Nico Bohlinger
Research Interests
Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Locomotion, Active Perception, Intrinsic Motivation
Affiliation
TU Darmstadt, Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Computer Science Department
Contact
nico.bohlinger@tu-darmstadt.de
Room E327, Building S2|02, TU Darmstadt, FB-Informatik, FG-IAS, Hochschulstr. 10, 64289 Darmstadt
+49-6151-16-25380
Nico Bohlinger joined the Intelligent Autonomous System lab on July 15, 2023, as a PhD student. He is working on robot locomotion and active perception by applying Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Machine Learning in general. His main robot platforms are currently the Unitree A1 and the MAB Silver Badger quadrupeds.
Nico holds a bachelor's degree in Business Informatics from the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences and a master's degree in Bioinformatics from the Goethe University Frankfurt.
He was previously part of the RoboCup teams Magma and Sweaty in Offenburg and developed DRL environments to learn complex soccer skills.
Here is a recent interview with him in German.
Furthermore, he is developing the research-focused DRL framework RL-X.
Publications
- Bohlinger, N.; Dorer, K. (2023). RL-X: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Library (not only) for RoboCup, RoboCup 2023: Robot World Cup XXVI, Springer-Verlag.
- Bohlinger, N. (2023). Intrinsically Motivated Agents for Goal Discovery in High Dimensional State Spaces, Master Thesis.
- Bohlinger, N.; Braun, H.; Dorer, K.; Ehlers, L.; Huber, D.; Huber, H.; Glaser, S.; Schillings, R.; Scholz, J.; Wolffram, M. (2022). The magmaOffenburg 2022 RoboCup 3D Simulation Team.
Supervised Theses and Projects
| Thesis/Project | Topic | Student(s) | Together with |
| M.Sc. Thesis | On-robot Deep Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion | Jonathan Kinzel | Daniel Palenicek |
| M.Sc. Thesis | Gait Stability Analysis of Quadruped Robots with the Unitree A1 | Arne Bick | Maximilian Stasica, Omid Mohseni |
| Robot Learning: Integrated Project | Learning Torque Control for Quadrupeds | Daniel Schmidt, Lina Gaumann | |
| Robot Learning: Integrated Project | Student-Teacher Learning for simulated Quadrupeds | Keagan Holmes, Oliver Griess, Oliver Grein | |
| Expert Work in Robot Learning | Deep RL with the Silver Badger robot in MJX | Leon Magnus | Oleg Arenz |
| Humanoid Robotics Seminar | Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Locomotion | Qiao Sun |