Papers
12
Total Citations
308
H-Index
9
About
Fabian Paus is a leading researcher in humanoid robotics, whose work centers on enabling safe, reliable human-robot collaboration in complex, real-world environments. His most significant contribution is the development of ARMAR-6, a high-performance collaborative humanoid robot designed for industrial maintenance tasks. With over 150 combined citations for the two seminal ARMAR-6 papers, Paus has established a benchmark for integrating hardware, software, and functional architectures that allow robots to work alongside humans. Beyond hardware, his research delves into the cognitive foundations of manipulation, pioneering methods for extracting physically plausible support relations and learning internal prediction models to anticipate the effects of pushing actions. He has also advanced task-space motion coupling, graph-based semantic perception, and the representation of spatial object relations for intuitive human-robot interaction. Notably, his work on combining task planning with activity-centric access control addresses critical security and privacy challenges for assistive robots. Through these contributions, Paus is shaping a future where humanoid robots are not just capable, but also intelligent, collaborative, and trustworthy partners in everyday and industrial settings.
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- 2ARMAR-6: A Collaborative Humanoid Robot for Industrial Environments61 citations · 2018
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- 6Coupling Mobile Base and End-Effector Motion in Task Space18 citations · 2018
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- 10Graph-based visual semantic perception for humanoid robots8 citations · 2017