Kimberly McGuire
Papers
7
Total Citations
440
H-Index
5
About
Kimberly McGuire is a leading researcher in swarm robotics and autonomous navigation for micro air vehicles (MAVs), with a focus on enabling tiny flying robots to explore unknown, indoor environments. Her most influential work, a 2019 paper on a minimal navigation solution for swarms of tiny flying robots, has garnered 266 citations and demonstrates how small, lightweight MAVs can safely operate in narrow spaces around humans—a breakthrough that had previously been out of reach. McGuire’s 2020 survey on swarming with MAVs, cited 124 times, systematically identifies the fundamental challenges and constraints that bridge local-level robot capabilities to global swarm operations, providing a critical roadmap for the field. She has also made notable contributions to simulation tools, with her comprehensive survey of aerial robot simulators (2024) addressing safety, scalability, and cost challenges in UAV research. Her work on the Lighthouse positioning system offers an affordable, open-source alternative for UAV tracking, while her exploration of insect-inspired visual homing algorithms highlights her innovative approach to bio-inspired navigation. McGuire’s research is essential reading for anyone interested in the practical deployment of autonomous aerial swarms.
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- 5A comparative study of bug algorithms for robot navigation7 citations · 2019
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- 7Visual Homing for Micro Aerial Vehicles Using Scene Familiarity4 citations · 2018