Papers
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Total Citations
317
H-Index
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About
Stefana Parascho is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of computational design, robotic fabrication, and architectural construction. Her work spans three deeply interconnected domains: cooperative robotics for construction, fiber composite systems, and human-robot collaboration in the built environment. Parascho's most influential contributions center on developing robotic methods for assembling complex architectural structures. Her work on robotic vault construction (56 citations) demonstrated how cooperative robotic systems can fabricate structurally sophisticated brick vaults, while her research on scaffold-free assembly using structural rigidity theory pushes the boundaries of autonomous spatial construction. Her 2022 survey on construction robotics (37 citations) has become an important reference for the field, mapping the trajectory from simple automation toward richer, collaborative fabrication paradigms. Earlier in her career, Parascho contributed to landmark fiber composite research at ICD/ITKE Stuttgart, including the beetle-inspired Research Pavilion 2013-14 (32 citations), which demonstrated biologically informed computational fabrication at architectural scale. Perhaps most distinctively, Parascho champions human-robot collaborative construction, exploring how humans and robots can co-create unplanned spatial structures in real time. With over 260 cumulative citations, her research is reshaping how architects, engineers, and roboticists think about collective intelligence in construction.
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Top Papers
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- 2Construction Robotics: From Automation to Collaboration37 citations · 2022
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- 5Towards Automatic Path Planning for Robotically Assembled Spatial Structures23 citations · 2018
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- 7Bridging the collectives: A review of collective human–robot construction21 citations · 2021
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- 9The Brick Labyrinth14 citations · 2018
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