Thomas Wimböck

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas Wimböck is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Wimböck has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 37 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 14 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Wimböck's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (37 papers), Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (16 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (16 papers). Thomas Wimböck is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (37 papers), Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (16 papers) and Soft Robotics and Applications (16 papers). Thomas Wimböck collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and Italy. Thomas Wimböck's co-authors include Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Christian Ott, Gerd Hirzinger, G. Hirzinger, Sami Haddadin, Markus Grebenstein, Oliver Eiberger, Alexander Dietrich, Andreas Stemmer and Sebastian Wolf and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Wimböck

45 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The DLR lightweight robot: design and control concepts for robots in human environments

2007 455 citations Alin Albu‐Schäffer, Sami Haddadin et al. Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and application profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Wimböck Germany	25	1.8k	1.8k	671	395	233	45	2.6k
G. Hirzinger Germany	27	2.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	864 1.3×	638 1.6×	258 1.1×	91	3.2k
Markus Grebenstein Germany	27	2.0k 1.1×	2.7k 1.5×	743 1.1×	186 0.5×	288 1.2×	57	3.4k
Ralph Hollis United States	24	1.2k 0.7×	809 0.5×	817 1.2×	564 1.4×	449 1.9×	111	2.3k
Gen Endo Japan	28	1.2k 0.6×	2.3k 1.3×	810 1.2×	284 0.7×	156 0.7×	219	2.9k
Fanny Ficuciello Italy	25	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	608 0.9×	264 0.7×	324 1.4×	90	2.0k
Sungchul Kang South Korea	26	812 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	531 0.8×	205 0.5×	372 1.6×	147	1.9k
Oliver Eiberger Germany	15	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	470 0.7×	152 0.4×	112 0.5×	22	2.1k
Katsu Yamane United States	30	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	294 0.4×	936 2.4×	281 1.2×	138	2.9k
Martijn Wisse Netherlands	29	1.4k 0.8×	3.8k 2.1×	528 0.8×	211 0.5×	205 0.9×	86	4.4k
Michael Mistry United Kingdom	26	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	459 0.7×	380 1.0×	152 0.7×	80	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Wimböck

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Dietrich, Alexander, et al.. (2014). Workspace analysis for a kinematically coupled torso of a torque controlled humanoid robot. elib (German Aerospace Center). 3439–3445. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhaopeng, Neal Y. Lii, Thomas Wimböck, et al.. (2014). EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS ON SPATIAL AND CARTESIAN IMPEDANCE CONTROL FOR THE DEXTEROUS DLR/HIT II HAND. International Journal of Robotics and Automation. 29(1). 11 indexed citations

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Wimböck, Thomas. (2013). Controllers for Compliant Two-Handed Dexterous Manipulation. elib (German Aerospace Center). 3 indexed citations

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Grebenstein, Markus, Maxime Chalon, Werner Friedl, et al.. (2012). The hand of the DLR Hand Arm System: Designed for interaction. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 31(13). 1531–1555. 169 indexed citations

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Wimböck, Thomas, et al.. (2012). Derivation and verification of synergy coordinates for the DLR hand arm system. elib (German Aerospace Center). 10 indexed citations

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Dietrich, Alexander, Thomas Wimböck, & Alin Albu‐Schäffer. (2011). Dynamic whole-body mobile manipulation with a torque controlled humanoid robot via impedance control laws. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 24 indexed citations

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Dietrich, Alexander, Thomas Wimböck, & Alin Albu‐Schäffer. (2011). Dynamic whole-body mobile manipulation with a torque controlled humanoid robot via impedance control laws. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 3199–3206. 48 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhaopeng, Neal Y. Lii, Thomas Wimböck, Shaowei Fan, & Hong Liu. (2011). EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF CARTESIAN AND JOINT IMPEDANCE CONTROL WITH ADAPTIVE FRICTION COMPENSATION FOR THE DEXTEROUS ROBOT HAND DLR-HIT II. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. 8(4). 649–671. 19 indexed citations

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Wimböck, Thomas, Bor‐ming Jahn, & G. Hirzinger. (2011). Synergy level impedance control for multifingered hands. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 973–979. 56 indexed citations

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Wimböck, Thomas, Christoph Borst, Alin Albu‐Schäffer, et al.. (2010). DLRs zweihändiger Humanoide Justin: Systementwurf, Integration und Regelung (DLR's Two-Handed Humanoid Justin: System Design, Integration and Control).. 58. 622–629. 1 indexed citations

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Wimböck, Thomas, Christian Ott, & Gerd Hirzinger. (2010). Immersion and invariance control for an antagonistic joint with nonlinear mechanical stiffness. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1128–1135. 22 indexed citations

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Chalon, Maxime, Markus Grebenstein, Thomas Wimböck, & G. Hirzinger. (2010). The thumb: guidelines for a robotic design. elib (German Aerospace Center). 5886–5893. 44 indexed citations

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Bäuml, Berthold, Thomas Wimböck, & G. Hirzinger. (2010). Kinematically optimal catching a flying ball with a hand-arm-system. 2592–2599. 81 indexed citations

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Wimböck, Thomas, Dragomir N. Nenchev, Alin Albu‐Schäffer, & Gerd Hirzinger. (2009). Experimental study on dynamic reactionless motions with DLR's humanoid robot Justin. 5481–5486. 19 indexed citations

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Wimböck, Thomas, et al.. (2009). The DLR Crawler: evaluation of gaits and control of an actively compliant six‐legged walking robot. Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and application. 36(4). 344–351. 34 indexed citations

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Albu‐Schäffer, Alin, Oliver Eiberger, Markus Grebenstein, et al.. (2008). Soft robotics. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 178 indexed citations

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Albu‐Schäffer, Alin, Oliver Eiberger, Markus Grebenstein, et al.. (2008). Soft robotics: From Torque Feedback Controlled Lightweight Robots to Intrinsically Compliant Systems. elib (German Aerospace Center). 60 indexed citations

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Wimböck, Thomas, Andrea Baumann, Matthias Fuchs, et al.. (2008). The DLR-Crawler: A testbed for actively compliant hexapod walking based on the fingers of DLR-Hand II. 40 indexed citations

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Borst, Christoph, Christian Ott, Thomas Wimböck, et al.. (2007). A humanoid upper body system for two-handed manipulation. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings. 43 indexed citations

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Wimböck, Thomas, Christian Ott, & Gerd Hirzinger. (2007). Impedance Behaviors for Two-handed Manipulation: Design and Experiments. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings. 4182–4189. 71 indexed citations

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