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Overview

Daniel I. Goldman is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on engineering, with extensive contributions spanning several subfields.

The main fields of study for Daniel I. Goldman include:

  • Engineering

The subfields within engineering that Goldman has contributed to are:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Aerospace Engineering

Goldman's work covers a wide range of topics in robotics and related fields. The main topics of their research are:

  • Robotic Locomotion and Control
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics

Among the recent scholarly articles authored or co-authored by Goldman are:

  • "Controlling subterranean forces enables a fast, steerable, burrowing soft robot" (2021, Science Robotics)
  • "Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering: principles, current work, opportunities and challenges" (2021, Géotechnique)
  • "Self-reconfigurable multilegged robot swarms collectively accomplish challenging terradynamic tasks" (2021, Science Robotics)
  • "Emergent Field-Driven Robot Swarm States" (2021, Physical Review Letters)
  • "Collective dynamics in entangled worm and robot blobs" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent co-authors in Goldman's publications include:

  • Baxi Chong
  • Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin
  • Daniel Soto
  • Kelimar Diaz
  • Jennifer M. Rieser

The main venues where Goldman's research has been published are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Robotics
  • Journal of Experimental Biology

Goldman has also authored book publications, including:

  • "When You Pass Over My Tomb" (2024, Methuen Drama eBooks)

Best Publications

  • A terradynamics of legged locomotion on granular media.

    Chen Li;Chen Li;Tingnan Zhang;Daniel I. Goldman

  • Undulatory swimming in sand: subsurface locomotion of the sandfish lizard.

    Ryan D. Maladen;Yang Ding;Chen Li;Daniel I. Goldman

  • Sidewinding with minimal slip: Snake and robot ascent of sandy slopes

    Hamidreza Marvi;Chaohui Gong;Nick Gravish;Henry Astley

  • A review on locomotion robophysics: the study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems

    Jeffrey Aguilar;Tingnan Zhang;Feifei Qian;Mark Kingsbury

  • Active tails enhance arboreal acrobatics in geckos

    Ardian Jusufi;Daniel I. Goldman;Shai Revzen;Robert J. Full

  • Scaling and dynamics of sphere and disk impact into granular media.

    Daniel I. Goldman;Paul B. Umbanhowar

  • Dynamics of rapid vertical climbing in cockroaches reveals a template

    Daniel I. Goldman;Tao S. Chen;Daniel M. Dudek;Robert J. Full

  • Sensitive dependence of the motion of a legged robot on granular media

    Chen Li;Paul B. Umbanhowar;Haldun Komsuoglu;Daniel E. Koditschek

  • Dynamics of drag and force distributions for projectile impact in a granular medium

    Massimo Pica Ciamarra;Antonio H. Lara;Andrew T. Lee;Daniel I. Goldman

  • Distributed mechanical feedback in arthropods and robots simplifies control of rapid running on challenging terrain

    Spagna Jc;Goldman Di;Lin Pc;Koditschek De

  • Stationary state volume fluctuations in a granular medium.

    Matthias Schröter;Daniel I. Goldman;Harry L. Swinney

  • Mechanical models of sandfish locomotion reveal principles of high performance subsurface sand-swimming

    Ryan D. Maladen;Yang Ding;Paul B. Umbanhowar;Adam Kamor

  • Drag induced lift in granular media.

    Yang Ding;Nick Gravish;Daniel I. Goldman

  • Robotics in scansorial environments

    Kellar Autumn;Martin Buehler;Mark Cutkosky;Ronald S. Fearing

  • Controlling subterranean forces enables a fast, steerable, burrowing soft robot

    Nicholas D. Naclerio;Andras Karsai;Mason Murray-Cooper;Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin

  • Granular impact and the critical packing state

    Paul B. Umbanhowar;Daniel I. Goldman

  • Entangled granular media.

    Nick Gravish;Scott V. Franklin;David L. Hu;Daniel I. Goldman

  • Bio-inspired Geotechnical Engineering: Principles, Current Work, Opportunities and Challenges

    Alejandro Martinez;Jason DeJong;Idil Akin;Ali Aleali

  • Force and flow transition in plowed granular media

    Nick Gravish;Paul B. Umbanhowar;Daniel I. Goldman

  • The effectiveness of resistive force theory in granular locomotiona)

    Tingnan Zhang;Daniel I. Goldman

  • The RiSE Climbing Robot: Body and Leg Design

    Aaron Saunders;Daniel I. Goldman;Robert J. Full;Martin Buehler

  • Persistent holes in a fluid.

    Florian S. Merkt;Robert D. Deegan;Daniel I. Goldman;Erin C. Rericha

  • Beneath Our Feet: Strategies for Locomotion in Granular Media

    A.E. Hosoi;Daniel I. Goldman

  • Robophysical study of jumping dynamics on granular media

    Jeffrey Aguilar;Daniel I. Goldman

  • Design of a Bio-Inspired Dynamical Vertical Climbing Robot

    Jonathan E. Clark;Daniel I. Goldman;Pei-Chun Lin;Goran Lynch

Frequent Co-Authors

Howie Choset
Howie Choset Carnegie Mellon University
Paul B. Umbanhowar
Paul B. Umbanhowar Northwestern University
Harry L. Swinney
Harry L. Swinney The University of Texas at Austin
Daniel E. Koditschek
Daniel E. Koditschek University of Pennsylvania
Robert J. Full
Robert J. Full University of California, Berkeley
Philip N. Benfey
Philip N. Benfey Duke University
Aaron D. Ames
Aaron D. Ames California Institute of Technology
Elliot W. Hawkes
Elliot W. Hawkes University of California, Santa Barbara
Patricio A. Vela
Patricio A. Vela Georgia Institute of Technology
Ronald S. Fearing
Ronald S. Fearing University of California, Berkeley

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