I’m Valentin! I am a PhD student in Marc Toussaint’s LIS group at TU Berlin, working on task and motion planning (TAMP) using optimization techniques, in addition to sampling based planners, with inspiration from control theory. I am associated with IntCDC, and am involved in several projects at the intersection of robotics and architecture.
I have a strong interest in control systems, optimization, numerical methods, and technology in general. Before taking on my current position, I have been a mechanical engineering student at ETH Zurich, and have focussed on robotics, systems and control. I did a few internships at various companies (notably Amazon and BCG Gamma), and I was a PhD resident at intrinsic.ai working in the motion and controls team.
In 2021, I (virtually) visited Jon Gammell’s ESP lab at the University of Oxford.
I like cycling, used to row competitively, like all kinds of other sports, and to my friends delight I am an avid cook.
I have an open list of ideas for which I am looking for collaborators (external pressure to complete something!) here. Contact me if anything catches your interest:
v [at] vhartmann [dot] com
for side-projects, valentin [dot] hartmann [at] ipvs [dot] uni-stuttgart [dot] de
for more academic chatter.
I recently submitted my dissertation, and am open to any opportunities doing interesting work related to motion planning/autonomous systems/controls (preferably in Switzerland).
Publications
Also see my Google Scholar Profile here.
Preprints/Under Review
- Effort Level Search in Infinite Completion Trees with Application to Task-and-Motion Planning, Marc Toussaint, Joaquim Ortiz-Haro, Valentin N. Hartmann, Erez Karpas, Wolfgang Hönig, Under review at ICRA24
Journals
- Long-Horizon Multi-Robot Rearrangement Planning for Construction Assembly, Valentin N. Hartmann, Andreas Orthey, Danny Driess, Ozgur S. Oguz, Marc Toussaint. IEEE T-RO 2022. [arxiv], [youtube], [paper]
- Leveraging Building Material as Part of the In-Plane Robotic Kinematic System for Collective Construction, Samuel Leder, H. Kim, Ozgur S. Oguz, Nicolas Kubail Kalousdian, Valentin N. Hartmann, Achim Menges, Marc Toussaint, Metin Sitti. Advanced Science 2022[paper]
- Learning Robotic Manipulation of Natural Materials with Variable Properties for Construction Tasks, Nicolas Kubail Kalousdian, Grzegorz Łochnicki, Valentin N. Hartmann, Samuel Leder, Ozgur S. Oguz, Achim Menges, Marc Toussaint, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 2022 [paper]
Conferences
- Efficient Path Planning In Manipulation Planning Problems by Actively Reusing Validation Effort, Valentin N. Hartmann, Joaquim Ortiz-Haro, Marc Toussaint. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023 [arxiv]
- Effort Informed Roadmaps (EIRM*): Efficient Asymptotically Optimal Multiquery Planning by Actively Reusing Validation Effort, Valentin N. Hartmann, Marlin P. Strub, Marc Toussaint, Jonathan D. Gammell. ISRR 2022. [arxiv], [youtube], [springer]
- ST-RRT*: Asymptotically-Optimal Bidirectional Motion Planning through Space-Time, Francesco Grothe, Valentin N. Hartmann, Andreas Orthey, Marc Toussaint, ICRA 2022, [arXiv]
- Learning Efficient Constraint Graph Sampling for Robotic Sequential Manipulation, Joaquim Ortiz de Haro, Valentin N. Hartmann, Ozgur S. Oguz, Marc Toussaint, ICRA 2021 [arxiv], [youtube]
- Self-supervised Learning of Scene-Graph Representations for Solving Sequential Manipulation Problems, Son-Tung Nguyen, Ozgur S. Oguz, Valentin N. Hartmann, Marc Toussaint, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2020 [paper], [youtube]
- Robust task and motion planning for long-horizon architectural construction planning, Valentin N. Hartmann, Ozgur S. Oguz, Danny Driess, Marc Toussaint and Achim Menges, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020, [arXiv], [short video], [talk]
Workshops
- Towards computing low-makespan solutions for multi-arm multi-task planning problems, Valentin N. Hartmann, Marc Toussaint. Workshop for Planning and Robotics (PlanRob), International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2023 [arxiv]
- Planner Development Tools (PDT): Reproducible experiments and statistical analysis for developing and testing motion planners, Jonathan D. Gammell, Marlin P. Strub, Valentin N. Hartmann. Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluating Motion Planning Performance (EMPP), International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022. [paper]
- Planning Planning: The Path Planner as a Finite State Machine, Valentin N. Hartmann, Ozgur S. Oguz, and Marc Toussaint. Workshop for Planning and Robotics (PlanRob), International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2020. [talk], [paper]
- Co-Design in Architecture: A Modular Material-Robot Kinematic Construction System, Samuel Leder, HyunGyu Kim, Ozgur S. Oguz, Valentin N. Hartmann, Marc Toussaint, Achim Menges, Metin Sitti, Proceedings of Workshop on Construction and Architecture Robotics at IROS 2020. [paper]