Kai Ploeger Team
Kai Ploeger
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Research Interests
Robotics, Motor Skill Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Control
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Kai Ploeger
TU Darmstadt, FG IAS,
Hochschulstr. 10, 64289 Darmstadt
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Room E226, Building S2|02
+49-6151-16-20074
kai.ploeger@tu-darmstadt.de
kai@robot-learning.de
Attach:kai.jpg Δ Kai joined the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group at TU Darmstadt as a Ph.D. researcher in January 2021. Previously, he received his bachelor‘s degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from TU Dortmund, as well as his master’s degree in Autonomous Systems from TU Darmstadt.
During his studies on dynamic motor skill learning, Kai completed several applied projects, including his master's thesis on "High acceleration reinforcement learning for real-world juggling with binary rewards" at IAS and his bachelor's thesis on the "Generation of locomotion patterns for a compliantly actuated quadruped with modally matched legs" at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Key References
Juggling
Ploeger, K.; Peters, J. (2022). Controlling the Cascade: Kinematic Planning for N-ball Toss Juggling, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Download Article BibTeX Reference
Ploeger, K.; Lutter, M.; Peters, J. (2020). High Acceleration Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Juggling with Binary Rewards, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Download Article BibTeX Reference
Locomotion
Liu, Z.; Ploeger, K.; Stark, S.; Rueckert, E.; Peters, J. (2019). Learning walk and trot from the same objective using different types of exploration, arXiv. Download Article BibTeX Reference
Lakatos, D.; Ploeger, K; Loeffl, F; Seidel, D; Schmidt, F; Gumpert, T; John, F; Bertram, T; Albu-Schäffer, A (2018). Dynamic locomotion gaits of a compliantly actuated quadruped with slip-like articulated legs embodied in the mechanical design, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
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