曹鸿鹏
曹鸿鹏 Cao, Hongpeng

Ph.D. Student / Research Associate

About Me

I am currently a final (fifth) year Ph.D. student in the Chair of Cyber-Physical Systems in Production Engineering, School of Engineering and Design at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marco Caccamo. Before my Ph.D study, I received my M.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in computer vision for industrial applications from Zhejiang University, China in 2020. I received my B.S. degree in Mechanical Design and Automation from Shandong University, China in 2017.

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Interests
  • Robot Learning
  • Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Control Theory
Education
  • PhD Computer science

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

  • MEng Mechanical Engineering

    Zhejiang University, China

  • BSc Mechanical Engineering

    Shandong University, China

My Research
My research focuses on the intersection of machine learning and control theory, addressing real-world challenges in intelligent decision-making problems for autonomous systems. I am particularly interested in designing algorithms that integrate the strengths of data-driven and control-theoretic approaches to achieve safe and data-efficient learning-based control and planning in real-world robot applications.
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2024). Physics-model-guided Worst-case Sampling for Safe Reinforcement Learning. arXiv preprint.
(2024). Simplex-enabled Safe Continual Learning Machine. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.05898.
(2024). Equivariant Ensembles and Regularization for Reinforcement Learning in Map-based Path Planning. 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
(2024). Physics-Regulated Deep Reinforcement Learning: Invariant Embeddings. The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
(2023). 6IMPOSE: Bridging the reality gap in 6D pose estimation for robotic grasping. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.