Publications

A Partial List of Lab Publication

  1. 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
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  2. 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
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  3. 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
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  4. 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.
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  5. 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
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  6. 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
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  7. 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
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  8. 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
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  9. 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
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  10. 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
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  11. 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
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  12. 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
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  13. 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
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  14. 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 
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  15. 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
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  16. 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)
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  17. 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
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