Antoine Bautin
Papers
6
Total Citations
167
H-Index
4
About
Antoine Bautin is a leading figure in multi-robot systems, with a primary focus on autonomous exploration, coordination, and safe navigation in dynamic environments. His most influential contribution is the development of **MinPos**, a novel frontier allocation algorithm for multi-robot exploration, which has garnered 75 citations and remains a cornerstone for efficient, decentralized exploration strategies. Bautin also advanced the concept of **Inevitable Collision States (ICS)** from a probabilistic perspective (67 citations), providing a rigorous safety framework that ensures robots never enter states where collision is unavoidable—a critical insight for real-world autonomous navigation. His work on communication-free coordination (14 citations) further demonstrates his commitment to scalable, robust multi-robot systems that operate without reliance on inter-robot communication. Bautin’s research has been instrumental in shaping modern approaches to multi-robot task assignment, as seen in his **SyWaP** algorithm for synchronized wavefront propagation. He also contributed to the **Cart-O-matic project**, which integrates autonomous localization, exploration, and mapping. With a citation count exceeding 160, Bautin’s work continues to influence researchers and engineers developing autonomous robotic teams for search-and-rescue, surveillance, and planetary exploration.
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Top Papers
- 1MinPos : A Novel Frontier Allocation Algorithm for Multi-robot Exploration75 citations · 2012
- 2Inevitable Collision States: A probabilistic perspective67 citations · 2010
- 3Towards a communication free coordination for multi-robot exploration14 citations · 2011
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