Adrian Röfer
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PhD Student | |
| Postal address: |
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
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| Office: | 01.024 | |
| Email: |
aroefer@cs.uni-freiburg.de |
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| Phone: | +49 761 203-98633 | |
| Website: | aroefer.github.io | |
About me
- 06/2021 - up to now: PhD student in the Robot Learning Lab, University of Freiburg
- 12/2020 - 04/2021: Software Developer at OHS Engineering GmbH
- 04/2017 - 05/2020: M.Sc. in Computer Science (AI and Knowledge Representation), University of Bremen
- 10/2013 - 03/2017: B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Bremen
Research Interests
- Mobile Robotic Manipulation
- Imitation Learning
- Contact-Rich Manipulation
- Long-Horizon Task Learning
- Control
Teaching
- TA, Robot Learning Seminar, University of Freiburg, WS2023
- TA, Learning with Limited Supervision, University of Freiburg, SS2023
- TA, Robot Learning Seminar, University of Freiburg, WS2022
- Co-organizer, Deep Learning Lab, University of Freiburg, SS2022
- TA, Robot Learning Seminar, University of Freiburg, WS2021
- TA, Computer Science in Media, University of Bremen, WS2014-SS2016
Publications
2024
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Adrian Röfer,
Russell Buchanan,
Max Argus,
Sethu Vijayakumar,
Abhinav Valada,
Learning Few-Shot Object Placement with Intra-Category Transfer
arXiv preprint: arXiv 2411.03408, 2024
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Adrian Röfer,
Iman Nematollahi,
Tim Welschehold,
Wolfram Burgard,
Abhinav Valada,
Bayesian Optimization for Sample-Efficient Policy Improvement in Robotic Manipulation
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2024
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Sabrina Livanec,
Laura Londoño,
Michael Gorki,
Adrian Röfer,
Abhinav Valada
Andrea Kiesel,
Cognitive-Affective Mapping (CAM) as an intervention tool for technology assessment: a case study on human-robot collaboration
OSF, 2024 -
Adrian Röfer*,
Nick Heppert*,
Abdallah Ayman,
Eugenio Chisari,
Abhinav Valada,
PseudoTouch: Efficiently Imaging the Surface Feel of Objects for Robotic Manipulation
arXiv preprint: arXiv 2403.15107, 2024
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Russell Buchanan,
Adrian Röfer,
João Moura,
Abhinav Valada,
Sethu Vijayakumar
Online Estimation of Articulated Objects with Factor Graphs using Vision and Proprioceptive Sensing
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 2024
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2022
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Lukas Hermann,
Max Argus,
Adrian Röfer,
Thomas Brox,
Abhinav Valada,
Wolfram Burgard
RobotIO: A Python Library for Robot Manipulation Experiments
arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.13591, 2022
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Laura Londoño,
Adrian Röfer,
Tim Welschehold,
Abhinav Valada
Doing Right by Not Doing Wrong in Human-Robot Collaboration
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Workshop on Fairness and Transparency in Human-Robot Interaction, 2022
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Adrian Röfer,
Georg Bartels,
Wolfram Burgard,
Abhinav Valada,
Michael Beetz
Kineverse: A Symbolic Articulation Model Framework for Model-Generic Software for Mobile Manipulation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022
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Iman Nematollahi,
Erick Rosete-Beas,
Adrian Röfer,
Tim Welschehold,
Abhinav Valada,
Wolfram Burgard
Robot Skill Adaptation via Soft Actor-Critic Gaussian Mixture Models
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, USA, 2022
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2020
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Zhen Zeng,
Adrian Röfer,
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
Semantic Linking Maps for Active Visual Object Search
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020.
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Students
Current Students
- Cleanly DINO, M. Shekarriz, Master Thesis
- Salient CLIP, G. Somaschini, Master Project
- Artimap: Building Maps including Articulated Objects, A. Werby, Master Thesis
Former Students
- Revealing Occluded Semantic Features using CLIP, C. Leininger, Master Project
- Learning Manipulation in Cluttered Scenes on Voxelized Representations, S.H. Koribille, Master Project
- Efficient Mobile Manipulation via Learned Switching Policy, A. Boggram, Master Thesis (Co-supervised)
- Touch to Image -- A Tactile Embedding for Unknown Object Recognition, A. Ayad, Master Thesis
- Learning 6DoF Grasping via Scene Transformation Using Point-Centric Actor-Critic, N. Koneru, Master Thesis (external)