Papers
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Total Citations
327
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About
Axel Vick is a robotics and automation researcher whose work spans cloud-based robot control, human-robot interaction, and compliance control for industrial and humanoid robotic systems. He has made significant contributions to the emerging paradigm of robots-as-a-service, pioneering open, service-based frameworks that enable flexible, hardware-independent motion planning and control via decentralized cloud infrastructures — a vision closely aligned with Industry 4.0 principles. His 2015 paper on cloud-based robot control has garnered 59 citations, while his complementary work on model predictive control for compensating communication delays in networked systems has attracted 42 citations, together establishing him as a leading voice in networked industrial robotics. Vick has also advanced safe physical human-robot collaboration, developing sensor-less external force estimation techniques for conventional industrial robots (36 citations) and high-payload admittance control for manual guidance (39 citations). His earlier work on impedance control for dual-arm humanoid systems (48 citations) remains a widely referenced contribution to compliant robot manipulation. Beyond traditional automation, Vick has explored intuitive robot programming through augmented reality and edge computing for smart intralogistics, reflecting a consistently forward-looking research agenda that bridges fundamental control theory with practical industrial deployment.
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- 5Safe physical human-robot interaction with industrial dual-arm robots36 citations · 2013
- 6Control of robots and machine tools with an extended factory cloud23 citations · 2015
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