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Luis E. Navarro-Serment is a robotics researcher whose work spans autonomous systems, multi-robot coordination, and perception for mobile platforms. Based at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, he has made foundational contributions to two major areas: distributed heterogeneous robot teams and sensor-based detection of dynamic objects in complex environments. His early career focused on small-scale collaborative robotics, most notably through the Millibot project, where he helped develop frameworks enabling teams of centimeter-scale robots to collectively map, explore, and surveil unknown environments despite individual hardware limitations. His beacon-based ultrasonic localization system (91 citations) provided an elegant solution to positioning within such distributed teams, while his work on heterogeneous robot mapping earned 185 citations and remains a touchstone in multi-robot systems research. Navarro-Serment later turned his attention to autonomous vehicle perception, producing highly regarded work on pedestrian detection using 3D LADAR data (137 citations) and moving object detection with laser scanners (143 citations), both critical capabilities for safe autonomous navigation. More recently, he has explored human-robot collaboration, including learning robot navigation behaviors directly from human demonstration. Collectively, his publications have accumulated over 800 citations, reflecting sustained influence across a career bridging foundational robotics and real-world autonomous systems.