Papers
11
Total Citations
329
H-Index
8
About
Malika Meghjani is a robotics researcher whose work spans multi-robot systems, autonomous exploration, and marine environmental monitoring. She has made significant contributions to the coordination of heterogeneous robot teams, rendezvous search algorithms, and more recently, multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for autonomous aerial systems. Meghjani's early and most influential work focused on deploying collaborative robot teams in challenging real-world environments. Her 2012 paper on multi-domain marine monitoring (134 citations) demonstrated a pioneering system integrating aerial, surface, and underwater robots to assist scientists in inspecting coral reefs and marine ecosystems — a landmark contribution to field robotics. Complementing this, her development of MARE, an autonomous airboat platform, provided a practical foundation for shallow-water exploration tasks. A consistent thread throughout her research is the rendezvous problem — how robots or agents can efficiently meet under uncertainty — explored across underwater environments, unknown graphs, and urban street networks. Her work on multi-target search strategies and coral reef visual mapping using Gaussian processes further highlights her strength in probabilistic and spatially-aware robotics. More recently, Meghjani has advanced into UAV swarm coordination, applying deep multi-agent reinforcement learning to pursuit-evasion scenarios (44 citations), demonstrating her ability to bridge classical robotics with modern machine learning approaches. Her body of work reflects a sustained commitment to robust, real-world autonomous systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Multi-domain monitoring of marine environments using a heterogeneous robot team134 citations · 2012
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- 3Multi-target rendezvous search37 citations · 2016
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- 5MARE: Marine Autonomous Robotic Explorer28 citations · 2011
- 6Multi-robot exploration and rendezvous on graphs22 citations · 2012
- 7Asymmetric Rendezvous Search at Sea15 citations · 2014
- 8Combining Multi-robot Exploration and Rendezvous13 citations · 2011
- 9Multi-agent rendezvous on street networks3 citations · 2014
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