Joran Booth, Ph.D. in Mech. Eng.

Peer-reviewed journal publications

• Jeong, J., Kim, I., Choi, Y., Lim, S., Kim, S., Kang, H., Shah, D., Baines, R., Booth, J., Kramer-Bottiglio, R., Kim, S-Y. (2023) Spikebot: A multigait tensegrity robot with linearly extending struts. Soft Robotics. (preprint, https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2023.0030)
• Zhao, L., Wu, Y., Blanchet, J., Perroni-Scharf, M., Huang, X., Booth, J. Kramer-Bottiglio, R., Balkcom, D. (2022) Soft lattice modules that behave independently and collectively. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 7(3), pp. 5942-5949
• Baines, R., Patiballa, S., Booth, J., Ramirez, L., Sipple, T., Garcia, A., Fish, F., Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2022) Multi-environment robotic transitions through adaptive morphogenesis. Nature, Vol 610(7931), pp. 283-289.
• Shah, D., Booth, J., Baines, R., Wang, K., Vespgnani, M., Bekris, K., Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2022) Tensegrity robotics. Soft Robotics. Vol 9(4).
• Booth, J., Cyr-Choiniere, O., Case J., Shah, D., Yuen, M., Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2021) Surface actuation and sensing of a tensegrity structure using robotic skins. Soft Robotics Vol. 8(5) pp. 531-541
• Baines, R., Booth, J., Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2020) Rolling soft membrane-driven tensegrity robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol 5(4), pp. 6567-6574
• Case, J., Gilbert, J., Booth, J., Sunspiral, V., Kramer-Bottiglio, R., (2020) Spinal Helical Actuation Patterns for Locomotion in Soft Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol 5(3), 3814-3821.
• Kim, SY., Baines, R., Booth, J., Vasios, N., Bertoldi, K, Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2019) Reconfigurable soft body trajectories using unidirectionally stretchable composite laminae. Nature Communications, Vol 10(1), 1-8.
• Zhou, N., Pereira, N., Chandrasegaran, S., George, T., Booth, J., Ramani, K. (2021) Examining Middle School Students’ Engineering Design Processes in a Design Workshop. Research in Science Education, Vol. 51(2) pp. 617-646
• Booth, J., Shah, D., Case, J., White, E., Yuen, M, Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2018) OmniSkins: Robotic skins that turn inanimate objects into multifunctional robots. Science Robotics, Vol 3.
• Booth, J., Alperovich, J., Chawla, P., Ma, J., Reid, T., Ramani, K.  (2017) The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet. ASME J. Mech. Design, Vol 139(10), 100904
  • Won the 2017 JMD Editor’s Choice Award
• Hu, W. L., Booth, J., Reid, T. The Relationship Between Design Outcomes and Mental States During Ideation (2017) ASME J. Mech. Design, Vol 139(5), pp. 051101
• Zhou, N., Pereira, N., George, T., Alperovich, J., Booth, J., Chandrasegaran, S., Tew, J., Kulkarni, D., Ramani, K. (2017) The Influence of Toy Design Activities on Middle School Students’ Understanding of the Engineering Design Process.  J. of Science Education and Technology.  5, pg. 1-13
• Booth, J., Taborda, E., Ramani, K., Reid, T. (2016) Interventions for Improving Sketching Skills and Reducing Inhibition for Novice Engineering Designers, Design Studies, Vol 43, pp.1-23
• Booth, J., Reid, T., Eckert, C., Ramani, K. (2015) Comparing Functional Analysis Methods for Product Dissection Tasks. ASME J. Mech. Design. Vol 137(8), 081101
  • Featured on the JMD Companion site

Peer-reviewed conference publications

• Wang, K., Johnson, W., Lu, S., Huang, X., Booth, J., Kramer-Bottiglio, R., Aanjaneya, M., Bekris, K. (2023) Real2Sim2Real Transfer for Control of Cable-driven Robots via a Differentiable Physics Engine. In IEEE Sensors 2023
• Zhao, L., Wu, Y., Yan, W., Zhan, W., Huang, X., Booth, J., Mehta, A., Bekris, K., Kramer-Bottiglio, R., Balkcom, D. (2023) StarBlocks: Soft Actuated Self-connecting Blocks for Building Deformable Lattice Structures. In IEEE Sensors 2023
• Johnson, W., Agrawala, A., Huang, X., Booth, J. Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2022) Sensor tendons for soft robot shape estimation. In IEEE Sensors 2022
• Johnson, W., Booth, J. Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2021) Integrated sensing in robotic skin modules. In IEEE Sensors 2021
• Baines, R., Booth, J., Fish, F., Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2019) Toward a bio-inspired variable-stiffness morphing limb for amphibious robot locomotion. In IEEE RoboSoft 2019
• Booth, J., Case, J., White, E., Shah, D., Kramer-Bottiglio, R. (2018) An Addressable Pneumatic Regulator for Distributed Control of Soft Robots.  In IEEE RoboSoft 2018
• Case, J., Booth, J., Shah, D., Yuen, M., Kramer-Bottlglio, R. (2018) State and Stiffness Estimation using Robotic Fabrics.  In IEEE RoboSoft 2018
• Booth, J., Alperovich, J., Reid, T., Ramani, K. (2016) The Design for Additive Manufacturing Worksheet.  In ASME IDETC/CIE No. 60407, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Zhou, N., George, T., Booth, J., Alperovich, J., Chandrasegaran, S., Pereira, N., Tew, J., Kulkaerni, D., Ramani, K. (2016) Developing Middle School Students’ Engineering Design Concepts Through Toy Design Workshop.  In the Proceedings of the ASEE, New Orleans
• Ramanujan, D., Booth, J., Chandrasegaran, S., Reid, T., Ramani, K., Bairaktarova, D. (2016) The Role of Visual Thinking and Sketching in Engineering Design. In the Proceedings of TMCE
• Booth, J., Bhasin, A., Reid, T., Ramani, K. (2015) Empirical Studies of Functional Decomposition in Early Design. In ASME IDETC/CIE No. 47865, Boston, MA
• Hu, W.L., Booth, J., Reid, T. (2015) Reducing Sketch Inhibition During Concept Generation: Psychophysiological Evidence of the Effect of Interventions. In ASME IDETC/CIE No. 47669 Boston, MA
• Booth, J., Bhasin, A., Ramani, K. (2014) Art Meets Engineering Design: An Approach for Reducing Sketch Inhibition During the Design Process. In ASME IDETC/CIE No. 35278 Buffalo, NY
• Booth, J., Bhasin, A., Reid, T., Ramani, K. (2014) Evaluating the Bottom-Up Method for Functional Decomposition in Product Design Tasks. In ASME IDETC/CIE No. 35393 Buffalo, NY
• Seshadri, P., Reid, T., Booth, J. (2014) A Framework for Fostering Compassionate Design Thinking During the Design Process, In Proc. ASEE Conference, June 15-18, Indianapolis, IN
• Booth, J., Reid, T., Ramani, K. (2013) Understanding Design Abstraction: A Comparison of Three Functional Decomposition Methods, In ASME IDETC/CIE No. 13130 Portland, OR

ArXiv publications

• Wang, K., Johnson, W., Lu., S., Huang, X., Booth, J., Kramer-Bottiglio, R., Aanjaneya, M., Bekris, K. (2022) Real2Sim2Real transfer for control of cable-driven robots via a differentiable physics engine (pdf). Sep 13, arXiv:2209.06261
• Lu., S., Johnson, W., Wang, K., Huang, X., Booth, J., Kramer-Bottiglio, R., Bekris, K. (2022) 6N-DoF Pose Tracking for Tensegrity Robots (pdf). May 5, arXiv:2205.14764