Rolf Pfeifer

13.6k citations
161 papers · 7.9k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 40

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Rolf Pfeifer

157 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics 2007 · 832 citations
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Rolf Pfeifer
Comparison fields: 5 of 171
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 2.2k
  • Artificial Intelligence 2.2k
  • Control and Systems Engineering 1.5k
  • Biomedical Engineering 2.8k
  • Condensed Matter Physics 637
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
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"Morphological Computation" - Self-organization, Embodiment, and Biological Inspiration.
20121
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Robotics and Emotion
20121
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Robotics as Part of an Informatics Degree Program for Teachers
20112
6 201112
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Self-organized Segregation Effect on Water Based Self-Assembling Robots.
20101
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Intelligent and Cognitive Systems -- EU/ERCIM Beyond-the-Horizon Working Group TG5
20061
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Morphological Computation: Connecting Body, Brain, and Environment (特集:ロボティクスと神経科学)
20053
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Morpho-functional machines : the new species : designing embodied intelligence
200329
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Embodied Artificial Intelligence - On the role of morphology and materials in the mergence of cognitition
20021
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Repeated structure and dissociation of genotypic and phenotypic complexity in artificial ontogeny
200182
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14 199981
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Erinnern in der Übertragung – Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart? Psychoanalyse und Embodied Cognitive Science: ein interdisziplinärer Dialog zum Gedächtnis
19984
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Designing efficiently navigating non-goal-directed robots
19935
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Situated Software Design
19931
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Connectionism in Perspective
1989369
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Toward computational models of emotion
19827

About Rolf Pfeifer

Rolf Pfeifer is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Condensed Matter Physics, Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering, having authored 161 papers that have together received 7.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (28 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (22 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (22 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (21 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (17 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (15 papers), Micro and Nano Robotics (14 papers) and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (2.2k citations), Artificial Intelligence (2.2k citations), Control and Systems Engineering (1.5k citations), Biomedical Engineering (2.8k citations) and Condensed Matter Physics (637 citations). Rolf Pfeifer has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, Japan and United States. Frequent co-authors include Josh Bongard, Fumiya Iida, Max Lungarella, Christian Scheier, Helmut Häuser, Kohei Nakajima, Luc Steels, Dimitrios Lambrinos, Rüdiger Wehner and Thomas Labhart. Their work appears in journals such as Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Artificial Life, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Biological Cybernetics and Advanced Robotics.

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