Pavlo Kupyn

Master’s student in Robotics at the University of Bonn. My research interests include robot control, mobile manipulation, robot learning.

Bonn, Germany pkupyn@uni-bonn.de

Experience

  1. Research Assistant

    03/2026 – Present

    Robot Perception and Learning Lab, University of Bonn · Bonn, Germany

    I am working with mobile manipulators. Developing control, perception and reasoning modules for autonomous operation of robots in home environments.

  2. Centre for Biorobotics, TalTech

    06/2024 – 09/2025

    Tallinn, Estonia

    • Research Engineer 09/2024 – 09/2025
      Working with bio-inspired soft-actuated underwater robots on motion dynamics modeling, control, data acquisition.
    • Teaching Assistant 09/2024 – 01/2025
      Robot Guidance and Software (IAS0220)
    • Research Intern 06/2024 – 08/2024

Publications

  1. Benchmarking Real-World Robotic Manipulation through Stochastic Challenges

    E Gläßer, G Şikaroğlu, P Kupyn, M Pollefeys, Z Bauer, H Blum

    Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026

  2. Efficient Transfer Learning of Robot Dynamic Models Using Morphological Similarity

    P Kupyn, Y Hamamatsu, R Gkliva, A Ristolainen, M Kruusmaa

    IEEE International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), 2026

  3. Physics-Guided Neural Networks for Motion Estimation of an Underwater Vehicle with a Complex Propulsion System

    Y Hamamatsu, P Kupyn, E Friedl, A Ristolainen, M Kruusmaa

    International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, 2026

  4. Underwater Soft Fin Flapping Motion with Deep Neural Network Based Surrogate Model

    Y Hamamatsu, P Kupyn, R Gkliva, A Ristolainen, M Kruusmaa

    IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2025

Volunteering & Extracurricular

  1. RoBonn

    Building a student robotics club: organizing events (hackathons,workshops,networking), working on hardware projects with robots(manipulators, ground vehicles), and simply having fun together as a community of robotics enthusiasts :)