2026 Maren Bennewitz: 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	38	9987	9703	500	488	154	10734

Overview

Maren Bennewitz is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields within computer science and engineering, with a substantial focus on robotics and intelligent systems.

The main fields of study for Maren Bennewitz include:

Computer Science
Engineering

Their subfields of study include:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Control and Systems Engineering
Plant Science
Aerospace Engineering

Within these areas, their principal research topics cover:

Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Robot Manipulation and Learning
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Smart Agriculture and AI
Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Advanced Vision and Imaging

Their publication record reveals contributions to diverse venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
European Conference on Education official conference proceedings

Notable recent papers authored by or in collaboration with them are:

Research priorities to leverage smart digital technologies for sustainable crop production, 2024, European Journal of Agronomy
The design of self-organizing human-swarm intelligence, 2021, Adaptive Behavior
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Next-Best-View Planning in Agricultural Applications, 2022, 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Fruit Mapping with Shape Completion for Autonomous Crop Monitoring, 2022, 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Spatiotemporal Attention Enhances Lidar-Based Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments, 2024, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Maren Bennewitz include:

Nils Dengler
Jorge de Heuvel
Rohit Menon
Sicong Pan
Tobias Zaenker

Best Publications

OctoMap: an efficient probabilistic 3D mapping framework based on octrees

Armin Hornung;Kai M. Wurm;Maren Bennewitz;Cyrill Stachniss

3247
Citations
MINERVA: a second-generation museum tour-guide robot

S. Thrun;M. Bennewitz;W. Burgard;A.B. Cremers

1137
Citations
Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva

Sebastian Thrun;Michael Beetz;Maren Bennewitz;Wolfram Burgard

785
Citations
Learning Motion Patterns of People for Compliant Robot Motion

Maren Bennewitz;Wolfram Burgard;Grzegorz Cielniak;Sebastian Thrun

553
Citations
Finding and optimizing solvable priority schemes for decoupled path planning techniques for teams of mobile robots

Maren Bennewitz;Wolfram Burgard;Sebastian Thrun

326
Citations
Whole-body model-predictive control applied to the HRP-2 humanoid

J. Koenemann;A. Del Prete;Y. Tassa;E. Todorov

261
Citations
Optimizing schedules for prioritized path planning of multi-robot systems

M. Bennewitz;W. Burgard;S. Thrun

246
Citations
Real-time imitation of human whole-body motions by humanoids

Jonas Koenemann;Felix Burget;Maren Bennewitz

195
Citations
Humanoid robot localization in complex indoor environments

Armin Hornung;Kai M. Wurm;Maren Bennewitz

177
Citations
Towards a humanoid museum guide robot that interacts with multiple persons

M. Bennewitz;F. Faber;D. Joho;M. Schreiber

175
Citations
Learning motion patterns of persons for mobile service robots

M. Bennewitz;W. Burgard;S. Thrun

160
Citations
The humanoid museum tour guide Robotinho

Felix Faber;Maren Bennewitz;Clemens Eppner;Attila Gorog

149
Citations
Feature-based head pose estimation from images

T. Vatahska;M. Bennewitz;S. Behnke

145
Citations
Real-time navigation in 3D environments based on depth camera data

Daniel Maier;Armin Hornung;Maren Bennewitz

133
Citations
A visual odometry framework robust to motion blur

Alberto Pretto;Emanuele Menegatti;Maren Bennewitz;Wolfram Burgard

131
Citations
Using EM to learn motion behaviors of persons with mobile robots

M. Bennewitz;W. Burgard;S. Thrun

118
Citations
Navigation in three-dimensional cluttered environments for mobile manipulation

Armin Hornung;Mike Phillips;E. Gil Jones;Maren Bennewitz

114
Citations
Anytime search-based footstep planning with suboptimality bounds

Armin Hornung;Andrew Dornbush;Maxim Likhachev;Maren Bennewitz

113
Citations
Integrated, plan-based control of autonomous robot in human environments

M. Beetz;T. Arbuckle;T. Belker;A.B. Cremers

101
Citations
Predictive Collision Avoidance for the Dynamic Window Approach

Marcell Missura;Maren Bennewitz

92
Citations
An Efficient Probabilistic 3D Mapping Framework Based on Octrees

Armin Hornung;Kai M. Wurm;Maren Bennewitz;Cyrill Stachniss

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfram Burgard University of Technology Nuremberg

Sven Behnke University of Bonn

Cyrill Stachniss University of Bonn

Sebastian Thrun Stanford University

Dirk Schulz TU Dortmund University

Armin B. Cremers University of Bonn

Michael Beetz University of Bremen

Dieter Fox University of Washington

Frank Dellaert Georgia Institute of Technology

Nicholas Roy MIT

External Links

Personal website of Maren Bennewitz Google Scholar page

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