Papers
8
Total Citations
170
H-Index
6
About
Ross M. McKenzie is a robotics researcher whose work spans soft robotics, modular robot systems, swarm robotics, and autonomous inspection platforms, with a particular emphasis on deploying these technologies in hazardous industrial environments. McKenzie has made significant contributions to the development of climbing and inspection robots for offshore energy infrastructure, most notably through the Limpet series — a multi-sensing, ROS-enabled platform designed to reduce human exposure in dangerous oil and gas environments. The modular Limpet II (2020, 47 citations) advanced this work by demonstrating untethered soft robotic navigation across complex, inclined surfaces. His research into swarm robotics produced both the Linbots collective soft robot system (2018, 34 citations) and the HoverBots platform (2017, 13 citations), exploring scalable, low-cost locomotion for large robot collectives. McKenzie has also advanced the integration of soft robotics with standard middleware frameworks, bridging the gap between academic soft robotic research and industrial adoption through works like his hybrid pick-and-place arm study (2017, 23 citations). His broader contributions include critical design analysis of soft robotic architectures and simulation tools for peristaltic control systems, cementing his reputation as a versatile and impactful figure in field and industrial robotics research.
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Top Papers
- 1Limpet II: A Modular, Untethered Soft Robot47 citations · 2020
- 2Linbots: Soft Modular Robots Utilizing Voice Coils34 citations · 2018
- 3The Limpet: A ROS-Enabled Multi-Sensing Platform for the ORCA Hub26 citations · 2018
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- 5Capability by Stacking: The Current Design Heuristic for Soft Robots19 citations · 2018
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- 7The Limpet: A ROS-Enabled Multi-Sensing Platform for the ORCA Hub6 citations · 2018
- 8PeriSim: A Simulator for Optimizing Peristaltic Table Control2 citations · 2019