The Chair of Cyber-Physical-Systems
The Chair of Cyber-Physical Systems at the Technical University Leoben, led by Prof. Dr. Elmar Rueckert, conducts research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems.
Our work focuses on developing foundation models for robotics and exploring robot skill learning, including dexterous and visual–tactile manipulation, reinforcement learning, self-supervised, active / interactive, and intrinsically motivated learning. We are particularly interested in inference and reasoning mechanisms that enable robots to generalize and adapt across complex environments.
Application domains include humanoid robotics and autonomous systems for real-world tasks, industrial production, recycling, and mining, where our goal is to advance safety, efficiency, and sustainability through intelligent, adaptable robotic solutions.
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AI & Robotics Positions and Topics
The chair is offering a number of open positions and student thesis topics in AI and robotics.
Also check our wiki, which offers numerous public posts on open source code repositories or tutorials.
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The paper on ‘Integrating Human Expertise in Continuous Spaces: A Novel Interactive Bayesian Optimization Framework with Preference Expected Improvement’ by Nikolaus Feith and Elmar Rueckert was accepted for publication in…Read More
The paper by Kunavar, T., Jamšek, M., Avila-Mireles, E. J., Rueckert, E., Peternel, L., and Babič J. on “The Effects of Different Motor Teaching Strategies on Learning a Complex Motor…Read More
The paper on ‘Multimodal Visual-Tactile Representation Learning through Self-Supervised Contrastive Pre-Training’ by Vedant Dave*, Fotios Lygerakis* and Elmar Rueckert was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and…Read More
The paper on ‘The Conversation is the Command: Interacting with Real-World Autonomous Robot Through Natural Language’ by Linus Nwankwo and Elmar Rueckert was accepted for publication the the International Conference…Read More
Our joint proposal on “Sustainable use of excavated materials from civil engineering and tunnel construction using sensor-based technologies” was granted by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). The project starts…Read More
The paper on ‘CR-VAE: Contrastive Regularization on Variational Autoencoders for Preventing Posterior Collapse’ by Fotios LYgerakis and Elmar Rueckert was accepted for publication at the Asian Conference of Artificial Intelligence…Read More
The paper on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mapless Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robot by Yadav, Harsh; Xue, Honghu; Rudall, Yan; Bakr, Mohamed; Hein, Benedikt; Rueckert, Elmar; Nguyen, Ngoc Thinhwas accepted…Read More
Congratulations to Linus Nwankwo for winning the best student paper award at the RAAD2023 conference for his paper on why SLAM algorithms fail in modern indoor environments, https://cloud.cps.unileoben.ac.at/index.php/s/KdZ2E2np5QEnYfL
The paper by Linus Nwankwo, Clemens Fritze, Konrad Bartsch, and Elmar Rueckert on “ROMR: A ROS-based Open-source Mobile Robot” was accepted for publication in the journal Hardware X.
The paper on Understanding why SLAM algorithms fail in modern indoor environments by Linus Nwankwo and Rueckert Elmar was accepted for publication at the International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube…Read More
Our joint proposal on “AI for recycling 2022” (germ. Künstliche Intelligenz für Recycling 2022) was granted by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). The project starts in March/April 2023 and…Read More
The paper on End-To-End Deep Reinforcement Learning for First-Person Pedestrian Visual Navigation in Urban Environments by Honghu Xue, Rui Song, Julian Petzold, Benedikt Hein, Heiko Hamann and Rueckert Elmar was…Read More
The paper on Predicting full-arm grasping motions from anticipated tactile responsess by Dave Vedant and Rueckert Elmar was accepted for publication at the International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2022),…Read More
The paper by Rebecca Herzog and Till M Berger and Martje Gesine Pauly and Honghu Xue and Elmar Rueckert and Alexander Munchau and Tobias Bäumer and Anne Weissbach on “Cerebellar…Read More
The paper by Honghu Xue and Benedikt Hein and Mohamed Bakr and Georg Schildbach and Bengt Abel and Elmar Rueckert on “Using Deep Reinforcement Learning with Automatic Curriculum Learning for…Read More
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