Publication List with Images
2025 |
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Dave, Vedant; Rueckert, Elmar Skill Disentanglement in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Proceedings Article In: In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025. Links | BibTeX | Tags: Deep Learning, neural network, Reinforcement Learning @inproceedings{Dave2025bb, | ![]() |
2024 |
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Lygerakis, Fotios; Dave, Vedant; Rueckert, Elmar M2CURL: Sample-Efficient Multimodal Reinforcement Learning via Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Robotic Manipulation Proceedings Article In: IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024), IEEE 2024. Links | BibTeX | Tags: Contrastive Learning, Manipulation, Multimodal Reinforcement Learning, Multimodal Representation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Robot Learning @inproceedings{Lygerakis2024, | ![]() |
Feith, Nikolaus; Rueckert, Elmar Integrating Human Expertise in Continuous Spaces: A Novel Interactive Bayesian Optimization Framework with Preference Expected Improvement Proceedings Article In: IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024), IEEE 2024. Links | BibTeX | Tags: Interactive Learning, Reinforcement Learning @inproceedings{Feith2024A, | ![]() |
2023 |
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Yadav, Harsh; Xue, Honghu; Rudall, Yan; Bakr, Mohamed; Hein, Benedikt; Rueckert, Elmar; Nguyen, Ngoc Thinh Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mapless Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robot Proceedings Article In: International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), 2023, (October 11-13, 2023, Timisoara, Romania.). Links | BibTeX | Tags: Autonomous Navigation, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning @inproceedings{Yadav2023b, | ![]() |
Keshavarz, Sahar; Vita, Petr; Rueckert, Elmar; Ortner, Ronald; Thonhauser, Gerhard A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Real-Time Autonomous Decision-Making in Well Construction Proceedings Article In: Society of Petroleum Engineers – SPE Symposium: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Shape the Future of the Energy Industry, AIS 2023, Society of Petroleum Engineers., 2023, ISBN: 9781613999882. Links | BibTeX | Tags: Reinforcement Learning, Well Construction @inproceedings{Keshavarz2023, | ![]() |
2022 |
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Xue, Honghu; Hein, Benedikt; Bakr, Mohamed; Schildbach, Georg; Abel, Bengt; Rueckert, Elmar Using Deep Reinforcement Learning with Automatic Curriculum Learning for Mapless Navigation in Intralogistics Journal Article In: Applied Sciences (MDPI), Special Issue on Intelligent Robotics, 2022, (Supplement: https://cloud.cps.unileoben.ac.at/index.php/s/Sj68rQewnkf4ppZ). Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Autonomous Navigation, Deep Learning, mobile navigation, Reinforcement Learning @article{Xue2022, We propose a deep reinforcement learning approach for solving a mapless navigation problem in warehouse scenarios. The automatic guided vehicle is equipped with LiDAR and frontal RGB sensors and learns to reach underneath the target dolly. The challenges reside in the sparseness of positive samples for learning, multi-modal sensor perception with partial observability, the demand for accurate steering maneuvers together with long training cycles. To address these points, we proposed NavACL-Q as an automatic curriculum learning together with distributed soft actor-critic. The performance of the learning algorithm is evaluated exhaustively in a different warehouse environment to check both robustness and generalizability of the learned policy. Results in NVIDIA Isaac Sim demonstrates that our trained agent significantly outperforms the map-based navigation pipeline provided by NVIDIA Isaac Sim in terms of higher agent-goal distances and relative orientations. The ablation studies also confirmed that NavACL-Q greatly facilitates the whole learning process and a pre-trained feature extractor manifestly boosts the training speed. | ![]() |
2021 |
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Cansev, Mehmet Ege; Xue, Honghu; Rottmann, Nils; Bliek, Adna; Miller, Luke E.; Rueckert, Elmar; Beckerle, Philipp Interactive Human-Robot Skill Transfer: A Review of Learning Methods and User Experience Journal Article In: Advanced Intelligent Systems, pp. 1–28, 2021. Links | BibTeX | Tags: human motor control, intrinsic motivation, movement primitives, Probabilistic Inference, Reinforcement Learning, spiking @article{Cansev2021, | ![]() |
2020 |
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Rottmann, N.; Kunavar, T.; Babič, J.; Peters, J.; Rueckert, E. Learning Hierarchical Acquisition Functions for Bayesian Optimization Proceedings Article In: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’ 2020), 2020. Links | BibTeX | Tags: Reinforcement Learning @inproceedings{Rottmann2020HiBO, | ![]() |
Rottmann, N.; Bruder, R.; Xue, H.; Schweikard, A.; Rueckert, E. Parameter Optimization for Loop Closure Detection in Closed Environments Proceedings Article In: Workshop Paper at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1–8, 2020. Links | BibTeX | Tags: mobile navigation, Reinforcement Learning @inproceedings{Rottmann2020c, | ![]() |
Tanneberg, Daniel; Rueckert, Elmar; Peters, Jan Evolutionary training and abstraction yields algorithmic generalization of neural computers Journal Article In: Nature Machine Intelligence, pp. 1–11, 2020. Links | BibTeX | Tags: neural network, Reinforcement Learning, Transfer Learning @article{Tanneberg2020, | ![]() |
Xue, H.; Boettger, S.; Rottmann, N.; Pandya, H.; Bruder, R.; Neumann, G.; Schweikard, A.; Rueckert, E. Sample-Efficient Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutional Strategy via Simulated Rollouts in Neural Networks Proceedings Article In: International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI’ 2020), 2020. Links | BibTeX | Tags: Manipulation, Reinforcement Learning @inproceedings{Xue2020, | ![]() |
2019 |
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Stark, Svenja; Peters, Jan; Rueckert, Elmar Experience Reuse with Probabilistic Movement Primitives Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019., 2019. Links | BibTeX | Tags: movement primitives, Reinforcement Learning, Transfer Learning @inproceedings{Stark2019, | ![]() |
Rueckert, Elmar; Jauer, Philipp; Derksen, Alexander; Schweikard, Achim Dynamic Control Strategies for Cable-Driven Master Slave Robots Proceedings Article In: Keck, Tobias (Ed.): Proceedings on Minimally Invasive Surgery, Luebeck, Germany, 2019, (January 24-25, 2019). Links | BibTeX | Tags: Medical Robotics, Reinforcement Learning @inproceedings{Rueckert2019c, | ![]() |
2016 |
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Sharma, David; Tanneberg, Daniel; Grosse-Wentrup, Moritz; Peters, Jan; Rueckert, Elmar Adaptive Training Strategies for BCIs Proceedings Article In: Cybathlon Symposium, 2016. Links | BibTeX | Tags: human motor control, Reinforcement Learning @inproceedings{Sharma2016, | ![]() |
2014 |
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Rueckert, Elmar Biologically inspired motor skill learning in robotics through probabilistic inference PhD Thesis Technical University Graz, 2014. Links | BibTeX | Tags: graphical models, locomotion, model learning, morphological compuation, movement primitives, policy search, postural control, Probabilistic Inference, Reinforcement Learning, RNN, SOC, spiking @phdthesis{Rueckert2014a, | ![]() |
2013 |
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Rueckert, Elmar; d’Avella, Andrea Learned Muscle Synergies as Prior in Dynamical Systems for Controlling Bio-mechanical and Robotic Systems Proceedings Article In: Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM), Conference Talk, pp. 27–28, 2013. Links | BibTeX | Tags: muscle synergies, policy search, Reinforcement Learning @inproceedings{Rueckert2013, | ![]() |
Compact List without Images
Journal Articles |
Xue, Honghu; Hein, Benedikt; Bakr, Mohamed; Schildbach, Georg; Abel, Bengt; Rueckert, Elmar Using Deep Reinforcement Learning with Automatic Curriculum Learning for Mapless Navigation in Intralogistics Journal Article In: Applied Sciences (MDPI), Special Issue on Intelligent Robotics, 2022, (Supplement: https://cloud.cps.unileoben.ac.at/index.php/s/Sj68rQewnkf4ppZ). @article{Xue2022, We propose a deep reinforcement learning approach for solving a mapless navigation problem in warehouse scenarios. The automatic guided vehicle is equipped with LiDAR and frontal RGB sensors and learns to reach underneath the target dolly. The challenges reside in the sparseness of positive samples for learning, multi-modal sensor perception with partial observability, the demand for accurate steering maneuvers together with long training cycles. To address these points, we proposed NavACL-Q as an automatic curriculum learning together with distributed soft actor-critic. The performance of the learning algorithm is evaluated exhaustively in a different warehouse environment to check both robustness and generalizability of the learned policy. Results in NVIDIA Isaac Sim demonstrates that our trained agent significantly outperforms the map-based navigation pipeline provided by NVIDIA Isaac Sim in terms of higher agent-goal distances and relative orientations. The ablation studies also confirmed that NavACL-Q greatly facilitates the whole learning process and a pre-trained feature extractor manifestly boosts the training speed. |
Cansev, Mehmet Ege; Xue, Honghu; Rottmann, Nils; Bliek, Adna; Miller, Luke E.; Rueckert, Elmar; Beckerle, Philipp Interactive Human-Robot Skill Transfer: A Review of Learning Methods and User Experience Journal Article In: Advanced Intelligent Systems, pp. 1–28, 2021. @article{Cansev2021, |
Tanneberg, Daniel; Rueckert, Elmar; Peters, Jan Evolutionary training and abstraction yields algorithmic generalization of neural computers Journal Article In: Nature Machine Intelligence, pp. 1–11, 2020. @article{Tanneberg2020, |
Proceedings Articles |
Dave, Vedant; Rueckert, Elmar Skill Disentanglement in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Proceedings Article In: In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025. @inproceedings{Dave2025bb, |
Lygerakis, Fotios; Dave, Vedant; Rueckert, Elmar M2CURL: Sample-Efficient Multimodal Reinforcement Learning via Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Robotic Manipulation Proceedings Article In: IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024), IEEE 2024. @inproceedings{Lygerakis2024, |
Feith, Nikolaus; Rueckert, Elmar Integrating Human Expertise in Continuous Spaces: A Novel Interactive Bayesian Optimization Framework with Preference Expected Improvement Proceedings Article In: IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024), IEEE 2024. @inproceedings{Feith2024A, |
Yadav, Harsh; Xue, Honghu; Rudall, Yan; Bakr, Mohamed; Hein, Benedikt; Rueckert, Elmar; Nguyen, Ngoc Thinh Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mapless Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robot Proceedings Article In: International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), 2023, (October 11-13, 2023, Timisoara, Romania.). @inproceedings{Yadav2023b, |
Keshavarz, Sahar; Vita, Petr; Rueckert, Elmar; Ortner, Ronald; Thonhauser, Gerhard A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Real-Time Autonomous Decision-Making in Well Construction Proceedings Article In: Society of Petroleum Engineers – SPE Symposium: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Shape the Future of the Energy Industry, AIS 2023, Society of Petroleum Engineers., 2023, ISBN: 9781613999882. @inproceedings{Keshavarz2023, |
Rottmann, N.; Kunavar, T.; Babič, J.; Peters, J.; Rueckert, E. Learning Hierarchical Acquisition Functions for Bayesian Optimization Proceedings Article In: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’ 2020), 2020. @inproceedings{Rottmann2020HiBO, |
Rottmann, N.; Bruder, R.; Xue, H.; Schweikard, A.; Rueckert, E. Parameter Optimization for Loop Closure Detection in Closed Environments Proceedings Article In: Workshop Paper at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 1–8, 2020. @inproceedings{Rottmann2020c, |
Xue, H.; Boettger, S.; Rottmann, N.; Pandya, H.; Bruder, R.; Neumann, G.; Schweikard, A.; Rueckert, E. Sample-Efficient Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutional Strategy via Simulated Rollouts in Neural Networks Proceedings Article In: International Conference on Advances in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence (ASPAI’ 2020), 2020. @inproceedings{Xue2020, |
Stark, Svenja; Peters, Jan; Rueckert, Elmar Experience Reuse with Probabilistic Movement Primitives Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019., 2019. @inproceedings{Stark2019, |
Rueckert, Elmar; Jauer, Philipp; Derksen, Alexander; Schweikard, Achim Dynamic Control Strategies for Cable-Driven Master Slave Robots Proceedings Article In: Keck, Tobias (Ed.): Proceedings on Minimally Invasive Surgery, Luebeck, Germany, 2019, (January 24-25, 2019). @inproceedings{Rueckert2019c, |
Sharma, David; Tanneberg, Daniel; Grosse-Wentrup, Moritz; Peters, Jan; Rueckert, Elmar Adaptive Training Strategies for BCIs Proceedings Article In: Cybathlon Symposium, 2016. @inproceedings{Sharma2016, |
Rueckert, Elmar; d’Avella, Andrea Learned Muscle Synergies as Prior in Dynamical Systems for Controlling Bio-mechanical and Robotic Systems Proceedings Article In: Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM), Conference Talk, pp. 27–28, 2013. @inproceedings{Rueckert2013, |
PhD Theses |
Rueckert, Elmar Biologically inspired motor skill learning in robotics through probabilistic inference PhD Thesis Technical University Graz, 2014. @phdthesis{Rueckert2014a, |