Shirin Rahmanpour

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Shirin Rahmanpour is a researcher specializing in robotics, autonomous systems, and networked multi-robot coordination, with a particular focus on the intersection of energy efficiency, motion planning, and communication strategies. Her work addresses one of the central challenges in modern robotics: enabling teams of mobile robots to operate intelligently and efficiently in complex environments while managing limited energy resources. Among her most notable contributions is her research on co-planning frameworks that simultaneously optimize both motion and communication strategies for networked mobile robots. Her 2019 paper on energy-aware planning has garnered 13 citations, while a companion study introducing a decentralized approach to the same problem has received 9 citations — together representing a cohesive body of work that advances how robotic teams can accomplish target-visiting tasks with guaranteed end-to-end communication performance and minimal energy consumption. What distinguishes Rahmanpour's research is her commitment to decentralized architectures, allowing robot teams to make coordinated decisions without relying on a central controller — a critical feature for scalability and real-world deployment. Her contributions are particularly relevant to researchers and engineers working in autonomous systems, search-and-rescue robotics, and large-scale multi-agent coordination, where energy and communication constraints are fundamental operational concerns.