Guillermo Enriquez

About

Guillermo Enriquez is a robotics researcher whose work spans mobile robot navigation, human-robot interaction, and culturally-inspired robotics systems. His most significant contributions lie in the development of intelligent navigation frameworks, particularly through the fusion of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and RFID technology to enable reliable, high-speed autonomous robot movement in indoor environments — a research thread he has pursued consistently since 2010 and which accounts for his most widely cited body of work, with his 2013 navigation paper alone accumulating 11 citations. Enriquez is perhaps best known for his adaptive path-planning algorithm for cleaning robots (2018), his most-cited work with 17 citations, which innovatively incorporates non-uniform dust distribution patterns to optimize cleaning efficiency beyond traditional coverage methods. His research also ventures into culturally significant territory, with a notable project developing a robotic wayang puppeteer capable of recognizing traditional gamelan music — an effort to preserve Indonesian intangible cultural heritage through robotics. Further demonstrating his breadth, Enriquez has explored assistive technologies, including an intraoral interface enabling supernumerary robotic limb control for human ability extension. Across more than a decade of research, his work consistently bridges practical engineering challenges with meaningful human-centered applications.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Adaptive Path Planning for Cleaning Robots Considering Dust Distribution

   17 citations · 2018
2. 2
   Wireless Sensor Network and RFID Fusion Approach for Mobile Robot Navigation

   11 citations · 2013
3. 3
   Indonesian puppet theater robot with gamelan music emotion recognition

   8 citations · 2015
4. 4
   Development of an Intraoral Interface for Human-Ability Extension Robots

   7 citations · 2016
5. 5
   Wireless sensor network and RFID sensor fusion for mobile robots navigation

   6 citations · 2010
6. 6
   Wayang Robot with Gamelan Music Pattern Recognition

   5 citations · 2017
7. 7
   Contextual Awareness in a WSN/RFID Fusion Navigation System

   4 citations · 2014
8. 8
   Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Systems Using RFID and their Applications

   4 citations · 2011
9. 9
   Embodied Communication Between Human and Robot in Route Guidance

   2 citations · 2007
10. 10
    Design issues and applications for a passive-dynamic walker

    2 citations · 2009

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