Papers
10
Total Citations
153
H-Index
6
About
Boris Kluge is a pioneering researcher in human-robot interaction and mobile robot navigation, best known for his foundational work on motion coordination between humans and robots in crowded, dynamic environments. His most influential contribution, the 2002 paper "Key Technologies in Robot Assistants: Motion Coordination Between a Human and a Mobile Robot" (59 citations), introduced a novel approach for enabling a wheelchair to accompany a person side-by-side through a bustling railway station. This work laid the groundwork for his development of Recursive Probabilistic Velocity Obstacles, a reflective navigation framework detailed in his 2006 (30 citations) and 2007 (24 citations) papers, which allows robots to recursively model and predict human motion for safe, socially-aware navigation. Kluge also advanced robot localization through RFID-tagged smart floors (12 citations) and explored gesture recognition for commanding domestic service robots (5 citations). His research, spanning tracking multiple moving objects in public spaces and exploiting RFID capabilities onboard service robots, has been instrumental in shaping how autonomous systems perceive and interact with humans in natural, unconstrained settings. With over 150 total citations, Kluge's work remains a cornerstone for students and researchers developing assistive robots that must navigate safely alongside people.
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- 2Recursive Probabilistic Velocity Obstacles for Reflective Navigation30 citations · 2006
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- 4Robot Position Estimation on a RFID-Tagged Smart Floor12 citations · 2008
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- 6Tracking Multiple Moving Objects in Populated, Public Environments6 citations · 2002
- 7Exploiting RFID Capabilities Onboard a Service Robot Platform5 citations · 2012
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- 10Services Robots Navigating on Smart Floors2 citations · 2007