Paul Backes

3.9k total citations
144 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Paul Backes is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Backes has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 61 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 53 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Paul Backes's work include Planetary Science and Exploration (53 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (42 papers) and Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (31 papers). Paul Backes is often cited by papers focused on Planetary Science and Exploration (53 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (42 papers) and Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (31 papers). Paul Backes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Switzerland. Paul Backes's co-authors include K.S. Tso, Jeffrey S. Norris, Gregory K. Tharp, Yoseph Bar‐Cohen, S. Hayati, Max Bajracharya, Mark Powell, Brett Kennedy, Joel W. Burdick and Marsette Vona and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Eos and Planetary and Space Science.

In The Last Decade

Paul Backes

139 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Backes United States	18	516	462	434	376	334	144	1.3k
A. Trebi‐Ollennu United States	22	328 0.6×	433 0.9×	264 0.6×	267 0.7×	159 0.5×	67	1.1k
J. Balaram United States	17	211 0.4×	536 1.2×	253 0.6×	318 0.8×	225 0.7×	65	1.1k
Hrand Aghazarian United States	22	466 0.9×	351 0.8×	247 0.6×	159 0.4×	294 0.9×	49	1.2k
Issa Nesnas United States	20	361 0.7×	434 0.9×	303 0.7×	300 0.8×	189 0.6×	90	1.3k
Farhad Aghili Canada	25	551 1.1×	1.1k 2.4×	1.1k 2.5×	531 1.4×	386 1.2×	133	2.3k
Steve Ulrich Canada	16	256 0.5×	1.5k 3.3×	606 1.4×	790 2.1×	137 0.4×	92	1.9k
Scott Ploen United States	14	126 0.2×	1.2k 2.5×	563 1.3×	387 1.0×	113 0.3×	37	1.7k
Zhongjie Meng China	26	156 0.3×	1.6k 3.5×	656 1.5×	1.0k 2.7×	132 0.4×	100	1.9k
Yongchun Xie China	17	172 0.3×	346 0.7×	578 1.3×	110 0.3×	142 0.4×	66	942

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Backes

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Millard, David E., et al.. (2023). GranularGym: High Performance Simulation for Robotic Tasks with Granular Materials. 2 indexed citations

Choukroun, Mathieu, Paul Backes, Morgan L. Cable, et al.. (2021). Sampling Plume Deposits on Enceladus’ Surface to Explore Ocean Materials and Search for Traces of Life or Biosignatures. The Planetary Science Journal. 2(3). 100–100. 10 indexed citations

Choukroun, Mathieu, J. L. Molaro, Robert Hodyss, et al.. (2020). Strength Evolution of Ice Plume Deposit Analogs of Enceladus and Europa. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(15). 14 indexed citations

Choukroun, Mathieu, Robert Hodyss, Paul Backes, et al.. (2019). A new sampling system tailored to experimentally-derived mechanical properties of icy analogs for evolved Enceladus surface plume deposits. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

Peters, G. H., et al.. (2016). Development and Characteristics of Mechanical Porous Ambient Comet Simulants (MPACS) as Comet Surface Analogs. LPI. 2299. 1 indexed citations

Backes, Paul, et al.. (2012). A Sample Acquisition and Caching Architecture Applicable to a MER-Class Rover for Mars Sample Return. LPICo. 1679. 4143. 2 indexed citations

Backes, Paul, et al.. (2012). Sample sealing approaches for Mars Sample Return caching. 8. 1–11. 11 indexed citations

Wilson, M. G., Aaron Sengstacken, Abigail C. Allwood, et al.. (2010). Development of a NASA 2018 Mars Landed Mission Concept. 1054–1073.

Kunz, C., Randy Sargent, Paul Backes, et al.. (2006). Performance Evaluation of Handoff for Instrument Placement. 3 indexed citations

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Backes, Paul, et al.. (2002). Merging concurrent behaviors on a redundant manipulator. 638–645. 4 indexed citations

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Backes, Paul & Jeffrey S. Norris. (2002). Automated rover sequence report generation. 7. 7–3337. 4 indexed citations

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Backes, Paul, et al.. (2002). Ground control station development for the dexterous orbital servicing system. 2. 1259–1264. 2 indexed citations

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Schenker, Paul S., Eric Baumgartner, Paul Backes, et al.. (2001). FIDO: a field integrated design and operations rover for Mars surface exploration. 35 indexed citations

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Schenker, Paul S., Terrance L. Huntsberger, Paolo Pirjanian, et al.. (2001). <title>Robotic automation for space: planetary surface exploration, terrain-adaptive mobility, and multirobot cooperative tasks</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4572. 12–28. 14 indexed citations

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Anderson, Robert C., R. E. Arvidson, Judd D. Bowman, et al.. (2000). Student Participation in Mars Sample Return Rover Field Tests, Silver Lake, California. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1049. 1 indexed citations

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Arvidson, R. E., Judd D. Bowman, Robert C. Anderson, et al.. (2000). Students participate in mars sample return Rover field tests. Eos. 81(11). 113–117. 4 indexed citations

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Arvidson, R. E., Paul Backes, Eric Baumgartner, et al.. (1999). FIDO: Field Test Rover for 2003 and 2005 Mars Sample Return Missions. LPI. 1201. 6 indexed citations

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Backes, Paul, et al.. (1999). <title>Vision-based obstacle detection and path planning for planetary rovers</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3693. 44–54. 10 indexed citations

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Backes, Paul, et al.. (1998). Scanning Aircraft Structures Using Open-Architecture Robotic Crawlers as Platforms with NDE Boards and Sensors. Materials Evaluation. 57(3). 361–366. 6 indexed citations

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Backes, Paul, et al.. (1998). Task Lines and Motion Guides. PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality. 7(5). 494–502. 3 indexed citations

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