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Gregory S. Chirikjian

Gregory S. Chirikjian

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
64
Citations
16044
World Ranking
545
National Ranking
241

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
62
Citations
15863
World Ranking
1436
National Ranking
588

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to hyper-redundant manipulators
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Gregory S. Chirikjian is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields related to robotics, engineering, and computer science, with significant contributions to both theoretical and applied aspects of robotics technology.

The main fields of study in which they have published include:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science

Within these fields, the subfields of study they focus on are:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Applied Mathematics

The primary topics of Gregory S. Chirikjian's work are diverse and cover many aspects of robotic technology and related disciplines. These topics include:

  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Robotic Locomotion and Control
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
  • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization

They have published extensively in various venues, often appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Mechanism and Machine Theory
  • Robotica
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Some recent papers authored by or involving Gregory S. Chirikjian include:

  • A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics, 2022, Nature Reviews Physics
  • Efficient Path Planning in Narrow Passages for Robots With Ellipsoidal Components, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • An enhanced moment-based approach to time-dependent positional reliability analysis for robotic manipulators, 2020, Mechanism and Machine Theory
  • LSG-CPD: Coherent Point Drift with Local Surface Geometry for Point Cloud Registration, 2021, 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • Robust and Accurate Superquadric Recovery: a Probabilistic Approach, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Frequent collaborators include the following researchers, indicating sustained partnerships over multiple projects and publications:

  • Sipu Ruan
  • Hongtao Wu
  • Weixiao Liu
  • Yuanfeng Han
  • Amitesh S. Jayaraman

Gregory S. Chirikjian has been recognized by professional organizations with distinctions such as:

  • IEEE Fellow (2010) for contributions to hyper-redundant manipulators
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2008)

Best Publications

  • Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems [Grand Challenges of Robotics]

    M. Yim;Wei-Min Shen;B. Salemi;D. Rus

  • Nonholonomic Modeling of Needle Steering

    Robert J. Webster;Jin Seob Kim;Noah J. Cowan;Gregory S. Chirikjian

  • A modal approach to hyper-redundant manipulator kinematics

    G.S. Chirikjian;J.W. Burdick

  • Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis: With Emphasis on Rotation and Motion Groups

    GS Chirikjian;AB Kyatkin;AC Buckingham

  • The kinematics of hyper-redundant robot locomotion

    G.S. Chirikjian;J.W. Burdick

  • Useful metrics for modular robot motion planning

    A. Pamecha;I. Ebert-Uphoff;G.S. Chirikjian

  • Kinematic design and commutation of a spherical stepper motor

    G.S. Chirikjian;D. Stein

  • Devices and systems for minimally invasive surgery of the throat and other portions of mammalian body

    Nabil Simaan;Russell H. Taylor;Paul Flint;Gregory Chirikjian

  • Kinematically optimal hyper-redundant manipulator configurations

    G.S. Chirikjian;J.W. Burdick

  • Kinematics of a metamorphic robotic system

    G.S. Chirikjian

  • Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems

    Mark Yim;Wei-Min Shen;Behnam Salemi;Daniela Rus

  • An obstacle avoidance algorithm for hyper-redundant manipulators

    G.S. Chirikjian;J.W. Burdick

  • Equilibrium Conformations of Concentric-tube Continuum Robots

    D. Caleb Rucker;Robert J. Webster;Gregory S. Chirikjian;Noah J. Cowan

  • Design and Implementation of Metamorphic Robots

    Amit Pamecha;Chih-Jung Chiang;David Stein;Gregory Chirikjian

  • Efficient generation of feasible pathways for protein conformational transitions.

    Moon K. Kim;Robert L. Jernigan;Gregory S. Chirikjian

  • Hyper-redundant manipulator dynamics: a continuum approximation

    Gregory S. Chirikjian

  • Evaluating efficiency of self-reconfiguration in a class of modular robots

    Gregory S. Chirikjian;Amit Pamecha;Imme Ebert-Uphoff

  • Diffusion-Based Motion Planning for a Nonholonomic Flexible Needle Model

    Wooram Park;Jin Seob Kim;Yu Zhou;N.J. Cowan

  • Distal bevel-tip needle control device and algorithm

    Robert J. Webster;Allison M. Okamura;Noah J. Cowan;Gregory Chirikjian

  • A 'sidewinding' locomotion gait for hyper-redundant robots

    Joel W. Burdick;Jim Radford;Gregory S. Chirikjian

  • Nonholonomic Modeling of Needle Steering.

    Robert J. Webster;Noah J. Cowan;Gregory S. Chirikjian;Allison M. Okamura

  • Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis

    Alexander B. Kyatkin;Gregory S. Chirikjian

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel W. Burdick
Joel W. Burdick California Institute of Technology
Russell H. Taylor
Russell H. Taylor Johns Hopkins University
Gabor Fichtinger
Gabor Fichtinger Queen's University
Nabil Simaan
Nabil Simaan Vanderbilt University
Allison M. Okamura
Allison M. Okamura Stanford University
Daniel N. Rockmore
Daniel N. Rockmore Dartmouth College
Emad M. Boctor
Emad M. Boctor Johns Hopkins University
Robert L. Jernigan
Robert L. Jernigan Iowa State University
Mehran Armand
Mehran Armand Johns Hopkins University
Noah J. Cowan
Noah J. Cowan Johns Hopkins University

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