John Rieffel

758 total citations
29 papers, 504 citations indexed

About

John Rieffel is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, John Rieffel has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 504 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 11 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in John Rieffel's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (24 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (13 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (11 papers). John Rieffel is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (24 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (13 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (11 papers). John Rieffel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. John Rieffel's co-authors include Hod Lipson, Francisco J. Valero‐Cuevas, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Barry A. Trimmer, Jordan Pollack, Jason Rife, Soha Hassoun, Luke Dosiek, J.M. Daly and Vo Nguyen Quoc Bao and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers & Structures, Journal of The Royal Society Interface and Soft Robotics.

In The Last Decade

John Rieffel

28 papers receiving 482 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Rieffel United States 11 351 246 161 71 61 29 504
Jonathan Bruce United States 13 441 1.3× 440 1.8× 136 0.8× 18 0.3× 62 1.0× 16 651
Massimo Vespignani Switzerland 13 400 1.1× 211 0.9× 535 3.3× 64 0.9× 25 0.4× 29 834
Bingxing Chen China 11 117 0.3× 114 0.5× 127 0.8× 44 0.6× 20 0.3× 30 365
Edward L. Zhu United States 9 130 0.4× 123 0.5× 50 0.3× 9 0.1× 13 0.2× 16 327
Zhenhua Wang China 10 100 0.3× 53 0.2× 107 0.7× 16 0.2× 3 0.0× 31 379
Richard Bachmann United States 13 270 0.8× 117 0.5× 575 3.6× 45 0.6× 4 0.1× 24 746
Caigui Jiang Saudi Arabia 14 149 0.4× 66 0.3× 49 0.3× 3 0.0× 43 0.7× 25 469
Laura Paez Switzerland 9 219 0.6× 23 0.1× 352 2.2× 75 1.1× 4 0.1× 17 431
Chengcheng Tang United States 10 88 0.3× 59 0.2× 43 0.3× 2 0.0× 51 0.8× 31 535
Kyle Gilpin United States 8 625 1.8× 13 0.1× 288 1.8× 325 4.6× 5 0.1× 11 693

Countries citing papers authored by John Rieffel

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Rieffel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Rieffel

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All Works

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Herrmann, David N., et al.. (2024). Basic Investigations on a Compliant 2D Tensegrity Grid for the Use in Soft Robotic Applications. 652–657. 1 indexed citations
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Dosiek, Luke, et al.. (2019). Low-Cost Wireless Modular Soft Tensegrity Robots. 88–93. 19 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John & Jean-Baptiste Mouret. (2018). Adaptive and Resilient Soft Tensegrity Robots. Soft Robotics. 5(3). 318–329. 91 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, et al.. (2014). Evolution of Locomotion on a Physical Tensegrity Robot. 232–238. 18 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, et al.. (2014). Evolution of Locomotion on a Physical Tensegrity Robot. 232–238. 16 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, et al.. (2014). Developing morphological computation in tensegrity robots for controllable actuation. 1049–1052. 5 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, et al.. (2013). Exploiting Dynamical Complexity in a Physical Tensegrity Robot to Achieve Locomotion. 965–972. 7 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, et al.. (2013). Growing and Evolving Soft Robots. Artificial Life. 20(1). 143–162. 61 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, et al.. (2013). Exploiting Dynamical Complexity in a Physical Tensegrity Robot to Achieve Locomotion. 965–972. 16 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John. (2013). Heterochronic scaling of developmental durations in evolved soft robots. 743–750. 2 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, et al.. (2012). Automatically Designing and Printing 3-D Objects with EvoFab 0.2. 372–378. 1 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John & Barry A. Trimmer. (2010). Body/Brain Co-Evolution in Soft Robots. Artificial Life. 257–260. 1 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, et al.. (2010). A Face-Encoding Grammar for the Generation of Tetrahedral-Mesh Soft Bodies. Artificial Life. 414–420. 6 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, Francisco J. Valero‐Cuevas, & Hod Lipson. (2009). Morphological communication: exploiting coupled dynamics in a complex mechanical structure to achieve locomotion. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 7(45). 613–621. 76 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, Barry A. Trimmer, & Hod Lipson. (2008). Mechanism as Mind - What Tensegrities and Caterpillars Can Teach Us about Soft Robotics.. Artificial Life. 506–512. 26 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John, Hod Lipson, & Francisco J. Valero‐Cuevas. (2007). Growing form-filling tensegrity structures using map L-systems. 1063–1063. 1 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John & Jordan Pollack. (2005). Evolutionary fabrication. 265–272. 4 indexed citations
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Rieffel, John & Jordan Pollack. (2005). Crossing the Fabrication Gap: Evolving Assembly Plans to Build 3-D Objects. 1. 529–536. 7 indexed citations

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