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Henrik I. Christensen is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields within computer science and engineering, with a substantial focus on robotics and autonomous systems.

Their research is reflected in a diverse range of recent publications covering topics such as public health robotics, robotic learning datasets, autonomous vehicles, and robotics roadmaps. Notable papers include:

  • Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases, 2020, Science Robotics
  • Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition, 2021, Foundations and Trends in Robotics
  • Learning hierarchical relationships for object-goal navigation, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Autonomous vehicles for micro-mobility, 2021, Autonomous Intelligent Systems

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with repeated coauthors including David Paz, Hengyuan Zhang, Jiaming Hu, Christopher D'Ambrosia, and David de la Paz.

Their publication record is concentrated in several venues known for robotics and automation research, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
  • Science Robotics
  • Sensors
  • Foundations and Trends in Robotics

Henrik I. Christensen's book publication includes Computer Vision Systems (2023), released by Springer Science+Business Media.

Their main fields of study consist of Computer Science and Engineering, with significant contributions in several subfields such as:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering

The central topics of their research focus on robotics and related technologies, including:

  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Best Publications

  • Automatic grasp planning using shape primitives

    A.T. Miller;S. Knoop;H.I. Christensen;P.K. Allen

  • Computational visual attention systems and their cognitive foundations: A survey

    Simone Frintrop;Erich Rome;Henrik I. Christensen

  • Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases.

    Guang-Zhong Yang;Bradley J. Nelson;Robin R. Murphy;Howie Choset

  • Survey on Visual Servoing for Manipulation

    Danica Kragic;Henrik I Christensen

  • "My Roomba is Rambo": intimate home appliances

    Ja-Young Sung;Lan Guo;Rebecca E. Grinter;Henrik I. Christensen

  • Evaluating Human-Robot Interaction Focusing on the Holistic Interaction Experience

    James Everett Young;James Everett Young;Ja-Young Sung;Amy Voida;Ehud Sharlin

  • Graphical SLAM - a self-correcting map

    J. Folkesson;H. Christensen

  • Approximation and online algorithms for multidimensional bin packing: A survey

    Henrik I. Christensen;Arindam Khan;Sebastian Pokutta;Prasad Tetali

  • Medical and Health-Care Robotics

    A M Okamura;M J Matarić;H I Christensen

  • Triangulation-based fusion of sonar data with application in robot pose tracking

    O. Wijk;H.I. Christensen

  • Navigation for human-robot interaction tasks

    P. Althaus;H. Ishiguro;T. Kanda;T. Miyashita

  • Evaluation of Passing Distance for Social Robots

    Elena Pacchierotti;Henrik Christensen;Patric Jensfelt

  • A Discriminative Approach to Robust Visual Place Recognition

    Andrzej Pronobis;Barbara Caputo;Patric Jensfelt;Henrik Christensen

  • 2D mapping of cluttered indoor environments by means of 3D perception

    O. Wulf;K.O. Arras;H.I. Christensen;B. Wagner

  • Visual Place Categorization: Problem, dataset, and algorithm

    Jianxin Wu;Henrik I. Christensen;James M. Rehg

  • Evaluation of Architectures for Mobile Robotics

    Anders Orebäck;Henrik I. Christensen

  • Situated Dialogue and Spatial Organization: What, Where… and Why?

    Geert-Jan M. Kruijff;Hendrik Zender;Patric Jensfelt;Henrik I. Christensen

  • Vision SLAM in the Measurement Subspace

    J. Folkesson;P. Jensfelt;H.I. Christensen

  • Vision as Process: Basic Research on Computer Vision Systems

    H. I. Christensen;Alain Chehikian;J. L. Crowley

  • Domestic robot ecology - an initial framework to unpack long-term acceptance of robots at home

    JaYoung Sung;Rebecca E. Grinter;Henrik I. Christensen

  • Robots in the wild: understanding long-term use

    JaYoung Sung;Henrik I. Christensen;Rebecca E. Grinter

Frequent Co-Authors

Patric Jensfelt
Patric Jensfelt Royal Institute of Technology
Danica Kragic
Danica Kragic Royal Institute of Technology
Rebecca E. Grinter
Rebecca E. Grinter Georgia Institute of Technology
Frank Dellaert
Frank Dellaert Georgia Institute of Technology
James L. Crowley
James L. Crowley Grenoble Alpes University
Barbara Caputo
Barbara Caputo Polytechnic University of Turin
Finn Verner Jensen
Finn Verner Jensen Aalborg University
Ruzena Bajcsy
Ruzena Bajcsy University of California, Berkeley
Lars Petersson
Lars Petersson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Gregory D. Hager
Gregory D. Hager Johns Hopkins University

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