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Total Citations
176
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About
Vladimir Djapic is a leading figure in marine robotics, whose work centers on advancing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and multi-domain robotic systems for search and rescue. His major contributions lie in organizing and shaping pivotal robotics competitions, including the Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge-Europe (SAUC-E) and the euRathlon Grand Challenge, which have become vital platforms for testing cooperative land, sea, and air robots in realistic scenarios. These efforts, detailed in his highly cited papers (with over 20 citations each), have directly fostered a new generation of marine engineers and accelerated innovation in multi-robot coordination. Djapic also made notable technical advances in underwater navigation, such as developing a novel method using a companion robot as a guiding platform, and in improving automatic target recognition through forward-looking sonar mosaics. His work on leader-following control for nonholonomic systems over directed communication graphs provides foundational theory for multi-robot teams. With a career spanning from hands-on educational initiatives like SeaPerch to advanced acoustic networking for heterogeneous marine robots, Djapic’s research has garnered over 150 citations, solidifying his impact on both the practical and theoretical frontiers of autonomous marine systems.
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- 6Improving Automatic Target Recognition with Forward Looking Sonar Mosaics13 citations · 2014
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