Christopher Gebauer

About me

I was a Phd student at the Humanoid Robots Lab headed by Maren Bennewitz at the University of Bonn. I received my master's degree in mechanical engineering from the RWTH Aachen University in 2019.

Research Interests

• Reinforcement learning
• Robot navigation
• Learning-based exploration

Teaching

• Cognitive Robotics: WS2019/20, WS2020/21
• Humanoid Robotics: SS2021
• Lab Humanoid Robotics: WS2020/21, SS2021
• Seminar Humanoid Robotics: WS2020/21, SS2021
• Projektgruppe Humanoide Roboter: WS2019/20

Publications

• Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Sensor-Based Navigation.
  C. Gebauer and M. Bennewitz.
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13268
• Continuous Robot Navigation in Unknown Environments Using Deep Reinforcement Learning.
  C. Gebauer and M. Bennewitz.
  Workshop on Machine Learning for Motion Planning at ICRA, 2021
• The Pitfall of More Powerful Autoencoders in Lidar-Based Navigation.
  C. Gebauer and M. Bennewitz.
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02127
• Penalized Bootstrapping for Reinforcement Learning in Robot Control. (PDF)
  C. Gebauer and M. Bennewitz.
  In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (CMLA), 2020.