Papers
19
Total Citations
903
H-Index
13
About
Joshua Vander Hook is a roboticist and autonomy researcher whose work spans mobile robotics, informative path planning, and multi-agent systems across some of the most challenging operational environments imaginable — from frozen lakes to the surface of Mars. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to autonomous sensor planning and active target localization, most visibly through his highly cited 2016 work on cooperative UAV-UGV systems for precision agriculture (509 citations), which introduced novel path planning formulations that have shaped the field. His early research on tracking invasive carp using radio-tagged fish and bearing-only sensors demonstrated a compelling fusion of ecological fieldwork and robotic autonomy. Vander Hook has consistently pushed the boundaries of robot perception under uncertainty, developing algorithms for cooperative localization with mobile bearing sensors and greedy strategies validated through real-world field experiments. His reach extends to aerospace applications, including nondestructive structural testing using Lamb waves and simulation frameworks supporting NASA's Mars 2020 rover. His contributions to maritime autonomy through the CARACaS multi-agent platform further illustrate the remarkable breadth of his impact across terrestrial, aquatic, aerial, and planetary domains.
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Top Papers
- 1Sensor Planning for a Symbiotic UAV and UGV System for Precision Agriculture509 citations · 2016
- 2Tracking Aquatic Invaders: Autonomous Robots for Monitoring Invasive Fish73 citations · 2013
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- 4Gathering Bearing Data for Target Localization32 citations · 2016
- 5Lamb wave-based mapping of plate structures via frontier exploration31 citations · 2020
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- 7Active target localization for bearing based robotic telemetry30 citations · 2011
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- 9Environment and Solar Map Construction for Solar-Powered Mobile Systems24 citations · 2016
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