Anastasia Bolotnikova

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Anastasia Bolotnikova is a robotics researcher whose work spans humanoid robot control, physical human-robot interaction, and robotic perception. Her most influential contributions focus on enabling humanoid robots to serve as physical caregivers — a challenging domain requiring sophisticated whole-body control, contact sensing, and safe human interaction. Her 2019 work on multi-contact planning for physical assistance by humanoids (17 citations) and her 2020 study on autonomous initiation of physical assistance (9 citations) represent particularly pioneering efforts toward deploying robots as caregivers for frail individuals. Complementing this thread, her contact observer for the Pepper robot (9 citations) addressed the critical challenge of sensing physical contact without expensive force-torque sensors, making assistive robotics more accessible. Earlier in her career, Bolotnikova contributed to robotic perception, including real-time face recognition for NAO humanoids (32 citations) and articulated object tracking for manipulation tasks (20 citations). Her 2017 review of medical robots in remote sensing (40 citations) remains her most widely cited work, reflecting her broad perspective on healthcare robotics. More recently, she has extended her research to modular robot networks and user-guided motion control, demonstrating a continuously evolving research agenda with over 140 cumulative citations.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Medical robots with potential applications in participatory and opportunistic remote sensing: A review

   40 citations · 2017
2. 2
   Real-time ensemble based face recognition system for NAO humanoids using local binary pattern

   32 citations · 2017
3. 3
   Interlinked Visual Tracking and Robotic Manipulation of Articulated Objects

   20 citations · 2018
4. 4
   Multi-Contact Planning on Humans for Physical Assistance by Humanoid

   17 citations · 2019
5. 5
   Contact Observer for Humanoid Robot Pepper based on Tracking Joint Position Discrepancies

   9 citations · 2018
6. 6
   Autonomous Initiation of Human Physical Assistance by a Humanoid

   9 citations · 2020
7. 7
   Adaptive Task-Space Force Control for Humanoid-to-Human Assistance

   7 citations · 2021
8. 8
   Edge information based object classification for NAO robots

   6 citations · 2016
9. 9
   Optimized user-guided motion control of modular robots

   4 citations · 2025
10. 10
    Modular robot networking: a novel schema and its performance assessment

    4 citations · 2022

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