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Roberto Olmi is a researcher whose work spans two principal domains: autonomous mobile robotics and microwave imaging systems. He is best known for his sustained contributions to the coordination and traffic management of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) in industrial and warehouse environments — a field where efficient, collision-free robot navigation is critical to modern manufacturing and logistics. His foundational papers from 2008 and 2011, each accumulating over 35 citations, introduced methodologies leveraging coordination diagrams to represent and resolve potential collisions among fleets of mobile robots following predefined paths. These centralized coordination algorithms became influential reference points for researchers tackling multi-robot motion planning in constrained industrial settings. His subsequent work, including the TRAFCON system for automatic warehouse traffic control, extended these ideas into practical deployment scenarios. Collectively, his AGV-focused body of work represents a coherent and impactful effort to bridge theoretical robotics with real-world industrial automation. More recently, Olmi has demonstrated a capacity for interdisciplinary research, contributing to the design and experimental validation of 3D-printed waveguide antennas for microwave imaging applications, including landmine detection and cultural heritage investigation — signaling a broadening of his technical reach into applied electromagnetics.