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Brett Browning
Senior Systems Scientist

Associated centers: NREC and CFR

Email address: brettb@cs.cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Office #2
NREC
Ten 40th Street
Office 257
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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Research interests

My research interests focus on multi-robot systems that operate in adversarial environments. My main interests relate to

• Robust, high performance, multi-robot control architectures for autonomy
• Integration between hardware and software and its relationship to robustness and performance
• Techniques for autonomous robot behavior in adversarial environments
• Techniques for adaptable individual and team behavior in adversarial environments
• Methods for practical, real-time robot vision

I am also involved in the following SCS project:

• The Robot Soccer Project
• The CORAL research group
• Robot Segway project - Building autonomous robots from dynamically balancing Segway RMP platforms.
• Small-Size Robot Soccer - Building heterogeneous teams of autonomous robots for dynamic, adversarial tasks.
• Treasure Hunt - Heterogeneous robot and human teams for exploration and retrieval of special interest objects
• Autonomous Air Vehicle Collaboration - This project looks at coordinating teams of UAVs to perform complex missions.
• Aiding driver safety - This project looks at techniques to learn maps from low cost sensors to aid in driver safety predictions

Research interest keywords

artificial intelligence, entertainment robotics, machine learning, mobile robots, multi-agent systems, and robot soccer

Additional Interests and Responsibilities

• I help run the robotics machine shop. Follow the link to obtain information on access to the shop, courses etc.
• I am an executive for the small-size league for the RoboCup Federation
• I am running the Robotics Institute seminars for 2004.

Current Labs & Groups

MultiRobot Lab - We are interested in the challenges of building teams of intelligent agents -- simulated agents and mobile robots -- that cooperate, observe the world, reason, act, and learn!

TechBridgeWorld - TechBridgeWorld innovates and implements technology solutions to meet sustainable development needs around the world.

Current Projects [Past projects]

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.

Recent publications [View all 22 publications]

• 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
  10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems 2008, July, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [255 KB] copyrighted

• 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

• Undergraduate Robotics Education in Technologically Underserved Communities
  M.B. Dias, B. Browning, G.A. Mills-Tettey, N. Amanquah, and N. El-Moughny
  2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April, 2007, pp. 1387-1392. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [384 KB] copyrighted

• Teaching technical creativity through Robotics: A case study in Ghana
  G.A. Mills-Tettey, M.B. Dias, B. Browning, and N. Amanquah
  Workshop on AI in ICT for Development (ICTD) at the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007), January, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [392 KB] copyrighted

• Teaching technical creativity through Robotics: A case study in Ghana
  G.A. Mills-Tettey, M.B. Dias, B. Browning, and N. Amanquah
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-46, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [155 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

• Dynamic Heterogeneous Robot Teams Engaged in Adversarial Tasks
  M.B. Dias, B. Browning, M. Veloso, and A. Stentz
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [521 KB] copyrighted

• Accurate and Flexible Simulation for Dynamic, Vision-Centric Robot
  J. Go, B. Browning, and M. Veloso
  tech. report CMU-CS-04-180, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [176 KB] copyrighted

• Person Tracking From a Dynamic Balancing Platform
  D. Govindaraju and B. Browning
  tech. report CMU-CS-04-181, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [252 KB] copyrighted

• Turning Segways into Soccer Robots
  J. Searock, B. Browning, and M. Veloso
  In Proceedings of IROS'04, September, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1030 KB] copyrighted