Francesco Piselli

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Francesco Piselli is a rising researcher in distributed computing, with a focus on the theoretical foundations of autonomous mobile robots. His work primarily explores the capabilities and limitations of oblivious, silent robots operating under various scheduling models in the Euclidean plane. Piselli’s major contributions lie in the domains of pattern formation, gathering, and separation problems. In his most cited work, "Oblivious Robots Under Sequential Schedulers: Universal Pattern Formation" (2025, 3 citations), he addresses the fundamental challenge of forming arbitrary patterns from any initial configuration, a key problem in swarm robotics. He further advances the field with "Oblivious Robots Under Round Robin: Gathering on Rings" (2025, 2 citations), which studies the gathering problem under a specific scheduler. His paper "Asynchronous Separation of Unconscious Colored Robots" (2025, 1 citation) introduces the novel concept of "unconscious colored robots"—entities with permanent external marks—and examines their ability to achieve separation asynchronously. Though early in his career, Piselli’s work is already shaping the theoretical landscape of distributed robot systems, offering new models and solutions that promise to impact both algorithm design and real-world multi-robot coordination.