Papers
74
Total Citations
1,190
H-Index
18
About
Sebastian Wrede is a prominent robotics researcher whose work spans human-robot interaction, robot middleware, and model-driven software engineering for robotic systems. Based at the intersection of computer science and robotics, Wrede has made foundational contributions to how robots are programmed, integrated, and deployed in real-world environments. Among his most influential contributions is his research on domain-specific languages and modeling in robotics, with two landmark survey papers (2014, 90 citations; 2016, 70 citations) establishing him as a leading voice in applying model-driven engineering to robotic software development. His work on the Robotics Service Bus (RSB), a scalable middleware framework for experimental robotics (2011, 78 citations), has provided the community with essential infrastructure tools. Wrede has also advanced kinesthetic robot teaching, exploring how users intuitively interact with redundant robots in training scenarios (2013, 100 citations). Beyond technical infrastructure, Wrede has championed naturalistic human-robot interaction research, contributing valuable datasets such as the Vernissage corpus and conducting studies in museum guide scenarios and smart home environments. His work on smart factories further demonstrates his commitment to translating research into practical, industrial applications. Collectively, his publications have accumulated over 500 citations, reflecting sustained influence across multiple robotics subfields.
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- 2A Survey on Domain-Specific Languages in Robotics90 citations · 2014
- 3A middleware for collaborative research in experimental robotics78 citations · 2011
- 4A Survey on Domain-specific Modeling and Languages in Robotics70 citations · 2016
- 5How to Open an Interaction Between Robot and Museum Visitor?51 citations · 2017
- 6The vernissage corpus: A conversational Human-Robot-Interaction dataset33 citations · 2013
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