Radhika Nagpal

10.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
115 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Radhika Nagpal is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Radhika Nagpal has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 39 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 25 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Radhika Nagpal's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (60 papers), Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (28 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (25 papers). Radhika Nagpal is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (60 papers), Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (28 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (25 papers). Radhika Nagpal collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Radhika Nagpal's co-authors include Michael Rubenstein, Justin Werfel, Alejandro Donohué-Cornejo, Robert J. Wood, Kirstin Petersen, Florian Berlinger, Matthew C. Gibson, Ankit Patel, Ankit Patel and Norbert Perrimon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Radhika Nagpal

110 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm

2014 844 citations Michael Rubenstein, Alejandro Donohué-Cornejo et al. Science profile →
Design and control of a bio-inspired soft wearable robotic device for ankle–foot rehabilitation

2014 390 citations Robert J. Wood, Radhika Nagpal et al. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics profile →
Designing Collective Behavior in a Termite-Inspired Robot Construction Team

2014 381 citations Justin Werfel, Kirstin Petersen et al. Science profile →
Kilobot: A low cost scalable robot system for collective behaviors

2012 378 citations Michael Rubenstein, Radhika Nagpal et al. profile →
Implicit coordination for 3D underwater collective behaviors in a fish-inspired robot swarm

2021 206 citations Florian Berlinger, Melvin Gauci et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Radhika Nagpal United States	38	2.5k	2.0k	1.8k	977	608	115	6.1k
Erik D. Demaine United States	44	2.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	352 0.4×	353 0.6×	353	8.0k
Francesco Mondada Switzerland	42	2.5k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	960 0.5×	498 0.5×	192 0.3×	180	6.2k
Alcherio Martinoli Switzerland	36	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	263 0.3×	203 0.3×	202	5.1k
Mark Yim United States	35	4.4k 1.8×	1.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.8×	176 0.3×	180	5.6k
Ning Xi United States	45	1.9k 0.8×	410 0.2×	3.4k 1.8×	443 0.5×	425 0.7×	708	8.3k
Peter Will United States	29	1.5k 0.6×	506 0.2×	825 0.5×	628 0.6×	208 0.3×	89	2.7k
Michael Rubenstein United States	22	1.4k 0.6×	824 0.4×	555 0.3×	690 0.7×	147 0.2×	55	2.3k
Guangming Xie China	52	761 0.3×	4.7k 2.3×	1.2k 0.7×	366 0.4×	157 0.3×	355	9.6k
Eiichi Yoshida Japan	32	1.9k 0.8×	575 0.3×	2.0k 1.1×	671 0.7×	122 0.2×	244	4.2k
Nikolaus Correll United States	26	1.2k 0.5×	509 0.2×	1.8k 1.0×	382 0.4×	72 0.1×	96	3.6k

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Lauder, George, et al.. (2023). The role of hydrodynamics in collective motions of fish schools and bioinspired underwater robots. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 20(207). 20230357–20230357. 24 indexed citations

Saadat, Mehdi, et al.. (2021). Hydrodynamic advantages of in-line schooling. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 16(4). 46002–46002. 46 indexed citations

Berlinger, Florian, Mehdi Saadat, Hossein Haj‐Hariri, George Lauder, & Radhika Nagpal. (2020). Fish-like three-dimensional swimming with an autonomous, multi-fin, and biomimetic robot. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 16(2). 26018–26018. 43 indexed citations

Duduta, Mihai, Florian Berlinger, Radhika Nagpal, et al.. (2020). Tunable Multi-Modal Locomotion in Soft Dielectric Elastomer Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(3). 3868–3875. 63 indexed citations

Duduta, Mihai, Florian Berlinger, Radhika Nagpal, et al.. (2019). Electrically-latched compliant jumping mechanism based on a dielectric elastomer actuator. Smart Materials and Structures. 28(9). 09LT01–09LT01. 27 indexed citations

Ebert, Julia, Melvin Gauci, & Radhika Nagpal. (2018). Multi-Feature Collective Decision Making in Robot Swarms. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1711–1719. 21 indexed citations

Dornhaus, Anna, et al.. (2017). Costs of task allocation with local feedback: Effects of colony size and extra workers in social insects and other multi-agent systems. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(12). e1005904–e1005904. 1 indexed citations

Gauci, Melvin, et al.. (2017). Error Cascades in Collective Behavior: A Case Study of the Gradient Algorithm on 1000 Physical Agents. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1404–1412. 10 indexed citations

McCreery, Helen F., et al.. (2016). Collective strategy for obstacle navigation during cooperative transport by ants. Journal of Experimental Biology. 219(21). 3366–3375. 21 indexed citations

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Werfel, Justin, Kirstin Petersen, & Radhika Nagpal. (2014). Designing Collective Behavior in a Termite-Inspired Robot Construction Team. Science. 343(6172). 754–758. 381 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rubenstein, Michael, Alejandro Donohué-Cornejo, & Radhika Nagpal. (2014). Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm. Science. 345(6198). 795–799. 844 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rubenstein, Michael, et al.. (2012). Kilobot: A low cost scalable robot system for collective behaviors. 3293–3298. 378 indexed citations breakdown →

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Berman, Spring, Radhika Nagpal, & Ádám Halász. (2011). Optimization of stochastic strategies for spatially inhomogeneous robot swarms: A case study in commercial pollination. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 1 indexed citations

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Rubenstein, Michael & Radhika Nagpal. (2010). Kilobot: A Robotic Module for Demonstrating Behaviors in a Large Scale (\(2^{10}\) Units) Collective. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 8 indexed citations

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Nagpal, Radhika, Chih-Han Yu, & Daniel Yamins. (2008). Engineering self-organizing multi-agent systems. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1717–1717.

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Yu, Chih-Han & Radhika Nagpal. (2008). Sensing-based shape formation on modular multi-robot systems: a theoretical study. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 71–78. 13 indexed citations

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Yamins, Daniel & Radhika Nagpal. (2008). Automated global-to-local programming in 1-D spatial multi-agent systems. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 615–622. 22 indexed citations

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Valente, Matthew J., et al.. (2006). Collective construction using Lego robots. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 21(2). 1976–1977. 3 indexed citations

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Werfel, Justin, Yaneer Bar‐Yam, & Radhika Nagpal. (2005). Building patterned structures with robot swarms. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1495–1502. 24 indexed citations

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Brueckner, Sven, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Anthony Karageorgos, & Radhika Nagpal. (2005). Engineering Self-Organising Systems: methodologies and Applications. Springer eBooks. 24 indexed citations

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