Atıl Işçen

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 839 citations indexed

About

Atıl Işçen is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Atıl Işçen has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 839 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 5 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 5 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Atıl Işçen's work include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (8 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (5 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (5 papers). Atıl Işçen is often cited by papers focused on Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (8 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (5 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (5 papers). Atıl Işçen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and United Kingdom. Atıl Işçen's co-authors include Vytas SunSpiral, Ken Caluwaerts, Tingnan Zhang, Jie Tan, Vincent Vanhoucke, Erwin Coumans, Steven Bohez, Danijar Hafner, Yunfei Bai and Jonathan Bruce and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Artificial Life and arXiv (Cornell University).

In The Last Decade

Atıl Işçen

15 papers receiving 816 citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Sim-to-Real: Learning Agile Locomotion For Quadruped Robots

2018 379 citations Jie Tan, Tingnan Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Atıl Işçen United States	10	326	280	270	233	229	16	839
Vytas SunSpiral United States	25	423 1.3×	123 0.4×	984 3.6×	191 0.8×	915 4.0×	42	1.4k
K.S. Rattan United States	19	149 0.5×	188 0.7×	191 0.7×	628 2.7×	59 0.3×	87	983
Gabriel J. García Spain	15	259 0.8×	78 0.3×	174 0.6×	241 1.0×	21 0.1×	70	742
Eric Cousineau United States	13	454 1.4×	124 0.4×	105 0.4×	377 1.6×	25 0.1×	18	883
Masami Iwase Japan	13	353 1.1×	43 0.2×	227 0.8×	373 1.6×	39 0.2×	130	697
Kemalettin Erbatur Türkiye	15	494 1.5×	120 0.4×	175 0.6×	577 2.5×	56 0.2×	63	977
R. Piguet Switzerland	8	264 0.8×	59 0.2×	166 0.6×	262 1.1×	83 0.4×	11	569
Devin Balkcom United States	16	242 0.7×	31 0.1×	242 0.9×	492 2.1×	65 0.3×	60	898
Max Schwarz Germany	15	194 0.6×	92 0.3×	229 0.8×	351 1.5×	20 0.1×	33	950
Pengfei Wang China	13	301 0.9×	83 0.3×	110 0.4×	258 1.1×	54 0.2×	67	796

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All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Amor, Heni Ben, Atıl Işçen, David B. D’Ambrosio, et al.. (2025). SAS-Prompt: Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers for Robot Self-Improvement. 10087–10094.

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Peng, Xue Bin, Wenhao Yu, Tingnan Zhang, et al.. (2022). Adversarial Motion Priors Make Good Substitutes for Complex Reward Functions. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 25–32. 53 indexed citations

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Rivas, Alberto, Jacob Varley, Andy Zeng, et al.. (2021). Reward Machines for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation. 14284–14290. 8 indexed citations

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Işçen, Atıl, et al.. (2021). Learning Agile Locomotion Skills with a Mentor. 2019–2025. 9 indexed citations

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Choromański, Krzysztof, Aldo Pacchiano, Jack Parker-Holder, et al.. (2019). When random search is not enough: Sample-Efficient and Noise-Robust Blackbox Optimization of RL Policies. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Yuxiang, Ken Caluwaerts, Atıl Işçen, Jie Tan, & Chelsea Finn. (2019). NoRML: No-Reward Meta Learning. arXiv (Cornell University). 323–331. 8 indexed citations

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Jain, Deepali, Atıl Işçen, & Ken Caluwaerts. (2019). Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Locomotion. 7551–7557. 26 indexed citations

8.

Işçen, Atıl, Ken Caluwaerts, Jie Tan, et al.. (2019). Policies Modulating Trajectory Generators. arXiv (Cornell University). 916–926. 13 indexed citations

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Tan, Jie, Tingnan Zhang, Erwin Coumans, et al.. (2018). Sim-to-Real: Learning Agile Locomotion For Quadruped Robots. 379 indexed citations breakdown →

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Işçen, Atıl, Ken Caluwaerts, Jonathan Bruce, et al.. (2015). Learning Tensegrity Locomotion Using Open-Loop Control Signals and Coevolutionary Algorithms. Artificial Life. 21(2). 119–140. 25 indexed citations

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Caluwaerts, Ken, Atıl Işçen, Andrew P. Sabelhaus, et al.. (2014). Design and control of compliant tensegrity robots through simulation and hardware validation. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 11(98). 20140520–20140520. 191 indexed citations

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Bruce, Jonathan, Ken Caluwaerts, Atıl Işçen, Andrew P. Sabelhaus, & Vytas SunSpiral. (2014). Design and evolution of a modular tensegrity robot platform. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 3483–3489. 58 indexed citations

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Işçen, Atıl, Adrian Agogino, Vytas SunSpiral, & Kagan Tumer. (2014). Flop and roll: Learning robust goal-directed locomotion for a Tensegrity Robot. 2236–2243. 33 indexed citations

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Işçen, Atıl, Adrian Agogino, Vytas SunSpiral, & Kagan Tumer. (2013). Controlling tensegrity robots through evolution. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 1293–1300. 30 indexed citations

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Işçen, Atıl, et al.. (2008). A new perspective to the keepaway soccer: the takers. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1341–1344. 4 indexed citations

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Işçen, Atıl, et al.. (2008). A New Perspective to the Keepaway Soccer: The Takers (Short Paper). 1 indexed citations

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