The best things in life are simple. But, so are the worst ones. Simplicity is a concept that is surprisingly difficult to grasp. It fascinates me because it's really hard to properly define simplicity and I am not sure how I feel about it.
Below is a list scientific publications, CV entries and blog posts. If you like a more structured view, check the categories in the sidebar. This is my personal answer to the European Commissions Call for Evidence on Towards European open d…
This is my personal answer to the European Commissions Call for Evidence on Towards European open digital ecosystems I am writing as a private individual. I have contributed to open-source software (OSS) working for different companies and
Christian Henkel, Marco Lampacrescia, Michaela Klauck, Matteo Morelli @ IROS 2025 📄 pdf 🔗 doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.18820 Designing robotic systems to act autonomously in unforeseen environments is a challenging task. This work presents a
A robot is characterized primarily by its versatility. It is a tool that can be used for different tasks in many contexts that each have their own special challenges. This makes it inherently hard to program a robot. Especially, if the resu…
Disclaimer: This is about a book that does not exist. But if it would exist, I want to start reading it today! This book is not about becoming a billionaire. It’s not about waking up at 5 a.m., drinking celery juice, running a startup, or c…
Imagine that you are a maintainer of a widely used open source project relied upon by developers worldwide. Being a maintainer means, that you get to decide which contributions by external contributors get accepted. Now, there are two contr…
Christian Henkel, Marc Toussaint, Wolfgang Hönig @ IROS 2024 📄 pdf 🔗 doi: 10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801293 Mobile robots frequently navigate on roadmaps, i.e., graphs where edges represent safe motions, in applications such as healthcare,
Christian Henkel, Jannik Abbenseth, Marc Toussaint @ IROS 2019 📄 pdf 🔗 doi: 10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8968096 We consider multi-agent transport task problems where, e.g. in a factory setting, items have to be delivered from a given start to
Below is a list scientific publications, CV entries and blog posts. If you like a more structured view, check the categories in the sidebar. Christian Henkel, Marco Lampacrescia, Michaela Klauck, Matteo Morelli @ IROS 2025 📄 pdf 🔗 doi: 10…
Christian Henkel, Marco Lampacrescia, Michaela Klauck, Matteo Morelli @ IROS 2025 📄 pdf 🔗 doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.18820 Enrico Ghiorzi, Christian Henkel, Matteo Palmas, Michaela Klauck, Armando Tacchella @ arXiv 📄 pdf 🔗 doi: 10.48550/a…
A robot is characterized primarily by its versatility. It is a tool that can be used for different tasks in many contexts that each have their own special challenges. This makes it inherently hard to program a robot. Especially, if the resu…