Thomas Collins

453 total citations
29 papers, 295 citations indexed

About

Thomas Collins is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ocean Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Collins has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 295 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 11 papers in Ocean Engineering and 10 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Collins's work include Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (11 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (10 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (9 papers). Thomas Collins is often cited by papers focused on Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems (11 papers), Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (10 papers) and Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (9 papers). Thomas Collins collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. Thomas Collins's co-authors include M. E. West, Ronald C. Arkin, Conor Ryan, John Collins, Tucker Balch, Kevin J. DeMarco, B. E. Schmidt, Ayanna M. Howard, Gary Boone and Doug MacKenzie and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems and AI Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Collins

29 papers receiving 267 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Collins United States 10 132 106 81 73 64 29 295
Arnau Carrera Spain 8 111 0.8× 63 0.6× 101 1.2× 117 1.6× 42 0.7× 11 295
Luiz R. Douat France 5 108 0.8× 94 0.9× 196 2.4× 53 0.7× 28 0.4× 9 302
Conor McGann United States 5 105 0.8× 47 0.4× 77 1.0× 136 1.9× 55 0.9× 8 336
Jussi Taipalmaa Finland 5 162 1.2× 134 1.3× 73 0.9× 67 0.9× 44 0.7× 6 365
Artur Wolek United States 12 68 0.5× 165 1.6× 104 1.3× 65 0.9× 17 0.3× 39 314
Javier Pérez Spain 11 177 1.3× 167 1.6× 186 2.3× 20 0.3× 75 1.2× 23 387
Joshua G. Mangelson United States 9 168 1.3× 253 2.4× 108 1.3× 55 0.8× 40 0.6× 26 396
Fanfei Chen United States 10 281 2.1× 277 2.6× 52 0.6× 92 1.3× 51 0.8× 11 423
Michail Kontitsis United States 9 146 1.1× 268 2.5× 34 0.4× 68 0.9× 23 0.4× 15 392
Wenwen Liu China 9 87 0.7× 51 0.5× 105 1.3× 64 0.9× 26 0.4× 27 268

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Collins

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Collins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Collins

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Collins. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Collins 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 Thomas Collins. Thomas Collins is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Collins, Thomas. (2017). How an Epilepsy Network in Canada Streamlined Referrals to Surgery. Neurology Today. 17(12). 1–5. 6 indexed citations
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West, M. E., et al.. (2016). Under Ice in Antarctica: The Icefin Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Development and Deployment. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 23(4). 30–41. 33 indexed citations
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Howard, Ayanna M., et al.. (2015). Design and antarctic testing of the Icefin vehicle. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Howard, Ayanna, et al.. (2014). Acoustic sonar and video sensor fusion for landmark detection in an under-ice environment. 1–8. 3 indexed citations
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Novitzky, Michael, et al.. (2014). AUV behavior recognition using behavior histograms, HMMs, and CRFs. Robotica. 32(2). 291–304. 4 indexed citations
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Collins, Thomas. (2011). Occupancy Grid Learning Using Contextual Forward Modelling. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems. 64(3-4). 505–542. 2 indexed citations
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Ulam, Patrick, Zsolt Kira, Ronald C. Arkin, & Thomas Collins. (2010). Mission specification and control for unmanned aerial and ground vehicles for indoor target discovery and tracking. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7694. 769414–769414. 6 indexed citations
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Kira, Zsolt, Ronald C. Arkin, & Thomas Collins. (2010). A design process for robot capabilities and missions applied to micro-autonomous platforms. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7679. 767911–767911. 1 indexed citations
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Collins, Thomas, et al.. (2010). AN INVERSE SENSOR MODEL FOR EARTHQUAKE DETECTION USING MOBILE DEVICES. 81–86. 1 indexed citations
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Collins, Thomas & John Collins. (2010). Filtering reading sets for improved occupancy grid mapping. 17. 1389–1394. 1 indexed citations
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Collins, Thomas, John Collins, & Conor Ryan. (2007). Occupancy grid mapping: An empirical evaluation. 1–6. 50 indexed citations
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Collins, Thomas, Jack Collins, & Conor Ryan. (2007). IMPROVED OCCUPANCY GRID LEARNING - The ConForM Approach to Occupancy Grid Mapping. 492–497. 2 indexed citations
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Arkin, Ronald C., et al.. (2006). Reactive Speed Control System Based on Terrain Roughness Detection. SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology). 891–896. 16 indexed citations
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Collins, Thomas, et al.. (2002). Integration of reactive navigation with a flexible parallel hardware architecture. SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology). 727. 271–276. 4 indexed citations
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Arkin, Ronald C. & Thomas Collins. (2002). Skills Impact Study for Tactical Mobile Robot Operational Units. SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations
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Arkin, Ronald C., et al.. (2000). Field Results for Tactical Mobile Robot Missions. SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology). 9 indexed citations
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Arkin, Ronald C., et al.. (1999). <title>Tactical mobile robot mission specification and execution</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3838. 150–163. 30 indexed citations
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Collins, Thomas & Tucker Balch. (1997). Teaming up: Georgia tech's multi-robot competition teams. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 785–786. 1 indexed citations
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Balch, Tucker, et al.. (1995). Io, Ganymede, and Callisto A Multiagent Robot Trash-Collecting Team. AI Magazine. 16(2). 39–51. 35 indexed citations

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