Matthieu Herrb

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Matthieu Herrb is a pioneering researcher in autonomous mobile robotics, with a career spanning over two decades focused on multi-robot cooperation, planetary exploration, and software architectures for robotic systems. His foundational work on the MARTHA project (255 citations) established key principles for controlling fleets of autonomous robots in logistics environments like harbors and airports, addressing the critical challenge of multi-robot coordination. Herrb made significant contributions to autonomous navigation on unknown terrains (184 citations), developing adaptive approaches that enable robots to traverse complex natural environments without human intervention—work directly applicable to planetary exploration missions. He is perhaps best known for creating GenoM (157 citations) and its successor GenoM3 (86 citations), a groundbreaking tool for specifying and implementing reusable, middleware-independent robotic components that has become a standard in the robotics community. His research on high-speed path following for skid-steered vehicles (32 citations) demonstrates continued innovation in robust control for challenging terrains. With over 900 total citations across his most influential papers, Herrb's work has fundamentally shaped how researchers approach distributed robot architectures and autonomous navigation in unstructured environments.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Multi-robot cooperation in the MARTHA project

   255 citations · 1998
2. 2
   Autonomous Rover Navigation on Unknown Terrains: Functions and Integration

   184 citations · 2002
3. 3
   G/sup en/oM: a tool for the specification and the implementation of operating modules in a distributed robot architecture

   157 citations · 2002
4. 4
   GenoM3: Building middleware-independent robotic components

   86 citations · 2010
5. 5
   Design of a modular architecture for autonomous robot

   50 citations · 2002
6. 6
   Autonomous navigation in outdoor environment: adaptive approach and experiment

   44 citations · 2002
7. 7
   Autonomous Rover Navigation on Unknown Terrains Functions and Integration

   40 citations · 2007
8. 8
   Planetary exploration by a mobile robot: Mission teleprogramming and autonomous navigation

   35 citations · 1995
9. 9
   High-speed path following control of skid-steered vehicles

   32 citations · 2019
10. 10
    Ten autonomous mobile robots (and even more) in a route network like environment

    25 citations · 2002

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