Frederik Heller

Passionate about Robotics and Learning!

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printf("%s", "Hello world!"); I am Frederik, a final year Master’s student in Computational Engineering at Technische Universität Darmstadt. This page is still under construction, but feel free to look around or contact me through the links at the bottom!

news

Oct 24, 2025 Had a great time in Hangzhou, presenting our two workshop posters at IROS 2025.
Sep 06, 2025 I’ve started my exchange stay with the IIIS at Tsinghua in Beijing, China!
Oct 11, 2024 I have successfully defended my Bachelor’s thesis on Learning Object Stress and Deformation with Graph Neural Networks!
Oct 01, 2024 I’m happy that I will be spending six months with Porsche AG in Weissach as ML intern in Vehicle Safety!
Sep 23, 2024 Thankful to have received the IEEE RAS Travel Grant to present our work on Hardness Similarity Detection using VBTS at ICRA@40 in Rotterdam.

selected publications

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    Inductive Biases for Predicting Deformation and Stress in Deformable Object Grasps with Graph Neural Networks
    Frederik Heller, Alap Kshirsagar, Tim Schneider, and 2 more authors
    In IROS 2025-5th Workshop on RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects: holistic approaches and challenges forward, Oct 2025
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    Real-Time Simulation of Deformable Tactile Sensors in Robotic Grasping using Graph Neural Networks
    Guillaume Duret, Danylo Mazurak, Frederik Heller, and 4 more authors
    In IROS 2025 Workshop on Tactile Sensing Toward Robot Dexterity and Intelligence, Oct 2025
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    Hardness Similarity Detection Using Vision-Based Tactile Sensors
    Alap Kshirsagar, Frederik Heller, Mario Gómez Andreu, and 6 more authors
    In 40th Anniversary of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40), Sep 2024
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    Learning Object Stress and Deformation With Graph Neural Networks
    Frederik Heller
    Aug 2024
    Bachelor’s Thesis in the field of study Computational Engineering at Technische Universität Darmstadt. Reviewers: Alap Kshirsagar, Tim Schneider, Guillaume Duret, Jan Peters
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