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Kai Ploeger

@kaiploeger.bsky.social
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Somewhere deep down the wonderful rabbit hole of robot juggling and dynamic manipulation 🤹 🤖 PhD student @ IAS Lab, TU Darmstadt

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Kai Ploeger @kaiploeger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
How accurate does a model-based prior over search directions have to be? We rotated the analytic Jacobian prior to test this. At 90°, it fails as expected. But surprisingly, up to 30° the learning speed is barely affected, and final performance stays unchanged even up to 45°.
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Kai Ploeger @kaiploeger.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We tried a whole zoo of ways to learn five-ball juggling throw corrections. The simplest thing on the board came out on top.
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Kai Ploeger @kaiploeger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The progression. Three balls on the first attempt, four and five by the second.
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Kai Ploeger @kaiploeger.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Learning five-ball juggling on the second attempt, with two Barrett WAMs. Most humans take years of practice. Paper and videos: kai-ploeger.com/residual-juggling #robotics #juggling
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