Angelika Peer

Short CV

Angelika Peer received her engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 2004 and the Doctor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering in 2008 from Technische Universität München. From 2004-2008 she has been research assistant at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering of the same university. Her research interests are in human-robot interaction with focus on telepresence and teleaction systems, brain and body computer interfaces, physical/haptic human-robot interaction, and human motor control. She is chair of the RAS Technical Committee on Telerobotics, Member of the RAS Technical Committee on Haptics, Secretary of the Eurohaptics Society, and member of the program committee of several international conferences in the fields of robotics, human-robot interaction, and multimodal human-system interaction. She has organized several workshops and special sessions at international conferences and was one of the main organizers of the “Telerobotics Summerschool 2010”. She has further edited a series of special issues and is editor of the book “The sense of Touch and Its Rendering”. From 2011 to 2014 she has been a senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering of the Technische Universität München and leader of a human-robot interaction group of the institute. Since September 2014, Angelika Peer has been a full professor at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England.

Selected Awards

• 2010, Citation for Meritorious Service in recognition of the outstanding work as a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Haptics
• 2010, Nominated for EURON Georges Giralt PhD Award2010 for the PhD thesis “Design and Control of Admittance-Type Telemanipulation Systems”
• 2009, Award for outstanding scientific work, Bund der Freunde of the Technische Universität München e.V., for the PhD thesis “Design and Control of Admittance-Type Telemanipulation Systems”
• 2008, student travel grant award for the paper “Robust Stability Analysis of Bilateral Teleoperation Systems Using Admittance-Type Devices”
• 2004, Werner von Siemens Excellence Award 2004 for the diploma thesis “Modelling and Control of a Force-Feedback Actuator for Steer-by-Wire Systems”

Research Interests

Angelika Peer’s research interests are in human-robot interaction with special focus on telepresence and teleaction systems, brain and body computer interfaces, physical/haptic human-robot interaction, and human motor control. Her research in these areas builds on top of fundamental technology and algorithms like the design and control of human-system interfaces, algorithms for human intention recognition, and the investigation of human adaptation and decision-making capabilities. Her research is characterized by a very interdisciplinary approach that combines methods originating from control, robotics, mechatronics, computer science, neuroscience, and psychology.

Selected Publications

• Feth, D.; Groten, R.; Peer, A.; Buss, M.: Haptic Human–Robot Collaboration: Comparison of Robot Partner Implementations in Terms of Human-Likeness and Task Performance. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 20 (2), 2011, 173-189.

• Passenberg, Carolina; Peer, Angelika; Buss, Martin: A survey of environment-, operator-, and task-adapted controllers for teleoperation systems. Mechatronics 20 (7), 2010, 787-801.

• Stefanov, N.; Peer, A.; Buss, M.;: Online Intention Recognition for Computer-Assisted Teleoperation. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010.

• Buss, M.; Peer, A.; Schauss, T.; Stefanov, N.; Unterhinninghofen, U.; Behrendt, S.; Leupold, J.; Durkovic, M.; Sarkis, M.: Development of a Multi-modal Multi-user Telepresence and Teleaction System. The International Journal of Robotics Research 29 (10), 2009, 1298-1316.

• Groten, R.; Feth, D.; Goshy, H.; Peer, A.; Kenny, D.A.; Buss, M.: Experimental Analysis of Dominance in Haptic Collaboration. Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009.

• Peer, A.; Buss, M.: A New Admittance-Type Haptic Interface for Bimanual Manipulations. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 13 (4), 2008, 416-428.

• Peer, A.; Buss, M.: Robust Stability Analysis of a Bilateral Teleoperation System Using the Patameter Space Approach. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on intelligent Robot and Systems, 2008.

• Stanczyk, Bartlomiej; Peer, Angelika; Buss, Martin: Development of a high-performance haptic telemanipulation system with dissimilar kinematics. Advanced Robotics 20 (11), 2006, 1303-1320.

• Pongrac, Helena; Peer, Angelika; Färber, Berthold; Buss, Martin: Effects of Varied Human Movement Control on Task Performance and Feeling of Telepresence. In: Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios. Springer Science + Business Media.

• Buss, Martin; Lee, Kwang-Kyu; Nitzsche, Norbert; Peer, Angelika; Stanczyk, Bartlomiej; Unterhinninghofen, Ulrich: Advanced Telerobotics: Dual-Handed and Mobile Remote Manipulation. In: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Springer Science + Business Media.