Kimon Roufas

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 973 citations indexed

About

Kimon Roufas is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kimon Roufas has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 973 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 4 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kimon Roufas's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (11 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (6 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (3 papers). Kimon Roufas is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (11 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (6 papers) and Robot Manipulation and Learning (3 papers). Kimon Roufas collaborates with scholars based in United States. Kimon Roufas's co-authors include Mark Yim, D.G. Duff, Craig Eldershaw, Ying Zhang, David G. Duff, Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang and Ying Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Autonomous Robots and IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Kimon Roufas

11 papers receiving 905 citations

Hit Papers

PolyBot: a modular reconfigurable robot 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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. PolyBot: a modular reconfigurable robot
    2002 473 citations Mark Yim, D.G. Duff et al. profile →

Peers

Kimon Roufas
Keith Kotay United States
Haruhisa Kurokawa Japan
S. Kokaji Japan
Kyle Gilpin United States
E.H. Ostergaard Denmark
David Johan Christensen Denmark
Hiroaki Kurokawa Japan
Seiya Nakagawa Japan
John W. Romanishin United States
Keith Kotay United States
Kimon Roufas
Citations per year, relative to Kimon Roufas Kimon Roufas (= 1×) peers Keith Kotay

Countries citing papers authored by Kimon Roufas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kimon Roufas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kimon Roufas

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

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Zhang, Ying, Mark Yim, Craig Eldershaw, D.G. Duff, & Kimon Roufas. (2004). Phase automata: a programming model of locomotion gaits for scalable chain-type modular robots. 3. 2442–2447. 35 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ying, Mark Yim, Craig Eldershaw, D.G. Duff, & Kimon Roufas. (2004). Scalable and reconfigurable configurations and locomotion gaits for chain-type modular reconfigurable robots. 2. 893–899. 19 indexed citations
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Eldershaw, Craig, Mark Yim, Ying Zhang, Kimon Roufas, & D.G. Duff. (2004). Motion planning with narrow C-space passages. 2. 1608–1613. 1 indexed citations
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Yim, Mark, et al.. (2003). Modular Reconfigurable Robots in Space Applications. Autonomous Robots. 14(2-3). 225–237. 199 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ying, Kimon Roufas, Mark Yim, & Craig Eldershaw. (2002). Massively Distributed Control Nets for Modular Reconfigurable Robots. 2 indexed citations
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Roufas, Kimon, et al.. (2002). Software architecture for modular self-reconfigurable robots. 4. 2355–2360. 27 indexed citations
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Yim, Mark, D.G. Duff, & Kimon Roufas. (2002). PolyBot: a modular reconfigurable robot. 1. 514–520. 473 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Ying, et al.. (2002). Attribute/Service Model: Design Patterns for Efficient Coordination of Distributed Sensors, Actuators and Tasks in Embedded Systems. 6 indexed citations
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Yim, Mark, D.G. Duff, & Kimon Roufas. (2002). Walk on the wild side [modular robot motion]. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 9(4). 49–53. 23 indexed citations
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Yim, Mark, Ying Zhang, Kimon Roufas, D.G. Duff, & Craig Eldershaw. (2002). Connecting and disconnecting for chain self-reconfiguration with PolyBot. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 7(4). 442–451. 145 indexed citations
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Roufas, Kimon, et al.. (2001). Climbing with Snake-Like Robots. IFAC Proceedings Volumes. 34(4). 7–12. 43 indexed citations

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