Papers
24
Total Citations
528
H-Index
14
About
Jacopo Banfi is a leading researcher in multirobot systems, with a primary focus on coordinated exploration, communication-constrained planning, and multirobot path planning. His work addresses fundamental challenges in deploying robot teams in environments where reliable communication cannot be guaranteed. Banfi has made major contributions to the theory and practice of multirobot exploration under recurrent connectivity constraints, developing strategies that allow robots to maintain intermittent links to a base station while maximizing exploration efficiency. He has also proven critical intractability results for time-optimal multirobot path planning on grid graphs, establishing NP-hardness even on planar topologies. His research on the online construction of communication maps has provided practical methods for predicting radio signal strength and enabling robust coordination in information-gathering missions. With over 400 total citations, his most cited survey on multirobot exploration of communication-restricted environments (123 citations) has become a foundational reference in the field. Banfi has also advanced hierarchical planning for heterogeneous multi-robot routing and addressed fairness in multi-target tracking, demonstrating the breadth of his impact across both theoretical and applied multirobot systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Multirobot Exploration of Communication-Restricted Environments: A Survey123 citations · 2017
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- 4Asynchronous multirobot exploration under recurrent connectivity constraints35 citations · 2016
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- 6Multirobot online construction of communication maps26 citations · 2017
- 7Multirobot Reconnection on Graphs: Problem, Complexity, and Algorithms23 citations · 2018
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- 10Fair Multi-Target Tracking in Cooperative Multi-Robot systems18 citations · 2015