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Robotics
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Robotics

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 211 29 45 13
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 312 38 50 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 134
Documents by Best Scientists*: 165
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 48
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.792
Impact Factor: 3.3

Top Publications

  • Service robots in the healthcare sector

    Jane Holland;Liz M. Kingston;Conor T. McCarthy;Eddie Armstrong

    (2021)
    289 Citations
  • Finite Element Modeling in the Design Process of 3D Printed Pneumatic Soft Actuators and Sensors

    Charbel Tawk;Gursel Alici

    (2020)
    62 Citations
  • Smart Cleaner: A New Autonomous Indoor Disinfection Robot for Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Kaicheng Ruan;Zehao Wu;Qingsong Xu

    (2021)
    48 Citations
  • A Suite of Robotic Solutions for Nuclear Waste Decommissioning

    Ivan Vitanov;Ildar Farkhatdinov;Brice Denoun;Francesca Palermo

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • Advances in finger and partial hand prosthetic mechanisms

    Erasmo Difonzo;Giovanni Antonio Zappatore;Giacomo Mantriota;Giulio Reina

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Model-Based Mid-Level Regulation for Assist-As-Needed Hierarchical Control of Wearable Robots: A Computational Study of Human-Robot Adaptation

    (2022)
    30 Citations
  • Industrial Robot Trajectory Tracking Control Using Multi-Layer Neural Networks Trained by Iterative Learning Control

    Shuyang Chen;John T. Wen

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • A Pressing Attachment Approach for a Wall-Climbing Robot Utilizing Passive Suction Cups

    Dingxin Ge;Yongchen Tang;Shugen Ma;Takahiro Matsuno

    (2020)
    29 Citations

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