Papers
7
Total Citations
76
H-Index
5
About
Angelika Zube is a robotics researcher whose work centers on human-robot interaction, mobile manipulation, and safe autonomous systems. Her research addresses one of the field's most pressing challenges: enabling robots to operate safely and effectively alongside humans in shared workspaces. Through her development of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) frameworks for redundant manipulators, Zube has made significant contributions to real-time collision avoidance and Cartesian-space task execution — work that has garnered over 23 citations in its primary publication alone. Her 2020 paper on workspace monitoring and planning for safe mobile manipulation (17 citations) further demonstrates her commitment to practical human-robot coexistence, integrating perception and reactive planning to protect human co-workers. Her sampling-based path planning approach, which elegantly unifies inverse kinematics and collision-free planning into a single search stage, reflects her ability to bridge theoretical elegance with engineering utility. Contributing to the broader community through an Algorithm Toolbox for Autonomous Mobile Robotic Systems (16 citations), Zube has helped establish reusable foundations for the field. Her later work on cooperative assembly stations highlights an expanding vision that encompasses human-computer interaction and personalized robotic assistance in industrial environments.
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- 2Workspace monitoring and planning for safe mobile manipulation17 citations · 2020
- 3Algorithm Toolbox for Autonomous Mobile Robotic Systems16 citations · 2017
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- 6Model Predictive Contact Control for Human-Robot Interaction3 citations · 2016
- 7A cooperative HCI assembly station with dynamic projections2 citations · 2020