Rolf Pfeifer

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  • ETH Zurich, Switzerland


According to our database1, Rolf Pfeifer authored at least 119 papers between 1982 and 2018.

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2018
Robots as Powerful Allies for the Study of Embodied Cognition from the Bottom Up.
CoRR, 2018

The role of quantitative information about slip and grip force in prosthetic grasp stability.
Adv. Robotics, 2018

2014
Measuring information transfer in a soft robotic arm.
CoRR, 2014

Exploiting short-term memory in soft body dynamics as a computational resource.
CoRR, 2014

Spine as an engine: effect of spine morphology on spine-driven quadruped locomotion.
Adv. Robotics, 2014

Automated physiological recovery of avocado plants for plant-based adaptive machines.
Adapt. Behav., 2014

Electromagnetically driven elastic actuator.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2014

Actor-critic design using echo state networks in a simulated quadruped robot.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

Connecting Communities of Learners across Continents: The Shangh AI Lectures.
Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Shanghai, China, June 30, 2014

2013
A soft body as a reservoir: case studies in a dynamic model of octopus-inspired soft robotic arm.
Frontiers Comput. Neurosci., 2013

Self-organization of reflexive behavior from spontaneous motor activity.
Biol. Cybern., 2013

Toward Anthropomimetic Robotics: Development, Simulation, and Control of a Musculoskeletal Torso.
Artif. Life, 2013

Self-Organized Translational Wheeling Motion in Stochastic Self-Assembling Modules.
Artif. Life, 2013

Introduction to the Special Issue on Morphological Computation.
Artif. Life, 2013

Bootstrapping Perception using Information Theory: Case Studies in a quadruped Robot Running on Different grounds.
Adv. Complex Syst., 2013

The effect of spine actuation and stiffness on a pneumatically-driven quadruped robot for cheetah-like locomotion.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2013

Development of a new cable-driven soft robot for cardiac ablation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2013

Sensory Feedback of a Fish Robot with Tunable Elastic Tail Fin.
Proceedings of the Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, 2013

Spine dynamics as a computational resource in spine-driven quadruped locomotion.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013

Visual servo control of cable-driven soft robotic manipulator.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013

Soft Robotics: The Next Generation of Intelligent Machines.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2013, 2013

Computing with a muscular-hydrostat system.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Online learning for behavior switching in a soft robotic arm.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

A variable stiffness mechanism for improving energy efficiency of a planar single-legged hopping robot.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2013

2012
Slip Speed Feedback for Grip Force Control.
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 2012

The implications of embodiment for behavior and cognition: animal and robotic case studies
CoRR, 2012

The challenges ahead for bio-inspired 'soft' robotics.
Commun. ACM, 2012

The role of feedback in morphological computation with compliant bodies.
Biol. Cybern., 2012

Preface.
Adv. Robotics, 2012

Attributes of two-dimensional magnetic self-assembly.
Adapt. Behav., 2012

Using Sensorimotor Contingencies for Terrain Discrimination and Adaptive Walking Behavior in the Quadruped Robot Puppy.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 12, 2012

The function of the spine and its morphological effect in quadruped robot locomotion.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2012

Local information transfer in soft robotic arm.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2012

Embodiment enables the spinal engine in quadruped robot locomotion.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012

Timing-based control via echo state network for soft robotic arm.
Proceedings of the 2012 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2012

"Morphological Computation" - Self-organization, Embodiment, and Biological Inspiration.
Proceedings of the IJCCI 2012 - Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 5, 2012

Behavior switching using reservoir computing for a soft robotic arm.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

Wearable haptic device for cutaneous force and slip speed display.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

Robotics and Emotion.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

2011
Basic Problems in Self-Assembling Robots and a Case Study of Segregation on Tribolon Platform.
Proceedings of the Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems, 2011

How to Harness the Dynamics of Soft Body: Timing Based Control of a Simulated Octopus Arm via Recurrent Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the 2nd European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition, 2011

How reverse reactions influence the yield of self-assembly robots.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2011

Towards a theoretical foundation for morphological computation with compliant bodies.
Biol. Cybern., 2011

Attempt on plant machine interface.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2011

Information theoretic analysis on a soft robotic arm inspired by the octopus.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2011

Computation with mechanically coupled springs for compliant robots.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011

Varying body stiffness for aquatic locomotion.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011

A novel mechanism for varying stiffness via changing transmission angle.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011

Harnessing the dynamics of a soft body with "timing": Octopus inspired control via recurrent neural networks.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Advanced Robotics: New Boundaries for Robotics, 2011

Biologically inspired control of a simulated octopus ARM via recurrent neural networks.
Proceedings of the 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011

EmbedIT - An Open Robotic Kit for Education.
Proceedings of the Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2011, 2011

Gesture recognition in upper-limb prosthetics: A viability study using dynamic time warping and gyroscopes.
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2011

Modeling and simulating crowdsourcing as a complex biological system: human crowds manifesting collective intelligence on the internet.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011

2010
Body Schema in Robotics: A Review.
IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev., 2010

On the Influence of Sensor Morphology on Vergence.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 11, 2010

Artificial ridged skin for slippage speed detection in prosthetic hand applications.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010

On the influence of sensor morphology on eye motion coordination.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning, 2010

Self-organized Segregation Effect on Water Based Self-Assembling Robots.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation and Collective Intelligence in the Scientific Method - A Research Agenda and Operational Framework.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

2009
Morphological Computation - Connecting Brain, Body, and Environment.
Proceedings of the Creating Brain-Like Intelligence: From Basic Principles to Complex Intelligent Systems, 2009

The Influence of Shape on Parallel Self-Assembly.
Entropy, 2009

Let Animats Live!
Adapt. Behav., 2009

Morphology detection for magnetically self-assembled modular robots.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009

Collaborative Work in 3D Virtual Environments: A Research Agenda and Operational Framework.
Proceedings of the Online Communities and Social Computing, 2009

Tribolon: Water-Based Self-Assembly Robots.
Proceedings of the Artificial Life Models in Hardware, 2009

2008
Tribolon: Water based self-assembly robot with freezing connector (video).
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008

Peltier-based freeze-thaw connector for waterborne self-assembly systems.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008

Multimodal saliency-based bottom-up attention a framework for the humanoid robot iCub.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008

2007
How the body shapes the way we think - a new view on intelligence.
MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-16239-5, 2007

2006
Sensing through body dynamics.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2006

On the influence of morphology of tactile sensors for behavior and control.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2006

Morphological Computation - Connecting Brain, Body, and Environment.
Proceedings of the AI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2006

On the Information Theoretic Implications of Embodiment - Principles and Methods.
Proceedings of the 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence, 2006

AI in the 21<sup>st</sup> Century - With Historical Reflections.
Proceedings of the 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence, 2006

AI in Locomotion: Challenges and Perspectives of Underactuated Robots.
Proceedings of the 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence, 2006

2005
Artificial Whiskers: Structural Characterization and Implications for Adaptive Robots.
J. Robotics Mechatronics, 2005

Interacting with the real world: design principles for intelligent systems.
Artif. Life Robotics, 2005

New Robotics: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems.
Artif. Life, 2005

Emergence of delayed reward learning from sensorimotor coordination.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005

Standing up with Motor Primitives.
Proceedings of the Climbing and Walking Robots, 2005

2004
Development of a whisker sensor system and simulation of active whisking for agent navigation.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, September 28, 2004

2003
Developmental robotics: a survey.
Connect. Sci., 2003

An active artificial whisker array for texture discrimination.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 27, 2003

Optimal Coding for Naturally Occurring Whisker Deflections.
Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing, 2003

Dimensionality Reduction through Sensory-Motor Coordination.
Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing, 2003

Optimal Morphology of a Biologically-Inspired Whisker Array on an Obstacle-Avoiding Robot.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 7th European Conference, 2003

Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Trends and Challenges.
Proceedings of the Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, Second International Conference, 2003

Self-Stabilization and Behavioral Diversity of Embodied Adaptive Locomotion.
Proceedings of the Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, Second International Conference, 2003

Morpho-Rate: a macroscopic evaluation and analysis of the Morpho-Functional Machine.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation: Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation for the New Millennium, 2003

Morphology and material property of a biped robot.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation: Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation for the New Millennium, 2003

2002
An artificial whisker sensor for robotics.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 30, 2002

An Optimal Sensor Morphology Improves Adaptability of Neural Network Controllers.
Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks, 2002

Embodied Artificial Intelligence - On the role of morphology and materials in the emergence of cognitition.
Proceedings of the 32. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Informatik bewegt, INFORMATIK 2002, Dortmund, Germany, September 30, 2002

Behavioural Selection Pressure Generates Hierarchical Genetic Regulatory Networks.
Proceedings of the GECCO 2002: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2002

2001
Embodied Artificial Intelligence: 10 Years Back, 10 Years Forward.
Proceedings of the Informatics - 10 Years Back. 10 Years Ahead., 2001

2000
Curriculum descant: teaching "New AI".
Intell., 2000

A mobile robot employing insect strategies for navigation.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2000

Cheap Vision-Exploiting Ecological Niche and Morphology.
Proceedings of the SOFSEM 2000: Theory and Practice of Informatics, 27th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics, Milovy, Czech Republic, November 25, 2000

1999
Dynamics, Morpholgy, and Materials in the Emergence of Cognition.
Proceedings of the KI-99: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 1999

Understanding intelligence.
MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-16181-7, 1999

1998
Embedded neural networks: exploiting constraints.
Neural Networks, 1998

1997
Sensory - motor coordination: The metaphor and beyond.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 1997

Editorial.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 1997

Design principles for autonomous agents: A case study of classification.
Artif. Life Robotics, 1997

An Autonomous Agent Navigating with a Polarized Light Compass.
Adapt. Behav., 1997

Information Theoretic Implications of Embodiment for Neural Network Learning.
Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks, 1997

1996
Teaching Powerful Ideas With Autonomous Mobile Robots.
Comput. Sci. Educ., 1996

1995
Cognition - perspectives from autonomous agents.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 1995

Classification as Sensory-Motor Coordination: A Case Study on Autonomous Agents.
Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 1995

1993
Situated Software Design.
Proceedings of the SEKE'93, 1993

1992
Distributed adaptive control: The self-organization of structured behavior.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 1992

Problemlösende Systeme: Implikationen für Validierung, Zum Beitrag "Verifikation oder Überprüfbarkeit".
Künstliche Intell., 1992

The Role of Knowledge Level Models in Situated Adaptive Design.
Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1992

1991
Situated Adaptive Design: Toward a New Methodology for Knowledge Systems Development.
Proceedings of the Verteilte Künstliche Intelligenz und kooperatives Arbeiten, 1991

Building Human-Centred Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems with IKEA.
Proceedings of the Next Generation of Information Systems: From Data to Knowledge, 1991

Cooperative Hybrid Systems.
Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Sydney, 1991

Mapping Expert Bevior onto Task-Level Frameworks: The Need for "Eco-Pragmatic" Approaches to Knowledge Engineering.
Proceedings of the Contemporary Knowledge Engineering and Cognition, 1991

1990
An Approach to Integrating Expert Systems with Connectionist Networks.
AI Commun., 1990

1982
Toward Computational Models of Emotion.
Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1982


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