Michael T Tolley

Michael T Tolley

University of California, San Diego

H-index: 42

North America-United States

About Michael T Tolley

Michael T Tolley, With an exceptional h-index of 42 and a recent h-index of 37 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, San Diego, specializes in the field of Robotics, soft robots, printable robots, origami robots, self-assembly.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Design of Layer Jamming Liver Retractor for Surgical Access, Deployment, and Removal

Antimicrobial coating

Electronics-free pneumatic circuits for controlling a robot

Full-Body Optimal Control of a Swimming Soft Robot Enabled by Data-Driven Model Reduction

Desktop fabrication of monolithic soft robotic devices with embedded fluidic control circuits

Bioinspired soft robots for deep-sea exploration

Suction discs for adhesion to rough, delicate, and wet surfaces

Controlling the motion of gas-lubricated adhesive disks using multiple vibration sources

Michael T Tolley Information

University

Position

Associate Professor

Citations(all)

15225

Citations(since 2020)

11767

Cited By

7845

hIndex(all)

42

hIndex(since 2020)

37

i10Index(all)

72

i10Index(since 2020)

63

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University Profile Page

University of California, San Diego

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Michael T Tolley Skills & Research Interests

Robotics

soft robots

printable robots

origami robots

self-assembly

Top articles of Michael T Tolley

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Design of Layer Jamming Liver Retractor for Surgical Access, Deployment, and Removal

IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics

WP Weston-Dawkes

MRA Majit

J Sandoval

E Ochoa

S Liu

...

2024/1/11

Antimicrobial coating

2023/11/23

Electronics-free pneumatic circuits for controlling a robot

2023/7/27

Full-Body Optimal Control of a Swimming Soft Robot Enabled by Data-Driven Model Reduction

Southern California Robotics Symposium

Iman Adibnazari

Harsh Sharma

Jacobo Cervera Torralba

Boris Kramer

Michael T Tolley

2023

Desktop fabrication of monolithic soft robotic devices with embedded fluidic control circuits

Science Robotics

Yichen Zhai

Albert De Boer

Jiayao Yan

Benjamin Shih

Martin Faber

...

2023/6/21

Bioinspired soft robots for deep-sea exploration

Guorui Li

Tuck-Whye Wong

Benjamin Shih

Chunyu Guo

Luwen Wang

...

2023/11/4

Suction discs for adhesion to rough, delicate, and wet surfaces

2023/6/13

Controlling the motion of gas-lubricated adhesive disks using multiple vibration sources

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Chengzhe Jia

Sankaran Ramanarayanan

Antonio L Sanchez

Michael T Tolley

2023/10/30

Continuous Skin Eversion Enables an Untethered Soft Robot to Burrow in Granular Media

Korkut Eken

Nick Gravish

Michael T Tolley

2023/4/3

Actively Learning Reinforcement Learning: A Stochastic Optimal Control Approach

arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.10831

Mohammad S Ramadan

Mahmoud A Hayajnh

Michael T Tolley

Kyriakos G Vamvoudakis

2023/9/18

Directionally Compliant Legs Enabling Crevasse Traversal in Small Ground‐Based Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems

Emily Lathrop

Michael T Tolley

Nick Gravish

2023/4

Toward robotic sensing and swimming in granular environments using underactuated appendages

Advanced Intelligent Systems

Shivam Chopra

Drago Vasile

Saurabh Jadhav

Michael T Tolley

Nick Gravish

2023/8

Branching vine robots for unmapped environments

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Paul E Glick

Iman Adibnazari

Dylan Drotman

Donald Ruffatto III

Michael T Tolley

2022

Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering: principles, current work, opportunities and challenges

Alejandro Martinez

Jason DeJong

Idil Akin

Ali Aleali

Chloe Arson

...

2022/8

Power amplification for jumping soft robots actuated by artificial muscles

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Adriane Fernandes Minori

Saurabh Jadhav

Haojin Chen

Samantha Fong

Michael T Tolley

2022/3/3

Locomotion via active suction in a sea star-inspired soft robot

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Michael Ishida

Jessica A Sandoval

Sebastian Lee

Sidney Huen

Michael T Tolley

2022/7/15

Combining suction and friction to stabilize a soft gripper to shear and normal forces, for manipulation of soft objects in wet environments

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Jessica A Sandoval

Thomas Xu

Iman Adibnazari

Dimitri D Deheyn

Michael T Tolley

2022/2/8

Topology optimization with automated derivative computation for multidisciplinary design problems

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Jiayao Yan

Ru Xiang

David Kamensky

Michael T Tolley

John T Hwang

2022/5

Programmable stiffness tissue displacement device

2022/12/22

Variable stiffness devices using fiber jamming for application in soft robotics and wearable haptics

Soft Robotics

Saurabh Jadhav

Mohamad Ramzi Abdul Majit

Benjamin Shih

Jürgen P. Schulze

Michael T. Tolley

2021/2

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Co-Authors

H-index: 143
Daniela Rus

Daniela Rus

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

H-index: 102
Robert J Wood

Robert J Wood

Harvard University

H-index: 87
Hod Lipson

Hod Lipson

Columbia University in the City of New York

H-index: 78
Erik Demaine

Erik Demaine

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

H-index: 57
Robert Shepherd

Robert Shepherd

Cornell University

H-index: 43
Yong-Lae Park

Yong-Lae Park

Seoul National University

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