Jorge M. Soares
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Lisbon
Papers
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Total Citations
184
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About
Jorge M. Soares is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of multi-robot systems, chemical plume tracing, and autonomous marine vehicles. His research has made significant contributions to the field of robotic odor source localization — the use of coordinated robot teams to detect and trace chemical releases with applications in search and rescue, pollution monitoring, and environmental science. Soares has been particularly innovative in extending plume-tracing algorithms beyond conventional two-dimensional scenarios, developing distributed graph-based approaches for full 3-D environments, as demonstrated in his 2016 work on three-dimensional odor source localization. His 2015 paper on the Khepera IV mobile robot has become a widely referenced resource, accumulating 57 citations and providing the community with valuable performance benchmarks and software tools. Alongside terrestrial robotics, Soares has made notable strides in marine robotics, designing range-based formation control algorithms that enable coordinated triangular formations among autonomous underwater and surface vehicles. His doctoral thesis synthesized these themes into a unified framework for formation-based odour localization across both land and aquatic environments. With over 180 cumulative citations, Soares has established himself as a meaningful contributor to cooperative robotics and autonomous chemical sensing systems.
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- 7A Graph-Based Formation Algorithm for Odor Plume Tracing11 citations · 2016
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