Erica Z. MacArthur
Papers
2
Total Citations
14
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2
About
Erica Z. MacArthur is a researcher in multi-agent robotics and autonomous systems, with a primary focus on formation control strategies for teams of unmanned vehicles. Her most significant contribution is the development of "compliant formation control," a novel framework for coordinating the navigational structure of multi-vehicle systems. This approach allows a team of autonomous vehicles to maintain a desired formation shape while dynamically adjusting to environmental constraints and neighboring vehicle separations, enhancing both flexibility and robustness in collective motion. Her foundational work, particularly her 2007 paper on the subject (12 citations), has provided a key theoretical basis for subsequent research in cooperative robotics and distributed control. Though her publication record is concise, MacArthur’s introduction of compliant control principles represents a notable early step in enabling more adaptive and resilient multi-vehicle coordination, an area critical to applications in drone swarms, autonomous convoys, and oceanographic exploration. Her research continues to inform engineers and roboticists working on scalable, decentralized navigation systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Compliant Formation Control of a Multi-Vehicle System12 citations · 2007
- 2Compliant Formation Control of an Autonomous Multiple Vehicle System2 citations · 2006