robotics, optimal control, model-based reinforcement learning, Bayesian machine learning, approximate inference, inductive biases
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Joe Watson
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Joe joined the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group at TU Darmstadt as a Ph.D. researcher in December 2018. He studied Information & Computer Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he received his BA and MEng. His Master’s thesis “Vision-Based Learning for Robotic Grasping”, which investigated the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for real-world grasp prediction, was undertaken at the Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) under the supervision of Dr Fumiya Iida. For two years, Joe worked at CMR Surgical (previously Cambridge Medical Robotics), a medical device startup He worked extensively on the control and signal processing stack of the manipulators of Versius, a bespoke robotic platform for laparoscopic surgery.
Working on the SKILLS4ROBOTS project, Joe is researching the development of principled algorithms that facilitate robot learning of complex tasks in unstructured settings. He is currently interested in inference methods for control, model-based reinforcement learning and inductive biases for robot learning.
robotics, optimal control, model-based reinforcement learning, Bayesian machine learning, approximate inference, inductive biases
Stochastic Optimal Control as Approximate Input Inference
(CoRL 2019 Spotlight, Preferred Networks, RIKEN, ATR Institute) pdf