Mac Schwager

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
158 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Mac Schwager is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mac Schwager has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 61 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 45 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mac Schwager's work include Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (68 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (53 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (29 papers). Mac Schwager is often cited by papers focused on Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems (68 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (53 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (29 papers). Mac Schwager collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Germany. Mac Schwager's co-authors include Daniela Rus, Zijian Wang, Jean-Jacques Slotine, Dingjiang Zhou, Alyssa Pierson, Stephen L. Smith, Eduardo Montijano, Brian J. Julian, Mingyu Wang and Călin Belta and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Mac Schwager

149 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Decentralized, Adaptive Coverage Control for Networked Robots

2009 326 citations Mac Schwager, Daniela Rus et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →
Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future

2024 73 citations Roya Firoozi, Stephen Tian et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Mac Schwager	2.4k	1.7k	1.3k	1.2k	859	158	4.6k
Brian Gerkey	2.3k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	44	5.7k
Dušan M. Stipanović	2.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	2.4k 2.0×	547 0.6×	157	5.0k
Camillo J. Taylor	1.4k 0.6×	2.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	374 0.4×	104	4.6k
Dongbing Gu	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	940 1.1×	231	4.5k
Herbert G. Tanner	3.9k 1.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.5×	423 0.5×	171	5.4k
Petter Ögren	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	692 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	813 0.9×	99	3.5k
Rafael Fierro	2.8k 1.1×	2.8k 1.6×	1.5k 1.2×	3.7k 3.1×	449 0.5×	153	6.0k
Nathan Michael	2.2k 0.9×	3.4k 2.0×	3.5k 2.7×	2.0k 1.7×	691 0.8×	113	6.3k
A. Howard	685 0.3×	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	914 0.8×	788 0.9×	28	3.6k
Volkan Isler	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	492 0.4×	578 0.7×	160	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Mac Schwager

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mac Schwager

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mac Schwager

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mac Schwager. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mac Schwager based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mac Schwager. Mac Schwager is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Sun, Jiankai, et al.. (2025). GRaD-Nav: Efficiently Learning Visual Drone Navigation with Gaussian Radiance Fields and Differentiable Dynamics. 7941–7948.

Schwager, Mac, et al.. (2025). SOUS VIDE: Cooking Visual Drone Navigation Policies in a Gaussian Splatting Vacuum. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 10(5). 5122–5129. 1 indexed citations

Dames, Philip, et al.. (2025). Splat-Nav: Safe Real-Time Robot Navigation in Gaussian Splatting Maps. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 41. 2765–2784. 15 indexed citations

Schwager, Mac, et al.. (2024). How Generalizable is My Behavior Cloning Policy? A Statistical Approach to Trustworthy Performance Evaluation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(10). 8619–8626.

Schwager, Mac, et al.. (2024). Distributed Quasi-Newton Method for Multi-Agent Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 72. 3535–3546.

Schwager, Mac, et al.. (2024). Guarantees on Robot System Performance Using Stochastic Simulation Rollouts. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 40. 3984–4002. 3 indexed citations

Montijano, Eduardo, et al.. (2024). CineMPC: A Fully Autonomous Drone Cinematography System Incorporating Zoom, Focus, Pose, and Scene Composition. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 40. 1740–1757. 10 indexed citations

Schwager, Mac, et al.. (2024). Touch-GS: Visual-Tactile Supervised 3D Gaussian Splatting. 10511–10518. 5 indexed citations

Montijano, Eduardo, et al.. (2024). CLIPSwarm: Generating Drone Shows from Text Prompts with Vision-Language Models. 11917–11923. 1 indexed citations

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Firoozi, Roya, Stephen Tian, Anirudha Majumdar, et al.. (2024). Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 44(5). 701–739. 73 indexed citations breakdown →

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Firoozi, Roya, et al.. (2024). OA-MPC: Occlusion-Aware MPC for Guaranteed Safe Robot Navigation With Unseen Dynamic Obstacles. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 33(3). 940–951.

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Schwager, Mac, et al.. (2024). Distributed Conjugate Gradient Method via Conjugate Direction Tracking. 2066–2073. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Hong-Xing, Michelle Guo, Taylor A. Howell, et al.. (2023). Differentiable Physics Simulation of Dynamics-Augmented Neural Objects. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 8(5). 2780–2787. 19 indexed citations

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Firoozi, Roya, et al.. (2023). Local Non-Cooperative Games with Principled Player Selection for Scalable Motion Planning. 880–887. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Jiankai, et al.. (2023). Connected Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning with Video Predictions from Smart, Self-Supervised Infrastructure. 1721–1726. 1 indexed citations

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Schwager, Mac, et al.. (2023). Constrained Control of Large Graph-Based MDPs Under Measurement Uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 68(11). 6605–6620.

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Alonso–Mora, Javier, Eduardo Montijano, Tobias Nägeli, et al.. (2018). Distributed multi-robot formation control in dynamic environments. Autonomous Robots. 43(5). 1079–1100. 91 indexed citations

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Wang, Zijian, Sumeet Singh, Marco Pavone, & Mac Schwager. (2018). Cooperative Object Transport in 3D with Multiple Quadrotors Using No Peer Communication. 1064–1071. 19 indexed citations

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Alonso–Mora, Javier, Eduardo Montijano, Mac Schwager, & Daniela Rus. (2016). Distributed multi-robot formation control among obstacles: A geometric and optimization approach with consensus. 5356–5363. 76 indexed citations

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Schwager, Mac, Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar, & Daniela Rus. (2011). Time scales and stability in networked multi-robot systems. 3855–3862. 15 indexed citations

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