Papers
14
Total Citations
363
H-Index
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About
Lukas Kaul is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of humanoid robot design, human-robot collaboration, and autonomous perception. He is perhaps best known for his central contributions to the ARMAR-6 humanoid robot platform, developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), which has garnered over 150 combined citations across two landmark publications from 2018 and 2019. ARMAR-6 represents a significant leap forward in collaborative humanoid robotics, designed to perform complex maintenance and manipulation tasks alongside human workers in real industrial environments. Kaul has also made meaningful contributions to robotic hardware design, including the KIT Dual Arm System featuring biomimetically inspired inner shoulder joints, and highly integrated sensor-actuator-controller units that simplify the construction of sophisticated robotic systems. His work extends into 3D mapping for aerial vehicles using rotating laser scanners, active tactile exploration, and real-time stability estimation for humanoids and exoskeletons. More recently, he has tackled mobile manipulation in unstructured real-world environments, demonstrating systems tested in live grocery store settings. With a body of work spanning perception, mechatronics, and autonomous behavior, Kaul's research consistently pushes humanoid robotics toward practical, real-world deployment.
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- 3ARMAR-6: A Collaborative Humanoid Robot for Industrial Environments61 citations · 2018
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- 5Highly integrated sensor-actuator-controller units for modular robot design24 citations · 2017
- 6Active Tactile Exploration Based on Cost-Aware Information Gain Maximization22 citations · 2018
- 7Demonstrating Mobile Manipulation in the Wild: A Metrics-Driven Approach13 citations · 2023
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