Alan Kuntz

761 total citations
44 papers, 408 citations indexed

About

Alan Kuntz is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Kuntz has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 408 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 17 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 14 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alan Kuntz's work include Soft Robotics and Applications (29 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (11 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (10 papers). Alan Kuntz is often cited by papers focused on Soft Robotics and Applications (29 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (11 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (10 papers). Alan Kuntz collaborates with scholars based in United States and Israel. Alan Kuntz's co-authors include Ron Alterovitz, Robert J. Webster, Mengyu Fu, Luis G. Torres, Maxwell Emerson, Fabien Maldonado, Jason Akulian, Hao Tan, Richard H. Feins and Inbar Fried and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, The International Journal of Robotics Research and Smart Materials and Structures.

In The Last Decade

Alan Kuntz

41 papers receiving 401 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Kuntz United States	13	296	136	130	77	67	44	408
Gauthier Gras United Kingdom	12	302 1.0×	96 0.7×	122 0.9×	66 0.9×	37 0.6×	17	459
Omid Mohareri Canada	12	161 0.5×	125 0.9×	146 1.1×	42 0.5×	41 0.6×	27	381
Bruno Scaglioni United Kingdom	11	297 1.0×	82 0.6×	93 0.7×	86 1.1×	46 0.7×	27	530
Kit-Hang Lee Hong Kong	11	533 1.8×	186 1.4×	67 0.5×	135 1.8×	49 0.7×	19	631
Rachel Hegeman United States	10	263 0.9×	125 0.9×	98 0.8×	70 0.9×	52 0.8×	11	394
Konrad Leibrandt United Kingdom	14	418 1.4×	176 1.3×	123 0.9×	137 1.8×	51 0.8×	25	542
Siddarth Sen United States	8	338 1.1×	113 0.8×	127 1.0×	52 0.7×	45 0.7×	8	435
Nicolae Plitea Romania	15	345 1.2×	297 2.2×	78 0.6×	115 1.5×	28 0.4×	53	541
Piyamate Wisanuvej United Kingdom	10	222 0.8×	81 0.6×	76 0.6×	52 0.7×	28 0.4×	15	316
Salvatore Virga Germany	7	266 0.9×	65 0.5×	68 0.5×	36 0.5×	26 0.4×	7	367

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Smith, Mariana Magnus, Robert J. Webster, İpek Oğuz, et al.. (2025). From Monocular Vision to Autonomous Action: Guiding Tumor Resection via 3D Reconstruction. 21714–21720. 1 indexed citations

Deguet, Anton, et al.. (2025). Autonomous Vision-Guided Resection of Central Airway Obstruction. 10(03n04). 2 indexed citations

Hermans, Tucker, et al.. (2024). DefGoalNet: Contextual Goal Learning from Demonstrations for Deformable Object Manipulation. 3145–3152.

Kuntz, Alan, et al.. (2024). General-purpose foundation models for increased autonomy in robot-assisted surgery. Nature Machine Intelligence. 6(11). 1275–1283. 8 indexed citations

Kuntz, Alan, et al.. (2024). Reward Learning from Suboptimal Demonstrations with Applications in Surgical Electrocautery. 1–7. 8 indexed citations

Merryweather, Andrew, K. Bo Foreman, Alan Kuntz, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Design Factors on User Behavior in a Virtual Hospital Room to Explore Fall Prevention Strategies. HERD Health Environments Research & Design Journal. 17(3). 124–143. 1 indexed citations

Naftel, Robert P., et al.. (2024). Encoding Desired Deformation Profiles in Endoscope-Like Soft Robots. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics. 7(1). 392–403. 2 indexed citations

Thompson, Jordan M., et al.. (2024). Accounting for Hysteresis in the Forward Kinematics of Nonlinearly-Routed Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots via a Learned Deep Decoder Network. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(11). 9263–9270. 1 indexed citations

Brown, Daniel S., et al.. (2024). Modeling Kinematic Uncertainty of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots via Mixture Density Networks. 1–7. 1 indexed citations

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Kuntz, Alan, Maxwell Emerson, Inbar Fried, et al.. (2023). Autonomous medical needle steering in vivo. Science Robotics. 8(82). eadf7614–eadf7614. 29 indexed citations

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Rolston, John D., et al.. (2023). Screw-Tip Soft Magnetically Steerable Needles. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics. 6(1). 4–17. 7 indexed citations

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Emerson, Maxwell, et al.. (2023). Toward Continuum Robot Tentacles for Lung Interventions: Exploring Folding Support Disks. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(6). 3494–3501. 8 indexed citations

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Kuntz, Alan, et al.. (2023). A Radial Folding Mechanism to Enable Surgical Continuum Manipulators to Fit Through Smaller Ports. 1 indexed citations

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Fu, Mengyu, Inbar Fried, Maxwell Emerson, et al.. (2021). Backward Planning for a Multi-Stage Steerable Needle Lung Robot. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 6(2). 3987–3994. 24 indexed citations

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Kuntz, Alan, et al.. (2020). Learning the Complete Shape of Concentric Tube Robots. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics. 2(2). 140–147. 28 indexed citations

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Emerson, Maxwell, Inbar Fried, Mengyu Fu, et al.. (2020). Decoupling Steerability From Diameter: Helical Dovetail Laser Patterning for Steerable Needles. IEEE Access. 8. 181411–181419. 14 indexed citations

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Ferguson, James M., E. Pitt, Alan Kuntz, et al.. (2020). Toward Practical and Accurate Touch-Based Image Guidance for Robotic Partial Nephrectomy. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics. 2(2). 196–205. 5 indexed citations

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Emerson, Maxwell, Robert J. Webster, Ron Alterovitz, et al.. (2019). Design and control of a compact modular robot for transbronchial lung biopsy. PubMed. 10951. 17–17. 13 indexed citations

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Kuntz, Alan, et al.. (2019). Estimating the Complete Shape of Concentric Tube Robots via Learning. 43–44. 2 indexed citations

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Kuntz, Alan, Luis G. Torres, Richard H. Feins, Robert J. Webster, & Ron Alterovitz. (2015). Motion planning for a three-stage multilumen transoral lung access system. PubMed. 2015. 3255–3261. 32 indexed citations

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