Martin Buss received the diploma engineer degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, and the Doctor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1994. In 2000 he finished his habilitation in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität München, Germany. In 1988 he was a research student at the Science University of Tokyo, Japan, for one year. As a postdoctoral researcher he stayed with the Department of Systems Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, in 1994/5. From 1995-2000 he has been senior research assistant and lecturer at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technical University Munich, Germany. He has been appointed full professor, head of the control systems group, and deputy director of the Institute of Energy and Automation Technology, Faculty IV -- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University Berlin, Germany, from 2000-2003. Since 2003 he is full professor (chair) at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Technische Universität München, Germany. From 2006-2014 he has been the coordinator of the DFG Excellence Research Cluster “Cognition for Technical Systems” – CoTeSys. Martin Buss is a fellow of the IEEE. He has been awarded the ERC advanced grant SHRINE.
Selected Awards
2014, IEEE Fellow
2012, ERC Advanced Grant SHRINE
2011, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
2011, Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande
2009, ICMA
2009, ”Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics”, 08/2009 IJCAI-09 AI Video Competition, ”Shakey - Most Innovative Video Award”, 07/2009
Research Interests
Martin Buss’ research interests include automatic control, haptics, optimization, nonlinear, hybrid discrete-continuous systems, and robotics.
Selected Publications
Khan, Sheraz; Dometios, Athanasios; Verginis, Chris; Tzafestas, Costas; Wollherr, Dirk; Buss, Martin: RMAP: a rectangular cuboid approximation framework for 3D environment mapping. Autonomous Robots 37 (3), 2014, 261-277.
Passenberg, Benjamin; Leibold, Marion; Stursberg, Olaf; Buss, Martin: A Globally Convergent, Locally Optimal Min-H Algorithm for Hybrid Optimal Control. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 52 (1), 2014, 718-746.
Passenberg, Benjamin; Caines, Peter E.; Leibold, Marion; Stursberg, Olaf; Buss, Martin: Optimal Control for Hybrid Systems With Partitioned State Space. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 58 (8), 2013, 2131-2136.
Batz, G.; Weber, B.; Scheint, M.; Wollherr, D.; Buss, M.: Dynamic contact force/torque observer: Sensor fusion for improved interaction control. The International Journal of Robotics Research 32 (4), 2013, 446-457.
Kühnlenz, Barbara; Sosnowski, Stefan; Buß, Malte; Wollherr, Dirk; Kühnlenz, Kolja; Buss, Martin: Increasing Helpfulness towards a Robot by Emotional Adaption to the User. Int J of Soc Robotics 5 (4), 2013, 457-476.
Lee, Sohee; Leibold, Marion; Buss, Martin; Park, Frank Chongwoo: Rollover Prevention of Mobile Manipulators using Invariance Control and Recursive analytic Zmp Gradients. Advanced Robotics 26 (11-12), 2012, 1317-1341.
Rohrmüller, Florian; Wollherr, Dirk; Buss, Martin: MuRoCo: A Framework for Capability- and Situation-Aware Coalition Formation in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 67 (3-4), 2012, 339-370.
Feth, Daniela; Groten, Raphaela; Peer, Angelika; Buss Martin: Haptic Human–Robot Collaboration: Comparison of Robot Partner Implementations in Terms of Human-Likeness and Task Performance. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 20 (2), 2011, 173-189.
Lidoris, G.; Rohrmuller, F.; Wollherr, D.; Buss, M.: System interdependence analysis for autonomous robots. The International Journal of Robotics Research 30 (5), 2011, 601-614.
Zhang, Tianguang; Li, Wei; Kühnlenz, Kolja; Buss, Martin: Multi-Sensory Motion Estimation and Control of an Autonomous Quadrotor. Advanced Robotics 25 (11-12), 2011, 1493-1514.
Peer, Angelika; Pongrac, Helena; Buss, Martin: Influence of Varied Human Movement Control on Task Performance and Feeling of Telepresence. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 19 (5), 2010, 463-481.
Mühlbauer, Quirin; Xu, Tingting; Bauer, Andrea; Klasing, Klaas; Lidoris, Georgios; Rohrmüller, Florian; Sosnowski, Stefan; Kühnlenz, Kolja; Wollherr, Dirk; Buss, Martin: Wenn Roboter nach dem Weg fragen. at - Automatisierungstechnik 58 (11), 2010, 647-656.
Kersting, Stefan; Buss, Martin: How to Systematically Distribute Candidate Models and Robust Controllers in Multiple-Model Adaptive Control: A Coverage Control Approach. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 63 (4), 2018, 1075-1089 more…BibTeX
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Pekarovskiy, Alexander; Nierhoff, Thomas; Hirche, Sandra; Buss, Martin: Dynamically Consistent Online Adaptation of Fast Motions for Robotic Manipulators. IEEE Transactions on Robotics 34 (1), 2018, 166-182 more…BibTeX
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2017
Apostolopoulos, Sotiris; Leibold, Marion; Buss, Martin: Energy Efficient and Robust Balancing with Motion Primitive Switching. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics 14 (03), 2017, 1750009 more…BibTeX
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Friedrich, Stefan R.; Buss, Martin: A robust stability approach to robot reinforcement learning based on a parameterization of stabilizing controllers. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2017 more…BibTeX
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Kersting, Stefan; Buss, Martin: Recursive estimation in piecewise affine systems using parameter identifiers and concurrent learning. International Journal of Control, 2017, 1-18 more…BibTeX
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Yiyong Sun; Zengjie Zhang; Leibold, Marion; Hayat, Rameez; Wollherr, Dirk; Buss, Martin: Protective control for robot manipulator by sliding mode based disturbance reconstruction approach. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), IEEE, 2017 more…BibTeX
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2016
Apostolopoulos, Sotiris; Leibold, Marion; Buss, Martin: Online motion planning over uneven terrain with walking primitives and regression. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2016 more…BibTeX
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Bonetti, Daniela; Camilloni, Carlo; Visconti, Lorenzo; Longhi, Sonia; Brunori, Maurizio; Vendruscolo, Michele; Gianni, Stefano: Identification and Structural Characterization of an Intermediate in the Folding of the Measles Virus X Domain. Journal of Biological Chemistry 291 (20), 2016, 10886-10892 more…BibTeX
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De Nijs, Roderick Sebastiaan; Landsiedel, Christian; Wollherr, Dirk; Buss, Martin: Quadratization and Roof Duality of Markov Logic Networks. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 55, 2016, 685-714 more…BibTeX
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Donner, Philine; Buss, Martin: Cooperative Swinging of Complex Pendulum-Like Objects: Experimental Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Robotics 32 (3), 2016, 744-753 more…BibTeX
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Friedrich, Stefan R.; Buss, Martin: Direct adaptive-Q control for online performance enhancement of switching linear systems. 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2016 more…BibTeX
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Hayat, Rameez; Buss, Martin: Model identification for robot manipulators using regressor-free adaptive control. 2016 UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (CONTROL), IEEE, 2016 more…BibTeX
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Khan, Sheraz; Wollherr, Dirk; Buss, Martin: Modeling Laser Intensities For Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 1 (2), 2016, 692-699 more…BibTeX
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Liu, Fangzhou; Buss, Martin: Node-based SIRS model on heterogeneous networks: Analysis and control. 2016 American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE, 2016 more…BibTeX
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Liu, Fangzhou; Buss, Martin: Optimal control for information diffusion over heterogeneous networks. 2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2016 more…BibTeX
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Turnwald, Annemarie; Althoff, Daniel; Wollherr, Dirk; Buss, Martin: Understanding Human Avoidance Behavior: Interaction-Aware Decision Making Based on Game Theory. International Journal of Social Robotics 8 (2), 2016, 331-351 more…BibTeX
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2015
Apostolopoulos, Sotiris; Leibold, Marion; Buss, Martin: Settling time reduction for underactuated walking robots. 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015 more…BibTeX
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Donner, Philine; Christange, Franz; Buss, Martin: Fundamental dynamics based adaptive energy control for cooperative swinging of complex pendulum-like objects. 2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , IEEE , 2015 more…BibTeX
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Donner, Philine; Christange, Franz; Buss, Martin: Adaptive simple pendulum swing-up controller based on the closed-loop fundamental dynamics. 2015 European Control Conference (ECC), IEEE, 2015 more…BibTeX
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Kersting, Stefan; Buss, Martin: An alternative approach to switching hyperplane estimation in PWA systems. 2015 American Control Conference (ACC), IEEE, 2015 more…BibTeX
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Kersting, Stefan; Buss, Martin: Removing erroneous history stack elements in concurrent learning. 2015 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2015 more…BibTeX
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Schill, Markus M.; Gruber, Felix; Buss, Martin: Quasi-direct nonprehensile catching with uncertain object states. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2015 more…BibTeX
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2014
A. Peer, M. Buss, B. Stanczyk, D. Szczesniak-Stanczyk, W. Brzozowski, A. Wysokinski, M. Tscheligi, C. A. Avizzano, E. Ruffaldi, L. van Gool, A. Fossati, K. Arent, J. Jakubiak, and M. Janiak: Towards a remote medical diagnostician for medical examination. NextMed/MMVR21, 2014 more…BibTeX
Jenke, Robert; Peer, Angelika; Buss, Martin: Feature Extraction and Selection for Emotion Recognition from EEG. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 5 (3), 2014, 327-339 more…BibTeX
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Kersting, Stefan; Buss, Martin: Concurrent learning adaptive identification of piecewise affine systems. 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, 2014 more…BibTeX
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Khan, Sheraz; Dometios, Athanasios; Verginis, Chris; Tzafestas, Costas; Wollherr, Dirk; Buss, Martin: RMAP: a rectangular cuboid approximation framework for 3D environment mapping. Autonomous Robots 37 (3), 2014, 261-277 more…BibTeX
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Passenberg, Benjamin; Leibold, Marion; Stursberg, Olaf; Buss, Martin: A Globally Convergent, Locally Optimal Min-H Algorithm for Hybrid Optimal Control. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 52 (1), 2014, 718-746 more…BibTeX
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2012
Barbara Gonsior, Christian Landsiedel, Nicole Mirnig, Stefan Sosnowski, Ewald Strasser, Jakub Zlotowski Martin Buss, Kolja Kuhnlenz, Manfred Tscheligi, Astrid Weiss, Dirk Wollherr: Impacts of Multimodal Feedback on Efficiency of Proactive Information Retrieval from Task-Related HRI. JACIII 16 (2), 2012, 313-326 more…BibTeX
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