Andreas Hertle
Papers
9
Total Citations
124
H-Index
7
About
Andreas Hertle is a roboticist whose research sits at the intersection of autonomous mobile manipulation, multi-robot coordination, and search and rescue. His work addresses fundamental challenges in enabling robots to operate intelligently in complex, real-world environments—from cluttered households to disaster zones. Hertle made key contributions to integrated task and motion planning, developing frameworks that seamlessly combine perception, symbolic planning, and action execution for humanoid robots performing mobile manipulation in cluttered settings. He also advanced multi-robot coverage search in three dimensions, a critical capability for inspection and rescue missions. His most cited work, “Multirobot Coverage Search in Three Dimensions” (26 citations), tackles efficient object search and environment observation, while his research on inverse surface reachability maps (12 citations) helps household robots identify optimal poses for interacting with surfaces like tables and shelves. A core member of the University of Freiburg’s RescueRobots team, Hertle contributed to software that placed first in the 2005 and 2006 RoboCup Rescue autonomy challenges. He also championed community-driven development of reusable software modules for search and rescue robots, amplifying the impact of his work across the field.
Research Focus
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Top Papers
- 1Multirobot Coverage Search in Three Dimensions26 citations · 2015
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- 3Integrated Symbolic Planning in the Tidyup-Robot Project17 citations · 2013
- 4RoboCupRescue - Robot League Team RescueRobots Freiburg (Germany)17 citations · 2010
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- 6How Much Does a Household Robot Need to Know in Order to Tidy Up11 citations · 2013
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- 9Efficient extensible path planning on 3D terrain using behavior modules3 citations · 2013