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Stephen B Stancliff
Research Programmer

Email address: stancliff@cmu.edu

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

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In general, I am interested in making mobile robots work better in the real world. Most of the robots that exist today are unreliable and nonperforming in real environments. Even in the lab environment most mobile robots suffer nearly constant failures. Towards this end, I am currently conducting research in the area of robot reliability. We are developing analytical models for the reliability of robots, robot teams, and robot missions.

field robotics, human-computer interaction, mechatronics, mobile robots, planning, space robotics, and systems engineering

• Tele-Supervised Autonomous Robotics - Research in the T-SAR lab focusses on providing end-to-end tools for telesupervision of autonomous robots.

• Reliability of Mobile Robot Teams - We are developing analytical tools which enable the prediction of robotic mission failure given mission specifications and robot component reliability data.
• Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet - We are developing a HAB Investigation Telesupervised Adaptive Sensor System (HABITASS) to address the limitations of existing systems.

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

• Planning to Fail - Reliability as a Design Parameter for Planetary Rover Missions
  S.B. Stancliff, J. Dolan, and A. Trebi-Ollennu
  Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Measuring Performance and Intelligence of Intelligent Systems (PerMIS '07), August, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [61 KB] copyrighted

• The Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet
  A. Elfes, G. Podnar, J. Dolan, S.B. Stancliff, E.L. Ratliff, J. Hosler, T. Ames, J. Moisan, T. Moisan, J. Higinbotham, and E. Kulczycki
  Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization III: Readiness for GEOSS, August, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [703 KB] copyrighted

• Harmful Algal Bloom Characterization Via the Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet
  J. Dolan, G. Podnar, S.B. Stancliff, E.L. Ratliff, J. Higinbotham, J. Hosler, T. Ames, J. Moisan, T. Moisan, and A. Elfes
  Proc. NASA Science Technology Conference 2007 (NSTC-07), May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [503 KB] copyrighted

• Mission Reliability Estimation for Multirobot Team Design
  S.B. Stancliff, J. Dolan, and A. Trebi-Ollennu
  Proc. 2006 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 2006, pp. 2206 - 2211. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [218 KB] copyrighted

• Mission Reliability Estimation for Repairable Robot Teams
  S.B. Stancliff, J. Dolan, and A. Trebi-Ollenu
  International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Vol. 3, No. 2, June, 2006, pp. 155 - 164. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [456 KB] copyrighted

• Mission Reliability Estimation for Repairable Robot Teams
  S.B. Stancliff, J. Dolan, and A. Trebi-Ollennu
  Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems - MARS 2005, INSTICC, Portugal, September, 2005, pp. 144 - 151. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [162 KB] copyrighted

• Planning to Fail: Mission Design for Modular Repairable Robot Teams
  S.B. Stancliff, J. Dolan, and A. Trebi-Ollennu
  Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (ISAIRAS 2005), ESA Publications Division, September, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [289 KB] copyrighted

• Towards a Predictive Model of Mobile Robot Reliability
  S.B. Stancliff, J. Dolan, and A. Trebi-Ollennu
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [346 KB] copyrighted

• CMU Hammerheads 2001 Team Description
  S.B. Stancliff, R. Balasubramanian, T. Balch, R. Emery-Montemerlo, K. Sikorski, and A. Stroupe
  RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World, A. Birk, S. Coradeschi and S. Tadokoro, ed., Springer, New York, 2002, pp. 631-634. [Abstract]
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