Kaustav Bose
Papers
12
Total Citations
93
H-Index
5
About
Kaustav Bose is a researcher specializing in distributed computing and autonomous mobile robotics, with a particular focus on coordinating swarms of anonymous, oblivious robots in complex geometric environments. His work addresses fundamental challenges in robot coordination, including mutual visibility, pattern formation, gathering, and dispersion — problems that are central to understanding how decentralized robotic systems can achieve collective goals without explicit communication or persistent memory. Among his most notable contributions is his research on mutual visibility and arbitrary pattern formation on infinite grids, where his algorithms enable asynchronous robots to coordinate effectively under highly constrained models. His 2019 paper on mutual visibility has garnered 24 citations, reflecting its significance to the field. He has also made meaningful advances in optimal gathering within hypercube topologies and memory-efficient dispersion strategies for anonymous robots, demonstrating a consistent drive toward resource-minimized solutions. His work further extends to fault-tolerant systems, as evidenced by his research on crash-tolerant gathering, and to realistic robot models incorporating inaccurate movements and physical constraints like fat robots with slim cameras. With a growing citation record across multiple venues, Bose's research meaningfully shapes how theoreticians and engineers approach scalable, robust multi-robot coordination in adversarial and uncertain environments.
Research Focus
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Top Papers
- 1Mutual Visibility by Asynchronous Robots on Infinite Grid24 citations · 2019
- 2Optimal Gathering by Asynchronous Oblivious Robots in Hypercubes15 citations · 2019
- 3Memory Optimal Dispersion by Anonymous Mobile Robots11 citations · 2021
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- 5Mutual visibility by fat robots with slim omnidirectional camera5 citations · 2023
- 6Pattern Formation by Robots with Inaccurate Movements5 citations · 2020
- 7Mutual visibility on grid by asynchronous luminous robots5 citations · 2022
- 8Crash tolerant gathering on grid by asynchronous oblivious robots5 citations · 2017
- 9Memory optimal dispersion by anonymous mobile robots4 citations · 2023
- 10Distributed Pattern Formation by Autonomous Robot Swarm4 citations · 2022