John Till

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 826 citations indexed

About

John Till is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John Till has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 826 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 7 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 4 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in John Till's work include Soft Robotics and Applications (10 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (6 papers) and Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (3 papers). John Till is often cited by papers focused on Soft Robotics and Applications (10 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (6 papers) and Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (3 papers). John Till collaborates with scholars based in United States. John Till's co-authors include D. Caleb Rucker, Vincent Aloi, Andrew L. Orekhov and Robert J. Webster and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

In The Last Decade

John Till

10 papers receiving 817 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Real-time dynamics of soft and continuum robots based on Cosserat rod models
    2019 275 citations John Till, Vincent Aloi et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Till United States 9 753 518 264 125 74 10 826
Tobias Mahl Germany 10 480 0.6× 545 1.1× 348 1.3× 77 0.6× 108 1.5× 11 792
Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran Netherlands 17 529 0.7× 331 0.6× 346 1.3× 309 2.5× 29 0.4× 47 845
Vincent Aloi United States 6 378 0.5× 232 0.4× 133 0.5× 75 0.6× 50 0.7× 6 417
S. M. Hadi Sadati United Kingdom 13 500 0.7× 259 0.5× 204 0.8× 136 1.1× 41 0.6× 43 588
Yasmin Ansari Italy 5 585 0.8× 343 0.7× 243 0.9× 143 1.1× 49 0.7× 7 648
Roy J. Roesthuis Netherlands 9 611 0.8× 233 0.4× 168 0.6× 40 0.3× 39 0.5× 10 734
Jan Fraś United Kingdom 12 522 0.7× 212 0.4× 191 0.7× 184 1.5× 32 0.4× 15 569
Evan J. Butler United States 7 787 1.0× 380 0.7× 257 1.0× 151 1.2× 77 1.0× 9 843
Andrea Bajo United States 15 752 1.0× 393 0.8× 232 0.9× 91 0.7× 61 0.8× 26 866
S. Iikura Japan 7 598 0.8× 306 0.6× 281 1.1× 143 1.1× 19 0.3× 20 709

Countries citing papers authored by John Till

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Till

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Till

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Till. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Till 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 John Till. John Till is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Till, John, et al.. (2020). A Dynamic Model for Concentric Tube Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 36(6). 1704–1718. 45 indexed citations
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Till, John, et al.. (2019). Continuum Robot Stiffness Under External Loads and Prescribed Tendon Displacements. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 35(2). 403–419. 131 indexed citations
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Till, John. (2019). On the Statics, Dynamics, and Stability of Continuum Robots: Model Formulations and Efficient Computational Schemes. 7 indexed citations
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Till, John, Vincent Aloi, & D. Caleb Rucker. (2019). Real-time dynamics of soft and continuum robots based on Cosserat rod models. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 38(6). 723–746. 275 indexed citations breakdown →
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Till, John, et al.. (2017). Parallel Continuum Robots: Modeling, Analysis, and Actuation-Based Force Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 34(1). 29–47. 122 indexed citations
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Till, John & D. Caleb Rucker. (2017). Elastic rod dynamics: Validation of a real-time implicit approach. 3013–3019. 19 indexed citations
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Till, John & D. Caleb Rucker. (2017). Elastic Stability of Cosserat Rods and Parallel Continuum Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 33(3). 718–733. 77 indexed citations
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Orekhov, Andrew L., et al.. (2016). Analysis and Validation of a Teleoperated Surgical Parallel Continuum Manipulator. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 1(2). 828–835. 62 indexed citations
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Orekhov, Andrew L., et al.. (2015). A surgical parallel continuum manipulator with a cable-driven grasper. PubMed. 2015. 5264–5267. 14 indexed citations
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