Alexander Koenig
Technische Universität Ilmenau, ETH Zurich, University Children's Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Harvard University, Universitätsklinik Balgrist, Robert Bosch (Germany), Institute of Robotics, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Technical University of Munich
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33
Total Citations
1,057
H-Index
14
About
Alexander Koenig is a multidisciplinary researcher whose work bridges robotics, rehabilitation engineering, and human-computer interaction. He has made significant contributions across two distinct yet complementary domains: autonomous mobile robotics and robot-assisted neurorehabilitation. In the field of robotics, Koenig contributed to the development of TOOMAS, an interactive shopping guide robot deployed in real-world retail environments, accumulating 161 citations and demonstrating practical autonomous navigation using omnivision-based localization techniques. His early work on probabilistic self-localization laid important technical groundwork for mobile robot deployment in complex, unstructured spaces. Koenig's most sustained and impactful contributions, however, lie in rehabilitation robotics — particularly the integration of virtual reality with robotic gait training. His research demonstrated that VR-enhanced robot-assisted therapy meaningfully improves motivation and active participation in both pediatric patients with cerebral palsy and adult stroke survivors, with multiple papers exceeding 100 citations. He further advanced the field by developing methods to estimate patients' psychological states from physiological signals and to control active participation during therapy. His more recent work on robot-induced locomotor perturbations has deepened scientific understanding of motor adaptation mechanisms during walking, bridging clinical rehabilitation with fundamental neuroscience.
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- 6Controlling patient participation during robot-assisted gait training84 citations · 2011
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