Franziska joined the PEARL group as a PhD student in December 2024. She is supervised by Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki. Her research primarily focuses on graph-based representations, imitation learning from human demonstrations and human-robot interaction.
Franziska holds master’s degrees in Autonomous Systems and Computer Science and a bachelor’s degree in Information System Technology, both from TU Darmstadt. She wrote her master thesis titled “Learning Semantic-Geometric Task Graphs from Bimanual Human Demonstrations” under supervision of Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki, Dr.-Ing Dorothea Koert and Dr.-Ing Vignesh Prasad.
Research Interests
Robot Learning, Representation Learning, Human-Robot Interaction, Bimanual Manipulation, Imitation Learning
If you want to collaborate or are interested in writing a thesis, please reach out to me via mail.
Key References
Learning Semantic-Geometric Task-Graph Representations from Human Demonstrations. Franziska Herbert, Vignesh Prasad, Han Liu, Dorothea Koert, Georgia Chalvatzaki. Preprint 2026.
Entropy based blending of policies for multi-agent coexistence. David Rother, Franziska Herbert, Fabian Kalter, Dorothea Koert, Joni Pajarinen, Jan Peters, Thomas H. Weisswange. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 39, no. 1, 27, 2025.
An Evaluation of Situational Autonomy for Human-AI Collaboration in a Shared Workspace Setting. Vildan Salikutluk, Janik Schöpper, Franziska Herbert, Katrin Scheuermann, Eric Frodl, Dirk Balfanz, Frank Jäkel, Dorothea Koert. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1-17, 2024.
Interactive Reinforcement Learning with Bayesian Fusion of Multimodal Advice. Susanne Trick, Franziska Herbert, Constantin A. Rothkopf, Dorothea Koert. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, 2022.
Contact
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Franziska Herbert
TU Darmstadt,
Landwehrstraße 50a, 64293, Darmstadt
Office. Room 109, Building S4|23