Papers
12
Total Citations
468
H-Index
8
About
Eduardo Tovar is a leading researcher at the intersection of cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, and autonomous robotics. His work has fundamentally shaped how distributed systems communicate and coordinate, particularly in safety-critical applications. With over 100 citations each, his seminal papers on cyber-physical systems clouds and the Internet-of-Drones (IoD) established foundational architectures for cloud-integrated drone management. His Dronemap Planner, a service-oriented cloud-based platform, represents a landmark contribution to the IoD paradigm, enabling scalable, real-time drone fleet coordination. Tovar has also made significant advances in wireless sensor network quality-of-service, developing novel solutions to mitigate hidden-node collisions that plagued early deployments. More recently, his research has focused on cooperative autonomous driving, where he created COPADRIVe—a realistic simulation framework for validating platooning applications—and the CopaDrive testbed for ROS-based cooperative driving. His work on secure integration of resource-constrained nodes into distributed ROS2 systems addresses critical vulnerabilities in modern robotic architectures. With over 460 citations across his most influential publications, Tovar continues to bridge the gap between theoretical foundations and practical deployment in autonomous systems.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Cyber-physical systems clouds: A survey104 citations · 2016
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- 4A service-oriented Cloud-based management system for the Internet-of-Drones91 citations · 2017
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- 6Towards a Cooperative Robotic Platooning Testbed17 citations · 2020
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- 9On the robot path planning using cloud computing for large grid maps5 citations · 2018
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