Arcangelo Distante

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Arcangelo Distante is a prominent robotics and autonomous systems researcher whose work has fundamentally advanced the field of intelligent indoor surveillance and mobile robotics. His research centers on autonomous mobile robot systems, multi-sensor integration, environment mapping, and human-robot interaction — areas where he has made sustained and influential contributions spanning nearly two decades. Distante's most celebrated contribution, "An Autonomous Mobile Robotic System for Surveillance of Indoor Environments" (2010), has garnered 99 citations and exemplifies his signature approach: combining laser scanners, cameras, and RFID technology into cohesive, multi-functional robotic platforms capable of patrolling large-scale environments such as airports, museums, and warehouses. His pioneering integration of passive RFID technology for environment mapping, explored across multiple publications from 2007 to 2008, introduced novel fuzzy inference methods for tag localization that significantly reduced infrastructure dependency in robotic deployments. Beyond surveillance, Distante has contributed to human-augmented mapping through people-following algorithms and early camera-based self-localization techniques dating to 1995, demonstrating a remarkably long research trajectory. His work on discrete event control and autonomous 2D/3D model construction further reflects the breadth of his technical vision. Collectively, his publications have accumulated over 250 citations, establishing him as a foundational voice in intelligent mobile robotics research.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   An Autonomous Mobile Robotic System for Surveillance of Indoor Environments

   99 citations · 2010
2. 2
   RFID‐assisted mobile robot system for mapping and surveillance of indoor environments

   38 citations · 2008
3. 3
   Optimization of the POSIT algorithm for indoor autonomous navigation

   21 citations · 2004
4. 4
   Laser-based people-following for human-augmented mapping of indoor environments

   17 citations · 2007
5. 5
   Multi-sensor surveillance of indoor environments by an autonomous mobile robot

   17 citations · 2009
6. 6
   RFID-based environment mapping for autonomous mobile robot applications

   15 citations · 2007
7. 7
   Self-location of a mobile robot by estimation of camera parameters

   14 citations · 1995
8. 8
   Automatic construction of 2D and 3D models during robot inspection

   11 citations · 2006
9. 9
   Matrix-Based Discrete Event Control for Surveillance Mobile Robotics

   10 citations · 2009
10. 10
    Multi-Sensor Surveillance of Indoor Environments by an Autonomous Mobile Robot

    8 citations · 2008

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