Ronald S. Fearing

20.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
218 papers, 16.1k citations indexed

About

Ronald S. Fearing is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald S. Fearing has authored 218 papers receiving a total of 16.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 67 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 58 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ronald S. Fearing's work include Robotic Locomotion and Control (73 papers), Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (46 papers) and Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (43 papers). Ronald S. Fearing is often cited by papers focused on Robotic Locomotion and Control (73 papers), Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (46 papers) and Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (43 papers). Ronald S. Fearing collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Ronald S. Fearing's co-authors include Metin Sitti, Robert J. Full, Kellar Autumn, Thomas W. Kenny, Yiching A. Liang, Andrew G. Gillies, W. Zesch, Ali Javey, E. Steltz and S. Tonia Hsieh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ronald S. Fearing

216 papers receiving 15.4k 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.

Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair

2000 2.2k citations Kellar Autumn, Yiching A. Liang et al. profile →
Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae

2002 1.5k citations Kellar Autumn, Metin Sitti et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Nanowire active-matrix circuitry for low-voltage macroscale artificial skin

2010 1.1k citations Andrew G. Gillies, Ronald S. Fearing et al. profile →
Wearable Microfluidic Diaphragm Pressure Sensor for Health and Tactile Touch Monitoring

2017 508 citations Ronald S. Fearing et al. profile →
Optically- and Thermally-Responsive Programmable Materials Based on Carbon Nanotube-Hydrogel Polymer Composites

2011 459 citations Andrew G. Gillies, Ronald S. Fearing et al. profile →
Insect-scale fast moving and ultrarobust soft robot

2019 409 citations Yichuan Wu, Justin K. Yim et al. Science Robotics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ronald S. Fearing United States	59	8.6k	4.7k	4.6k	2.6k	2.5k	218	16.1k
Robert J. Full United States	62	9.3k 1.1×	3.1k 0.7×	3.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	151	17.2k
Mark R. Cutkosky United States	69	10.1k 1.2×	4.9k 1.1×	3.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	898 0.4×	346	17.7k
L. Mahadevan United States	87	10.5k 1.2×	9.9k 2.1×	2.1k 0.4×	2.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	366	29.7k
Luquan Ren China	65	6.7k 0.8×	6.7k 1.4×	4.1k 0.9×	573 0.2×	5.3k 2.1×	807	20.1k
Xi‐Qiao Feng China	66	5.7k 0.7×	5.5k 1.2×	6.9k 1.5×	2.0k 0.8×	2.4k 0.9×	594	21.9k
Nicholas X. Fang United States	69	15.9k 1.9×	5.6k 1.2×	1.2k 0.3×	4.9k 1.9×	1.5k 0.6×	270	27.0k
Carmel Majidi United States	75	16.0k 1.9×	7.1k 1.5×	1.6k 0.3×	766 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	275	20.3k
Metin Sitti Germany	110	29.5k 3.4×	17.7k 3.8×	6.1k 1.3×	3.9k 1.5×	3.8k 1.5×	587	45.0k
Katia Bertoldi United States	78	13.8k 1.6×	14.1k 3.0×	2.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	368 0.1×	221	23.6k
Nicola M. Pugno Italy	62	5.5k 0.6×	4.0k 0.8×	4.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	674	18.1k

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You, Yifan, Chen Dai, Shijie Xin, et al.. (2024). Design, fabrication, and testing of a new soft-pouch robot with 6 degrees of freedom to expand the reach of open and endonasal skull base approaches. Neurosurgical FOCUS. 57(6). E7–E7. 2 indexed citations

Fearing, Ronald S., et al.. (2022). The Robustness of Tether Friction in Non-Idealized Terrains. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(1). 424–431. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Yichuan, Justin K. Yim, Jiaming Liang, et al.. (2019). Insect-scale fast moving and ultrarobust soft robot. Science Robotics. 4(32). 409 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Chen, Chad C. Kessens, Ronald S. Fearing, & Robert J. Full. (2017). Mechanical principles of dynamic terrestrial self-righting using wings. Advanced Robotics. 31(17). 881–900. 18 indexed citations

Jung, Gwang-Pil, et al.. (2016). An integrated jumping-crawling robot using height-adjustable jumping module. 4680–4685. 67 indexed citations

Fearing, Ronald S., et al.. (2016). Step climbing cooperation primitives for legged robots with a reversible connection. 3791–3798. 15 indexed citations

Fearing, Ronald S., et al.. (2015). Anisotropic collapsible leg spines for increased millirobot traction. 4547–4553. 20 indexed citations

Fearing, Ronald S., et al.. (2014). Insects traversing grass-like vertical compliant beams. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2014. 2 indexed citations

Julian, Ryan, et al.. (2013). Cooperative control and modeling for narrow passage traversal with an ornithopter MAV and lightweight ground station. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 103–110. 18 indexed citations

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Qian, Feifei, Tingnan Zhang, Chen Li, et al.. (2012). Walking and running on yielding and fluidizing ground. 13 indexed citations

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Gillies, Andrew G. & Ronald S. Fearing. (2010). A micromolded connector for reconfigurable millirobots. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 20(10). 105011–105011. 15 indexed citations

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Hoover, Aaron M., Samuel A. Burden, Xiaoyu Fu, Shankar Sastry, & Ronald S. Fearing. (2010). Bio-inspired design and dynamic maneuverability of a minimally actuated six-legged robot. 869–876. 105 indexed citations

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Spenko, Matthew, et al.. (2006). Foot design and integration for bioinspired climbing robots. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6230. 623019–623019. 27 indexed citations

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Campolo, Domenico, Ranjana Sahai, & Ronald S. Fearing. (2004). Development of piezoelectric bending actuators with embedded piezoelectric sensors for micromechanical flapping mechanisms. 3. 3339–3346. 35 indexed citations

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Sitti, Metin & Ronald S. Fearing. (2003). Nanomolding based fabrication of synthetic gecko foot-hairs. 137–140. 37 indexed citations

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Autumn, Kellar, Metin Sitti, Yiching A. Liang, et al.. (2002). Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(19). 12252–12256. 1495 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zesch, W. & Ronald S. Fearing. (1998). <title>Alignment of microparts using force-controlled pushing</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3519. 148–156. 45 indexed citations

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Cohn, Michael B., et al.. (1993). <title>Tactile feedback for teleoperation</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1833. 240–254. 51 indexed citations

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Fearing, Ronald S.. (1988). Tactile sensing, perception and shape interpretation (cones). 234(5). 331–6. 15 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Brian, et al.. (1986). Satyr and the Nymph: software archetype for real time robotics. 160–168. 8 indexed citations

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