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Robin Amsters is a researcher whose work bridges robotics education and indoor positioning technologies, with particular expertise in visible light positioning (VLP) systems. His most widely recognized contribution is his 2019 paper on the TurtleBot 3 as a robotics education platform, which has garnered 125 citations and established itself as a foundational reference for educators and students entering the field of mobile robotics. Beyond robotics education, Amsters has made meaningful advances in the development and deployment of visible light positioning systems — an emerging alternative to traditional radio frequency-based indoor localization. His research explores the full lifecycle of VLP systems, from novel positioning algorithms to practical deployment challenges. Notably, he has investigated unmodulated visible light positioning using the Iterated Extended Kalman Filter, removing the need for specialized modulation hardware and lowering barriers to implementation. His subsequent work on automated and robot-assisted calibration of VLP systems addresses one of the most persistent practical obstacles to their real-world adoption, earning over 39 citations across two complementary studies. Taken together, Amsters' research reflects a consistent drive to make sophisticated technologies — whether robotic platforms or indoor positioning systems — more accessible, practical, and deployable in real-world environments.