Dinesh Kumar Saini

Sohar University, Manipal University Jaipur

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Dinesh Kumar Saini is a robotics researcher whose work lies at the intersection of swarm intelligence, autonomous navigation, and real-world deployment on resource-constrained hardware. His most impactful contribution, "Behavior-based swarm robotic search and rescue using fuzzy controller" (2018, 37 citations), pioneered a decentralized, fuzzy-logic-driven approach for coordinating multiple robots in disaster scenarios, enabling adaptive and robust search without centralized control. This work has become a foundational reference for researchers designing resilient multi-robot systems. More recently, Saini has advanced low-cost autonomy with "Hybrid robot navigation: Integrating monocular depth estimation and visual odometry for efficient navigation on low-resource hardware" (2025, 6 citations), demonstrating how to achieve reliable, real-time navigation using only a single camera and minimal computational power—a critical step toward affordable field robots. He has also contributed to the broader discourse on technology’s role in public health through "Emerging Technologies for Pandemic and Its Impact" (2021, 4 citations). Saini’s research consistently bridges theoretical innovation with practical, deployable systems, making him a key voice in accessible, intelligent robotics for emergency response and beyond.