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 13, 2026 Our paper, Investigating Active Sampling for Hardness Classification with Vision-Based Tactile Sensors, has been accepted for presentation at Humanoids 2026!
Apr 07, 2026 Traveled to Kanazawa, Japan, to present our paper on Real-Time Simulation of Deformable Tactile Sensors and Objects using GNNs with Inductive Biases at RoboSoft 2026. I’m excited that our paper was nominated as a Best Student Paper Award finalist!
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!

selected publications

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    Real-Time Simulation of Deformable Tactile Sensors and Objects in Robotic Grasping using Graph Neural Networks with Inductive Biases
    Guillaume Duret, Frederik Heller, Danylo Mazurak, and 5 more authors
    In 2026 IEEE 9th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), Apr 2026
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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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