Péter Fankhauser

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Péter Fankhauser is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Péter Fankhauser has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 11 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 9 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Péter Fankhauser's work include Robotic Locomotion and Control (23 papers), Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (12 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (10 papers). Péter Fankhauser is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Locomotion and Control (23 papers), Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (12 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (10 papers). Péter Fankhauser collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Poland. Péter Fankhauser's co-authors include Marco Hutter, Michael Bloesch, C. Dario Bellicoso, Christian Gehring, Roland Siegwart, Jemin Hwangbo, Remo Diethelm, Mark A. Hoepflinger, Amir Melzer and Karen Bodie and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine and Journal of Field Robotics.

In The Last Decade

Péter Fankhauser

29 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

ANYmal - a highly mobile and dynamic quadrupedal robot 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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. ANYmal - a highly mobile and dynamic quadrupedal robot
    2016 597 citations Marco Hutter, Christian Gehring et al. profile →

Peers

Péter Fankhauser
Christian Gehring Switzerland
Lorenz Wellhausen Switzerland
Karl Iagnemma United States
S. Kagami Japan
Wenfu Xu China
C. Dario Bellicoso Switzerland
Jae-Bok Song South Korea
Jae‐Bok Song South Korea
Jemin Hwangbo Switzerland
Florent Lamiraux France
Christian Gehring Switzerland
Péter Fankhauser
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Péter Fankhauser

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Homberger, Timon, Lorenz Wellhausen, Péter Fankhauser, & Marco Hutter. (2019). Support Surface Estimation for Legged Robots. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 8470–8476. 17 indexed citations
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Fankhauser, Péter, Michael Bloesch, & Marco Hutter. (2018). Probabilistic Terrain Mapping for Mobile Robots With Uncertain Localization. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(4). 3019–3026. 188 indexed citations
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Fankhauser, Péter, Marko Bjelonic, C. Dario Bellicoso, Takahiro Miki, & Marco Hutter. (2018). Robust Rough-Terrain Locomotion with a Quadrupedal Robot. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 5761–5768. 135 indexed citations
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Fankhauser, Péter, et al.. (2018). Real-Time Dance Generation to Music for a Legged Robot. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 1038–1044. 10 indexed citations
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Bellicoso, C. Dario, Fabian Jenelten, Péter Fankhauser, et al.. (2017). Dynamic locomotion and whole-body control for quadrupedal robots. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 3359–3365. 92 indexed citations
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Gehring, Christian, C. Dario Bellicoso, Péter Fankhauser, Stelian Coros, & Marco Hutter. (2017). Quadrupedal locomotion using trajectory optimization and hierarchical whole body control. 4788–4794. 7 indexed citations
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Bellicoso, C. Dario, Christian Gehring, Jemin Hwangbo, Péter Fankhauser, & Marco Hutter. (2016). Perception-less terrain adaptation through whole body control and hierarchical optimization. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 558–564. 110 indexed citations
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Fankhauser, Péter, et al.. (2016). Foot Contact Estimation for Legged Robots in Rough Terrain. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 395–403. 7 indexed citations
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Fankhauser, Péter, C. Dario Bellicoso, Christian Gehring, et al.. (2016). Free Gait — An architecture for the versatile control of legged robots. 26 indexed citations
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Hutter, Marco, Christian Gehring, Dominic Jud, et al.. (2016). ANYmal - a highly mobile and dynamic quadrupedal robot. 38–44. 597 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fankhauser, Péter, Elena Stumm, Zachary Taylor, et al.. (2016). Collaborative Localization of Aerial and Ground Robots through Elevation Maps. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 284–290. 15 indexed citations
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Belter, Dominik, et al.. (2016). RGB–D terrain perception and dense mapping for legged robots. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. 26(1). 81–97. 26 indexed citations
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Hutter, Marco, Christian Gehring, Dominic Jud, et al.. (2016). ANYmal - A Highly Mobile and Dynamic Quadrupedal Robot. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 187 indexed citations
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Hwangbo, Jemin, et al.. (2016). Probabilistic Foot Contact Estimation by Fusing Information from Dynamics and Differential/Forward Kinematics. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 8 indexed citations
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Fankhauser, Péter, Michael Bloesch, Philipp Krüsi, et al.. (2016). Collaborative Navigation for Flying and Walking Robots. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 2859–2866. 13 indexed citations
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Gehring, Christian, C. Dario Bellicoso, Stelian Coros, et al.. (2015). Dynamic Trotting on Slopes for Quadrupedal Robots. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 28 indexed citations
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Hutter, Marco, Christian Gehring, Michael Bloesch, et al.. (2014). Excitation and Stabilization of Passive Dynamics in Locomotion using Hierarchical Operational Space Control. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 2977–2982. 2 indexed citations
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Bloesch, Michael, Christian Gehring, Péter Fankhauser, et al.. (2013). State estimation for legged robots on unstable and slippery terrain. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 6058–6064. 102 indexed citations
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Fankhauser, Péter, Marco Hutter, Christian Gehring, et al.. (2013). Reinforcement learning of single legged locomotion. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 188–193. 26 indexed citations
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Fankhauser, Péter, Samir Bouabdallah, Stefan Leutenegger, & Roland Siegwart. (2011). Modeling and decoupling control of the coax micro helicopter. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2223–2228. 16 indexed citations

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