Publications

A Versatile Quaternion-based Constrained Rigid Body Dynamics

• July 26, 2025

• Guirec Maloisel
• Ruben Grandia
• Christian Schumacher
• Espen Knoop
• Moritz Bächer

• ACM SIGGRAPH 2025

AMOR: Adaptive Character Control through Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning

• May 26, 2025

• Lucas N. Alegre (Universidad Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil)
• Agon Serifi
• Ruben Grandia
• David Muelller
• Espen Knoop
• Moritz Bächer

• ACM SIGGRAPH 2025

Robot Motion Diffusion Model: Motion Generation for Robotic Characters

• October 7, 2024

• Agon Serifi
• Ruben Grandia
• Espen Knoop
• Markus Gross (ETH Zurich and Disney Research Switzerland)
• Moritz Bächer

• ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

Spline-based Transformers

• September 28, 2024

• Prashanth Chandran (Disney Research|Studios)
• Agon Serifi
• Markus Gross (Disney Research|Studios and ETH Zurich)
• Moritz Bächer

• European Conference on Computer Vision 2024

Let Me Finish First – The Effect of Interruption-Handling Strategy on the Perceived Personality of a Social Agent

• September 15, 2024

• Ronald Cumbal (Uppsala University Sweden)
• Reshma Kantharaju
• Maike Paetzel-Prusmann
• James Kennedy

• International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2024

VMP: Versatile Motion Priors for Robustly Tracking Motion on Physical Characters

• August 15, 2024

• Agon Serifi (ETH Zurich and Disney Research Switzerland)
• Ruben Grandia
• Espen Knoop
• Markus Gross (ETH Zurich, Disney Research Switerland)
• Moritz Bächer

• ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) (2024)

Soft Pneumatic Actuator Design using Differentiable Simulation

• July 28, 2024

• Arvi Gjoka (New York University/Courant)
• Espen Knoop
• Moritz Bächer
• Denis Zorin (New York University/Courant)
• Daniele Panozzo (New York University/Courant)

• ACM SIGGRAPH 2024

Interactive Design of Stylized Walking Gaits for Robotic Characters

• July 28, 2024

• Michael Hopkins
• Georg Wiedebach
• Kyle Cesare (WDI R&D)
• Jared Bishop (WDI R&D)
• Espen Knoop
• Moritz Bächer

• ACM SIGGRAPH 2024

Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character

• July 15, 2024

• Ruben Grandia
• Espen Knoop
• Michael Hopkins
• Georg Wiedebach
• Jared Bishop (Walt Disney Imagineering)
• Steven Pickles (Walt Disney Imagineering)
• David Muelller
• Moritz Bächer

• Robotics: Science and Systems 2024

Name Pronunciation Extraction and Reuse in Human-Agent Conversation

• March 11, 2024

• James Kennedy
• Naveen Kumar
• Maike Paetzel-Prusmann

• Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 2024

An Automatic Evaluation Framework for Social Conversations with Robots

• February 29, 2024

• Maike Paetzel-Prusmann
• Jill Fain Lehman
• Celia J. Gomez
• James Kennedy

• Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (2024)

Optimal Design of Robotic Character Kinematics

• December 12, 2023

• Guirec Maloisel
• Christian Schumacher
• Espen Knoop
• Ruben Grandia
• Moritz Bächer

• ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023