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Journal articles
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Jens Wawerla and Richard T. Vaughan.
Publishing identifiable experiment code and configuration is
important, good and easy.
Autonomous Robots, To appear, accepted subject to revision
February 2010.
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J. Wawerla, S. Marshall, G. Mori, K. Rothley, and P. Sabzmeydani.
Bearcam: Automated wildlife monitoring at the arctic circle.
Journal of Machine Vision Applications, 20(5):303-317, 2009.
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Yaroslav Litus, Pawel Zebrowski, and Richard T. Vaughan.
A distributed heuristic for energy-efficient multi-robot multi-place
rendezvous.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 25(1):130-135, 2009.
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Richard T. Vaughan.
Massively multi-robot simulations in stage.
Swarm Intelligence, 2(2-4):189-208, 2008.
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Roozbeh Mottaghi and Richard T. Vaughan.
An integrated particle filter and potential field method applied to
cooperative multi-robot target tracking.
Autonomous Robots, 23(1):19-35, July 2007.
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Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Andrew Howard, Gaurav Sukhatme, and Maja J.
Matarić.
Lost: Localization-space trails for robot teams.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Autonomous Systems,
18(5):796-812, 2002.
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Richard T. Vaughan, Neil Sumpter, Jane V. Henderson, Andy Frost, and Stephen
Cameron.
Experiments in automatic flock control.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 31:109-117, 2000.
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Refereed conference papers
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Jens Wawerla and Richard T. Vaughan.
A fast and frugal method for team-task allocation in a multi-robot
transportation system.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation, May 2010.
(to appear).
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Abbas Sadat and Richard T. Vaughan.
Blinkered lost: Restricting sensor field of view can improve
scalability in emergent multi-robot trail following.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation, May 2010.
(to appear).
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Jens Wawerla and Richard T. Vaughan.
Robot task switching under diminishing returns.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09), St. Loius, MO, October 2009.
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Alex Couture-Beil and Richard T. Vaughan.
Adaptive mobile charging stations for multi-robot systems.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09), St. Loius, MO, October 2009.
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Adam Lein and Richard T. Vaughan.
Adapting to non-uniform resource distributions in robotic swarm
foraging through work-site relocation.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'09), St. Loius, MO, October 2009.
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Jens Wawerla and Richard T. Vaughan.
Publishing identifiable experiment code and configuration is
important, good and easy.
In Workshop on Good Experimental Methodology in Robotics, at
Robotics Science and Systems, June 2009.
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Mark Bayazit, Alex Couture-Beil, and Greg Mori.
Real-time motion-based gesture recognition using the gpu.
In Proceedings of the IAPR Conference on Machine Vision
Applications (MVA'09), May 2009.
(with the Vision and Media Lab).
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Jens Wawerla and Richard T. Vaughan.
Optimal robot recharging for time discounted labour.
In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on
Artificial Life (ALife XI), August 2008.
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Yaroslav Litus and Richard T. Vaughan.
Distributed gradient optimization with embodied approximation.
In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on
Artificial Life (ALife XI), August 2008.
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Adam Lein and Richard T. Vaughan.
Adaptive multi-robot bucket brigade foraging.
In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on
Artificial Life (ALife XI), August 2008.
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Mauricio Zuluaga and Richard T. Vaughan.
Modeling multi-robot interaction using generalized occupancy grids,
with application to reducing spatial interference.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation, May 2008.
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Jens Wawerla and Richard T. Vaughan.
Near-optimal mobile robot recharging with the rate-maximizing
forager.
In Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life
(ECAL), pages 776-785, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2007.
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Pawel Zebrowski, Yaroslav Litus, and Richard T. Vaughan.
Energy efficient robot rendezvous.
In Proceedings of the Fourth Canadian Conference on Computer and
Robot Vision, May 2007.
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Yaroslav Litus, Richard T. Vaughan, and Pawel Zebrowski.
The frugal feeding problem: Energy-efficient, multi-robot,
multi-place rendezvous.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation, April 2007.
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P. Karimian, R. T. Vaughan, and S. Brown.
Sounds good: Simulation and evaluation of audio communication for
multi-robot exploration.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'06), October 2006.
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Richard T. Vaughan and Mauricio Zuluaga.
Use your illusion: Sensorimotor self-simulation allows complex agents
to plan with incomplete self-knowledge.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Simulation of
Adaptive Behaviour (SAB), Rome, Italy, September 2006.
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Roozbeh Mottaghi and Richard T. Vaughan.
An integrated particle filter & potential field method for
cooperative robot target tracking.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida, May 2006.
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Yinan Zhang and Richard T. Vaughan.
Ganging up: Team-based aggression expands the population/performance
envelope in a multi-robot system.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida, May 2006.
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Mauricio Zuluaga and Richard Vaughan.
Reducing spatial interference in robot teams by local-investment
aggression.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Edmonton, Alberta, August 2005.
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Pawel Zebrowski and Richard Vaughan.
Recharging robot teams: A tanker approach.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced
Robotics (ICAR), Seattle, Washington, July 2005.
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Sarah Brown, Mauricio Zuluaga, Yinan Zhang, and Richard Vaughan.
Rational aggressive behaviour reduces interference in a mobile robot
team.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced
Robotics (ICAR), Seattle, Washington, July 2005.
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Richard T. Vaughan and Brian Gerkey.
On device abstractions for portable, reusable robot code.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2003.
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Brian Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan, and Andrew Howard.
The player/stage project: Tools for multi-robot and distributed
sensor systems.
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced
Robotics (ICAR), Coimbra, Portugal, June 2003.
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Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Gaurav Sukhatme, and Maja J. Matarić.
Exploiting task regularities to transform between reference frames in
robot teams.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation (ICRA), Washington, DC, May 2002.
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Brian P. Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Andrew Howard, Gaurav
Sukhatme, and Maja J. Matarić.
Most valuable player: A robot device server for distributed control.
In Proceeding of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS), Wailea, Hawaii, November 2001. IEEE.
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Wei Ye, Richard T. Vaughan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin,
and Maja J. Matarić.
Evaluating control strategies for wireless-networked robots using an
integrated robot and network simulation.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conferece on Robotics
and Automation (ICRA), Seoul, Korea, May 2001.
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Richard T. Vaughan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Javier Mesa-Martinez, and James A.
Montgomery.
Fly spy: lightweight localization and target tracking for cooperating
ground and air robots.
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed
Autonomous Robot Systems, pages 111-120, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, October
2000.
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Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Maja J.
Matarić.
Blazing a trail: insect-inspired resource transportation by a robot
team.
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed
Autonomous Robot Systems, pages 111-120, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, October
2000.
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Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Maja J.
Matarić.
Go ahead, make my day: Robot conflict resolution by aggressive
competition.
In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Simulation
of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB), pages 491-500, Paris, France, August 2000.
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Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Maja J.
Matarić.
Whistling in the dark: cooperative trail following in uncertain
localization space.
In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Autonomous Agents, pages 187-194, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000.
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N. Sumpter, A. Bulpitt, R.T. Vaughan, R. Tillet, and R. Boyle.
Learning models of animal behaviour for a robotic sheepdog.
In Proceedings of the IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision
Applications, Chiba, Japan, November 1998.
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R.T. Vaughan, N. Sumpter, A. Frost, and S. Cameron.
Robot control of animal flocks.
In Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Science and Technology
of Intelligent Systems (ISIC/CIRA/ISAS), pages 277-282, Gaithersburg,
Maryland, September 1998. IEEE.
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R. Vaughan, N. Sumpter, A. Frost, and S. Cameron.
Robot sheepdog project achieves automatic animal control.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Simulation of
Adaptive Behaviour (SAB), pages 494-498, Zurich, Switzerland, 1998.
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R. Vaughan, N. Sumpter, A. Frost, and S. Cameron.
Experiments in automatic flock control.
In Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Intelligent Robotic
Systems (SIRS), pages 47-54, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1998.
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R.T. Vaughan, J. Henderson, and N. Sumpter.
Introducing the robot sheepdog project.
In F. Juste, G. Andreu, J.M. Valiente, and J.V. Benlloch, editors,
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Robotics and Automated
Machinery for BioProductions, pages 111-118, September 1997.
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Book Chapters
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Davide Brugali, Gregory S. Broten, Antonio Cisternino, Diego Colombo, Jannik
Fritsch, Brian P. Gerkey, Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Richard Vaughan, and Hans
Utz.
Trends in robotic software frameworks.
In Davide Brugali, editor, Software Engineering for Experimental
Robotics, Springer Tracts on Advanced Robotics, pages 259-266. Springer,
April 2007.
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Richard T. Vaughan and Brian Gerkey.
Really reused robot code from the player/stage project.
In Davide Brugali, editor, Software Engineering for Experimental
Robotics. Springer, 2007.
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Gaurav S. Sukhatme, James Montgomery, and Richard T. Vaughan.
Experiments with aerial-ground robots.
In Tucker Balch and Lynne.E. Parker, editors, Robot Teams: From
Diversity to Polymorphism. AK Peters, 2002.
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PhD Theses
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Richard T. Vaughan.
Experiments in Automatic Flock Control.
PhD thesis, University of Oxford, 1999.
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MSc Theses
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Adam Lein.
Adaptive foraging in robotic swarms.
Master's thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2010.
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Pooya Karimian.
Audio communication for mult-robot systems.
Master's thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2007.
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Pawel Zebrowski.
Tanker based robot recharging.
Master's thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2007.
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Yinan Zhang.
Spatial interference reduction for multi-robot systems using rational
and team-based aggression.
Master's thesis, Simon Fraser University, July 2006.
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Roozbeh Mottaghi.
Cooperative target tracking with multiple mobile robots.
Master's thesis, Simon Fraser University, April 2006.
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Mauricio Zuluaga.
Rage amongst the machines: A biological approach to spatial
interference in multi-robot systems.
Master's thesis, Simon Fraser University, September 2005.
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Technical Reports
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Richard T. Vaughan, Yaroslav Litus, Jens Wawerla, and Adam Lein.
Autonomous sustain and resupply: Phase 1 report.
Technical report, Defense R&D Canada, 2008.
Contract Scientific Authority Greg Broten. Copyright (c) Her
Majesty the Queen as represented by the Minister of National Defence, Canada.
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Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Andrew Howard, Gaurav Sukhatme, and Maja J.
Matarić.
Lost: Localization-space trails for robot teams.
Technical report, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems,
School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 2001.
A later version of this paper was published in the IEEE Transactions
on Robotics and Autonomous Systems 18:5, 2002.
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Brian Gerkey, Kasper Støy, and Richard T. Vaughan.
Player robot server.
Technical report, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems,
School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 2000.
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Richard T. Vaughan.
Stage: a multiple robot simulator.
Technical report, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
IRIS-00-393, School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 2000.
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Others
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Yaroslav Litus and Richard Vaughan.
Energy-efficient multi-robot rendezvous: Parallel solutions by
embodied approximation.
Refereed abstract at the Workshop on Algorithmic Equivalences Between
Biological and Robotic Swarms, June 2007.
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Richard T. Vaughan, Pouya Bastani, John Hutchison, and Rose Hutchison.
On the non-phenomenological use of the word `behaviour' in robotics
and animat research.
Last-minute Results Poster at the International Conference on
Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB), September 2006.
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Richard Vaughan and Brian Gerkey.
Player/stage project & getting to grips with mobile manipulation
abstractions.
Invited paper, Tutorial on Robot Middleware and Integration
Frameworks, B-IT tutorial, Bonn, Germany, December 2005.
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Richard Vaughan and Brian Gerkey.
Really reused robot code.
Invited paper, Workshop on Principle and Practice of Software
Development in Robotics at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA), Barcelona, Spain, April 2005.
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Sarah Brown, Mauricio Zuluaga, Yinan Zhang, and Richard Vaughan.
Aggression proportional to task investment can improve group
efficiency.
Last-Minute-Results Poster at the International Conference on
Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB), July 2004.
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Sven Koenig, Israel Wagner, Andrew Russel, Richard Vaughan, and Dave Payton.
State of the art in ant robotics.
Tutorial at the International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI), Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003.
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Sven Koenig, Israel Wagner, Andrew Russel, Richard Vaughan, and Dave Payton.
State of the art in ant robotics.
Tutorial at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA), Tai Peim Taiwan, 2003.
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Richard T. Vaughan, Neil Sumpter, Andy Frost, and Stephen Cameron.
The robot sheepdog project: experiments in automatic flock control
(video).
Video Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
and Automation (ICRA), San Francisco, USA, April 2000.
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