Nathan Ratliff

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Nathan Ratliff is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Ratliff has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 24 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nathan Ratliff's work include Robot Manipulation and Learning (23 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (17 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (13 papers). Nathan Ratliff is often cited by papers focused on Robot Manipulation and Learning (23 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (17 papers) and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (13 papers). Nathan Ratliff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Nathan Ratliff's co-authors include J. Andrew Bagnell, Siddhartha S Srinivasa, Matt Zucker, Martin Zinkevich, Anca D. Dragan, Mihail Pivtoraiko, Matthew Klingensmith, Christopher M. Dellin, David Silver and Dieter Fox and has published in prestigious journals such as The International Journal of Robotics Research, Journal of Machine Learning Research and Autonomous Robots.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Ratliff

40 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

CHOMP: Gradient optimization techniques for efficient mot... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2013 200 400 600

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nathan Ratliff United States 20 1.6k 1.4k 836 593 465 42 2.7k
Ross A. Knepper United States 25 948 0.6× 666 0.5× 525 0.6× 377 0.6× 321 0.7× 44 2.0k
Brett Browning United States 18 879 0.5× 1.5k 1.1× 1.3k 1.5× 488 0.8× 395 0.8× 53 2.8k
Mrinal Kalakrishnan United States 23 962 0.6× 1.8k 1.2× 852 1.0× 472 0.8× 1.2k 2.6× 38 2.9k
John Schulman United States 15 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 1.6k 1.9× 488 0.8× 369 0.8× 20 3.2k
Sachin Chitta United States 29 1.8k 1.1× 2.3k 1.6× 688 0.8× 811 1.4× 1.1k 2.5× 59 3.7k
Ioan A. Şucan United States 16 1.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 369 0.4× 755 1.3× 273 0.6× 27 2.0k
Thierry Fraichard France 30 2.3k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 484 0.6× 952 1.6× 240 0.5× 81 2.9k
Kai‐Tai Song Taiwan 23 1.4k 0.8× 824 0.6× 221 0.3× 473 0.8× 358 0.8× 147 2.1k
Chelsea Finn United States 23 964 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 1.5k 1.8× 191 0.3× 396 0.9× 94 2.9k
Matthew R. Walter United States 24 1.6k 1.0× 600 0.4× 1.0k 1.2× 1.1k 1.8× 131 0.3× 61 2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan Ratliff

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nathan Ratliff. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nathan Ratliff 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 Nathan Ratliff. Nathan Ratliff 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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Wyk, Karl Van, et al.. (2025). Synthetica: Large Scale Synthetic Data Generation for Robot Perception. 7810–7817. 1 indexed citations
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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
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Fox, Dieter, et al.. (2020). Euclideanizing Flows: Diffeomorphic Reduction for Learning Stable Dynamical Systems. 630–639. 3 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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Ratliff, Nathan, et al.. (2020). Scaling Local Control to Large-Scale Topological Navigation. 672–678. 37 indexed citations
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Li, Anqi, Harish Ravichandar, Mustafa Mukadam, et al.. (2019). Learning Reactive Motion Policies in Multiple Task Spaces from Human Demonstrations.. 1457–1468. 6 indexed citations
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Mukadam, Mustafa, Ching-An Cheng, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, & Nathan Ratliff. (2019). Riemannian Motion Policy Fusion through Learnable Lyapunov Function Reshaping.. 204–219. 4 indexed citations
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Cheng, Ching-An, Xinyan Yan, Nathan Ratliff, & Byron Boots. (2019). Predictor-Corrector Policy Optimization. International Conference on Machine Learning. 1151–1161. 3 indexed citations
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Ratliff, Nathan & J. Andrew Bagnell. (2018). Kernel Conjugate Gradient for Fast Kernel Machines. Figshare. 1017–1022. 4 indexed citations
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Ratliff, Nathan, J. Andrew Bagnell, & Martin Zinkevich. (2018). (Online) Subgradient Methods for Structured Prediction. Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University). 9 indexed citations
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Ratliff, Nathan, Brian D. Ziebart, Kevin Peterson, et al.. (2018). Inverse Optimal Heuristic Control for Imitation Learning. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 5. 424–431. 2 indexed citations
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Ratliff, Nathan, David M. Bradley, J. Andrew Bagnell, & Joel Chestnutt. (2018). Boosting Structured Prediction for Imitation Learning. Figshare. 19. 1153–1160. 27 indexed citations
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Ratliff, Nathan & J. Andrew Bagnell. (2018). Kernel Conjugate Gradient. Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University).
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Ratliff, Nathan, Marc Toussaint, & Stefan Schaal. (2015). Understanding the geometry of workspace obstacles in Motion Optimization. 4202–4209. 29 indexed citations
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Dragan, Anca D., Nathan Ratliff, & Siddhartha S Srinivasa. (2011). Manipulation planning with goal sets using constrained trajectory optimization. Figshare. 4582–4588. 62 indexed citations
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Seo, Young‐Woo, Nathan Ratliff, & Chris Urmson. (2009). Self-supervised aerial image analysis for extracting parking lot structure. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1837–1842. 8 indexed citations
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Ratliff, Nathan, Matt Zucker, J. Andrew Bagnell, & Siddhartha S Srinivasa. (2009). CHOMP: Gradient optimization techniques for efficient motion planning. Figshare. 489–494. 650 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ratliff, Nathan, David Silver, & J. Andrew Bagnell. (2009). Learning to search: Functional gradient techniques for imitation learning. Autonomous Robots. 27(1). 25–53. 119 indexed citations
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Ratliff, Nathan, J. Andrew Bagnell, & Martin Zinkevich. (2007). Approximate) Subgradient Methods for Structured Prediction. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 380–387. 22 indexed citations
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Ratliff, Nathan, J. Andrew Bagnell, & Siddhartha S Srinivasa. (2007). Imitation learning for locomotion and manipulation. Figshare. 392–397. 64 indexed citations

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