Papers
10
Total Citations
85
H-Index
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About
M. Rude is a robotics researcher whose work has made meaningful contributions to the fields of mobile robot motion planning, collision avoidance, and multi-robot coordination. Active primarily throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Rude's research addressed some of the most fundamental challenges in autonomous robotics: how robots can safely navigate dynamic environments and effectively cooperate with one another. Rude's most influential work, a 1996 survey on motion planning for mobile robots in time-varying environments (24 citations), became a key reference for researchers grappling with obstacle avoidance in unpredictable settings. Complementing this, his development of space-time representations of motion processes offered an elegant framework for anticipating and avoiding collisions. His work on IRoN, an inter-robot wireless communication network, demonstrated practical approaches to multi-robot coordination, enabling robots to share positional data and navigate conflict zones such as crossings more intelligently. Rude also contributed to the physical design of safer autonomous vehicles, exploring flexible, shock-absorbing bumper systems and arguing provocatively that collisions need not be inherently damaging if vehicles are appropriately engineered. With a cumulative citation record reflecting steady community engagement, Rude's body of work represents a thoughtful and technically grounded contribution to foundational mobile robotics research.
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Top Papers
- 1Motion Planning for Mobile Robots in a Time-Varying Environment: A Survey24 citations · 1996
- 2Collision Avoidance by Using Space-Time Representations of Motion Processes16 citations · 1997
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- 4Cooperation of mobile robots by event transforms into local space-time10 citations · 2002
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- 7Collisions need not be dangerous for elliptical and flexible vehicles2 citations · 2002
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