Torsten Lilge
Papers
8
Total Citations
86
H-Index
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About
Torsten Lilge is a robotics researcher whose work spans soft robotics control, autonomous trajectory planning, and robotics education. His research has made meaningful contributions across several interconnected areas of modern robotics, bridging theoretical foundations with practical implementation. Lilge's earliest highly cited work introduced a novel antagonistic impedance controller for pneumatically actuated robot joints (2015, 32 citations), successfully transferring soft-robotics control concepts to flexible joint systems — a contribution that helped advance compliant robot manipulation. He further explored intrinsic compliance through an investigation of elastic energy storage for dynamic cyclic tasks, using basketball dribbling as a compelling testbed to study speed, energetics, and robustness in human-like robot behavior (2018, 10 citations). His trajectory planning research has grown increasingly prominent, with the development of circular fields frameworks enabling safe, reactive obstacle avoidance for robotic manipulators in cluttered and dynamic environments (2021–2025, accumulating over 30 citations collectively). These methods address critical challenges in real-world robot deployment. Beyond technical research, Lilge has demonstrated a commitment to community building through the *Roboterfabrik* initiative, a pioneering German network connecting schools, universities, and industry to unify and modernize robotics education — reflecting a broader vision for how the field should grow and inspire the next generation of roboticists.
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Top Papers
- 1Antagonistic Impedance Control for Pneumatically Actuated Robot Joints32 citations · 2015
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- 6Roboterfabrik6 citations · 2018
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