Papers
62
Total Citations
2,926
H-Index
23
About
Michael M. Zavlanos is a leading researcher in robotics, control theory, and multi-agent systems, whose work has fundamentally shaped how autonomous robot networks coordinate, communicate, and make decisions. His research spans networked robotics, distributed control, motion planning, and formal methods, with particular emphasis on maintaining connectivity and enabling reliable coordination in mobile robot teams. Zavlanos's most celebrated contribution, "Graph-theoretic connectivity control of mobile robot networks" (2011, 415 citations), established a rigorous theoretical foundation for preserving communication links in dynamic robot networks—a problem critical to virtually every real-world multi-robot deployment. His early work on collision avoidance and feedback stabilization (2005, 268 citations) addressed fundamental safety challenges, while his distributed task assignment and formation control research (2008, 223 citations) demonstrated how robot teams can self-organize without centralized coordination. Particularly notable is his more recent work on scalable temporal logic synthesis, STyLuS* (2020, 115 citations), which bridges formal verification and large-scale robotics, enabling robots to fulfill complex mission specifications provably and efficiently. Across intermittent connectivity, coverage control, and network integrity, Zavlanos consistently advances both theoretical rigor and practical applicability. With thousands of citations accumulated, his contributions remain essential reading for anyone working at the intersection of autonomy, networks, and multi-robot systems.
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Key Achievements
Top Papers
- 1Graph-theoretic connectivity control of mobile robot networks415 citations · 2011
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- 3Distributed multi-robot task assignment and formation control223 citations · 2008
- 4Flocking while preserving network connectivity212 citations · 2007
- 5Distributed control of robotic networks140 citations · 2008
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- 7Dynamic Assignment in Distributed Motion Planning With Local Coordination111 citations · 2008
- 8Distributed Intermittent Connectivity Control of Mobile Robot Networks103 citations · 2016
- 9Network Integrity in Mobile Robotic Networks101 citations · 2012
- 10Distributed communication-aware coverage control by mobile sensor networks101 citations · 2015