Miquel Kegeleirs
Papers
9
Total Citations
231
H-Index
6
About
Miquel Kegeleirs is a leading researcher in swarm robotics, focusing on the automatic design of decentralized multi-robot systems. His work addresses the fundamental challenge of creating collective behaviors for robot swarms—systems characterized by locality, self-organization, and redundancy—without manual programming. Kegeleirs is best known for his manifesto on automatic off-line design (79 citations), which outlines a systematic approach to generating control software through simulation-based optimization. He has made significant contributions to swarm mapping, particularly through random walk exploration strategies (47 citations) and the Swarm SLAM framework (67 citations), which tackles the unique challenges of simultaneous localization and mapping in distributed, scalable robot teams. His research also emphasizes transferability—ensuring that control software and design methods work across different robot platforms and from simulation to reality (8 citations). Kegeleirs has developed DeimOS, a ROS-ready operating system for the e-puck robot (3 citations), bridging the gap between academic research and practical deployment. With a growing citation record and a focus on overcoming current limitations in applied swarm robotics (7 citations), his work is shaping the future of autonomous, fault-tolerant robotic systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Automatic Off-Line Design of Robot Swarms: A Manifesto79 citations · 2019
- 2Swarm SLAM: Challenges and Perspectives67 citations · 2021
- 3Random Walk Exploration for Swarm Mapping47 citations · 2019
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- 6Towards applied swarm robotics: current limitations and enablers7 citations · 2025
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- 8DeimOS: A ROS-Ready operating system for the e-puck3 citations · 2025
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