Rodney Heil

694 total citations
5 papers, 308 citations indexed

About

Rodney Heil is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Rodney Heil has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 308 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 3 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 2 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Rodney Heil's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (3 papers), Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (3 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (2 papers). Rodney Heil is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (3 papers), Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (3 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (2 papers). Rodney Heil collaborates with scholars based in United States. Rodney Heil's co-authors include William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Jerry Hamann, Dimitri Zarzhitsky, Jennifer A. Miner, J. Scott Roth, Suranga Hettiarachchi, David M. Maahs and Stuart Lane and has published in prestigious journals such as Autonomous Robots, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement and Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems.

In The Last Decade

Rodney Heil

5 papers receiving 276 citations

Peers

Rodney Heil
MaryAnne Fields United States
Timothy Stirling Switzerland
Siddharth Mayya United States
Nima Moshtagh United States
D.P. Spanos United States
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Countries citing papers authored by Rodney Heil

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rodney Heil

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rodney Heil

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rodney Heil. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rodney Heil 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 Rodney Heil. Rodney Heil is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

5 of 5 papers shown
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Spears, William M., Rodney Heil, & Dimitri Zarzhitsky. (2006). Artificial Physics for Mobile Robot Formations. 3. 2287–2292. 15 indexed citations
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Spears, William M., Rodney Heil, Diana F. Spears, & Dimitri Zarzhitsky. (2004). Physicomimetics for Mobile Robot Formations. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 1528–1529. 35 indexed citations
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Spears, Diana F., et al.. (2004). An Overview of Physicomimetics. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations
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Spears, William M., Diana F. Spears, Jerry Hamann, & Rodney Heil. (2004). Distributed, Physics-Based Control of Swarms of Vehicles. Autonomous Robots. 17(2-3). 137–162. 255 indexed citations
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Heil, Rodney, et al.. (1997). Using a Performance Improvement Team to Reinvent a Mandatory Education Program. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement. 23(2). 103–116. 1 indexed citations

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