Subramanian Ramakrishnan
University of Minnesota, Duluth, University of Cincinnati, Villanova University
Papers
7
Total Citations
120
H-Index
6
About
Subramanian Ramakrishnan is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work centers on swarm robotics, multi-agent systems, and bio-inspired control algorithms. Drawing heavily from nature, particularly the foraging behaviors of ant colonies, Ramakrishnan has developed innovative frameworks that enable robot swarms to perform complex tasks such as efficient spatial coverage and coordinated navigation without centralized control. Among his most influential contributions is his work applying Lévy flight distributions and ant foraging models to swarm robotics, most notably demonstrated in his 2017 paper on efficient spatial coverage, which has garnered 46 citations and established him as a prominent voice in bio-inspired swarm design. His research on density-based control using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics methods (26 citations) offered a compelling fluid-dynamics analogy for managing multi-robot interactions, while his investigation of cyclic pursuit in double-integrator multi-agent systems (14 citations) advanced theoretical foundations for stable circular pursuit behaviors. Ramakrishnan has also explored practical challenges such as internet-mediated robot swarming across geographically distributed testbeds, bridging theoretical modeling with real-world implementation. Collectively, his work has accumulated over 120 citations, making meaningful contributions to how researchers design, analyze, and deploy intelligent, self-organizing robotic systems.
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Top Papers
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- 2Density-based control of multiple robots26 citations · 2011
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- 5Spatiotemporal chemotactic model for ant foraging10 citations · 2014
- 6Robot swarming over the Internet6 citations · 2012
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