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My research is at the intersection between machine learning and robust control. The main topic of my dissertation is learning probabilistic robust controllers (a.k.a. policies), that are provably robust against uncertainty inherent in learning from data. I am also actively working on Bayesian optimization in the context of reinforcement learning and controller tuning.

The first part of my PhD took place the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems where I was a member of the Intelligent Control Systems Group lead by Prof. Sebastian Trimpe. In 2020 our research group moved to the RWTH Aachen University where we are now forming the Institute for Data Science in Mechanical Engineering. I am an associated student of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems IMPRS-IS and my PhD is supported by IAV.

Please find more information on my personal website.

 

Publications

Source	Author(s)
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] Improving the Performance of Robust Control through Event-Triggered Learning 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) : 6-9 Dec. 2022, 3424-3430, 2022 [DOI: 10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9993350]	Von Rohr, Alexander Solowjow, Friedrich Trimpe, Johann Sebastian
[Preprint] Improving the Performance of Robust Control through Event-Triggered Learning, 2022 [DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2207.14252]	Von Rohr, Alexander Solowjow, Friedrich Trimpe, Johann Sebastian
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] On Controller Tuning with Time-Varying Bayesian Optimization 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) : 6-9 Dec. 2022, 4046-4052, 2022 [DOI: 10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992649]	Brunzema, Paul Jakob Von Rohr, Alexander Trimpe, Johann Sebastian
[Preprint] Event-Triggered Time-Varying Bayesian Optimization, 2022 [DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2208.10790]	Brunzema, Paul Jakob (Corresponding author) Von Rohr, Alexander Solowjow, Friedrich Trimpe, Johann Sebastian
[Preprint] On Controller Tuning with Time-Varying Bayesian Optimization, 2022 [DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2207.11120]	Brunzema, Paul Jakob (Corresponding author) Von Rohr, Alexander (Corresponding author) Trimpe, Johann Sebastian
[Preprint] Local policy search with Bayesian optimization, 2021	Müller, Sarah von Rohr, Alexander Trimpe, Johann Sebastian
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] Local policy search with Bayesian optimization [Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2021], 20708-20720, 2021	Müller, Sarah von Rohr, Alexander Trimpe, Johann Sebastian
[Preprint] Probabilistic robust linear quadratic regulators with Gaussian processes, 2021	von Rohr, Alexander (Corresponding author) Neumann-Brosig, Matthias (Corresponding author) Trimpe, Johann Sebastian (Corresponding author)
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] Probabilistic robust linear quadratic regulators with Gaussian processes Learning for Dynamics and Control, 7-8 June 2021, The Cloud / Editors: Ali Jadbabaie, John Lygeros, George J. Pappas, Pablo A. Parrilo, Benjamin Recht, Claire J. Tomlin, Melanie N. Zeilinger, [1]-12, 2021	von Rohr, Alexander (Corresponding author) Neumann-Brosig, Matthias (Corresponding author) Trimpe, Johann Sebastian (Corresponding author)
[Preprint] Excursion Search for Constrained Bayesian Optimization under a Limited Budget of Failures, 2020	Marco, Alonso von Rohr, Alexander Baumann, Dominik Oliver Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel Trimpe, Johann Sebastian
[Preprint] A Learnable Safety Measure Conference on Robot Learning Osaka, 2019	Heim, Steve von Rohr, Alexander Trimpe, Johann Sebastian Badri-Spröwitz, Alexander
[Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings] Gait learning for soft microrobots controlled by light fields Towards a robotic society : 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems : October, 1-5, 2018, Madrid, Spain, Madrid Municipal Conference Centre / IROS, Madrid, 2018 ; IEEE, RA, IES, RSJ, SICE, NTF - New Technology Foundation, UC3M - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 6199-6206, 2018 [DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8594092]	von Rohr, Alexander (Corresponding author) Trimpe, Johann Sebastian (Corresponding author) Marco, Alonso (Corresponding author) Fischer, Peer (Corresponding author) Palagi, Stefano (Corresponding author)