Niklas Funk

28 papers A* 2A 3Misc 1Journal 21Unranked 1
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Neuromorphic BrailleNet: Accurate and Generalizable Braille Reading Beyond Single Characters through Event-Based Optical Tactile Sensing.
CoRR
Naqash Afzal, Niklas Funk, Erik Helmut, Jan Peters, Benjamin Ward-Cherrier
2026 J jnl
On the Importance of Tactile Sensing for Imitation Learning: A Case Study on Robotic Match Lighting.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Niklas Funk, Changqi Chen, Tim Schneider, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Roberto Calandra, Jan Peters
2025 A conf
Learning Force Distribution Estimation for the GelSight Mini Optical Tactile Sensor Based on Finite Element Analysis.
IROS
Erik Helmut, Luca Dziarski, Niklas Funk, Boris Belousov, Jan Peters
2025 J jnl
On the Importance of Tactile Sensing for Imitation Learning: A Case Study on Robotic Match Lighting.
CoRR
Niklas Funk, Changqi Chen, Tim Schneider, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Roberto Calandra, Jan Peters
2025 J jnl
SE(3)-PoseFlow: Estimating 6D Pose Distributions for Uncertainty-Aware Robotic Manipulation.
CoRR
Yufeng Jin, Niklas Funk, Vignesh Prasad, Zechu Li, Mathias Franzius, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
2025 J jnl
Tactile-Conditioned Diffusion Policy for Force-Aware Robotic Manipulation.
CoRR
Erik Helmut, Niklas Funk, Tim Schneider, Cristiana de Farias, Jan Peters
2024 A* conf
A Retrospective on the Robot Air Hockey Challenge: Benchmarking Robust, Reliable, and Safe Learning Techniques for Real-world Robotics.
NeurIPS
Puze Liu, Jonas Günster, Niklas Funk, Simon Gröger, Dong Chen, Haitham Bou-Ammar, Julius Jankowski, Ante Maric, Sylvain Calinon, Andrej Orsula, Miguel S. Olivares-Méndez, Hongyi Zhou, Rudolf Lioutikov, Gerhard Neumann, Amarildo Likmeta, Amirhossein Zhalehmehrabi, Thomas Bonenfant, Marcello Restelli, Davide Tateo, Ziyuan Liu, Jan R. Peters
2024 J jnl
A Retrospective on the Robot Air Hockey Challenge: Benchmarking Robust, Reliable, and Safe Learning Techniques for Real-world Robotics.
CoRR
Puze Liu, Jonas Guenster, Niklas Funk, Simon Gröger, Dong Chen, Haitham Bou-Ammar, Julius Jankowski, Ante Maric, Sylvain Calinon, Andrej Orsula, Miguel S. Olivares-Méndez, Hongyi Zhou, Rudolf Lioutikov, Gerhard Neumann, Amarildo Likmeta, Amirhossein Zhalehmehrabi, Thomas Bonenfant, Marcello Restelli, Davide Tateo, Ziyuan Liu, Jan Peters
2024 J jnl
ActionFlow: Equivariant, Accurate, and Efficient Policies with Spatially Symmetric Flow Matching.
CoRR
Niklas Funk, Julen Urain, Joao Carvalho, Vignesh Prasad, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Jan Peters
2024 J jnl
Evetac: An Event-Based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation.
IEEE Trans. Robotics
Niklas Funk, Erik Helmut, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Roberto Calandra, Jan Peters
2024 J jnl
Learning Force Distribution Estimation for the GelSight Mini Optical Tactile Sensor Based on Finite Element Analysis.
CoRR
Erik Helmut, Luca Dziarski, Niklas Funk, Boris Belousov, Jan Peters
2024 J jnl
Particle-based 6D Object Pose Estimation from Point Clouds using Diffusion Models.
CoRR
Christian Möller, Niklas Funk, Jan Peters
2023 J jnl
Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation.
CoRR
Niklas Funk, Erik Helmut, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Roberto Calandra, Jan Peters
2023 A conf
Placing by Touching: An Empirical Study on the Importance of Tactile Sensing for Precise Object Placing.
IROS
Luca Lach, Niklas Funk, Robert Haschke, Séverin Lemaignan, Helge Joachim Ritter, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
2023 A* conf
SE(3)-DiffusionFields: Learning smooth cost functions for joint grasp and motion optimization through diffusion.
ICRA
Julen Urain, Niklas Funk, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
2022 J jnl
Benchmarking Structured Policies and Policy Optimization for Real-World Dexterous Object Manipulation.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Niklas Funk, Charles B. Schaff, Rishabh Madan, Takuma Yoneda, Julen Urain De Jesus, Joe Watson, Ethan K. Gordon, Felix Widmaier, Stefan Bauer, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Matthew R. Walter, Jan Peters
2022 A conf
Graph-based Reinforcement Learning meets Mixed Integer Programs: An application to 3D robot assembly discovery.
IROS
Niklas Funk, Svenja Menzenbach, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Jan Peters
2022 J jnl
Graph-based Reinforcement Learning meets Mixed Integer Programs: An application to 3D robot assembly discovery.
CoRR
Niklas Funk, Svenja Menzenbach, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Jan Peters
2022 J jnl
Placing by Touching: An empirical study on the importance of tactile sensing for precise object placing.
CoRR
Luca Lach, Niklas Funk, Robert Haschke, Séverin Lemaignan, Helge Joachim Ritter, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
2022 J jnl
SE(3)-DiffusionFields: Learning smooth cost functions for joint grasp and motion optimization through diffusion.
CoRR
Julen Urain, Niklas Funk, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
2021 J jnl
A Robot Cluster for Reproducible Research in Dexterous Manipulation.
CoRR
Stefan Bauer, Felix Widmaier, Manuel Wüthrich, Niklas Funk, Julen Urain De Jesus, Jan Peters, Joe Watson, Claire Chen, Krishnan Srinivasan, Junwu Zhang, Jeffrey Zhang, Matthew R. Walter, Rishabh Madan, Charles B. Schaff, Takahiro Maeda, Takuma Yoneda, Denis Yarats, Arthur Allshire, Ethan K. Gordon, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Animesh Garg, Annika Buchholz, Sebastian Stark, Thomas Steinbrenner, Joel Akpo, Shruti Joshi, Vaibhav Agrawal, Bernhard Schölkopf
2021 J jnl
Benchmarking Structured Policies and Policy Optimization for Real-World Dexterous Object Manipulation.
CoRR
Niklas Funk, Charles B. Schaff, Rishabh Madan, Takuma Yoneda, Julen Urain De Jesus, Joe Watson, Ethan K. Gordon, Felix Widmaier, Stefan Bauer, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Matthew R. Walter, Jan Peters
2021 Misc conf
Learn2Assemble with Structured Representations and Search for Robotic Architectural Construction.
CoRL
Niklas Funk, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Boris Belousov, Jan Peters
2021 J jnl
Learning event-triggered control from data through joint optimization.
IFAC J. Syst. Control.
Niklas Funk, Dominik Baumann, Vincent Berenz, Sebastian Trimpe
2021 — conf
Real Robot Challenge: A Robotics Competition in the Cloud.
NeurIPS (Competition and Demos)
Stefan Bauer, Manuel Wüthrich, Felix Widmaier, Annika Buchholz, Sebastian Stark, Anirudh Goyal, Thomas Steinbrenner, Joel Akpo, Shruti Joshi, Vincent Berenz, Vaibhav Agrawal, Niklas Funk, Julen Urain De Jesus, Jan Peters, Joe Watson, Claire Chen, Krishnan Srinivasan, Junwu Zhang, Jeffrey Zhang, Matthew R. Walter, Rishabh Madan, Takuma Yoneda, Denis Yarats, Arthur Allshire, Ethan K. Gordon, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Animesh Garg, Takahiro Maeda, Harshit Sikchi, Jilong Wang, Qingfeng Yao, Shuyu Yang, Robert McCarthy, Francisco Roldan Sanchez, Qiang Wang, David Cordova Bulens, Kevin McGuinness, Noel E. O'Connor, Stephen J. Redmond, Bernhard Schölkopf
2020 J jnl
Learning Event-triggered Control from Data through Joint Optimization.
CoRR
Niklas Funk, Dominik Baumann, Vincent Berenz, Sebastian Trimpe
2018 J jnl
Developing a Purely Visual Based Obstacle Detection using Inverse Perspective Mapping.
CoRR
Julian Nubert, Niklas Funk, Fabio Vito Meier, Fabrice Oehler
2017 J jnl
Autonomous Electric Race Car Design.
CoRR
Niklas Funk, Nikhilesh Alatur, Robin Deuber, Frederick Gonon, Nico Messikommer, Julian Nubert, Moritz Patriarca, Simon Schaefer, Dominic Scotoni, Nicholas Bünger, Renaud Dubé, Raghav Khanna, Mark Pfeiffer, Erik Wilhelm, Roland Siegwart