Papers
10
Total Citations
324
H-Index
9
About
Jens Hilljegerdes is a leading roboticist specializing in bio-inspired locomotion for extreme environments, with a career spanning space exploration, subsea inspection, and agricultural robotics. His most influential work centers on developing multi-legged robots capable of climbing, walking, and navigating unstructured terrains. He was the driving force behind SpaceClimber (86 citations), a six-legged, energy-efficient robot designed for extraterrestrial surface exploration on steep gradients, and contributed to the LUNARES project, which explored lunar crater exploration using heterogeneous multi-robot systems. Hilljegerdes also led the development of FlatFish (73 citations), a compact subsea-resident autonomous underwater vehicle for industrial inspection, and the MANTIS robot (27 citations), a multi-legged platform for versatile locomotion. His earlier work on the ARAMIES four-legged climbing robot (22 citations) established foundational control methods using Bezier-spline-based rhythmic motion patterns. More recently, his comparative study of agricultural and space robots (10 citations, 2024) demonstrates his ongoing commitment to cross-domain innovation. With over 300 total citations, Hilljegerdes’s contributions have advanced the state of the art in legged robotics, enabling robust mobility in the most challenging environments on Earth and beyond.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Development of the six‐legged walking and climbing robot SpaceClimber86 citations · 2012
- 2FlatFish - a compact subsea-resident inspection AUV73 citations · 2015
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- 4LUNARES: lunar crater exploration with heterogeneous multi robot systems30 citations · 2010
- 5Development and Control of the Multi-Legged Robot MANTIS27 citations · 2016
- 6ARAMIES: A FOUR-LEGGED CLIMBING AND WALKING ROBOT22 citations · 2005
- 7Design of an autonomous under-ice exploration system20 citations · 2013
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- 10The Construction of the Four Legged Prototype Robot ARAMIES8 citations · 2006