Sonya Coleman
Papers
53
Total Citations
841
H-Index
17
About
Sonya Coleman is a prominent robotics and artificial intelligence researcher whose work spans intelligent robotic systems, human-robot interaction, and autonomous cognitive architectures. Her research has made significant contributions to multi-robot coordination, visual servoing, and tactile sensing, with her most cited work — "A Distributed Task Allocation Algorithm for a Multi-Robot System in Healthcare Facilities" (2014, 107 citations) — demonstrating her commitment to applying robotics in real-world healthcare environments. Coleman has advanced the field of robot manipulation through adaptive fuzzy control frameworks, developing a distributed Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy PD controller for a 7-DOF robot manipulator that garnered 91 citations. Her investigations into tactile sensing for material recognition and reliable object handover reflect a deep interest in dexterous, human-aware robotics. She has also contributed to smart home technologies through cognitive robotic ecology frameworks and microservice-based cloud robotics, positioning her as a key figure in ambient assisted living research. More recently, her work on object-level SLAM with quadric landmark reconstruction signals a growing focus on robust autonomous perception. Collectively, Coleman's research portfolio reflects a career dedicated to bridging intelligent perception, adaptive control, and human-centred robotic systems.
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- 3Material recognition using tactile sensing66 citations · 2017
- 4Microservice-based cloud robotics system for intelligent space41 citations · 2018
- 5Robotic Ubiquitous Cognitive Ecology for Smart Homes35 citations · 2015
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