Papers
8
Total Citations
83
H-Index
5
About
Arnaud Doniec is a leading researcher in multi-robot systems, with a focus on enabling coordinated exploration and task execution under real-world constraints. His work addresses three critical challenges: maintaining network connectivity in mobile robot teams, distributed decision-making, and collision avoidance. Doniec pioneered the concept of "connectivity-aware" robots, developing algorithms that allow multi-robot systems to autonomously plan their movements while preserving communication links—a fundamental requirement for field operations. His 2009 paper on this topic (23 citations) remains a key reference in the field. He also advanced multi-robot exploration by applying distributed constraint reasoning (22 citations) and bio-inspired flocking behaviors (16 citations), enabling teams to efficiently map unknown environments without centralized control. Doniec further contributed to performance evaluation metrics for distributed constraint satisfaction problems and developed decentralized collision avoidance strategies using receding horizon planning. More recently, he has explored robots-assisted ambient intelligence, extending his expertise to human-robot interaction in smart environments. With over 80 total citations across his most-cited works, Doniec's research provides foundational techniques for deploying robust, scalable multi-robot teams in search-and-rescue, surveillance, and environmental monitoring applications.
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Top Papers
- 1Making networked robots connectivity-aware23 citations · 2009
- 2Distributed Constraint Reasoning Applied to Multi-robot Exploration22 citations · 2009
- 3Flocking-Based Multi-Robot Exploration16 citations · 2009
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- 6Towards Robots-Assisted Ambient Intelligence3 citations · 2018
- 7On Fleet Size Optimization for Multi-Robot Frontier-Based Exploration3 citations · 2012
- 8Dynamic Role Assignment for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Robotic Systems2 citations · 2010