Bertalan Forstner
Papers
10
Total Citations
62
H-Index
4
About
Bertalan Forstner is a leading researcher in swarm robotics, focusing on the distributed coordination of homogeneous, autonomous robots with minimal sensing and communication capabilities. His major contributions include developing novel algorithms for target tracking and surrounding, where he introduced the "multi-orbit surrounding problem" and a distributed solution that allows swarms to follow and encircle moving objects using only local sensing. His most cited work, "Target Surrounding Solution for Swarm Robots" (2012, 15 citations), and its companion paper (14 citations) demonstrate this impact. Forstner has also made significant advances in the "filling problem"—the uniform dispersal of robots across unknown, connected areas—with his 2019 paper on filling arbitrary areas with silent robots using minimum visibility range (11 citations) being particularly notable. He has explored the role of cognitive infocommunication in enhancing cooperative swarm behavior and developed the RobotCore simulation framework for multi-robot systems. His work on uniform dispersal with oblivious, silent robots (including a 2016 paper with 3 citations) has pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved with extremely limited robot capabilities, making him a key figure in minimal-capability swarm robotics.
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Top Papers
- 1Target Surrounding Solution for Swarm Robots15 citations · 2012
- 2Target Tracking and Surrounding with Swarm Robots14 citations · 2012
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- 5Vision Based Area Discovery with Swarm Robots4 citations · 2011
- 6Uniform Dispersal of Cheap Flying Robots in the Presence of Obstacles3 citations · 2021
- 7Uniform dispersal of oblivious mobile robots3 citations · 2016
- 8Multi-Robot Simulation Framework3 citations · 2018
- 9Solving the filling problem with the visibility range of 12 citations · 2016
- 10Uniform dispersal of silent oblivious robots2 citations · 2017