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1. TU Darmstadt, Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Computer Science Department
2. German Research Center for AI (DFKI), Research Department: SAIROL
3. Hessian Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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myname@ias.tu-darmstadt.de
Room E315, Building S2|02, TU Darmstadt, FB-Informatik, FG-IAS, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289 Darmstadt
+49-6151-16-00000
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Publications
- Prasad, V.; Heitlinger, L; Koert, D.; Stock-Homburg, R.; Peters, J.; Chalvatzaki, G. (conditionally accepted). Learning Multimodal Latent Dynamics for Human-Robot Interaction, Submitted to the IEEE Transaction of Robotics (T-RO).
- Liu, P.; Bou-Ammar H.; Peters, J.; Tateo D. (conditionally accepted). Safe Reinforcement Learning on the Constraint Manifold: Theory and Applications, Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-Ro).
- Urain, J.; Mandlekar, A.; Du, Y.; Shafiullah, M.; Xu, D.; Fragkiadaki, K.; Chalvatzaki, G.; Peters, J. (conditionally accepted). Deep Generative Models in Robotics: A Survey on Learning from Multimodal Demonstrations, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
- Vincent, T.; Palenicek, D.; Belousov, B.; Peters, J.; D'Eramo, C. (2025). Iterated Q-Network: Beyond One-Step Bellman Updates in Deep Reinforcement Learning, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
- Funk, N.; Chen, C.; Schneider, T.; Chalvatzaki, G.; Calandra, R.; Peters, J. (2025). On the Importance of Tactile Sensing for Imitation Learning: A Case Study on Robotic Match Lighting, ICRA 2025 Workshop on “Towards Human Level Intelligence Vision and Tactile Sensing”.
- Kienle, C.; Alt, B.; Katic, D.; Jäkel, R.; Peters, J. (2025). QueryCAD: Grounded Question Answering for CAD Models, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
- Le, A. T.; Nguyen, K.; Vu, M.N.; Carvalho, J.; Peters, J. (2025). Model Tensor Planning, Submitted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).
- Vincent, T.; Wahren, F.; Peters, J.; Belousov, B.; D'Eramo, C. (2025). Adaptive Q-Network: On-the-fly Target Selection for Deep Reinforcement Learning, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
- Diwan, A.A.; Urain, J.; Kober, J.; Peters, J. (2025). Noise-conditioned Energy-based Annealed Rewards (NEAR): A Generative Framework for Imitation Learning from Observation, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
- Straub, D.; Niehues, T.F.; Peters, J.; Rothkopf, C.A. (2025). Inverse decision-making using neural amortized Bayesian actors, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
- Huang, J.; Tateo, D.; Liu, P.; Peters, J. (2025). Adaptive Control based Friction Estimation for Tracking Control of Robot Manipulators, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 10, pp.2454-2461.
- Duret, G.; Bourennane, Y.; Mazurak, D.; Samsonenko, A.; Zara, F.; Chen, L.; Peters, J. (2025). Facilitate and scale up the creation of 3D meshes and 6D category-based datasets with generative models: GenVegeFruits, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
- Palenicek, D.; Vogt, F.; Peters, J. (2025). Scaling Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning with Batch and Weight Normalization, Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM).
- Bohlinger, N.; Peters, J. (2025). Massively Scaling Explicit Policy-conditioned Value Functions, Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM).
- Bohlinger, N.; Czechmanowski, G.; Krupka, M.; Kicki, P.; Walas, K.; Peters, J.; Tateo, D. (2025). Morphology-Aware Legged Locomotion with Reinforcement Learning, German Robotics Conference (GRC).
- Carvalho, J.; Le, A.; Jahr, P. ; Sun, Q. ; Urain, J.; Koert, D.; Peters, J. (2025). Grasp Diffusion Network: Learning Grasp Generators from Partial Point Clouds with Diffusion Models in SO(3)×R3, German Robotics Conference (GRC).
- Chen, J.; Kshirsagar, A.; Heller, F.; Gomez Andreu, M.; Belousov, B.; Schneider, T.; Lin, L. P. Y.; Doerschner, K.; Drewing, K.; Peters, J. (2025). Active Sampling for Hardness Classification with Vision-Based Tactile Sensors, German Robotics Conference (GRC).
- Nonnengiesser, F.; Kshirsagar, A.; Belousov, B.; Peters, J. (2025). Visuotactile In-Hand Pose Estimation, German Robotics Conference (GRC).
- Nguyen, D.H.; Schneider, T.; Duret, G.; Kshirsagar, A.; Belousov, B.; Peters, J. (2025). TacEx: GelSight Tactile Simulation in Isaac Sim – Combining Soft-Body and Visuotactile Simulators, German Robotics Conference (GRC).
- Vincent, T.; Faust, T.; Tripathi, Y.; Peters, J.; D'Eramo, C. (2025). Eau De Q-Network: Adaptive Distillation of Neural Networks in Deep Reinforcement Learning, Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM).
- Pompetzki, K.; Le, A. T.; Gruner, T.; Watson, J.; Chalvatzaki, G.; Peters, J. (2025). Geometrically-Aware Goal Inference: Leveraging Motion Planning as Inference, German Robotics Conference (GRC).
- Lenz, J.; Pfenning, I.; Gruner, T.; Palenicek, D.; Schneider, T.; Peters, J. (2025). Exploring the Role of Vision and Touch in Reinforcement Learning for Dexterous Insertion Tasks, Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM).
- Celik, O.; Li, Z.; Blessing, D.; Li, G.; Palenicek, D.; Peters, J.; Chalvatzaki, G.; Neumann, G. (2025). Diffusion-Based Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning, 7th Robot Learning Workshop: Towards Robots with Human-Level Abilities (ICLR).
- Scherer, C. F.; Tölle, M.; Gruner, T.; Palenicek, D.; Schneider, T.; Schramowski, P.; Belousov, B.; Peters, J. (2025). AllmAN: A German Vision-Language-Action Model, German Robotics Conference (GRC).
- Toelle, M.; Gruner, T.; Palenicek, D.; Guenster, J.; Liu, P.; Watson, J.; Tateo, D.; Peters, J. (2025). Towards Safe Robot Foundation Models, German Robotics Conference (GRC).
- Schneider, T.; de Farias, C.; Calandra, R.; Chen L.; Peters, J. (2025). Active Perception for Tactile Sensing: A Task-Agnostic Attention-Based Approach, German Robotics Conference (GRC).
- Bohlinger, N.; Kinzel, J.; Palenicek, D.; Antczak, L.; Peters, J. (2025). Gait in Eight: Efficient On-Robot Learning for Omnidirectional Quadruped Locomotion, Under review.
- Stasica, M.; Bick, A.; Bohlinger, N.; Mohseni, O.; Fritzsche, J.; Hübler, C.; Peters, J.; Seyfarth, A. (2025). Bridge the Gap: Enhancing Quadruped Locomotion with Vertical Ground Perturbations, Under review.
- Le, A.T.; Pompetzki, K.; Peters, J.; Biess, A. (2025). Kinematics Correspondence As Inexact Graph Matching, German Robotics Conference (GRC).
- Koosha, T. A.; Kshirsagar, A.; Augustat, N.; Hahne, F.; Mühl, D.; Melzig, C. A.; Bremmer, F.; Peters, J.; Endres, D. M. (2025). Staring Down the Elevator Shaft: Postural Responses to Virtual Heights in an Indoor Environment, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci).
- Chowdhury, A.; Maurer, H.; Kshirsagar, A.; Ploeger, K.; Peters, J.; Mueller, H. (2025). The Earlier You Know, the Smoother You Act, Conference of the Human Movement Science Section of the German Association of Sports Science.
- Bohlinger, N.; Czechmanowski, G.; Krupka, M.; Kicki, P.; Walas, K.; Peters, J.; Tateo, D. (2025). Learning Robot Locomotion for Multiple Embodiments, The 12th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines and 2nd LokoAssist Symposium (AMAM).
- Jankowski, J.; Maric, A.; Liu, P.; Tateo, D.; Peters, J.; Calinon, S. (2025). Distilling Contact Planning for Fast Trajectory Optimization in Robot Air Hockey, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).
- Le, A. T.; Nguyen, K.; Vu, M.N.; Carvalho, J.; Peters, J. (2025). Model Tensor Planning, ICRA @ RoboARCH: Robotics Acceleration with Computing Hardware and Systems.
- Dam, T.; D'Eramo, C.; Peters, J.; Pajarinen, J. (2024). A Unified Perspective on Value Backup and Exploration in Monte-Carlo Tree Search, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 81, pp.511-577.
- Abdulsamad, H.; Nickl, P.; Klink, P.; Peters, J. (2024). Variational Hierarchical Mixtures for Probabilistic Learning of Inverse Dynamics, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 46, 4, pp.1950-1963.
- Kicki, P.; Liu, P.; Tateo, D.; Bou Ammar, H.; Walas, K.; Skrzypczynski, P.; Peters, J. (2024). Fast Kinodynamic Planning on the Constraint Manifold with Deep Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-Ro), and Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 40, pp.277-297.
- Bhatt, A.; Palenicek, D.; Belousov, B.; Argus, M.; Amiranashvili, A.; Brox, T.; Peters, J. (2024). CrossQ: Batch Normalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Greater Sample Efficiency and Simplicity, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Spotlight.
- Derstroff, C.; Brugger, J.; Cerrato, M.; Peters, J.; Kramer, S. (2024). Peer Learning: Learning Complex Policies in Groups from Scratch via Action Recommendations, Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
- Vincent, T.; Metelli, A.; Belousov, B.; Peters, J.; Restelli, M.; D'Eramo, C. (2024). Parameterized Projected Bellman Operator, Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
- Tiboni, G.; Klink, P.; Peters, J.; Tommasi, T.; D'Eramo, C.; Chalvatzaki, G. (2024). Domain Randomization via Entropy Maximization, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
- Goeksu, Y.; Almeida-Correia, A.; Prasad, V.; Kshirsagar, A.; Koert, D.; Peters, J.; Chalvatzaki, G. (2024). Kinematically Constrained Human-like Bimanual Robot-to-Human Handovers, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI), Late Breaking Report.
- Hendawy, A.; Peters, J.; D'Eramo, C. (2024). Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Mixture of Orthogonal Experts, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
- Reddi, A.; Toelle, M.; Peters, J.; Chalvatzaki, G.; D'Eramo, C. (2024). Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning via Bounded Rationality Curricula, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Spotlight.
- Prasad, V.; Kshirsagar, A; Koert, D.; Stock-Homburg, R.; Peters, J.; Chalvatzaki, G. (2024). MoVEInt: Mixture of Variational Experts for Learning Human-Robot Interactions from Demonstrations, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 9, 7, pp.6043--6050.
- Boehm, A.; Schneider, T.; Belousov, B.; Kshirsagar, A.; Lin, L.; Doerschner, K.; Drewing, K.; Rothkopf, C.A.; Peters, J. (2024). What Matters for Active Texture Recognition With Vision-Based Tactile Sensors, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
- Weng, Y.; Chun, S.; Ohashi, M.; Matsuda, T.; Sekimoria, Y.; Pajarinen, J.; Peters, J.; Maki, T. (2024). Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Link Alignment Control in Unknown Environments Using Reinforcement Learning, Journal of Field Robotics, 41, 6, pp.1724--1743.
- Spartakov, R.; Kshirsagar, A.; Mühl, D.; Schween, R.; Endres, D.M.; Bremmer, F.; Melzig, C.; Peters, J. (2024). Balancing on the Edge: Review and Computational Framework on the Dynamics of Fear of Falling and Fear of Heights in Postural Control, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci).
- Holzmann, P.; Maik Pfefferkorn, M.; Peters, J.; Findeisen, R. (2024). Learning Energy-Efficient Trajectory Planning for Robotic Manipulators using Bayesian Optimization, Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC).
- Wiebe, F.; Turcato, N.; Dalla Libera, A.; Zhang, C.; Vincent, T.; Vyas, S.; Giacomuzzo, G.; Carli, R.; Romeres, D.; Sathuluri, A.; Zimmermann, M.; Belousov, B.; Peters, J.; Kirchner, F.; Kumar, S. (2024). Reinforcement Learning for Athletic Intelligence: Lessons from the 1st “AI Olympics with RealAIGym” Competition, The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
- Lin, L.; Boehm, A.; Belousov, B.; Kshirsagar, A.; Schneider, T.; Peters, J.; Doerschner, K.; Drewing, K. (2024). Task-Adapted Single-Finger Explorations of Complex Objects, Eurohaptics.
- Nguyen, D.M.H.; Lukashina, N.; Nguyen, N.; Le, A.T.; Nguyen, T.T.; Ho, N.; Peters, J.; Sonntag, D.; Zaverkin, V.; Niepert, M. (2024). Structure-Aware E(3)-Invariant Molecular Conformer Aggregation Networks, Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
- Becker, N.; Gattung, E.; Hansel, K.; Schneider, T.; Zhu, Y.; Hasegawa, Y.; Peters, J. (2024). Integrating Visuo-tactile Sensing with Haptic Feedback for Teleoperated Robot Manipulation, IEEE ICRA 2024 Workshop on Robot Embodiment through Visuo-Tactile Perception.
- Palenicek, D.; Gruner, T.; Schneider, T.; Böhm, A.; Lenz, J.; Pfenning, I. and Krämer, E.; Peters, J. (2024). Learning Tactile Insertion in the Real World, IEEE ICRA 2024 Workshop on Robot Embodiment through Visuo-Tactile Perception.
- Gu, S.; Liu, P.; Kshirsagar, A.; Chen, G.; Peters, J.; Knoll, A. (2024). ROSCOM: Robust Safe Reinforcement Learning on Stochastic Constraint Manifolds, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE).
- Vincent, T.; Wahren, F.; Peters, J.; Belousov, B.; D'Eramo, C.; (2024). Adaptive Q-Network: On-the-fly Target Selection for Deep Reinforcement Learning, European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL).
- Vincent, T.; Wahren, F.; Peters, J.; Belousov, B.; D'Eramo, C.; (2024). Adaptive Q-Network: On-the-fly Target Selection for Deep Reinforcement Learning, ICML Workshop on Automated Reinforcement Learning.
- Herrmann, F.; Zach, S.B.; Banfi, J.; Peters, J.; Chalvatzaki, G.; Tateo, D. (2024). Safe and Efficient Path Planning under Uncertainty via Deep Collision Probability Fields, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
- Bohlinger, N.; Czechmanowski, G.; Krupka, M.; Kicki, P.; Walas, K.; Peters, J.; Tateo, D. (2024). One Policy to Run Them All: an End-to-end Learning Approach to Multi-Embodiment Locomotion, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
- Geiss, H.J.; Al-Hafez, F.; Seyfarth, A.; Peters, J.; Tateo, D. (2024). Exciting Action: Investigating Efficient Exploration for Learning Musculoskeletal Humanoid Locomotion, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids).