Juan Pablo Mendoza
Papers
14
Total Citations
198
H-Index
8
About
Juan Pablo Mendoza is a robotics researcher whose work spans multi-robot coordination, autonomous robot soccer, fault detection, and cyber-physical systems verification. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to the CMDragons robot soccer team at Carnegie Mellon University, which competed in the RoboCup Small Size League. His coordination algorithms proved decisive in CMDragons' championship-winning 2015 campaign — an unprecedented performance in which the team won all six games, scored 48 goals, and conceded none — earning him 25 citations for that work alone. His earlier opponent-driven planning framework, which guided CMDragons to a runner-up finish in 2013, has accumulated 35 citations and remains a foundational reference in adversarial multi-robot strategy. Beyond competitive robotics, Mendoza has made significant contributions to robot reliability, developing statistical fault detection methods and anomaly-detection algorithms that help autonomous systems recognize when their own models break down in the real world. His 2017 work on High-Assurance SPIRAL, offering end-to-end correctness guarantees for robot and vehicle control in cyber-physical systems, reflects his broader commitment to safe autonomy. With over 160 cumulative citations, his research bridges theoretical rigor and real-world robotic performance.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
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- 2High-Assurance SPIRAL: End-to-End Guarantees for Robot and Car Control31 citations · 2017
- 3Selectively Reactive Coordination for a Team of Robot Soccer Champions25 citations · 2016
- 4Mobile Robot Fault Detection based on Redundant Information Statistics19 citations · 2018
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- 7Motion interference detection in mobile robots11 citations · 2012
- 8Focused optimization for online detection of anomalous regions11 citations · 2014
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- 10CMDragons 2015: Coordinated Offense and Defense of the SSL Champions7 citations · 2015