Niklas Funk

PhD student, TU Darmstadt

Joined

November 2020

Names

Niklas Funk (Preferred)

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****@robot-learning.de (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

TU Darmstadt (tu-darmstadt.de)

2020 – 2026

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Expertise

Reinforcement Learning

Present

Graph Neural Networks

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Manipulation

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Tactile Sensing

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Imitation Learning

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Publications

ActionFlow: Equivariant, Accurate, and Efficient Manipulation Policies with Flow Matching
Niklas Funk, Julen Urain, Joao Carvalho, Vignesh Prasad, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Jan Peters
- CoRL 2024 Workshop MRM-D Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Learning Force Distribution Estimation for the GelSight Mini Optical Tactile Sensor based on Finite Element Analysis
Erik Helmut, Luca Dziarski, Niklas Funk, Boris Belousov, Jan Peters
- WTP
- Readers: Everyone
A Retrospective on the Robot Air Hockey Challenge: Benchmarking Robust, Reliable, and Safe Learning Techniques for Real-world Robotics
Puze Liu, Jonas Günster, Niklas Funk, Simon Gröger, Dong Chen, Haitham Bou Ammar, Julius Jankowski, Ante Marić, Sylvain Calinon, Andrej Orsula, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Hongyi Zhou, Rudolf Lioutikov, Gerhard Neumann, Amarildo Likmeta, Amirhossein Zhalehmehrabi, Thomas Bonenfant, Marcello Restelli, Davide Tateo, Ziyuan Liu et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
High-Resolution Pixelwise Contact Area and Normal Force Estimation for the GelSight Mini Visuotactile Sensor Using Neural Networks
Niklas Funk, Paul Otto Müller, Boris Belousov, Anton Savchenko, Rolf Findeisen, Jan Peters
- Published: 15 May 2023, Last Modified: 15 May 2023
- Embracing Contacts 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Evetac: An Event-based Optical Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation
Niklas Funk, Erik Helmut, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Roberto Calandra, Jan Peters
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Placing by Touching: An Empirical Study on the Importance of Tactile Sensing for Precise Object Placing
Luca Lach, Niklas Funk, Robert Haschke, Séverin Lemaignan, Helge Joachim Ritter, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
- IROS 2023
- Readers: Everyone
SE(3)-DiffusionFields: Learning smooth cost functions for joint grasp and motion optimization through diffusion
Julen Urain, Niklas Funk, Jan Peters, Georgia Chalvatzaki
- ICRA 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Graph-based Reinforcement Learning meets Mixed Integer Programs: An application to 3D robot assembly discovery
Niklas Funk, Svenja Menzenbach, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Jan Peters
- Published: 24 Nov 2022, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- LoG 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Graph-based Reinforcement Learning meets Mixed Integer Programs: An application to 3D robot assembly discovery
Niklas Funk, Svenja Menzenbach, Georgia Chalvatzaki, Jan Peters
- 2022 (modified: 09 Jun 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Benchmarking Structured Policies and Policy Optimization for Real-World Dexterous Object Manipulation
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 (modified: 09 Jun 2022)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 2022
- Readers: Everyone

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