Professor Dr. Oliver Brock
Research Interests
My research is concerned with the algorithmic foundations required to enable robotic agents to autonomously perform complex tasks in dynamic and unstructured environments. Beyond the scope of robotics, I apply these algorithmic foundations to problems in structural molecular biology, such as protein structure prediction, protein folding, and protein docking.
Publication
2026
Mengers,
Vito;
Brock,
Oliver
When Gradients Are Enough: Non-Stationary Potential Fields for Reactive Control
Proceedings of the German Robotics Conference (GRC),
2026
Zenkri,
Oussama;
Brock,
Oliver
Probing Embodied LLMs: When Higher Observation Fidelity Hurts Problem Solving
Mai 2026
Zenkri,
Oussama;
Brock,
Oliver
How Far Are LLMs from AGI? Evidence from a Large World Problem
Proceedings of the German Robotics Conference (GRC)
März 2026
Lowin,
Patrick;
Mengers,
Vito;
Brock,
Oliver
Coupled Particle Filters for Robust Affordance Estimation
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2026
Migacev,
Michael;
Mengers,
Vito;
Köngeter,
Antonia;
Brock,
Oliver
No Plan, Yet Human: A Reactive Robotics Model Predicts Human Planning Failures on a Clinical Task
2026
2025
Pfisterer,
Adrian;
Li,
Xing;
Mengers,
Vito;
Brock,
Oliver
A Handy Solution to Kinematic Structure Estimation
Proceedings of the German Robotics Conference (GRC)
2025
Sieler,
Adrian;
Koenig,
Alexander;
Brock,
Oliver
What Is the Key to Dexterous Manipulation: Learning or Compliance?
Proceedings of the German Robotics Conference (GRC)
2025
Mengers,
Vito;
Battaje,
Aravind;
Brock,
Oliver
AICON: A Representation for Adaptive Behavior
Proceedings of the German Robotics Conference (GRC),
2025
Mengers,
Vito;
Koenig,
Alexander;
Li,
Xing;
Sieler,
Adrian;
Battaje,
Aravind;
Brock,
Oliver
Stop Merging, Start Separating: Why Merging Learning and Modeling Won’t Solve Manipulation but Separating the General From the Specific Will
Workshop on Learning Meets Model-Based Methods for Contact-Rich Manipulation at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
Mai 2025
Mengers,
Vito;
Brock,
Oliver
No Plan but Everything Under Control: Robustly Solving Sequential Tasks with Dynamically Composed Gradient Descent
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
Seite 90-96
2025
Weber,
Lion;
Wienert,
Theodor;
Splettstößer,
Martin;
Koenig,
Alexander;
Brock,
Oliver
Acoustic Sensing for Universal Jamming Grippers
Workshop on Acoustic Sensing and Representations for Robotics at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2025
2024
Baum,
Manuel;
Rössler,
Theresa;
Osuna-Mascaró,
Antonio;
Auersperg,
Alice;
Brock,
Oliver
Mechanical Problem Solving in Goffin’s Cockatoos—Towards Modeling Complex Behavior
Adaptive Behavior,
32
:551-562
August 2024
ISSN: 1059-7123