John Rieffel

According to our database, John Rieffel authored at least 34 papers between 2004 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

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2025

Walk the Robot: Exploring Soft Robotic Morphological Communication driven by Spiking Neural Networks.

Matthew Meek, Guy Tallent, Thomas Breimer, James Gaskell, Abhay Kashyap, Atharv Tekurkar, Jonathan Fischman, Luodi Wang, Viet-Dung Nguyen, John Rieffel

CoRR, August, 2025

Investigation of stiffness and mechanical property change capabilities of compliant 2D tensegrity grids for the application in soft robotics.

Lukas Lehmann, David Herrmann, Leon Schaeffer, Marcelo Hohma, John Rieffel, Valter Böhm

Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2025

2024

Robustness in Diversity: Quality-Diversity Driven Discovery of Agile Soft Robotic Gaits.

John Daly, Daniel Casper, Muhammad Farooq, Andrew James, Ali Khan, Phoenix Mulgrew, Daniel Tyebkhan, Bao Vo, John Rieffel

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2024

2023

Robustness for Free: Quality-Diversity Driven Discovery of Agile Soft Robotic Gaits.

John Daly, Daniel Casper, Muhammad Farooq, Andrew James, Ali Khan, Phoenix Mulgrew, Daniel Tyebkhan, Bao Vo, John Rieffel

CoRR, 2023

2021

Editorial: Recent Trends in Morphological Computation.

Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, John Rieffel, Syn Schmitt, Helmut Hauser

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2021

2020

Behavioral Repertoires for Soft Tensegrity Robots.

Kyle Doney, Aikaterini Petridou, Jacob Karaul, Ali Khan, Geoffrey Liu, John Rieffel

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2020

2019

Low-Cost Wireless Modular Soft Tensegrity Robots.

Jonathan Kimber, Zongliang Ji, Aikaterini Petridou, Thomas Sipple, Kentaro Barhydt, James Boggs, Luke Dosiek, John Rieffel

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, 2019

2017

Soft tensegrity robots.

John Rieffel, Jean-Baptiste Mouret

CoRR, 2017

Introduction to the Evolution of Physical Systems Special Issue.

John Rieffel, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Nicolas Bredèche, Evert Haasdijk

Artif. Life, 2017

A baseline-realistic objective open-ended kinematics simulator for evolutionary robotics.

Riley Konsella, Frank Chiarulli, John Peterson, John Rieffel

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2017

2016

Editorial Introduction to the Artificial Life 14 Conference Special Issue.

Hiroki Sayama, John Rieffel, Sebastian Risi, René Doursat, Hod Lipson

Artif. Life, 2016

2015

Growing and Evolving Vibrationally Actuated Soft Robots.

Benjamin Berger, Alvin Andino, Andrew Danise, John Rieffel

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2015

2014

Growing and Evolving Soft Robots.

John Rieffel, Davis Knox, Schuyler Smith, Barry Trimmer

Artif. Life, 2014

Developing morphological computation in tensegrity robots for controllable actuation.

Mark Khazanov, Julian Jocque, John Rieffel

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2014

Evolution of Locomotion on a Physical Tensegrity Robot.

Mark Khazanov, Julian Jocque, John Rieffel

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2014

2013

Heterochronic scaling of developmental durations in evolved soft robots.

John Rieffel

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2013

Exploiting Dynamical Complexity in a Physical Tensegrity Robot to Achieve Locomotion.

Mark Khazanov, Ben Humphreys, William D. Keat, John Rieffel

Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, 2013

2012

Growing and evolving soft robots with a face-encoding tetrahedral grammar.

John Rieffel, Schuyler Smith

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2012

Automatically Designing and Printing 3-D Objects with EvoFab 0.2.

Tim Kühn, John Rieffel

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2012

2011

Trent McConaghy, P. Palmers, G. Peng, Michiel Steyaert, Georges Gielen: Variation-aware analog structural synthesis: a computational intelligence approach - Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-90-481-2905-8.

John Rieffel

Genet. Program. Evolvable Mach., 2011

Scalable co-evolution of soft robot properties and gaits.

Davis Knox, John Rieffel

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life: 20th Anniversary Edition, 2011

2010

EvoFab: A Fully Embodied Evolutionary Fabricator.

John Rieffel, Dave Sayles

Proceedings of the Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware, 2010

Body/Brain Co-Evolution in Soft Robots.

John Rieffel, Barry Trimmer

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

A Face-Encoding Grammar for the Generation of Tetrahedral-Mesh Soft Bodies.

John Rieffel, Schuyler Smith

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2010

2009

A method of accelerating convergence for Genetic Algorithms evolving morphological and control parameters for a biomimetic robot.

Frank Saunders, John Rieffel, Jason H. Rife

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents, 2009

Evolving soft robotic locomotion in PhysX.

John Rieffel, Frank Saunders, Shilpa Nadimpalli, Harvey Zhou, Soha Hassoun, Jason H. Rife, Barry Trimmer

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2009

2008

Mechanism as Mind - What Tensegrities and Caterpillars Can Teach Us about Soft Robotics.

John Rieffel, Barry Trimmer, Hod Lipson

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 2008

2007

Growing form-filling tensegrity structures using map L-systems.

John Rieffel, Hod Lipson, Francisco J. Valero Cuevas

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2007

2006

On the Relationship between Environmental Noise and Modular Hierarchies.

John Rieffel

Proceedings of the Developmental Systems, 2006

2005

Evolutionary fabrication: the emergence of novel assembly methods in artificial ontogenies.

John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2005

Automated assembly as situated development: using artificial ontogenies to evolve buildable 3-D objects.

John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2005

Evolving Assembly Plans for Fully Automated Design and Assembly.

John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack

Proceedings of the 2005 NASA / DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH 2005), 29 June, 2005

Crossing the fabrication gap: evolving assembly plans to build 3-D objects.

John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack

Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2005

2004

The Emergence of Ontogenic Scaffolding in a Stochastic Development Environment.

John Rieffel, Jordan B. Pollack

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, 2004