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D-Index
68
Citations
19884
World Ranking
432
National Ranking
201

Sunil K. Agrawal publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sunil K. Agrawal sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 524 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Sunil K. Agrawal D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sunil K. Agrawal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Sunil K. Agrawal is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Engineering, with notable focus on Biomedical Engineering, Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The primary topics covered in their work include Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Muscle Activation and Electromyography Studies, Spinal Cord Injury Research, Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics, and Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Agrawal include:

  • Systematic Review of Back-Support Exoskeletons and Soft Robotic Suits, 2021, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Gait Adaptation Using a Cable-Driven Active Leg Exoskeleton (C-ALEX) With Post-Stroke Participants, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • A Bioinspired Soft Swallowing Gripper for Universal Adaptable Grasping, 2020, Soft Robotics
  • Age-related differences in gait adaptations during overground walking with and without visual perturbations using a virtual reality headset, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Consensus Paper: Ataxic Gait, 2022, The Cerebellum

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Agrawal include Victor Santamaria, Xupeng Ai, Tatiana Luna, Antonio Prado, and Isirame Omofuma.

Their work has been published extensively in several venues, most prominently in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, the 2022 9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), Wearable Technologies, and Scientific Reports.

Agrawal has contributed to book publications with Springer Nature (Netherlands), including titles such as Advances in Italian Mechanism Science (2020) and Advances in Mechanism Design III (2021).

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2016 and as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Robot Assisted Gait Training With Active Leg Exoskeleton (ALEX)

    S.K. Banala;Seok Hun Kim;S.K. Agrawal;J.P. Scholz

  • Differentially Flat Systems

    Hebertt Sira-Ramirez;Sunil Kumar Agrawal

  • Velocity and position control of a wheeled inverted pendulum by partial feedback linearization

    K. Pathak;J. Franch;S.K. Agrawal

  • Balance and gait in the elderly: A contemporary review

    Muyinat Y. Osoba;Ashwini K. Rao;Sunil K. Agrawal;Anil K. Lalwani

  • Design of a Cable-Driven Arm Exoskeleton (CAREX) for Neural Rehabilitation

    Ying Mao;S. K. Agrawal

  • Active Leg Exoskeleton (ALEX) for Gait Rehabilitation of Motor-Impaired Patients

    S.K. Banala;S.K. Agrawal;J.P. Scholz

  • Design and workspace analysis of a 6–6 cable-suspended parallel robot

    Jason Pusey;Abbas Fattah;Sunil Agrawal;Elena Messina

  • Cable suspended planar robots with redundant cables: controllers with positive tensions

    So-Ryeok Oh;S.K. Agrawal

  • Spherical rolling robot: a design and motion planning studies

    S. Bhattacharya;S.K. Agrawal

  • Biologically Inspired Design of Small Flapping Wing Air Vehicles Using Four Bar Mechanisms and Quasi-Steady Aerodynamics

    Rajkiran Madangopal;Zaeem A. Khan;Sunil K. Agrawal

  • Gravity-Balancing Leg Orthosis and Its Performance Evaluation

    S.K. Banala;S.K. Agrawal;A. Fattah;V. Krishnamoorthy

  • Powered Hip Exoskeletons Can Reduce the User's Hip and Ankle Muscle Activations During Walking

    Tommaso Lenzi;Maria Chiara Carrozza;Sunil K. Agrawal

  • Cable suspended robots: design, planning and control

    A.B. Alp;S.K. Agrawal

  • Design of a 7-DOF Cable-Driven Arm Exoskeleton (CAREX-7) and a Controller for Dexterous Motion Training or Assistance

    Xiang Cui;Weihai Chen;Xin Jin;Sunil K. Agrawal

  • Assessment of Motion of a Swing Leg and Gait Rehabilitation With a Gravity Balancing Exoskeleton

    S.K. Agrawal;S.K. Banala;A. Fattah;V. Sangwan

  • Gravity-balancing of spatial robotic manipulators

    Sunil K. Agrawal;Abbas Fattah

  • Novel Gait Adaptation and Neuromotor Training Results Using an Active Leg Exoskeleton

    S.K. Banala;S.K. Agrawal;Seok Hun Kim;J.P. Scholz

  • Human Movement Training With a Cable Driven ARm EXoskeleton (CAREX)

    Ying Mao;Xin Jin;Geetanjali Gera Dutta;John P. Scholz

  • Knee Joint Misalignment in Exoskeletons for the Lower Extremities: Effects on User's Gait

    Damiano Zanotto;Yasuhiro Akiyama;Paul Stegall;Sunil K. Agrawal

  • Trajectory Planning of Differentially Flat Systems with Dynamics and Inequalities

    Nadeem Faiz;Sunil K. Agrawal;Richard M. Murray

  • Approaches for a tether-guided landing of an autonomous helicopter

    So-Ryeok Oh;K. Pathak;S.K. Agrawal;H.R. Pota

Frequent Co-Authors

Gyung-Jin Park
Gyung-Jin Park Hanyang University
Hemanshu R. Pota
Hemanshu R. Pota University of New South Wales
James S. Albus
James S. Albus National Institute of Standards and Technology
Silvestro Micera
Silvestro Micera Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Girijesh Prasad
Girijesh Prasad University of Ulster
Un Jung Kang
Un Jung Kang New York University
Sheng-Han Kuo
Sheng-Han Kuo Columbia University Medical Center
Ian R. Petersen
Ian R. Petersen Australian National University
Richard M. Murray
Richard M. Murray California Institute of Technology

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