Mark Mote
Papers
10
Total Citations
378
H-Index
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About
Mark Mote is a leading researcher in multi-robot systems, safety-critical control, and autonomous robotics. He is best known as the principal architect of the Robotarium, a globally accessible, remote-access swarm robotics testbed that has democratized multi-agent research by eliminating the prohibitive costs and logistical barriers of physical robot labs. This landmark contribution, detailed in his highly cited 2020 paper (over 210 citations), has enabled researchers worldwide to conduct distributed control experiments remotely. Mote has also made foundational contributions to safety-critical control, developing scalable frameworks for nonlinear systems that provide practical safety guarantees without time-consuming set-based computations—work that has garnered over 60 citations. His research extends to collision-tolerant trajectory planning, where he pioneered mixed integer programming formulations for robots capable of planned collisions, and to air mobility systems, where he developed provable safety methods for unreliable components. With a publication record spanning over a decade and accumulating hundreds of citations, Mote’s work bridges theoretical control theory with real-world robotic applications, making him a pivotal figure in advancing accessible, safe, and scalable autonomous systems.
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Top Papers
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- 2A Scalable Safety Critical Control Framework for Nonlinear Systems63 citations · 2020
- 3Safe, Remote-Access Swarm Robotics Research on the Robotarium29 citations · 2016
- 4The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed26 citations · 2017
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- 7Robotic trajectory planning through collisional interaction7 citations · 2017
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