Papers

10

Total Citations

872

H-Index

8

About

Richard Weiss is a pioneer in mobile robotics and autonomous navigation, best known for his groundbreaking work on path planning and vision-based homing. His most influential contribution, "Path planning using Laplace's equation" (2002, 478 citations), introduced a novel method that uses harmonic potential functions to generate smooth, collision-free robot paths—a technique that avoids local minima and remains widely used in robotics. Weiss also made seminal advances in visual navigation with his "Image-based homing" papers (2002, 165 citations; 1992, 98 citations), which developed systems enabling robots to navigate by matching stored snapshots of their environment, laying groundwork for modern visual SLAM. His work on obstacle detection through qualitative and quantitative 3D reconstruction (1997, 46 citations) and combinatorial optimization for 2D model matching (2002, 38 citations) further advanced robot perception. Beyond technical contributions, Weiss has significantly impacted undergraduate computer science education through his criteria for evaluating robot kits (2008, 21 citations), helping shape how robotics is taught. With over 870 total citations across his career, Weiss’s research continues to influence autonomous systems, from path planning algorithms to educational robotics.

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H-Index
10
Papers
872
Total Citations
87
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Path planning using Laplace's equation
478 citations · 2002
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2002 (5 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 14
🏛 Institutions: University of Massachusetts Amherst, The Evergreen State College

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    Image-based homing
    165 citations · 2002
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    Image-based homing
    98 citations · 1992
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