W. Zesch

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

W. Zesch is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Zesch has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 8 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in W. Zesch's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (5 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (4 papers) and Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (3 papers). W. Zesch is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (5 papers), Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (4 papers) and Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (3 papers). W. Zesch collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and France. W. Zesch's co-authors include Ronald S. Fearing, S. Tonia Hsieh, Thomas W. Kenny, Kellar Autumn, Robert J. Full, Yiching A. Liang, Roland Siegwart, Andréa Weber, A. Codourey and R. Moser and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and application and Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

In The Last Decade

W. Zesch

14 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair

2000 2.2k citations Kellar Autumn, Yiching A. Liang et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Zesch Switzerland	9	1.5k	930	846	801	565	14	2.5k
S. Tonia Hsieh United States	15	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	895 1.1×	839 1.0×	544 1.0×	44	3.1k
Yiching A. Liang United States	4	2.5k 1.7×	1.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	710 1.3×	4	3.7k
Michael Varenberg United States	29	2.5k 1.7×	738 0.8×	552 0.7×	985 1.2×	1.3k 2.2×	67	3.1k
Anne M. Peattie United States	10	1.3k 0.9×	618 0.7×	467 0.6×	709 0.9×	341 0.6×	11	1.9k
Burak Aksak United States	16	1.1k 0.7×	547 0.6×	522 0.6×	416 0.5×	441 0.8×	31	1.6k
Eui-Sung Yoon South Korea	31	861 0.6×	307 0.3×	1.1k 1.3×	413 0.5×	674 1.2×	118	3.1k
Zhendong Dai China	34	1.7k 1.1×	504 0.5×	2.3k 2.7×	571 0.7×	1.2k 2.0×	268	5.1k
Delphine Gourdon United States	17	790 0.5×	454 0.5×	464 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	375 0.7×	19	2.3k
Alexander Kovalev Germany	30	873 0.6×	484 0.5×	670 0.8×	291 0.4×	399 0.7×	128	2.8k
Benoît Roman France	31	985 0.7×	920 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	227 0.3×	1.6k 2.8×	69	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Zesch

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Zesch, W., et al.. (2012). Automated boiler wall cleaning and inspection. 5–9. 2 indexed citations

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Zesch, W., et al.. (2010). A modular inspection robot platform for power plant applications. 1–6. 7 indexed citations

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Fischer, Wolfgang, et al.. (2010). Foldable magnetic wheeled climbing robot for the inspection of gas turbines and similar environments with very narrow access holes. Industrial Robot the international journal of robotics research and application. 37(3). 244–249. 22 indexed citations

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Codourey, A., et al.. (2002). A robot system for automated handling in micro-world. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 3. 185–190. 37 indexed citations

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Zesch, W., et al.. (2002). Vacuum tool for handling microobjects with a NanoRobot. 2. 1761–1766. 107 indexed citations

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Autumn, Kellar, Yiching A. Liang, S. Tonia Hsieh, et al.. (2000). Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair. Nature. 405(6787). 681–685. 2190 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liang, Yongye, Kellar Autumn, S. Tonia Hsieh, et al.. (2000). Adhesion Force Measurements on Single Gecko Setae. 33–38. 10 indexed citations

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Goldberg, Ken, et al.. (1999). <title>Microassembly using auditory display of force feedback</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3834. 203–210. 6 indexed citations

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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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Zesch, W.. (1997). Multi-degree-of-freedom micropositioning using stepping principles. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 8 indexed citations

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Zesch, W., et al.. (1995). Inertial Drives for Micro- and Nanorobots: Two Novel Mechanisms. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 7 indexed citations

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Zesch, W., et al.. (1995). <title>Inertial drives for micro- and nanorobots: analytical study</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2593. 89–97. 24 indexed citations

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Zesch, W., et al.. (1995). <title>Inertial drives for micro- and nanorobots: two novel mechanisms</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2593. 80–88. 56 indexed citations

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Codourey, A. & W. Zesch. (1994). High Precision Robots for Automated Handling of Micro Objects. Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften digital collection (Zurich University of Applied Sciences). 3 indexed citations

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