Research

Between 2013 and 2015 I was a PhD student / researcher at the Machine Learning and Robotics lab (MLR) at the University Stuttgart, Germany. My supervisor was Prof. Marc Toussaint.

I worked on combining machine learning and robotics to enable robots to explore and learn the world efficiently.

The Curious Robot is a poster that I presented at the Machine Learning Summer School Tübingen in 2013.

Publications

Identification of Unmodeled Objects from Symbolic Descriptions ¶

Baisero, Otte, Englert, Toussaint.

arXiv:1701.06450, 2017

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Robots Solving Serial Means-Means-End Problems ¶

Kulick, Otte, Toussaint.

In Proc. of Combining AI Reasoning and Cognitive Science with Robotics Workshop at Robotics: Science and Systems, 2015

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Active Exploration of Joint Dependency Structures ¶

Kulick, Otte, Toussaint.

Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics & Automation (ICRA 2015), 2015

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Entropy Based Strategies for Physical Exploration of the Environment's Degrees of Freedom ¶

Otte, Kulick, Toussaint, Brock.

Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), 2014

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Where am I? What is going on? - World Modelling using Multi-Hypothesis Kalman Filters for Humanoid Soccer Robots ¶

Otte.

Free University Berlin, Germany, Master's Thesis, 2012

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Berlin United – FUmanoids Team Description Paper 2012 ¶

Seifert, Otte, Kulick, Schmude, Dohrmann, Heinrich, Moballegh, Mielke, Freitag, Hohberg, Auer, Losch, Rojas.

RoboCup 2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI Preproceedings, 2012

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FUmanoids Team Description Paper 2011 ¶

Seifert, Moballegh, Heinrich, Otte, Mielke, Schmude, Weißgerber, Würfel, Jonschkowski, Kulick, Fröhlich, Streckenbach, Lubitz, Geyso, Schubert, Yao, Puhlmann, Salvador, Freitag, Rojas.

RoboCup 2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV Preproceedings, 2011

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FUmanoid Team Description Paper 2010 ¶

Moballegh, Fischer, Heinrich, Hohl, Lange, Langner, Mielke, Otte, Rojas, Schmude, Seifert, Steig, Weissgerber.

RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV Preproceedings, 2010

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FUmanoid Team Description Paper 2009 ¶

Moballegh, Hohl, Landgraf, Fischer, Langner, Fassbender, Otte, Stoll, Tuchscherer, Steig, Heinrich, Mielke, Seifert, Kukulski, Kahlert, Rojas.

RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII Preproceedings, 2009

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Supervised Theses

During my time as researcher, I supervised/was involved in the following theses of students:

2015

K. Kälberer: Nicht-Markow Feature Entdeckung für echte Roboter. Bachelor Thesis, University of Stuttgart, 2015.
S. Fuchs: Inferring Object Hypotheses Based on Feature Motion from Different Sources. Master Thesis, University of Stuttgart, 2015.

2014

V. Zielke: Instance-based learning of affordances. Studienarbeit, University of Stuttgart, 2014.

2013

P. Suhm: Vision and slam on a highly dynamic mobile two-wheeled robot. BSc Thesis, University of Stuttgart, 2013.
M. Dreher: Two-wheeled racer. Diplomarbeit, University of Stuttgart, 2013.
P. Niethammer: Motion Designer: Ein interaktives Tool zum Entwerfen von Bewegungen. BSc Thesis, University of Stuttgart, 2013.

Teaching

I did some teaching during my time as a research assistant at the University of Stuttgart. Here is a list of the courses:

WS 2015 - Introduction to Robotics
WS 2015 - Introduction to AI / python primer
SS 2015 - Fachstudie: Perception for Robotics
WS 2015 - Introduction to AI / python primer
WS 2014 - StuPro: MailBot
WS 2014 - MLR Colloquium
SS 2014 - Machine Learning
SS 2014 - MLR Colloquium
WS 2013 - Introduction to Robotics
SS 2013 - Hauptseminar: Topics in Robotics
SS 2013 - Datenstrukturen und Algorithmen

I did some more teaching when I was a student at the Free University of Berlin: