Klas Kronander
Papers
12
Total Citations
772
H-Index
10
About
Klas Kronander is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robot learning, motion control, and physical human-robot interaction. His research centers on enabling robots to acquire and execute complex manipulation skills through demonstration, with a particular focus on impedance and compliance control — the means by which robots regulate their stiffness and responsiveness during contact with the environment. Kronander's most influential contribution, "Stability Considerations for Variable Impedance Control" (2016, 270 citations), addressed a critical and frequently overlooked problem: ensuring that robots remain stable when their impedance parameters change dynamically during task execution. This work has become a foundational reference in the field. His 2013 paper on learning compliant manipulation through kinesthetic and tactile interaction (159 citations) demonstrated how robots could be taught nuanced physical skills directly through human guidance, moving beyond purely kinematic demonstrations to capture force and stiffness constraints. Running through his body of work is a commitment to dynamical systems as a principled framework for motion generation, enabling robots to generalize learned behaviors fluidly to new situations — illustrated vividly even in playful applications like robotic minigolf. Collectively, his research has helped establish safer, more adaptable robots capable of working alongside humans in unstructured, real-world environments.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Stability Considerations for Variable Impedance Control270 citations · 2016
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- 3Passive Interaction Control With Dynamical Systems85 citations · 2015
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- 5Incremental motion learning with locally modulated dynamical systems52 citations · 2015
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- 7Learning to Play Minigolf: A Dynamical System-Based Approach26 citations · 2012
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- 9Learning to control planar hitting motions in a minigolf-like task23 citations · 2011
- 10Control and Learning of Compliant Manipulation Skills10 citations · 2015