Papers
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Total Citations
657
H-Index
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About
Donato Di Paola is a prolific researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, networked systems, and the Internet of Things (IoT). With a career spanning over a decade of impactful publications, his research has fundamentally advanced our understanding of how autonomous robotic systems can be designed, coordinated, and deployed in real-world environments. Di Paola's most celebrated contribution — his 2014 survey on IoT-aided robotics applications (168 citations) — established a foundational framework for understanding how IoT and robotics technologies converge, mapping out technological implications, application domains, and open research challenges. His earlier work on autonomous mobile robots for indoor surveillance (99 citations) demonstrated practical intelligent systems capable of reducing infrastructure complexity while maintaining robust environmental coverage. A significant thread throughout his research involves multi-robot coordination: his work on decentralized cooperative manipulation (76 citations) and consensus-based task assignment algorithms for heterogeneous robot networks reveals a sustained commitment to solving complex distributed control problems. His 2017 industrial IoT case study further bridges theoretical advances with tangible real-world deployment. Collectively accumulating over 500 citations, Di Paola's contributions offer students and researchers an essential reference point for autonomous systems, decentralized robotics control, and the emerging integration of IoT with intelligent mobile platforms.
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- 2An Autonomous Mobile Robotic System for Surveillance of Indoor Environments99 citations · 2010
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- 6RFID tag bearing estimation for mobile robot localization23 citations · 2009
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- 9Decentralized dynamic task planning for heterogeneous robotic networks21 citations · 2014
- 10A general distributed approach to slice embedding with guarantees17 citations · 2013