Publications

Algorithms for robotics:

2011
J. W. Durham. Distributed Coordination for Teams of Robots. PhD thesis, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, June 2011.

F. Pasqualetti, J. W. Durham, and F. Bullo. Optimal Cooperative Patrolling of A Weighted Tour. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, October 2011. Note: Submitted.

J. W. Durham, R. Carli, P. Frasca, and F. Bullo, Dynamic Coverage Control with Asynchronous One-to-Base-Station Communication. IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Orlando, FL, Dec 2011, to appear.

2010
J. W. Durham, R. Carli, P. Frasca, and F. Bullo, Discrete Partitioning and Coverage Control for Gossiping Robots. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, to appear.

J. W. Durham, A. Franchi, and F. Bullo, Distributed Pursuit-Evasion without Global Localization via Local Frontiers. Autonomous Robots, to appear.

J. W. Durham, R. Carli, and F. Bullo, Pairwise Optimal Discrete Coverage Control for Gossiping Robots. In IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, Dec 2010.

2009
J. W. Durham, A. Franchi, and F. Bullo, Distributed pursuit-evasion with limited-visibility sensors via frontier-based exploration. In IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010.

J. W. Durham, R. Carli, P. Frasca, and F. Bullo, Discrete Partitioning and Coverage Control with Gossip Communication. In ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Hollywood, CA, October 2009.

2008
J. W. Durham and F. Bullo, Smooth Nearness Diagram Navigation. In IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots & Systems, Nice, France, pages 690-695, September 2008.

Master's Work, 2007:

J. W. Durham and J. Moehlis, Feedback Control of Canards. Chaos, published 2008.

J. W. Durham, Controlling Canards Using Ideas from the Theory of Mixed-Mode Oscillations. Master's Thesis, UCSB. June 2007.

Voting theory:

J. W. Durham and P. Lindener, Moderated Differential Pairwise Tallying: A Voter Specified Hybrid of Ranking by Pairwise Comparisons and Cardinal Utility Sums, Voting Matters, Issue 27, September 2009.