Kamilo Melo

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 881 citations indexed

About

Kamilo Melo is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kamilo Melo has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 881 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 20 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 8 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kamilo Melo's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (20 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (16 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (15 papers). Kamilo Melo is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (20 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (16 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (15 papers). Kamilo Melo collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Colombia and United States. Kamilo Melo's co-authors include Auke Jan Ijspeert, Tomislav Horvat, Laura Paez, Robin Thandiackal, Luca Maria Gambardella, Boris Gromov, Dario Floreano, Alessandro Giusti, Roland Siegwart and Marco Hutter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Scientific Reports and Journal of The Royal Society Interface.

In The Last Decade

Kamilo Melo

33 papers receiving 833 citations

Hit Papers

The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200
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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. The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics
    2019 228 citations Jeffrey Delmerico, Stefano Mintchev et al. Journal of Field Robotics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kamilo Melo Switzerland 14 508 264 249 190 155 34 881
Chaohui Gong United States 17 709 1.4× 399 1.5× 226 0.9× 263 1.4× 89 0.6× 43 1.1k
Tingnan Zhang United States 14 754 1.5× 294 1.1× 232 0.9× 323 1.7× 172 1.1× 25 1.3k
Christian Hubicki United States 15 820 1.6× 157 0.6× 160 0.6× 294 1.5× 81 0.5× 36 944
Kazuo Tsuchiya Japan 23 965 1.9× 244 0.9× 432 1.7× 348 1.8× 68 0.4× 145 1.5k
Mark A. Minor United States 20 847 1.7× 412 1.6× 253 1.0× 674 3.5× 415 2.7× 97 1.5k
Matthew Travers United States 15 541 1.1× 319 1.2× 131 0.5× 275 1.4× 110 0.7× 57 765
Shai Revzen United States 15 384 0.8× 137 0.5× 168 0.7× 113 0.6× 35 0.2× 36 695
Ross L. Hatton United States 23 1.5k 2.9× 760 2.9× 341 1.4× 704 3.7× 273 1.8× 72 2.0k
Otar Akanyeti United Kingdom 17 154 0.3× 133 0.5× 528 2.1× 130 0.7× 124 0.8× 46 1.2k
Lael U. Odhner United States 13 964 1.9× 385 1.5× 60 0.2× 935 4.9× 74 0.5× 32 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kamilo Melo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kamilo Melo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kamilo Melo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kamilo Melo 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 Kamilo Melo. Kamilo Melo 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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Paez, Laura, et al.. (2024). Eel-like robot swims more efficiently with increasing joint amplitudes compared to constant joint amplitudes. Physical Review Fluids. 9(11). 1 indexed citations
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Melo, Kamilo, Tomislav Horvat, & Auke Jan Ijspeert. (2023). Animal robots in the African wilderness: Lessons learned and outlook for field robotics. Science Robotics. 8(85). eadd8662–eadd8662. 15 indexed citations
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Paez, Laura, et al.. (2023). Identification of the trade-off between speed and efficiency in undulatory swimming using a bio-inspired robot. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 15032–15032. 16 indexed citations
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Thandiackal, Robin, Kamilo Melo, Laura Paez, et al.. (2021). Emergence of robust self-organized undulatory swimming based on local hydrodynamic force sensing. Science Robotics. 6(57). 96 indexed citations
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Nyakatura, John A., Kamilo Melo, Tomislav Horvat, et al.. (2019). Reverse-engineering the locomotion of a stem amniote. Nature. 565(7739). 351–355. 159 indexed citations
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Melo, Kamilo, Tomislav Horvat, & Auke Jan Ijspeert. (2019). Minimalist Design of a 3-Axis Passive Compliant Foot for Sprawling Posture Robots. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 788–794. 6 indexed citations
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Delmerico, Jeffrey, Stefano Mintchev, Alessandro Giusti, et al.. (2019). The current state and future outlook of rescue robotics. Journal of Field Robotics. 36(7). 1171–1191. 228 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hauser, Simon, Kamilo Melo, Mehmet Mutlu, & Auke Jan Ijspeert. (2017). Fast state-switching of a jamming-based foot. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2 indexed citations
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Melo, Kamilo, et al.. (2017). Challenges in visual and inertial information gathering for a sprawling posture robot. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2691–2697. 4 indexed citations
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Horvat, Tomislav, Kamilo Melo, & Auke Jan Ijspeert. (2017). Model predictive control based framework for CoM control of a quadruped robot. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 3372–3378. 22 indexed citations
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Karakasiliotis, Konstantinos, Robin Thandiackal, Kamilo Melo, et al.. (2016). From cineradiography to biorobots: an approach for designing robots to emulate and study animal locomotion. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 13(119). 20151089–20151089. 96 indexed citations
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Horvat, Tomislav, et al.. (2015). Inverse kinematics and reflex based controller for body-limb coordination of a salamander-like robot walking on uneven terrain. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 195–201. 27 indexed citations
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Melo, Kamilo, et al.. (2014). Modular snake robot oriented open simulation software. 546–550. 4 indexed citations
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Paez, Laura & Kamilo Melo. (2014). A preliminary review on metrics for modular snake robots locomotion. 539–545. 3 indexed citations
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Melo, Kamilo, et al.. (2012). Simulation and control integrated framework for modular snake robots locomotion research. 523–528. 2 indexed citations
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Patiño, Diego, et al.. (2011). Switching control and modeling of mobile robots formation. 1–6. 6 indexed citations
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Melo, Kamilo, et al.. (2011). Motion analysis of an ellipsoidal kinematic closed chain. 2. 1–6. 6 indexed citations
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Patiño, Diego, et al.. (2011). A distributed model predictive control (D-MPC) for modular robots in chain configuration. Repositorio Institucional (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana). 1–6. 6 indexed citations

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