D. A. Shell , Ph.D. | Publications 2025
Conference Papers
- , "Limits of specifiability for sensor-based robotic planning tasks", accepted to appear in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA, May 2024. (PDF)
2024
Conference Papers
- , "Planning for Actively Synchronized Multi-Robot Systems", in Proceedings of International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), New York, NY, October 2024. Best Paper Nominee. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 58.8%]
- , "A fixed-parameter tractable algorithm for combinatorial filter reduction", in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-XVI), Chicago, IL, October 2024. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 52%]
- , "An abstract theory of sensor eventification", in Robotics Science and Systems (RSS-2024), Delft, The Netherlands, July 2024. (arXiv) (Poster) (Video) [Acceptance Rate was 29%]
- , "Knowledge acquisition plans: Generation, combination, and execution", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, May 2024. (PDF) (Poster) (Video) [Acceptance rate unknown]
2023
Conference Papers
- , "Optimizing pre-scheduled, intermittently-observed MDPs", in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, December 2023. (arXiv) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Oblivious Markov Decision Processes: Planning and Policy Execution", in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, December 2023. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Sensor selection for fine-grained behavior verification that respects privacy" in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, Michigan, October 2023. (arXiv) (Poster) (Video) [Acceptance Rate was 43.3%]
- , "Infrastructure to support robots: a practical, scalable model for comparative evaluation of design choices" in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, Michigan, October 2023. (PDF) (Poster) (Video) [Acceptance Rate was 43.3%]
- , "A general class of combinatorial filters that can be minimized efficiently", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, May 2023. (arXiv) (Poster) (Video) [Acceptance Rate was 43.0%]
- , "Decision diagrams as plans: Answering observation-grounded queries", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, May 2023. (PDF) (Poster) (Video) [Acceptance Rate was 43.0%]
- , "A causal decoupling approach to efficient planning for logistics problems with stateful stochastic demand", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, May 2023. (PDF) (Poster) (Video) [Acceptance Rate was 43.0%]
2022
Journal Papers
- , "Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state", International Journal of Robotics Research, 42(6):385–411, March 2022. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "Planning to Chronicle: Optimal Policies for Narrative Observation of Unpredictable Events", International Journal of Robotics Research, 42(6):412–432, March 2022. (Preprint: PDF)
Conference Papers
- , "Planning under periodic observations: bounds and bounding-based solutions", in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October 2022. (arXiv) (Video) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Privacy-Preserving Multi-Robot Task Allocation Via Secure Multi-Party Computation", in European Control Conference (ECC) — Invited Session: Security and Privacy in Dynamical (Control) System, London, U.K., July 2022. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Nondeterminism subject to output commitment in combinatorial filters", in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-XV), College Park, MD, June 2022. (arXiv) [Acceptance Rate was 56%]
- , "Charting the trade-off between design complexity and plan execution under probabilistic actions", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, PA, May 2022. (PDF) (Video) [Acceptance Rate was 43%]
- , "On nondeterminism in combinatorial filters", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, PA, May 2022. (arXiv) [Acceptance Rate was 43%]
2021
Journal Papers
- , "Unifying Consensus and Covariance Intersection for Efficient Distributed State Estimation over Unreliable Networks", IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 37(5):1525–1538, October, 2021. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "On the design of minimal robots that can solve planning problems", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 18(3):876–887, July 2021. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "Motion Planning for a Pair of Tethered Robots", Autonomous Robots — Special Issue on Topological Methods in Robotics, 45(5):693–707, January 2021. (arXiv)
Conference Papers
- , "Oblivious Sensor Fusion via Secure Multi-Party Combinatorial Filter Evaluation", in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Austin, Texas/Online, December 2021. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Sensor Selection for Detecting Deviations from a Planned Itinerary", in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic/Online, September 2021. (arXiv) [Acceptance Rate was 45%]
- , "Tractable Planning for Coordinated Story Capture: Sequential Stochastic Decoupling", in Proceedings of International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), Kyoto, Japan/Online, June 2021. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Multiplexing Robot Experiments: Theoretical Underpinnings, Conditions for Existence, and Demonstrations", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China/Online, May 2021. (PDF) (Talk Video, Infomercial) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Accelerating Combinatorial Filter Reduction through Constraints", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China/Online, May 2021. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Conditioning Style on Substance: Plans for Narrative Observation", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China/Online, May 2021. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
Other Papers
- , "Lattices of sensors reconsidered when less information is preferred" in IEEE ICRA Workshop on Compositional Robotics: Mathematics and Tools, Xi'an, China/Online, May 2021. (arXiv) (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
2020
Journal Papers
- , "Efficient recursive distributed state estimation of hidden Markov models over unreliable networks", Autonomous Robots — Special Issue on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, 44(3–4):321–338, March 2020. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "Robots in the huddle: Upfront computation to reduce global communication at run-time in multi-robot task allocation", IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 36(1):125–141, February 2020. (Preprint: PDF)
Conference Papers
- , "A POMDP Treatment of Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction: Implicit Coordination via Uncertainty-Aware Planning" in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, Nevada/Online, October 2020. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 47%]
- , "Eliminating the Invariance on the Loss Landscape of Linear Autoencoders" in Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Online, July 2020. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 22%]
- , "Cover Combinatorial Filters and their Minimization Problem" in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-XIV), Oulu Finland/Online, June 2020. (arXiv) [Acceptance Rate was 56%]
- , "Every Action-Based Sensor" in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-XIV), Oulu Finland/Online, June 2020. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 56%]
- , "Planning to Chronicle" in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-XIV), Oulu Finland/Online, June 2020. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 56%]
- , "Experiments with Tractable Feedback in Robotic Planning under Uncertainty: Insights over a wide range of noise regimes" in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-XIV), Oulu Finland/Online, June 2020. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 56%]
- , "Abstractions for computing all robotic sensors that suffice to solve a planning problem", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France/Online, May 2020. (arXiv) [Acceptance Rate was 42%]
- , "Reality as a simulation of reality: robot illusions, fundamental limits, and a physical demonstration", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France/Online, May 2020. (arXiv) (Video) [Acceptance Rate was 42%]
Other Papers
- , "Plans that Remain Private, Even in Hindsight" in AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence, New York, N.Y., February 2020. (PDF) (Poster) [Acceptance Rate was 73%]
2019
Journal Papers
- ,
"Toward a language-theoretic foundation
for planning and filtering",
International Journal of Robotics Research, 38(2–3):236–259, March 2019.
(arXiv) (Preprint: PDF)
- , "Complete characterization of a class of privacy-preserving tracking problems", International Journal of Robotics Research, 38(2–3):299-315, March 2019. (arXiv) (Preprint: PDF)
Conference Papers
- , "Non-Uniform Robot Densities in Vibration Driven Swarms Using Phase Separation Theory" in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, November 2019. (arXiv) [Acceptance Rate was 45%]
- , "Planning Coordinated Event Observation for Structured Narratives" in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, May 2019. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 44%]
- , "Coordinated multi-robot planning while preserving individual privacy" in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, May 2019. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 44%]
Other Papers
- , "Navigation and Localization via Wave Interference Patterns: An approach inspired by Marshallese Stick Charts" in MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Seattle Washington, October 2019. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate unknown]
2018
Journal Papers
- , "Bound to help: cooperative manipulation of objects via compliant, unactuated tails", Autonomous Robots — Special Issue on Distributed Robotics: From Fundamentals to Applications, 42(8):1563–1582, December 2018. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "Space-efficient filters for mobile robot localization from discrete limit cycles", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(1):257–264, January 2018. (Preprint: PDF). Also presented at IEEE IROS'17 in Vancouver, Canada, September 2017.
Conference Papers
- , "Finding plans subject to stipulations on what information they divulge" in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-XIII), Mérida, México, December 2018. (arXiv) [Acceptance Rate was 56.8%]
- , "The hardness of minimizing design cost subject to planning problems" in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-XIII), Mérida, México, December 2018. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 56.8%]
- , "Delineating boundaries of feasibility between robot designs", in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, October 2018. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 46.7%]
Other Papers
- , "What does my knowing your plans tell me?" in IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop—Towards Intelligent Social Robots: From Naive Robots to Robot Sapiens, Madrid, Spain, October 2018. (arXiv) (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 60%]
- , "An MDP Model of Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction at an Unsignalized Intersection" a workshop paper appearing in IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Chicago, Illinois, August 2018. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Robot Design: Formalisms, Representations, and the Role of the Designer" in IEEE ICRA Workshop on Autonomous Robot Design, Brisbane, Australia, May 2018. (arXiv) (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
2017
Journal Papers
- , "Concise planning and filtering: hardness and algorithms", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 14(4):1666–1681, October 2017. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "Hark! Who goes there? Concurrent Association of Communication Channels for Multiple Mobile Robots", Autonomous Robots, 41(4):811–829, April 2017. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "Using a compliant, unactuated tail to manipulate objects", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2(1):223–230, January 2017. (Preprint: PDF) (Video). Featured in IEEE Spectrum and by Digital Trends.
- , "Analyzing the sensitivity of the optimal assignment in probabilistic multi-robot task allocation", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2(1):193–200, January 2017. (Preprint: PDF). Also presented at IEEE CASE'16 in Fort Worth, Texas, August 2016.
Conference Papers
- , "Efficient Distributed State Estimation of Hidden Markov Models over Unreliable Networks", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), Los Angeles, California, December 2017. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 24%]
- , "Inconsequential improprieties: Filter reduction in probabilistic worlds", in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, September 2017. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 45%]
- , "Robots going round the bend—a comparative study of estimators for anticipating river meanders", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, May 2017. (PDF , and supporting technical report: PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 41%]
- , "Minimalist Robot Navigation and Coverage using a Dynamical System Approach", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Taiwan, April 2017. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
2016
Journal Papers
- , "Helping Novices Avoid the Hazards of Data: Leveraging Ontologies to Improve Model Generalization Automatically with Online Data Sources" in AI Magazine, 37(2):19–32, Summer 2016. (Preprint: PDF)
Conference Papers
- , "Beyond the planning potpourri: reasoning about label transformations on procrustean graphs", in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-XII), San Francisco, California, December 2016. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 25%]
- , "You can't save all the pandas: impossibility results for privacy-preserving tracking", in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-XII), San Francisco, California, December 2016. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 25%]
- , "Bundling policies for sequential stochastic tasks in multi-robot systems", in Proceedings of International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), London, U.K., November 2016. (PDF, and supporting technical report: PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 39%]
- ,
"Unifying Consensus and Covariance Intersection for Decentralized State Estimation",
in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Deajeon, South Korea, October 2016. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 48%]
Note: Since the appearance of this paper, we have discovered that we ought to have been aware of the 2014 paper entitled "Consensus-Based Linear and Nonlinear Filtering" by G. Battistelli, L. Chisci, G. Mugnai, A. Farina, and A. Graziano. Their work has a near identical approach, though our work specifically examines networks which undergo partition. - , "Set-labelled filters and sensor transformations", in Robotics Science and Systems (RSS-2016), Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2016. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 21%]
- , "Planning motions for a planar robot attached to a stiff tether", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2016. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 35%]
Other Papers
- , "A Mathematical Approach to Obtain Isoperimetric Shapes for D-Form Construction" in Bridges: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Education, Culture, Jyväskylä, Finland, August 2016. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- ,
"Some progress toward tethered pairs"
in the ICRA Workshop on Emerging Topological Techniques in Robotics, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2016. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
Note: We've properly solved this problem since: see (arXiv)
2015
Journal Papers
- , "Communication Constrained Task Allocation with Optimized Local Task Swaps", Autonomous Robots, 39(3):429–444, October 2015. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "Assignment Algorithms for Modeling Resource Contention in Multi-Robot Task Allocation", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) — Special Issue on Networked Cooperative Autonomous Systems, 12(3):889–900, July 2015. (Preprint: PDF)
Conference Papers
- "A man-packable unmanned surface vehicle for radiation localization and forensics", in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), West Lafayette, Indiana, October 2015. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Automatic Design of Discreet Discrete Filters", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, Washington, May 2015. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 41%]
- , "A New Model for Self-Organized Robotic Clustering: Understanding Boundary Induced Densities and Cluster Compactness", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, Washington, May 2015. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 41%]
- , "When to Do Your Own Thing: Analysis of Cost Uncertainties in Multi-Robot Task Allocation at Run-Time", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, Washington, May 2015. (PDF, and supporting technical report: PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 41%]
- , "Leveraging Ontologies to Improve Model Generalization Automatically with Online Data Sources", in Proceedings of Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI), Austin, TX, January 2015. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
Other Papers
- , "Distributed Multi-Robot Area Patrolling in Adversarial Environments" in the International Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks (RSN), Seattle, Washington, April 2015. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
2014
Journal Papers
- "From Selfish Auctioning to Incentivized Marketing", Autonomous Robots, 37(4):417–430, December 2014. (Preprint: PDF)
Conference Papers
- , "Associating Nearby Robots to their Voices", in Proceedings of International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALife), New-York, NY, August 2014. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Fully Decentralized Task Swaps with Optimized Local Searching", in Robotics Science and Systems (RSS-2014), July 2014, Berkeley, CA. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 32%]
- , "Distributed Robotic Sampling of Non-Homogeneous Spatio-Temporal Fields Via Recursive Geometric Sub-Division", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong-Kong, China, May 2014. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 48%]
- , "Assignment Algorithms for Modeling Resource Contention and Interference in Multi-Robot Task-Allocation", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong-Kong, China, May 2014. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 48%]
- , "Computing Cell-Based Decompositions Dynamically for Planning Motions of Tethered Robots", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong-Kong, China, May 2014. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 48%]
2013
Journal Papers
- , "Physically Routing Robots through a Multi-robot Network: Flexibility through a Three Dimensional Matching Graph", International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(12): 1475–1494, September 2013. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "An Anytime Assignment Algorithm: From Local Task Swapping to Global Optimality", Autonomous Robots, 35(4):271–286, November 2013. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "Unifying Microscopic Flocking Motion Models for Virtual, Robotic, and Biological Flock Members", Autonomous Robots, 35(2–3):195–219, October 2013. (Preprint: PDF)
Conference Papers
- , "Optimal Market-based Multi-Robot Task Allocation via Strategic Pricing", in Robotics Science and Systems (RSS-2013), June 2013, Berlin, Germany. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 30%]
- , "Finding concise plans: Hardness and algorithms", in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 2013. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 43%]
- , "Improving the performance of self-organized robotic clustering: modeling and planning sequential changes to the division of labor", in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 2013. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 43%]
- , "Eliciting Collective Behaviors through Automatically Generated Environments", in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, November 2013. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 43%]
- , "Covering space with simple robots: from chains to random trees", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 39%]
- , "Automatic Reduction of Combinatorial Filters", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 39%]
2012
Journal Papers
- , "Large-Scale Multi-Robot Task Allocation via Dynamic Partitioning and Distribution", Autonomous Robots, 33(3): 291–307, October 2012. (Preprint: PDF)
Conference Papers
- , "Extensive analysis of Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP) solver performance on randomly generated rigid body contact problems" in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 5034–5039, Algarve, Portugal, October 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 45%]
- , "Orienting deformable polygonal parts without sensors" in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 973–979, Algarve, Portugal, October 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 45%]
- , "An Efficient Distributed Topo-Geometric Spatial Density Estimation Method for Multi-Robot Systems" in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 828–833, Algarve, Portugal, October 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 45%]
- , "A Distributable and Computation-flexible Assignment Algorithm: From Local Task Swapping to Global Optimality" in Robotics Science and Systems (RSS-2012), Sydney Australia, July 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 33%]
- , "Tunable Routing Solutions for Multi-Robot Navigation via the Assignment Problem: A 3D Representation of the Matching Graph" in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 4800–4805, St. Paul, MN, USA, May 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 40%]
Other Papers
- , "Tackling Task Allocation Uncertainty via a Combinatorial Method" in the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), College Station, Texas, November 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Multi-robot Formation Morphing through a Graph Matching Problem", in Proceedings of International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS). Baltimore, MD. Nov 2012. Best Student Paper Runner-up Award. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Distribute the Task Swapping Assignment Method under Communication Constraints", in Symposium on Emerging Topics in Control and Modeling: Networked Systems (CMNS). Urbana-Champaign, IL. Oct 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Flocking Motions: Examination of Information Requirements", in the 2012 Symposium on Emerging Topics in Control and Modeling: Networked Systems (CMNS). Urbana-Champaign, IL. Oct 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Quantifying Uncertainty in Networked Robotic Systems", in the 2012 Symposium on Emerging Topics in Control and Modeling: Networked Systems (CMNS). Urbana-Champaign, IL. Oct 2012. [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Self-organized Clustering of Square Objects by Multiple Robots", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), pages 308–315, Brussels, Belgium, September 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Examining the Information Requirements for Flocking Motion", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), pages 442–452, Odense, Denmark, August 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- , "Cost, Precision, and Task Structure in Aggression-Based Arbitration for Minimalist Robot Cooperation", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB), pages 431–441, Odense, Denmark, August 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- "Spatial Interpolation for Robotic Sampling: Uncertainty with two Models of Variance", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Québec City, Canada, June 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- "Load Equalization on a Two-Armed Robot via Proprioceptive Sensing", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Québec City, Canada, June 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
- "Artistic Elements and Practical Challenges in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Unmanned Vehicles", in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop on Robotics and Performing Arts: Reciprocal influences, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May, 14th 2012. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]
2011
Journal Papers
- , "Assessing Optimal Assignment under Uncertainty: An Interval-based Algorithm." International Journal of Robotics Research, 30(7):936–953, June 2011. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "Toward Autonomous Robotic Containment Booms: Visual Servoing for Robust Inter-vehicle Docking of Surface Vehicles", , 5(1): 1–18, September 2011. (Preprint: PDF)
- , "A Midsummer Night's Dream (with Flying Robots)", Autonomous Robots, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 2011. (Preprint: PDF)
Conference Papers
- , "Multi-level Partitioning and Distribution of the Assignment Problem for Large-scale Multi-robot Task Allocation", in Robotics Science and Systems (RSS-2011), Los Angeles, California, July 2011. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 25%]
- , "Flocking: don't need no stinkin' robot recognition" in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, California, September 2011. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 32%]
- , "Approximate Characterization of Multi-Robot Swarm 'Shape' in Sublinear-Time", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, May 2011. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 49%]
- , "An Evaluation of Methods for Modeling Contact in Multibody Simulation", in Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, May 2011. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 49%]
Other Papers
- , "Reports of the AAAI 2011 Spring Symposia", AI Magazine, 32(3): 119–127, Fall 2011.
2010
Conference Papers
- , "Assessing Optimal Assignment under Uncertainty: An Interval-based Algorithm", in Robotics Science and Systems (RSS-2010), Zaragoza Spain, June 2010. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 16%]
- , "Modeling Contact Friction and Joint Friction in Dynamic Robotic Simulation using the Principle of Maximum Dissipation", in Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR-IX), Singapore, December 2010. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 40%]
- , "Extending Open Dynamics Engine for Robotics", in International Conference on Simulation, Modeling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), Darmstadt, Germany, November 2010. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 37%]
Other Papers
- , "Incremental Multi-Robot Deployment for Line-of-Sight Chains Using on Radio Signal Strength", appeared as poster in IEEE ICRA Network Science and Systems workshop, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010. (PDF) [Reviewed, but Acceptance Rate unknown]
- , "A Midsummer Night's Dream; Social proof in HRI", accepted as a late breaking report for the ACM/IEEE 2010 Conference on Human-Robot Interactions. (PDF) [Acceptance rate for late breaking reports unknown].
2009
Conference Papers
- , "High-fidelity radio communications modeling for multi-robot simulation", in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 3447–3452, St. Louis, Missouri, October 2009. (PDF) [Acceptance Rate was 58%]
- , "A robust and tractable contact model for dynamic robotic simulation", in Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pages 1176–1180, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2009. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown: 2008 was 29%]
- , "Precise generalized contact point and normal determination for rigid body simulation", a poster paper in Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pages 11762107–2108, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2009. (PDF) [Acceptance rate unknown]