Arthur da C. Vangasse
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Universidade Federal de Alagoas
Papers
5
Total Citations
32
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About
Arthur da C. Vangasse is a robotics researcher specializing in multi-robot coordination, path planning, and collision avoidance for complex, safety-critical environments. His work primarily addresses the challenges of deploying distributed robot systems in hazardous and confined spaces, such as those found in the mining industry, where reliable communication and safe navigation are paramount. Vangasse’s major contributions lie in developing novel control strategies that integrate Model Predictive Control (MPC) with artificial vector fields and collision avoidance algorithms like ORCA. His 2024 paper on "Wireless Communication-aware Path Planning" (13 citations) tackles the critical issue of robot communication in cluttered environments, while his 2023-2024 series on MPC-CBF and MPC-ORCA strategies (5-6 citations each) provides robust, decentralized solutions for multi-agent, time-varying path following in 3D spaces. By enabling groups of differential drive robots to navigate safely without centralized control, Vangasse’s work directly advances the practical deployment of autonomous systems in industrial inspection and search-and-rescue operations. His research is foundational for engineers building resilient, cooperative robot teams that must operate reliably where human access is dangerous or impossible.
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- 3MPC-CBF Strategy for Multi-Robot Collision-Free Path-Following5 citations · 2023
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- 5Collision avoidance with differential drive robots using MPC-ORCA3 citations · 2021