Papers
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Total Citations
255
H-Index
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About
Benjamin Johnson is a versatile robotics researcher whose work spans two compelling domains: microscale magnetic robotics and formal methods for autonomous robot control. His most celebrated contributions lie in the design and fabrication of untethered microrobots, most notably the microscale magnetic tumbling (μTUM) robot, introduced in his 2018 paper (84 citations), which demonstrated remarkable capability for navigating complex terrains across both dry and wet environments using photolithography-based fabrication. Building on this foundation, his 2019 work on Magnetically Aligned Nanorods in Alginate Capsules (MANiACs) extended these principles toward biocompatible soft robots with promising drug delivery applications. His earlier research addressed a fundamentally different challenge: ensuring reliable, verifiable behavior in autonomous robots operating under real-world sensor and actuator uncertainty. Through probabilistic analysis and temporal logic-based controller synthesis, Johnson developed rigorous frameworks for reasoning about and correcting high-level robot behavior, work that accumulated over 60 citations across multiple publications. He also explored multi-robot coordination for disaster relief scenarios, demonstrating breadth across scales and applications. Collectively, Johnson's research reflects a commitment to making robots both physically capable and provably dependable across diverse and demanding environments.
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- 8Coordinating Robot Teams for Disaster Relief9 citations · 2015
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- 10Analyzing and revising high-level robot behaviors under actuator error6 citations · 2013