Daniel Pickem
Papers
7
Total Citations
194
H-Index
5
About
Daniel Pickem is a leading researcher in accessible multi-robot and swarm robotics systems, with a focus on democratizing experimental robotics. His most impactful contributions center on the design and deployment of low-cost, scalable testbeds that enable multi-agent research beyond well-funded laboratories. He is the co-creator of the GRITSBot, an inexpensive, miniature robot platform that made multi-robot experimentation accessible to a broader community (84 citations). Building on this, Pickem was instrumental in developing the Robotarium, a remotely accessible swarm robotics facility that allows researchers worldwide to run algorithms safely and without the overhead of maintaining physical hardware (29 and 26 citations). His work also bridges theory and practice, as demonstrated by his experimental validation of simultaneous lane keeping and adaptive speed control on accessible testbeds (44 citations). Additionally, Pickem has contributed to self-reconfigurable modular robotics, exploring graph grammar-based approaches for deadlock avoidance and hole-free assembly. Through his efforts, he has fundamentally lowered the barrier to entry for multi-robot research, enabling a new generation of scalable, safe, and reproducible experimentation.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1The GRITSBot in its natural habitat - A multi-robot testbed84 citations · 2015
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- 3Safe, Remote-Access Swarm Robotics Research on the Robotarium29 citations · 2016
- 4The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed26 citations · 2017
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- 6Self-Reconfiguration Using Graph Grammars for Modular Robotics4 citations · 2012
- 7Self-reconfigurable multi-robot systems2 citations · 2016