Gregory J. Barlow

Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Publications

Journal articles

  1. Xiao-Feng Xie, Stephen F. Smith, Liang Lu, and Gregory J. Barlow. "Schedule-driven intersection control." Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. Volume 24, pages 168-189. October 2012. (abstract, bib, pdf)
  2. Andrew L. Nelson, Gregory J. Barlow, and Lefteris Doitsidis. "Fitness Functions in Evolutionary Robotics: A Survey and Analysis." Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Volume 57, Issue 4, pages 345-370. April 2009. (abstract, bib, pdf)

Book chapters

  1. Gregory J. Barlow and Choong K. Oh. "Evolved Navigation Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles." Frontiers in Evolutionary Robotics. Ed. Hitoshi Iba. Vienna: I-Tech Education and Publishing, 2008. pp. 353-378. (abstract, bib, pdf)

Refereed conference and workshop papers

  1. Stephen F. Smith, Gregory J. Barlow, Xiao-Feng Xie, and Zachary B. Rubinstein. "SURTRAC: Scalable Urban Traffic Control." Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. January 2013. (bib)
  2. Xiao-Feng Xie, Stephen F. Smith, and Gregory J. Barlow. "Schedule-driven coordination for real-time traffic network control." International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Sao Paulo, Brazil. June 2012. (bib, pdf)
  3. Xiao-Feng Xie, Stephen F. Smith, and Gregory J. Barlow. "Coordinated look-ahead scheduling for real-time traffic signal control." International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Valencia, Spain. June 2012. (bib)
  4. Xiao-Feng Xie, Gregory J. Barlow, Stephen F. Smith, and Zachary B. Rubinstein. "Self-Scheduling Agents for Real-Time Traffic Signal Control." IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Washington, DC. October 2011. (bib)
  5. Gregory J. Barlow and Stephen F. Smith. "Using Memory Models to Improve Adaptive Efficiency in Dynamic Problems." IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling. Nashville, Tennessee. March 2009. (abstract, bib, pdf)
  6. Gregory J. Barlow, Choong K. Oh, and Stephen F. Smith. "Evolving Cooperative Control on Sparsely Distributed Tasks for UAV Teams Without Global Communication." Proceedings of the 2008 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. July 2008. pp. 177-184. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)
  7. Gregory J. Barlow and Stephen F. Smith. "A Memory Enhanced Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Scheduling Problems." Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2008. Naples, Italy. March 2008. pp. 606-615. EvoSTOC Best Paper Award. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)
  8. Gregory J. Barlow and Choong K. Oh. "Robustness Analysis of Genetic Programming Controllers for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles." Proceedings of the 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Seattle, WA. July 2006. pp. 135-142. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)
  9. Gregory J. Barlow, Leonardo S. Mattos, Edward Grant, and Choong K. Oh. "Transference of Evolved Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Controllers to a Wheeled Mobile Robot." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Barcelona, Spain. April 2005. pp. 2087-2092. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)
  10. Gregory J. Barlow, Choong K. Oh, and Edward Grant. "Incremental Evolution of Autonomous Controllers for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Multi-objective Genetic Programming." Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS). Singapore. December 2004. pp. 688-693. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)
  11. Edward Grant, Leonardo Mattos, Gregory J. Barlow, Andrew L. Nelson, Kyle Luthy, Blaine Levedahl, and Gordon Lee. "Evolutionary Neural Controllers for Mobile Robot Colonies." Proceedings of the 2004 World Automation Congress. Seville, Spain. June 2004. (abstract, bib, pdf)
  12. Gregory J. Barlow. "Autonomous Controller Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Multi-objective Genetic Programming." Proceedings of the Graduate Student Workshop at the 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004). Seattle, WA. June 2004. Best Paper Award. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)
  13. Choong K. Oh and Gregory J. Barlow. "Autonomous Controller Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Multi-objective Genetic Programming." Proceedings of the Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Portland, OR. June 2004. pp. 1538-1545. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)
  14. Gregory J. Barlow, Thomas C. Henderson, Andrew L. Nelson, and Edward Grant. "Dynamic Leadership Protocol for S-nets." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. New Orleans, LA. April 2004. pp. 1091-1096. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)
  15. Andrew L. Nelson, Edward Grant, Gregory J. Barlow, and Thomas C. Henderson. "A colony of robots using vision sensing and evolved neural controllers." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Las Vegas, NV. October 2003. pp. 2273-2278. (abstract, bib, pdf)
  16. Andrew L. Nelson, Edward Grant, Gregory Barlow, and Mark White. "Evolution of Complex Autonomous Robot Behaviors using Competitive Fitness." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems. Boston, MA. September 2003. pp. 145-150. (abstract, bib, pdf)

Theses and Dissertations

  1. Gregory J. Barlow. "Improving memory for optimization and learning in dynamic environments." Doctoral dissertation. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. July 2011. (abstract, bib, pdf)
  2. Gregory J. Barlow. "Generalized Density-Estimate Memory for Dynamic Problems." Thesis Proposal. Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. June 2009. (pdf)
  3. Gregory J. Barlow. "Design of Autonomous Navigation Controllers for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Multi-objective Genetic Programming." Master's thesis. North Carolina State University. Raleigh, NC. March 2004. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)

Technical reports

  1. Gregory J. Barlow, Choong K. Oh, and Stephen F. Smith. "Evolving Cooperative Control on Sparsely Distributed Tasks for UAV Teams Without Global Communication." Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. TR-07-24. July 2007. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)
  2. Gregory J. Barlow, Choong K. Oh, and Edward Grant. "Incremental Evolution of Autonomous Controllers for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Multi-objective Genetic Programming." Proceedings of the 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004) Late Breaking Papers. Seattle, WA. June 2004. (abstract, bib, ps, ps.gz, pdf)
  3. Gregory J. Barlow and Marc A. Edwards. "Self-evolving Hardware." North Carolina State University. NCSU-CRIM-TR-2001-01. 2001. (abstract, bib, pdf)
  4. Gregory J. Barlow. "CMOS Active Pixel Sensor for a Polarization-difference Camera." NSF Technical Report TR-CST18SEPT01. 2001. pp. 127-145. (abstract, bib, pdf)

Presentations

  1. "A Memory Enhanced Evolutionary Algorithm for Dynamic Scheduling Problems." European Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EvoSTOC 2008). Naples, Italy. March 27, 2008.
  2. "Robustness Analysis of Genetic Programming Controllers for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles." Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006). Seattle, WA. July 10, 2006. (ppt)
  3. "Incremental Evolution of Autonomous Controllers for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Multi-objective Genetic Programming." Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004) Late Breaking Papers. Seattle, WA. June 28, 2004. (ppt)
  4. "Autonomous Controller Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Multi-objective Genetic Programming." Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004) Graduate Student Workshop. Seattle, WA. June 27, 2004. (ppt)
  5. "Autonomous Controller Design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Multi-objective Genetic Programming." Congress on Evolutionary Computation. Portland, OR. June 21, 2004. (ppt)
  6. "Dynamic Leadership Protocol for S-nets." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. New Orleans, LA. April 28, 2004. (ppt)
  7. "Design of Autonomous Navigation Controllers for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Multi-objective Genetic Programming." Master's oral examination. North Carolina State University. Raleigh, NC. March 19, 2004. (ppt)
  8. "CMOS Active Pixel Sensor for a Polarization-difference Camera." University of Pennsylvania Summer Undergraduate Fellowship in Sensor Technologies (NSF REU). August 3, 2001. (pdf)

Press

  1. "Evolutionary Robotics Research Project." Industry/Research News. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. March 2005. pg. 79. (pdf)