Daniel Campos

About

Daniel Campos is a leading roboticist whose work spans the rugged terrain of mountain vineyards to the challenging waters of the Atlantic. His research focuses on developing autonomous systems for precision agriculture, offshore inspection, and human-robot interaction. Campos made early contributions to agricultural robotics, designing cost-effective, reliable monitoring robots for steep-slope vineyards, addressing the dual challenges of harsh terrain and unreliable GPS localization. His work on the Robot@Factory competition advanced omnidirectional robot navigation in industrial settings, while his later projects, such as the ATLANTIS platform and the Nautilus autonomous surface vehicle, push the boundaries of maritime robotics for offshore wind farm inspection and maintenance. With over 200 citations across his most-cited papers, Campos has demonstrated significant impact, particularly through his foundational work on vineyard monitoring (53 and 47 citations) and his leadership in the DIIUS project, which enhances distributed perception for aquatic structures. His achievements include establishing the ATLANTIS Coastal Testbed, a near-real environment for validating robotic technologies, and developing gesture-based human-robot interaction systems for service robots. Campos’s work is driving the transition from lab prototypes to real-world robotic solutions.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Towards a Reliable Robot for Steep Slope Vineyards Monitoring

   53 citations · 2016
2. 2
   Towards a Reliable Monitoring Robot for Mountain Vineyards

   47 citations · 2015
3. 3
   Localization and Navigation of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot: The Robot@Factory Case Study

   39 citations · 2016
4. 4
   ATLANTIS - The Atlantic Testing Platform for Maritime Robotics

   18 citations · 2021
5. 5
   Nautilus: An autonomous surface vehicle with a multilayer software architecture for offshore inspection

   15 citations · 2024
6. 6
   Modeling and Simulation of a Hacked Neato XV-11 Laser Scanner

   14 citations · 2015
7. 7
   A Personal Robot as an Improvement to the Customers’ In-store Experience

   11 citations · 2018
8. 8
   DIIUS - Distributed Perception for Inspection of Aquatic Structures

   9 citations · 2021
9. 9
   ATLANTIS Coastal Testbed: A near-real playground for the testing and validation of robotics for O&M

   6 citations · 2023
10. 10
    Human-Robot Interaction Based on Gestures for Service Robots

    6 citations · 2017

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