Anissa Lamani

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Anissa Lamani is a prominent researcher in distributed computing and autonomous mobile robotics, with a particular focus on the coordination and exploration problems faced by swarms of oblivious, asynchronous robots operating in constrained environments. Her work addresses fundamental challenges in how minimal, memory-less robots can collectively solve complex tasks — such as gathering, exploration, and pattern formation — without global communication or persistent state. Among her most influential contributions is her work on robot gathering from symmetric configurations without global multiplicity detection, which has garnered 66 citations, alongside her highly cited research on optimal grid exploration by asynchronous oblivious robots (60 citations). These studies established important theoretical foundations for what swarms can and cannot achieve under strict computational constraints. Her investigations into ring topologies, torus structures, and grid-shaped networks have further expanded the field's understanding of optimal robot deployment strategies. Lamani's research consistently pursues optimality — minimizing the number of robots required while proving tight lower bounds, as exemplified in her 2019 work on terminating grid exploration. With cumulative citations exceeding 260 across her top works, her contributions remain essential reading for researchers and students exploring the boundaries of distributed algorithms and autonomous multi-robot systems.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Asynchronous Mobile Robot Gathering from Symmetric Configurations without Global Multiplicity Detection

   66 citations · 2011
2. 2
   Optimal Grid Exploration by Asynchronous Oblivious Robots

   60 citations · 2012
3. 3
   Gathering an Even Number of Robots in an Odd Ring without Global Multiplicity Detection

   39 citations · 2012
4. 4
   Optimal torus exploration by oblivious robots

   22 citations · 2018
5. 5
   Terminating Exploration Of A Grid By An Optimal Number Of Asynchronous Oblivious Robots

   20 citations · 2019
6. 6
   Enabling Ring Exploration with Myopic Oblivious Robots

   13 citations · 2015
7. 7
   Optimal Torus Exploration by Oblivious Robots

   13 citations · 2015
8. 8
   Stand up indulgent gathering

   11 citations · 2022
9. 9
   Robot Networks with Homonyms: The Case of Patterns Formation

   10 citations · 2011
10. 10
    Asynchronous Ring Gathering by Oblivious Robots with Limited Vision

    9 citations · 2014

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