2026 G. Hirzinger: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	31	3258	109	127	5744

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

3258

109

127

5744

Best Publications

Adaptive and generic corner detection based on the accelerated segment test

Elmar Mair;Gregory D. Hager;Darius Burschka;Michael Suppa

713
Citations
The KUKA-DLR Lightweight Robot arm - a new reference platform for robotics research and manufacturing

Rainer Bischoff;Johannes Kurth;Guenter Schreiber;Ralf Koeppe

487
Citations
Multisensory five-finger dexterous hand: The DLR/HIT Hand II

H. Liu;K. Wu;P. Meusel;N. Seitz

434
Citations
On a new generation of torque controlled light-weight robots

G. Hirzinger;A. Albu-Schaffer;M. Hahnle;I. Schaefer

421
Citations
DLR MiroSurge: a versatile system for research in endoscopic telesurgery.

Ulrich Hagn;Rainer Konietschke;Andreas Tobergte;Mathias Nickl

353
Citations
Safety Evaluation of Physical Human-Robot Interaction via Crash-Testing

Sami Haddadin;Alin Albu-Schäffer;Gerd Hirzinger

325
Citations
Cartesian impedance control techniques for torque controlled light-weight robots

A. Albu-Schaffer;G. Hirzinger

251
Citations
The modular multisensory DLR-HIT-Hand

H. Liu;P. Meusel;N. Seitz;B. Willberg

246
Citations
Registration of CAD-models to images by iterative inverse perspective matching

P. Wunsch;G. Hirzinger

173
Citations
Learning techniques in a dataglove based telemanipulation system for the DLR hand

M. Fischer;P. van der Smagt;G. Hirzinger

165
Citations
The Modular Multisensory DLR-HIT-Hand: Hardware and Software Architecture

Hong Liu;P. Meusel;G. Hirzinger;Minghe Jin

158
Citations
DLR hand II: experiments and experience with an anthropomorphic hand

C. Borst;M. Fischer;S. Haidacher;H. Liu

145
Citations
Passivity-based Object-Level Impedance Control for a Multifingered Hand

T. Wimboeck;C. Ott;G. Hirzinger

111
Citations
New insights concerning intrinsic joint elasticity for safety

Sami Haddadin;Alin Albu-Schaffer;Oliver Eiberger;Gerd Hirzinger

96
Citations
MICA - A new generation of versatile instruments in robotic surgery

Sophie Thielmann;Ulrich Seibold;Robert Haslinger;Georg Passig

92
Citations
The HIT/DLR dexterous hand: work in progress

X.H. Gao;M.H. Jin;L. Jiang;Z.W. Xie

84
Citations
Positioning mobile manipulators to perform constrained linear trajectories

F. Zacharias;C. Borst;M. Beetz;G. Hirzinger

72
Citations
Space Robotics—DLR's Telerobotic Concepts, Lightweight Arms and Articulated Hands

G. Hirzinger;B. Brunner;K. Landzettel;N. Sporer

71
Citations
Planning and control of a teleoperation system for research in minimally invasive robotic surgery

Andreas Tobergte;Rainer Konietschke;Gerd Hirzinger

67
Citations
Solving the singularity problem of non-redundant manipulators by constraint optimization

G. Schreiber;M. Otter;G. Hirzinger

65
Citations

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