Markus Grotz

Markus is a Postdoctoral Scholar with Dieter Fox and the research project Robotic Manipulation in Densely Packed Containers

My publications:

Yi Li and Muru Zhang and Markus Grotz and Kaichun Mo and Dieter Fox. STOW: Discrete-Frame Segmentation and Tracking of Unseen Objects for Warehouse Picking Robots, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023

Boling Yang and Soofiyan Layakalli Atar and Markus Grotz and Byron Boots and Joshua R. Smith. DYNAMO-GRASP: DYNAMics-aware Optimization for GRASP Point Detection in Suction Grippers. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2023

Markus Grotz, Soofiyan Atar, Yi Li, Paolo Torrado, Boling Yang, Nick Walker, Michael Murray, Maya Cakmak and Joshua R. Smith Towards robustly picking unseen objects from densely packed shelves Workshop on Perception and Manipulation Challenges for Warehouse Automation - Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2023

Markus Grotz, Active Vision for Scene Understanding, Dissertation, Karlsruhe, 2020

Markus Grotz, David Sippel, and Tamim Asfour. Active vision for extraction of physically plausible support relations. In IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pages 463–469, 2019.

Markus Grotz, Timothee Habra, Renaud Ronsse, and Tamim Asfour. Autonomous view selection and gaze stabilization for humanoid robots. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 1427–1434, 2017.

Markus Grotz, Peter Kaiser, Eren Erdal Aksoy, Fabian Paus, and Tamim Asfour. Graph-based visual semantic perception for humanoid robots. In IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pages 869–875, 2017.

Raphael Grimm, Markus Grotz, Simon Ottenhaus, and Tamim Asfour. Vision-Based Robotic Pushing and Grasping for Stone Sample Collection under Computing Resource Constraints, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2021

Tamim Asfour, Mirko Wächter, Lukas Kaul, Samuel Rader, Pascal Weiner, Simon Ottenhaus, Raphael Grimm, You Zhou, Markus Grotz, and Fabian Paus. ARMAR-6: A high-performance humanoid for human-robot collaboration in real world scenarios. volume 26, pages 108–121, 2019.

Tamim Asfour, Rüdiger Dillmann, Nikolaus Vahrenkamp, Martin Do, Mirko Wächter, Christian Mandery, Peter Kaiser, Manfred Kröhnert, and Markus Grotz. The Karlsruhe ARMAR humanoid robot family. In Ambarish Goswami and Prahlad Vadakkepat, editors, Humanoid Robotics: A Reference, pages 337–368. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2019.

Tamim Asfour, Lukas Kaul, Mirko Wachter, Simon Ottenhaus, Pascal Weiner, Samuel Rader, Raphael Grimm, You Zhou, Markus Grotz, Fabian Paus, Dmitriy Shingarey, and Hans Haubert. ARMAR-6: A collaborative humanoid robot for industrial environments. In IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pages 447–454, 2018

Fabian Peller, Mirko Wachter, Markus Grotz, Peter Kaiser, and Tamim Asfour. Temporal concurrent planning with stressed actions. In IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pages 901–908, 2018.

Tamim Asfour, Júlia Borràs, Christian Mandery, Peter Kaiser, Eren Erdal Aksoy, and Markus Grotz. On the dualities between grasping and whole-body loco-manipulation tasks. In Antonio Bicchi and Wolfram Burgard, editors, Robotics Research: Volume 2, pages 305–322. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2018.

Rainer Kartmann, Fabian Paus, Markus Grotz, and Tamim Asfour. Extraction of physically plausible support relations to predict and validate manipulation action effects. volume 3, pages 3991–3998, 2018.

Timothee Habra, Markus Grotz, David Sippel, Tamim Asfour, and Renaud Ronsse. Multimodal gaze stabilization of a humanoid robot based on reafferences. In IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pages 47–54, 2017.

Peter Kaiser, Eren E. Aksoy, Markus Grotz, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Nikos G. Tsagarakis, and Tamim Asfour. Experimental evaluation of a perceptual pipeline for hierarchical affordance extraction. In Dana Kulić, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Oussama Khatib, and Gentiane Venture, editors, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, pages 136–146, Cham, 2017.

Peter Kaiser, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Markus Grotz, Luca Muratore, Alessio Rocchi, Enrico Mingo Hoffman, Nikos G. Tsagarakis, and Tamim Asfour. An affordance-based pilot interface for high-level control of humanoid robots in supervised autonomy. In IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pages 621–628, 2016.

Peter Kaiser, Eren E. Aksoy, Markus Grotz, and Tamim Asfour. Towards a hierarchy of loco-manipulation affordances. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 2839–2846, 2016.

Peter Kaiser, Markus Grotz, Eren E. Aksoy, Martin Do, Nikolaus Vahrenkamp, and Tamim Asfour. Validation of whole-body loco-manipulation affordances for pushability and liftability. In IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pages 920–927, 2015.