Articles
The Malta Cistern Mapping Project: Underwater Robot Mapping and Localization within Ancient Tunnel Systems (with Cory White, Daniel Hiranandani, Christopher S. Olstad, Keith Buhagiar, and Timmy Gambin), Journal of Field Robotics (2010)
This paper documents the development of an underwater robot system enabled with several mapping and...
Development of a systematic and practical methodology for the design of vehicles semi-active suspension control system (with Hamidreza Bolandhemmat and Farid Golnaraghi), Vehicle System Dynamics (2010)
In this paper, a novel systematic and practical methodology is presented for design of vehicle...
Enhanced Vehicle Identification Utilizing Sensor Fusion and Statistical Algorithms (with Stephane Roussel, Hemanth Porumamilla, Charles Birdsong, and Peter Schuster), 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE2009) Proceedings: Lake Buena Vista, Florida (2009)
Several studies in the area of vehicle detection and identification involve the use of probabilistic...
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...
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...
Conference Proceedings
Multi-Robot Boundary Tracking with Phase and Workload Balancing (with Michael Boardman, Jeremy Edmonds, and Kyle Francis), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Proceedings: Taipei, Taiwan (2010)
This paper discusses the use of a cooperative multiple robot system as applied to distributed...
Altruistic Task Allocation despite Unbalanced Relationships within Multi-Robot Communities (with Ryan Morton and George A. Bekey), Proceedings of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)/Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ) International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, MO (2009)
Typical Multi-Robot Systems consist of robots cooperating to maximize global fitness functions. However, in some...
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...
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...
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...
Dissertation
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...