M.Sc.
Benedikt Kreis
Ph.D. Student
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Research Interest:
- Object manipulation (pick and place tasks with robotic arms and hands, motion planning)
- Machine learning (especially reinforcement learning)
- Computer vision (object detection, pose estimation)
- Foundation models (LLMs/VLMs)
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About Me:
I am a Ph.D. student at the Humanoid Robots Lab headed by Maren Bennewitz at the University of Bonn. I received my master's degree in Mechatronics from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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Teaching:
- Lab Humanoid Robots (SS2022 - WS2025/26)
- Seminar Humanoid Robots (SS2022 - WS2025/26)
- Project Group Humanoid Robots (SS2022 - WS2025/26)
My Publications:
Interactive Shaping of Granular Media Using Reinforcement Learning
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2025
Compact Multi-Object Placement Using Adjacency-Aware Reinforcement Learning
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2024
Aerial Grasping and Transport Using an Unmanned Aircraft (UA) Equipped with an Industrial Suction Gripper
Annals of Scientific Society for Assembly, Handling and Industrial Robotics, 2022
Learning Depth Vision-Based Personalized Robot Navigation From Dynamic Demonstrations in Virtual Reality
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
Reactive Correction of Object Placement Errors for Robotic Arrangement Tasks
International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-18), 2023