Papers
42
Total Citations
1,515
H-Index
22
About
Markus Rickert is a prominent researcher in human-robot interaction (HRI) and intelligent manufacturing robotics, whose work has fundamentally shaped how humans and robots collaborate in both industrial and everyday settings. With a career spanning over fifteen years, Rickert has accumulated more than 870 citations across his most influential publications, reflecting the sustained impact of his research on the robotics community. Rickert's foundational contributions emerged from his early investigations into physical human-robot cooperation, most notably his 2008 work on handing-over tasks (211 citations), which established key principles for intuitive, training-free interaction between humans and robot manipulators. Alongside this, his research on joint-action frameworks for assembly tasks demonstrated how smart sensor-rich environments could enable genuine human-robot teamwork in industrial contexts. His later work expanded into activity recognition, semantic robot programming, and knowledge-driven manufacturing, including the influential SMErobotics project (107 citations), which addressed flexible automation for small and medium enterprises. Rickert has also pioneered ontology-based approaches linking CAD data to robot task planning, and explored Plug & Produce architectures for seamless device integration. His interdisciplinary reach extends to cognitive science, evidenced by research showing that biologically realistic robot motion significantly improves human acceptance of robotic partners.
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Top Papers
- 1Human-robot interaction in handing-over tasks211 citations · 2008
- 2SMErobotics: Smart Robots for Flexible Manufacturing107 citations · 2019
- 3Joint-action for humans and industrial robots for assembly tasks90 citations · 2008
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- 9Design Principles for Safety in Human-Robot Interaction49 citations · 2010
- 10A Generic Plug & Produce System Composed of Semantic OPC UA Skills47 citations · 2021