Alejandro R. Mosteo

About

Alejandro R. Mosteo is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of multi-robot systems, communication-aware coordination, and autonomous navigation. His research has made significant contributions to the challenging problem of deploying teams of robots in real-world environments where reliable communication cannot be taken for granted. His most cited work, "Enforcing Network Connectivity in Robot Team Missions" (2010, 96 citations), established foundational approaches for maintaining communication links among robots during surveillance and rescue operations without relying on fixed infrastructure. Building on this, his multi-robot routing studies (2008, 58 citations; 2009, 22 citations) developed guaranteed-performance strategies for coordinating robots across spatially distributed tasks under strict connectivity constraints. Mosteo has also advanced the fields of multi-robot task allocation through auction-based methods, distributed formation optimization, and role-assignment algorithms, demonstrating a consistent focus on practical, scalable solutions. His interest in real-world deployment extends to visual data association under bandwidth limitations and topological navigation in underground environments. Beyond research, he has contributed to robotics education through hands-on engineering courses. With over 300 cumulative citations, Mosteo's body of work offers valuable insights for researchers tackling the coordination and communication challenges inherent in modern multi-robot systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Enforcing Network Connectivity in Robot Team Missions

   96 citations · 2010
2. 2
   Multi-robot routing under limited communication range

   58 citations · 2008
3. 3
   Comparative experiments on optimization criteria and algorithms for auction based multi-robot task allocation

   33 citations · 2007
4. 4
   Optimal role and position assignment in multi-robot freely reachable formations

   30 citations · 2017
5. 5
   Guaranteed-Performance Multi-robot Routing under Limited Communication Range

   22 citations · 2009
6. 6
   Efficient multi-robot formations using distributed optimization

   20 citations · 2014
7. 7
   Visual data association in narrow-bandwidth networks

   20 citations · 2015
8. 8
   Navigating underground environments using simple topological representations

   9 citations · 2022
9. 9
   A Practical Mobile Robotics Engineering Course Using LEGO Mindstorms

   8 citations · 2011
10. 10
    Concurrent tree traversals for improved mission performance under limited communication range

    6 citations · 2009

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