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Ryan K. Williams

Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1992

Publications

99

Citations

863

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

35

Publishing since 1992

Research summary
AI-generated

Ryan K. Williams's research centers on multi-robot and swarm systems, focusing on how teams of robots can coordinate, sense their environment, and remain resilient when individual robots fail or face limited information (such as restricted fields of view). His work applies distributed control and optimization methods to practical problems like precision agriculture monitoring, search and rescue, and informative path planning. Note that the publication list includes several titles clearly outside this core area (e.g., soil science, philosophy of mind, legal scholarship), which may reflect name overlap with other authors rather than this researcher's own work.

Multi-robot and swarm coordinationDistributed and resilient control systemsRobotic sensing and field-of-view managementPrecision agriculture monitoring with robotsMulti-agent task assignment and path planning

Publication output rose from 2017 to a peak around 2020, then settled into a more moderate and somewhat variable pace through the mid-2020s.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.0/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 8 publications182019: 9 publications192020: 11 publications11202021: 9 publications212022: 6 publications222023: 6 publications232024: 10 publications242025: 1 publication252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×17
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters×7
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics×3
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×3
  • Autonomous Robots×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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