Papers
117
Total Citations
2,646
H-Index
28
About
Lino Marques is a prominent robotics researcher whose work spans mobile robot navigation, olfactory-guided search, climbing robots, and multi-robot systems. Based at the University of Coimbra, he has made transformative contributions to how autonomous robots perceive, navigate, and cooperate in complex real-world environments. Marques is perhaps best known for pioneering olfaction-based robot navigation, with his foundational 2002 paper accumulating over 200 citations and his subsequent work on particle swarm-based olfactory search drawing nearly 200 more. These contributions established key frameworks for robots that can locate chemical sources — a capability with profound applications in search-and-rescue and hazardous environment monitoring. His multi-robot research further extended these ideas, demonstrating how robot teams can collaboratively build chemical concentration maps and conduct fire searches using bio-inspired algorithms. Equally significant is his work on climbing robots. The OmniClimbers and 3DCLIMBER projects — together exceeding 290 citations — addressed the critical challenge of inspecting ferromagnetic and three-dimensional human-made structures, reducing the need for dangerous human intervention in industrial settings. His research on pipeline inspection robots and distributed SLAM architectures further highlights a career defined by bridging theoretical robotics innovation with practical, safety-critical applications.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Olfaction-based mobile robot navigation207 citations · 2002
- 2Particle swarm-based olfactory guided search194 citations · 2006
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- 4Multi-robot exploration and fire searching102 citations · 2009
- 53DCLIMBER: A climbing robot for inspection of 3D human made structures77 citations · 2008
- 6Multi-robot olfactory search in structured environments70 citations · 2011
- 73DCLIMBER: Climbing and manipulation over 3D structures69 citations · 2010
- 8Computation Sharing in Distributed Robotic Systems: A Case Study on SLAM59 citations · 2014
- 9Development of an industrial pipeline inspection robot59 citations · 2010
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