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Brennan Peter Sellner
PhD Student

Email address: bsellner@andrew.cmu.edu

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

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architectures, human-robot interaction, mobile robots, multi-agent systems, planning, scheduling, space robotics, user modeling

My primary research interest is in planning and execution systems for flexible, coordinated, and cooperative robot-human teams, especially the prediction of conflicts and execution-time task adaptation. I am also interested in sliding autonomy, mid- to low-level inter-robot coordination, and human-robot interaction. My thesis work is on Proactive Replanning for Multi-Robot Teams, as part of the Trestle project.

human-robot interaction, mobile robots, multi-agent systems, planning, scheduling, and space robotics

• Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab - We are developing reliable, highly autonomous systems (especially mobile robots) that operate in rich, uncertain environments.

• Distributed Robot Architectures - The primary objective of this project is to develop fundamental capabilities that enable multiple, distributed, heterogeneous robots to coordinate tasks that cannot be accomplished by the robots individually.
• Grace - The Grace project is a collaboration among several schools and research labs to design a robot capable of fully performing the AAAI Grand Challenge.
• TRESTLE: Autonomous Assembly by Teams of Coordinated Robots - The TRESTLE project is developing the architectural framework necessary to coordinate robots performing complex assembly projects.
• Xavier - Perceptual, reasoning and learning abilities in autonomous mobile robots

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Human-Robot Teams for Large-Scale Assembly
  R. Simmons, S. Singh, F. Heger, L.M. Hiatt, S.C. Koterba, N. Melchior, and B.P. Sellner
  Proceedings of the NASA Science Technology Conference 2007 (NSTC-07), May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [411 KB] copyrighted

• Towards Proactive Replanning for Multi-Robot Teams
  B.P. Sellner and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling in Space 2006, October, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [450 KB], ps.gz [566 KB] copyrighted

• Coordinated Multi-Agent Teams and Sliding Autonomy for Large-Scale Assembly
  B.P. Sellner, F. Heger, L. Hiatt, R. Simmons, and S. Singh
  Proceedings of the IEEE - Special Issue on Multi-Robot Systems, Vol. 94, No. 7, July, 2006, pp. 1425 - 1444. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1022 KB] copyrighted

• Attaining Situational Awareness for Sliding Autonomy
  B.P. Sellner, L.M. Hiatt, R. Simmons, and S. Singh
  Proceedings of HRI 2006, March, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [522 KB] copyrighted

• Results in Sliding Autonomy for Multi-robot Spatial Assembly
  F. Heger, L. Hiatt, B.P. Sellner, R. Simmons, and S. Singh
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, September, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1724 KB] copyrighted

• Designing Robots for Long-Term Social Interaction
  R. Gockley, A. Bruce, J. Forlizzi, M.P. Michalowski, A. Mundell, S. Rosenthal, B.P. Sellner, R. Simmons, K. Snipes, A. Schultz, and J. Wang
  Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005), IEEE, August, 2005, pp. 2199 - 2204. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [593 KB] copyrighted

• User Modelling for Principled Sliding Autonomy in Human-Robot Teams
  B.P. Sellner, R. Simmons, and S. Singh
  Proceedings of the NRL Multirobot Workshop 2005, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [764 KB] copyrighted

• A learning algorithm for localizing people based on wireless signal strength that uses labeled and unlabeled data
  M. Koes, B.P. Sellner, B. Lisien, G. Gordon, and F. Pfennig
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [94 KB] copyrighted