Alin Albu‐Schäffer

23.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
349 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Alin Albu‐Schäffer is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alin Albu‐Schäffer has authored 349 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 227 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 195 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 85 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alin Albu‐Schäffer's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (156 papers), Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (108 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (79 papers). Alin Albu‐Schäffer is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (156 papers), Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (108 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (79 papers). Alin Albu‐Schäffer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Italy. Alin Albu‐Schäffer's co-authors include Sami Haddadin, Christian Ott, Gerd Hirzinger, G. Hirzinger, Alessandro De Luca, Thomas Wimböck, Alexander Dietrich, G. Hirzinger, Johannes Englsberger and Oliver Eiberger and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Neurophysiology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alin Albu‐Schäffer

336 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Unified Passivity-based Control Framework for Position, Torque and Impedance Control of Flexible Joint Robots

2007 609 citations Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Christian Ott et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →
Collision Detection and Safe Reaction with the DLR-III Lightweight Manipulator Arm

2006 588 citations Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Sami Haddadin et al. profile →
Robot Collisions: A Survey on Detection, Isolation, and Identification

2017 521 citations Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu‐Schäffer et al. IEEE Transactions on Robotics profile →
Progress and prospects of the human–robot collaboration

2017 505 citations Alin Albu‐Schäffer et al. profile →
The DLR lightweight robot: design and control concepts for robots in human environments

2007 455 citations Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Sami Haddadin et al. profile →
Collision Detection and Reaction: A Contribution to Safe Physical Human-Robot Interaction

2008 418 citations Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu‐Schäffer et al. profile →
On the Passivity-Based Impedance Control of Flexible Joint Robots

2008 329 citations Christian Ott, Alin Albu‐Schäffer et al. IEEE Transactions on Robotics profile →
Variable Stiffness Actuators: Review on Design and Components

2015 324 citations Sebastian Wolf, Oliver Eiberger et al. profile →
Requirements for Safe Robots: Measurements, Analysis and New Insights

2009 308 citations Sami Haddadin, Alin Albu‐Schäffer et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Exciting families of passive gaits in an elastic quadruped via natural motion manifold control 2025 ·The International Journal of Robotics Research ·(unknown), Cosimo Della Santina, Alin Albu‐Schäffer	0
2	A roadmap for AI in robotics 2025 ·Nature Machine Intelligence ·Aude Billard, Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Michael Beetz, Wolfram Burgard, Peter Corke, Matei Ciocarlie, Ravinder Dahiya, Danica Kragić, Ken Goldberg, Yukie Nagai, Davide Scaramuzza	1
3	AI-enabled Cyber–Physical In-Orbit Factory - AI approaches based on digital twin technology for robotic small satellite production 2024 ·Acta Astronautica ·(unknown), (unknown), Florian Kempf, Klaus Schilling, (unknown), (unknown), Thomas Hulin, Freek Stulp, Alin Albu‐Schäffer, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Reiner Anderl, Benjamin Schleich	7
4	A Probabilistic Approach to Multi-Modal Adaptive Virtual Fixtures 2024 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·(unknown), Thomas Hulin, Bernhard Weber, Sylvain Calinon, Freek Stulp, Alin Albu‐Schäffer, João Silvério	2
5	A Tree-Based World Model for Reducing System Complexity in Autonomous Mobile Manipulation 2024 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·(unknown), Andreas Dömel, Peter Lehner, Sebastian Riedel, (unknown), Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Freek Stulp	0
6	Enhancing the Force Transparency of the Energy-Reflection-Based Time-Domain Passivity Approach 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology ·Michael Panzirsch, Harsimran Singh, Xiao Xu, Alexander Dietrich, Thomas Hulin, Eckehard Steinbach, Alin Albu‐Schäffer	1
7	Simultaneous assessment and training of an upper-limb amputee using incremental machine-learning-based myocontrol: a single-case experimental design 2023 ·Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation ·Markus Nowak, Raoul M. Bongers, Corry K. van der Sluis, Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Claudio Castellini	9
8	Mobile Manipulation of a Laser-induced Breakdown Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration 2023 ·elib (German Aerospace Center) ·Peter Lehner, (unknown), (unknown), Andreas Dömel, Maximilian Durner, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Bernhard Vodermayer, Enrico Dietz, Sven Frohmann, (unknown), Susanne Schröder, Heinz‐Wilhelm Hübers, Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Armin Wedler	5
9	CollisionGP: Gaussian Process-Based Collision Checking for Robot Motion Planning 2023 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·(unknown), Peter Lehner, Luís Moreno, Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Máximo A. Roa	7
10	Passive arbitration in adaptive shared control of robots with variable force and stiffness scaling 2022 ·Mechatronics ·Ribin Balachandran, Marco De Stefano, (unknown), Christian Ott, Alin Albu‐Schäffer	2
11	SRT3D: A Sparse Region-Based 3D Object Tracking Approach for the Real World 2022 ·International Journal of Computer Vision ·(unknown), (unknown), Klaus H. Strobl, Rudolph Triebel, Alin Albu‐Schäffer	28
12	From underactuation to quasi‐full actuation: Aiming at a unifying control framework for articulated soft robots 2022 ·International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control ·(unknown), Christian Ott, Alin Albu‐Schäffer	10
13	Model Predictive Control Applied to Different Time-Scale Dynamics of Flexible Joint Robots 2022 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Maged Iskandar, (unknown), (unknown), Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Alexander Dietrich	20
14	Stabilization of User-Defined Feedback Controllers in Teleoperation With Passive Coupling Reference 2021 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Ribin Balachandran, Michael Panzirsch, Marco De Stefano, Harsimran Singh, Christian Ott, Alin Albu‐Schäffer	7
15	An Ecosystem for Heterogeneous Robotic Assistants in Caregiving: Core Functionalities and Use Cases 2020 ·IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine ·Jörn Vogel, Daniel Leidner, (unknown), Michael Panzirsch, Berthold Bäuml, (unknown), Ulrich Hillenbrand, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Thomas Hulin, Maged Iskandar, (unknown), Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Alexander Dietrich	22
16	Adaptive Air Density Estimation for Precise Tracking Control and Accurate External Wrench Observation for Flying Robots 2020 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Christian Ott, Alin Albu‐Schäffer	1
17	Passivity Analysis and Control of Humanoid Robots on Movable Ground 2018 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·Bernd Henze, Ribin Balachandran, Máximo A. Roa, Christian Ott, Alin Albu‐Schäffer	12
18	Elastic Structure Preserving (ESP) Control for Compliantly Actuated Robots 2018 ·IEEE Transactions on Robotics ·(unknown), Dominic Lakatos, Christian Ott, Alin Albu‐Schäffer	64
19	Soft robotics 2008 ·IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine ·Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Oliver Eiberger, Markus Grebenstein, Sami Haddadin, Christian Ott, Thomas Wimböck, Sebastian Wolf, G. Hirzinger	178
20	Robotic Joints and Contact Dynamics Experiments: Lessons learned from ROKVISS 2006 ·elib (German Aerospace Center) ·Bernhard Rebele, Bernd Schäfer, Alin Albu‐Schäffer, (unknown), K. Landzettel	2

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