Emil Persson

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Emil Persson is a robotics researcher whose work centers on the real-time performance and communication architecture of multi-agent robotic systems, with a particular focus on the Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2). His key contributions lie in experimentally characterizing and optimizing ROS 2’s executor and communication handling, especially for complex, high-load networks involving mobile robots that interact dynamically with humans in production environments. Persson’s most-cited papers, including “Quantitative analysis of communication handling for centralized multi-agent robot systems using ROS2” and “Experimental Evaluation of Callback Behavior in ROS 2 Executors” (each with 7 citations), provide foundational insights into how ROS 2’s callback behavior and data communication impact execution predictability and system reliability. By systematically evaluating these mechanisms, his work helps bridge the gap between ROS 2’s design for rapid prototyping and the stringent real-time requirements of commercial and research robotics. Persson’s research is vital for engineers and scientists building scalable, deterministic multi-robot systems, offering empirical data that informs better system design and performance tuning.