Publications

Jonathan Kimber, Zongliang Ji, Aikaterini Petridou, Thomas Sipple, Kentaro Barhydt, James Boggs, Luke Dosiek, John Rieffel (2019). Low-Cost Wireless Modular Soft Tensegrity Robots. 2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft).

John Rieffel, Jean-Baptiste Mouret (2018). Adaptive and resilient soft tensegrity robots. Soft robotics.

John Rieffel, Jean-Baptiste Mouret (2017). Soft tensegrity robots. arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.03258.

John Rieffel, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Nicolas Bredeche, Evert Haasdijk (2017). Introduction to the evolution of physical systems special issue. MIT Press One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209 USA journals-info@ mit~….

John Rieffel, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Nicolas Bredeche, Evert Haasdijk (2017). Introduction to the Evolution of Physical Systems.

Riley Konsella, Frank Chiarulli, John Peterson, John Rieffel (2017). A baseline-realistic objective open-ended kinematics simulator for evolutionary robotics. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion.

Hiroki Sayama, John Rieffel, Sebastian Risi, René Doursat, Hod Lipson (2016). Editorial introduction to the artificial life 14 conference special issue. MIT Press One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209 USA journals-info@ mit~….

Benjamin Berger, Alvin Andino, Andrew Danise, John Rieffel (2015). Growing and evolving vibrationally actuated soft robots. Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

John Rieffel, Davis Knox, Schuyler Smith, Barry Trimmer (2014). Growing and evolving soft robots. Artificial life.

Mark Khazanov, Julian Jocque, John Rieffel (2014). Evolution of locomotion on a physical tensegrity robot. Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 14.

Mark Khazanov, Julian Jocque, John Rieffel (2014). Developing morphological computation in tensegrity robots for controllable actuation. Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

John Rieffel (2013). Heterochronic scaling of developmental durations in evolved soft robots. Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation.

Mark Khazanov, Ben Humphreys, Willam Keat, John Rieffel (2013). Exploiting dynamical complexity in a physical tensegrity robot to achieve locomotion. Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 13.

John Rieffel, Schuyler Smith (2012). Growing and evolving soft robots with a face-encoding tetrahedral grammar. Proceedings of the 14th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation.

Tim Kuehn, John Rieffel (2012). Automatically designing and printing 3-D objects with EvoFab 0.2. Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 12.

John Rieffel (2011). Trent McConaghy, P. Palmers, G. Peng, Michiel Steyaert, Georges Gielen: Variation-aware analog structural synthesis: a computational intelligence approach. Springer US.

Davis K Knox (2011). Scalable co-evolution of soft robot properties and gaits.

John A Rieffel, Francisco J Valero-Cuevas, Hod Lipson (2010). Morphological communication: exploiting coupled dynamics in a complex mechanical structure to achieve locomotion. Journal of the royal society interface.

John Rieffel, Dave Sayles (2010). EvoFAB: A fully embodied evolutionary fabricator. International Conference on Evolvable Systems.

John Rieffel, Barry Trimmer (2010). Body/Brain Co-Evolution in Soft Robots.. ALIFE.

John Rieffel, Schuyler Smith (2010). A Face-Encoding Grammar for the Generation of Tetrahedral-Mesh Soft Bodies.. ALIFE.

John Rieffel, Frank Saunders, Shilpa Nadimpalli, Harvey Zhou, Soha Hassoun, Jason Rife, Barry Trimmer (2009). Evolving soft robotic locomotion in PhysX. Proceedings of the 11th annual conference companion on genetic and evolutionary computation conference: Late breaking papers.

John Rieffel, Francisco Valero-Cuevas, Hod Lipson (2009). Automated discovery and optimization of large irregular tensegrity structures. Computers & Structures.

Frank Saunders, John Rieffel, Jason Rife (2009). A method of accelerating convergence for genetic algorithms evolving morphological and control parameters for a biomimetic robot. 2009 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents.

John Rieffel, Barry Trimmer, Hod Lipson (2008). Mechanism as Mind-What Tensegrities and Caterpillars Can Teach Us about Soft Robotics.. ALIFE.

John Rieffel, R Stuk, Francisco J Valero-Cuevas, Hod Lipson (2007). Locomotion of a tensegrity robot via dynamically coupled modules. Proceedings of the International Conference on Morphological Computation.

John Rieffel, Hod Lipson, Francisco J Valero-Cuevas (2007). Growing form-filling tensegrity structures using map L-systems. Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation.

John Rieffel (2006). On the Relationship between Environmental Noise and Modular Hierarchies.. AAAI Fall Symposium: Developmental Systems.

John Rieffel (2006). Evolutionary fabrication: the co-evolution of form and formation.

John Rieffel, Jordan Pollack (2006). An endosymbiotic model for modular acquisition in stochastic developmental systems. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE X).

John Rieffel, Jordan Pollack (2005). Evolving assembly plans for fully automated design and assembly. 2005 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH’05).

John Rieffel, Jordan Pollack (2005). Evolutionary Fabrication: the emergence of novel assembly methods in artificial ontogenies. Proceedings of the 7th annual workshop on Genetic and evolutionary computation.

John Rieffel, Jordan Pollack (2005). Crossing the fabrication gap: evolving assembly plans to build 3-D objects. 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.

John Rieffel, Jordan Pollack (2005). Automated assembly as situated development: using artificial ontogenies to evolve buildable 3-d objects. Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation.

John Rieffel, Jordan Pollack (2004). The emergence of ontogenic scaffolding in a stochastic development environment. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.

John Rieffel, JB Pollack (2004). Artificial ontogenies for real world design and assembly. Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9) Workshop: Self-Organization and Development in Artificial and Natural Systems (SODANS).

John A Rieffel, Christopher M DiLeo, Bruce A Maxwell (1999). Evolving optimal histogram parameters for object recognition. Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XVIII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision.