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Robin R. Murphy 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 Robin R. Murphy sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 356 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robin R. Murphy 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 Robin R. Murphy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Robin R. Murphy is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and computer science. Their work spans a variety of subfields, with notable focuses on artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, social psychology, aerospace engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The principal topics covered in Murphy's research include social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, space science and extraterrestrial life, reinforcement learning in robotics, robotic path planning algorithms, disaster response and management, and COVID-19 diagnosis using AI.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Murphy include:

  • Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases, 2020, Science Robotics
  • Progress in robotics for combating infectious diseases, 2021, Science Robotics
  • Medical Robots for Infectious Diseases: Lessons and Challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
  • SAM-VQA: Supervised Attention-Based Visual Question Answering Model for Post-Disaster Damage Assessment on Remote Sensing Imagery, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Delegation or Collaboration: Understanding Different Construction Stakeholders' Perceptions of Robotization, 2021, Journal of Management in Engineering

Murphy has frequently published in several venues including:

  • Science Robotics (54 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (16 publications)
  • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine (5 publications)
  • Nature Machine Intelligence (2 publications)
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (1 publication)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Murphy's research activity. Frequent coauthors include Thomas Manzini, Russell H. Taylor, Hao Su, Axel Krieger, and Vignesh B.M. Gandudi, reflecting a network of sustained partnerships in related scientific fields.

Best Publications

  • Human-robot interactions during the robot-assisted urban search and rescue response at the World Trade Center

    J. Casper;R.R. Murphy

  • Introduction to AI Robotics

    Robin R. Murphy

  • Human-robot interaction in rescue robotics

    R.R. Murphy

  • Combating COVID-19-The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases.

    Guang-Zhong Yang;Bradley J. Nelson;Robin R. Murphy;Howie Choset

  • Artificial intelligence and mobile robots: case studies of successful robot systems

    David Kortenkamp;R. Peter Bonasso;Robin Murphy

  • Hand gesture recognition with depth images: A review

    Jesus Suarez;Robin R. Murphy

  • Search and Rescue Robotics

    Robin R. Murphy;Satoshi Tadokoro;Daniele Nardi;Adam Jacoff

  • How UGVs physically fail in the field

    J. Carlson;R.R. Murphy

  • Moonlight in Miami: a field study of human-robot interaction in the context of an urban search and rescue disaster response training exercise

    Jennifer L. Burke;Robin R. Murphy;Michael D. Coovert;Dawn L. Riddle

  • Trial by fire [rescue robots]

    R.R. Murphy

  • Mobile robots in mine rescue and recovery

    R. Murphy;J. Kravitz;S. Stover;R. Shoureshi

  • Disaster Robotics

    Robin R. Murphy

  • Dempster-Shafer theory for sensor fusion in autonomous mobile robots

    R.R. Murphy

  • A Survey of Commercial & Open Source Unmanned Vehicle Simulators

    J. Craighead;R. Murphy;J. Burke;B. Goldiez

  • Autonomous navigation in a manufacturing environment

    R.C. Arkin;R.R. Murphy

  • Marsupial and shape-shifting robots for urban search and rescue

    R.R. Murphy

  • A review on cybersecurity vulnerabilities for unmanned aerial vehicles

    C. G. Leela Krishna;Robin R. Murphy

  • Cooperative use of unmanned sea surface and micro aerial vehicles at Hurricane Wilma

    Robin R. Murphy;Eric Steimle;Chandler Griffin;Charlie Cullins

  • Underground Mine Communications: A Survey

    S. Yarkan;S. Guzelgoz;H. Arslan;R.R. Murphy

  • FloodNet: A High Resolution Aerial Imagery Dataset for Post Flood Scene Understanding

    Maryam Rahnemoonfar;Tashnim Chowdhury;Argho Sarkar;Debvrat Varshney

  • Final report for the DARPA/NSF interdisciplinary study on human-robot interaction

    J.L. Burke;R.R. Murphy;E. Rogers;V.J. Lumelsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Satoshi Tadokoro
Satoshi Tadokoro Tohoku University
Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass Stanford University
Kimon P. Valavanis
Kimon P. Valavanis University of Denver
Ronald C. Arkin
Ronald C. Arkin Georgia Institute of Technology
Fumitoshi Matsuno
Fumitoshi Matsuno Kyoto University
Lawrence O. Hall
Lawrence O. Hall University of South Florida
Aude Billard
Aude Billard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Howie Choset
Howie Choset Carnegie Mellon University
Raúl Rojas
Raúl Rojas Freie Universität Berlin
Stefan Hurlebaus
Stefan Hurlebaus Texas A&M University

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