Jan Peters

Max-Planck Institute, Germany & University of Southern California, USC

Unpublished articles

• Robot exoskeleton
• Hami Kazerooni

• Sensing and estimation for robotics
• Henrik I Christensen

• AI reasoning methods for robotics
• Joachim Hertzberg

• Force control
• Joris De Schutter

• Motion planning
• Steve Lavalle

• Gauss principle in robotics
• Firdaus Udwadia

• Passive dynamic walking
• Art Kuo

• Humanoid motion planning
• James Kuffner

• Robot soccer
• Manuela M. Veloso

• Learning motor primitives
• Stefan Schaal

• Learning in robot locomotion
• Russ Tedrake

• CPG for robots
• Auke Jan Ijspeert

• Robot learning by demonstration
• Aude Billard, Daniel Grollman

• Operational space control
• Oussama Khatib, Samir Menon

• SLAM
• Hugh Durrant-Whyte

• Robotics
• Bruno SICILIANO

Curator and author

• Policy gradient methods
• (2010) Jan Peters

Articles sponsored or reviewed

• Light-weight robots
• (2008) Gerd Hirzinger, Alin Albu-Schaeffer

• Robot dynamics
• (2007) Roy Featherstone

• Developmental robotics
• (2007) Max Lungarella

• Animat
• (2009) Jean-Arcady Meyer, Stewart W. Wilson

• Biologically inspired robotics
• (2009) Randall D. Beer

• Neurorobotics
• (2008) Jeff Krichmar

Featured Author: Jan Peters

Jan Peters is a full professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt, heading the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science. Before this, he was a senior research scientist and head of the Robot Learning Lab (RoLL) at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (2007-2010) and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (2010-2011) in Tuebingen, Germany.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Southern California (USC). Jan Peters' Ph.D. Thesis was the recipients of the Dick Volz Best US Ph.D. Thesis Runner Up Award. He also holds four M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering (Munich University of Technology), in informatics (Hagen University), in computer science (USC) and in Mechanical Engineering (USC). Peters has been a visiting Researcher at the Department of Robotics at the German Aerospace Research Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, at Siemens Advanced Engineering (SAE) in Singapore, at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and at the Department of Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience at the Advanced Telecommunication Research (ATR) Center in Kyoto,Japan.

Jan Peters has been awarded different scholarships during his studies: University of Southern California Presidential Fellowship and Siemens Student Scholarship to name but a few.

His research interests include robotics, nonlinear control, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and motor skill learning.

Scholarpedia article:

Policy gradient methods. Scholarpedia, 5(11):3698. (2010).

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