Robot Learning Lab
Department for Empirical Inference & Machine Learning (AG
Schoelkopf)
Max
Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Member » OliverKroemer
Oliver Barnabas Kroemer joined the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in July 2008, originally as an intern, but now as a Ph.D. student with a scholarship. Although having been born in Germany, Oliver has spent the majority of his life abroad.
The longest amount of time spent in a country was eight years in England, but he has also lived in Norway and the United States, all of which he has fond memories of. This multicultural upbringing has also made Oliver bilingual, which is perfectly suited to the Robot Learning Lab environment.
Before coming to the Max Planck Institute, Oliver did a Master's and Bachelor's degree in engineering at Cambridge University. While at Cambridge, he was a member and senior scholar of Trinity college. His studies focused on Instrumentation and Control Engineering, which combines elements of information, electrical, and mechanical engineering disciplines. The selection of courses was specifically chosen for a future career in learning robots. In his last year at Cambridge, Oliver wrote his Master's thesis under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Wolpert, and won multiple prizes for his work.
After a six month internship, Oliver became a full Ph.D. student on January 1st of 2009. He now specializes in robots learning to grasp and manipulate objects. This area of research has existed a long time in the robotics community as it is one of the most fundamental abilities for any humanoid. Do to its interdisciplinary nature, reliance on advanced endeffectors, and the inherent complexity of the task, robot grasping remains a challenge. It is also these qualities that drew Oliver to the topic.
Research Interests: Robot Grasping, Machine Learning
Biographical Information: Please see his curriculum vitae.
Publications: For the complete list of his publication, see here.
Key References
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.
Detry, R; Baseski, E.; Popovic, M.; Touati, Y.; Krueger, N; Kroemer, O.; Peters, J.; Piater, J; (2009). Learning Object-specific Grasp Affordance Densities, Proceedings of the International Conference on Development & Learning (ICDL 2009).
Contact Information
Mail: Oliver Kroemer, Spemannstr. 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Phone: +49-7071-601-548
Fax: +49-7071-601-552
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