Sven Parusel

About

Sven Parusel is a robotics researcher whose work spans human-robot interaction, robot safety, motion control, and autonomous manipulation. His research has made significant contributions to making robots safer, more intelligent, and more capable of operating alongside humans in real-world environments. Parusel's most cited work, "Human-Like Adaptation of Force and Impedance in Stable and Unstable Interactions" (2011, 392 citations), introduced a groundbreaking learning controller that mimics human adaptability in physical interaction tasks — a foundational contribution to compliant robot control. He further advanced the field of robot safety through embedded injury knowledge in control systems (191 citations), ensuring robots can reason about the harm they may cause during human collaboration. His contributions extend to 3D object recognition for robotic grasping in cluttered environments (162 citations), aerial manipulation systems (144 citations), and the widely adopted Franka Emika robot platform (158 citations), which has become a reference standard in research and education worldwide. Parusel has also addressed assistive robotics through GARMI, a service robot designed to support elderly individuals at home (83 citations). Across his career, Parusel has consistently bridged the gap between theoretical robotics and practical, human-centered applications, earning him considerable recognition within the global robotics community.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Human-Like Adaptation of Force and Impedance in Stable and Unstable Interactions

   392 citations · 2011
2. 2
   On making robots understand safety: Embedding injury knowledge into control

   191 citations · 2012
3. 3
   Rigid 3D geometry matching for grasping of known objects in cluttered scenes

   162 citations · 2012
4. 4
   The Franka Emika Robot: A Reference Platform for Robotics Research and Education

   158 citations · 2022
5. 5
   First analysis and experiments in aerial manipulation using fully actuated redundant robot arm

   144 citations · 2013
6. 6
   Introducing GARMI - A Service Robotics Platform to Support the Elderly at Home: Design Philosophy, System Overview and First Results

   83 citations · 2021
7. 7
   A human-centered approach to robot gesture based communication within collaborative working processes

   73 citations · 2011
8. 8
   Real-time reactive motion generation based on variable attractor dynamics and shaped velocities

   66 citations · 2010
9. 9
   A truly safely moving robot has to know what injury it may cause

   47 citations · 2012
10. 10
    Cooperative bin-picking with Time-of-Flight camera and impedance controlled DLR lightweight robot III

    44 citations · 2010

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