Chad C. Kessens

463 total citations
20 papers, 349 citations indexed

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Chad C. Kessens is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Chad C. Kessens has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 349 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 12 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Chad C. Kessens's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (11 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (8 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (7 papers). Chad C. Kessens is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (11 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (8 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (7 papers). Chad C. Kessens collaborates with scholars based in United States. Chad C. Kessens's co-authors include Jaydev P. Desai, Carla M. Yuede, Katherine E. Schwetye, Philip V. Bayly, David L. Brody, Maia Parsadanian, Christine Mac Donald, David M. Holtzman, Justin Thomas and Vijay Kumar and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neurotrauma, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

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Chad C. Kessens

20 papers receiving 343 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chad C. Kessens United States	9	128	113	75	67	67	20	349
Jonathan Tang United States	11	238 1.9×	111 1.0×	20 0.3×	16 0.2×	30 0.4×	33	568
Françoise J. Siepel Netherlands	15	273 2.1×	151 1.3×	36 0.5×	12 0.2×	41 0.6×	39	621
Riccardo Secoli United Kingdom	17	347 2.7×	48 0.4×	112 1.5×	21 0.3×	65 1.0×	33	612
E. deJuan United States	13	299 2.3×	133 1.2×	95 1.3×	31 0.5×	91 1.4×	18	820
Jonathan Glass United States	6	32 0.3×	303 2.7×	41 0.5×	24 0.4×	9 0.1×	9	498
Samuel Wilson United Kingdom	15	181 1.4×	59 0.5×	31 0.4×	7 0.1×	19 0.3×	35	538
Rupert Faltermeier Germany	12	53 0.4×	133 1.2×	71 0.9×	24 0.4×	30 0.4×	21	456
Olivier Palombi France	13	64 0.5×	75 0.7×	34 0.5×	72 1.1×	6 0.1×	43	462
Tengchao Huang China	11	21 0.2×	30 0.3×	30 0.4×	37 0.6×	63 0.9×	77	388

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Wen, Bowen, Ankur Handa, Chad C. Kessens, et al.. (2025). FORGE: Force-Guided Exploration for Robust Contact-Rich Manipulation Under Uncertainty. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 10(5). 4436–4443. 3 indexed citations

Boots, Byron, et al.. (2024). Toward Self-Righting and Recovery in the Wild: Challenges and Benchmarks. 15329–15335. 2 indexed citations

Kessens, Chad C., et al.. (2024). A Fractal Suction-Based Robotic Gripper for Versatile Grasping. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(7). 6208–6215. 2 indexed citations

Auletta, Jeffrey T., et al.. (2024). Johnsen-Rahbek Capstan Clutch: A High Torque Electrostatic Clutch. 148–154. 2 indexed citations

Kessens, Chad C., et al.. (2019). Toward Lateral Aerial Grasping & Manipulation Using Scalable Suction. 4181–4186. 7 indexed citations

Kessens, Chad C., et al.. (2018). An Adaptive Sampling Approach for Evaluating Robot Self-Righting Capabilities. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 3(4). 4233–4240. 2 indexed citations

Li, Chen, Chad C. Kessens, Ronald S. Fearing, & Robert J. Full. (2017). Mechanical principles of dynamic terrestrial self-righting using wings. Advanced Robotics. 31(17). 881–900. 18 indexed citations

Kessens, Chad C., et al.. (2017). Ground-based self-righting using inertial appendage methods. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3 indexed citations

Kessens, Chad C. & Jaydev P. Desai. (2016). Versatile Passive Grasping for Manipulation. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 21(3). 1293–1302. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Chen, et al.. (2016). Cockroach-inspired winged robot reveals principles of ground-based dynamic self-righting. 2128–2134. 15 indexed citations

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Kessens, Chad C., Justin Thomas, Jaydev P. Desai, & Vijay Kumar. (2016). Versatile aerial grasping using self-sealing suction. 3249–3254. 44 indexed citations

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Kessens, Chad C., et al.. (2014). A metric for self-rightability and understanding its relationship to simple morphologies. 8 indexed citations

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Kessens, Chad C., et al.. (2014). Autonomous self-righting using recursive Bayesian estimation to determine unknown ground angles. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9084. 908408–908408. 1 indexed citations

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Kessens, Chad C., et al.. (2013). Proprioceptive sensing for autonomous self-righting on unknown sloped planar surfaces. 4. 160–165. 5 indexed citations

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Kessens, Chad C., Daniel C. Smith, & Philip R. Osteen. (2012). A framework for autonomous self-righting of a generic robot on sloped planar surfaces. 4724–4729. 20 indexed citations

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Osteen, Philip R., et al.. (2012). Online egomotion estimation of RGB-D sensors using spherical harmonics. 1679–1684. 6 indexed citations

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Kessens, Chad C. & Jaydev P. Desai. (2011). A Self-Sealing Suction Cup Array for Grasping. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. 3(4). 11 indexed citations

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Kessens, Chad C., et al.. (2010). Utilizing compliance to manipulate doors with unmodeled constraints. 483–489. 11 indexed citations

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Kessens, Chad C. & Jaydev P. Desai. (2010). Design, fabrication, and implementation of self-sealing suction cup arrays for grasping. 765–770. 13 indexed citations

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Brody, David L., Christine Mac Donald, Chad C. Kessens, et al.. (2007). Electromagnetic Controlled Cortical Impact Device for Precise, Graded Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury. Journal of Neurotrauma. 24(4). 657–673. 165 indexed citations

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