Papers
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Total Citations
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About
Dejan Pangercic is a prominent robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of autonomous robot perception, cognitive control, and human-robot collaboration. His research has fundamentally advanced how service robots understand and interact with everyday environments, particularly in domestic and kitchen settings. Among his most celebrated contributions is the landmark "Robotic Roommates Making Pancakes" experiment (2011, 222 citations), in which two robots autonomously retrieved web-based instructions and collaboratively executed a complex cooking task — a striking demonstration of web-enabled robot intelligence. This work complemented his broader exploration of the World Wide Web as a knowledge resource for autonomous robots, detailed in his highly cited "Web-Enabled Robots" article. Pangercic has made substantial contributions to 3D semantic mapping, object categorization, and perception systems that allow robots to recognize and manipulate everyday objects with increasing reliability. His research also extends to safety-critical domains, contributing to the SHERPA project (129 citations), which developed ground-aerial robotic platforms for alpine search and rescue operations. Through cognition-enabled control frameworks and generalized manipulation systems for navigating kitchen environments, his cumulative body of work — spanning hundreds of citations — has meaningfully shaped the trajectory of intelligent, autonomous service robotics.
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- 1Robotic roommates making pancakes222 citations · 2011
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- 4Web-Enabled Robots97 citations · 2011
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- 7Real-time CAD model matching for mobile manipulation and grasping73 citations · 2009
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