Mike Qin

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Papers

2

Total Citations

9

H-Index

1

About

Mike Qin is at the forefront of multi-robot motion planning, pioneering adaptive coordination strategies that enable swarms of robots to navigate complex environments with unprecedented efficiency. His key research areas include multi-robot systems, kinodynamic planning, and hybrid motion planning frameworks. Qin’s major contribution is the development of Adaptive Robot Coordination (ARC), a novel hybrid approach that resolves inter-robot conflicts by decomposing them into local subproblems—a paradigm shift from traditional global planning methods. His seminal 2024 paper on ARC has already garnered 8 citations, demonstrating its immediate impact on the field. Building on this foundation, Qin introduced K-ARC in 2025, extending his framework to handle kinodynamic constraints. This breakthrough algorithm can coordinate up to 32 planar mobile robots simultaneously, achieving an order-of-magnitude speedup over previous methods. Qin’s work is particularly notable for its practical scalability, addressing one of the most persistent bottlenecks in multi-robot systems: the exponential growth of computational complexity with robot count. His research promises to unlock new capabilities in warehouse automation, search-and-rescue operations, and autonomous vehicle coordination, making him a rising star in robotics.

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H-Index
2
Papers
9
Total Citations
5
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Adaptive Robot Coordination: A Subproblem-Based Approach for Hybrid Multi-Robot Motion Planning
8 citations · 2024
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2024 (1 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 4
🏛 Institutions: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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