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Andreas Breitenmoser is a leading researcher in multi-robot systems, with a focus on decentralized coordination, collision avoidance, and cooperative autonomy. His most influential work, “Optimal Reciprocal Collision Avoidance for Multiple Non-Holonomic Robots” (278 citations), introduced the B-ORCA algorithm, enabling distributed, reciprocal collision avoidance for car-like robots—a foundational contribution to safe multi-robot navigation. Earlier, his 2010 paper on Voronoi coverage in non-convex environments (218 citations) provided a guaranteed algorithm for deploying robot teams in complex, realistic spaces, overcoming limitations of prior approaches. Breitenmoser also pioneered creative applications of swarm robotics, such as using mobile robots as reconfigurable pixels for image and animation displays (102 citations) and for artistic pattern formation (77 citations), demonstrating how coordinated motion can produce visually appealing, dynamic displays. His applied work includes developing highly compact robots for power plant inspection (53 citations) and characterizing depth sensor noise for surface inspections (46 citations), bridging theory and real-world deployment. With over 1,000 total citations, Breitenmoser’s contributions to reciprocal collision avoidance, coverage control, and human-swarm interaction continue to shape the field of distributed robotics.