Code
2009 Player/Stage: Smooth Nearness Diagram Navigation plugin driver for Player 2.1.x. The driver has similar functionality to the Player driver "nd", but the navigation behavior is much less jerky and also less prone to getting stuck. With contributions from Luca Invernizzi & Dario Cazzaro, May 2009.
My Presentations and Media
2009 Discrete Coverage Control for Gossiping Robots, presented at the 2009 ASME Conference on Dynamic Systems and Control (DSCC 2009), October 12-14, 2009, Hollywood, California. Video: Compilationg of frontier-based environment sweeping simulations submitted to ICRA 2010, Summer 2009. Video: Ten agent discrete gossip coverage simulation in a non-convex environment, Summer 2009. Video: Four agent discrete gossip coverage simulation, Spring 2009.
2008 Player/Stage Tutorial, with Luca Invernizzi and Dario Cazzaro, Fall 2008. Smooth Nearness Diagram Navigation, presented at the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS 2008), September 22-26, 2008, Nice, France. Video: Smooth Nearness Diagram experiment , July 2008. k-Center Problems, Graphs, Combinatorics and Convex Optimization Reading Group, Summer 2008. Stochastic Estimation & Probabilistic Robotics, Probabilistic Robotics Reading Group, Spring 2008.
2007 Controlling Canards, presented at 2007 SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, May 28-June 1, 2007, Snowbird, UT.
Presentations by Mentees
2009 Blob Following by Sharice Handa, June 2009, UCSB. Wall Following by Benjamin Domingo, June 2009, UCSB.
2008 Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Methods by Christian Bowles, Anthony Linarez, Alexander Torres, and Silviano Torres, from SIMS program, August 2008, UCSB. Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Methods by Yunxin Ling, Steven Pease, Dena Shahriari, and Chun Wang, from EPSEM program, July 2008, UCSB.