Thiago Marinho

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Thiago Marinho is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of human-robot interaction, autonomous navigation, and socially-aware systems. His primary research focuses on developing motion planning frameworks that enable flying robots—particularly quadrotors—to operate safely and comfortably in close proximity to humans. In his most-cited work, "Socially Aware Path Planning for a Flying Robot in Close Proximity of Humans" (2019, 21 citations), Marinho introduced a preliminary cyber-physical framework that models human safety perception to guide robot motion, a critical step toward deploying drones in populated environments. He also pioneered the concept of "Carebots" (2016), proposing a multidisciplinary system where small flying robots assist elderly individuals in maintaining independence, using intuitive interfaces for cooperation. To explore human responses to such technology, Marinho developed a virtual-reality simulator to study human-multicopter interaction in residential settings, measuring emotional reactions like intrigue and alarm. His work on vision-based collision avoidance for multi-agent systems (2020) further advances autonomous navigation by enabling robots to avoid collisions using only visual data, without requiring relative distance information. Marinho’s contributions are foundational to creating robots that are not only functional but also socially and emotionally attuned to human needs.