Hannes Höppner

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 579 citations indexed

About

Hannes Höppner is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Hannes Höppner has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 579 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 10 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 9 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Hannes Höppner's work include Muscle activation and electromyography studies (12 papers), Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (11 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (9 papers). Hannes Höppner is often cited by papers focused on Muscle activation and electromyography studies (12 papers), Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (11 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (9 papers). Hannes Höppner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Hungary. Hannes Höppner's co-authors include Werner Friedl, Markus Grebenstein, Florian Petit, Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Michaël Van Damme, Nikos G. Tsagarakis, Oliver Eiberger, Darwin G. Caldwell, Manuel G. Catalano and Etienne Burdet and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Neurophysiology and IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics.

In The Last Decade

Hannes Höppner

21 papers receiving 567 citations

Hit Papers

Variable Stiffness Actuators: Review on Design and Compon... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Variable Stiffness Actuators: Review on Design and Components
    2015 324 citations Sebastian Wolf, Giorgio Grioli et al. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hannes Höppner Germany 11 483 276 122 49 27 21 579
Glenn Mathijssen Belgium 15 679 1.4× 267 1.0× 149 1.2× 18 0.4× 16 0.6× 31 820
Ludo C. Visser Netherlands 12 650 1.3× 275 1.0× 142 1.2× 23 0.5× 34 1.3× 21 747
Yuto Nakanishi Japan 15 673 1.4× 377 1.4× 70 0.6× 34 0.7× 13 0.5× 46 740
Irene Sardellitti Italy 14 733 1.5× 449 1.6× 181 1.5× 41 0.8× 25 0.9× 21 885
Junichi Urata Japan 15 703 1.5× 393 1.4× 69 0.6× 41 0.8× 12 0.4× 35 769
Junho Choi South Korea 11 430 0.9× 258 0.9× 132 1.1× 15 0.3× 24 0.9× 56 610
Shunichi Kurumaya Japan 10 564 1.2× 131 0.5× 246 2.0× 50 1.0× 19 0.7× 19 646
Wookeun Park South Korea 9 407 0.8× 178 0.6× 136 1.1× 57 1.2× 10 0.4× 16 487
Florian Petit Germany 16 661 1.4× 462 1.7× 165 1.4× 27 0.6× 23 0.9× 24 815
Byeong-Sang Kim South Korea 11 373 0.8× 245 0.9× 111 0.9× 45 0.9× 12 0.4× 18 477

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hannes Höppner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hannes Höppner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hannes Höppner 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 Hannes Höppner. Hannes Höppner 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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Höppner, Hannes, et al.. (2025). Variable Stiffness Actuation via 3D-Printed Nonlinear Torsional Springs. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 10(5). 4324–4331. 1 indexed citations
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Höppner, Hannes, et al.. (2024). Human short-latency reflexes show precise short-term gain adaptation after prior motion. Journal of Neurophysiology. 132(6). 1680–1692. 1 indexed citations
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Ott, Christian, et al.. (2022). Simultaneous Motion Tracking and Joint Stiffness Control of Bidirectional Antagonistic Variable-Stiffness Actuators. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(3). 6614–6621. 11 indexed citations
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Vogel, Jörn, Maged Iskandar, Alexander Dietrich, et al.. (2020). EDAN: An EMG-controlled Daily Assistant to Help People With Physical Disabilities. elib (German Aerospace Center). 4183–4190. 29 indexed citations
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Friedl, Werner, et al.. (2018). Human-Robotic Variable-Stiffness Grasps of Small-Fruit Containers Are Successful Even Under Severely Impaired Sensory Feedback. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 12. 70–70. 6 indexed citations
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Vogel, Jörn, et al.. (2018). Elastic Elements in a Wrist Prosthesis for Drumming Reduce Muscular Effort, but Increase Imprecision and Perceived Stress. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 12. 9–9. 2 indexed citations
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Höppner, Hannes, et al.. (2018). Human's Capability to Discriminate Spatial Forces at the Big Toe. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 12. 13–13. 1 indexed citations
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Friedl, Werner, Hannes Höppner, Florian Schmidt, Máximo A. Roa, & Markus Grebenstein. (2018). CLASH: Compliant Low Cost Antagonistic Servo Hands. elib (German Aerospace Center). 6469–6476. 24 indexed citations
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Höppner, Hannes, et al.. (2017). Key Insights into Hand Biomechanics: Human Grip Stiffness Can Be Decoupled from Force by Cocontraction and Predicted from Electromyography. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 11. 17–17. 15 indexed citations
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Vogel, Jörn, et al.. (2017). End-effector airbags to accelerate human-robot collaboration. elib (German Aerospace Center). 2279–2284. 18 indexed citations
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Vogel, Jörn, et al.. (2017). Hitting the sweet spot: Automatic optimization of energy transfer during tool-held hits. elib (German Aerospace Center). 87. 1549–1556. 2 indexed citations
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Höppner, Hannes, et al.. (2017). Blindfolded robotic teleoperation using spatial force feedback to the toe. elib (German Aerospace Center). 433–438. 1 indexed citations
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Höppner, Hannes. (2016). Analysis of Human Intrinsic Stiffness Modulation and its Use in Variable-Stiffness Robots. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations
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Höppner, Hannes, Markus Grebenstein, & Patrick van der Smagt. (2015). Two-dimensional orthoglide mechanism for revealing areflexive human arm mechanical properties. elib (German Aerospace Center). 2. 1178–1185. 2 indexed citations
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Wolf, Sebastian, Giorgio Grioli, Oliver Eiberger, et al.. (2015). Variable Stiffness Actuators: Review on Design and Components. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 21(5). 2418–2430. 324 indexed citations breakdown →
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Höppner, Hannes, et al.. (2014). A new biarticular joint mechanism to extend stiffness ranges. elib (German Aerospace Center). 87. 3403–3410. 4 indexed citations
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Höppner, Hannes, Joseph McIntyre, & Patrick van der Smagt. (2013). Task Dependency of Grip Stiffness—A Study of Human Grip Force and Grip Stiffness Dependency during Two Different Tasks with Same Grip Forces. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e80889–e80889. 11 indexed citations
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Höppner, Hannes, et al.. (2011). The Grasp Perturbator: Calibrating human grasp stiffness during a graded force task. elib (German Aerospace Center). 3312–3316. 10 indexed citations
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Friedl, Werner, Hannes Höppner, Florian Petit, & Gerd Hirzinger. (2011). Wrist and forearm rotation of the DLR hand arm system: Mechanical design, shape analysis and experimental validation. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 13 indexed citations
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Friedl, Werner, Hannes Höppner, Florian Petit, & G. Hirzinger. (2011). Wrist and forearm rotation of the DLR Hand Arm System: Mechanical design, shape analysis and experimental validation. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 1836–1842. 34 indexed citations

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