Mallikarjuna Vayugundla
Papers
15
Total Citations
408
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About
Mallikarjuna Vayugundla is a robotics researcher specializing in autonomous navigation, multi-robot systems, and planetary exploration technologies, primarily affiliated with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). His work sits at the cutting edge of space robotics, addressing the fundamental challenge of enabling robots to operate intelligently in remote, communication-delayed, and hazardous extraterrestrial environments. Vayugundla has made significant contributions through landmark projects including ARCHES and ROBEX, which demonstrated heterogeneous teams of autonomous robots performing collaborative scientific sampling in planetary analog environments — work that garnered 98 and 25 citations respectively. His research on the MADMAX dataset (54 citations) has provided the planetary robotics community with critical benchmark data for vision-based rover navigation under Mars-like optical conditions. He has also advanced long-range rover localization through multi-session mapping techniques and visual homing algorithms, and contributed to mission design for the MMX Rover destined for Phobos. With over 380 cumulative citations, Vayugundla's portfolio reflects both theoretical innovation and practical mission-oriented engineering, making him a notable figure in preparing the next generation of robotic systems for lunar, Martian, and deep-space exploration.
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- 2Towards Autonomous Planetary Exploration88 citations · 2017
- 3The MADMAX data set for visual‐inertial rover navigation on Mars54 citations · 2021
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- 10Towards efficient and scalable visual homing13 citations · 2018