Papers
20
Total Citations
585
H-Index
12
About
Sean Wilson is a prominent robotics researcher whose work bridges swarm intelligence, multi-robot systems, and distributed control. Best known for his contributions to the **Robotarium**—a globally accessible, remotely operated multi-robot testbed that has attracted hundreds of users worldwide and earned over 200 citations—Wilson has fundamentally lowered the barrier to entry for robotics research by providing free physical infrastructure to the broader scientific community. His early work on bio-inspired collective behavior, including ant-inspired stochastic control policies for robotic transport (64 citations) and decentralized sliding mode control strategies (48 citations), established him as a leading voice in autonomous collective transport. His development of **Pheeno**, a versatile swarm robotics platform (73 citations), further reflects his commitment to accessible research and education tools. More recently, Wilson has advanced safe autonomy through data-driven robust barrier functions for long-term robot operation, and has explored formal methods via temporal logic-based task allocation. Spanning foundational swarm theory, hardware design, and safety-critical control, his body of work consistently addresses real-world deployment challenges, making him an influential figure for students and researchers entering multi-robot systems and autonomous systems research.
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Top Papers
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- 2Pheeno, A Versatile Swarm Robotic Research and Education Platform73 citations · 2016
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- 5Data-Driven Robust Barrier Functions for Safe, Long-Term Operation31 citations · 2021
- 6Closed-loop task allocation in robot swarms using inter-robot encounters24 citations · 2019
- 7Multi-Agent Task Allocation using Cross-Entropy Temporal Logic Optimization24 citations · 2020
- 8The Robotarium: Automation of a Remotely Accessible, Multi-Robot Testbed20 citations · 2021
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