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Rafael Gomes Braga is a leading researcher at the intersection of robotics, automation, and construction informatics, with a primary focus on enabling safe and intelligent robot navigation in complex, unstructured environments. His work is distinguished by its integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with autonomous systems, pioneering semantic navigation that allows robots to understand and interact with their surroundings using construction-specific data. Braga’s foundational study on collision avoidance for quadrotors, inspired by Reynolds’ flocking rules, has garnered 31 citations and established a key framework for multi-robot safety. He has further advanced the field through his contributions to the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC), where his 2021 proceedings paper (28 citations) helped shape contemporary discourse on construction site automation. His research on semantic optimal robot navigation (10 citations) and intuitive BIM-aided user interfaces (5 citations) demonstrates a sustained commitment to bridging digital models with physical robotic action. By developing systems that enable robots to localize assets and navigate safely using semantic cues, Braga is directly addressing critical labor shortages and safety challenges in modern construction, making his work both academically rigorous and practically impactful.