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Most cited papers from Boston Dynamics (United States)
What are the most cited papers from Boston Dynamics (United States)?
The most cited paper from Boston Dynamics (United States) is "BigDog, the Rough-Terrain Quadruped Robot" (Marc H. Raibert, Kevin Blankespoor, Gabriel M. Nelson et al., 2008), with 1,504 citations. Next come "Biologically inspired climbing with a hexapedal robot" (429) and "Autonomous navigation for BigDog" (277).
Showing 50 of 59 papers. Every paper with more than 14 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BigDog, the Rough-Terrain Quadruped Robot Marc H. Raibert, Kevin Blankespoor, Gabriel M. Nelson et al. · IFAC Proceedings Volumes | 2008 | 1,504 |
| 2 | Biologically inspired climbing with a hexapedal robot Matthew Spenko, G. Clark Haynes, J. A. Saunders et al. · Journal of Field Robotics | Apr 2008 | 429 |
| 3 | Autonomous navigation for BigDog David Wooden, Matthew Malchano, Kevin Blankespoor et al. | May 2010 | 277 |
| 4 | Modeling and Experiments of Untethered Quadrupedal Running with a Bounding Gait: The Scout II Robot Ioannis Poulakakis, James Andrew Smith, M. Buehler · The International Journal of Robotics Research | Apr 2005 | 268 |
| 5 | AQUA: An Amphibious Autonomous Robot Gregory Dudek, Philippe Giguère, Chris Prahacs et al. · Computer | 2007 | 243 |
| 6 | Dynamics of Spiking Neurons with Electrical Coupling Carson C. Chow, Nancy Kopell · Neural Computation | Jul 2000 | 230 |
| 7 | Effects of Noisy Drive on Rhythms in Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons Christoph Börgers, Nancy Kopell · Neural Computation | 5 Feb 2005 | 225 |
| 8 | The Actuator With Mechanically Adjustable Series Compliance JONATHAN W. HURST, Joel E. Chestnutt, Alfred A. Rizzi · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | 20 Jul 2010 | 197 |
| 9 | Measuring and developing suturing technique with a virtual reality surgical simulator11All authors, except Krummel, have an affiliation with Boston Dynamics Inc., an organization that has a financial interest in the editorial content discussed in the manuscript. Robert V. O’Toole, Robert R. Playter, Thomas M. Krummel et al. · Journal of the American College of Surgeons | Jul 1999 | 195 |
| 10 | Mechanical aspects of legged locomotion control Daniel E. Koditschek, Robert J. Full, M. Buehler · Arthropod Structure & Development | Jul 2004 | 193 |
| 11 | Rapid pole climbing with a quadrupedal robot G. Clark Haynes, A. Khripin, GARY S. LYNCH et al. | May 2009 | 178 |
| 12 | On the Stability of the Passive Dynamics of Quadrupedal Running with a Bounding Gait Ioannis Poulakakis, Evangelos G. Papadopoulos, M. Buehler · The International Journal of Robotics Research | 20 Jun 2006 | 167 |
| 13 | PETMAN: A Humanoid Robot for Testing Chemical Protective Clothing Gabe Nelson, Aaron Saunders, Neil Neville et al. · Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan | 2012 | 167 |
| 14 | Optimization based full body control for the atlas robot Siyuan Feng, Eric Whitman, X Xinjilefu et al. | Nov 2014 | 166 |
| 15 | The LittleDog robot Michael Murphy, Aaron Saunders, Cassie Moreira et al. · The International Journal of Robotics Research | 7 Dec 2010 | 146 |
| 16 | Automated gait adaptation for legged robots J.D. Weingarten, Gabriel A. D. Lopes, M. Buehler et al. | 2004 | 143 |
| 17 | VLFM: Vision-Language Frontier Maps for Zero-Shot Semantic Navigation Naoki Yokoyama, Sehoon Ha, Dhruv Batra et al. | 13 May 2024 | 137 |
| 18 | Series compliance for an efficient running gait JONATHAN W. HURST, Alfred A. Rizzi · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine | Sep 2008 | 134 |
| 19 | Robotics in scansorial environments Kellar Autumn, M. Buehler, Mark R. Cutkosky et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE | 27 May 2005 | 131 |
| 20 | The RiSE climbing robot: body and leg design Arrun Saunders, Daniel I. Goldman, Robert J. Full et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE | 5 May 2006 | 104 |
| 21 | Autonomous navigation of a humanoid robot over unknown rough terrain using a laser range sensor Koichi Nishiwaki, Joel E. Chestnutt, Satoshi Kagami · The International Journal of Robotics Research | 17 Aug 2012 | 98 |
| 22 | Head gestures for perceptual interfaces: The role of context in improving recognition Louis‐Philippe Morency, Candace L. Sidner, Christopher H. T. Lee et al. · Artificial Intelligence | 20 Apr 2007 | 95 |
| 23 | BigDog R. Playter, M. Buehler, M. Raibert · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE | 5 May 2006 | 92 |
| 24 | The Distribution of Forces between the Upper and Lower Back during Load Carriage Michael E. LaFiandra, Everett A. Harman · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise | Mar 2004 | 77 |
| 25 | Design and analysis of a soft mobile robot composed of multiple thermally activated joints driven by a single actuator Nadia G. Cheng, Genya Ishigami, Stephan Hawthorne et al. | May 2010 | 72 |
| 26 | Mobile Robotic Platform for Contactless Vital Sign Monitoring Hen‐Wei Huang, Jack Chen, Peter Ray Chai et al. · Cyborg and Bionic Systems | 2022 | 71 |
| 27 | TOWARDS LEGGED AMPHIBIOUS MOBILE ROBOTICS Chris Prahacs, Aaron Saudners, Matthew K. Smith et al. · Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) | 17 Aug 2011 | 69 |
| 28 | The PETMAN and Atlas Robots at Boston Dynamics Gabe Nelson, Aaron Saunders, Robert R. Playter | 10 Oct 2018 | 61 |
| 29 | A planar flopping robot with one actuator: design, simulation, and experimental results Akihiro Sato, M. Buehler | 12 Apr 2005 | 60 |
| 30 | Robust multi-sensor, day/night 6-DOF pose estimation for a dynamic legged vehicle in GPS-denied environments Jeremy Ma, Sara Susca, Max Bajracharya et al. | May 2012 | 57 |
| 31 | EVORA: Deep Evidential Traversability Learning for Risk-Aware Off-Road Autonomy Xiaoyi Cai, Siddharth Ancha, Lakshay Sharma et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | 2024 | 46 |
| 32 | Courteous Cars Hadas Kress‐Gazit, David C. Conner, Howie Choset et al. · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine | Mar 2008 | 46 |
| 33 | Real-time pose estimation of a dynamic quadruped in GPS-denied environments for 24-hour operation Jeremy Ma, Max Bajracharya, Sara Susca et al. · The International Journal of Robotics Research | 24 Jul 2015 | 45 |
| 34 | Motion creating system for a small biped entertainment robot Y. Kuroki, Basil Blank, T. Mikami et al. | 22 Mar 2004 | 45 |
| 35 | Accelerating Robot Dynamics Gradients on a CPU, GPU, and FPGA Brian Plancher, Sabrina M. Neuman, Thomas Bourgeat et al. · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters | 9 Feb 2021 | 43 |
| 36 | High fidelity day/night stereo mapping with vegetation and negative obstacle detection for vision-in-the-loop walking Max Bajracharya, Jeremy Ma, Matt Malchano et al. | Nov 2013 | 43 |
| 37 | Assessing skill and learning in surgeons and medical students using a force feedback surgical simulator Robert V. O’Toole, Robert R. Playter, Thomas Krümmel et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 1998 | 39 |
| 38 | Data-driven Koopman operators for model-based shared control of human–machine systems Alexander Broad, Ian Abraham, Todd Murphey et al. · The International Journal of Robotics Research | 10 Jun 2020 | 37 |
| 39 | Flow-Through Policies for Hybrid Controller Synthesis Applied to Fully Actuated Systems David C. Conner, Howie Choset, A.A. Rizzi · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | 30 Jan 2009 | 37 |
| 40 | Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning Allison Pinosky, Ian Abraham, Alexander Broad et al. · The International Journal of Robotics Research | 2 Jun 2022 | 36 |
| 41 | A bipedal running robot with one actuator per leg Neil Neville, M. Buehler, Inna Sharf | 10 Jul 2006 | 36 |
| 42 | Control and Stability Analysis of Limit Cycles in a Hopping Robot Mojtaba Ahmadi, Hannah H. Michalska, M. Buehler · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | Jun 2007 | 35 |
| 43 | High degree-of-freedom dynamic manipulation Michael Murphy, Benjamin J. Stephens, Yeuhi Abe et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE | May 2012 | 31 |
| 44 | A virtual surgery simulator using advanced haptic feedback Robert R. Playter, Marc H. Raibert · Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies | 1997 | 29 |
| 45 | A Modular and High-Precision Motion Control System With an Integrated Motor Farhad Aghili, John M. Hollerbach, M. Buehler · IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics | Jun 2007 | 28 |
| 46 | Modeling and implementation of solder-activated joints for single-actuator, centimeter-scale robotic mechanisms Maria Telleria, Malik Hansen, Don Campbell et al. | May 2010 | 27 |
| 47 | Simulation and Retargeting of Complex Multi-Character Interactions Yunbo Zhang, Deepak Gopinath, Yuting Ye et al. | 19 Jul 2023 | 25 |
| 48 | Modulation of force transmission to the head while carrying a backpack load at different walking speeds Kenneth G. Holt, ROBERT C. WAGENAAR, Masayoshi Kubo et al. · Journal of Biomechanics | 13 Oct 2004 | 24 |
| 49 | Dynamic whole-body robotic manipulation Yeuhi Abe, Benjamin J. Stephens, Michael Murphy et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE | 17 May 2013 | 23 |
| 50 | Integrating planning and control for single-bodied wheeled mobile robots David C. Conner, Howie Choset, Alfred A. Rizzi · Autonomous Robots | 19 Jan 2011 | 23 |
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