Prasanna Gautam

Hartford Financial Services (United States), Trinity College Dublin

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Prasanna Gautam is a robotics researcher whose work centers on autonomous systems, swarm robotics, and intelligent navigation algorithms. His research contributions span the design and implementation of communication protocols for multi-robot systems and the development of sophisticated software architectures for unmanned ground vehicles. Notably, Gautam contributed to the advancement of swarm robotics by demonstrating how RF communication paired with a TDMA algorithm can enable cost-effective, energy-efficient coordination among robot clusters tackling real-world challenges such as firefighting. His work on "Q," an autonomous ground vehicle developed through the Trinity College Robot Study Team, showcases his applied engineering expertise — particularly in parallelized software architecture and vision processing systems built for competitive platforms like the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). Subsequent work refined Q's navigation intelligence further, incorporating improved autonomous decision-making capabilities. While Gautam's citation counts remain modest — accumulating approximately eight citations across his three primary publications — his contributions represent meaningful foundational work at the intersection of embedded systems, swarm intelligence, and autonomous vehicle engineering, offering practical insights valuable to students and researchers entering these rapidly evolving fields.