Zack Butler

2.3k total citations
64 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Zack Butler is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, Zack Butler has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 22 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 15 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in Zack Butler's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (27 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (13 papers) and Teaching and Learning Programming (12 papers). Zack Butler is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (27 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (13 papers) and Teaching and Learning Programming (12 papers). Zack Butler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Zack Butler's co-authors include Daniela Rus, Robert Fitch, Keith Kotay, Ralph Hollis, Javed Aslam, Florin Constantin, Valentino Crespi, George Cybenko, Kohji Tomita and Peter Corke and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, The International Journal of Robotics Research and Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

In The Last Decade

Zack Butler

60 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
Zack Butler United States 20 770 655 281 267 208 64 1.5k
Michaël Bonani Switzerland 17 699 0.9× 933 1.4× 84 0.3× 225 0.8× 299 1.4× 27 1.6k
Gábor Vásárhelyi Hungary 14 621 0.8× 193 0.3× 67 0.2× 93 0.3× 306 1.5× 20 1.1k
Iuliu Vasilescu United States 16 521 0.7× 202 0.3× 565 2.0× 75 0.3× 156 0.8× 27 1.3k
Gilles Caprari Switzerland 18 239 0.3× 529 0.8× 83 0.3× 111 0.4× 260 1.3× 48 1.3k
Roderich Groß United Kingdom 20 640 0.8× 728 1.1× 43 0.2× 185 0.7× 197 0.9× 59 1.3k
Zhiqiang Cao China 24 412 0.5× 166 0.3× 311 1.1× 67 0.3× 651 3.1× 196 2.1k
Justin Werfel United States 20 341 0.4× 745 1.1× 85 0.3× 182 0.7× 160 0.8× 53 1.7k
Richard M. Voyles United States 22 226 0.3× 377 0.6× 367 1.3× 23 0.1× 495 2.4× 158 1.8k
Kasper Støy Denmark 20 471 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 68 0.2× 362 1.4× 230 1.1× 85 1.6k
Ali Emre Turgut Türkiye 21 590 0.8× 490 0.7× 54 0.2× 201 0.8× 235 1.1× 45 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zack Butler

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zack Butler

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

All Works

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Bunde, David P., et al.. (2025). CONVERSATIONS: Conversations with a Prominent Propagator: Philip Guo. ACM Inroads. 16(1). 17–21.
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Bunde, David P., et al.. (2023). How Do I Get People to Use My Ideas?. 841–847. 1 indexed citations
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Bunde, David P., et al.. (2023). Conversations: Conversations with a Prominent Propagator: Barbara Ericson. ACM Inroads. 14(1). 16–19. 3 indexed citations
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Bunde, David P., et al.. (2022). CONVERSATIONS: Conversation with a prominent propagator. ACM Inroads. 13(2). 14–18. 1 indexed citations
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Bunde, David P., et al.. (2021). CONVERSATIONS: Conversation with a prominent propagator. ACM Inroads. 12(2). 10–13. 2 indexed citations
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Bunde, David P., et al.. (2020). CONVERSATIONSConversation with a prominent propagator. ACM Inroads. 11(4). 6–8. 4 indexed citations
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Butler, Zack. (2012). Auction-based task allocation for teams of self-reconfigurable robots. 25–30. 2 indexed citations
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Butler, Zack, Minseok Kwon, & Rajendra K. Raj. (2008). Work in progress - using a mobile robots laboratory to teach advanced computing concepts. F2H–12. 1 indexed citations
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Butler, Zack, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus, & Kohji Tomita. (2007). Cellular Automata for Decentralized Control of Self-Reconfigurable Robots. 20 indexed citations
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Butler, Zack, Peter Corke, Ronald Peterson, & Daniela Rus. (2004). Virtual fences for controlling cows. 4429–4436 Vol.5. 72 indexed citations
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Fitch, Robert, Zack Butler, & Daniela Rus. (2004). Reconfiguration planning for heterogeneous self-reconfiguring robots. 3. 2460–2467. 47 indexed citations
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Butler, Zack & D. Rus. (2004). Distributed locomotion algorithms for self-reconfigurable robots operating on rough terrain. 2. 880–885. 8 indexed citations
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Butler, Zack & Daniela Rus. (2003). Event-based motion control for mobile-sensor networks. IEEE Pervasive Computing. 2(4). 34–42. 106 indexed citations
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Butler, Zack, Keith Kotay, Daniela Rus, & Kohji Tomita. (2003). Generic decentralized control for a class of self-reconfigurable robots. 1. 809–816. 77 indexed citations
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Fitch, Robert, Zack Butler, & Daniela Rus. (2002). The Crystal Robot: Implementation and Demonstration.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 35(3). 65–71. 2 indexed citations
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Butler, Zack, et al.. (2002). Distributed motion planning for modular robots with unit-compressible modules. 2. 790–796. 17 indexed citations
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Butler, Zack, A.A. Rizzi, & Ralph Hollis. (2002). Integrated precision 3-DOF position sensor for planar linear motors. 4. 3109–3114. 14 indexed citations
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Rus, Daniela, Zack Butler, Keith Kotay, & Marsette Vona. (2002). Self-reconfiguring robots. Communications of the ACM. 45(3). 39–45. 76 indexed citations
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Hollis, Ralph & Zack Butler. (2000). Distributed coverage of rectilinear environments. 21 indexed citations

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