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Eladio Dapena’s research lies at the intersection of robotics, human-robot interaction, and emergent systems, with a focus on designing architectures that enable both individual and collective intelligence. His most influential work, “Path quality measures for sensor-based motion planning” (2003, 19 citations), established foundational metrics for evaluating robot navigation in uncertain environments. Dapena later developed the MIHR model (2020, 10 citations), a framework for understanding and managing the dynamics of human-robot interaction, drawing on insights from social psychology to improve robot responsiveness. He also proposed the AMEB control architecture (2019, 7 citations), a three-level system—individual, collective, and knowledge management—designed to foster self-organization and emergent behaviors in heterogeneous robot swarms. Dapena has further explored emotional modeling in multi-robot systems (2020, 2 citations), integrating basic emotions like anger and joy into decision-making to produce more adaptive, lifelike group behaviors. His work bridges theoretical modeling and practical implementation, offering tools for designing robots that interact naturally with humans and coordinate intelligently in swarms. With contributions spanning motion planning, interaction models, and swarm emergence, Dapena’s research continues to influence the development of socially aware and autonomously organized robotic systems.