About the Authors

Sreedhar S. Kumar

Affiliations Laboratory of Biomicrotechnology, IMTEK - Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Jan Wülfing

Affiliation Machine Learning Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Samora Okujeni

Affiliations Laboratory of Biomicrotechnology, IMTEK - Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Joschka Boedecker

Affiliations Machine Learning Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, BrainLinks-BrainTools Cluster of Excellence, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Martin Riedmiller

Current address: Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation Machine Learning Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Ulrich Egert

egert@imtek.uni-freiburg.de

Affiliations Laboratory of Biomicrotechnology, IMTEK - Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Bernstein Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, BrainLinks-BrainTools Cluster of Excellence, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK UE MR JW JB. Performed the experiments: SK JW SO. Analyzed the data: SK JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SO MR. Wrote the paper: SK UE JW JB. Designed the software used in analysis: SK JW.