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Publications, Federation of Intelligent Robotic Explorers Project

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

• Policy Search in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
  J. Bagnell and J. Schneider
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-45, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [351 KB], ps.gz [269 KB] copyrighted

• Boosting Stochastic Problem Solvers Through Online Self-Analysis of Performance
  V. Cicirello
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1930 KB], ps.gz [810 KB] copyrighted

• Market-Based Multi-Robot Planning in a Distributed Layered Architecture
  D. Goldberg, V. Cicirello, M.B. Dias, R. Simmons, S. Smith, and A. Stentz
  Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata: Proceedings from the 2003 International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 2, 2003, pp. 27-38. [Abstract]

• Amplification of Search Performance through Randomization of Heuristics
  V. Cicirello and S. Smith
  Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 8th International Conference, Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, Vol. LNCS 2470 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, September, 2002, pp. 124-138. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [280 KB], ps.gz [166 KB] copyrighted

• A Layered Architecture for Coordination of Mobile Robots
  R. Simmons, T. Smith, M.B. Dias, D. Goldberg, D. Hershberger, A. Stentz, and R.M. Zlot
  Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Proceedings from the 2002 NRL Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, May, 2002. [Abstract]

• Distributed Coordination of Resources via Wasp-like Agents
  V. Cicirello and S. Smith
  First NASA GSFC/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC), January, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [159 KB], ps.gz [143 KB] copyrighted

• A Distributed Layered Architecture for Mobile Robot Coordination: Application to Space Exploration
  D. Goldberg, V. Cicirello, M.B. Dias, R. Simmons, S. Smith, T. Smith, and A. Stentz
  Proceedings of the 3rd International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, 2002. [Abstract]

• Randomizing Dispatch Scheduling Policies
  V. Cicirello and S. Smith
  The 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium: Using Uncertainty Within Computation, November, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [96 KB], ps.gz [117 KB] copyrighted

• A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Multi-Agent Systems for Shop Floor Routing
  V. Cicirello
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [178 KB], ps.gz [85 KB] copyrighted

• A Market Approach to Multirobot Coordination
  M.B. Dias and A. Stentz
  tech. report CMU-RI -TR-01-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [341 KB], ps.gz [1929 KB] copyrighted

• Improved Routing Wasps for Distributed Factory Control
  V. Cicirello and S. Smith
  The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing: New AI Paradigms for Manufacturing, August, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [148 KB], ps.gz [90 KB] copyrighted

• Insect Societies and Manufacturing
  V. Cicirello and S. Smith
  The IJCAI-01 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing: New AI Paradigms for Manufacturing, August, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [151 KB], ps.gz [351 KB] copyrighted

• Solving Uncertain Markov Decision Problems
  J. Bagnell, A.Y. Ng, and J. Schneider
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [970 KB], ps.gz [2556 KB] copyrighted

• Autonomous Helicopter Control using Reinforcement Learning Policy Search Methods
  J. Bagnell and J. Schneider
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2001, IEEE, May, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [224 KB], ps.gz [104 KB] copyrighted

• Wasp Nests for Self-Configurable Factories
  V. Cicirello and S. Smith
  Agents '01, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, ACM Press, May, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [417 KB], ps.gz [241 KB] copyrighted

• Ant Colony Control for Autonomous Decentralized Shop Floor Routing
  V. Cicirello and S. Smith
  ISADS-2001: Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, IEEE Computer Society, March, 2001, pp. 383 - 390. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [79 KB], ps.gz [220 KB] copyrighted

• Distributed Robotic Mapping of Extreme Environments
  S. Thayer, B. Digney, M.B. Dias, A. Stentz, B. Nabbe, and M. Hebert
  Proceedings of SPIE: Mobile Robots XV and Telemanipulator and Telepresence Technologies VII, Vol. 4195, November, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2680 KB] copyrighted

• A Free Market Architecture for Distributed Control of a Multirobot System
  M.B. Dias and A. Stentz
  6th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-6), July, 2000, pp. 115-122. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [190 KB] copyrighted

• Q2: memory-based active learning for optimizing noisy continuous functions
  A. Moore, J. Schneider, J. Boyan, and M.S. Lee
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '00), Vol. 4, April, 2000, pp. 4095 - 4102. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [650 KB] copyrighted

• A Free Market Architecture for Coordinating Multiple Robots
  A. Stentz and M.B. Dias
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-99-42, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [105 KB] copyrighted

• Distributed Value Functions
  J. Schneider, W. Wong, A. Moore, and M. Riedmiller
  International Conference on Machine Learning, 1999.
  Download: pdf [149 KB], ps.gz [54 KB] copyrighted

• Q2: Memory-based active learning for optimizing noisy continuous functions
  A. Moore, J. Schneider, J. Boyan, and M. Lee
  International Conference of Machine Learning, June, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [721 KB], ps.gz [491 KB] copyrighted

• Value Function Based Production Scheduling
  J. Schneider, J. Boyan, and A. Moore
  Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference (ICML '98), March, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [144 KB], ps.gz [77 KB] copyrighted

• Active Learning on Non-Stationary Functions
  J. Schneider
  Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Active Learning, 1996.
  Download: pdf [123 KB], ps.gz [60 KB] copyrighted

• Exploiting Model Uncertainty Estimates for Safe Dynamic Control Learning
  J. Schneider
  Neural Information Processing Systems 9, 1996.
  Download: pdf [159 KB], ps.gz [51 KB] copyrighted

• Memory-based Stochastic Optimization
  A. Moore and J. Schneider
  Neural Information Processing Systems 8, 1995.
  Download: pdf [269 KB], ps.gz [156 KB] copyrighted