Papers
17
Total Citations
463
H-Index
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About
Santiago Marco is a pioneering researcher in mobile robotics and machine olfaction, whose work has fundamentally advanced how autonomous systems detect, map, and localize chemical sources in real-world environments. He is best known for integrating gas sensing technologies with mobile and aerial robotic platforms, pushing the boundaries of what small, low-cost sensor arrays can achieve. His development of the Smelling Nano Aerial Vehicle (SNAV) — a remarkable 27-gram quadcopter equipped with olfaction capabilities — stands as a landmark achievement in miniaturized robotic sensing, earning 134 citations and demonstrating that gas source localization is feasible even at the nano-scale. Marco's research spans metal-oxide semiconductor sensor arrays, electronic noses, turbulent plume tracking, and gas distribution modeling in complex multi-compound environments. His work on deploying sensor arrays aboard assistant personal robots for early gas leak detection (79 citations) highlights his commitment to practical safety applications. By combining biomimetic computation with large-scale chemical sensing arrays and extending robots into ambient intelligence monitoring roles, Marco has created a rich, interdisciplinary body of work. With over 400 cumulative citations, his contributions continue to shape the fields of environmental monitoring, emergency response robotics, and autonomous chemical sensing.
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Top Papers
- 1Smelling Nano Aerial Vehicle for Gas Source Localization and Mapping134 citations · 2019
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- 7High-bandwidth e-nose for rapid tracking of turbulent plumes17 citations · 2019
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