Papers
17
Total Citations
753
H-Index
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About
Brian Bingham is a leading roboticist whose research sits at the intersection of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), marine robotics simulation, and environmental monitoring. His groundbreaking 2010 paper on robotic deep-water archaeology—now with 244 citations—demonstrated how AUVs could revolutionize underwater heritage science by surveying an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Chios, bridging engineering and archaeology in a remarkable interdisciplinary collaboration. Bingham has made sustained contributions to underwater robotics simulation, developing tools such as the Gazebo-based maritime simulator (117 citations) and the DAVE Aquatic Virtual Environment (46 citations), which have become essential resources for researchers prototyping underwater systems without the prohibitive costs of ocean deployment. His work on multi-robot cooperative control for dynamic plume tracking (83 citations) addresses critical real-world challenges in ocean pollution monitoring, combining advection-diffusion modeling with autonomous control theory. Additional contributions span multibeam sonar perception for underwater manipulation, navigation performance prediction, and cybersecurity considerations for ROS 2-based robotic systems. Across more than a decade of research, Bingham has shaped how the robotics community designs, simulates, and deploys autonomous systems in some of the most demanding aquatic environments on Earth.
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- 2Toward Maritime Robotic Simulation in Gazebo117 citations · 2019
- 3Multi-robot cooperative control for monitoring and tracking dynamic plumes83 citations · 2014
- 4Dynamic Plume Tracking by Cooperative Robots50 citations · 2019
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- 8Predicting the navigation performance of underwater vehicles24 citations · 2009
- 9Robotic simulation of dynamic plume tracking by Unmanned Surface Vessels24 citations · 2015
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