Most cited papers in Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
What are the most cited papers in Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence?
The most cited paper in Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence is "A robust layered control system for a mobile robot" (Rodney A. Brooks, 1986), with 7,785 citations. Next come "Self-Assembly at All Scales" (7,462) and "Design, fabrication and control of soft robots" (5,797).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 927 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A robust layered control system for a mobile robot Rodney A. Brooks · IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation | 1986 | 7,785 |
| 2 | Self-Assembly at All Scales George M. Whitesides, Bartosz A. Grzybowski · Science | 29 Mar 2002 | 7,462 |
| 3 | Design, fabrication and control of soft robots Daniela L. Rus, Michael Thomas Tolley · Nature | 26 May 2015 | 5,797 |
| 4 | Variable structure systems with sliding modes Vadim I. Utkin · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Apr 1977 | 5,383 |
| 5 | Flocking for Multi-Agent Dynamic Systems: Algorithms and Theory Reza Olfati‐Saber · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | Mar 2006 | 5,074 |
| 6 | The dynamic window approach to collision avoidance D. Fox, Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Thrun · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine | Mar 1997 | 3,791 |
| 7 | The Uncanny Valley [From the Field] Masahiro Mori, Karl Fredric MacDorman, Norri Kageki · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine | Jun 2012 | 3,455 |
| 8 | ORB-SLAM: A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System Mur-Artal, R., Montiel, J.M.M., Tardos, J.D. · Zaguan (Universidad de Zaragoza) | 22 Dec 2015 | 3,383 |
| 9 | Biomimetic 4D printing A. Sydney Gladman, Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, Ralph G. Nuzzo et al. · Nature Materials | 25 Jan 2016 | 3,022 |
| 10 | Collective motion Tamás Vicsek, Anna Zafeiris · Physics Reports | 21 Mar 2012 | 2,983 |
| 11 | Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion Wenqi Hu, Guo Zhan Lum, Massimo Mastrangeli et al. · Nature | 24 Jan 2018 | 2,392 |
| 12 | The internet of things: a survey Shancang Li, Li Da Xu, Shanshan Zhao · Information Systems Frontiers | 25 Apr 2014 | 2,288 |
| 13 | Computing with Membranes Gheorghe Pǎun · Journal of Computer and System Sciences | Aug 2000 | 2,281 |
| 14 | Directed Assembly of One-Dimensional Nanostructures into Functional Networks Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan, Qingqiao Wei et al. · Science | 26 Jan 2001 | 2,191 |
| 15 | An integrated design and fabrication strategy for entirely soft, autonomous robots Michael F. Wehner, Ryan L. Truby, Daniel J. Fitzgerald et al. · Nature | Aug 2016 | 2,151 |
| 16 | Multigait soft robot Robert F. Shepherd, Filip Ilievski, Wonjae Choi et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 28 Nov 2011 | 2,114 |
| 17 | Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics Sangbae Kim, Cecilia Laschi, Barry Andrew Trimmer · Trends in biotechnology | 16 Apr 2013 | 2,102 |
| 18 | Electrowetting: from basics to applications Frieder G. Mugele, Jean‐Christophe Baret · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter | Jul 2005 | 2,097 |
| 19 | Efficient Bipedal Robots Based on Passive-Dynamic Walkers Steven H. Collins, Andy L. Ruina, Russ Tedrake et al. · Science | 17 Feb 2005 | 1,894 |
| 20 | Reciprocal n-Body Collision Avoidance Jur van den Berg, Stephen J. Guy, Ming–Chieh Lin et al. · Springer tracts in advanced robotics | 2011 | 1,880 |
| 21 | Rainbow: Combining Improvements in Deep Reinforcement Learning Matteo Hessel, Joseph Modayil, Hado van Hasselt et al. · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | 29 Apr 2018 | 1,798 |
| 22 | Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective Manuele Brambilla, Eliseo Ferrante, Mauro Birattari et al. · Swarm Intelligence | 16 Jan 2013 | 1,776 |
| 23 | A Formal Analysis and Taxonomy of Task Allocation in Multi-Robot Systems Brian P. Gerkey, Maja J. Matarić · The International Journal of Robotics Research | Sep 2004 | 1,745 |
| 24 | Motility-Induced Phase Separation Michael E. Cates, Julien Tailleur · Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics | 12 Jan 2015 | 1,738 |
| 25 | System architecture directions for networked sensors Jason Hill, Robert Szewczyk, Alec Woo et al. | 12 Nov 2000 | 1,717 |
| 26 | Stretchable and Foldable Silicon Integrated Circuits Dae‐Hyeong Kim, Jong‐Hyun Ahn, Won Mook Choi et al. · Science | 27 Mar 2008 | 1,680 |
| 27 | How to Make Water Run Uphill Manoj K. Chaudhury, George M. Whitesides · Science | 12 Jun 1992 | 1,673 |
| 28 | Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material Eric Michael Bratsolias Brown, Nicholas Rodenberg, John R. Amend et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 25 Oct 2010 | 1,608 |
| 29 | Creating, transporting, cutting, and merging liquid droplets by electrowetting-based actuation for digital microfluidic circuits Sung Kwon Cho, Hyejin Moon, Chang‐Jin Kim · Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems | Feb 2003 | 1,595 |
| 30 | Computation at the edge of chaos: Phase transitions and emergent computation Chris G. Langton · Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena | Jun 1990 | 1,578 |
| 31 | Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities Cecilia Laschi, Barbara Mazzolai, Matteo Cianchetti · Science Robotics | 6 Dec 2016 | 1,560 |
| 32 | A mobile robotic chemist Benjamin Burger, Phillip M. Maffettone, Vladimir V. Gusev et al. · Nature | 8 Jul 2020 | 1,558 |
| 33 | Transfer printing by kinetic control of adhesion to an elastomeric stamp Matthew A. Meitl, Zhengtao Zhu, Vipan Kumar et al. · Nature Materials | 11 Dec 2005 | 1,546 |
| 34 | Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild Steve Macenski, Tully B. Foote, Brian P. Gerkey et al. · Science Robotics | 11 May 2022 | 1,506 |
| 35 | BigDog, the Rough-Terrain Quadruped Robot Marc H. Raibert, Kevin Blankespoor, Gabriel M. Nelson et al. · IFAC Proceedings Volumes | 2008 | 1,504 |
| 36 | V-REP: A versatile and scalable robot simulation framework Eric Rohmer, Surya P. N. Singh, Marc Freese | Nov 2013 | 1,486 |
| 37 | Electrowetting-based actuation of liquid droplets for microfluidic applications Michael G. Pollack, Richard B. Fair, Alexander D. Shenderov · Applied Physics Letters | 11 Sep 2000 | 1,485 |
| 38 | Smart objects as building blocks for the Internet of things Gerd Kortuem, Fahim Kawsar, Vasughi Sundramoorthy et al. · IEEE Internet Computing | 2 Dec 2009 | 1,483 |
| 39 | Molecular de-novo design through deep reinforcement learning Marcus Olivecrona, Thomas Blaschke, Ola Engkvist et al. · Journal of Cheminformatics | 4 Sep 2017 | 1,472 |
| 40 | The Player/Stage Project: Tools for Multi-Robot and Distributed Sensor Systems Brian P. Gerkey, Richard Vaughan, Andrew B. Howard | Jul 2003 | 1,446 |
| 41 | Representations for Rigid Solids: Theory, Methods, and Systems Aristides G. Requicha · ACM Computing Surveys | Dec 1980 | 1,439 |
| 42 | Physics of microswimmers—single particle motion and collective behavior: a review J Elgeti, R G Winkler, G Gompper · Reports on Progress in Physics | 28 Apr 2015 | 1,409 |
| 43 | The SpiNNaker Project Steve B. Furber, Francesco Galluppi, Steve Temple et al. · Proceedings of the IEEE | 27 Feb 2014 | 1,373 |
| 44 | Folding DNA into Twisted and Curved Nanoscale Shapes Hendrik Dietz, Shawn M. Douglas, William M. Shih · Science | 7 Aug 2009 | 1,365 |
| 45 | A hemispherical electronic eye camera based on compressible silicon optoelectronics Heung Cho Ko, Mark P. Stoykovich, Jizhou Song et al. · Nature | 7 Aug 2008 | 1,354 |
| 46 | Mobile Sensor Network Deployment using Potential Fields: A Distributed, Scalable Solution to the Area Coverage Problem Andrew B. Howard, Maja J. Matarić, Gaurav S. Sukhatme | 2002 | 1,337 |
| 47 | Ferromagnetic soft continuum robots Yoonho Kim, German Alberto Parada, Shengduo Liu et al. · Science Robotics | 21 Aug 2019 | 1,323 |
| 48 | ALLIANCE: an architecture for fault tolerant multirobot cooperation Lynne E. Parker · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | Apr 1998 | 1,309 |
| 49 | Integrated coverage and connectivity configuration in wireless sensor networks Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, Yuanfang Zhang et al. | 5 Nov 2003 | 1,272 |
| 50 | Cyberbotics Ltd. Webots ™ : Professional Mobile Robot Simulation Olivier Michel · International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems | Mar 2004 | 1,262 |
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