Katharina Mülling joined the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in 2007 as an undergraduate student in the Empirical Inference Department, supervised by Jan Peters. At the same time, she studied Bioinformatics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (altogether from 2003 to 2009), and graduating with a Diplom-Informatiker degree (German integrated Masters and Bachelor) in 2009. Please see her curriculum vitae for more biographical information.

Katharina became a Ph.D. student in December 2009. Her work focusses on motor control and learning in complex motor tasks such as table tennis. Table tennis is ideal for studying complex motor skills as it requires fast movements, accurate control, adaptation to new parameters and is based on several elemental movements. In this context, she is interested both in human motor control as well as synthetic robotics approaches.

Research Interests: Robotics, Machine Learning, Motor Learning, Table Tennis
Biographical Information: Please see her curriculum vitae.
Collaborators: Jens Kober, Oliver Kroemer, Jan Peters

Key References

1. Muelling, K.; Kober, J.; Peters, J. (2010). Simulating Human Table Tennis with a Biomimetic Robot Setup, From Animals to Animats 11 – International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB). [PDF]
   
   

2. Muelling, K.; Kober, J.; Peters, J. (2010). A Biomimetic Approach to Robot Table Tennis, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). [PDF]
   
   

3. Peters, J.; Kober, J.; Muelling, K.; Nguyen-Tuong, D.; Kroemer, O. (2009). Towards Motor Skill Learning for Robotics, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), Invited Paper. [PDF]
   
   

4. Muelling, K., and Peters, J. (2009). A computational model of human table tennis for robot application, Proceedings of Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS 2009). [PDF]
   
   

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