Papers
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Total Citations
100
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About
Valter Silva is a prominent researcher in distributed autonomous systems, real-time databases, and mobile robotics, with a focus on enabling robust coordination and control in complex embedded environments. His seminal work on the CAMBADA project, detailed in his most-cited paper (43 citations), introduced a real-time database architecture for coordinating distributed autonomous agents, significantly advancing the scalability and dependability of multi-robot systems. Silva further contributed to the field with a low-cost, robust self-localization system for small mobile robots (15 citations), addressing challenges like wheel slippage and collisions. His research on implementing distributed sensing and actuation in CAMBADA robots (20 citations) and assessing FTT-CAN master replication mechanisms for safety-critical applications (8 citations) underscores his impact on dependable, adaptive systems. With over 100 total citations across his key works, Silva has shaped the design of autonomous robots that operate reliably under uncertainty, making his contributions essential reading for students and researchers in robotics, distributed computing, and real-time systems.
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- 3A robust self-localization system for a small mobile autonomous robot15 citations · 2001
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- 6Robust low-level motion control of WMR with stochastic active observers4 citations · 2003
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