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Christian A. Mandery

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I am a computer scientist and finished my PhD at the High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2017. The major topics of my research include representation and analysis of human whole-body motion and machine learning approaches for mapping human motion to humanoid robots.
In 2018 I have moved from academia to industry, and since 2021 I have been living and working in Switzerland.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
(Thomas A. Edison)

Publications

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  • M. Plappert, C. Mandery and T. Asfour, Learning a Bidirectional Mapping Between Human Whole-Body Motion and Natural Language Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 109, pp. 13-26, 2018 (Link)
  • T. Asfour, R. Dillmann, N. Vahrenkamp, M. Do, M. Wächter, C. Mandery, P. Kaiser, M. Kröhnert and M. Grotz, The Karlsruhe ARMAR Humanoid Robot Family, Humanoid Robotics: A Reference, pp. 337-368, 2018 (Link)
  • J. Beil, I. Ehrenberger and C. Scherer, C. Mandery, T. Asfour, Human Motion Classification Based on Multi-Modal Sensor Data for Lower Limb Exoskeletons, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5431-5436, 2018 (Link)
  • P. Kaiser, C. Mandery, A. Boltres and T. Asfour, Affordance-Based Multi-Contact Whole-Body Pose Sequence Planning for Humanoid Robots in Unknown Environments, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3114-3121, 2018 (Link)
  • J. Borràs, C. Mandery and T. Asfour, A Whole-Body Support Pose Taxonomy for Multi-Contact Humanoid Robot Motions, Science Robotics, vol. 2, no. 13, 2017 (Link)
  • C. Mandery, Organisation, Repräsentation und Analyse menschlicher Ganzkörperbewegung für die datengetriebene Bewegungsgenerierung bei humanoiden Robotern (in German), KIT Scientific Publishing, 2017 (Link)
  • C. R. G. Dreher, N. Kulp, C. Mandery, M. Wächter and T. Asfour, A Framework for Evaluating Motion Segmentation Algorithms, IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 83-90, 2017 (Link)
  • T. Asfour, J. Borràs, C. Mandery, P. Kaiser, E. E. Aksoy and M. Grotz, On the Dualities Between Grasping and Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation Tasks, Robotics Research (Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics), vol. 3, pp. 305-322, 2018 (Link)
  • M. Plappert, C. Mandery and T. Asfour, Learning a Bidirectional Mapping Between Human Whole-Body Motion and Natural Language Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06400, 2017 (Link)
  • M. Plappert, C. Mandery and T. Asfour, The KIT Motion-Language Dataset, Big Data, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 236-252, 2016 (Link)
  • G. Trovato, M. Do, Ö. Terlemez, C. Mandery, H. Ishii, N. Bianchi-Berthouze, T. Asfour and A. Takanishi, Is Hugging a Robot Weird? Investigating the Influence of Robot Appearance on Users' Perception of Hugging, IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 318-323, 2016 (Link)
  • C. Mandery, J. Borràs, M. Jöchner and T. Asfour, Using Language Models to Generate Whole-Body Multi-Contact Motions, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5411-5418, 2016 (PDF / Video)
  • J. Steinbring, C. Mandery, F. Pfaff, F. Faion, T. Asfour and U. D. Hanebeck, Real-Time Whole-Body Human Motion Tracking Based on Unlabeled Markers, IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI), pp. 583-590, 2016 (Link)
  • C. Mandery, Ö. Terlemez, M. Do, N. Vahrenkamp and T. Asfour, Unifying Representations and Large-Scale Whole-Body Motion Databases for Studying Human Motion, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 796-809, 2016 (PDF / Video)
  • C. Mandery, M. Plappert, J. Borràs and T. Asfour, Dimensionality Reduction for Whole-Body Human Motion Recognition, 19th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION), pp. 355-362, 2016 (PDF)
  • J. Steinbring, C. Mandery, N. Vahrenkamp, T. Asfour and U. D. Hanebeck, High-Accuracy Real-Time Whole-Body Human Motion Tracking Based on Constrained Nonlinear Kalman Filtering, arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04278, 2015 (Link)
  • C. Mandery, J. Borràs, M. Jöchner and T. Asfour, Analyzing Whole-Body Pose Transitions in Multi-Contact Motions, IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 1020-1027, 2015 (PDF / Video)
  • C. Mandery, Ö. Terlemez, M. Do, N. Vahrenkamp and T. Asfour, The KIT Whole-Body Human Motion Database, International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), pp. 329-336, 2015 (PDF)
  • Ö. Terlemez, S. Ulbrich, C. Mandery, M. Do, N. Vahrenkamp and T. Asfour, Master Motor Map (MMM) - Framework and Toolkit for Capturing, Representing, and Reproducing Human Motion on Humanoid Robots, IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pp. 894-901, 2014 (Link)
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Tutorials on Computer Engineering (in German)

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