Richard T. Vaughan Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Programs School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University email vaughan@sfu.ca voicemail +1.424.645.7270 office TASC 8009, Burnaby campus Address, fax, etc DPhil Computation, University of Oxford (1999) BA Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex (1993)

Research

autonomous robots; multi-robot systems; artificial life, robot software engineering and simulation

I direct the Autonomy Laboratory which builds life-like machines. Our research goal is to increase the autonomy (i.e. freedom of action and energy management) of robots and other machines. My research has two main themes:

1. applying models of animal behavior to solve problems in robotics and other adaptive and distributed systems;
2. creating tools and techniques for programming, simulating and evaluating populations of robots.

I am an Associate Member of the Behavioural Ecology Research Group at SFU.

My lab is part of the NSERC Field Robotics Network.

Publications

• Autonomy Lab / Publications
• Google Scholar
• arXiv.org

Teaching

• CMPT128: Introduction to computing science for engineers
• CMPT300: Operating Systems I
• CMPT401: Operating Systems II
• CMPT415: Directed study: Autonomous robots
• CMPT431: Distributed Systems
• CMPT889: Special topics in interdisciplinary computing science: Autonomous robots

Software

• GitHub/rtv
• GitHub/AutonomyLab