Alexandre Pacheco
Papers
9
Total Citations
132
H-Index
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About
Alexandre Pacheco is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of swarm robotics and blockchain technology, fundamentally rethinking how robot collectives achieve security, cooperation, and trust. His work addresses a critical vulnerability in swarm robotics: the threat of Byzantine robots—malfunctioning or malicious agents that can derail an entire swarm’s coordination. Pacheco’s landmark 2023 paper, “Robot swarms neutralize harmful Byzantine robots using a blockchain-based token economy,” with 42 citations, introduces a decentralized economic mechanism where robots earn tokens for honest behavior, effectively incentivizing cooperation even among self-interested agents. He has extended this framework across multiple dimensions, including a blockchain-controlled physical swarm communicating via ad-hoc networks (2020, 22 citations) and a generic framework for Byzantine-tolerant consensus (2023, 12 citations). His 2024 work on blockchain for mobile multi-robot systems (21 citations) further solidifies his role as a leader in this niche. By porting blockchain’s security guarantees—immutability, transparency, and fault tolerance—into the physical world of moving robots, Pacheco has opened new pathways for secure, decentralized multi-robot systems. His ongoing research into equitable task allocation and group-level behavioral switching promises to make swarms not only more resilient but also fairer and more autonomous.
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- 3Blockchain technology for mobile multi-robot systems21 citations · 2024
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- 8Group-Level Behavioral Switch in a Robot Swarm Using Blockchain3 citations · 2024
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