Donny K. Sutantyo
Papers
8
Total Citations
254
H-Index
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About
Donny K. Sutantyo is a leading researcher in bio-inspired robotics, specializing in autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and swarm intelligence. His work centers on developing decentralized, collective behaviors for underwater robotic swarms, drawing inspiration from natural phenomena such as Lévy flight patterns and firefly synchronization. Sutantyo’s most influential contribution is his role in the EU-funded CoCoRo project, which pioneered self-aware underwater swarms for environmental monitoring and search missions—a work that has garnered over 100 citations. He is best known for introducing Lévy flight and artificial potential field algorithms to multi-robot search, demonstrating how random walk patterns can dramatically improve exploration efficiency in vast, unpredictable underwater environments. His adaptive Lévy flight model, enhanced by firefly optimization, has become a cornerstone for underwater target localization, cited over 50 times. Sutantyo has also advanced underwater communication through frog-call-inspired TDMA scheduling, solving critical interference problems in dense swarms. His research on optical-guided docking for reconfigurable underwater robots enables swarms to physically merge into organism-like structures, expanding their capabilities. With a portfolio of highly cited papers, Sutantyo’s work continues to shape the future of autonomous underwater exploration and collective robotics.
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- 1CoCoRo -- The Self-Aware Underwater Swarm102 citations · 2011
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- 8A bio-inspired TDMA scheduling algorithm for underwater robotic swarms4 citations · 2013