Kathryn Daltorio and Kelly Dorgan*. Review: Fundamentals of Burrowing in Soft Animals and Robotics. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Jan 30, 2023. Vol 10. >https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1057876 PDF
Nicole M. Graf, John Grezmak, Kathryn A. Daltorio. Get a grip: inward dactyl motions improve efficiency of sideways-walking gait for an amphibious crab-like robot. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. Accepted Aug 2022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac8710 PDF
Yang Chen, Nicole M. Graf, Glenna Clifton, Jennifer Taylor, Kathryn Daltorio. Optimal Crab Leg Length Ratio in Robots and Animals. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. Accepted Aug 202 In press https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac8f04 PDF
Yifeng Gong, Alexander M. Behr, Nicole M. Graf, Kaiyi Chen, Xiaoyue Xu, Kathryn A. Daltorio. A Walking Claw For Tethered Object Retrieval. Accepted Aug 2022 ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. PDF
Yang Chen, John Grezmak, Nicole M. Graf; and Kathryn Daltorio. Sideways crab-walking is faster and more efficient than forward walking for a hexapod robot. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. (Impact factor 2.965). April, 2022; https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac6847 PDF
Jianfeng Zhou, Quan Nguyen, Sanjana Kamath, Yaneev Hacohen, Chunchu Zhu, Michael Fu, Kathryn Daltorio. Hands to Hexapods: User Interfaces for Specifying Leg Placement for Legged Robots. Accepted March 28, 2022. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. (Impact factor 4.33). vol 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2022.852270 PDF
Yusuf Dikici, Hao Jiang, Bo Li, Kathryn Daltorio, Ozan Akkus. Piece-by-piece shape-morphing: Engineering compatible auxetic and non-auxetic lattices to improve soft robot performance in confined spaces. Advanced Engineering Materials. (Impact factor: 3.862) 2101620; 12 pages. 2022 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/adem.202101620 PDF
Yifan Wang, Zehao Liu, Akhil Kandhari, and Kathryn Daltorio. Obstacle Avoidance Path Planning for Worm-like Robot using Bézier curve. Biomimetics (Impact score 2.69). 6(4) 57; 22 pages September 2021 https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics6040057 PDF
John Grezmak, Nicole M. Graf, Alexander M. Behr, Kathryn Daltorio. Terrain Classification Based on Sensed Leg Compliance for Amphibious Crab Robot. IEEE Sensors. (Impact factor 3.3) Sept 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3109864 PDF
Natasha Rouse and Kathryn Daltorio. Visualization of Stable Heteroclinic Channel-based Movement Primitives. IEEE Robotics and Autonomation Letters. (Impact factor 3.741). 2021. Vol 6. Issue 2. 2343 – 2348 Also accepted to ICRA 2021 https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2021.3061382 PDF
Nicole M. Graf, Alexander M. Behr, Kathryn A. Daltorio. Dactyls and Inward Gripping Stance for Amphibious Crab-like Robots on Sand. March 2021. Bio-inspiration and Biomimetics. (Impact factor 2.965). https://doi.org/1088/1748-3190/abdd94 PDF
Yifan Wang, Prathamesh Pandit, Akhil Kandhari, Zehao Ben Liu, Kathryn Daltorio. Rapidly Exploring Random Tree Algorithm-based Path Planning for worm-like robot. Biomimetics. (Impact score 2.69). 2020 5(2), 26 https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics5020026 PDF
Akhil Kandhari, Yifan Wang, Hillel J. Chiel, Roger D. Quinn and Kathryn A. Daltorio. An analysis of peristaltic locomotion for maximizing velocity or minimizing cost of transport of worm-like robots. Soft Robotics. (Impact Factor 6.2 ) Aug 2020. https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2020.0021 PDF
Akhil Kandhari, Yifan Wang, Hillel Chiel, and Kathryn Daltorio (2019) Turning in worm-like robots: the geometry of slip elimination suggests non-periodic waves. Soft Robotics (Impact factor 6.4) 2019 http://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2018.0080 PDF
Akhil Kandhari, Anna Mehringer, Hillel Chiel, Roger Quinn, and Kathryn Daltorio (2019) Design and Actuation of Fabric Based Worm-like Robot, Biomimetics 2019, 4(1), 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics4010013 PDF
Kathryn A. Daltorio and Jessica Fox (2018) Haltere removal alters responses to gravity in standing flies. Biology Letters, Journal of Experimental Biology (Impact factor 3.32). Accepted May 28, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.181719 (Featured in Inside JEB) PDF
Akhil Kandhari, Yifan Wang, Kathryn A. Daltorio, Hillel Chiel, Roger Quinn (2018). Body stiffnesses in orthogonal directions oppositely affects worm-like robot turning and straight-line locomotion. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (Impact factor 2.4). 13 026003 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/aaa342 PDF
