Gaurav S. Sukhatme
University of Southern California, Robotics Research (United States), Southern California University for Professional Studies, Embedded Systems (United States), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Indiana University Bloomington, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Amazon (United States), Google (United States), Columbia University, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Papers
344
Total Citations
16,114
H-Index
68
About
Gaurav S. Sukhatme is a pioneering roboticist whose work spans multi-robot systems, mobile sensor networks, robot navigation, and autonomous information gathering. A professor at the University of Southern California, Sukhatme has fundamentally shaped how robots perceive, communicate, and coordinate in complex environments. His early contributions include seminal work on self-deploying mobile sensor networks (594 citations) and the development of Player, a landmark distributed robot device server (414 citations) that became widely adopted infrastructure for robotics research worldwide. He co-designed Robomote, a compact platform enabling large-scale ad-hoc sensor network research (362 citations), and made significant advances in mobile robot SLAM within dynamic environments (252 citations). His work on visual-inertial sensor fusion (530 citations) addressed critical challenges in robot localization and self-calibration, while his sampling-based information gathering algorithms (332 citations) advanced principled approaches to autonomous exploration. More recently, Sukhatme contributed breakthrough methods in quadrotor swarm trajectory planning (308 citations), demonstrating scalable coordination in obstacle-rich settings. With multiple papers exceeding 250 citations and sustained contributions across nearly two decades, Sukhatme remains one of robotics' most influential and prolific researchers.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1An Incremental Self-Deployment Algorithm for Mobile Sensor Networks594 citations · 2002
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- 3Most valuable player: a robot device server for distributed control414 citations · 2002
- 4Robomote: a tiny mobile robot platform for large-scale ad-hoc sensor networks362 citations · 2003
- 5Sampling-based robotic information gathering algorithms332 citations · 2014
- 6Trajectory Planning for Quadrotor Swarms308 citations · 2018
- 7Multiple Mobile Robot Systems286 citations · 2016
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- 10Mobile Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Dynamic Environments252 citations · 2005