Papers
8
Total Citations
226
H-Index
6
About
Brice Rebsamen is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of assistive technology, autonomous navigation, and human-robot collaboration. He is perhaps best known for his pioneering contributions to intelligent wheelchair systems, particularly the Collaborative Wheelchair Assistant (CWA), a robotic platform that elegantly distributes control between human and machine — leveraging the user's high-level motion planning while delegating precise maneuvering to automated systems. This work, published across multiple papers between 2005 and 2008, has accumulated over 120 citations and represents a significant advance in making mobility aids both intuitive and safe for users with physical limitations. Beyond assistive robotics, Rebsamen has made notable contributions to autonomous navigation, including the development of Simultaneous Path Planning and Topological Mapping (SP2ATM), which addresses the challenge of real-time exploration and goal-oriented navigation (39 citations). His 2016 probabilistic framework for real-time 3D scene segmentation further demonstrates his versatility, applying spatial, temporal, and semantic reasoning to dynamic object tracking in robotic vision systems (46 citations). His body of work reflects a consistent commitment to building robots that operate reliably in unstructured, real-world human environments — a challenge that remains central to modern robotics research.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1A Collaborative Wheelchair System95 citations · 2008
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- 4Evaluation of the Collaborative Wheelchair Assistant System25 citations · 2007
- 5Collaborative path planning for a robotic wheelchair8 citations · 2008
- 6Elastic Path Controller for Assistive Devices7 citations · 2005
- 7Experiments on collaborative learning with a robotic wheelchair4 citations · 2007
- 8Mission-oriented design: A fully autonomous mobile urban robot2 citations · 2010