Articles

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Decentralized Robust Control of Robot Manipulators with Harmonic Drive Transmission and Application to Modular and Reconfigurable Serial Arms (with Z. Li and W. W. Melek), Robotica (2009)
In this paper, we propose a decentralized robust control algorithm for modular and reconfigurable robots...
 

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A Complete and Scalable Strategy for Coordinating Multiple Robots Within Roadmaps (with Mike Peasgood and John McPhee), IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2008)
This paper addresses the challenging problem of finding collision-free trajectories for many robots moving toward...
 

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Markov-Based Lane Positioning Using Intervehicle Communication (with Thanh-Son Dao, Keith Yu Kit Leung, and Jan Paul Huissoon), IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2007)
The majority of today's navigation techniques for intelligent transportation systems use global positioning systems (GPS)...
 

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Probabilistic Road Map Sampling Strategies for Multi-Robot Motion Planning, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2005)

This paper presents a Probabilistic Road Map (PRM) motion planning algorithm to be queried within...

 

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Motion Planning for Formations of Mobile Robots (with T. D. Barfoot), Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2004)
This paper is concerned with planning the motion of mobile robots in formation, which means...
 

Conference Proceedings

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Archaeology via Underwater Robots: Mapping and Localization within Maltese Cistern Systems (with Christopher S. Olstad, Keith Buhagiar, and Timmy Gambin), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision: Hanoi, Vietnam (2008)
This paper documents the application of several underwater robot mapping and localization techniques used during...
 

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Altruistic Relationships for Optimizing Task Fulfillment in Robot Communities (with Ryan Morton and George A. Bekey), Distributed Autonomous Robot Systems 8 (2008)

This paper introduces the concept of a multi-robot community in which multiple robots must fulfill...

 

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Toward Systematic Approaches to Design and Implement Vehicles Semi-Active Control Systems (with Hamidreza Bolandhemmat and Farid Golnaraghi), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (2008)
In this paper a systematic while practical methodology has been presented for design of vehiclepsilas...
 

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Distributed Platoon Assignment and Lane Selection for Traffic Flow Optimization (with Thanh-Son Dao and Jan Paul Huissoon), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium: Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2008)
This paper presents an approach to lane assignment for highway vehicles that increases traffic throughput...
 

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Realtime Experiments in Markov-Based Lane Position Estimation Using Wireless Ad-Hoc Network (with Thanh-Son Dao, Luke Ng, and Jan Paul Huissoon), Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium: Eindhoven, The Netherlands (2008)
This paper presents real-time experimental results for a new lane positioning system using Markov localization...
 

Dissertation

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Dynamic Robot Networks: A Coordination Platform for Multi-Robot Systems, Dissertation (2004)

A large number of tasks, from manufacturing to planetary exploration, have been successfully accomplished using...