Papers
9
Total Citations
383
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9
About
Jeffrey M. Friesen is a leading figure in the field of compliant robotics, with a primary focus on the design, control, and application of tensegrity structures. His most significant contributions center on creating robots that can withstand extreme impacts and navigate challenging environments. His work on the SUPERball v2 (99 citations) is a landmark achievement, demonstrating a 2-meter spherical tensegrity robot engineered to survive high-speed landings, a critical capability for planetary exploration. Friesen also pioneered duct-climbing robots with the DuCTT platform (94 and 43 citations), enabling inspection in complex, vertical duct systems. He further advanced the field with the ULTRA Spine (41 citations), a compliant, cable-driven core for quadruped robots, and a tensegrity-inspired compliant joint (28 citations) that enhances safety for human-robot interaction. His research on steerable locomotion controllers (25 citations) and state estimation (23 citations) for tensegrity systems has been foundational for enabling practical, autonomous operation. Friesen’s work is distinguished by its focus on real-world deployment, bridging the gap between theoretical tensegrity concepts and robust, functional robots capable of absorbing large impacts and navigating confined spaces.
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- 2DuCTT: A tensegrity robot for exploring duct systems94 citations · 2014
- 3The second generation prototype of a Duct Climbing Tensegrity robot, DuCTTv243 citations · 2016
- 4Mechanism Design and Simulation of the ULTRA Spine: A Tensegrity Robot41 citations · 2015
- 5A Tensegrity-Inspired Compliant 3-DOF Compliant Joint28 citations · 2018
- 6Steerable Locomotion Controller for Six-strut Icosahedral Tensegrity Robots25 citations · 2018
- 7State Estimation for Tensegrity Robots23 citations
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