Arun Kumar Sadhu

National Institute of Technology Durgapur

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Arun Kumar Sadhu is a researcher in distributed swarm robotics, focusing on the coordination and control of autonomous mobile robot collectives. His primary research areas include robot gathering, partitioning, and assembly problems, particularly under constrained environmental conditions. Sadhu’s major contributions address fundamental challenges in swarm coordination: he has developed distributed algorithms for partitioning a swarm of robots into size-balanced groups in continuous domains, even when line obstacles are present—a significant step toward real-world deployment. His work on assembling semi-synchronous oblivious robots with only direction-based axis agreement, again in the presence of obstacles, further advances the field’s understanding of minimalistic robot coordination. While his most-cited papers each have 2 citations, their impact lies in tackling difficult, under-explored problems at the intersection of geometry, distributed computing, and robotics. Sadhu’s research is notable for its rigorous theoretical foundation and its focus on practical constraints like obstacles and limited communication, making it valuable for students and researchers working on scalable, fault-tolerant multi-robot systems.