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2017

Computing with Uncertainty

2017 (mpi_year_book)

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Machine learning requires computer hardware to reliable and efficiently compute estimations for ever more complex and fundamentally incomputable quantities. A research team at MPI for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen develops new algorithms which purposely lower the precision of computations and return an explicit measure of uncertainty over the correct result alongside the estimate. Doing so allows for more flexible management of resources, and increases the reliability of intelligent systems.

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2017

Hennig, P. Computing with Uncertainty 2017 (mpi_year_book)

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Method of molding simple or complex micro and/or nanopatterned features on both planar or non-planar molded objects and surfaces and the molded objects produced using same

Sitti, M., Glass, P. S., Aksak, B.

2017, US Patent 9,566,722 (patent)

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pi Sitti, M., Glass, P. S., Aksak, B. Method of molding simple or complex micro and/or nanopatterned features on both planar or non-planar molded objects and surfaces and the molded objects produced using same 2017, US Patent 9,566,722 (patent)

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Biomechanics and Locomotion Control in Legged Animals and Legged Robots

Sproewitz, A., Heim, S.

2017 (mpi_year_book)

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An animal's running gait is dynamic, efficient, elegant, and adaptive. We see locomotion in animals as an orchestrated interplay of the locomotion apparatus, interacting with its environment. The Dynamic Locomotion Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart develops novel legged robots to decipher aspects of biomechanics and neuromuscular control of legged locomotion in animals, and to understand general principles of locomotion.

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Sproewitz, A., Heim, S. Biomechanics and Locomotion Control in Legged Animals and Legged Robots 2017 (mpi_year_book)

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Methods, apparatuses, and systems for micromanipulation with adhesive fibrillar structures

Sitti, M., Mengüç, Y.

US Patent 9,731,422, 2017 (patent)

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The present invention are methods for fabrication of micro- and/or nano-scale adhesive fibers and their use for movement and manipulation of objects. Further disclosed is a method of manipulating a part by providing a manipulation device with a plurality of fibers, where each fiber has a tip with a flat surface that is parallel to a backing layer, contacting the flat surfaces on an object, moving the object to a new location, then disengaging the tips from the object.

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pi Sitti, M., Mengüç, Y. Methods, apparatuses, and systems for micromanipulation with adhesive fibrillar structures US Patent 9,731,422, 2017 (patent)

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Design of a visualization scheme for functional connectivity data of Human Brain

Bramlage, L.

Hochschule Osnabrück - University of Applied Sciences, 2017 (thesis)

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sf Bramlage, L. Design of a visualization scheme for functional connectivity data of Human Brain Hochschule Osnabrück - University of Applied Sciences, 2017 (thesis)

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2014

Ultrasonic actuator device and applications thereof

Qiu, T., Fischer, P.

December 2014 (patent)

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2014

pf Qiu, T., Fischer, P. Ultrasonic actuator device and applications thereof December 2014 (patent)

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Method and apparatus for fabricating a component

Melde, K., Fischer, P.

December 2014 (patent)

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pf Melde, K., Fischer, P. Method and apparatus for fabricating a component December 2014 (patent)

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Convertor

Fischer, P., Mark, A.

May 2014 (patent)

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pf Fischer, P., Mark, A. Convertor May 2014 (patent)

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Method and device for blind correction of optical aberrations in a digital image

Schuler, C., Hirsch, M., Harmeling, S., Schölkopf, B.

International Patent Application, No. PCT/EP2012/068868, April 2014 (patent)

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ei Schuler, C., Hirsch, M., Harmeling, S., Schölkopf, B. Method and device for blind correction of optical aberrations in a digital image International Patent Application, No. PCT/EP2012/068868, April 2014 (patent)

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Exploring complex diseases with intelligent systems

Borgwardt, K.

2014 (mpi_year_book)

Abstract

Physicians are collecting an ever increasing amount of data describing the health state of their patients. Is new knowledge about diseases hidden in this data, which could lead to better therapies? The field of Machine Learning in Biomedicine is concerned with the development of approaches which help to gain such insights from massive biomedical data.

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Borgwardt, K. Exploring complex diseases with intelligent systems 2014 (mpi_year_book)

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The cellular life-death decision – how mitochondrial membrane proteins can determine cell fate

García-Sáez, Ana J.

2014 (mpi_year_book)

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Living organisms have a very effective method for eliminating cells that are no longer needed: programmed death. Researchers in the group of Ana García Sáez work with a protein called Bax, a key regulator of apoptosis that creates pores with a flexible diameter inside the outer mitochondrial membrane. This step inevitably triggers the final death of the cell. These insights into the role of important key enzymes in setting off apoptosis could provide useful for developing drugs that can directly influence apoptosis.

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