Vytas SunSpiral

2.1k total citations
42 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Vytas SunSpiral is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Vytas SunSpiral has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 29 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 14 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Vytas SunSpiral's work include Structural Analysis and Optimization (29 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (27 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (22 papers). Vytas SunSpiral is often cited by papers focused on Structural Analysis and Optimization (29 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (27 papers) and Advanced Materials and Mechanics (22 papers). Vytas SunSpiral collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Switzerland. Vytas SunSpiral's co-authors include Jonathan Bruce, Ken Caluwaerts, Adrian Agogino, Andrew P. Sabelhaus, Atıl Işçen, Alice M. Agogino, Benjamin Schrauwen, Inwon Park, Roger D. Quinn and Hod Lipson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of The Royal Society Interface, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and Journal of Field Robotics.

In The Last Decade

Vytas SunSpiral

42 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vytas SunSpiral United States 25 984 915 423 191 158 42 1.4k
Ken Caluwaerts Belgium 14 399 0.4× 380 0.4× 192 0.5× 101 0.5× 94 0.6× 26 894
Jonathan Bruce United States 13 441 0.4× 440 0.5× 136 0.3× 70 0.4× 69 0.4× 16 651
Massimo Vespignani Switzerland 13 400 0.4× 211 0.2× 535 1.3× 202 1.1× 142 0.9× 29 834
Atıl Işçen United States 10 270 0.3× 229 0.3× 326 0.8× 233 1.2× 110 0.7× 16 839
Hailin Huang China 23 707 0.7× 546 0.6× 453 1.1× 658 3.4× 204 1.3× 72 1.3k
Jing‐Shan Zhao China 22 507 0.5× 273 0.3× 337 0.8× 708 3.7× 121 0.8× 110 1.2k
Richard Bachmann United States 13 270 0.3× 117 0.1× 575 1.4× 186 1.0× 216 1.4× 24 746
John J. Uicker United States 14 535 0.5× 117 0.1× 293 0.7× 836 4.4× 46 0.3× 26 1.2k
Duncan W. Haldane United States 13 315 0.3× 62 0.1× 708 1.7× 216 1.1× 229 1.4× 19 866
Martin Kilian Austria 15 320 0.3× 109 0.1× 57 0.1× 67 0.4× 20 0.1× 29 1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vytas SunSpiral

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Case, Jennifer C., James M. Gibert, Joran Booth, Vytas SunSpiral, & Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio. (2020). Spinal Helical Actuation Patterns for Locomotion in Soft Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 5(3). 3814–3821. 4 indexed citations
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Cheney, Nick, Josh Bongard, Vytas SunSpiral, & Hod Lipson. (2018). Scalable co-optimization of morphology and control in embodied machines. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 15(143). 20170937–20170937. 54 indexed citations
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Case, Jennifer C., Edward L. White, Vytas SunSpiral, & Rebecca Kramer‐Bottiglio. (2017). Reducing Actuator Requirements in Continuum Robots Through Optimized Cable Routing. Soft Robotics. 5(1). 109–118. 21 indexed citations
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Cheney, Nicholas, Josh Bongard, Vytas SunSpiral, & Hod Lipson. (2016). On the Difficulty of Co-Optimizing Morphology and Control in Evolved Virtual Creatures. 226–233. 23 indexed citations
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Agogino, Adrian, et al.. (2015). Goal-Directed CPG-Based Control for Tensegrity Spines with Many Degrees of Freedom Traversing Irregular Terrain. Soft Robotics. 2(4). 165–176. 47 indexed citations
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Sabelhaus, Andrew P., Jonathan Bruce, Ken Caluwaerts, et al.. (2015). System design and locomotion of SUPERball, an untethered tensegrity robot. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2867–2873. 116 indexed citations
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SunSpiral, Vytas, Adrian Agogino, & David Atkinson. (2015). Super Ball Bot - Structures for Planetary Landing and Exploration, NIAC Phase 2 Final Report. 7 indexed citations
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Kim, Kyunam, et al.. (2014). Rapid prototyping design and control of tensegrity soft robot for locomotion. 7–14. 58 indexed citations
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Park, Inwon & Vytas SunSpiral. (2014). Impedance controlled twisted string actuators for tensegrity robots. 1331–1338. 36 indexed citations
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Sabelhaus, Andrew P., Jonathan Bruce, Ken Caluwaerts, et al.. (2014). Hardware Design and Testing of SUPERball, A Modular Tensegrity Robot. 81(3). 352–5. 12 indexed citations
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Caluwaerts, Ken, Atıl Işçen, Andrew P. Sabelhaus, et al.. (2014). Design and control of compliant tensegrity robots through simulation and hardware validation. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 11(98). 20140520–20140520. 191 indexed citations
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Bewley, Thomas, et al.. (2014). DuCTT: A tensegrity robot for exploring duct systems. 4222–4228. 55 indexed citations
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Bruce, Jonathan, et al.. (2014). SUPERball: Exploring Tensegrities for Planetary Probes. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 30 indexed citations
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Bachmann, Richard, et al.. (2013). Tetraspine: Robust terrain handling on a tensegrity robot using central pattern generators. 261–267. 52 indexed citations
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Işçen, Atıl, Adrian Agogino, Vytas SunSpiral, & Kagan Tumer. (2013). Controlling tensegrity robots through evolution. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 1293–1300. 30 indexed citations
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SunSpiral, Vytas, et al.. (2010). FootSpring: A Compliance Model for the ATHLETE Family of Robots. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 8 indexed citations
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Smith, David E., et al.. (2008). ATHLETE's Feet: Mu1ti-Resolution Planning for a Hexapod Robot. International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 9 indexed citations
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SunSpiral, Vytas, et al.. (2006). Modeling and Classifying Six-Dimensional Trajectories for Teleoperation Under a Time Delay. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 79–86. 2 indexed citations
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Wheeler, Kevin, et al.. (2005). Predictive Interfaces for Long-Distance Tele-Operations. 603. 74. 3 indexed citations

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