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Brett Browning
Systems Scientist

Associated center: CFR

Email address: brettb@cs.cmu.edu

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

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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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

This section last updated - January 1999.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• Turning Segways into Robust Human-Scale Dynamically Balanced Soccer Robots
  J. Searock, B. Browning, and M. Veloso
  In Proceedings of the Eighth RoboCup International Symposium, July, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [600 KB] copyrighted