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67
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1078
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to under-constrained robot manipulator systems.

Overview

Ian D. Walker is affiliated with Clemson University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with significant contributions in several subfields including biomedical engineering, control and systems engineering, mechanical engineering, surgery, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics, notably:

  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques
  • Micro and Nano Robotics
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics

Ian D. Walker has published in frequent venues such as:

  • Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
  • International Journal of Environment and Health

Recent papers include:

  • Continuum Robots: An Overview, 2023, Advanced Intelligent Systems
  • TMTDyn: A Matlab package for modeling and control of hybrid rigid-continuum robots based on discretized lumped systems and reduced-order models, 2020, The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Cosserat Rod-Based Dynamic Modeling of Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots: A Tutorial, 2021, IEEE Access
  • Dynamic Control of Multisection Three-Dimensional Continuum Manipulators Based on Virtual Discrete-Jointed Robot Models, 2020, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
  • Continuum Robots: An Overview, 2023, Advanced Intelligent Systems

Ian D. Walker collaborates frequently with several co-authors, such as:

  • Chase G. Frazelle
  • Venkat Krovi
  • Christos Bergeles
  • Adhiti Raman
  • Michael B. Wooten

In addition to journal publications, Ian D. Walker has contributed to book publications. One example is:

  • Improving Smallholders' Jobs Through Agribusiness Linkages, published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks, 2022

The scientist received the IEEE Fellow award in 2006 for contributions to under-constrained robot manipulator systems.

Best Publications

  • Soft robotics: Biological inspiration, state of the art, and future research

    Deepak Trivedi;Christopher D. Rahn;William M. Kier;Ian D. Walker

  • Kinematics for multisection continuum robots

    B.A. Jones;I.D. Walker

  • Kinematics and the implementation of an elephant's trunk manipulator and other continuum style robots.

    Michael W. Hannan;Ian D. Walker

  • Field trials and testing of the OctArm continuum manipulator

    W. McMahan;V. Chitrakaran;M. Csencsits;D. Dawson

  • Continuous Backbone “Continuum” Robot Manipulators

    Ian D. Walker

  • Myoelectric teleoperation of a complex robotic hand

    K.A. Farry;I.D. Walker;R.G. Baraniuk

  • Large deflection dynamics and control for planar continuum robots

    I.A. Gravagne;C.D. Rahn;I.D. Walker

  • Continuum Robot Arms Inspired by Cephalopods

    Ian D. Walker;Darren M. Dawson;Tamar Flash;Frank W. Grasso

  • Practical Kinematics for Real-Time Implementation of Continuum Robots

    B.A. Jones;I.D. Walker

  • Design and implementation of a multi-section continuum robot: Air-Octor

    W. McMahan;B.A. Jones;I.D. Walker

  • Kinematically redundant manipulators

    Stefano Chiaverini;Giuseppe Oriolo;Ian D. Walker

  • Robotic fault detection and fault tolerance: A survey

    Monica L. Visinsky;Joseph R. Cavallaro;Ian D. Walker

  • A dynamic fault tolerance framework for remote robots

    M.L. Visinsky;J.R. Cavallaro;I.D. Walker

  • Impact configurations and measures for kinematically redundant and multiple armed robot systems

    I.D. Walker

  • Analysis of motion and internal loading of objects grasped by multiple cooperating manipulators

    Ian D. Walker;Robert A. Freeman;Steven I. Marcus

  • A Neural Network Controller for Continuum Robots

    D. Braganza;D.M. Dawson;I.D. Walker;N. Nath

  • Fault detection for robot manipulators with parametric uncertainty: a prediction error based approach

    W.E. Dixon;I.D. Walker;D.M. Dawson;J.P. Hartranft

  • Continuum Robots: An Overview

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  • Manipulability, force, and compliance analysis for planar continuum manipulators

    I.A. Gravagne;I.D. Walker

  • On the kinematics of remotely-actuated continuum robots

    I.A. Gravagne;I.D. Walker

  • Good vibrations: a vibration damping setpoint controller for continuum robots

    I.A. Gravagne;C.D. Rahn;I.D. Walker

  • "Soft" Continuum Robots: the Interaction of Continuous and Discrete Elements

    Lara S. Cowan;Ian D. Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph R. Cavallaro
Joseph R. Cavallaro Rice University
Darren M. Dawson
Darren M. Dawson Methode Electronics
Warren E. Dixon
Warren E. Dixon University of Florida
Richard G. Baraniuk
Richard G. Baraniuk Rice University
Kaspar Althoefer
Kaspar Althoefer Queen Mary University of London
Aman Behal
Aman Behal University of Central Florida
Fabrizio Caccavale
Fabrizio Caccavale University of Basilicata
Gregory S. Chirikjian
Gregory S. Chirikjian University of Delaware
Karl J. Niklas
Karl J. Niklas Cornell University
Qiming Zhang
Qiming Zhang Pennsylvania State University

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