2026 Kai O. Arras: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	46	6722	6528	319	309	140	11735

Overview

Kai O. Arras is affiliated with Robert Bosch (Germany) and has contributed extensively to research in areas related to robotics, autonomous systems, and engineering. Their work spans multiple facets of computer science and engineering, emphasizing applications in robotics and autonomous vehicle technology.

Their research domains include:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Control and Systems Engineering
Automotive Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Main topics covered in their research involve:

Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Human Pose and Action Recognition
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Kai O. Arras has published regularly in several venues, notably:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
IFAC-PapersOnLine
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Recent publications include:

"Bench-MR: A Motion Planning Benchmark for Wheeled Mobile Robots," 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"CIAO⁎: MPC-based Safe Motion Planning in Predictable Dynamic Environments," 2020, IFAC-PapersOnLine
"Cross-Modal Analysis of Human Detection for Robotics: An Industrial Case Study," 2021, 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
"The e-Bike motor assembly: Towards advanced robotic manipulation for flexible manufacturing," 2023, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
"The ILIAD Safety Stack: Human-Aware Infrastructure-Free Navigation of Industrial Mobile Robots," 2023, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kai O. Arras include:

Achim J. Lilienthal
Luigi Palmieri
Andrey Rudenko
Martin Magnusson

Their contribution to the fields of autonomous mobility and robotics is reflected in a broad output of research addressing safety, motion planning, human-robot interaction, and industrial applications. Their work incorporates rigorous system engineering approaches and aims to advance the development of robotic systems capable of operating in complex, dynamic environments.

Best Publications

Human motion trajectory prediction: a survey:

Andrey Rudenko;Andrey Rudenko;Luigi Palmieri;Michael Herman;Kris M. Kitani

1098
Citations
Using Boosted Features for the Detection of People in 2D Range Data

K.O. Arras;O.M. Mozos;W. Burgard

527
Citations
People detection in RGB-D data

Luciano Spinello;Kai O. Arras

499
Citations
People tracking with human motion predictions from social forces

Matthias Luber;Johannes A. Stork;Gian Diego Tipaldi;Kai O. Arras

403
Citations
Robox at expo.02: A Large Scale Installation of Personal Robots

Roland Siegwart;Kai Oliver Arras;Samir Bouabdallah;Daniel Burnier

342
Citations
SPENCER: A Socially Aware Service Robot for Passenger Guidance and Help in Busy Airports

Rudolph Triebel;Kai Oliver Arras;Rachid Alami;Lucas Beyer

298
Citations
People tracking in RGB-D data with on-line boosted target models

Matthias Luber;Luciano Spinello;Kai O. Arras

246
Citations
Feature Extraction and Scene Interpretation for Map-Based Navigation and Map Building

Kai Oliver Arras;Roland Yves Siegwart

228
Citations
Efficient people tracking in laser range data using a multi-hypothesis leg-tracker with adaptive occlusion probabilities

K.O. Arras;S. Grzonka;M. Luber;W. Burgard

207
Citations
Inverse Reinforcement Learning algorithms and features for robot navigation in crowds: An experimental comparison

Dizan Vasquez;Billy Okal;Kai Oliver Arras

207
Citations
Socially-aware robot navigation: A learning approach

Matthias Luber;Luciano Spinello;Jens Silva;Kai O. Arras

198
Citations
2D mapping of cluttered indoor environments by means of 3D perception

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

190
Citations
A layered approach to people detection in 3D range data

Luciano Spinello;Kai O. Arras;Rudolph Triebel;Roland Siegwart

187
Citations
MeTRAbs: Metric-Scale Truncation-Robust Heatmaps for Absolute 3D Human Pose Estimation

Istvan Sarandi;Timm Linder;Kai Oliver Arras;Bastian Leibe

183
Citations
Multisensor on-the-fly localization:: Precision and reliability for applications

Kai Oliver Arras;Nicola Tomatis;Björn Jensen;Roland Siegwart

174
Citations
Audio-based human activity recognition using Non-Markovian Ensemble Voting

Johannes A. Stork;Luciano Spinello;Jens Silva;Kai O. Arras

144
Citations
Real-time obstacle avoidance for polygonal robots with a reduced dynamic window

K.O. Arras;J. Persson;N. Tomatis;R. Siegwart

143
Citations
On multi-modal people tracking from mobile platforms in very crowded and dynamic environments

Timm Linder;Stefan Breuers;Bastian Leibe;Kai O. Arras

142
Citations
FLIRT - Interest regions for 2D range data

Gian Diego Tipaldi;Kai O. Arras

141
Citations
RRT-based nonholonomic motion planning using any-angle path biasing

Luigi Palmieri;Sven Koenig;Kai O. Arras

140
Citations
Do we want to share our lives and bodies with robots? A 2000 people survey

Kai O. Arras;Daniela Cerqui

134
Citations
Learning socially normative robot navigation behaviors with Bayesian inverse reinforcement learning

Billy Okal;Kai O. Arras

128
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Siegwart ETH Zurich

Bastian Leibe RWTH Aachen University

Wolfram Burgard University of Technology Nuremberg

Achim J. Lilienthal Technical University of Munich

Moritz Diehl University of Freiburg

Sven Koenig University of Southern California

Giorgio Grisetti Sapienza University of Rome

Gaurav S. Sukhatme University of Southern California

Zoltan-Csaba Marton Agile Robots AG

Illah Nourbakhsh Carnegie Mellon University

External Links

Personal website of Kai O. Arras Google Scholar page

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