Regular biography
Nikolay A. Atanasov is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on controlling teams of aerial and ground robots to collect metric, semantic, and topological information for applications such as environmental monitoring, security and surveillance, localization and mapping, search and rescue, and autonomous information collection. His work involves distributed sensing, estimation, motion planning, and experimental validation in real robot deployments. Atanasov joined UC San Diego in Fall 2016 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 and holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Trinity College and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Scholar-generated biography
Nikolay A. Atanasov is an Associate Professor at the University of California San Diego, specializing in Robotics. His research focuses on advancing autonomous systems through innovative approaches in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), motion planning, and control strategies. He explores methods for improving robot navigation in GPS-denied environments and develops algorithms for decentralized multi-robot systems. His work also integrates probabilistic models with machine learning to enhance safety and efficiency in robotic operations. Atanasov's contributions span semantic SLAM, event-based perception, and control theory, with an emphasis on real-time decision-making and robust navigation.