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Robert Lundh is a robotics researcher whose work has made significant contributions to the field of multi-robot systems and autonomous configuration, particularly through his central role in the PEIS-Ecology project. His most influential paper, "The PEIS-Ecology Project: Vision and Results" (2008), which has garnered 136 citations, introduced a groundbreaking framework merging autonomous robotics with ambient intelligence to create cooperative networks of physically embedded intelligent systems designed to serve people in everyday environments. Lundh's research consistently addresses a fundamental challenge in robotics: how groups of heterogeneous robots can dynamically allocate and share functionalities to accomplish tasks collaboratively. His work on plan-based and autonomous functional configuration demonstrated how AI planning techniques could be applied to automatically organize robot ecologies, enabling individual robots to compensate for each other's limitations and adapt in real time. This thread of inquiry, traceable from early papers in 2004 through his 2009 dissertation-level work, reflects a sustained and systematic research agenda. With a cumulative body of work exceeding 260 citations, Lundh has meaningfully shaped thinking around distributed robot architectures. His contributions remain highly relevant for researchers exploring human-robot interaction, service robotics, and self-organizing autonomous systems.