Research Interests: Robot Grasping and Manipulation, Machine Learning, Tactile Exploration
Biographical Information: Please see his curriculum vitae.
Publications: For the complete list of his publication, see here.
Key References
- Kroemer, O.; Detry, R.; Piater, J.; Peters, J. (2010). Combining Active Learning and Reactive Control for Robot Grasping , Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 58, 9, pp.1105-1116 download
- Kroemer, O.; Lampert, C.H.; Peters, J. (2011). Learning Dynamic Tactile Sensing with Robust Vision-based Training, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-Ro), 27, 3, pp.545-557 download
- Piater, J.; Jodogne, S.; Detry, R.; Kraft, D.; Krueger, N.; Kroemer, O.; Peters, J. (2011). Learning Visual Representations for Perception-Action Systems, International Journal of Robotics Research, 30, 3, pp.294–307 download
- Kroemer, O.; Peters, J. (2011). A Non-Parametric Approach to Dynamic Programming, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25 (NIPS 2011), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. download
Contact Information
Mail: Oliver Kroemer, TU Darmstadt, FB Informatik, FG IAS, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289 Darmstadt
Office: Room E327, Robert-Piloty-Gebaeude S2|02
oli@robot-learning.de
+49-6151-16-5669
+49-6151-16-7374
