Guilherme A. S. Pereira

About

Guilherme A. S. Pereira is a prominent robotics researcher whose work spans multi-robot systems, swarm intelligence, autonomous navigation, and aerial robotics. He has made foundational contributions to the coordination and control of robot teams, particularly in challenging, real-world environments. His early work on decentralized algorithms for multi-robot manipulation via caging (193 citations) and decentralized motion planning under sensing and communication constraints established him as a leading voice in cooperative robotics. His research on heterogeneous robot networks for environmental coverage (281 citations) and distributed search-and-rescue systems (177 citations) demonstrated practical frameworks for deploying diverse robot teams efficiently. Pereira also pioneered the application of fluid dynamics principles—specifically Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics—to swarm coordination, producing elegant decentralized control laws for pattern generation in complex environments. His vector field methodology for robot navigation along time-varying curves (188 citations) has become a widely referenced tool for autonomous path following. More recently, he has advanced UAV autonomy through visual servoing-based landing on moving platforms and robust attitude estimation using adaptive Kalman filtering, reflecting a sustained ability to address emerging challenges across the robotics landscape.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Sensing and coverage for a network of heterogeneous robots

   281 citations · 2008
2. 2
   Decentralized Algorithms for Multi-Robot Manipulation via Caging

   193 citations · 2004
3. 3
   Vector Fields for Robot Navigation Along Time-Varying Curves in $n$-Dimensions

   188 citations · 2010
4. 4
   Distributed Search and Rescue with Robot and Sensor Teams

   177 citations · 2006
5. 5
   Simultaneous Coverage and Tracking (SCAT) of Moving Targets with Robot Networks

   121 citations · 2009
6. 6
   Swarm Coordination Based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Technique

   104 citations · 2013
7. 7
   Visual Servoing Approach to Autonomous UAV Landing on a Moving Vehicle

   71 citations · 2022
8. 8
   Control of swarms based on Hydrodynamic models

   63 citations · 2008
9. 9
   Quaternion-Based Robust Attitude Estimation Using an Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter

   57 citations · 2019
10. 10
    Decentralized motion planning for multiple robots subject to sensing and communication constraints

    56 citations · 2003

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