| A soft robotic gripper with gecko-inspired adhesive P Glick, SA Suresh, D Ruffatto, M Cutkosky, MT Tolley, A Parness IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 3 (2), 903-910, 2018 | 304 | 2018 |
| Improving controllable adhesion on both rough and smooth surfaces with a hybrid electrostatic/gecko-like adhesive D Ruffatto III, A Parness, M Spenko Journal of The Royal Society Interface 11 (93), 20131089, 2014 | 158 | 2014 |
| Autonomous perching and take-off on vertical walls for a quadrotor micro air vehicle A Kalantari, K Mahajan, D Ruffatto, M Spenko 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 4669-4674, 2015 | 99 | 2015 |
| Increasing the adhesion force of electrostatic adhesives using optimized electrode geometry and a novel manufacturing process D Ruffatto III, J Shah, M Spenko Journal of Electrostatics 72 (2), 147-155, 2014 | 84 | 2014 |
| An electrostatic gripper for flexible objects EW Schaler, D Ruffatto, P Glick, V White, A Parness 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2017 | 75 | 2017 |
| Optimization and experimental validation of electrostatic adhesive geometry D Ruffatto, J Shah, M Spenko 2013 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 1-8, 2013 | 47 | 2013 |
| Three-dimensionally printed, shaped, engineered material inhomogeneous lens antennas for next-generation spaceborne weather radar systems J Budhu, Y Rahmat-Samii, RE Hodges, DC Hofmann, DF Ruffatto, ... IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters 17 (11), 2080-2084, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
| Increasing adhesion via a new electrode design and improved manufacturing in electrostatic/microstructured adhesives M Dadkhah, D Ruffatto III, Z Zhao, M Spenko Journal of Electrostatics 91, 48-55, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
| A low-power, jamming, magnetorheological valve using electropermanent magnets suitable for distributed control in soft robots T Leps, PE Glick, D Ruffatto III, A Parness, MT Tolley, C Hartzell Smart Materials and Structures 29 (10), 105025, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| Experimental results of a controllable electrostatic/gecko-like adhesive on space materials D Ruffatto, D Beganovic, A Parness, M Spenko 2014 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 1-7, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Long-duration surface anchoring with a hybrid electrostatic and gecko-inspired adhesive D Ruffatto, PE Glick, MT Tolley, A Parness IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 3 (4), 4201-4208, 2018 | 22 | 2018 |
| Electrostatic dry adhesives M Spenko, D Ruffatto III US Patent App. 14/207,989, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Optimization of electrostatic adhesives for robotic climbing and manipulation D Ruffatto III, J Shah, M Spenko International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and …, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| A multi-digit tactile motion stimulator YC Pei, TC Lee, TY Chang, D Ruffatto III, M Spenko, S Bensmaia Journal of neuroscience methods 226, 80-87, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |
| Experimental evaluation of adhesive technologies for robotic grippers on micro-rough surfaces D Ruffatto, D Beganovic, A Parness, M Spenko 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 6150-6155, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |
| Autonomous robotic airship inspection system for large-scale tank interiors M Gildner, DF Ruffatto, S Mitchell, O Arslan, J Vander HOOK, J James, ... US Patent App. 15/714,693, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| REACCH-Reactive electro-adhesive capture cloth mechanism to enable safe grapple of cooperative/non-cooperative space debris S Narayanan, D Barnhart, R Rogers, D Ruffatto, E Schaler, N Van Crey, ... AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, 2134, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| Robust capture of unknown objects with a highly under-actuated gripper PE Glick, N Van Crey, MT Tolley, D Ruffatto 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 3996-4002, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
| High strength inflatable pouch anchors PE Glick, D Drotman, D Ruffatto, MT Tolley IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5 (3), 3761-3767, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
| Branching vine robots for unmapped environments PE Glick, I Adibnazari, D Drotman, D Ruffatto III, MT Tolley Frontiers in Robotics and AI 9, 838913, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
Matthew SpenkoProfessor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of TechnologyVerified email at iit.edu
