Johan Thunberg

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Swedish Defence Research Agency

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Johan Thunberg’s research lies at the intersection of multi-robot systems, distributed control, and visual perception, with a focus on enabling teams of robots to coordinate autonomously using only onboard cameras. His major contributions center on solving consensus problems—where robots must agree on orientation or heading—without relying on GPS or centralized communication. In his most cited work, “Epipolar Visual Servoing for Multirobot Distributed Consensus” (2013, 31 citations), Thunberg pioneered a distributed method for nonholonomic robots to align their orientations using monocular cameras and nearest-neighbor rules, a breakthrough for decentralized coordination in GPS-denied environments. Earlier, his 2011 paper “Multi-robot Distributed Visual Consensus Using Epipoles” (14 citations) tackled the challenge of limited camera fields of view, showing how robots could achieve heading consensus despite constrained visual information. His 2008 comparative study on task assignment and path planning (13 citations) further demonstrates his breadth in multi-UGV mission design. Thunberg’s work is notable for its practical, vision-driven approach to swarm robotics, offering scalable solutions that impact fields from search-and-rescue to autonomous exploration.