Stelian Coros
Associate Professor
Leads the Computational Robotics Lab, working on physics-based modelling and control for robots, computational fabrication of robotic devices and character animation.
Stelian Coros's lab at ETH Zurich works on planning, control & multi-robot systems, physics-based simulation & animation and geometry processing & modeling. 59 papers since 2023, 31 at top venues, mostly TOG and ICRA. 10 PhD students. 17 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 15/ year
- at T1 venues
- 53%
- PhD students
- 10
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 17
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 10 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 17 papers2025 · T1 7
- 15 papers2024 · T1 9
- 17 papers2023 · T1 13
T1 venuesOtherVenues: TOG, ICRA, IROS, SIGGRAPH, CGF
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems17 papers
- Physics-based simulation & animation12 papers
- Geometry processing & modeling3 papers
- computational fabrication0 papers
- character animation0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202610 papers
- TOG (T1)A Unified Homogenization Framework for Straight- and Curved-Crease Origami Materials (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, ICRACAIMAN: Causal Action Influence Detection for Sample Efficient Loco-manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH (T1)IsoGami: Rigid-Deployable Kirigami Materials From Isohedral Tilings (opens in a new tab)
- CGFLORAMI: Low-Rank Adaptation for Multi-Identity Physics-Based Face Rigs (opens in a new tab)
- 3DVMomentum-Conserving Graph Neural Networks for Deformable Objects (opens in a new tab)
- CGFPhysics-Based Simulation of Contact-Induced Facial Wrinkling (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)Robust Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects (opens in a new tab)
- CGFTaking a Moment to Characterize the Bending Response of Thin Sheet Materials (opens in a new tab)
- SCATwo2Four: Generative Quadruped Puppeteering from Human Motion (opens in a new tab)
- EurographicsVQ-Style: Disentangling Style and Content in Motion with Residual Quantized Representations (opens in a new tab)
202517 papers
- IROS (T1)Budget-optimal multi-robot layout design for box sorting (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Closed-Form Construction of Voronoi Diagrams with Star-Shaped Metrics (opens in a new tab)
- Computer-Aided DesignComputational design and fabrication of reusable multi-tangent bar structures (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Enhancing Robotic System Robustness via Lyapunov Exponent-Based Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- Reinforcement Learning JournalEpistemically-guided forward-backward exploration (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Inverse Design of Discrete Interlocking Materials with Desired Mechanical Behavior (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Resource-Rational Robot Learning at CoRL , Workshop on Robotics World Modeling at CoRLLearning More With Less: Sample Efficient Dynamics Learning and Model-Based RL for Loco-Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid RobotsLearning to Walk in Costume: Adversarial Motion Priors for Aesthetically Constrained Humanoids (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)RAMBO: RL-augmented Model-based Whole-body Control for Loco-manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (Proc. ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA'25))Self-supervised Learning of Latent Space Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Spatio-Temporal Motion Retargeting for Quadruped Robots (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (T1)Star-Shaped Distance Voronoi Diagrams for 3D Metamaterial Design (opens in a new tab)
202415 papers
- ICML (T1)Causal Action Influence Aware Counterfactual Data Augmentation (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH (T1)ContourCraft: Learning to Resolve Intersections in Neural Multi-Garment Simulations (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Deep Compliant Control for Legged Robots (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Differentiable Geodesic Distance for Intrinsic Minimization on Triangle Meshes (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Differentiable Voronoi Diagrams for Simulation of Cell-Based Mechanical Systems (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)FlexScale: Modeling and Characterization of Flexible Scaled Sheets (opens in a new tab)
- SIGGRAPH (T1)Modal Folding: Discovering Smooth Folding Patterns for Sheet Materials using Strain-Space Modes (opens in a new tab)
- In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)NeoRL: Efficient Exploration for Nonepisodic RL (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)Neural Modes: Self-supervised Learning of Nonlinear Modal Subspaces (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LPayload-aware Trajectory Optimisation for Non-holonomic Mobile Multi-robot Manipulation with Tip-Over Avoidance (opens in a new tab)
- SA '24: SIGGRAPH Asia Conference PapersQ3T Prisms: A Linear-Quadratic Solid Shell Element for Elastoplastic Surfaces (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)Rethinking Robustness Assessment: Adversarial Attacks on Learning-based Quadrupedal Locomotion Controllers (opens in a new tab)
202317 papers
- TOG (T1)A Temporal Coherent Topology Optimization Approach for Assembly Planning of Bespoke Frame Structures (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Beyond Chainmail: Computational Modeling of Discrete Interlocking Materials (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Centralized Model Predictive Control for Collaborative Loco-Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Computational Design of 3D-Printable Compliant Mechanisms with Bio-Inspired Sliding Joints (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Differentiable Stripe Patterns for Inverse Design of Structured Surfaces (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Differentiable Task Assignment and Motion Planning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Efficient Learning of High Level Plans from Play (opens in a new tab)
- RSS WorkshopEmbracing Safe Contacts with Contact-aware Planning and Control (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Gradient-Based Trajectory Optimization With Learned Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Interacting with Multi-Robot Systems via Mixed Reality (opens in a new tab)
- TOG (T1)Neural Metamaterial Networks for Nonlinear Material Design (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LOptimal Design of Flexible-Link Mechanisms with Desired Load-Displacement Profiles (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went17 listed
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