Topic · Soft Robotics and Applications
Most cited papers in Soft Robotics and Applications
What are the most cited papers in Soft Robotics and Applications?
The most cited paper in Soft Robotics and Applications is "Design, fabrication and control of soft robots" (Daniela L. Rus, Michael Thomas Tolley, 2015), with 5,797 citations. Next come "Hybrid Position/Force Control of Manipulators" (3,018) and "Impedance Control: An Approach to Manipulation" (2,938).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 634 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Design, fabrication and control of soft robots Daniela L. Rus, Michael Thomas Tolley · Nature | 26 May 2015 | 5,797 |
| 2 | Hybrid Position/Force Control of Manipulators Marc H. Raibert, John J. Craig · Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control | Jun 1981 | 3,018 |
| 3 | Impedance Control: An Approach to Manipulation Neville Hogan | Jul 1984 | 2,938 |
| 4 | Manipulability of Robotic Mechanisms Tsuneo Yoshikawa · The International Journal of Robotics Research | Jun 1985 | 2,581 |
| 5 | Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion Wenqi Hu, Guo Zhan Lum, Massimo Mastrangeli et al. · Nature | 24 Jan 2018 | 2,392 |
| 6 | Design and Kinematic Modeling of Constant Curvature Continuum Robots: A Review Robert James Webster III, Bryan A. Jones · The International Journal of Robotics Research | 10 Jun 2010 | 2,304 |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | Bilateral control of teleoperators with time delay Robert J. Anderson, Mark W. Spong · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control | May 1989 | 2,132 |
| 9 | Multigait soft robot Robert F. Shepherd, Filip Ilievski, Wonjae Choi et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 28 Nov 2011 | 2,114 |
| 10 | Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics Sangbae Kim, Cecilia Laschi, Barry Andrew Trimmer · Trends in biotechnology | 16 Apr 2013 | 2,102 |
| 11 | Stability and transparency in bilateral teleoperation Dale Lawrence · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | 1993 | 2,066 |
| 12 | Soft Robotic Grippers Jun Shintake, Vito Cacucciolo, Dario Floreano et al. · Advanced Materials | 7 May 2018 | 1,944 |
| 13 | Bilateral teleoperation: An historical survey Peter F. Hokayem, Mark W. Spong · Automatica | 19 Sep 2006 | 1,672 |
| 14 | Soft robotic glove for combined assistance and at-home rehabilitation Panagiotis Polygerinos, Zheng Wang, Kevin C. Galloway et al. · Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 8 Sep 2014 | 1,629 |
| 15 | Pneumatic Networks for Soft Robotics that Actuate Rapidly Bobak Mosadegh, Panagiotis Polygerinos, Christoph Keplinger et al. · Advanced Functional Materials | 10 Jan 2014 | 1,617 |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Continuum Robots for Medical Applications: A Survey Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, D. Caleb Rucker, Howie Choset · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | 2 Nov 2015 | 1,566 |
| 18 | Soft robotics: Technologies and systems pushing the boundaries of robot abilities Cecilia Laschi, Barbara Mazzolai, Matteo Cianchetti · Science Robotics | 6 Dec 2016 | 1,560 |
| 19 | On grasp choice, grasp models, and the design of hands for manufacturing tasks Mark R. Cutkosky · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | Jun 1989 | 1,519 |
| 20 | Biomedical applications of soft robotics Matteo Cianchetti, Cecilia Laschi, Arianna Menciassi et al. · Nature Reviews Materials | 23 May 2018 | 1,437 |
| 21 | Stable adaptive teleoperation G. Niemeyer, J.-J.E. Slotine · IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering | 1991 | 1,403 |
| 22 | Soft Robotics for Chemists Filip Ilievski, Aaron D. Mazzeo, Robert F. Shepherd et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 20 Jan 2011 | 1,386 |
| 23 | Ferromagnetic soft continuum robots Yoonho Kim, German Alberto Parada, Shengduo Liu et al. · Science Robotics | 21 Aug 2019 | 1,323 |
| 24 | Soft Robotics: A Perspective—Current Trends and Prospects for the Future Carmel Majidi · Soft Robotics | 17 Jul 2013 | 1,304 |
| 25 | Robotic Surgery Anthony R. Lanfranco, Andres E. Castellanos, Jaydev P. Desai et al. · Annals of Surgery | 12 Dec 2003 | 1,297 |
| 26 | A robot with improved absolute positioning accuracy for CT guided stereotactic brain surgery Yik S. Kwoh, Jung-Fu Hou, EDMOND A. JONCKHEERE et al. · IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering | 1988 | 1,283 |
| 27 | Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research Deepak Trivedi, Christopher D. Rahn, William M. Kier et al. · Applied Bionics and Biomechanics | 2008 | 1,238 |
| 28 | Torque sensorless control in multidegree-of-freedom manipulator Toshiyuki Murakami, Fangming Yu, Kouhei Ohnishi · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics | Apr 1993 | 1,231 |
| 29 | Self-powered soft robot in the Mariana Trench Guorui Li et al. · Nature | 3 Mar 2021 | 1,213 |
| 30 | Dex-Net 2.0: Deep Learning to Plan Robust Grasps with Synthetic Point Clouds and Analytic Grasp Metrics Jeffrey Mahler, Jacky Liang, Sherdil Niyaz et al. | 12 Jul 2017 | 1,202 |
| 31 | Robotics in General Surgery Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti · Archives of Surgery | Jul 2003 | 1,172 |
| 32 | DenseFusion: 6D Object Pose Estimation by Iterative Dense Fusion Chen Wang, Danfei Xu, Yuke Zhu et al. | Jun 2019 | 1,163 |
| 33 | The grand challenges of Science Robotics Guang‐Zhong Yang, Jim Bellingham, Pierre E. Dupont et al. · Science Robotics | 31 Jan 2018 | 1,161 |
| 34 | OctoMag: An Electromagnetic System for 5-DOF Wireless Micromanipulation Michael P. Kummer, Jake J. Abbott, Bradley E. Kratochvil et al. · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | 8 Oct 2010 | 1,160 |
| 35 | Active stiffness control of a manipulator in cartesian coordinates J. Kenneth Salisbury | Dec 1980 | 1,158 |
| 36 | Supersizing self-supervision: Learning to grasp from 50K tries and 700 robot hours Lerrel Pinto, Abhinav Gupta | May 2016 | 1,113 |
| 37 | A Resilient, Untethered Soft Robot Michael Thomas Tolley, Robert F. Shepherd, Bobak Mosadegh et al. · Soft Robotics | 25 Aug 2014 | 1,088 |
| 38 | Robotic grasping and contact: a review Antonio Bicchi, V. Kumar | 7 Nov 2002 | 1,086 |
| 39 | Transatlantic robot-assisted telesurgery Jacques Marescaux, Joël Leroy, M. Gagner et al. · Nature | 27 Sep 2001 | 1,078 |
| 40 | Hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic actuators with muscle-like performance Eric Acome, Shane K. Mitchell, Timothy G. Morrissey et al. · Science | 5 Jan 2018 | 1,075 |
| 41 | Soft Robotics: Review of Fluid‐Driven Intrinsically Soft Devices; Manufacturing, Sensing, Control, and Applications in Human‐Robot Interaction Panagiotis Polygerinos, Nikolaus Correll, Stephen A. Morin et al. · Advanced Engineering Materials | 31 May 2017 | 1,067 |
| 42 | A 3D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion Nicholas W. Bartlett, Michael Thomas Tolley, Johannes T. B. Overvelde et al. · Science | 9 Jul 2015 | 1,056 |
| 43 | GraspIt! Andrew T. Miller, Peter K. Allen · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine | Dec 2004 | 1,045 |
| 44 | Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems [Grand Challenges of Robotics] Mark H. Yim, Wei‐Min Shen, Behnam Salemi et al. · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine | Mar 2007 | 1,043 |
| 45 | Untethered soft robotics Steven I. Rich, Robert J. Wood, Carmel Majidi · Nature Electronics | 8 Feb 2018 | 1,026 |
| 46 | Variable impedance actuators: A review Bram Vanderborght et al. · Robotics and Autonomous Systems | 6 Aug 2013 | 1,010 |
| 47 | Medical robotics in computer-integrated surgery Russell H. Taylor, Dan S. Stoianovici · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation | Oct 2003 | 1,006 |
| 48 | Trends and challenges in robot manipulation Aude Gemma Billard, Danica Kragić · Science | 20 Jun 2019 | 998 |
| 49 | Soft Robot Arm Inspired by the Octopus Cecilia Laschi, Matteo Cianchetti, Barbara Mazzolai et al. · Advanced Robotics | 2012 | 984 |
| 50 | Kinematics for multisection continuum robots Cliff B. Jones, Ian D. Walker · IEEE Transactions on Robotics | Feb 2006 | 959 |
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