Marcos A. M. Vieira
University of Southern California, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Papers
12
Total Citations
118
H-Index
6
About
Marcos A. M. Vieira is a researcher whose work sits at the dynamic intersection of networked robotics, wireless communications, and multi-robot coordination. His research has made significant contributions to some of the most challenging problems in autonomous systems, including pursuit-evasion games, multi-robot exploration, and wireless backbone deployment in infrastructure-deprived environments such as disaster zones. Vieira's most influential work, "Scalable and practical pursuit-evasion with networked robots" (2009, 43 citations), established him as a leading voice in algorithmic robotics, with subsequent research extending these ideas through parallel multi-speed pursuit-evasion algorithms. His investigations into autonomous wireless backbone deployment addressed the critical problem of positioning the minimum number of robotic routers to maintain connectivity in obstructed environments — work with direct relevance to search-and-rescue operations. His graph-coloring approach to multi-robot exploration offered a novel, distributed alternative to computationally expensive negotiation-based methods. Spanning telepresence systems, multi-path fading mitigation, and collective robot transport, Vieira's portfolio reflects a broad yet coherent vision: enabling teams of robots to operate reliably in complex, real-world conditions. With over 110 cumulative citations, his work continues to inform researchers building the next generation of autonomous robotic systems.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Scalable and practical pursuit-evasion with networked robots43 citations · 2009
- 2Mitigating multi-path fading in a mobile mesh network21 citations · 2011
- 3A Multi-robot Exploration Approach Based on Distributed Graph Coloring10 citations · 2013
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- 6Parallel multi-speed Pursuit-Evasion Game algorithms7 citations · 2023
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- 9On the Development of a Robotic System for Telepresence3 citations · 2013
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