Dr. Lynne E. Parker
(as of 11/15)
Professor
The University of Tennessee
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
1520 Middle Drive
617 Min H. Kao EECS Building
Knoxville, TN 37996
Phone: (865) 974-4394
Fax: (865) 974-5483
email: leparker@utk.edu
URL: http://web.eecs.utk.edu/∼parker
Research Interests:
• Distributed autonomous mobile robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, sensor networks, distributed
sensing, brain and cognitive science, multi-agent systems, human-robot cooperation, embedded systems.
Education:
• Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, 1994. Minor: Brain and Cognitive Science. Dissertation
Advisor: Prof. Rodney A. Brooks. GPA: 4.9/5.0.
• M.S.: University of Tennessee, Department of Computer Science, Knoxville, TN, 1988. GPA: 4.0/4.0.
• B.S.: Tennessee Technological University, Department of Computer Science, Cookeville, TN, 1983. Minor:
Mathematics. GPA: 4.0/4.0.
Professional Experience:
• NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, 2015–Present
Information and Intelligent Systems Division,
Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, Arlington, VA
Division Director (2015–Present).
Provide research leadership in the areas of information and intelligent systems, overseeing an annual research
budget of approximately $200 million. Direct activities of the division; assess needs and trends; develop
breakthrough opportunities; implement overall strategic planning; steer policy; and foster partnerships with
other divisions, directorates, federal agencies, scientific organizations, and the academic community.
• UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, 2002–Present
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Knoxville, TN
Professor (2007–Present).
EECS Associate Head for Strategic Planning and External Relations (2010–2014).
Founding Director, Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning (2010–2012).
Assistant Director, UT/ORNL Science Alliance (2008–2014).
Founder and Director, Distributed Intelligence Laboratory (2002–Present).
Associate Professor (2002–2007).
Perform research in cooperative robot systems and artificial intelligence; teach undergraduate and graduate courses on algorithms, theory of computation, and advanced topics in robotics and artificial intelligence; advise graduate students in robotics and artificial intelligence research. Direct research group working on multi-robot systems, distributed sensor networks, and cooperative intelligent systems. Lab URL:
http://www.cs.utk.edu/dilab.
• OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, 1994–Present
Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Complex Systems Group, Oak Ridge, TN
Adjunct Distinguished R&D Staff Member (2002–Present).
Distinguished R&D Staff Member (2001–2002).
Group Leader (1996–2001).
Senior Research Staff II (2000–2001).
Senior Research Staff I (1998–2000).
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Research Staff II (1996–1998).
Research Staff I (1994–1996).
Research and development of systems facilitating cooperation among heterogeneous distributed robots. Research issues include intelligent control, learning theory, pattern recognition, neural networks, intelligent decision making, probabilistic reasoning, and computer vision. Served as CESAR Laboratory facilities manager.
• UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, 2001–2002
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science Dept., Knoxville, TN
Adjunct Professor. Advised graduate students and developed collaborative research opportunities in learning
for human-robot teleoperation.
• MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 1989–1994
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
Research Assistant. Performed research in situated agent cooperation, architectures for autonomous agents,
learning in embedded systems, and multi-agent communication.
• HUGHES RESEARCH LABORATORY, 1991
Artificial Intelligence Center, Malibu, CA
Research Staff. Researched and developed issues of local versus global control for cooperative agent teams.
Implemented this research as a system which allowed simulated teams of agents to robustly maintain formation
in an unstructured environment.
• OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY, 1986–1989
Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research, Oak Ridge, TN
Research Associate. Researched and developed artificial intelligence methodologies for job planning, dynamic
task allocation, and automated monitoring for Human-Robot Symbiosis – the cooperative association between
human and robot.
• MARTIN MARIETTA ENERGY SYSTEMS, Y-12 Plant, 1983–1986
Computing and Telecommunications Division, Oak Ridge, TN
Computing Analyst. Designed, developed, and implemented user-friendly, interactive barcoding and transaction
data edit interfaces, and systems for tracking critical material movement and shipping.
Summary of Research Contributions:
• Dr. Parker’s dissertation research (1994) on ALLIANCE, an archicture for multi-robot cooperation, was the
first Ph.D. dissertation on the topic of multi-robot systems, and is considered a pioneering work in the field.
In more recent work funded by the National Science Foundation (2006–2013), she and her students have developed ASyMTRe and IQ-ASyMTRe, which is the first approach for the automatic synthesis of sensor-sharing in
multi-robot coalitions; this work is being extended to achieve autonomous constructivist learning that allows
robots to learn over time from prior experience. In other current research, she and her students are developing
machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks and in multi-robot teams, as
well as techniques for human-robot interaction, including vision-based human activity recognition. In previous
work, Dr. Parker has contributed to several additional government-sponsored research programs. For example,
she was a PI for two projects in the Software for Distributed Robotics Program (SDR) of DARPA/IPTO. The
first SDR project (2002–2004), collaborative with SAIC and the University of Southern California, successfully
demonstrated the deployment of up to 100 heterogeneous mobile robots in an indoor surveillance and reconnaissance task. The second SDR project (2002–2005) was a study of the current state of the art in distributed robot
algorithms, which is now being developed in book form for widespread dissemination. Dr. Parker was a co-PI
for a project in the Tactical Mobile Robotics Program (TMR) of DARPA/TTO (1998–2000). This project
involved the development of robots and algorithms capable of challenging navigation and cooperation tasks
in urban environments. Dr. Parker was a PI for a DARPA/IPTO seedling project entitled Synergistic Cyber
Forces (2001–2002), which focused on technologies enabling human-robot interactions. Dr. Parker also served
as a consultant to a DARPA/IPTO seedling (2003) on the development of multi-agent, multi-robot systems
that operate in adversarial, dynamic environments. Dr. Parker was co-PI for the Department of Energy (DOE)
Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research (1994–2002), involving extensive development of intelligent
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systems applied to many applications, such as multi-robot tracking of multiple moving objects, multi-robot motion planning, formation keeping, and multi-robot object handling. Industry-sponsored research of Dr. Parker
includes her work as PI for a Caterpillar, Inc. project (1999–2002) that resulted in the successful development
and demonstration (in simulation) of cooperative autonomous behaviors for surface coal mining, as well as work
for Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (2008–2010) on peer-to-peer human-robot teaming.
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IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Systems Society Distinguished Service Award, 2015.
UTK Chancellor’s Honor: Success in Multidisciplinary Research, 2014.
UTK College of Engineering Leon and Nancy Cole Superior Teaching Award, 2014.
Computer Scientist of Distinction (highest College of Engineering Alumni Award), Tennessee Tech University,
2014.
UTK College of Engineering Moses and Mayme Brooks Distinguished Professor Award, 2013.
UTK Chancellor’s Honor: Research and Creative Achievement, 2011.
UTK Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ACM-IEEE Outstanding CS Faculty Award,
2010–2011.
IEEE Fellow, 2010.
UTK Gonzalez Family Award for Excellence in Research, 2009.
UTK College of Engineering Allen and Hoshall Engineering Faculty Award, 2009.
UTK Department of Computer Science Professor of the Year Award, 2007.
Selected participant (out of 60 total from U.S. and Germany) in the German-American Frontiers of Engineering
Symposium (GAFOE), organized by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation, 2007.
UTK Chancellor’s Honor: Angie Warren Perkins Award (for scholarship, teaching, and contributions to campus
intellectual life), 2006.
PECASE Award (United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers), 2000.
Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award, 1999.
Selected participant (out of approx. 80 nationwide) in the National Academy of Engineering’s 7th Annual
Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, 2001.
ORNL Values World Class Teamwork Award, 2001.
UT-Battelle Technical Achievement Award for Significant Research Achievement, 2000.
Selected participant (out of approx. 100 nationwide) in the National Academy of Science’s 12th Annual
Frontiers of Science Symposium, 2000.
Selected and Served as Artificial Intelligence Delegate to People’s Republic of China, 1998.
Founding Fellow of the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, 1994.
Elected full member of Sigma Xi, the honorary scientific research society, by the MIT Chapter, 1993.
Howard Scholarship Award (top TTU graduate of June 1983), 1983.
TTU Tech Faculty Award, 1983.
Moorman Mathematics Award, 1983.
Mortar Board Outstanding Junior Award, 1982.
TTU Outstanding Female Sophomore, 1981.
Outstanding Freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, 1980.
TTU Valedictorian Scholarship, 1979-1983.
Edited Books:
• A. Martinoli, F. Mondada, N. Correll, G. Mermoud, M. Egerstedt, M. A. Hsieh, L. E. Parker, and K. Stoy
(Editors), Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 83, 2013.
• L. E. Parker, F. Schneider, and A. Schultz (eds.), Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata,
Volume III, Springer, 2005.
• A. Schultz, L. E. Parker, and F. Schneider (eds.), Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata,
Volume II, Kluwer, 2003.
• T. Balch and L. E. Parker (eds.), Robot Teams: From Diversity to Polymorphism, A K Peters, 2002.
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• A. Schultz and L. E. Parker (eds.), Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Kluwer, 2002.
• L. E. Parker, G. Bekey, and J. Barhen (eds.), Distributed Autonomous Robot Systems 4, Springer, 2000.
• L. E. Parker (ed.), “Proceedings of Microrobotics and Micromechanical Systems,” 1995 SPIE International
Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, SPIE, vol. 2593, October 1995.
Journal Papers:
• H. Zhang, W. Zhou, C. Zhang, and L. E. Parker, “Fuzzy Temporal Segmentation and Probabilistic Recognition
of Continuous Human Daily Activities”, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 45(5), pages 598–611,
2015.
• H. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “CoDe4D: Color-Depth Local Spatio-Temporal Features for Human Activity Recognition from RGB-D Videos”, accepted in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
2014.
• J. Sanyal, J. R. New, R. Edwards, and L. E. Parker, “Calibrating Building Energy Models Using Supercomputer
Trained Machine Learning Agents”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 26(13): 2122–
2133, 2014.
• Y. Li and L. E. Parker, “Nearest Neighbor Imputation Using Spatial-Temporal Correlations in Wireless Sensor
Networks”, Information Fusion (in press), vol. 15, pages 64-79, 2014.
• H. Zhang, C. Reardon, and L. E. Parker, “Real-Time Multiple Human Perception with Color-Depth Cameras
on a Mobile Robot”, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 43(5), pages 1429–1441, 2013.
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “Considering Inter-Task Resource Constraints in Task Allocation”, Journal of
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 26, pp. 389–419, 2013.
• S. Lenaghan, Y. Li, H. Zhang, J. Burris, L. E. Parker, C. Stewart, M. Zhang, “Monitoring the Environmental
Impact of TiO2 Nanoparticles Using a Plant-based Sensor Network”, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology,
12(2), pp. 182-189, 2013.
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “IQ-ASyMTRe: Forming Executable Coalitions for Tightly-Coupled Multi-robot
Tasks”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 29(2), pp. 400–416, 2013.
• A. Marino, L. E. Parker, G. Antonelli, and F. Caccavale, “A decentralized architecture for multi-robot systems
based on the Null-Space-Behavioral control with application to multi-robot border patrolling”, Journal of
Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 71, pp. 423–444, 2013.
• R. Edwards, J. New, and L. E. Parker, “Predicting Future Hourly Residential Electrical Consumption: A
Machine Learning Case Study”, Energy and Buildings, vol. 49, pages 591-603, June 2012.
• L. E. Parker, “Distributed Intelligence: Overview of the Field and its Application in Multi-Robot Systems”,
invited article, Journal of Physical Agents, special issue on multi-robot systems, vol. 2, no. 1, 2008: 5-14.
• L. E. Parker and F. Tang, “Building Multi-Robot Coalitions through Automated Task Solution Synthesis”,
Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Multi-Robot Systems, vol. 94, no. 7, 2006: 1289-1305.
• A. Howard, L. E. Parker, and G. Sukhatme, “Experiments with a Large Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Team:
Exploration, Mapping, Deployment, and Detection”, International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 25, no.
5-6, 2006: 431-447.
• L. E. Parker, “Why Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Intelligence? One Researcher’s Perspective”, Journal
of the Robotics Society of Japan, Special Issue on Women in Robotics, vol. 24, no. 5, 2006: 582-584.
• F. Fernandez, D. Borrajo, and L. E. Parker, ”A Reinforcement Learning Algorithm in Cooperative Multi-Robot
Domains”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 43, no. 2-4, 2005: 161-174.
• K. Fregene, D. Kennedy, R. Madhavan, L. E. Parker, and D. Wang, “A Class of Intelligent Agents for Coordinated Control of Outdoor Terrain Mapping UGVs”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol.
18, no. 5, 2005: 513-531.
• L. Canamero, Z. Dodds, L. Greenwald, J. Gunderson, A. Howard, E. Hudlicka, C. Martin, L. E. Parker, T.
Oates, T. Payne, Y. Qu, C. Schlenoff, J. G. Shanahan, S. Tejada, J. Weinberg, and J. Weibe, “The 2004 AAAI
Spring Symposium Series”, AI Magazine, vol. 25, no. 4, 2004: 95-100.
• L. E. Parker, “Interview, with Lynne E. Parker”, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 1,
no. 2, 2004: 57-60.
• R. Madhavan, K. Fregene, and L. E. Parker, “Terrain Aided Distributed Heterogeneous Multirobot Localization
and Mapping”, Autonomous Robots, vol. 17, 2004: 23-39.
• L. E. Parker, “Current Research in Multi-Robot Systems”, Journal of Artificial Life and Robotics, vol. 7, nos.
1-2, 2003: 1-5.
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• T. Arai, E. Pagello, and L. E. Parker, “Guest Editorial: Advances in Multi-Robot Systems”, IEEE Transactions
on Robotics and Automation, vol. 18, no. 5, 2002: 655-661.
• L. E. Parker, “Distributed Algorithms for Multi-Robot Observation of Multiple Moving Targets,” Autonomous
Robots, vol. 12, no. 3, 2002: 231-255.
• F. Fernandez and L. E. Parker, “Learning in Large Cooperative Multi-Robot Domains”, International Journal
of Robotics and Automation, special issue on Computational Intelligence Techniques in Cooperative Robots,
vol. 16, no. 4, 2001: 217-226.
• L. E. Parker, “Evaluating Success in Autonomous Multi-Robot Teams: Experiences from ALLIANCE Architecture Implementations”, Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence, vol. 13, 2001:
95-98.
• L. E. Parker, “Lifelong Adaptation in Heterogeneous Multi-robot Teams: Response to Continual Variation
in Individual Robot Performance”, Autonomous Robots, special issue on Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems,
vol. 8, no. 3, 2000: 239-267.
• T. Balch and L. E. Parker, “Guest Editorial”, Autonomous Robots, special issue on Heterogeneous Multi-Robot
Systems, vol. 8, no. 3, 2000: 207-208.
• L. E. Parker, “Adaptive Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams,” Neurocomputing, special issue of NEURAP ’98
(Neural Network Applications), vol. 28, 1999: 75-92.
• L. E. Parker, “Cooperative Robotics for Multi-Target Observation,” special issue of Intelligent Automation and
Soft Computing, on Robotics Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, vol. 5, no. 1, 1999: 5-19.
• L. E. Parker, “ALLIANCE: An Architecture for Fault Tolerant Multi-Robot Cooperation,” IEEE Transactions
on Robotics and Automation, vol. 14, no. 2, 1998: 220-240.
• L. E. Parker, “L-ALLIANCE: Task-Oriented Multi-Robot Learning in Behavior-Based Systems,” Advanced
Robotics, Special Issue on Top Selected Papers from International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,
vol. 11, no. 4, 1997: 305-322.
• L. E. Parker, “On the Design of Behavior-Based Multi-Robot Teams,” Advanced Robotics, vol. 10, no. 6, 1996:
547-578.
• F. G. Pin, L. E. Parker, and F. W. DePiero, “On the Design and Development of a Human-Robot Synergistic
System,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 10, nos. 2-3, 1992: 161-184.
• F. G. Pin, P. F. R. Belmans, S. I. Hruska, C. W. Steidley, and L. E. Parker, “Robot Learning from Distributed
Sensory Sources,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 21, no. 5, September 1991:
1216-1223.
Refereed Book Chapters:
• L. E. Parker, “Collective Manipulation and Construction”,Chapter 72 in Springer Handbook of Computational
Intelligence, J. Kacprzyk and W. Pedrycz (Eds), 2015.
• Y. Li, M. Thomason, and L. E. Parker, ”Sequential Anomaly Detection Using Wireless Sensor Networks in
Unknown Environments”, in Human Behavior Understanding in Networked Sensing, P. Spagnolo, P. L. Mazzeo,
and C. Distante (Eds), Springer, 2014.
• L. E. Parker, “Decision Making as Optimization in Multi-Robot Teams”, in Vol. 7154, Springer Lecture Notes
in Computer Science, R. Ramanujam and S. Ramaswamy (Eds.), pgs. 35-49, Proceedings of 8th International
Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT 2012), 2012.
• L. E. Parker, “Forward”, in Networked Humans, Robots, and Environments, N. Y. Chong, Editor, Bantham
e-Book, 2011.
• L. E. Parker, “Motor Schemas in Robot Learning”, in Springer Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, N.
M. Seel, Editor, Springer, 2012.
• L. E. Parker, “Reliability and Fault Tolerance in Collective Robot Systems”, Handbook on Collective Robotics,
S. Kernbach, Editor, Pan Stanford Publishing, 2011.
• L. E. Parker, “Path Planning and Motion Coordination in Multiple Mobile Robot Teams”, in Encyclopedia of
Complexity and System Science, Springer, 2009.
• L. E. Parker, “Multiple Mobile Robot Systems”, Chapter 40 of Springer Handbook of Robotics, SpringerVerlag, Berlin Heidelburg, 2008: 921-941. [Handbook won two American Publishers Awards for Professional
and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) in the Engineering and Technology Catgory and the Award for Excellence
in the overall Physical Sciences and Mathematics Category.]
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• Y. Guo, L. E. Parker, and R. Madhavan, “Collaborative Robots for Infrastructure Security Applications”, in
Mobile Robots: The Evolutionary Approach, Book Series on Intelligent Systems Engineering, N. Nedjah, L. dos
Santos Coelho, and L. de Macedo Mourelle (eds),Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006: 185-200.
• L. E. Parker, M. Chandra, and F. Tang, “Enabling Autonomous Sensor-Sharing for Tightly-Coupled Cooperative Tasks”, in Multi-Robot Systems From Swarms to Intelligent Automata: Volume III, Kluwer 2005: 119-230.
• L. E. Parker, “The Effect of Heterogeneity in Teams of 100+ Mobile Robots”, in Multi-Robot Systems: From
Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume II, Kluwer, 2003: 205-215.
• S. Carpin and L. E. Parker, “Cooperative Motion Coordination Amidst Dynamic Obstacles”, in Distributed
Autonomous Robotic Systems 5, Springer Verlag, 2002: 145-154.
• L. E. Parker, K. Fregene, Y. Guo, and R. Madhavan, “Distributed Heterogeneous Sensing for Outdoor MultiRobot Localization, Mapping, and Path Planning”, in Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Kluwer, 2002: 21-30.
• L. E. Parker, C. Touzet, and F. Fernandez, “Techniques for Learning in Multi-Robot Teams”, in Robot Teams:
From Diversity to Polymorphism, A K Peters, 2002: 191-236.
• L. E. Parker, “Current State of the Art in Distributed Robot Systems”, in Distributed Autonomous Robotic
Systems 4, Springer Verlag, 2000: 3-12.
• L. E. Parker and C. Touzet, “Multi-Robot Learning in a Cooperative Observation Task”, in Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 4, Springer Verlag, 2000: 391-401.
• L. E. Parker and J. Draper, “Robotics Applications in Maintenance and Repair,” in Handbook of Industrial
Robotics, 2nd edition, Shimon Nof (ed), Wiley Publishers, 1999: 1023-1036.
• L. E. Parker, “Behavior-Based Cooperative Robotics Applied to Multi-Target Observation,” in Intelligent
Robots: Sensing, Modeling, and Planning, edited by R. Bolles, H. Bunke, and H. Noltemeier, World Scientific,
1997: 356-373.
• L. E. Parker, “Multi-Robot Team Design for Real-World Applications,” in Distributed Autonomous Robotic
Systems 2, edited by H. Asama, T. Fukuda, T. Arai, and I. Endo, Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, 1996: 91-102.
• L. E. Parker and F. G. Pin, “A Methodology for Dynamic Task Allocation in a Man-Machine System,” in
Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Eds. Zbigniew W. Ras and Maria Zemankova, New York: North-Holland
(1987): 488-495.
Refereed Conference Papers:
• C. Zhang, H. Zhang, and L. E. Parker, “Feature Decomposition for Efficient Adaptation in Robot Programming
by Demonstration”, Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS), 2015.
• C. Reardon, H. Zhang, R. Wright, and L. E. Parker, “Response Prompting for Intelligent Robot Instruction of
Students with Intellectual Disabilities”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human
Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2015.
• H. Zhang, C. Reardon, C. Zhang, and L. E. Parker, “Adaptive Human-Centered Representation for Activity Recognition of Multiple Individuals from 3D Point Cloud Sequences”, Proceedings of IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015.
• H. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “Bio-Inspired Predictive Orientation Decomposition of Skeleton Trajectories for
Real-Time Human Activity Prediction:”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015.
• H. Zhang, W. Zhou, C. Reardon, and L. E. Parker, “Simplex-Based 3D Spatio-Temporal Feature Description
for Action Selection”, Proceedings of Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014.
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “Coalition Coordination for Tightly Coupled Multirobot Tasks with Sensor Constraints”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
• H. Zhang, W. Zhou, and L. E. Parker, “Fuzzy Segmentation and Recognition of Continuous Human Activities”,
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
• H. Zhang, S. C. Lenaghan, M. H. Connolly, and L. E. Parker, “Zebrafish Larva Locomotor Activity Analysis
Using Machine Learning Techniques”, Proceedings of IEEE 12th International Conference on Machine Learning
and Applications (ICMLA), 2013.
• R. E. Edwards, H. Zhang, L. E. Parker, and J. R. New, “Approximate l-fold Cross-Validation with Least
Squares SVM and Kernel Ridge Regression”, Proceedings of IEEE 12th International Conference on Machine
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Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2013.
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “Multi-Robot Task Scheduling”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013.
• D. Michael Franklin and L. E. Parker, “Overwatch: An Educational Testbed for Multi-Robot Experimentation”,
Proceedings of 26th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS), 2013.
• R. E. Edwards, J. R. New, and L. E. Parker, “Estimating Building Simulation Parameters via Bayesian Structure Learning”, BigMine-13, Second International Workshop on Big Data, Streams, and Heterogeneous Source
Mining: Algorithms, Systems, Programming Models, and Applications, 2013.
• H. Zhang, L. E. Parker, and R. Edwards, “Regularized Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis with Continuous
Observations”, Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2012.
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “Task Allocation with Executable Coalitions in Multirobot Tasks”, Proceedings of
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012.
• L. E. Parker, “Decision Making as Optimization in Multi-Robot Teams”, in Vol. 7154, Springer Lecture Notes
in Computer Science, R. Ramanujam and S. Ramaswamy (Eds.), pgs. 35-49, Proceedings of 8th International
Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT 2012), 2012.
• H. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “4-Dimensional Local Spatio-Temporal Features for Human Activity Recognition”,
in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011.
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “Solution Space Reasoning for Improving IQ-ASyMTRe in Tightly-Coupled Multirobot Tasks”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011.
• J. Hoare, R. Edwards, B. MacLennan, and L. E. Parker, “Myro-C++: An Open Source C++ Library for Computer Science Education”, in Proceedings of 24th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference,
2011.
• J. Hoare and L. E. Parker, “Using On-Line Conditional Random Fields to Determine Human Intent for PeerTo-Peer Human Robot Teaming”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and
Systems (IROS), 2010.
• Y. Li and L. E. Parker, “Detecting Time-Related Changes in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Symbol Compression and Probabilistic Suffix Trees”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots
and Systems (IROS), 2010.
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “IQ-ASyMTRe: Synthesizing Coalition Formation and Execution for TightlyCoupled Multirobot Tasks with Sensor Constraints”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010.
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker, “A General Information Quality Based Approach for Satisfaction of Sensor Constraints in Multirobot Tasks”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
(ICRA), 2010.
• A. Marino, L. E. Parker, G. Antonelli, F. Caccavale, and S. Chiaverini, “A Modular and Fault-Tolerant Approach to Multi-Robot Perimeter Patrol”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2009. (Finalist for best paper award.)
• A. Marino, L. E. Parker, G. Antonelli, and F. Caccavale, “Fuzzy Behavioral Control for Multi-Robot Border
Patrol”, in Proceedings of 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2009.
• X. Li and L. E. Parker, “Distributed Sensor Analysis for Fault Detection in Tightly-Coupled Multi-Robot Team
Tasks”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009.
• L. E. Parker, C. M. Reardon, H. Choxi, and C. Bolden, “Using Critical Junctures and EnvironmentallyDependent Information for Management of Tightly-Coupled Coperation in Heterogeneous Robot Teams”, in
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009.
• A. Marino, L. E. Parker, G. Antonelli, and F. Caccavale, “Behavioral Control for Multi-Robot Perimeter
Patrol: A Finite State Automata Approach”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation (ICRA), 2009.
• Y. Li and L. E. Parker, “Detecting and monitoring time-related abnormal events using a wireless sensor network
and mobile robot”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
2008.
• Y. Li and L. E. Parker, “A spatial-temporal imputation technique for classification with missing data in a
wireless sensor network”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS), 2008.
• Y. Tang and L. E. Parker, “Towards Schema-Based, Constructivist Robot Learning: Validating an Evolutionary
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Search Algorithm for Schema Chunking”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation, 2008.
B. Kannan and L. E. Parker, “Metrics for Quantifying System Performance in Intelligent, Fault-Tolerant MultiRobot Teams”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
2007.
X. Li and L. E. Parker, “Sensor Analysis for Fault Detection in Tightly-Coupled Multi-Robot Team Tasks”, in
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007.
F. Tang and L. E. Parker, “Layering ASyMTRe-D with Task Allocation for Multi-Robot Tasks”, in Proceedings
of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007.
B. Kannan and L. E. Parker, “Adaptive Causal Models for Fault Diagnosis and Recovery in Multi-Robot
Teams”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2006.
F. Tang and L. E. Parker, “Distributed Multi-Robot Coalitions through ASyMTRe-D”, in Proceedings of IEEE
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2005.
F. Tang and L. E. Parker, “Coalescent Multi-Robot Teaming through ASyMTRe: A Formal Analysis”, in
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2005.
F. Tang and L. E. Parker, “ASyMTRe: Automated Synthesis of Multi-Robot Task Solutions through Software
Reconfiguration”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005.
L. E. Parker, B. Kannan, F. Tang, and M. Bailey, “Tightly-Coupled Navigation Assistance in Heterogeneous
Multi-Robot Teams”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2004.
A. Howard, L. E. Parker, and G. S. Sukhatme, “The SDR Experience: Experiments with a Large-Scale Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Team”, Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, 2004.
Y. Tang, B. Birch, and L. E. Parker, “Planning Mobile Sensor Net Deployment for Navigationally-Challenged
Sensor Nodes”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004.
Y. Guo, L. E. Parker, and R. Madhavan, “Towards Collaborative Robots for Infrastructure Security Applications”, Proceedings of International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems., pp. 235-240, San
Diego, CA, 2004.
L. E. Parker, B. Kannan, X. Fu, and Y. Tang, “Heterogeneous Mobile Sensor Net Deployment Using Robot
Herding and Line-of-Sight Formations”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots
and Systems, 2003.
L. E. Parker, B. Birch, and C. Reardon, “Indoor Target Intercept Using an Acoustic Sensor Network and Dual
Wavefront Path Planning”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,
2003. Also appeared later in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Robotics and Remote Systems
for Hazardous Environments, 2004.
M. Long, R. R. Murphy, and L. E. Parker, “Distributed Multi-Agent Diagnosis and Recovery from Sensor
Failures”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2003.
Y. Guo, L. E. Parker, D. Jung, and Z. Dong, “Performance-Based Rough Terrain Navigation for Nonholonomic
Mobile Robots”, Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2003.
R. Madhavan, K. Fregene, and L. E. Parker, “Distributed Heterogeneous Outdoor Multirobot Localization”,
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002: 374-381.
K. Fregene, R. Madhavan, and L. E. Parker, “Incremental Multiagent Robotic Mapping of Outdoor Terrains”,
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002: 1339-1346.
Y. Guo and L. E. Parker, “A Distributed and Optimal Motion Planning Approach for Multiple Mobile Robots”,
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002: 2612-2619.
S. Carpin and L. E. Parker, “Cooperative Leader Following in a Distributed Multi-Robot System”, Proceedings
of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002, 2994-3001.
D. Jung and L. E. Parker, “Path Planning is no Substitute for Intelligent Behavior”, Proceedings of SPIE
Conference on Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology IV, 2002.
L. E. Parker, Y. Guo, and D. Jung, “Cooperative Robot Teams Applied to the Site Preparation Task”, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Advanced Robotics”, 2001, 71-77.
L. E. Parker and C. Touzet, “Multi-Robot Learning in an Inherently Cooperative Task”, Proceedings of SPIE
Conference on Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology III, 2001, vol. 4364, 127-135.
A. Scott and L. E. Parker, “Quantitative and qualitative comparison of three laser-range mapping algorithms
using two types of laser scanner data”, Proceedings of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Conference,
2000.
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• L. E. Parker, D. Jung, T. Huntsberger, and P. Pirjanian, “Opportunistic Adaptation in Space-Based Robot
Colonies: Application to Site Preparation”, Proceedings of World Automation Congress, 2000.
• L. E. Parker, C. Touzet, and D. Jung, “Learning and Adaptation in Multi-Robot Teams,” in Proceedings
of Eighteenth Symposium on Energy Engineering Sciences, held at Argonne National Laboratory, May 2000,
177-185.
• L. E. Parker, “A Case Study for Lifelong Learning and Adaptation in Cooperative Robot Teams”, Proceedings
of SPIE Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems II, 1999, vol. 3839, 92-101.
• L. E. Parker, “Toward the Automated Synthesis of Cooperative Mobile Robot Teams,” Proceedings of SPIE
Mobile Robots XIII, 1998, vol. 3525, 82-93.
• L. E. Parker, “Distributed Control of Multi-Robot Teams: Cooperative Baton-Passing Task,” Proceedings of
the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS ’98), vol. 3, 89-94.
• L. E. Parker, “Adaptive Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams,” Proceedings of Neural Networks and Their Applications (NEURAP ’98), 87-94.
• L. E. Parker, “Cooperative Motion Control for Multi-Target Observation,” Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ’97), 1591-1598.
• L. E. Parker and Brad Emmons, “Cooperative Multi-Robot Observation of Multiple Moving Targets,” Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, vol. 3, 2082-2089.
• L. E. Parker, “Multi-Robot Motion Control for Cooperative Observation,” in Proceedings of Fifteenth Symposium on Energy Engineering Sciences, CONF-9705121, held at Argonne National Laboratory, May 1997:
223-230.
• L. E. Parker, “Task-Oriented Multi-Robot Learning in Behavior-Based Systems,” in Proceedings of the 1996
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ’96) , November, 1996: 14781487.
• L. E. Parker, “The Effect of Action Recognition and Robot Awareness in Cooperative Robotic Teams,” Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ’95), August
1995: vol. 1, 212-219.
• L. E. Parker, “Distributed Multi-Robot Sensing and Tracking: A Behavior-Based Approach,” SPIE International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, Conference on Sensor Fusion and
Networked Robotics VIII, October 1995: 110-121.
• L. E. Parker, “ALLIANCE: An Architecture for Fault Tolerant, Cooperative Control of Heterogeneous Mobile
Robots,” Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE/RSJ/GI International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS ’94), September 1994: 776-783.
• L. E. Parker, “An Experiment in Mobile Robotic Cooperation,” Proceedings of the ASCE Specialty Conference
on Robotics for Challenging Environments, February, 1994: 131-139.
• L. E. Parker, “Designing Control Laws for Cooperative Agent Teams,” Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: 582-587.
• L. E. Parker, “Adaptive Action Selection for Cooperative Agent Teams,” Proceedings of the Second International
Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, MIT Press, 1992: 442-450.
• L. E. Parker and F. G. Pin, “Man-Robot Symbiosis: A Framework for Cooperative Intelligence and Control,”
Proceedings of SPIE Cambridge Symposium: Advances in Intelligent Robot Systems, November 1988: 94-103.
• L. E. Parker and F. G. Pin, “Architecture for Dynamic Task Allocation in a Man-Robot Symbiotic System,”
Proceedings of SPIE Cambridge Symposium: Advances in Intelligent Robot Systems, November 1987: 95-102.
• L. E. Parker and F. G. Pin, “A Methodology for Dynamic Task Allocation in a Man-Machine System,” Proceedings of Goddard Conference on Space Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, May 1987.
Refereed Symposia, Lightly-Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers:
• Y. Li, S. Lenaghan, J. Burris, C. N. Stewart, L. E. Parker, and M. Zhang, “Detecting the Environmental
Impact of Nanoparticles Using Plant-Based Biosensors”, IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology,
2011.
• R. Edwards, L. E. Parker, and D. R. Resseguie, “Robopedia: Leveraging Sensorpedia for Web-Enabled Robot
Control”, Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services,
part of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, published in Multicon
Lecture Notes series, March, 2010.
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• Y. Li and L. E. Parker, “Intruder detection using a wireless sensor network with an intelligent mobile robot
response”, IEEE SoutheastCon, April 2008.
• Y. Li and L. E. Parker, “Classification with missing data in a wireless sensor network”, IEEE SoutheastCon,
April 2008.
• Y. Tang and L. E. Parker, “Introducing SB-CoRLA, a Schema-Based Constructivist Robot Learning Architecture”, IEEE SoutheastCon, April 2008.
• X. Li and L. E. Parker, “Design and performance improvements for fault detection in tightly-coupled multirobot team tasks”, IEEE SoutheastCon, April 2008.
• L. E. Parker, ”Distributed Intelligence: Overview of the Field and its Application in Multi-Robot Systems”,
in Proceedings of AAAI Fall Symposium on ”Regarding the Intelligence in Distributed Intelligent Systems”,
November 2007.
• B. Kannan and L. E. Parker, “Fault-Tolerance Based Metrics for Evaluating System Performance in MultiRobot Teams”, in Proceedings of Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS), August
2006.
• F. Tang and L. E. Parker, “Layering Coalition Formation with Task Allocation”, in Workshop Notes of AAAI06 Workshop on Auction Mechanisms for Robot Coordination, July 2006.
• F. Tang and L. E. Parker, “Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teaming through Reconfigurable Schemas”, AAAI
Spring Symposium on “To Boldly Go Where No Human-Robot Team Has Gone Before”, Stanford University,
March 2006.
• L. E. Parker, “On the Development of Metrics for Multi-Robot Teams within the ALLIANCE Architecture”,
NIST Workshop on Metrics for Intelligence, August 2000.
• L. E. Parker, “Generating Self-Reliant Teams of Autonomous Cooperating Robots: Desired Design Characteristics,” Working Notes of Autonomous Agents (Agents ’99) Autonomy Control Software Workshop, May
1999.
• L. E. Parker, “Learning in Cooperative Robot Teams,” Working Notes of International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Workshop on Dynamically Interacting Robots, August 1993: 12-23.
• L. E. Parker, “A Performance-Based Architecture for Heterogeneous, Situated Agent Cooperation,” Working
Notes of AAAI Workshop on Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems, July 1992: 96-105.
Poster Presentation:
• H. Sanyal, Y. H. Al-Wadei, M. S. Bhandari, S. S. Shrestha, B. Karpay, A. L. Garret, R. E. Edwards, L.
E. Parker, and J. R. New. “Poster: Building Energy Model Calibration using EnergyPlus, Supercomputing,
and Machine Learning”, Proceedings of the 5th National SimBuild of IBPSA-USA, International Building
Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), August 2012.
• L. E. Parker and F. Tang, “ASyMTRe: Building Multi-Robot Coalitions through Automated Task Solution
Synthesis”, presented at German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (GAFOE), April 2007.
Technical Reports:
• L. E. Parker, “L-ALLIANCE: A Mechanism for Adaptive Action Selection in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot
Teams,” ORNL/TM-13000, October 1995.
• L. E. Parker, “Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Cooperation,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. Dissertation, January 1994. Available as MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report 1465, February
1994.
• L. E. Parker, “Local versus Global Control Laws for Cooperative Agent Teams,” MIT A.I. Memo 1357, March
1992.
• L. E. Parker, “Job Planning and Execution Monitoring for a Human-Robot Symbiotic System,” ORNL/TM11308, CESAR-89/34, November 1989.
• L. E. Parker and F. G. Pin, “Dynamic Task Allocation for a Man-Machine Symbiotic System,” ORNL/TM10397, CESAR-87/08, June 1987.
• L. E. Parker and C. R. Weisbin, eds., “1988 Workshop on Human-Machine Symbiotic Systems Proceedings,”
(December 5-6, 1988) ORAU 89/C-140, CESAR-89/19.
• L. E. Parker, “A Robot Navigation Algorithm for Moving Obstacles,” University of Tennessee Master’s Thesis,
June 1988.
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Other Publications:
• L. E. Parker, “Cooperative Robotics Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,” in SPIE Robotics and
Machine Perception Newsletter, 5 (2), September 1996: 6.
• L. E. Parker, “Fault Tolerant Multi-Robot Cooperation,” MIT AI Laboratory Video AIV 9, December 1994.
Invited Talks:
International:
• “Distributed Robot Systems: Accomplishments, Unifying Themes, and Future Directions”, Post-IAS-13 Conference Workshop, July 19, 2014, Venice, Italy.
• “Towards Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teaming”, Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 30, 2014, Hong Kong,
China.
• “Towards Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teaming”, City University of Hong Kong, May 29, 2014, Hong Kong,
China.
• “Multi-Tasking in Heterogeneous Teams”, IROS 2013 Workshop From Remotely-Controlled to AutonomousCollaborative Robots, Nov. 10, 2013, Tokyo, Japan.
• “Towards Communication-Aware Coalition Formation in Heterogeneous Teams”, ICRA 2013 Workshop on
Networked Multi-Agent Systems: From Theory to Practice, May 6, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany.
• “An Information-Quality Approach for Generating Dynamic Multi-Robot Coalitions for Tightly-Coupled Tasks”,
RoSEC Winter School, Hanyang University, January 10, 2013, Seoul, South Korea.
• “Achieving Real-World Multi-Robot Teaming: Open Issues and Challenges”, IEEE ICRA Vienna Colloquium,
December 12, 2012, Vienna, Austria.
• “Dynamic Task Allocation in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams”, German summer school on Cooperation of
Robots and Sensor Networks, July 24, 2012, Bad Muenster am Stein-Ebernburg, Germany.
• “General Information Quality-Based Approach for Satisfaction of Sensor Constraints in Tightly-Coupled MultiRobot Tasks”, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, February 6, 2012, Chennai, India.
• “Multi-Robot Path Planning”, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, February 6, 2012, Chennai, India.
• “Decision Making as Optimization in Multi-robot Teams”, 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technologies, February 4, 2012, Bhubaneswar, India.
• “Distributed Intelligence in Multiple Mobile Robot Systems”, ABB Corporation, January 31, 2012, Bangalore,
India.
• “Towards Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Interaction”, October 21, 2011, Seoul National University, Seoul, South
Korea.
• “Tutorial: Distributed Intelligent Robot Technology”, October 19-20, 2011, Electronics and Telecommuniations
Research Institute, Daijeon, South Korea.
• “Distributed Intelligence and Multi-Robot Systems”, Sept. 23, 2011, Department of Automation, Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China.
• “Overview of Research in the Distributed Intelligence Laboratory”, Sept. 22, 2011, Beihang University, Beijing,
China.
• “Distributed Robotics and Intelligent Systems”, Intelligent Robotics Insitute, September 12, 2011, Beijing
Institute of Technology, Beijing, China.
• “Tutorial: Dynamic Task Allocation in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams”, Research Meeting on Distributed
Computing by Mobile Robots, August 17, 2010, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
• “Tutorial: Multiple Mobile Robot Systems”, Research Meeting on Distributed Computing by Mobile Robots,
August 17, 2010, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
• “General Information Quality-Based Approach for Satisfaction of Sensor Constraints in Tightly-Coupled MultiRobot Tasks”, ROSACE (Robots and self-adaptive embedded communicating systems) Project Workshop,
February 12, 2010, LAAS, Toulouse, France.
• “Towards Strongly Cooperative Multi-Robot Teams: Dealing with Heterogeneity and Faulty Systems”, May
29, 2009, Orebro University, Sweden.
• “Dynamic Task Allocation in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams”, German summer school on Monitoring and
Coordination Across Networked Autonomous Entitites, August 19, 2008, Bad Muenster am Stein-Ebernburg,
Germany.
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• “Performance Monitoring and Benchmarking in Multi-Robot Teams”, German summer school on Monitoring and Coordination Across Networked Autonomous Entitites, August 18, 2008, Bad Muenster am SteinEbernburg, Germany.
• “Dealing with Heterogeneity in Multi-Robot Teams”, IRIDIA seminar, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, June 20,
2008, Brussels, Belgium.
• “Collaborative Processing in Sensor Networks”, tutorial, International Conference on Control, Automation,
Robotics, and Vision, December 5, 2006, Singapore.
• “Intelligence, Reasoning, and Knowledge in Multi-Vehicle Systems: Recent Advances and Current Research
Challenges”, plenary talk, IFAC First Workshop on Multivehicle Systems, October 3, 2006, Salvador, Brazil.
• Invited Panelist, New Trends in Multi-Vehicle Systems, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
First Workshop on Multivehicle Systems, October 3, 2006, Salvador, Brazil.
• “Dealing with Heterogeneity in Multi-Robot Teams”, Workshop on Fieldable Multirobot Systems, International
Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 18, 2005, Barcelona, Spain.
• “Experiments with a Large-Scale Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Team”, EURON (European Robotics Research
Network) Annual Meeting, Warsaw University of Technology, February 17, 2005, Warsaw, Poland.
• “Software Reconfigurability for Networked Heterogeneous Mobile Robots”, Workshop on Networked Robotics,
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 29, 2004, Sendai, Japan.
• “Autonomously Reconfigurable Distributed Schemas for Task-Level Multi-Robot Team Control: Proof of Concept”, Workshop on Issues and Approaches to Task Level Control, International Conference on Intelligent
Robots and Systems, September 28, 2004, Sendai, Japan.
• “Real-World Challenges in Deploying a Large-Scale Mobile Sensor Network”, Workshop on Urban Search and
Rescue, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 28, 2004, Sendai, Japan.
• “From Theoretical to Practical Implementations of Heterogeneous Robot Teams”, The Second Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics, October 11, 2002, Stockholm, Sweden.
• “Towards Practical Implementations of 100+ Heterogeneous Robot Teams”, Workshop on Cooperative Robotics
at the 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems”, October 1, 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• “Multi-Robot Systems: Where we have been and Where we are going”, Plenary speech, Joint Session of 2002
RoboCup Symposium and 2002 Distributed Autonomous Robot Systems (DARS) Symposium, June 25, 2002,
Fukuoka, Japan.
• “Advances in Multi-Robot Systems”, Plenary speech, Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life and
Robotics, January 16, 2002, Beppu, Japan.
• “Distributed Robotics and Team Learning in Inherently Cooperative Tasks”, University of Tokyo, Institute for
Industrial Science, January 15, 2002, Tokyo, Japan.
• “Cooperative Robot Teams”, Czech Technical University, Department of Cybernetics, August 30, 2001, Prague,
Czech Republic.
• “Distributed Robot Team Learning in Inherently Cooperative Tasks”, Silesian University, Institute for Computer Science, August 27, 2001, Opava, Czech Republic.
• “Current State of the Art in Robotics”, Artificial Intelligence Delegation Presentation, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Institute of Computer Science and Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence, June 9, 1998, Beijing,
China.
• “From Social Animals to Teams of Cooperating Robots: Examples of Successful Multi-Robot Cooperation,”
IROS ’97 Workshop Multi-Robot Cooperation: Current Trends and Key Issues, September 7, 1997, Grenoble,
France.
• “Learning in Cooperative Robot Teams,” International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI),
Workshop on Dynamically Interacting Robots, August 1993, Chambery, France.
National:
• Panelist, Innovations in Robotics, IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference, April 25,
San Jose, California.
• “CISEIIS Research at the National Science Foundation”, Workshop on Research Issues at the Boundary of AI
and Robotics, January 25, 2015, Austin, Texas.
• “What’s Hot in Intelligent Robots and Systems”, Annual Conference of the Association for the Advancement
of Artificial Intelligence, January 27, Austin, Texas.
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• “Towards Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teaming”, Texas A&M Robotics Symposium, January 22, 2015, College
Station, Texas.
• “Characterizing Commonalities in Multi-Robot Systems Research”, IROS Workshop on The Future of MultipleRobot Research and Its Multiple Identities”, Sept. 18, 2014, Chicago, Illinois.
• “Towards Natural and Reliable Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teams”, 7th International Symposium on Resilient
Control Systems, August 19, 2014, Denver, Colorado.
• “Exploiting Heterogeneity in Large-Scale Networks of Robots, Agents, Sensors, and People”, NSF/CCC Visioning 2025 Workshop: Interacting with the Computers All Around Us”, May 13, 2014, Washington, D.C.
• “From Birds and Bees to Multi-Robot Teams: What Nature Can Teach Roboticists”, Carolinas Women in
Computing, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, February 7, 2014.
• “Multi-Tasking in Heterogeneous Robot Teams”, Texas A&M University, January 27, 2014, College Station,
Texas.
• “Forming and Executing Coalitions of Heterogeneous Robots”, Workshop on Many-Robot Systems: Crossing
the Reality Gap, at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 14, 2012, St. Paul, MN.
• “Using Prognosis-Based Control for Fault Prevention in Multirobot Teams”, Invited presentation at workshop
on redundancy in robotic manipulators and multi-robot systems, September 26, 2011, San Francisco, CA.
• “Generating Dynamic Multi-Robot Coalitions for Tightly-Coupled Tasks”, Department of Computer Science
research colloquium series, University of Alabama, March 8, 2010, Tuscaloosa, AL.
• “General Information Quality-Based Approach for Satisfaction of Sensor Constraints in Tightly-Coupled MultiRobot Tasks”, GRASP (General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception) Lab Seminar Series, University of Pennsylvania, October 23, 2009, Philadelphia, PA.
• “Smart Machines: Robots that Integrate Perception, Reasoning, and Action to Perform Cooperative Tasks”,
National Mu Alpha Theta Convention (National High School and Two-Year College Mathematics Honor Society), Knoxville, TN, July 21, 2009.
• “From Birds and Bees to Multi-Robot Teams: What Nature Can Teach Roboticists”, Global Conference on
Educational Robotics, Norman, OK, July 8, 2008.
• “A Progress Report on Networked Robot Systems Research in the USA”, Workshop on Network Robot Systems:
Benchmarks and Platforms Towards Human-Robot Interaction, IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation, Pasadena, CA, May 19, 2008.
• “Towards Strongly Cooperative Multi-Robot Teams: Dealing with Heterogeneity and Faulty Systems”, Colloquium Series, College of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little
Rock, AR, March 21, 2008.
• “Distributed Intelligence: Overview of the Field and its Application in Multi-Robot Systems”, AAAI Fall
Symposium on Regarding the Intelligence in Distributed Intelligent Systems, Arlington, VA, November 10,
2007.
• “Advances in Robotics”, Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellows Program, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2007.
• “Distributed Intelligence”, Next Generation Innovation Forum, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme,
CA, May 22, 2007.
• “Building Multi-Robot Coalitions: Enabling Sensor and Capability Sharing Across Heterogeneous Teams”, U.
S. National Intelligence Council’s (NIC) Science and Technology Expert Partnership (STEP) Workshop on
Advanced Robotics, March 20, 2007, McLean, VA.
• Invited Academic Panelist, Unmanned Systems Capabilities Conference, January 23, 2007, Nashville, TN.
• “Towards Strongly Cooperative Multi-Robot Teams: Dealing with Heterogeneity and Faulty Systems”, The
City College of New York, November 13, 2006, New York City, NY.
• Invited Panelist, Robotics Science and Systems Workshop on Science and Technology Challenges, August 18,
2006, Philadelphia, PA.
• Invited Panelist, NSF Workshop on the Future of Robotics Research, May 14, 2006, Orlando, FL.
• “Intelligence, Reasoning and Knowledge: Current State of the Field and Open Research Challenges”, Keynote
speaker, International Advanced Robotics Programme Planning Forum, May 13, 2006, Orlando, FL.
• “Overview of Research in Distributed Intelligence Laboratory”, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, March 6, 2006, Cherry Hill, NJ.
• “The Merging of Man and Machine: Using Brain-Computer Interfaces to Augment Human Capabilities”,
Institute for Defense Analyses, November 15, 2005, Alexandria, VA.
• “Generating Coalescent Multi-Robot Teams through Distributed Sensor Sharing”, Vanderbilt University, Jan-
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uary 27, 2005, Nashville, TN.
• “Experiments with a Large-Scale Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Team”, University of Notre Dame, September
16, 2004, South Bend, IN.
• “Generating Fault Tolerance through Learning in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams”, DARPA Information
Science and Technology Workshop on Cognitive Systems Focused on Team/Multiagent Learning, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, June 2, 2004, Cambridge, MA.
• “Indoor Target Intercept Using an Acoustic Sensor Network and Dual Wavefront Path Planning”, 10th International Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems for Hazardous Environments”, March 30, 2004,
Gainesville, FL.
• “Adaptable Tactical Behaviors for Unmanned Ground Vehicles”, Army Research Laboratory Tactical Behaviors
Workshop, U.S. Army War College, October 28, 2003, Carlisle, PA.
• “Heterogeneous Mobile Sensor Net Planning and Deployment Using Robot Herding”, Georgia Institute of
Technology, October 20, 2003, Atlanta, GA.
• “Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Herding for Mobile Sensor Network Deployment”, The Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University, September 5, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA.
• “Distributed Intelligence Research at The University of Tennessee”, Intel Robotics Workshop and Forum,
January 23, 2003, Hillsboro, OR.
• “Towards Cooperative Robot Teams in Complex Site Preparation Tasks”, Carnegie Mellon University, The
Robotics Institute, December 11, 2001, Pittsburgh, PA.
• “Distributed Robotics and Team Learning in Inherently Cooperative Tasks”, George Mason University, Computer Science Department Seminar Series, November 16, 2001, Fairfax, VA.
• “Distributed Robot Cooperation and Team Learning in Inherently Cooperative Tasks”, Penn State University,
Department of Mathematics Distinguished Visitors Program, October 31, 2001, University Park, PA.
• “Autonomous and Cooperative Robotics at ORNL”, Vanderbilt University, Center for Intelligent Systems, May
18, 2001, Nashville, TN.
• “Multi-Robot Cooperation: From Fundamental Research to Real-World Applications”, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Association for Women in Mathematics Workshop on Connecting Women in
Mathematical Sciences to Industry, September 9, 2000, Minneapolis, MN.
• “The ALLIANCE Architecture for Multi-Robot Control”, NASA Surface Systems Meeting, Panel on MultiRobot Control Architectures – Redundancies and Commonalities, March 24, 2000, Pasadena. CA.
• “System of Systems Robotics: Multi-Robot Cooperation”, Center for Intelligent Systems Seminar, Science
Applications International Corporation, March 8, 2000, Littleton, CO.
• “Cooperation and Learning in Multiple Robot Teams”, Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series, Naval Research Laboratory, March 6, 2000, Washington, D.C.
• “An Overview of ORNL’s Research in Robotics”, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
Seminar, November 2, 1999, Idaho Falls, ID.
• “We Don’t See Eye to Eye: A Distributed Robot’s View of Sensor Fusion”, (together with Prof. Robin Murphy),
SPIE Robotics and Machine Perception Technical Group meeting, September 20, 1999, Boston, MA.
• “Generating Self-Reliant Teams of Autonomous Cooperating Robots: Desired Design Characteristics,” Autonomous Agents (Agents ’99) Autonomy Control Software Workshop, May 1, 1999, Seattle, WA.
• “From Social Animals to Teams of Cooperating Robots”, short presentation for DARPA workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches for Micro Air Vehicles, April 21-22, 1999, Washington, D.C.
• “Overview of Autonomous and Cooperative Robotics Research At Oak Ridge National Laboratory”, JAUGS
(Joint Architecture for Unmanned Ground Systems) Working Group Meeting, October 6, 1998, Huntsville, AL.
• “Distributed Motion Control for Multi-Robot Observation of Multiple Moving Targets”, University of Southern
California, Department of Computer Science, August 18, 1998, Los Angeles, CA.
• “Small-Scale Locomotion, Intelligent Cooperation, and Energy- Efficient Computation: A Concept for Cooperating Heterogeneous Biomorphic Explorers”, First NASA/JPL Workshop on Biomorphic Explorers for Future
Missions, August 20, 1998, Pasadena, CA.
• “On the Design of Cooperating Multi-Robot Teams,” University of Arkansas, Department of Applied Science
Seminar Series, January 21, 1998, Little Rock, AR.
• “Cooperating Multi-Robot Teams,” Harding University, January 22, 1998, Searcy, AR.
• “Multi-Robot Cooperation,” University of Wisconsin, Computer Science Department Seminar Series, November
14, 1997, Milwaukee, WI.
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• “Fault Tolerance and Heterogeneity in Multi-Robot Reconnaissance,” short presentation for DARPA workshop
on Small Multi-Agent Reconnaissance Technology, May 21, 1997, Washington, D.C.
• “Multi-Robot Cooperation,” Distinguished Lecture, LSU 25th Anniversary Symposium, Department of Computer Science, April 18, 1997, Baton Rouge, LA.
• “Multi-Robot Cooperation,” Caterpillar, Inc., October 22, 1996, Peoria, IL.
• “Multi-Robot Team Design for Real-World Applications,” ONR Autonomous Robotics Workshop, June 1996,
Newport, R.I.
• “From Social Animals to Teams of Cooperating Robots,” Biologically Inspired Autonomous Systems Workshop,
Duke University, March 4, 1996, Durham, NC.
• “Adaptive Cooperation in Heterogeneous Robot Teams,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation; Workshop on Needs for Research in Cooperating Robots, May 1993, Atlanta, GA.
• “Designing Control Laws for Cooperative Agent Teams,” 1993 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation, May 1993, Atlanta, GA.
• “Adaptive Action Selection for Cooperative Agent Teams,” Rowland Institute for Science, Seminar Series on
Natural and Artificial Computation, March 1993, Cambridge, MA.
• “A Performance-Based Architecture for Heterogeneous, Situated Agent Cooperation,” AAAI Workshop on
Cooperation Among Heterogeneous Intelligent Systems, July 1992, San Jose, CA.
• “A Methodology for Dynamic Task Allocation in a Human-Machine System,” Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
October 1987, Dayton, OH.
Regional:
• “Where are the Women? Strategies for Increasing Female Student Participation in EECS”, University of
Tennessee MicNite, November 12, 2014, Knoxville, TN.
• “From Birds and Bees to Multi-Robot Teams: What Nature Can Teach Roboticists”, Tennessee Celebration
of Women in Computing, October 14, 2011, Fall Creek Falls State Park, Tennessee.
• “Research in Multi-Robot Systems”, University of Tennessee Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, April
6, 2011, Knoxville, TN.
• “Distributed Intelligence in Multi-Robot Teams”, University of Tennessee Centripetals seminar, April 29, 2009,
Knoxville, TN.
• “Creating Intelligent Mobile Robot Teams”, Oak Ridge Philosophical Society, March 2, 2007, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Creating Intelligent Mobile Robot Teams”, Sarah Moore Green Technology Magnet School, February 10, 2005,
Knoxville, TN.
• “Smart Machines: Robots that Integrate Perception, Reasoning, and Action to Perform Cooperative Tasks”,
University of Tennessee Pre-Game Faculty Showcase Lecture, September 18, 2004, Knoxville, TN.
• “Robots and How they Might Some Day Change Your Life”, American Association of Family and Consumer
Sciences, Knoxville Area Home and Community Section, December 5, 2002, Knoxville, TN.
• “Robotics Research at ORNL”, Knoxville Technical Society, July 9, 2001, Knoxville, TN.
• “Multi-Robot Systems”, American Nuclear Society of Knoxville/Oak Ridge, April 24, 2001, Knoxville, TN.
• “Looking to the Future ... Multi-Robot Teams”, Center for Manufacturing Research, Manufacturing 2020
Seminar Series, Tennessee Technological University, March 29, 2001, Cookeville, TN.
• “Autonomous Mobile Robotics”, Farragut Rotary Club, March 28, 2001, Farragut, TN.
• “Multi-Robot Teams”, Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning, Frontiers in Science and Technology,
February 28, 2001, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Cooperative Autonomous Mobile Robotics Research at ORNL”, East Tennessee Economic Council, February
16, 2001, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Cooperation and Learning in Multi-Robot Teams”, University of Tennessee Department of Nuclear Engineering seminar series, January 31, 2001, Knoxville, TN.
• “Teaching Robots to Cooperate”, Roane/Anderson Counties Professional Society and Friends of ORNL, January 10, 2001, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Ethics in Robotics: Implications of Asimov’s Three Laws”, Women in Science and Technology Conference,
Panel on Ethics, March 10, 2000, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Robotics Research”, 35th Annual Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, March 3, 2000, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Multi-Robot Cooperation”, SIAM Southeastern-Atlantic Sectional Meeting, University of Tennessee, March
19-20, 1999, Knoxville, TN.
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• “Cooperative Robotics Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory”, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Robotics Workshop, August 13, 1998, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Cooperating Multi-Robot Teams,” ORNL Advisory Committee Review, ORNL, April 20, 1998, Oak Ridge,
TN.
• “Behavior-Based Robot Control,” guest lecture, University of Tennessee Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
class on Real-Time Robot Control, March 25, 1996, Knoxville, TN.
• “Cooperative Robot Control,” guest lecture, University of Tennessee Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
class on Real-Time Robot Control, March 27, 1996, Knoxville, TN.
• “Mobile Robots: Real-Life Fact versus Hollywood Fiction,” Wattec Science in Action presentation, Tennessee
Valley Authority, February 22, 1996, Knoxville, TN.
• “Practical Issues in the Use of Expert Systems,” guest lecture, Masters Accounting Systems Class, University
of Tennessee, February 21, 1995, Knoxville, TN.
• “An Autonomous Job Planning System,” CESAR/CEA Workshop on Autonomous Mobile Robots, May 1989,
Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Human-Machine Symbiosis,” CESAR/CEA Seminar on Advanced Teleoperation, March 1989, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Illustration of Human-Machine Symbiosis Technology—Review of ORNL/ORAU Symbiosis Workshop,” Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, January 1989, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Reasoning Methodologies for Human-Machine Symbiosis,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory, May 1988, Oak
Ridge, TN.
• “Computing Careers for the ’90’s,” Powell High School Professional Involvement Seminar, Spring 1988, Powell,
TN.
• “Overview of Robotics,” Oak Ridge Science Semester Seminar Series, March 1988, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “A Methodology for Dynamic Task Allocation,” Robotics and Intelligent Systems Program Review, November
1987, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Status of Research in Dynamic Task Allocation for a Human-Machine Symbiotic System,” Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, September 1987, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Human-Machine Dynamic Task Allocation: Concepts and Issues,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 1987,
Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Dynamic Task Allocation for a Human-Machine Symbiotic System,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April
1987, Oak Ridge, TN.
• “Scientific Computing at Martin Marietta Energy Systems,” ACM Chapter Meeting, Tennessee Technological
University, Spring 1984, Cookeville, TN.
Research Funding
• PI: NRI: Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Coalitions, FY14–17, $521,309.
• PI: Systers: Women in EECS at UTK, Alliance of Women Philanthropists Giving Circle, FY14–15, $13,305.
• PI: MRI: Acquisition of Infant/Robot Grasp Learning Instrumentation, NSF, FY12–15, $312,844 (plus costshare of $134,076 from UTK).
• PI: Analysis Tools for Sensor-Based Energy Modeling, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, FY11–13, $146,966.
• PI: Editor-in-Chief Duties, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, FY11–14, $74,850.
• PI: Program Manager for UTK/ORNL Science Alliance, FY08–2014, salary support worth approx. $285,000.
• Co-PI at UTK: STARS Alliance: A Southeastern Partnership for Broadening Participation in Computing, NSF
funds, via subcontract from Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, FY08-11, $68,177.
• PI: RI-Small: Reconfigurable and Adaptable Multi-Robot Teams, NSF, FY08–12, $354,123.
• PI: Subject Matter Support for Shared Situational Awareness Internal Research and Development, Lockheed
Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory, FY10, $3,000.
• PI: UTK Organized Research Unit, Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning, FY10-11, $60,000.
• PI: IEEE Robotics, FY05–10, $19,800.
• PI: SARIF Summer Support for Graduate Student, 2010, $3,600.
• PI: Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teaming, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratory, FY08–09, $85,000.
• PI: Development of C++ API and Curriculum for IPRE “Scribbler” Robot, Institute for Personal Robots in
Education, Georgia Institute of Technology, FY08–09, $10,000.
• PI: SGER: Constructivist Learning using ASyMTRe in Multi-Robot Teams, FY06–08, NSF, $200,000.
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PI: Distributed Modeling and Anomaly Detection in Mobile and Sensor Networks, FY06–07, ORNL, $90,000.
PI: SARIF Summer Support for Graduate Student, 2007, $3,600.
PI: SARIF Summer Support for Graduate Student, 2006, $3,600.
PI: Travel grant to ICRA 2005, NSF, $1,300.
PI: Unrestricted research gift, FY04–FY06, SAIC, $35,000.
PI: High Performance Computing for Robotic Systems, FY03–04, SAIC, $41,500.
PI: SARIF Summer Support for Graduate Student, 2004, $3,000.
PI: Technical Support for DARPA SideKick Seedling, FY03, DARPA (via SAIC), $35,920.
PI: Analysis of Distributed Robotics Algorithms, FY03–04, ORNL, $71,619.
PI: Software Technologies for Dynamic Autonomy in Teams of Robots, Agents, and People, FY03–04, UTK
Center for Information Technology Research Challenge Grant, $21,105.
PI at UTK: An Integrated Approach for Multi-Robot Cooperative Ad-Hoc Network and Intelligent Behavior
for Indoor Reconnaissance, FY02–FY04, DARPA/IPTO. Total project funding: $1,898,975; UTK funding:
$343,000. Joint project with SAIC (Prime), University of Southern, and Telcordia.
PI: Distributed Robotics: Analysis of Swarm Robot Algorithms, DARPA/ITO, FY02–FY04, $300,000.
PI: User Interfaces for Multi-Robot Teams: Definition of Multi-Robot Team Requirements, DARPA/ITO, FY01,
$75,000.
Co-PI: Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research (CESAR) Program, FY01–FY02, Department of
Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, $5,000,000.
PI: Distributed Planning and Control for Teams of Cooperating Mobile Robots: Phase III, Caterpillar, Inc.,
FY01, $75,000.
PI: Distributed Planning and Control for Teams of Cooperating Mobile Robots: Phase II, Caterpillar, Inc.,
FY00, $75,000.
PI: Urban Robotics, DARPA/ATO. ORNL’s funding: Phase I (FY98): $75,000. Phase II (FY99–FY00):
$482,000. Joint project with JPL (Prime), University of Southern California, IS Robotics.
PI: Distributed Planning and Control for Teams of Cooperating Mobile Robots: Phase I, Caterpillar, Inc., FY99,
$75,000.
Co-PI: Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research (CESAR) Program, FY98–FY00, Department of
Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, $6,700,000.
PI: Cooperative Robotics Program Development, ORNL, FY97, $20,000.
Co-PI: Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research (CESAR) Program, FY95–FY97, Department of
Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, $5,400,000.
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Advising of Graduate Students and Undergraduate Honors Theses
(does not include M.S. non-thesis committee work)
Year of
Graduation
Exp. 2016
Exp. 2017
Exp. 2016
Exp. 2016
Exp. 2016
Exp. 2016
Role
Student
Degree
Advisor
Advisor
Chi Zhang
Sudarshan
Srinivasan
Bob Lowe
Chris Reardon
Rui Guo
CS (Ph.D.)
CS (Ph.D.)
CS (Ph.D.)
CS (Ph.D.)
CompEng (Ph.D.)
Zahra Mahoor
CS (Ph.D.)
Advisor
Advisor
Committee
Member
Committee
Member
2014
Advisor
Hao Zhang
CS (Ph.D.)
2014
Advisor
Ben Taylor
CS (M.S.)
2014
Committee
Member
Edmon Begoli
CS (Ph.D.)
2014
Committee
Member
Bruce Johnson
CS (Ph.D.)
2013
Advisor
Richard Edwards
CS (Ph.D.)
2013
Committee
Member
Yu Guan
Experimental
Psychology
(Ph.D.)
2012
Committee
Member
Ke Huang
Mech. Engr.
(Ph.D.)
2012
Committee
Kristy Van Hornweder
CS (Ph.D.)
2012
Committee
Penn Markham
EE (Ph.D.)
2012
Committee
Jonathan Hickerson
CS (M.S.)
Thesis/Project Title
or Topic Area
Robot Learning by Demonstration
Human-Robot Teaming
Prognostics for Robotics
Robot Teaching for Humans
Scene and Activity
Analysis and Understanding
Building Sensorimotor
Controller for Reaching
and Grasping Based on
Infants Data
3D Robotic Sensing of People:
Human Perception, Representation
and Activity Recognition
Pilot: Speech Processing
for the Meka Robot
Procedural-Reasoning
Architecture for Applied Behavior
Analysis-based Instructions
Computing Approximate
Solutions to the Art Gallary
Problem and Watchman
Route Problem by Means
of Photon Mapping
Automating Large-Scale
Simulation Calibration to
Real-World Sensor Data
5- and 8-month-olds’
Visual Exploration of 2D Scenes:
The Relative Impact of Object Size,
Object Detail, and Depth Cue
on Infant’s Visual Attention
Passive Control Architectures
for Multiuser Virtual Haptic
Interaction and Bilateral
Teleoperation over Unreliable
Packet-Switched Networks
Sketchmate: A Computer-Aided
Sketching and Simulation Tool
for Teaching Graph Algorithms
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Applications of Wide-Area
Measurement Data in
Electric Power Systems
Track Prediction for Border
Security Using Kalman Filtering
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Graduate Student Advising (continued):
2012
Advisor
CS (Ph.D.)
Committee
Yu “Tony”
Zhang
Nick Overfield
Zhang
Trey White
2011
Advisor
2011
2010
Committee
John Eblen
CS (Ph.D.)
2010
Committee
Rajib Nath
CS (M.S.)
2010
Advisor
Yuanyuan Li
CS (Ph.D.)
2009
Committee
Member
Committee
Member
Jason Carter
CS (Ph.D.)
Gil Jones
CS (Ph.D.)
Carnegie Mellon
Joshua New
CS (Ph.D.)
Michael Orsega
CS (Ph.D.)
2009
Committee
Member
Committee
Member
“Opponent”
Robert Lundh
2009
Advisor
Nick Overfield
Technology
(Ph.D.)
Orebro Univ.
Sweden
CS (B.S.)
2009
Advisor
Scott Livingston
EE and Math
(B.S.)
2009
Committee
Member
Mark Lenox
CS (Ph.D.)
2008
Committee
Member
Advisor
Yun Zhang
CS (Ph.D.)
Yifan Tang
CS (Ph.D.)
2009
2009
2009
2008
CS (M.S.)
CS (Ph.D.)
Coalition Formation and Execution
in Multi-Robot Tasks
cytonGrasp: Cyton Alpha
in Controller via GraspIt! Simulation
Algorithms for Advection on
Hybrid Parallel Computers
The Maximum Clique Problem:
Algorithms, Applications,
and Implementations
Accelerating Dense Linear Algebra
for GPUs, Multicores and Hybrid
Architectures: An Autotuned
and/or Algorithmic Approach
Anomaly Detection in Unknown
Environments Using Wireless
Sensor Networks
Sequence-based Specification
of Embedded Systems
Multi-Robot Coordination
in Domains with
Intra-Path Constraints
Visual Analytics for Relationships
in Scientific Data
Sketchmate: A Digital Drawing Tool
for the Splay Tree Data Structure
Robots that Help Each Other:
Self-Configuration of
Distributed Robot Systems
Honors Thesis: Implicit
Communication for Peer-to-Peer
Human-Robot Teams
in Shared Work Spaces
Honors Thesis: Multi-modal
Person Tracking: Toward Peer-to-Peer
Human-Robot Teams Using Implicit
Communication in Shared Workspaces
Iterative Transmission Image
Reconstruction for the
DPET Positron Emission Tomograph
Scalable Graph Algorithms
with Applications in Genetics
SB-CoRLA: Schema-Based
Constructivist Robot Learning
Architecture
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Graduate Student Advising (continued):
2008
Committee
Member
Brandon Merkl
Mech. Engr.
(Ph.D.)
2008
Advisor
Xingyan Li
CS (Ph.D.)
2008
Advisor
Chris Reardon
CS (M.S.)
2008
Committee
Member
Anders
Christensen
2007
Committee
Member
Jon Scharff
Applied Science
(Ph.D.),
Universite Libre
de Bruxelles,
Belgium
CS (M.S.)
2007
Committee
Member
Matthew Aldridge
CS (Ph.D.)
2007
Committee
Member
Alexander Usynin
Nuclear Eng.
(Ph.D.)
2007
Committee
Member
Erika Fuentes
CS (Ph.D.)
2007
Advisor
Balajee Kannan
CS (Ph.D.)
2007
Committee
Member
Pamela Murray
Mech. Eng.
(Ph.D.)
The Future of the Operating Room:
Surgical Preplanning and
Navigation Using High Accuracy
Ultra-Wideband Positioning and
Advanced Bone Measurement
Sensor Analysis for Fault Detection
in Tightly-Coupled Multi-Robot
Team Tasks
Using Automated Task Solution
Synthesis to Generate Critical
Junctures for Management of Planned
and Reactive Cooperation between a
Human-Control Blimp and
an Autonomous Ground Robot
Fault Detection in Autonomous Robots:
Endogenous fault detection through
fault injection and learning –
exogenous fault detection based
on firefly-inspired synchronization
Preprocessing of Microarray Data
and Analysis and Comparison
Techniques for the Resulting
Graph Structure
A Finite State Machine Approach
to Cluster Identification using the
Hoshen-Kopelman Algorithm
A Generic Prognostic Approach
to Remaining Useful Life Prediction
of Complex Engineering Systems
Statistical and Machine Learning
Techniques Applied to Algorithm
Selection for Solving Sparse
Linear Systems
LeaF: A Learning-Based
Fault Diagnostic System
for Multi-Robot Teams
Modeling Coordinate Measuring
Machine Scanning Operations
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Graduate Student Advising (continued):
2007
2006
2006
2006
2006
2005
Committee
Member
Committee
Member
Advisor
Committee
Member
Committee
Member
Committee
Member
Lan Lin
CS (Ph.D.)
Lovekesh Vig
Fang “Daisy” Tang
EE (Ph.D.),
Vanderbilt
CS (Ph.D.)
Cheng Qian
ECE (M.S.)
Renbin Zhou
Yingyue Xu
Mech. Eng.
(Ph.D.)
ECE (Ph.D.)
2004
2004
Advisor
Advisor
Michael Bailey
Maureen Chandra
CS (M.S.)
CS (M.S.)
2004
Advisor
Jun Xu
CS (M.S.)
2003
Advisor
Jeff Barnett
CS (M.S.)
2003
Committee
Member
Committee
Member
Bugra Koku
EE (Ph.D.),
Vanderbilt
ECE (Ph.D.)
2003
Melissa Smith
2003
Committee
Member
Ashley Stroupe
Robotics (Ph.D.),
Carnegie Mellon
2002
Committee
Member
Sewoong Kim
Mech. Eng.
(Ph.D.)
Management of Requirements Changes
in Sequence-Based Software Specifications
Multi-Robot Coalition Formation
ASyMTRe: Building Coalitions for
Heterogeneous Multi-Robot teams
Distributed Solution to Detect Targets
in Crowds for Visual Sensor Networks
Control of a Transmission
Based Servo Actuator System
Energy Efficient Designs for
Collaborative Signal and Information
Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Pilot: WiFi for Mobile Robot Localization
Software Reconfigurability for
Heterogeneous Robot Cooperation
Pilot: Converting Grid-Based Map
to Topological Map
Pilot: Integration of XScale Processor
Board and WebCam for Object
Tracking on a Mobile Robot
Egocentric Navigation
and its Applications
Analytical Modeling of High Perf.
Reconfigurable Computers: Prediction
and Analysis of System Performance
Collaborative Execution of
Exploration and Tracking using Moving
Value Estimation for Robot Teams
Intelligent Fault Tolerant
Control for Telerobotic System
in Operational Space
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Teaching Experience:
Semester
Course
Fall 2014
Spring 2014
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
CS494/594: Autonomous Mobile Robots
CS581: Advanced Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CS494/594: Artificial Intelligence
CS581: Advanced Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CS620: Advanced Topics in Intelligent Systems
CS425/528 Machine Learning
CS581: Advanced Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CS620: Advanced Topics in Intelligent Systems
CS494/529: Autonomous Mobile Robotics
CS581: Advanced Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Support
Vector Machines
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Robot
Demonstration Learning
CS425/528: Machine Learning
CS593: STARS (Broadening participation in CS)
CS593: Grad. Independent Study on
Smart Home Automation
CS593: Grad. Independent Study on
Dempster-Shafer Theory
CS593: Grad. Independent Study on Collaborative
Human-Robot Interaction
CS581: Advanced Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Peer-to-Peer
Human-Robot Interaction
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Intent Recognition
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Sensor Fusion
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Bootstrap Learning
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Neural Networks
CS493: STARS (Broadening participation in CS)
CS494/594: Artificial Intelligence
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Machine Learning
CS594: STARS: (Broadening participation in CS)
CS493: STARS (Broadening participation in CS)
CS593: STARS (Broadening participation in CS)
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Stochastic Processes
CS581: Advanced Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Robotics/AI
CS493: Undergrad. Independent Study in Robotics/AI
CS494/594: Autonomous Mobile Robots
CS581: Advanced Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Artificial Intelligence
CS494/594: Machine Learning
CS494/594: Software for Intelligent Robotics
CS302: Fundamental Algorithms
CS493: 3D Robotic Simulations
CS494/594: Projects in Machine Learning
CS620: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010
Summer 2010
Spring 2010
Fall 2009
Summer 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Fall 2006
Summer 2006
Spring 2006
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Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
Fall 2002
Feb. 2001
July 1999
Fall 1989
1989
CS302:
CS620:
CS593:
CS581:
Fundamental Algorithms
Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
Grad. Independent Study in Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CS620: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Artificial Intelligence
CS594: Artificial Intelligence
CS620: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CS593: Grad. Independent Study in Artificial Intelligence
CS580: Foundations (Theory of Computation)
CS620/593/493: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CS302: Fundamental Algorithms
CS620/593: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CS594: Distributed Intelligence in Autonomous Robotics
CS620: Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence
CS594: Software for Intelligent Robotics
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Invited Professor,
Behavior-based and cooperative robotics
(1-week short course)
University of Buenos Aires, Invited Professor,
Collective and cooperative robotics
(1-week short course)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, GTA,
6.034: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
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Other Curriculum Development Activities:
• Initiated and led redevelopment of CS102 course to use robots for teaching introductory computing, beginning
Spring-Fall, 2008.
• Member, UTK-EECS Curriculum Reform Committee for Computer Science, Fall 2009–2011.
University, College, and Department Service:
• EECS Associate Head for Strategic Planning and External Relations, 2010–2014.
• UTK/ORNL Science Alliance, Assistant Director (Program Manager for UTK/ORNL Joint Directed Research
and Development Fund), 2008–2014.
• University of Tennessee Athletics Board, 2011–2015.
• Faculty Senate Appeals Committee, 2011–2014.
• Chair, UTK EECS Faculty Search Committee for Computer Science, and for Computer Engineering, 2013–2014.
• UTK Chancellor’s Top 25 Faculty Planning and Implementation Team, 2010–2011.
• UTK Chancellor’s Task Force on Civility and Community, 2010.
• Member, UTK-EECS Faculty Search Committee for Computer Engineering, Fall 2009–2010.
• Faculty Senate, Fall 2006–2012.
• Faculty Senate Committee on Nominations and Appointments, Spring 2010.
• Research Council (Faculty Senate Committee), Fall 2009–2011.
• Member, UTK-EECS Undergraduate Committee, 2008–2012.
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Faculty Senate Task Force on Program Reduction, Realignment, and Reallocation, Fall-Spring 2008.
Teaching Council (Faculty Senate Committee), Fall 2006–Spring 2009.
Search committee, UTK CEE Department Head, Spring 2008–Spring 2009.
EECS Department Ad Hoc Committee on Minimum Expectations of Faculty Members, Spring 2008.
Search committee, UTK-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Computing and Computational Science, 2006–2008.
Internal reviewer for academic program review of the UTK Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, Spring 2008.
• Member, UTK-EECS Graduate Curriculum Committee, 2007–2008.
Advisory/Review Boards and Study Panels:
• Appointed Member, National Research Council’s Technical Review Panel on Information Science (evaluates
research of the Army Research Laboratory), 2013–2014.
• Appointed Member, Board of Visitors, Army Research Office Biennial Review of the Network Sciences Division,
2014.
• Appointed Member, Review Panel, Swiss National Science Foundation National Center of Excellence in Robotics,
2011–2014.
• Appointed Member, External Expert Reviewer, European Union FP7 project MORPH (multiple underwater
vehicles), 2013–2014.
• Appointed Member, External Expert Reviewer, European Union FP7 project RUBICON (networked robotics),
2012–2013.
• Appointed Member, National Research Council’s Technical Review Panel on Air and Ground Vehicle Technology (evaluates research of the Army Research Laboratory’s Vehicle Technology Directorate), 2008–2012.
• Appointed Member, National Research Council’s Study Committee on “Persistent Intelligence: A Critical Tool
for the Counter-IED Mission”, 2009–2011.
• Appointed Member, External Expert Reviewer, European Union FP7 project URUS (robots in urban areas),
2008–2010.
• Appointed Member, National Research Council’s Technical Review Panel on Armor and Armaments (evaluates
research of the Army Research Laboratory’s Weapons and Materials Research Directorate), 2003–2007.
• Selected Member, Defense Science Study Group (DSSG) (17 selected out of 137 applicants), administered
by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), 2004–2005.
• Appointed Member, External Expert Reviewer, European Union FP7 project I-SWARM (swarm robotics),
2004–2006.
• Appointed Member, Strategic Advisory Committee, European Union’s “Beyond Robotics” program, 2004–2007.
• Invited Participant, DARPA ISAT (Information Science and Technology Board) Study Group, “Robot, Agent,
Person (RAP) Teams for Emerging Threats”, 2001.
• Member, Tennessee Technological University Computer Science Advisory board, 2003–2011.
• Member, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Library Advisory Board, 1997–2002.
Membership in Professional Organizations:
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Member, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Member, Association for Computing Machinery
Member, Sigma Xi
Leadership/Service in Professional Organizations:
• Chair, IEEE Fellows Evaluation Committee, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2014).
• Appointed Member, IEEE Fellows Evaluation Committee, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2013).
• Elected Member, Administrative Committee (RAS AdCom), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2008–
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• Appointed Member, Ad Hoc Committee on New Publication Strategies, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2014–Present.
• Appointed Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Elections, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2013–Present.
• Appointed Member, Nominations Committee, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2008–2014.
• Appointed Member, Steering Committee for Technical Programs, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society,
2010–2013.
• Appointed Member, Long Range Planning Committee, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2010–2012.
• Appointed Member, Conference Activities Board, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2012–2013).
• Appointed Member, Awards Evaluation Panel, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (2010).
• Appointed Member, Publication Activities Board, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2008–2013.
• Appointed Member, Electronic Products and Service Board, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2008–
2009, 2012–2013.
• Appointed Member, Fellows Nomination Committee, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society(2010).
• Member, Technical Committee on Networked Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2008–Present.
• Member, Technical Committee on Mobile Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 1995–2000.
Editorial Boards:
• Editor-in-Chief, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
(ICRA), 2011–2014.
• Editor, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS
2011).
• Editorial Board and Associate Editor, Swarm Intelligence, 2008–2014.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2003–2014.
• Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2005–2010
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 2002–2005.
• Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2004–2014.
Guest Editor:
• IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, special issue on Multirobot Systems, co-editor with E. Pagello
and T. Arai, 18 (5), 2002.
• Autonomous Robots, special issue on Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems, co-editor with T. Balch, 8 (3), 2000.
Conference Organization:
• General chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015)
• Program chair, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014).
• Best Paper Awards Committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2012, 2013.
• Program committee, International Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Human Robot Interaction, 2011.
• Associate Editor, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2011.
• Program committee, Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop, 2011.
• Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010).
• Technical Program Co-Chair, 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
(DARS 2010)
• Program committee, New Investigators Technical Papers for Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Conference, 2010.
• Chair of Subcommittee for Best Paper Award in Cognitive Robotics, IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010).
• Program committee, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS2010).
• Program committee, ANTS 2010 – Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, 2010.
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• International steering committee, International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for
Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2010).
• Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2009).
• Area chair, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2009).
• Steering committee, Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop, 2009–2010.
• International program committee, IFAC Workshop on Networked Robotics, 2009.
• Program committee, ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems (LAB-RS),
2009.
• Program committee,9th Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (Robotica 2009).
• Program committee, 14th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2009).
• Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008).
• Program committee, ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems (LAB-RS),
2008.
• Best Video Awards Committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008).
• Advisory Committee and Program Committee, Ninth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous
Robotic Systems (DARS 2008).
• Program committee, 8th European Symposium on Adaptive Learning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and
Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop (ALAMAS+ALAg-08).
• Senior Program Committee, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems special track on Multi-Robot Systems (AAAMAS-08).
• Best Video Award Committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008).
• Co-Organizer, IROS Workshop on Robot Semantic Web, 2007.
• Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007).
• Program committee, 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2007).
• Senior program committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007).
• Program committee, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAAMAS) Workshop on Adaptive and
Learning Agents, 2007.
• Program committee, 12th Conference of the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence, Workshop on Technology Transfer in Artificial Intelligence (CEPIA–TTIA 2007).
• Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2006).
• Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2006).
• Advisory Committee, Eighth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS
2006).
• Co-organizer, Third Naval Research Laboratory Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, Naval Research Laboratory,
March 2005.
• Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005).
• Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2005).
• Program committee, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2005).
• Program committee, 2005 Robotics Science and Systems.
• Program committee, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2004).
• Program committee, American Association for Artificial Intelligence National Conference (AAAI 2004).
• Program committee, International Workshop on Computational Autonomy – Potential, Risks, Solutions (AUTONOMY 2003).
• Best Paper Awards Committee, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA
2003).
• Best Student Paper Committee, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA
2003).
• Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2003).
• Co-organizer, Second Naval Research Laboratory International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, Naval Research Laboratory, 2003.
• Program committee, Second International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS 2003).
• Program vice chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002).
• Co-organizer, International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, Naval Research Laboratory, 2002.
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Program committee, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002).
Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2001).
Program committee, 2001 European Simulation Symposium.
Program committee, Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology III, part of SPIE’s 15th International Symposium
on Aerosense.
Program chair and symposium organizer, Fifth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic
Systems (DARS 2000).
Program committee, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2000).
Program committee, Fourth International Workshop on RoboCup (RoboCup-2000).
Program committee, Workshop on Interactive Robotics and Entertainment (WIRE-2000).
Program committee, IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA ’99).
Invited session organizer, “Cooperating Robots”, SPIE Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic
Systems II, 1999.
Program committee, 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ’98).
Program committee, International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, 1997.
Robotics program committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1997, 1999.
Program committee, International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS ’96).
Conference Advisory Committee, Robotic Industries Association, 1996.
Program committee, AAAI 1996.
Program committee, SPIE 1996 Conference on Sensor Fusion and Distributed Robotic Agents.
Conference chair, SPIE Conference on Microrobotics and Micromechanical Systems, 1995.
Session organizer, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), “HumanRobot Interaction and Cooperative Robots,” 1995.
Program coordinator, Workshop on Human-Machine Symbiotic Systems, 1988.
Chaired Sessions:
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, “Distributed Robot Systems: Task Assignment”,
2013.
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, “Modular Robots and Multi-Agent Systems”,
2012.
• Third International Joint Topical Meeting on Emergency Preparedness and Response and Robotics and Remote
Systems, “Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics”, 2011.
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, “Distributed Robot Systems I”, 2011.
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, “Task Allocation, Coordination and Control in
Distributed Robot Systems”, 2010.
• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, “Networked Robotics”, 2009.
• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, “Sensor Networks”, 2008.
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, “Multi-Robot Search”, 2008.
• IEEE SoutheastCon, “Signal Processing”, 2008.
• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, “Multi-Robot Systems I”, 2007.
• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, “Multi-Robot Systems I”, 2006.
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, “Vision and SLAM 2”, 2005.
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, “Localization and Navigation”, 2005.
• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, “Collective Robotic Systems”, 2004.
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, “Multi-Robot Motion Planning”, 2003.
• Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics, “Pattern Recognition”, 2002.
• SPIE Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology III, “DOE Robotics”, 2001.
• Fourth International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS), “Control Systems”,
1998.
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), “Sensor Fusion,” 1997.
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), “Multi-Agent Robotic Systems–
Group Behavior I,” 1996.
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• International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), “Model for Group Robots,”
1996.
• International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), “Human-Robot Interaction and Cooperative Robots,” 1995.
• ASCE Specialty Conference on Robotics for Challenging Environments, “Vision and Virtual Environments,”
1994.
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, “Machine Learning: Search Control,” 1993.
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, “Machine Learning: Combinatorial Problems,” 1993.
• Workshop on Human-Machine Symbiotic Systems, “Dynamic Task Allocation,” 1988.
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Book manuscript review for MIT Press, 2009.
International Journal of Robotics Research, 1999, 2007-2008, 2011.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2006, 2008, 2011.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2011.
Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2011.
Journal of Social Robotics, 2010.
Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2009.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006-2010.
Artificial Intelligence (journal), 2008, 2010.
Swarm Intelligence (journal), 2008.
Autonomous Robots, 1995-1997, 2000, 2002-2003, 2006, 2008.
Handbook of Technology Management, 2008.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1993-2008, 2010.
Wiley Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, 2008.
Medical Engineering and Physics, 2007.
Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2005, 2007.
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2006, 2007.
Grace Hopper Conference, 2006.
IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, 2006.
International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, 2005.
Proceedings of the IEEE, 2005.
IEEE Control Systems, 1994, 2000.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 1992-1993, 1995, 1997-1998, 2000-2003.
IEEE Expert, 1994.
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2000, 2001.
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 1996, 1999.
Neurocomputing, 1998.
Journal of Machine Learning, 1994, 1997.
AAAI Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1992.
Distributed Artificial Intelligence Workshop, 1994.
Tenth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, 1997.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 1997, 1999.
Dagstuhl Seminar on Modelling and Planning for Sensor-Based Intelligent Robot Systems, 1996.
Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, 1992.
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NSF Proposal Review Panels, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007–2011, 2013.
European Commission Proposal Review Panels, 2006–2014.
City University of Hong Kong, Strategic Funding research program, 2008.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) proposals, 2008.
Singapore Ministry of Education, Academic Research Fund, 2008.
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Austrian Science Foundation, 2006, 2007.
Army Research Office, 2006.
University of Queensland, Australia, external Ph.D. thesis review, 2004.
Wiley Publishing, service robotics handbook proposal, 2004.
Israel Science Foundation, 2004.
DOE Robotics and Intelligent Machines Program, 2001.
NASA Intelligent Systems Program, 2000.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada research grant program, 2001.
ORNL Seed Money, 1997, 1998, 2000.
DOE Energy Research, 1997.
DOE Environmental Management Science Program, Engineering Panel, 1997, 1998, 2000.
DOE EPSCOR Program, 2000.
DOE SBIR Program, 1994.
DoD DEPSCOR Program, 2000, 2001.
Selected Outreach Activities:
• Judge, Tennessee Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, 2011.
• Academic Liaison, STARS (Students and Technology in Academia, Research, and Service; an NSF Broadening
Participation Program to mentor and recruit students in computing, 2008–2011.
• Mentor (of two non-UTK female undergraduates each summer), CRA-W (Computing Research Association’s
Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research) Distributed Mentor Program, Summers of 2008,
2009.
• Judge, East Tennessee FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO League
Robotics State Tournament, 2000, 2002, 2004–2009.