Andrey V. Savkin
Papers
106
Total Citations
3,527
H-Index
32
About
Andrey V. Savkin is a prominent researcher at the intersection of robotics, autonomous navigation, and networked control systems, whose work has fundamentally shaped how mobile robots perceive and traverse complex environments. His most celebrated contribution — a comprehensive 2014 survey on collision-free navigation algorithms (466 citations) — remains an essential reference for roboticists worldwide, synthesizing rigorous mathematical approaches to obstacle avoidance in cluttered, dynamic settings. Savkin has pioneered biologically inspired navigation strategies for unicycle-like robots, demonstrating elegant, provably safe solutions for avoiding both static and moving obstacles, as evidenced by multiple highly cited publications from 2012 to 2014. His research extends into wireless sensor network-guided navigation for micro flying robots and localization within delay-tolerant networks, reflecting a keen interest in practical deployment within industrial IoT environments. Equally notable is his foundational work on detectability and output feedback stabilizability of nonlinear networked control systems, bridging rigorous control theory with real-world communication constraints. With over 1,600 citations across his top works alone, Savkin's research offers students and practitioners a rich body of theoretically grounded yet application-driven insights into autonomous robotic systems.
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Top Papers
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- 2Node Localization Using Mobile Robots in Delay-Tolerant Sensor Networks222 citations · 2007
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- 4Navigation of a unicycle-like mobile robot for environmental extremum seeking119 citations · 2010
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- 8Range-only measurements based target following for wheeled mobile robots106 citations · 2010
- 9Mobile robots in wireless sensor networks: A survey on tasks105 citations · 2018
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