Papers
15
Total Citations
269
H-Index
9
About
Frederico Santos is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of mobile robotics, wireless communications, and distributed real-time systems. His career has been defined by a sustained effort to solve one of the central challenges in multi-robot cooperation: enabling teams of autonomous agents to exchange time-sensitive data reliably over RF networks. His most influential contribution — an adaptive TDMA wireless communication protocol for mobile robot teams (2008, 59 citations) — addressed this challenge directly, providing a self-configuring solution that has become a key reference in the field. Santos has been a prominent contributor to the CAMBADA project, a cooperative multi-robot soccer platform developed within the RoboCup Middle-Size League, with papers exploring everything from distributed agent coordination and real-time middleware to multiagent strategy and robot architecture. This body of work reflects his broader interest in building complete, deployable robotic systems rather than isolated components. His research extends into medical robotics, with notable work on vision-guided robotic systems for orthopaedic surgery (2014, 23 citations), and into mobile ad-hoc networking and cyber-physical systems. Across more than two decades, Santos has accumulated over 240 citations, establishing himself as a reliable and versatile contributor to the robotics and real-time systems communities.
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Top Papers
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- 4A Vision System for Robotic Ultrasound Guided Orthopaedic Surgery23 citations · 2014
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- 6CAMBADA Soccer Team: from Robot Architecture to Multiagent Coordination21 citations · 2010
- 7A robust self-localization system for a small mobile autonomous robot15 citations · 2001
- 8Communicating among Robots in the RoboCup Middle-Size League14 citations · 2010
- 9Structuring Communications for Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems13 citations · 2016
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