Danilo Tardioli
Universidad de Zaragoza, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Shandong University
Papers
31
Total Citations
555
H-Index
14
About
Danilo Tardioli is a leading researcher in multi-robot systems, specializing in communication-aware coordination for robotic teams operating in confined and challenging environments. His work addresses the critical challenge of maintaining network connectivity during autonomous missions, particularly in tunnels, mines, and disaster zones where infrastructure is absent. Tardioli’s most influential contribution, "Enforcing Network Connectivity in Robot Team Missions" (96 citations), established foundational methods for ensuring reliable communication during surveillance and rescue operations. He also developed the Pound system (47 citations), a multi-master ROS node that reduces delay and jitter in wireless multi-robot networks, and RT-WMP (41 citations), a real-time communication protocol for 802.11 ad-hoc networks. His research on ground robotics in tunnels, summarized in a 2019 article (42 citations), distills a decade of field experiments in localization, navigation, and communication. Tardioli’s work on signal-based deployment planning (40 citations) and equitable persistent coverage (21 citations) further advances practical deployment strategies. With over 400 total citations, his contributions have directly enabled safer, more reliable robot teams for search-and-rescue, industrial inspection, and exploration in GPS-denied environments.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Enforcing Network Connectivity in Robot Team Missions96 citations · 2010
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- 3Robot Teams for Intervention in Confined and Structured Environments42 citations · 2015
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- 5Real Time Communications over 802.11: RT-WMP41 citations · 2007
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- 8A wireless multi-hop protocol for real-time applications24 citations · 2014
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- 10Correction to: Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference20 citations · 2020