FIRE

List of Publications

Catagorized by Component

System Architecture and Overview

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.
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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.
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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.
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Valuing Decisions and Information

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 ]
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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 ]
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M. Riedmiller, A. Moore, J. Schneider, Reinforcement Learning for Cooperating and Communicating Reactive Agents in Electrical Power Grids in Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-agent Systems, edited by M. Hannebauer, J. Wendler, E. Pagello, Springer, 2001

Jeff Schneider, Weng-Keen Wong, Andrew Moore, Martin Riedmiller Distributed Value Functions , International Conference on Machine Learning, 1999

Jeff Schneider, Justin Boyan, Andrew Moore, Value Function Based Production Scheduling , International Conference on Machine Learning, 1998

Andrew Moore, Jeff Schneider, Justin Boyan, Mary Lee, Q2: Memory-based active learning for optimizing noisy continuous functions , International Conference on Machine Learning, 1998

Jeff G. Schneider, Exploiting Model Uncertainty Estimates for Safe Dynamic Control Learning , Neural Information Processing Systems 9, 1996

Jeff G. Schneider, Active Learning on Non-Stationary Functions , Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Active Learning, 1996

Andrew W. Moore and Jeff G. Schneider, Memory-based Stochastic Optimization , Neural Information Processing Systems 8, 1995

Jeff G. Schneider, Robot Skill Learning Through Intelligent Experimentation , PhD Thesis, University of Rochester, 1995

Market-Based Multirobot Coordination

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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Scheduling Wasps

Cicirello, V.A. and S.F. Smith, "Distributed Coordination of Resources via Wasp-like Agents", The First NASA Goddard/JPL Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC), 16-18 January, 2002.
Cicirello, V.A. and S.F. Smith, "Randomizing Dispatch Scheduling Policies", The 2001 AAAI Fall Symposium: Using Uncertainty Within Computation, 2-4 November, 2001.
Cicirello, V.A., "A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Multi-Agent Systems for Shop Floor Routing", tech. report CMU-RI-TR-01-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2001.
Cicirello, V.A. and S.F. Smith, "Improved Routing Wasps for Distributed Factory Control", IJCAI-01 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing, Working Notes, pages 26-32. AAAI SIGMAN, 4-9 August, 2001.
Cicirello, V.A. and S.F. Smith, "Insect Societies and Manufacturing", IJCAI-01 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing, Working Notes, pages 33-38. AAAI SIGMAN, 4-9 August, 2001.
Cicirello, V.A. and S.F. Smith, "Wasp Nests for Self-Configurable Factories", Agents '01, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 473-480. ACM Press, May-June, 2001.
Cicirello, V.A. and S.F. Smith, "Ant Colony Control for Autonomous Decentralized Shop Floor Routing", ISADS-2001: Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, pages 383-390. IEEE Computer Society Press, March, 2001.
Bonabeau, E., M. Dorigo, and G. Theraulaz. "Swarm Intelligence: From Natural to Artificial Systems." Oxford University Press, 1999.