Papers
133
Total Citations
1,908
H-Index
22
About
Dominik Henrich is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work spans human-robot collaboration, surgical robotics, motion planning, and robot programming. Based at the University of Bayreuth, he has made foundational contributions to making robots safer, smarter, and more accessible across both industrial and medical contexts. Henrich's most celebrated achievement includes developing one of the world's first force-controlled robots for otoneurosurgery (128 citations), demonstrating how robotics can deliver life-changing precision in delicate medical procedures. Equally influential is his image-based collision detection framework for industrial robots (114 citations), which uses multi-camera systems to enable safe human-robot cooperation — a challenge he revisited repeatedly, producing landmark work on 3D collision detection using depth images (57 citations) and safe pick-and-place operations (55 citations). His research extends into trajectory planning for flexible redundant manipulators using genetic algorithms (61 citations), deformable object manipulation (94 citations), and probabilistic intention recognition for human-robot collaboration (61 citations). More recently, his One-Shot robot programming approach (45 citations) has opened robotics to non-expert users, addressing a critical barrier to widespread adoption. Collectively, Henrich's body of work has fundamentally shaped how robots operate safely alongside humans in complex, real-world environments.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Development of the First Force‐Controlled Robot for Otoneurosurgery128 citations · 2003
- 2
- 3Robot Manipulation of Deformable Objects94 citations · 2000
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7Fast Motion Planning by Parallel Processing – a Review56 citations · 1997
- 8Human-robot cooperation: safe pick-and-place operations55 citations · 2006
- 9
- 10