Andreas Kolling

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Andreas Kolling is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of swarm robotics, human-robot interaction, and multi-robot systems. His work has fundamentally shaped how we understand the coordination and control of large-scale robot collectives, earning him over 1,100 citations across a distinguished body of research. Kolling's landmark 2015 survey on human interaction with robot swarms (401 citations) remains a definitive reference in the field, systematically mapping the challenges and opportunities of deploying autonomous multi-robot systems across diverse real-world applications. Complementing this, his influential studies on human-swarm interaction introduced foundational concepts such as "selection" and "beacon control," illuminating how human operators can effectively influence emergent swarm behaviors—even under conditions of communication latency and bandwidth constraints. His contributions extend to elegant algorithmic solutions, including an occlusion-based cooperative transport strategy enabling miniature robots to collectively move objects far larger than themselves, and the innovative GRAPH-CLEAR framework for modeling multi-robot surveillance in complex indoor environments. Earlier work on pursuit-evasion problems and cooperative multi-target observation further demonstrates his breadth across theoretical and applied robotics. Kolling's research provides essential foundations for anyone studying autonomous systems, human-robot teaming, or swarm intelligence.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Human Interaction With Robot Swarms: A Survey

   401 citations · 2015
2. 2
   Occlusion-Based Cooperative Transport with a Swarm of Miniature Mobile Robots

   177 citations · 2015
3. 3
   Human Swarm Interaction: An Experimental Study of Two Types of Interaction with Foraging Swarms

   107 citations · 2013
4. 4
   Pursuit-Evasion on Trees by Robot Teams

   81 citations · 2009
5. 5
   Towards human control of robot swarms

   79 citations · 2012
6. 6
   Neglect benevolence in human control of swarms in the presence of latency

   71 citations · 2012
7. 7
   Cooperative Observation of Multiple Moving Targets: an algorithm and its formalization

   62 citations · 2007
8. 8
   Multi-robot surveillance: An improved algorithm for the GRAPH-CLEAR problem

   56 citations · 2008
9. 9
   Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

   42 citations · 2018
10. 10
    Human influence of robotic swarms with bandwidth and localization issues

    42 citations · 2012

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