Benjamin Stewart
Papers
8
Total Citations
859
H-Index
7
About
Benjamin Stewart is a leading researcher in distributed multirobot systems, whose work has fundamentally shaped how teams of robots explore, map, and collaborate in unknown environments. His seminal 2006 paper on distributed multirobot exploration and mapping (330 citations) established efficient algorithms for coordinating robots starting from unknown locations, solving a critical bottleneck in autonomous exploration. Stewart’s decision-theoretic framework for multirobot mapping (173 citations) provided a principled approach to merging maps without prior knowledge of robot positions, while his general framework for distributed map building under uncertain communication (135 citations) remains foundational. He also pioneered the Centibots project, demonstrating the feasibility of very large-scale robotic teams (96 citations), and introduced hierarchical Bayesian methods to address the revisiting problem in map building (54 citations), enabling robots to robustly distinguish new terrain from previously mapped areas. With over 850 total citations across his key works, Stewart’s contributions have advanced both theoretical foundations and practical systems for multirobot coordination, making him a pivotal figure in modern robotics research.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Distributed Multirobot Exploration and Mapping330 citations · 2006
- 2A practical, decision-theoretic approach to multi-robot mapping and exploration173 citations · 2004
- 3Map merging for distributed robot navigation135 citations · 2004
- 4Centibots: Very Large Scale Distributed Robotic Teams96 citations · 2006
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- 6Distributed multirobot exploration, mapping, and task allocation50 citations · 2008
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- 8Centibots: Very Large Scale Distributed Robotic Teams4 citations · 2008