Papers
14
Total Citations
279
H-Index
8
About
Bijan Ranjbar-Sahraei is a researcher whose work spans multi-robot systems, swarm robotics, and intelligent control, with a particular focus on enabling autonomous agents to coordinate effectively in complex, real-world environments. His most influential contribution, a decentralized adaptive fuzzy control scheme for multiagent formation control — cited 119 times — integrated artificial potential functions with robust control techniques to address partially unknown agent models, representing a significant advance in scalable, model-independent formation control. Alongside this theoretical work, Ranjbar-Sahraei has made notable strides in bio-inspired robotics, drawing on the collective behaviors of honeybees and ants to develop algorithms for multi-robot foraging and coverage tasks. His Stigmergy-based Coverage algorithm (StiCo) demonstrated that effective area coverage could be achieved without direct robot-to-robot communication, a practically important result for resource-constrained swarm systems. He has also contributed to Stackelberg game-theoretic approaches for robotic coverage and explored vision-based coordination in swarm platforms. With research ranging from nonlinear output feedback control to insect-inspired coordination principles, Ranjbar-Sahraei's body of work bridges rigorous control theory and biologically motivated robotics, making meaningful contributions to both communities.
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- 2A Multi-robot Coverage Approach Based on Stigmergic Communication46 citations · 2012
- 3Insect-Inspired Robot Coordination: Foraging and Coverage22 citations · 2014
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- 6Stigmergic coverage algorithm for multi-robot systems (demonstration)12 citations · 2012
- 7Bio-inspired multi-robot systems10 citations · 2015
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- 9Insect-Inspired Robot Coordination: Foraging and Coverage8 citations · 2014
- 10StaCo: Stackelberg-based Coverage Approach in Robotic Swarms8 citations · 2013