Publications

Guirec Maloisel, Espen Knoop, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Moritz Bächer, Stelian Coros (2021). Singularity-Aware Design Optimization for Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Spatial Linkages. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

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Zhao Ma, Simon Duenser, Christian Schumacher, Romana Rust, Moritz Bächer, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Stelian Coros (2021). Stylized Robotic Clay Sculpting. Computers & Graphics.

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Moritz Bächer, Espen Knoop, Christian Schumacher (2021). Design and Control of Soft Robots Using Differentiable Simulation. Current Robotics Reports.

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Christian Schumacher, Espen Knoop, Moritz Bächer (2021). A Versatile Inverse Kinematics Formulation for Retargeting Motions onto Robots with Kinematic Loops. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

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Guirec Maloisel, Espen Knoop, Christian Schumacher, Moritz Bächer (2021). Automated Routing of Muscle Fibers for Soft Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).

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Zhao Ma, Simon Duenser, Christian Schumacher, Romana Rust, Moritz Bächer, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Stelian Coros (2020). RobotSculptor: Artist-Directed Robotic Sculpting of Clay. ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF).

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Moritz Geilinger, David Hahn, Jonas Zehnder, Moritz Bächer, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros (2020). ADD: Analytically Differentiable Dynamics for Multi-Body Systems with Frictional Contact. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia).

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Joel Castellon, Matt McCrory, Moritz Bächer, Alfredo Ayala, Jeremy Stolarz, Kenny Mitchell (2020). Active Learning for Accelerated Interactive Physical Facial Performance Design. The Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT).

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Zhao Ma, Alexander Walzer, Christian Schumacher, Romana Rust, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Moritz Bächer (2020). Designing Robotically‐Constructed Metal Frame Structures. Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics).

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Javier Tapia, Espen Knoop, Mojmir Mutný, Miguel A. Otaduy, Moritz Bächer (2020). MakeSense: Automated Sensor Design for Proprioceptive Soft Robots. Soft Robotics (SoRo).

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Christian Schumacher, Espen Knoop, Moritz Bächer (2020). Simulation-Ready Characterization of Soft Robotic Materials. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

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Domenico Mura, Espen Knoop, Manuel G Catalano, Giorgio Grioli, Moritz Bächer, Antonio Bicci (2020). On the role of stiffness and synchronization in human–robot handshaking. The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).

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Matthew K.X.J. Pan, Espen Knoop, Moritz Bächer, Günter Niemeyer (2019). Fast Handovers with a Robot Character: Small Sensorimotor Delays Improve Perceived Qualities. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

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Christian Hafner, Christian Schumacher, Espen Knoop, Thomas Auzinger, Bernd Bickel, Moritz Bächer (2019). X-CAD: Optimizing CAD Models with Extended Finite Elements. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia).

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Yeara Kozlov, Hongyi Xu, Moritz Bächer, Derek Bradley, Markus Gross, Thabo Beeler (2019). Data-Driven Physical Face Inversion. arXiv.

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Shayan Hoshyari, Hongyi Xu, Espen Knoop, Stelian Coros, Moritz Bächer (2019). Vibration-minimizing Motion Retargeting for Robotic Characters. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH).

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Christian Schumacher, Jonas Zehnder, Moritz Bächer (2018). Set-In-Stone: Worst-Case Optimization of Structures Weak in Tension. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia).

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Hongyi Xu, Espen Knoop, Stelian Coros, Moritz Bächer (2018). Bend-It: Design and Fabrication of Kinetic Wire Characters. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia).

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Dimitar Dinev, Thabo Beeler, Derek Bradley, Moritz Bächer, Hongyi Xu, Ladislav Kavan (2018). User-Guided Lip Correction for Facial Performance Capture. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA).

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Espen Knoop, Moritz Bächer, Vincent Wall, Raphael Deimel, Oliver Brock, Paul Beardsley (2017). Handshakiness: Benchmarking for Human-Robot Hand Interactions. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

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Jonas Zehnder, Espen Knoop, Moritz Bächer, Bernhard Thomaszewski (2017). Metasilicone: Design and Fabrication of Composite Silicone with Desired Mechanical Properties. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia).

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Vittorio Megaro, Espen Knoop, Andrew Spielberg, David I.W. Levin, Wojciech Matusik, Markus Gross, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Moritz Bächer (2017). Designing Cable-Driven Actuation Networks for Kinematic Chains and Trees. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA).

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Moritz Bächer, Emily Whiting, Bernd Bickel, Olga Sorkine-Hornung (2017). Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia for Spinnable Objects. Communications of the ACM.

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Vittorio Megaro, Jonas Zehnder, Moritz Bächer, Stelian Coros, Markus Gross, Bernhard Thomaszewski (2017). A Computational Design Tool for Compliant Mechanisms. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH).

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Vincent Wall, Raphael Deimel, Espen Knoop, Moritz Bächer, Paul Beardsley, Oliver Brock (2017). Benchmarking Soft Actuators for Human-Robot Interactions. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Workshop on Advanced Fabrication and Morphological Computation for Soft Robotics.

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Yeara Kozlov, Derek Bradley, Moritz Bächer, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Thabo Beeler, Markus Gross (2017). Enriching Facial Blendshape Rigs with Physical Simulation. Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics).

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Espen Knoop, Moritz Bächer, Paul Beardsley (2017). Contact Pressure Distribution as an Evaluation Metric for Human-Robot Hand Interactions. International Workshop on Reproducible HRI Experiments (ReHRI).

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Romain Prévost, Moritz Bächer, Wojciech Jarosz, Olga Sorkine-Hornung (2016). Balancing 3D Models with Movable Masses. Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV).

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Moritz Bächer, Benjamin Hepp, Fabrizio Pece, Paul G. Kry, Bernd Bickel, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Otmar Hilliges (2016). DefSense: Computational Design of Customized Deformable Input Devices. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI).

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Moritz Bächer, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski (2015). LinkEdit: Interactive Linkage Editing using Symbolic Kinematics. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH).

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Moritz Bächer, Emily Whiting, Bernd Bickel, Olga Sorkine-Hornung (2014). Spin-It: Optimizing Moment of Inertia for Spinnable Objects. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH).

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Moritz Bächer (2013). From Digital to Physical: Computational Aspects of 3D Manufacturing. PhD Thesis.

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Amanda Peters Randles, Moritz Bächer, Hanspeter Pfister, Efthimios Kaxiras (2012). A Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Hemodynamics in a Patient-Specific Aortic Coarctation Model. Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart (STACOM).

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Haoqi Zhang, John K. Lai, Moritz Bächer (2012). Hallucination: A Mixed-Initiative Approach for Efficient Document Reconstruction. The 4th Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP).

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Moritz Bächer, Bernd Bickel, Doug L. James, Hanspeter Pfister (2012). Fabricating Articulated Characters from Skinned Meshes. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH).

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Bernd Bickel, Moritz Bächer, Miguel A. Otaduy, Hyunho Richard Lee, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Gross, Wojciech Matusik (2010). Design and Fabrication of Materials with Desired Deformation Behavior. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH).

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Bernd Bickel, Moritz Bächer, Miguel A. Otaduy, Wojciech Matusik, Hanspeter Pfister, Markus Gross (2009). Capture and Modeling of Non-Linear Heterogeneous Soft Tissue. ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH).

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Moritz Bächer (2009). Locally Weighted Least Squares Regression for Image Denoising, Reconstruction and Up-sampling. Technical Report (Harvard University).

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Moritz Bächer (2008). Inverse Modeling of (Facial) Contact. Master Thesis.

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Christian Ledergerber, Gaël Guennebaud, Miriah Meyer, Moritz Bächer, Hanspeter Pfister (2008). Volume MLS Ray Casting. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Visualization).

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