Papers
7
Total Citations
110
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4
About
Benjamin Lussier is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of fault tolerance, autonomous robotics, and dependable systems. His research addresses one of the most critical challenges in deploying autonomous robots in real-world environments: ensuring that these systems remain safe and reliable even when hardware or software failures occur. Lussier has made significant contributions through the development of fault-tolerant architectures for data fusion, most notably applying Kalman filters to mobile robot localization and yaw estimation — work that has garnered over 64 citations and demonstrates strong practical impact in the robotics community. His investigations into fault-tolerant planning explore how autonomous systems operating in dynamic, unpredictable environments can maintain dependability through diversified models and robust decision-making strategies. Lussier has consistently championed the idea that autonomous systems — from space rovers to medical assistants — can only fulfill their potential once trust in their dependability is established. Spanning more than a decade of sustained research, his body of work has helped lay conceptual and technical foundations for verifying and validating critical autonomous robots, making his contributions highly relevant to researchers working on safety-critical systems today.
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- 2Fault Tolerant Planning for Critical Robots20 citations · 2007
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- 4Planning with Diversified Models for Fault-Tolerant Robots9 citations · 2007
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- 6Fault tolerant planning: towards dependable autonomous robots2 citations · 2015
- 7Fault tolerance in autonomous systems2 citations · 2007