About

Michele Furci is a robotics researcher specializing in multi-robot coordination, supervisory control, and autonomous navigation for search and rescue missions. His work focuses on developing control architectures that enable effective human-robot interaction in hostile and unstructured environments. Furci's most influential contribution is his 2016 paper on a control architecture for multiple drones operated via multimodal interaction in search and rescue missions, which has garnered 69 citations. This work addresses the critical challenge of enabling a single human operator to coordinate multiple unmanned aerial vehicles to retrieve relevant information during emergency scenarios. He has also made significant contributions to multi-robot path planning with generalized connectivity (15 citations), ensuring coordinated navigation in cluttered environments. His research extends to supervisory control strategies for heterogeneous robot teams, input allocation for robots with saturated inputs using genetic algorithms, and combined planning and control strategies for mobile robots in populated environments. Furci's work bridges the gap between theoretical control systems and practical deployment in real-world emergency response scenarios, demonstrating particular strength in developing reactive supervisory systems based on discrete event systems theory that can adapt to dynamic, hostile conditions.

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🏆 Most Cited Paper
A control architecture for multiple drones operated via multimodal interaction in search & rescue mission
69 citations · 2016
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2015 (2 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 12
🏛 Institutions: University of Bologna, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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