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Ryan Marcotte’s research lies at the intersection of multi-robot systems, robust communication, and autonomous navigation. His work addresses fundamental challenges in deploying robot teams under real-world constraints, from bandwidth-limited networks to unknown environments. Marcotte’s most cited paper, “Optimizing multi-robot communication under bandwidth constraints” (34 citations), tackles the critical issue of maintaining coordination when communication resources are scarce. In “GLFP: Global Localization from a Floor Plan” (25 citations), he introduced a novel method for robots to determine their location using only schematic floor plans—the kind found in buildings for human navigation—enabling global localization in previously unvisited spaces without requiring precision maps. His contributions extend to adaptive communication protocols in “Adaptive forward error correction with adjustable-latency QoS for robotic networks” (16 citations), improving reliability in mobile ad hoc networks. Marcotte also advanced SLAM efficiency with “ApriISAM: Real-Time Smoothing and Mapping” (11 citations), offering computational savings for online robots, and explored scalable sensing for swarms in “Multi-Functional Sensing for Swarm Robots” (10 citations). With a portfolio that bridges theory and practical deployment, Marcotte’s work continues to shape how robot teams navigate, communicate, and cooperate in the wild.