Samuel Karlsson
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Total Citations
142
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About
Samuel Karlsson is a leading roboticist specializing in autonomous navigation for extreme environments, with a focus on subterranean search-and-rescue and human-robot interaction. His most impactful work, "Multimodality robotic systems: Integrated combined legged-aerial mobility for subterranean search-and-rescue" (66 citations), pioneers a field-hardened system that transforms a legged robot into a carrier for an aerial platform, enabling rapid deployment in GPS-denied underground spaces. Karlsson's contributions extend to rigorous experimental validation, as seen in his evaluation of autonomous map-based Spot navigation in confined environments (32 citations), and the creation of a benchmark dataset from subterranean environments (21 citations) that includes multi-sensor data from RGB, thermal, and event-based cameras. He also developed D*+, a risk-aware, platform-agnostic path planner (13 citations) that overcomes the limitations of traditional occupancy-based methods. His recent work on adaptive exploration for Micro Aerial Vehicles (5 citations) and ensuring robot-human safety through active visual tracking and NMPC (3 citations) underscores his commitment to real-world deployment. Karlsson's research is instrumental in advancing autonomous robotics for hazardous, unstructured settings, with his work cited over 140 times collectively.
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- 3Dataset collection from a SubT environment21 citations · 2022
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- 7D*+: A Risk Aware Platform Agnostic Heterogeneous Path Planner2 citations · 2022