Papers

42

Total Citations

1,456

H-Index

18

About

Luciano C. A. Pimenta is a leading researcher in multi-robot systems, focusing on coverage control, swarm coordination, and robot navigation. His major contributions include pioneering the use of fluid dynamics models—such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)—to design decentralized swarm controllers that enable pattern generation and obstacle avoidance, as detailed in his highly cited 2013 work (104 citations). He also advanced heterogeneous robot networks with his 2008 paper on sensing and coverage (281 citations), which extended location optimization to robots with different sensor footprints. Pimenta’s work on vector fields for robot navigation, including time-varying curves in n-dimensions (188 citations, 2010), has provided foundational tools for trajectory tracking. His impact is evident in over 900 total citations across his top papers, with notable achievements like the SCAT framework for simultaneous coverage and tracking of moving targets (121 citations, 2009). Pimenta’s research bridges theory and practice, offering adaptive solutions for real-world challenges in surveillance, cordoning, and search tasks.

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H-Index
42
Papers
1,456
Total Citations
35
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Sensing and coverage for a network of heterogeneous robots
281 citations · 2008
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2020 (5 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 62
🏛 Institutions: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte

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