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  • 2020 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to collective intelligence, especially self-organizing systems, including novel robotics and foundational theory.
  • 2020 - ACM Fellow For contributions to collective intelligence, including self-organizing systems and swarm robotics

Overview

Radhika Nagpal is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and conducts research primarily in engineering. Their work spans several subfields including ocean engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, computer networks and communications, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics such as underwater vehicles and communication systems, modular robots and swarm intelligence, distributed control multi-agent systems, biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, fish ecology and management studies, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Frequent publication venues for Radhika Nagpal include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
  • 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • Science Robotics
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Nagpal cover a range of topics related to biomimetic robots and collective behaviors:

  • "Implicit coordination for 3D underwater collective behaviors in a fish-inspired robot swarm," 2021, Science Robotics
  • "Tunable Multi-Modal Locomotion in Soft Dielectric Elastomer Robots," 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Fish-like three-dimensional swimming with an autonomous, multi-fin, and biomimetic robot," 2020, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
  • "Hydrodynamic advantages of in-line schooling," 2021, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
  • "The role of hydrodynamics in collective motions of fish schools and bioinspired underwater robots," 2023, Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Among the frequent co-authors working with Nagpal are Hungtang Ko, Florian Berlinger, George Lauder, Bahar Haghighat, and Sneha Ramshanker.

Radhika Nagpal has been recognized with several awards including the Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2020 for significant contributions to collective intelligence, especially self-organizing systems, including novel robotics and foundational theory.

In the same year, Nagpal was also named an ACM Fellow for contributions to collective intelligence, including self-organizing systems and swarm robotics.

Best Publications

  • Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm

    Michael Rubenstein;Alejandro Cornejo;Radhika Nagpal

  • Organizing a global coordinate system from local information on an ad hoc sensor network

    Radhika Nagpal;Howard Shrobe;Jonathan Bachrach

  • Amorphous computing

    Harold Abelson;Don Allen;Daniel Coore;Chris Hanson

  • Kilobot: A low cost scalable robot system for collective behaviors

    Michael Rubenstein;Christian Ahler;Radhika Nagpal

  • Designing Collective Behavior in a Termite-Inspired Robot Construction Team

    Justin Werfel;Kirstin Petersen;Kirstin Petersen;Radhika Nagpal;Radhika Nagpal

  • Design and control of a bio-inspired soft wearable robotic device for ankle-foot rehabilitation.

    Yong-Lae Park;Bor-rong Chen;Néstor O Pérez-Arancibia;Diana Young;Diana Young

  • The emergence of geometric order in proliferating metazoan epithelia

    Matthew C. Gibson;Ankit B. Patel;Radhika Nagpal;Norbert Perrimon

  • Firefly-inspired sensor network synchronicity with realistic radio effects

    Geoffrey Werner-Allen;Geetika Tewari;Ankit Patel;Matt Welsh

  • DESYNC: self-organizing desynchronization and TDMA on wireless sensor networks

    Julius Degesys;Ian Rose;Ankit Patel;Radhika Nagpal

  • Implicit coordination for 3D underwater collective behaviors in a fish-inspired robot swarm

    Florian Berlinger;Florian Berlinger;Melvin Gauci;Melvin Gauci;Radhika Nagpal;Radhika Nagpal

  • Organizing a Global Coordinate System from Local Information on an Amorphous Computer

    Radhika Nagpal

  • Kilobot: A low cost robot with scalable operations designed for collective behaviors

    Michael Rubenstein;Christian Ahler;Nick Hoff;Adrian Cabrera;Adrian Cabrera

  • Control of the Mitotic Cleavage Plane by Local Epithelial Topology

    William Tyler Gibson;James H. Veldhuis;Boris Rubinstein;Heather N. Cartwright

  • Programmable self-assembly using biologically-inspired multiagent control

    Radhika Nagpal

  • TERMES: An Autonomous Robotic System for Three-Dimensional Collective Construction

    Kirstin Hagelskjaer Petersen;Radhika Nagpal;Justin K Werfel

  • Programmable self-assembly: constructing global shape using biologically-inspired local interactions and origami mathematics

    Radhika Nagpal;Gerald Jay Sussman;Harold Abelson

  • Collective transport of complex objects by simple robots: theory and experiments

    Michael Rubenstein;Adrian Cabrera;Justin Werfel;Golnaz Habibi

  • Self-Reconfiguration Using Directed Growth

    Kasper Støy;Radhika Nagpal

  • Bio-inspired active soft orthotic device for ankle foot pathologies

    Yong-Lae Park;Bor-rong Chen;Diana Young;Leia Stirling

  • Extended stigmergy in collective construction

    J. Werfel;R. Nagpal

  • Distributed Amorphous Ramp Construction in Unstructured Environments

    Nils Napp;Radhika Nagpal

  • ELASTIC STRAIN SENSOR

    Wood Robert J;Park Yong-Lae;Majidi Carmel S;Chen Bor-Rong

Frequent Co-Authors

Yong-Lae Park
Yong-Lae Park Seoul National University
Carmel Majidi
Carmel Majidi Carnegie Mellon University
Donald E. Ingber
Donald E. Ingber Harvard University
David R. Clarke
David R. Clarke Harvard University
Norbert Perrimon
Norbert Perrimon Harvard University
Elliot Saltzman
Elliot Saltzman Boston University
Conor J. Walsh
Conor J. Walsh Harvard University

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