Karl Van Wyk

1.2k total citations
22 papers, 680 citations indexed

About

Karl Van Wyk is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl Van Wyk has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 680 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 6 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 5 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Karl Van Wyk's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (13 papers), Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (5 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (4 papers). Karl Van Wyk is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (13 papers), Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics (5 papers) and Manufacturing Process and Optimization (4 papers). Karl Van Wyk collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Karl Van Wyk's co-authors include Joe Falco, Ankur Handa, Dieter Fox, Yu-Wei Chao, Stan Birchfield, Nathan Ratliff, Yashraj Narang, Kevin Kelly, Mark Culleton and Jacky Liang and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

In The Last Decade

Karl Van Wyk

19 papers receiving 651 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karl Van Wyk United States	12	497	235	216	152	122	22	680
Norman Hendrich Germany	15	308 0.6×	182 0.8×	204 0.9×	82 0.5×	160 1.3×	52	668
Koichi Ogawara Japan	15	396 0.8×	344 1.5×	232 1.1×	167 1.1×	103 0.8×	53	686
Vishal Satish United States	6	450 0.9×	155 0.7×	261 1.2×	65 0.4×	96 0.8×	10	548
Michael Laskey United States	15	519 1.0×	223 0.9×	257 1.2×	61 0.4×	108 0.9×	26	711
Michael Danielczuk United States	11	582 1.2×	239 1.0×	305 1.4×	61 0.4×	147 1.2×	26	768
Kaiyu Hang United States	18	638 1.3×	260 1.1×	397 1.8×	70 0.5×	160 1.3×	45	840
Corey Goldfeder United States	6	613 1.2×	202 0.9×	338 1.6×	92 0.6×	85 0.7×	9	700
Kazuyuki Nagata Japan	18	712 1.4×	196 0.8×	368 1.7×	75 0.5×	186 1.5×	100	890
Anis Sahbani France	13	649 1.3×	318 1.4×	407 1.9×	74 0.5×	110 0.9×	48	897
Kai Huebner Sweden	11	474 1.0×	240 1.0×	194 0.9×	87 0.6×	59 0.5×	22	583

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wyk, Karl Van, et al.. (2025). Synthetica: Large Scale Synthetic Data Generation for Robot Perception. 7810–7817. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Jie, Bowen Wen, Ankur Handa, et al.. (2024). AutoMate: Specialist and Generalist Assembly Policies over Diverse Geometries. 6 indexed citations

Wyk, Karl Van, Ankur Handa, Viktor Makoviychuk, et al.. (2024). Geometric Fabrics: a Safe Guiding Medium for Policy Learning. 6537–6543.

Wyk, Karl Van, et al.. (2023). Global and Reactive Motion Generation with Geometric Fabric Command Sequences. 939–945. 8 indexed citations

Qin, Yuzhe, Karl Van Wyk, Hao Su, et al.. (2023). AnyTeleop: A General Vision-Based Dexterous Robot Arm-Hand Teleoperation System. 35 indexed citations

Handa, Ankur, Arthur Allshire, Viktor Makoviychuk, et al.. (2023). DeXtreme: Transfer of Agile In-hand Manipulation from Simulation to Reality. 5977–5984. 65 indexed citations

Sundaralingam, Balakumar, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Caelan Reed Garrett, et al.. (2023). CuRobo: Parallelized Collision-Free Robot Motion Generation. 8112–8119. 32 indexed citations

Wyk, Karl Van, Anqi Li, B. N. Babich, et al.. (2022). Geometric Fabrics: Generalizing Classical Mechanics to Capture the Physics of Behavior. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 7(2). 3202–3209. 19 indexed citations

Chao, Yu-Wei, Wei Yang, Xiang Yu, et al.. (2021). DexYCB: A Benchmark for Capturing Hand Grasping of Objects. 9040–9049. 148 indexed citations

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Li, Anqi, et al.. (2021). RMP2: A Structured Composable Policy Class for Robot Learning. 8 indexed citations

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Wyk, Karl Van, Joe Falco, Elena R. Messina, et al.. (2020). Benchmarking Protocols for Evaluating Small Parts Robotic Assembly Systems. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(2). 883–889. 51 indexed citations

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Handa, Ankur, Karl Van Wyk, Jacky Liang, et al.. (2020). DexPilot: Vision-Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm System. 9164–9170. 123 indexed citations

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Liang, Jacky, Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk, et al.. (2020). In-Hand Object Pose Tracking via Contact Feedback and GPU-Accelerated Robotic Simulation. 6203–6209. 21 indexed citations

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Wyk, Karl Van, Mark Culleton, Joe Falco, & Kevin Kelly. (2018). Comparative Peg-in-Hole Testing of a Force-Based Manipulation Controlled Robotic Hand. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 34(2). 542–549. 70 indexed citations

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Wyk, Karl Van & Jeremy A. Marvel. (2018). Strategies for Improving Robot Registration Performance. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 15(1).

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Wyk, Karl Van & Joe Falco. (2018). Calibration and Analysis of Tactile Sensors as Slip Detectors. 2744–2751. 15 indexed citations

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Falco, Joe, Karl Van Wyk, & Elena R. Messina. (2018). Performance Metrics and Test Methods for Robotic Hands (Draft). 6 indexed citations

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Wyk, Karl Van & Jeremy A. Marvel. (2017). Strategies for Improving and Evaluating Robot Registration Performance. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 15(1). 320–328. 11 indexed citations

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Marvel, Jeremy A. & Karl Van Wyk. (2016). Simplified framework for robot coordinate registration for manufacturing applications. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 56–63. 8 indexed citations

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Falco, Joe, Karl Van Wyk, Shuo Liu, & Stefano Carpin. (2015). Grasping the Performance: Facilitating Replicable Performance Measures via Benchmarking and Standardized Methodologies. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 22(4). 125–136. 52 indexed citations

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