Mirko Kovač

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
104 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Mirko Kovač is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mirko Kovač has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 35 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 28 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mirko Kovač's work include Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (28 papers), Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (27 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (23 papers). Mirko Kovač is often cited by papers focused on Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (28 papers), Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (27 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (23 papers). Mirko Kovač collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and United States. Mirko Kovač's co-authors include Robert Siddall, Dario Floreano, Jean‐Christophe Zufferey, Raphael Zufferey, Pisak Chermprayong, André Guignard, Martin R. Fuchs, Başaran Bahadır Koçer, Aslan Miriyev and Pooya Sareh and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Mirko Kovač

98 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Aerial-aquatic robots capable of crossing the air-water b... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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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. Aerial-aquatic robots capable of crossing the air-water boundary and hitchhiking on surfaces
    2022 125 citations Pham H. Nguyen, Mirko Kovač et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mirko Kovač United Kingdom 30 1.4k 1.3k 986 634 534 104 3.2k
Ruxu Du Hong Kong 35 1.8k 1.3× 707 0.6× 1.5k 1.6× 592 0.9× 157 0.3× 228 4.2k
Pakpong Chirarattananon Hong Kong 20 1.4k 1.0× 1.7k 1.3× 803 0.8× 332 0.5× 270 0.5× 60 3.1k
Tianmiao Wang China 38 2.8k 2.0× 1.2k 0.9× 1.5k 1.5× 954 1.5× 644 1.2× 280 5.1k
Li Wen China 45 3.1k 2.2× 940 0.7× 1.7k 1.7× 899 1.4× 832 1.6× 240 6.3k
Stefano Mintchev Switzerland 27 869 0.6× 935 0.7× 743 0.8× 265 0.4× 518 1.0× 62 2.3k
Guangming Xie China 52 1.2k 0.9× 1.4k 1.1× 761 0.8× 1.3k 2.0× 435 0.8× 355 9.6k
Nam Seo Goo South Korea 32 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 220 0.3× 155 0.3× 187 4.0k
Robert K. Katzschmann Switzerland 24 2.8k 2.0× 307 0.2× 1.2k 1.3× 420 0.7× 208 0.4× 78 3.7k
Kok-Meng Lee United States 32 1.1k 0.8× 562 0.4× 979 1.0× 146 0.2× 240 0.4× 224 3.3k
Xilun Ding China 36 2.2k 1.6× 885 0.7× 1.5k 1.5× 167 0.3× 518 1.0× 292 5.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mirko Kovač

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mirko Kovač

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mirko Kovač. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mirko Kovač 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 Mirko Kovač. Mirko Kovač 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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Nguyen, Pham H., et al.. (2026). The DroneHub: a multi-environment testbed for sustainability robotics. DORA Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)). 4(1).
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Laschi, Cecilia, Li Wen, Fumiya Iida, et al.. (2025). Soft robotics: what’s next in bioinspired design and applications of soft robots?. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 21(1). 11501–11501.
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Farinha, André, et al.. (2025). SailMAV: Water-Surface Locomotion and Biodiversity Monitoring. DORA Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)). 2. 208–229.
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Vonbank, R., André Farinha, Pham H. Nguyen, et al.. (2024). A Soft Robotic Morphing Wing for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(6). 3 indexed citations
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Abdelnasser, Heba, et al.. (2024). RaDro: Indoor Drone Tracking Using Millimeter Wave Radar. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 8(3). 1–23. 1 indexed citations
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Farinha, André, et al.. (2023). Use of an unmanned aerial‐aquatic vehicle for acoustic sensing in freshwater ecosystems. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 10(3). 343–359. 1 indexed citations
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Lawrance, Nicholas, et al.. (2023). Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 31(2). 26–38. 2 indexed citations
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Miriyev, Aslan, Fan Fu, Sabyasachi Gaan, et al.. (2023). FireDrone: Multi‐Environment Thermally Agnostic Aerial Robot. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 5(9). 2 indexed citations
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Hu, Yijie, et al.. (2023). Biopolymer Cryogels for Transient Ecology‐Drones. Advanced Intelligent Systems. 5(7).
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Hu, Yijie, et al.. (2023). Biopolymer Cryogels for Transient Ecology‐Drones. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(7). 8 indexed citations
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Miriyev, Aslan, Fan Fu, Sabyasachi Gaan, et al.. (2023). FireDrone: Multi‐Environment Thermally Agnostic Aerial Robot. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(9). 5 indexed citations
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Xiao, Feng, et al.. (2023). Metamorphic aerial robot capable of mid-air shape morphing for rapid perching. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 1297–1297. 26 indexed citations
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Chermprayong, Pisak, Ketao Zhang, Feng Xiao, & Mirko Kovač. (2019). An Integrated Delta Manipulator for Aerial Repair: A New Aerial Robotic System. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 26(1). 54–66. 78 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Hai-Nguyen, et al.. (2019). A Passively Adaptive Microspine Grapple for Robust, Controllable Perching. DORA Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)). 80–87. 47 indexed citations
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Zufferey, Raphael, Sophie F. Armanini, André Farinha, & Mirko Kovač. (2019). Adaptive Morphology in Aerial-Aquatic Robots. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2 indexed citations
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Tzoumanikas, Dimos, et al.. (2018). Fully autonomous micro air vehicle flight and landing on a moving target using visual–inertial estimation and model‐predictive control. Journal of Field Robotics. 36(1). 49–77. 22 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ketao, Pisak Chermprayong, Dimos Tzoumanikas, et al.. (2018). Bioinspired design of a landing system with soft shock absorbers for autonomous aerial robots. Journal of Field Robotics. 36(1). 230–251. 27 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ketao, et al.. (2017). SpiderMAV: Perching and stabilizing micro aerial vehicles with bio-inspired tensile anchoring systems. Queen Mary Research Online (Queen Mary University of London). 6849–6854. 30 indexed citations
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Vidyasagar, A., et al.. (2015). Performance analysis of jump-gliding locomotion for miniature robotics. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 10(2). 25006–25006. 48 indexed citations
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Kovač, Mirko. (2013). The Bioinspiration Design Paradigm: A Perspective for Soft Robotics. Soft Robotics. 1(1). 28–37. 74 indexed citations

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