Devin Balkcom

1.3k total citations
60 papers, 898 citations indexed

About

Devin Balkcom is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Devin Balkcom has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 898 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 31 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 23 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Devin Balkcom's work include Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (28 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (19 papers) and Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (15 papers). Devin Balkcom is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (28 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (19 papers) and Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (15 papers). Devin Balkcom collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Devin Balkcom's co-authors include Matthew T. Mason, Weifu Wang, Hamidreza Chitsaz, Jeff Trinkle, Steven M. LaValle, Dmitry Berenson, Xia Zhou, Amit Chakrabarti, Ruibo Liu and Siqi Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The International Journal of Robotics Research and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Devin Balkcom

56 papers receiving 869 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Devin Balkcom United States	16	492	455	242	242	184	60	898
Yugang Liu Canada	18	520 1.1×	447 1.0×	356 1.5×	269 1.1×	223 1.2×	61	1.1k
Rui Song China	18	442 0.9×	266 0.6×	305 1.3×	244 1.0×	137 0.7×	104	1.0k
Gino van den Bergen Netherlands	7	305 0.6×	718 1.6×	110 0.5×	142 0.6×	291 1.6×	7	1.2k
Yuji Yamakawa Japan	15	508 1.0×	213 0.5×	339 1.4×	186 0.8×	120 0.7×	142	858
Max Schwarz Germany	15	351 0.7×	457 1.0×	194 0.8×	229 0.9×	294 1.6×	33	950
Matteo Fumagalli Denmark	15	541 1.1×	431 0.9×	335 1.4×	217 0.9×	343 1.9×	56	958
Naoji Shiroma Japan	15	570 1.2×	340 0.7×	284 1.2×	205 0.8×	113 0.6×	57	852
Taku Senoo Japan	16	489 1.0×	312 0.7×	368 1.5×	152 0.6×	143 0.8×	96	873
Dimitrios Kanoulas United Kingdom	17	420 0.9×	340 0.7×	343 1.4×	132 0.5×	157 0.9×	74	827
F.C. Park South Korea	9	473 1.0×	356 0.8×	205 0.8×	230 1.0×	198 1.1×	15	809

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Chen, Muhao, et al.. (2025). Modular shape-changing tensegrity-blocks enable self-assembling robotic structures. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5888–5888.

She, Chongmin, et al.. (2025). SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules. Soft Robotics. 12(6). 698–707.

Pediredla, Adithya, et al.. (2024). Scalable underwater assembly with reconfigurable visual fiducials. 3639–3645. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Z. J., Devin Balkcom, & Emily Whiting. (2024). StructCurves: Interlocking Block-Based Line Structures. 1–11.

Balkcom, Devin, et al.. (2023). Buoyancy enabled autonomous underwater construction with cement blocks. 5207–5213. 2 indexed citations

Skonieczny, Krzysztof, et al.. (2023). Energy-optimal trajectories for skid-steer rovers. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 43(2). 171–202. 2 indexed citations

Skonieczny, Krzysztof, et al.. (2022). An Equivalent Time-Optimal Problem to find Energy-Optimal Paths for Skid-Steer Rovers. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 13341–13346. 2 indexed citations

Balkcom, Devin, et al.. (2020). Catabot: Autonomous Surface Vehicle with an Optimized Design for Environmental Monitoring. Global Oceans 2020: Singapore – U.S. Gulf Coast. 1–9. 6 indexed citations

Whiting, Emily, et al.. (2018). Assembling and Disassembling Planar Structures With Divisible and Atomic Components. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 15(3). 945–954. 3 indexed citations

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Balkcom, Devin, et al.. (2016). Interlocking structure assembly with voxels. 2173–2180. 15 indexed citations

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Chen, Yining, et al.. (2016). -Survivability: Diversity and Survival of Expendable Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 1(2). 1164–1171. 4 indexed citations

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Balkcom, Devin, et al.. (2015). Metric cells: Towards complete search for optimal trajectories. 4941–4948. 4 indexed citations

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Balkcom, Devin, et al.. (2015). Optimal trajectories for kinematic planar rigid bodies with switching costs. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 35(5). 454–475. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Weifu, et al.. (2014). The bench mover's problem: Minimum-time trajectories, with cost for switching between controls. 106–112. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Weifu, et al.. (2011). Minimum-time trajectories for kinematic mobile robots and other planar rigid bodies with finite control sets. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 4321–4328. 6 indexed citations

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Chitsaz, Hamidreza, Steven M. LaValle, Devin Balkcom, & Matthew T. Mason. (2009). Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drive Mobile Robots. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 28(1). 66–80. 43 indexed citations

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Balkcom, Devin & Matthew T. Mason. (2003). Extremal trajectories for bounded velocity mobile robots. 2. 1747–1752. 19 indexed citations

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Balkcom, Devin & Jeff Trinkle. (2002). Computing Wrench Cones for Planar Rigid Body Contact Tasks. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 21(12). 1053–1066. 27 indexed citations

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Balkcom, Devin & Matthew T. Mason. (2002). Time optimal trajectories for bounded velocity differential drive robots. 3. 2499–2504. 28 indexed citations

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Balkcom, Devin & Matthew T. Mason. (2002). Time Optimal Trajectories for Bounded Velocity Differential Drive Vehicles. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 21(3). 199–217. 135 indexed citations

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