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D-Index
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Citations
7951
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5450
National Ranking
1871

Cagdas D. Onal publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cagdas D. Onal sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 132 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Cagdas D. Onal D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cagdas D. Onal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

Cagdas D. Onal is affiliated with Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Biomedical Engineering. Their research spans several subfields, including Mechanical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's primary research topics include Soft Robotics and Applications, Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, Robot Manipulation and Learning, Robotic Locomotion and Control, Micro and Nano Robotics, Muscle Activation and Electromyography Studies, and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Cagdas D. Onal are:

  • Erik H. Skorina
  • Jie Fu
  • Yinan Sun
  • Shou-Shan Chiang
  • Taşkın Padır

Key recent publications by Cagdas D. Onal include:

  • "An Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Torsionally Stiff Body and Smooth Inverse Kinematics," 2020, Soft Robotics
  • "Soft Mobile Robots: a Review of Soft Robotic Locomotion Modes," 2021, Current Robotics Reports
  • "Design, Analysis, and Real-Time Simulation of a 3D Soft Robotic Snake," 2022, Soft Robotics
  • "Reinforcement Learning of CPG-Regulated Locomotion Controller for a Soft Snake Robot," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • "Motion Planning and Iterative Learning Control of a Modular Soft Robotic Snake," 2020, Frontiers in Robotics and AI

The scientist has published multiple articles in several venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Soft Robotics
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Current Robotics Reports

Best Publications

  • Soft Robotics: Review of Fluid‐Driven Intrinsically Soft Devices; Manufacturing, Sensing, Control, and Applications in Human‐Robot Interaction

    Panagiotis Polygerinos;Nikolaus Correll;Stephen A. Morin;Bobak Mosadegh

  • Autonomous Soft Robotic Fish Capable of Escape Maneuvers Using Fluidic Elastomer Actuators.

    Andrew D. Marchese;Cagdas D. Onal;Daniela Rus

  • Meshworm: A Peristaltic Soft Robot With Antagonistic Nickel Titanium Coil Actuators

    Sangok Seok;Cagdas Denizel Onal;Kyu-Jin Cho;Robert J. Wood

  • An Origami-Inspired Approach to Worm Robots

    C. D. Onal;R. J. Wood;D. Rus

  • Autonomous undulatory serpentine locomotion utilizing body dynamics of a fluidic soft robot

    Cagdas D Onal;Daniela Rus

  • Self-folding with shape memory composites†

    Samuel M. Felton;Michael T. Tolley;ByungHyun Shin;Cagdas D. Onal

  • Pneumatic Energy Sources for Autonomous and Wearable Soft Robotics

    Michael Wehner;Michael T. Tolley;Annan Mozeika;Ye Ding

  • Design and control of a soft and continuously deformable 2D robotic manipulation system

    Andrew Dominic Marchese;Konrad Komorowski;Cagdas Onal;Daniela L. Rus

  • Soft Mobile Robots with On-Board Chemical Pressure Generation

    Cagdas D. Onal;Xin Chen;George M. Whitesides;Daniela Rus

  • Peristaltic locomotion with antagonistic actuators in soft robotics

    Sangok Seok;Cagdas D. Onal;Robert Wood;Daniela Rus

  • Towards printable robotics: Origami-inspired planar fabrication of three-dimensional mechanisms

    Cagdas D. Onal;Robert J. Wood;Daniela Rus

  • A modular approach to soft robots

    Cagdas D. Onal;Daniela Rus

  • Robot self-assembly by folding: A printed inchworm robot

    Samuel M. Felton;Michael T. Tolley;Cagdas D. Onal;Daniela Rus

  • Origami-Inspired Printed Robots

    Cagdas D. Onal;Michael T. Tolley;Robert J. Wood;Daniela Rus

  • Toward Modular Soft Robotics: Proprioceptive Curvature Sensing and Sliding-Mode Control of Soft Bidirectional Bending Modules

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  • An Origami Continuum Robot Capable of Precise Motion Through Torsionally Stiff Body and Smooth Inverse Kinematics

    Junius Santoso;Cagdas D Onal

  • Theoretical Modeling and Experimental Analysis of a Pressure-Operated Soft Robotic Snake

    Unknown

  • A precise embedded curvature sensor module for soft-bodied robots

    Selim Ozel;Nehir A. Keskin;Darien Khea;Cagdas D. Onal

  • Soft Autonomous Materials—Using Active Elasticity and Embedded Distributed Computation

    Nikolaus Correll;Çağdaş D. Önal;Haiyi Liang;Erik Schoenfeld

  • Soft robot actuators using energy-efficient valves controlled by electropermanent magnets

    Andrew D. Marchese;Cagdas D. Onal;Daniela Rus

  • Slithering towards autonomy: a self-contained soft robotic snake platform with integrated curvature sensing.

    Ming Luo;Yixiao Pan;Erik H Skorina;Weijia Tao

  • A composite soft bending actuation module with integrated curvature sensing

    Selim Ozel;Erik H. Skorina;Ming Luo;Weijia Tao

  • Automated 2-D Nanoparticle Manipulation Using Atomic Force Microscopy

    C D Onal;O Ozcan;M Sitti

  • OriSnake: Design, Fabrication, and Experimental Analysis of a 3-D Origami Snake Robot

    Ming Luo;Ruibo Yan;Zhenyu Wan;Yun Qin

Frequent Co-Authors

Metin Sitti
Metin Sitti Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Robert J. Wood
Robert J. Wood Harvard University
Stephane Regnier
Stephane Regnier Northumbria University
Michael T. Tolley
Michael T. Tolley University of California, San Diego
Deniz Erdogmus
Deniz Erdogmus Northeastern University
Paolo Bonato
Paolo Bonato Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University
Nikolaus Correll
Nikolaus Correll University of Colorado Boulder

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