Brian Gerkey

9.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
44 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Brian Gerkey is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Mechanical Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Gerkey has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 17 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 15 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Brian Gerkey's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (16 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (15 papers) and Robotics and Automated Systems (12 papers). Brian Gerkey is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (16 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (15 papers) and Robotics and Automated Systems (12 papers). Brian Gerkey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Brian Gerkey's co-authors include Maja J. Matarić, Richard Vaughan, Andrew Howard, Tully Foote, Steve Macenski, Kurt Konolige, A. Howard, Eitan Marder-Eppstein, Ken Conley and Steve Cousins and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

In The Last Decade

Brian Gerkey

44 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

A Formal Analysis and Taxonomy of Task Allocation in Mult... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2004 2003 2002 2022 2010 250 500 750 1000

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brian Gerkey United States 23 2.3k 2.2k 1.6k 1.4k 1.3k 44 5.7k
Lynne E. Parker United States 39 2.4k 1.0× 2.0k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 868 0.6× 1.4k 1.1× 131 5.2k
Anthony Stentz United States 43 2.3k 1.0× 5.1k 2.3× 1.2k 0.7× 1.7k 1.3× 2.0k 1.5× 142 8.2k
Sven Koenig United States 54 3.0k 1.3× 5.9k 2.7× 894 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 3.3k 2.5× 312 10.0k
Morgan Quigley United States 18 956 0.4× 2.7k 1.2× 1.2k 0.7× 2.1k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 28 6.6k
Reid Simmons United States 50 1.6k 0.7× 3.9k 1.8× 1.3k 0.8× 2.5k 1.8× 3.6k 2.7× 264 9.5k
Marco Pavone United States 40 1.0k 0.5× 1.6k 0.7× 378 0.2× 1.6k 1.2× 833 0.6× 255 5.6k
Alessandro Saffiotti Sweden 33 745 0.3× 2.0k 0.9× 835 0.5× 1.4k 1.0× 1.7k 1.3× 178 4.2k
Raffaello D’Andrea Switzerland 53 2.6k 1.1× 3.2k 1.4× 1.5k 0.9× 5.8k 4.2× 1.0k 0.8× 249 10.1k
Tom Erez United States 18 1.1k 0.5× 1.7k 0.7× 445 0.3× 3.0k 2.2× 3.8k 2.8× 27 8.3k
Yuval Tassa United States 20 1.1k 0.5× 1.7k 0.8× 470 0.3× 3.2k 2.3× 3.8k 2.8× 30 8.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Gerkey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Gerkey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Gerkey

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Gerkey. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Gerkey based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brian Gerkey. Brian Gerkey is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gerkey, Brian & Ken Conley. (2011). Robot Developer Kits. 2 indexed citations
2.
Gerkey, Brian & Ken Conley. (2011). Robot Developer Kits [ROS Topics]. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 18(3). 16–16. 8 indexed citations
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Marder-Eppstein, Eitan, et al.. (2010). The Office Marathon: Robust navigation in an indoor office environment. 300–307. 347 indexed citations breakdown →
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Meeussen, Wim, Melonee Wise, Sachin Chitta, et al.. (2010). Autonomous door opening and plugging in with a personal robot. 729–736. 118 indexed citations
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Rusu, Radu Bogdan, Ioan A. Şucan, Brian Gerkey, et al.. (2009). Real-time perception-guided motion planning for a personal robot. 4245–4252. 58 indexed citations
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Jenkins, Odest Chadwicke, et al.. (2008). Multi-robot Markov random fields. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1211–1214. 5 indexed citations
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MacDonald, Bruce A., et al.. (2008). Player 2.0: Toward a Practical Robot Programming Framework. 147 indexed citations
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Dantu, Karthik, et al.. (2008). Autonomous Biconnected Networks of Mobile Robots. 1 indexed citations
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Gerkey, Brian, et al.. (2007). Really Reusable Robot Code and the Player/Stage Project. 3 indexed citations
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Rusu, Radu Bogdan, Alexis Maldonado, Michael Beetz, & Brian Gerkey. (2007). Extending Player/Stage/Gazebo towards Cognitive Robots Acting in Ubiquitous Sensor-equipped Environments. International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 21 indexed citations
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Gerkey, Brian, Sebastian Thrun, & Geoff Gordon. (2006). Visibility-based Pursuit-evasion with Limited Field of View. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 25(4). 299–315. 15 indexed citations
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Matarić, Maja J., et al.. (2004). Principled Approaches to the Design of Multi-Robot Systems. 71–80. 16 indexed citations
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Gerkey, Brian, Richard Vaughan, & Andrew Howard. (2003). The Player/Stage Project: Tools for Multi-Robot and Distributed Sensor Systems. 317–323. 980 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gerkey, Brian & Maja J. Matarić. (2003). Pusher-watcher: an approach to fault-tolerant tightly-coupled robot coordination. 1. 464–469. 94 indexed citations
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Gerkey, Brian & Maja J. Matarić. (2003). A Framework for Studying Multi-Robot Task Allocation. 15–26. 27 indexed citations
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Gerkey, Brian & Maja J. Matarić. (2003). A formal framework for the study of task allocation in multi-robot systems. 43 indexed citations
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Gerkey, Brian & Maja J. Matarić. (2002). A market-based formulation of sensor-actuator network coordination. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 21–26. 28 indexed citations
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Matarić, Maja J., et al.. (2002). G'day Mate. Let me Introduce you to Everyone: An Infrastructure for Scalable Human-System Interaction. 3 indexed citations
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Gerkey, Brian & Maja J. Matarić. (2001). Sold!: Market methods for multi-robot control. 18 indexed citations
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Gerkey, Brian & Maja J. Matarić. (2000). MURDOCH: Publish/Subscribe Task Allocation for Heterogeneous Agents. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1070. 9 indexed citations

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