Papers
110
Total Citations
3,079
H-Index
27
About
Stefano Carpin is a robotics researcher whose work spans robot simulation, multi-robot systems, autonomous navigation, and search-and-rescue robotics. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to USARSim, a high-fidelity, open-source robot simulator that became the backbone of the RoboCup Virtual Robots competition and has been widely adopted for both research and education, accumulating over 420 citations. His work on bridging simulation and real-world performance has been instrumental in advancing credible, reproducible robotics research. Carpin has made significant strides in multi-robot coordination, particularly in the challenge of merging occupancy grid maps from independently exploring robots — a problem central to scalable autonomous mapping, with his key papers in this area attracting over 400 combined citations. His research on cooperative leader-following and pursuit-evasion strategies further demonstrates his commitment to solving complex coordination problems in robot teams. A passionate advocate for rescue robotics as a proving ground for autonomous systems, Carpin has argued compellingly that Urban Search and Rescue represents a critical milestone toward fully autonomous robots. His diverse body of work, spanning theoretical graph-based algorithms to real-world disaster robotics applications, reflects a career dedicated to making robots both smarter and more reliably deployable in high-stakes environments.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1USARSim: a robot simulator for research and education423 citations · 2007
- 2Merging Occupancy Grid Maps From Multiple Robots255 citations · 2006
- 3Fast and accurate map merging for multi-robot systems165 citations · 2008
- 4Rescue robotics — a crucial milestone on the road to autonomous systems104 citations · 2006
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- 6Cooperative leader following in a distributed multi-robot system86 citations · 2003
- 7Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Reality in Urban Search and Rescue85 citations · 2007
- 8Pursuit-Evasion on Trees by Robot Teams81 citations · 2009
- 9Validating USARsim for use in HRI Research76 citations · 2005
- 10High Fidelity Tools for Rescue Robotics: Results and Perspectives74 citations · 2006