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Sergio Llorente is a robotics researcher whose work centers on multi-robot systems, autonomous coordination, and coverage control — areas with significant implications for environmental monitoring, search and rescue, and industrial automation. His most influential contribution, "Distributed Coverage Estimation and Control for Multirobot Persistent Tasks" (2016), has garnered 60 citations and addresses one of the field's most challenging problems: how a team of mobile robots can continuously maintain coverage of an environment whose coverage level naturally degrades over time. Unlike classical coverage problems that assume a single, completable task, Llorente's research treats coverage as an ongoing, dynamic challenge requiring persistent robot movement and intelligent coordination. His broader body of work further refines this framework through complementary approaches, including branch-and-bound optimization techniques, variable coverage actions, and optimal timing strategies for revisiting points of interest. His 2012 hierarchical decomposition strategy laid important groundwork by introducing decentralized, grid-based coordination algorithms. Across his publications, Llorente has consistently pushed toward scalable, distributed solutions that remain practical in real-world multi-robot deployments. With over 100 cumulative citations, his contributions have meaningfully shaped how researchers approach persistent autonomy and long-horizon robot task planning.