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MultiRobot Lab
Head: Manuela Veloso
Contact: Brett Browning (brettb@cs.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Location:
WEH 1302

For more information, see this lab's homepage.

In the MultiRobot Lab at CMU we are interested in building and studying teams of robots that operate in dynamic and uncertain environments [1]. Our research focuses specifically on issues of multiagent communication, cooperation and learning. We experiment with and test our theories in simulation and on a number of real robot testbeds.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Brenna Argall - PhD Student, RI <bargall@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Nicholas Armstrong-Crews - PhD Student, RI <narmstro@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Brett Browning - Systems Scientist <brettb@cs.cmu.edu>
• James Bruce - PhD Student, CS <jbruce@cs.cmu.edu>
• Sonia Chernova - PhD Student, CS <soniac@cs.cmu.edu>
• Yang Gu - PhD Student, CS <guyang@cs.cmu.edu>
• Thomas K Harris - Research Associate III, LTI <tkharris@cs.cmu.edu>
• Scott Lenser - PhD Student, CS <slenser@cs.cmu.edu>
• Colin McMillen - PhD Student, CS <mcmillen@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Patrick Riley - PhD Student, CS <pfr@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Alex Rudnicky - Senior Systems Scientist, LTI <air@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Paul Rybski - Systems Scientist <prybski+web@cs.cmu.edu>
• Douglas Vail - PhD Student, CS <dvail@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Manuela Veloso - Professor, CS <veloso@cs.cmu.edu>

• Mobile Autonomous Robot Software - Develop complete, effective and scalable software for autonomous robot teams. Demonstrate robot teams with integrated action, perception, reasoning, communication and cooperative strategies that solve complex multiagent tasks.
• Robotic Soccer - The RoboSoccer project develops collaboration among multiple autonomous agents.
• Treasure Hunt: Pickup Teams - We are developing a single heterogeneous human-robot team capable of effectively locating objects of interest (treasure) spread over a complex, previously unknown environment.

• Sliding Autonomy for Peer-To-Peer Human-Robot Teams
  M.B. Dias, B. Kannan, B. Browning, E. Jones, B. Argall, M.F. Dias, M.B. Zinck, M. Veloso, and A. Stentz
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2926 KB] copyrighted

• Teaching Task Flow Through Dialog and Observation
  K. Yoon and P. Rybski
  master's thesis, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1029 KB] copyrighted

• Oracular Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes: A Very Special Case
  N. Armstrong-Crews and M. Veloso
  Proceedings of ICRA 2007, April, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [178 KB] copyrighted

• Interactive Robot Task Training through Dialog and Demonstration
  P. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, and M. Veloso
  2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [500 KB] copyrighted

• A Team of Humanoid Game Commentators
  M. Veloso, N. Armstrong-Crews, S. Chernova, E. Crawford, C. McMillen, M. Roth, and D. Vail
  Proceedings of Humanoids 2006, December, 2006.
  Download: pdf [307 KB] copyrighted

• Automatic Clustering of Faces in Meetings
  C. Vallespi-Gonzalez, F. De la Torre Frade, M. Veloso, and T. Kanade
  ICIP 2006, October, 2006, pp. 1841-1844. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [455 KB], ps.gz [4076 KB] copyrighted

• CMAssist: A RoboCup@Home Team
  P. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, and M. Veloso
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2573 KB] copyrighted

• Dynamically Formed Heterogeneous Robot Teams Performing Tightly-Coordinated Tasks
  E. Jones, B. Browning, M.B. Dias, B. Argall, M. Veloso, and A. Stentz
  International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2006, pp. 570 - 575. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [421 KB] copyrighted

• What to Communicate? Execution-time Decision in Multi-agent POMDPs
  M. Roth, R. Simmons, and M. Veloso
  The 8th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2006. [Abstract]

• Game-Theoretic Control for Robot Teams
  R. Emery-Montemerlo
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2232 KB] copyrighted