Espen Knoop

654 total citations
30 papers, 455 citations indexed

About

Espen Knoop is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Espen Knoop has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 455 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 9 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Espen Knoop's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (11 papers), Human Pose and Action Recognition (6 papers) and Human Motion and Animation (6 papers). Espen Knoop is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (11 papers), Human Pose and Action Recognition (6 papers) and Human Motion and Animation (6 papers). Espen Knoop collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Espen Knoop's co-authors include Moritz Bächer, Jonathan Rossiter, Christian Schumacher, Miguel Á. Otaduy, Mojmír Mutný, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Hongyi Xu, Jonas Zehnder and Matthew K. X. J. Pan and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Transactions on Graphics, The International Journal of Robotics Research and IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

In The Last Decade

Espen Knoop

28 papers receiving 449 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Espen Knoop Switzerland 13 242 176 122 105 67 30 455
Liang He United Kingdom 14 251 1.0× 184 1.0× 119 1.0× 89 0.8× 43 0.6× 47 517
Stefano Seriani Italy 16 157 0.6× 147 0.8× 108 0.9× 69 0.7× 76 1.1× 42 496
Jeffrey I. Lipton United States 11 220 0.9× 156 0.9× 310 2.5× 55 0.5× 73 1.1× 20 518
Hegao Cai China 15 402 1.7× 256 1.5× 95 0.8× 153 1.5× 50 0.7× 41 654
Cheng Fang China 15 493 2.0× 463 2.6× 184 1.5× 187 1.8× 48 0.7× 55 895
Dan O. Popa United States 14 170 0.7× 125 0.7× 129 1.1× 59 0.6× 20 0.3× 57 477
Mahdi Bamdad Iran 13 218 0.9× 256 1.5× 93 0.8× 109 1.0× 25 0.4× 58 508
Yashraj Narang United States 12 531 2.2× 314 1.8× 219 1.8× 70 0.7× 109 1.6× 21 844
Nadia Figueroa United States 16 205 0.8× 312 1.8× 125 1.0× 85 0.8× 85 1.3× 49 634
Hegao Cai China 14 344 1.4× 222 1.3× 153 1.3× 66 0.6× 22 0.3× 63 570

Countries citing papers authored by Espen Knoop

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Fields of papers citing papers by Espen Knoop

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Espen Knoop

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Espen Knoop. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Espen Knoop based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Espen Knoop. Espen Knoop is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Grandia, Ruben, et al.. (2024). Robot Motion Diffusion Model: Motion Generation for Robotic Characters. 1–9. 2 indexed citations
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Knoop, Espen, et al.. (2024). Interactive Design of Stylized Walking Gaits for Robotic Characters. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 43(4). 1–16. 2 indexed citations
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Grandia, Ruben, et al.. (2024). VMP: Versatile Motion Priors for Robustly Tracking Motion on Physical Characters. Computer Graphics Forum. 43(8). 4 indexed citations
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Schumacher, Christian, et al.. (2023). Optimal Design of Robotic Character Kinematics. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 42(6). 1–15.
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Knoop, Espen, et al.. (2023). Optimal Design of Flexible-Link Mechanisms With Desired Load-Displacement Profiles. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(7). 4203–4210. 4 indexed citations
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Knoop, Espen, et al.. (2023). Transformer-Based Neural Augmentation of Robot Simulation Representations. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(6). 3748–3755. 2 indexed citations
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Knoop, Espen, et al.. (2021). Automated Routing of Muscle Fibers for Soft Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 37(3). 996–1008. 21 indexed citations
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Knoop, Espen, et al.. (2021). Singularity-Aware Design Optimization for Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Spatial Linkages. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6(4). 6585–6592. 3 indexed citations
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Nakamura, Yuichi, et al.. (2020). Design and Performance Analysis of a Skin-Stretcher Device for Urging Head Rotation. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E103.D(11). 2314–2322. 2 indexed citations
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Knoop, Espen, et al.. (2020). On the role of stiffness and synchronization in human–robot handshaking. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 39(14). 1796–1811. 8 indexed citations
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Knoop, Espen, et al.. (2019). MakeSense: Automated Sensor Design for Proprioceptive Soft Robots. Soft Robotics. 7(3). 332–345. 87 indexed citations
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Knoop, Espen, et al.. (2019). Feeling Fireworks. 1–11. 5 indexed citations
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Hafner, Christian, Christian Schumacher, Espen Knoop, et al.. (2019). X-CAD. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 38(6). 1–15. 22 indexed citations
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Xu, Hongyi, et al.. (2019). Vibration-minimizing motion retargeting for robotic characters. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 38(4). 1–14. 29 indexed citations
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Xu, Hongyi, Espen Knoop, Stelian Coros, & Moritz Bächer. (2018). Bend-it. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 37(6). 1–15. 25 indexed citations
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Zehnder, Jonas, Espen Knoop, Moritz Bächer, & Bernhard Thomaszewski. (2017). Metasilicone. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 36(6). 1–13. 38 indexed citations
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Knoop, Espen & Jonathan Rossiter. (2015). The Tickler. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 1133–1138. 40 indexed citations
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Knoop, Espen & Jonathan Rossiter. (2015). A compliant soft-actuator laterotactile display. Smart Materials and Structures. 24(4). 45034–45034. 5 indexed citations
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Knoop, Espen & Jonathan Rossiter. (2013). Dual-mode compliant optical tactile sensor. 1006–1011. 13 indexed citations

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