Patrick E. Haggerty
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Patrick E. Haggerty is a leading researcher at the intersection of robotics, control theory, and multi-agent systems, with a primary focus on pursuit-evasion dynamics and safety-critical autonomy. His most cited work, "Control Strategies for Pursuit-Evasion Under Occlusion Using Visibility and Safety Barrier Functions" (2025), introduces a novel framework that leverages signed distance functions (SDFs) to enable a mobile pursuer to maintain visual contact with an evader despite line-of-sight obstructions. This contribution is pivotal for applications in surveillance, autonomous navigation, and robotic security, where maintaining visibility in cluttered environments is essential. By integrating visibility barrier functions with safety constraints, Haggerty’s approach ensures both persistent tracking and collision avoidance—a dual challenge rarely addressed in prior work. Though early in its citation impact, this paper has already garnered attention for its elegant mathematical formulation and practical relevance. Haggerty’s broader research agenda advances the theoretical foundations of multi-agent coordination under uncertainty, making him a rising voice in the control systems community. His work promises to shape future autonomous systems operating in complex, occlusion-rich environments.
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