Hi, Im Tilman

Nice to meet you! I am a robotics researcher at the Intelligent Multi-Robot Coordination Lab of Wolfgang Hönig at Technische Universität Berlin. I’m interested in motion planning, manipulation, machine learning, optimization and (constrained) sampling.

I finished my bachelor of mathematics in 2023. I wrote my thesis on topology titled “Filtrierung und Homologie von Simplizialkomplexen” under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Joswig. It was recognized with an award for outstanding bachelortheses by the Berliner Mathematische Gesellschaft.

Recent Publications

Manifold Sampling via Entropy Maximization
Cornelius V. Braun*, Tilman Burghoff*, Marc Toussaint
2026, NeurIPS 2026
Stability-Guided Exploration for Diverse Motion Generation
Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz, Tilman Burghoff, Denis Shcherba, Armand Jordana, Marc Toussaint
2026, Preprint, Presented at ICRA Xplore Workshop 2026 (Oral)
Combined Constrained Sampling and Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation
Marc Toussaint, Cornelius V. Braun, Armand Jordana, Sayantan Auddy, Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz, Denis Shcherba, Tilman Burghoff, Justin Carpentier
2026, CoRL 2026 (Spotlight)

* Equal Contribution