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Johan W.M. Lagerberg is a researcher whose work has made meaningful contributions to the fields of robotics, specifically robot calibration and autonomous mobile systems. Based primarily at the University of Amsterdam, Lagerberg focused on a pressing practical challenge in industrial robotics: the significant production time lost to manual robot teaching and re-teaching. His most influential contribution, "A Low-Cost Pose-Measuring System for Robot Calibration" (1995, 27 citations), addressed this by developing an innovative, portable calibration system that uses a camera mounted in the robot's hand alongside a reference object to construct accurate kinematic models — enabling more reliable off-line programming. His complementary work on "Eye in Hand Robot Calibration" (1994) further refined this approach, emphasizing portability, accuracy, and affordability. Beyond calibration, Lagerberg demonstrated versatility by contributing to software architectures for autonomous mobile robots and applying simulation modeling to real-world infrastructure challenges, such as evaluating automatic highway debiting systems using virtual sensor modeling. Though his citation counts are modest, his research addressed genuinely practical engineering problems, bridging the gap between theoretical robotics and cost-effective industrial application at a formative period in the field's development.