Papers
20
Total Citations
377
H-Index
9
About
Georg Arbeiter is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction, assistive robotics, and robot perception. Based primarily at the Fraunhofer Institute, he has made significant contributions to the development of service robots designed to support elderly people in domestic environments, most notably through his work on the Care-O-bot® 3 platform — a vision of a versatile robot butler that drew widespread attention with 40 citations. Arbeiter's most influential contribution lies in designing intuitive human-robot interaction frameworks for semi-autonomous systems, recognizing that robots still require human oversight for complex real-world tasks. His 2012 paper on user-centered dynamic-autonomy interaction concepts accumulated 78 citations, while a 2014 follow-up on semi-autonomous service robot interfaces earned 57, reflecting sustained community interest in this challenge. He has also advanced robot perception capabilities, evaluating 3D feature descriptors for surface geometry classification (39 citations) and proposing novel sensor fusion methods combining time-of-flight and stereo depth data. His work on autonomous dirt detection further demonstrates his breadth across practical robotic applications. Through European collaborative projects such as SRS, Arbeiter has helped translate academic robotics research into robust, deployable systems, making him a noteworthy contributor to assistive and service robotics.
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- 3Care-O-bot® 3 – Vision of a Robot Butler40 citations · 2013
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- 5Autonomous dirt detection for cleaning in office environments27 citations · 2013
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- 8Combination of Time-of-Flight depth and stereo using semiglobal optimization21 citations · 2011
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- 10A framework for object training and 6 DoF pose estimation8 citations · 2012