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Patrick van der Smagt

Director of BRML lab
Head of DLR biomimetic and prosthetic robotics
addressInstitute of Robotics and Mechatronics
P.O. Box 1116
82230 Wessling
Germany
phone+49 8153 281152
emailsmagtdlrde

In heading two research labs---the DLR bionics lab at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, focusing on biomechanics and body-machine interfaces; and the TUM machine learning lab---my goal is to develop the techniques to model human movement. The two labs are joined in brml, and funded by various national and international funding agencies.

In the press

n-tv, June 10, 2010: EMG-controlled robotics
pinc, May 18, 2009, "biorobotics"
Het Financieele Dagblad, May, 2009
Discovery Channel, April 2009: "Future Homes"
3Sat, April 22, 2007: "Z wie Zukunft"
RTLII, March, 2007: "Welt der Wunder"
Pro7, Nov. 5, 2006: "Wunderwelt Wissen"
Abendzeitung, Oct. 28, 2006: Bestnoten für Forscher und Unternehmen
ZDF: Heute Journal, Sep. 15, 2006: Interview
ORF: "Newton" Science report, April 30, 2006: report on advanced prostheses
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Mar. 03, 2006: "Künstliche Hand am Computer entwickelt"
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Jan. 26, 2006: "Direkter Draht zum Hirn"

We were and are funded by various sources, including:
DFG project "SPP autonomous learning" (2012-2015)
NEUROBOTICS (EC project, 2005-2009)
NINAPRO (Swiss project, 2010-2013)
SENSOPAC (EC project, 2006-2010)
STIFF (EC project, 2009-2011)
THE (EC project, 2010-2014)
VIACTORS (EC project, 2009-2012)




Rückstieß T, Osendorfer C, Smagt P van der (2012). Minimizing Data Consumption in Sequential Classification. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics.
Bayer J, Osendorfer C, Smagt P van der (2011). Learning sequence neighbourhood metrics. NIPS 2011 Workshop Beyond Mahalanobis: Supervised Large-Scale Learning of Similarity
Castellini C, Smagt P van der (2011). Preliminary evidence of dynamic muscular synergies in human grasping. Proceedings of ICAR - International Conference on Advanced Robotics
Höppner H, Lakatos D, Urbanek H, Castellini C, Smagt P van der (2011). The Grasp Perturbator: Calibrating human grasp stiffness during a graded force task. Proc. ICRA---International Conference on Robotics and Automation 3312-3316 .
Lakatos D, Petit F, Smagt P van der (2011). Conditioning vs. Excitation Time for Estimating Impedance Parameters of the Human Arm. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Osendorfer C, Schlüter J, Schmidhuber J, Smagt P van der (2011). Unsupervised learning of low-level audio features for music similarity estimation. Workshop on Learning Architectures, Representations, and Optimization for Speech and Visual Information Processing, ICML 2011
Rückstiess T, Osendorfer C, Smagt P van der (2011). Sequential feature selection for classification. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2011
Smagt P van der (2011). Neue Entwicklungen in der Rehabilitation von Handfunktionsstörungen: Humanrobotik. In Dennis A. Novak (Eds.) Handfunktionsstörungen in der Neurologie: Klinik und Rehabilitation 433-451.
Vogel J, Castellini C, Smagt P van der (2011). EMG-Based Teleoperation and Manipulation with the DLR LWR-III. Proc. IROS---International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 672-678.
Höppner H, Lakatos D, Urbanek H, Smagt P van der (2010). The Arm-Perturbator: Design of a Wearable Perturbation Device to measure Limb Impedance. International Conference on Applied Bionics and Biomechanics (ICABB)
Liu J, Simeral JD, Stavisky SD, Bacher D, Vogel J, Haddadin S, Smagt P van der, Hochberg LR, Donoghue JP (2010). Control of a robotic arm using intracortical motor signal by an individual with tetraplegia in the BrainGate2 trial. 40th Annual Meeting in Neuroscience (SFN2010)
Stillfried G, Smagt P van der (2010). Movement model of a human hand based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). International Conference on Applied Bionics and Biomechanics (ICABB)
Strohmayr M, Saal H, Potdar A, Smagt P van der (2010). The DLR Touch Sensor I: A Flexible Tactile Sensor for Robotic Hands based on a Crossed-Wire Approach. Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 897-903.
Vogel J, Haddadin S, Simeral J D, Stavisky S D, Bacher D, Hochberg L R, Donoghue J P, Smagt P van der (2010). Continuous Control of the DLR Light-weight Robot III by a human with tetraplegia using the BrainGate2 Neural Interface System. International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)
Castellini C, Smagt P van der (2009). Surface EMG in Advanced Hand Prosthetics. Biological Cybernetics. 100 (1), 35--47.
Gruijl J de, Smagt P van der, Zeeuw C de (2009). Anticipatory grip force control using a cerebellar model. Neuroscience. 162 (3), 777-786.
Smagt P van der, Grebenstein M, Urbanek H, Fligge N, Strohmayr M, Stillfried G, Parrish J, Gustus A (2009). Robotics of human movements. Journal of physiology, Paris. 103 (3-5), 119-132.
Arbib M, Metta G, Smagt P van der (2008). Neurorobotics: From Vision to Action. In B. Siciliano and O. Khatib (Eds.) Springer Handbook of Robotics 1453--1480.
Castellini C, Smagt P van der, Sandini G, Hirzinger G (2008). Surface EMG for Force Control of Mechanical Hands. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 725--730.
Grebenstein M, Smagt P van der (2008). Antagonism for a highly anthropomorphic hand-arm system. Advanced Robotics. 22 (1), 39-55.
Maier S, Smagt P van der (2008). Surface EMG suffices to classify the motion of each finger independently. Proceedings of MOVIC. 9th International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control
Panzer H, Eiberger O, Grebenstein M, Wolf S, Schaefer P, Smagt P van der (2008). Human motion range data optimizes anthropomorphic robotic hand-arm system design. Proc. 9th International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MOVIC)
Smagt P van der, Stillfried G (2008). Using MRT data to compute a hand kinematic model. Proc. 9th International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MOVIC)
Bitzer S, Smagt P van der (2006). Learning EMG control of a robotic hand: towards active prostheses. Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2819-2823.
Smagt P van der, Hirzinger G (2006). NEUROBOTICS: The fusion of neuroscience and robotics. Proceedings ISR-2006, Joint Conference on Robotics / ROBOTIK
Urbanek H, Albu-Schäffer A, Smagt P van der (2004). Learning from demonstration: Repetitive movements for autonomous service robotics. 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 3495-3500.
Peters J, Smagt P van der (2002). Searching a Scalable Approach to Cerebellar Based Control. Applied Intelligence. 17 (1), 11-33.
Smagt P van der, Bullock D (2002). Guest editorial for Special Issue on Scalable Applications of Neural Networks to Robotics. Applied Intelligence. 17 7--10.
Smagt P van der (2000). Benchmarking Cerebellar Control. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 32 237--251.
Smagt P van der, Hirzinger G (2000). The cerebellum as computed torque model. Fourth International Conference on knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Applied Technologies IEEE: 760--763.
Fischer M, Smagt P van der, Hirzinger G (1998). Learning Techniques in a Dataglove Based Telemanipulation System for the DLR Hand. Transactions of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 1603--1608.
Smagt P van der (1998). Cerebellar Control of Robot Arms. Connection Science. 10 301--320.
Smagt P van der, Hirzinger G (1998). Why Feed-Forward Networks are in a Bad Shape. In L. Niklasson and M. Bodén and T. Ziemke (Eds.) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks Springer: 159--164.
Smagt P van der, Hirzinger G (1998). Solving the Ill-Conditioning in Neural Network Learning. In J. Orr and K. Müller (Eds.) Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade 193--206.
Omidvar O, Smagt P van der (1997). Neural Systems for Robotics. Academic Press: Boston, Massachusetts
Smagt P van der (1997). Teaching a robot to see how it moves. In Antony Browne (Eds.) Neural Network Perspectives on Cognition and Adaptive Robotics 195--219.
Smagt P van der, Bullock D (1997). Can Artificial Cerebellar Models Compete to Control Robots?.
Smagt P van der, Groen F (1997). Visual Feedback in Motion. In O. Omidvar and P. van der Smagt (Eds.) Neural Systems for Robotics 37--73.
Smagt P van der, Groen F, Schulten K (1996). Analysis and control of a rubbertuator arm. Biological Cybernetics. 75 (5), 433--440.
Jansen A, Smagt P van der, Groen F (1995). Nested Networks for Robot Control. In A. F. Murray (Eds.) Applications of Neural Networks 221--239.
Smagt P van der (1995). Visual Robot Arm Guidance using Neural Networks. Ph.D. thesis: Dept of Computer Systems, University of Amsterdam
Smagt P van der, Dev A, Groen F (1995). A visually guided robot and a neural network join to grasp slanted objects. In B. Kappen and S. Gielen (Eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd SNN Symposium on Neural Networks Foundation for Neural Networks, Nijmegen: Nijmegen, Netherlands 144-150.
Smagt P van der, Groen F (1995). Approximation with neural networks: Between local and global approximation. Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Neural Networks II:1060-II:1064.
Smagt P van der, Groen F, Kröse B (1995). A Monocular Robot Arm can be Neurally Positioned. In U. Rembold and R. Dillmann and L. O. Hertzberger and T. Kanade (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems IOS Press: 123--130.
Smagt P van der, Kröse B (1995). Using Many-Particle Decomposition to get a Parallel Self-Organising Map. In J. van Vliet (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1995 Conference on Computer Science in the Netherlands 241-249.
Hesselroth T, Sarkar K, Smagt P van der, Schulten K (1994). Neural network control of a pneumatic robot arm. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. 24 (1), 28--38.
Kröse B, Smagt P van der (1994). An Introduction to Neural Networks. University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Smagt P van der (1994). Minimisation methods for training feed-forward networks. Neural Networks. 7 (1), 1--11.
Smagt P van der (1994). Simderella: a robot simulator for neuro-controller design. Neurocomputing. 6 (2), 281--285.
Smagt P van der, Groen F, Groenewoud F van het (1994). Robotic Hand-Eye Coordination using Multi-Resolution Linear Perceptron Representation. In H. M. Groenboom and H. W. Klijn Hesselink and M. M. Lankhorst (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1994 Groningen Student Conference on Computer Science 85--92.
Smagt P van der, Groen F, Groenewoud F van het (1994). The locally linear nested network for robot manipulation. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks 2787--2792.
Groen F, Kröse B, Smagt P van der, Bartholomeus MGP, Noest AJ (1993). Neural Networks for robot eye-hand coordination. In S. Gielen and B. Kappen (Eds.) Artificial neural networks 211-218.
Kröse B, Smagt P van der, Groen F (1993). A one-eyed self-learning robot manipulator. In G. Bekey and K. Goldberg (Eds.) Neural networks in robotics 19-28.
Smagt P van der, Groen F, Kröse B (1993). Robot hand-eye coordination using neural networks.
Smagt P van der, Schulten K (1993). Control of pneumatic robot arm dynamics by a neural network. World congress on neural networks III/180-III/183.
Jansen A, Smagt P van der, Groen F (1992). High-precision robot control: The nested network. In I. Aleksander and J. Taylor (Eds.) Artificial Neural Networks 2 583-586.
Smagt P van der (1992). Minimisation methods for training feed-forward networks.
Smagt P van der, Jansen A, Groen F (1992). Interpolative robot control with the nested network approach. IEEE Int. Symposium on Intelligent Control 475-480.
Smagt P van der, Kröse B, Groen F (1992). A Cyclops Learns to Grasp. Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Neural Networks 88.
Smagt P van der, Kröse B, Groen F (1992). A self-learning controller for monocular grasping. Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 177-182.
Groen F, Kröse B, Smagt P van der (1991). Parallel Distributed Processing in Autonomous Robot Systems. Proceedings of the 1991 Symposium on Neural Networks 24--25.
Smagt P van der, Kröse B (1991). A Real-Time Learning Neural Robot Controller. In T. Kohonen and K. Mäkisara and O. Simula and J. Kangas (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks 351--356.
Smagt P van der (1990). A Comparative Study of Neural Network Algorithms Applied to Optical Character Recognition. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems 1037--1044.