Abhishek Bera

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Abhishek Bera is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of multi-robot systems, space exploration, and cooperative infrastructure. His work focuses on enabling robust, decentralized coordination among robotic teams in extreme environments—particularly planetary surfaces—where traditional communication and trust models fail. Bera’s most cited paper, “Performance Comparison of ROS2 Middlewares for Multi-robot Mesh Networks in Planetary Exploration” (2025, 11 citations), provides a critical empirical benchmark for selecting real-time communication frameworks in space-grade multi-robot systems, directly supporting the Artemis Accords’ vision for collaborative lunar and Martian exploration. His second major contribution, “Trustful Coopetitive Infrastructures for the New Space Exploration Era” (2024, 7 citations), addresses a novel challenge: how competing space stakeholders—agencies, large enterprises, and startups—can share robotic resources for in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) while maintaining security and trust. By proposing a “coopetitive” framework that balances cooperation with economic competition, Bera lays essential groundwork for the next generation of space economy infrastructure. His work is already shaping how researchers and engineers design resilient, trustworthy multi-robot networks for the most demanding frontiers.