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Nantawat Pinkam is a robotics researcher whose work focuses on multi-robot systems for logistics, environmental monitoring, and radiation source estimation. His most cited paper, "Robot collaboration in warehouse" (2016, 29 citations), addresses the coordination of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) for item transport in warehouse logistics, proposing multi-robot strategies to efficiently collect and deliver items to requesting stations. This work has practical implications for industrial automation and supply chain management. Pinkam also contributes significantly to environmental robotics, with "Rapid coverage of regions of interest for environmental monitoring" (2019, 12 citations) and related work (2018, 4 citations) focusing on efficient area coverage for data collection. His research on radiation source estimation is particularly notable: "Exploration of a group of mobile robots for multiple radiation sources estimation" (2016, 8 citations) introduces particle filter methods for estimating unknown radioactive sources under measurement uncertainty, while "Informative Mobile Robot Exploration for Radiation Source Localization with a Particle Filter" (2020, 6 citations) advances this by integrating information gain-based exploration for precise localization. These contributions demonstrate Pinkam’s impact in applying multi-robot coordination to critical real-world challenges, from warehouse logistics to hazardous environment monitoring.