Dorothy Monekosso

About

Dorothy Monekosso is a leading researcher in intelligent robotics and autonomous systems, with a particular focus on multi-robot coordination, swarm intelligence, and human-robot interaction. Her pioneering work on multi-robot teams for environmental monitoring and surveillance has laid the groundwork for deploying coordinated robotic swarms in real-world scenarios, including counter-IED operations and wide-area search and rescue. She has made significant contributions to gesture recognition, developing novel hybrid methods and concept grounding approaches for glove-based systems that bridge the gap between human intent and machine understanding. Her research on autonomous control laws for surveillance swarms, which applies physics-based artificial forces to coordinate VTOL UAVs, has been widely cited (over 70 total citations) and demonstrates her ability to translate theoretical models into practical, deployable systems. Monekosso has also advanced the field of intelligent environments, exploring how robotic, sensory, and problem-solving components can be integrated into future homes. Her work on building visual memories from video streams using growing neural gas algorithms further showcases her versatility in combining machine learning with real-time robotic perception. Through her sustained contributions to multi-agent architectures and adaptive swarm coordination, Monekosso has established herself as a key figure in the development of autonomous, responsive robotic systems for environmental and security applications.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Multi-robot Teams for Environmental Monitoring

   22 citations · 2011
2. 2
   A Concept Grounding Approach for Glove-Based Gesture Recognition

   16 citations · 2011
3. 3
   Intelligent Environments: Methods, Algorithms and Applications

   14 citations · 2008
4. 4
   A Multi-agent Architecture for Multi-robot Surveillance

   11 citations · 2009
5. 5
   Autonomous control laws for mobile robotic surveillance swarms

   7 citations · 2009
6. 6
   A Hybrid Method for Hand Gesture Recognition

   6 citations · 2012
7. 7
   Towards autonomous robot swarms for multi-target localisation and monitoring with applications to counter IED operations

   5 citations · 2010
8. 8
   Reactive Coordination and Adaptive Lattice Formation in Mobile Robotic Surveillance Swarms

   4 citations · 2012
9. 9
   Robotic, Sensory and Problem-Solving Ingredients for the Future Home

   4 citations · 2008
10. 10
    Building visual memories of video streams

    3 citations · 2012

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