Amitava Datta

FernUniversität in Hagen, University of New England, The University of Western Australia

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Total Citations

102

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About

Amitava Datta is a computational geometry and robotics researcher whose work has made significant contributions to the field of autonomous navigation and motion planning in unknown environments. His research primarily focuses on the challenging problem of guiding robots through polygonal environments where the terrain is not known in advance — a scenario with profound real-world implications for autonomous systems. Datta's most influential contribution, "Competitive Searching in a Generalized Street" (1994), garnered 42 citations and extended the classical street navigation problem to more complex polygon configurations, establishing provable performance guarantees for robot path-finding strategies. This work laid important theoretical groundwork that he continued to build upon in subsequent research, including "Competitive Searching in Polygons—Beyond Generalised Streets" (1995, 33 citations), which pushed these boundaries further into more general polygonal environments. His later work on motion planning with bounded performance guarantees and on-line path planning demonstrated a sustained commitment to developing competitive algorithms — strategies whose efficiency can be rigorously measured against an optimal offline solution. Collectively accumulating over 100 citations, Datta's research has provided the theoretical community with robust frameworks for understanding how intelligent agents can navigate uncertainty, making him a notable figure in algorithmic robotics and online computation.