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Dr. Tina Setter’s research lies at the intersection of multi-robot coordination, human-swarm interaction, and trust-driven autonomy. Her most influential work, “Energy-Constrained Coordination of Multi-Robot Teams” (45 citations), addresses the critical challenge of enabling robot teams to rendezvous while respecting individual battery constraints—a foundational problem for field-deployable swarms. She further pioneered the use of haptic feedback for human-swarm control, as demonstrated in her highly cited 2015 paper (31 citations), which introduced manipulability-based mappings to translate swarm configuration into intuitive force cues for a single operator. This work was extended to explore team-level haptic properties (10 citations), offering new design principles for effective human-swarm interfaces. More recently, Dr. Setter has advanced the study of trust in multi-agent networks, moving from self-centered to team-oriented trust models (2017) and integrating differential privacy into human-robot interactions (2019). Her contributions bridge theoretical coordination algorithms with practical, human-centered design, making her a key voice in the development of trustworthy and energy-aware robotic teams.