Paul Backes

3.9k citations
144 papers · 1.3k indexed · h-index 18

Paul Backes

139 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Paul Backes
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  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 376
  • Control and Systems Engineering 434
  • Aerospace Engineering 462
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 327
  • Mechanical Engineering 516
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Paul Backes, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20232
2 202110
3 202014
4
A new sampling system tailored to experimentally-derived mechanical properties of icy analogs for evolved Enceladus surface plume deposits
20191
5
Development and Characteristics of Mechanical Porous Ambient Comet Simulants (MPACS) as Comet Surface Analogs
20161
6
A Sample Acquisition and Caching Architecture Applicable to a MER-Class Rover for Mars Sample Return
20122
7 201211
8 20100
9 20024
10 20022
11 20024
12 200217
13 200223
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FIDO: a field integrated design and operations rover for Mars surface exploration
200135
15
Student Participation in Mars Sample Return Rover Field Tests, Silver Lake, California
20001
16
FIDO: Field Test Rover for 2003 and 2005 Mars Sample Return Missions
19996
17
Scanning Aircraft Structures Using Open-Architecture Robotic Crawlers as Platforms with NDE Boards and Sensors
19986
18 19983
19
Supervised autonomous control, shared control, and teleoperation for space servicing
19935
20 19863

About Paul Backes

Paul Backes is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering, having authored 144 papers that have together received 1.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Planetary Science and Exploration (53 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (42 papers), Teleoperation and Haptic Systems (31 papers), Space Satellite Systems and Control (27 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (25 papers), Soft Robotics and Applications (22 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (20 papers) and Space Exploration and Technology (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (376 citations), Control and Systems Engineering (434 citations) and Aerospace Engineering (462 citations). Paul Backes has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Italy and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include K.S. Tso, Jeffrey S. Norris, Gregory K. Tharp, Yoseph Bar‐Cohen, S. Hayati, Max Bajracharya, Mark Powell, Brett Kennedy, Marsette Vona and Joel W. Burdick. Their work appears in journals such as Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Journal of Field Robotics, PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems and Robotica.

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