Miguel Olivares-Mendez
University of Luxembourg, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Department of Space
Papers
63
Total Citations
916
H-Index
17
About
Miguel Olivares-Mendez is a prominent robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous navigation, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), swarm robotics, and space operations. Best known for his contributions to real-time motion planning and collision avoidance, his 2018 paper on 3D path planning for multirotor aerial robots in dynamic environments has accumulated 90 citations, while his 2020 work on chance-constrained motion planning with dynamic obstacles — addressing the challenge of safely navigating around unpredictable agents such as pedestrians — has garnered 87 citations. His research on UAV swarm coordination, combining chaotic ant colony algorithms with model predictive control, has further established him as a leading voice in intelligent multi-robot systems, earning over 60 citations. Beyond aerial robotics, Olivares-Mendez has expanded his scope to human-robot interaction, developing operator interfaces for multi-robot missions, and to wearable robotics, contributing a notable 2022 study on compact exoskeletons for industrial and space applications. His more recent work establishing a Zero-G laboratory for emulating space operations reflects an exciting trajectory toward orbital robotics and microgravity research, making him a versatile and forward-looking contributor to the field.
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- 4Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control61 citations · 2008
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- 8Zero-G Lab: A multi-purpose facility for emulating space operations28 citations · 2023
- 9Analyzing and improving multi-robot missions by using process mining27 citations · 2017
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