Nicolas Jouandeau

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Nicolas Jouandeau is a prominent researcher in mobile and multi-robot systems, whose work has significantly advanced our understanding of robot coordination, autonomous exploration, and cooperative task execution. Based at the Université Paris 8, his research spans multi-robot coordination, swarm robotics, decentralized task allocation, and humanoid locomotion, with a particular focus on enabling teams of autonomous agents to collaborate efficiently in complex environments. His most influential contribution, "A Survey and Analysis of Multi-Robot Coordination" (2013), has garnered over 640 citations, establishing itself as a foundational reference in the field and demonstrating the broad reach of his scholarly impact. Jouandeau has made substantial contributions to the foraging problem — a canonical benchmark in cooperative robotics — exploring energy-aware algorithms, stigmergy-based models, and cooperative switching strategies across multiple publications. His trade-based approach to decentralized multi-robot exploration introduced innovative market-inspired mechanisms for dynamic task allocation among robot teams. Beyond coordination, Jouandeau has contributed to humanoid robotics through walking pattern algorithms for NAO robots in RoboCup's 3D simulation league. His body of work reflects a coherent research vision: building scalable, intelligent, and energy-efficient multi-agent systems capable of tackling real-world challenges in logistics, exploration, and autonomous navigation.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   A Survey and Analysis of Multi-Robot Coordination

   640 citations · 2013
2. 2
   Multi-Agent Foraging: state-of-the-art and research challenges

   48 citations · 2017
3. 3
   Multi-robot heuristic goods transportation

   24 citations · 2012
4. 4
   MULTI-ROBOT DECENTRALIZED EXPLORATION USING A TRADE-BASED APPROACH

   23 citations · 2011
5. 5
   A Cooperative Switching Algorithm for Multi-Agent Foraging

   19 citations · 2016
6. 6
   Walking patterns for real time path planning simulation of humanoids

   16 citations · 2012
7. 7
   Sampling-Based Multi-Robot Exploration

   16 citations · 2010
8. 8
   An Energy-Aware Algorithm for Large Scale Foraging Systems

   10 citations · 2016
9. 9
   Improved trade-based multi-robot coordination

   10 citations · 2011
10. 10
    Design and analysis of cooperative and non cooperative stigmergy-based models for foraging

    9 citations · 2015

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