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Total Citations
197
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About
Peter Adam Hoeher is a leading researcher at the intersection of underwater and extraterrestrial swarm robotics, specializing in cooperative radio navigation and optical wireless communications. His work addresses the fundamental challenge of enabling autonomous multi-agent systems to navigate and communicate in GPS-denied environments. Hoeher’s most significant contribution is a highly cited tutorial on underwater optical wireless communications for swarm robotics (87 citations), which establishes LED-based links as a key enabler for high-capacity communication between autonomous underwater vehicles. He has also pioneered self-aware swarm navigation systems (62 citations), allowing robotic collectives to jointly localize themselves and external sources during exploration missions. A major technical achievement is his development of Bayesian in-situ calibration methods for multiport antennas, which dramatically improve direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation accuracy—critical for swarm positioning. Hoeher has further advanced the field by deriving fundamental limits for joint relative position and orientation estimation using generic antennas, providing theoretical foundations for cooperative radio navigation. His recent work includes simultaneous localization and calibration for cooperative systems, addressing a gap in practical deployment. With applications ranging from planetary exploration to underwater inspection, Hoeher’s research is shaping the future of autonomous robotic swarms operating in the most challenging environments.
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- 1Underwater Optical Wireless Communications in Swarm Robotics: A Tutorial87 citations · 2021
- 2Self-Aware Swarm Navigation in Autonomous Exploration Missions62 citations · 2020
- 3Simultaneous Localization and Calibration for Cooperative Radio Navigation15 citations · 2022
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- 9Simultaneous Localization and Antenna Calibration2 citations · 2022