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  1. Climbing with adhesion: from bioinspiration to biounderstanding

    Article • Interface Focus, May 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  2. Surface and Shape Deposition Manufacturing for the Fabrication of a Curved Surface Gripper

    Article • Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, February 2015, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  3. Stress distribution and contact area measurements of a gecko toe using a high-resolution tactile sensor

    Article • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, February 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  4. Design of an Optically Controlled MR-Compatible Active Needle

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Robotics, February 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  5. Bio-inspired mechanisms for inclined locomotion in a legged insect-scale robot

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  6. A Passive Parallel Master–Slave Mechanism for Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Interventions

    Article • Journal of Medical Devices, November 2014, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  7. Autonomous Real-Time Interventional Scan Plane Control With a 3-D Shape-Sensing Needle

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  8. Detection of membrane puncture with haptic feedback using a tip-force sensing needle

    Article • September 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  9. Computational and Experimental Approach to Understanding Legged Mobility in Micro Ground Vehicles

    Article • August 2014, ASME International

    Dr Scott Jared Moreland, Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  10. An analytic framework for developing inherently-manufacturable pop-up laminate devices

    Article • Smart Materials and Structures, August 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  11. Design principles for efficient, repeated jumpgliding

    Article • Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, May 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  12. Contact event detection for robotic oil drilling

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  13. Perching and vertical climbing: Design of a multimodal robot

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  14. A compliant underactuated hand with suction flow for underwater mobile manipulation

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  15. Time-delayed teleoperation for interaction with moving objects in space

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  16. Modeling the dynamics of perching with opposed-grip mechanisms

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  17. Quantified self and human movement: A review on the clinical impact of wearable sensing and feedback for gait analysis and intervention

    Article • Gait & Posture, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  18. Dynamic Tactile Sensing

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  19. Adhesive Stress Distribution Measurement on a Gecko

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  20. Slip interface classification through tactile signal coherence

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  21. Dynamic surface grasping with directional adhesion

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  22. Incremental Inspection for Microrobotic Quality Assurance

    Article • August 2013, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  23. Simulation-based tools for evaluating underactuated hand designs

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  24. Efficient jumpgliding: Theory and design considerations

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  25. Microwedge Machining for the Manufacture of Directional Dry Adhesives

    Article • Journal of Micro and Nano-Manufacturing, March 2013, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  26. Six-week gait retraining program reduces knee adduction moment, reduces pain, and improves function for individuals with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis

    Article • Journal of Orthopaedic Research®, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  27. Toe-in gait reduces the first peak knee adduction moment in patients with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis

    Article • Journal of Biomechanics, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  28. Biologically inspired tactile classification of object-hand and object-world interactions

    Article • December 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  29. Design of dielectric electroactive polymers for a compact and scalable variable stiffness device

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  30. Selectively compliant underactuated hand for mobile manipulation

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  31. Region of attraction estimation for a perching aircraft: A Lyapunov method exploiting barrier certificates

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  32. An optical actuation system and curvature sensor for a MR-compatible active needle

    Article • May 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  33. Designing Compliant Spine Mechanisms for Climbing

    Article • Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, January 2012, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  34. Jumping Robot with a Tunable Suspension Based on Artificial Muscles

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  35. Variable impedance due to electromechanical coupling in electroactive polymer actuators

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  36. Varying spring preloads to select grasp strategies in an adaptive hand

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  37. Capacitive skin sensors for robot impact monitoring

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  38. Instantaneous stiffness effects on impact forces in human-friendly robots

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  39. Scaling walls: Applying dry adhesives to the real world

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  40. Feasibility study of an optically actuated MR-compatible active needle

    Article • September 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  41. Communicating Meaning and Role in Distributed Design Collaboration: How Crowdsourced Users Help Inform the Design of Telepresence Robotics

    Article • July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  42. Virtual pebble: A haptic state display for pedestrians

    Article • July 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  43. Training multi-parameter gaits to reduce the knee adduction moment with data-driven models and haptic feedback

    Article • Journal of Biomechanics, May 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  44. Effects of He++ Ion Irradiation on Adhesion of Polymer Microstructure-Based Dry Adhesives

    Article • Nuclear Science and Engineering, March 2011, American Nuclear Society (ANS)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  45. Scansorial Landing and Perching

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  46. Real-Time Estimation of 3-D Needle Shape and Deflection for MRI-Guided Interventions

    Article • IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, December 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  47. Effect of fibril shape on adhesive properties

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, August 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  48. Rotational Skin Stretch Feedback: A Wearable Haptic Display for Motion

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Haptics, July 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  49. Hybrid aerial and scansorial robotics

    Article • May 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  50. Hybrid aerial and scansorial robotics

    Article • May 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  51. Constrained convergent gait regulation for a climbing robot

    Article • May 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  52. A robust, low-cost and low-noise artificial skin for human-friendly robots

    Article • May 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  53. Analysis of torque capacities in hybrid actuation for human-friendly robot design

    Article • May 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  54. Skin nonlinearities and their effect on user perception for rotational skin stretch

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  55. Haptic gait retraining for knee osteoarthritis treatment

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  56. Landing and Perching on Vertical Surfaces with Microspines for Small Unmanned Air Vehicles

    Article • Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  57. Safe Control of Hopping in Uneven Terrain

    Article • Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, January 2009, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  58. Landing and Perching on Vertical Surfaces with Microspines for Small Unmanned Air Vehicles

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  59. A wearable skin stretch device for haptic feedback

    Article • January 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  60. Design and Control of a Bio-inspired Human-Friendly Robot

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  61. Fingertip force control with embedded fiber Bragg grating sensors

    Article • May 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  62. Gecko-inspired climbing behaviors on vertical and overhanging surfaces

    Article • May 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  63. Comparison of Skin Stretch and Vibrotactile Stimulation for Feedback of Proprioceptive Information

    Article • March 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  64. Force and Tactile Sensors

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  65. Force Sensing Robot Fingers using Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Shape Deposition Manufacturing

    Article • April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  66. Directional Adhesive Structures for Controlled Climbing on Smooth Vertical Surfaces

    Article • April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  67. Whole body adhesion: hierarchical, directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot

    Article • April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  68. Dynamic Stability of Open-Loop Hopping

    Article • Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, January 2007, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  69. Directional adhesion for climbing: theoretical and practical considerations

    Article • Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  70. Foot design and integration for bioinspired climbing robots

    Article • May 2006, SPIE

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  71. Stability Measure Comparison for the Design of a Dynamic Running Robot

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  72. The Effect of Leg Specialization in a Biomimetic Hexapedal Running Robot

    Article • Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control, January 2006, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  73. Feedback Strategies for Telemanipulation with Shared Control of Object Handling Forces

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, December 2005, The MIT Press

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  74. Design information retrieval: a thesauri-based approach for reuse of informal design information

    Article • Engineering With Computers, November 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  75. Robotics in scansorial environments

    Article • May 2005, SPIE

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  76. iSprawl: Autonomy, and the Effects of Power Transmission

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  77. Towards Penetration-based Clawed Climbing

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  78. Perception of Curvature and Object Motion via Contact Location Feedback

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  79. A Biologically Inspired Passive Antenna for Steering Control of a Running Robot

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  80. Robotics

    Article • September 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  81. Stride Period Adaptation of a Biomimetic Running Hexapod

    Article • The International Journal of Robotics Research, February 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  82. Rapid Maneuvering of a Biologically Inspired Hexapedal Robot

    Article • January 2004, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  83. Dynamic Simulation and Analysis of a Passively Self-Stabilizing Hexapedal Running Robot

    Article • January 2004, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  84. Error Analysis for the In-Situ Fabrication of Mechanisms

    Article • Journal of Mechanical Design, January 2003, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  85. Process Planning for Embedding Flexible Materials in Multi-Material Prototypes

    Article • January 2003, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  86. Fast and Robust: Hexapedal Robots via Shape Deposition Manufacturing

    Article • The International Journal of Robotics Research, October 2002, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  87. Feeling is Believing: Using a Force-Feedback Joystick to Teach Dynamic Systems

    Article • Journal of Engineering Education, July 2002, Wiley

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  88. Representation of heterogeneous objects during design, processing and freeform-fabrication

    Article • Materials & Design (1980-2015), May 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  89. Trust-based facilitator for e-partnerships

    Article • January 2001, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  90. Design by Composition for Layered Manufacturing

    Article • Journal of Mechanical Design, January 2000, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  91. Model Sharing among Agents in a Concurrent Product Development Team

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  92. Framework for Modeling Dependencies in Collaborative Engineering Processes

    Article • Research in Engineering Design, August 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  93. Representation and reasoning of geometric tolerances in design

    Article • Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing, September 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  94. Madefast: collaborative engineering over the Internet

    Article • Communications of the ACM, September 1996, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  95. CMOS-compatible traction stress sensor for use in high-resolution tactile imaging

    Article • Sensors and Actuators A Physical, June 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  96. Comparison of contact sensor localization abilities during manipulation

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, June 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  97. Using Pareto optimality to coordinate distributed agents

    Article • Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing, September 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  98. Incremental Kinematic Analysis of Mechanisms

    Article • Journal of Mechanical Design, January 1995, ASME International

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  99. Tactile Sensor with 3-Axis Force and Slip Vibration Functions and Its Application to Distinguish Rotational Slip from Translational One.

    Article • Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, January 1995, The Robotics Society of Japan

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  100. SHARE: A METHODOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT FOR COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

    Article • International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, June 1994, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  101. Controlling contact transition

    Article • IEEE Control Systems, February 1994, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  102. An agent-based approach to concurrent cable harness design

    Article • Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturing, January 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  103. PACT: an experiment in integrating concurrent engineering systems

    Article • Computer, January 1993, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  104. REAL PHYSICS FOR REAL ENGINEERS: RESPONSE TO "PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE QUALITATIVE PHYSICS"

    Article • Computational Intelligence, May 1992, Wiley

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  105. Human Grasp Choice and Robotic Grasp Analysis

    Article • January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  106. A methodology and computational framework for concurrent product and process design

    Article • Mechanism and Machine Theory, January 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  107. Robotic Grasping and Fine Manipulation

    Article • January 1985

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  108. Designing Hands and Wrists for Manufacturing

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  109. Natural Examples of Grasping

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  110. Analysis for an Active Robot Hand

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  111. Introduction

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  112. Summary and Conclusions

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  113. Robot Tasks in a Metal-Working Cell

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  114. A Wrist for Fine-Motion Tasks

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  115. Previous Investigations of Fine Manipulation and Grasping

    Article • January 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  116. The design of a flexible machining cell for small batch production

    Article • Journal of Manufacturing Systems, January 1984, Elsevier

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  117. Sensing Local Geometry for Dexterous Manipulation

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  118. An object-oriented framework for event-driven dextrous manipulation

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  119. Haptic surface exploration

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  120. Stride Period Adaptation for a Biomimetic Running Hexapod

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky

  121. Comparing the Locomotion Dynamics of the Cockroach and a Shape Deposition Manufactured Biomimetic Hexapod

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Mark R Cutkosky