Publications 2011

 

  1. Lewis, M. & Sycara, K. (2011). Network centric control for multirobot teams in urban search and rescue, Proceedings of the 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-44), January 4-7.

 

Publications 2010

 

  1. Glinton, R., Sycara, K, Scerri, P. Exploiting Scale Invariant Dynamics for Efficient Informaiton propagation in Large Teams, Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Toronto, CA, May, 2010 (Runner Up for Best Paper Award).
  2. Lisy V., Zivan R., Sycara, K. Pechoucek M.  Deception in Networks of Mobile Sensing Agents, Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Toronto, CA, May, 2010.
  3. Scerri, P., Velagapudi, P., Sycara, K. Analyzing the Theoretical Performance of Information Sharing, In Dynamics of Information Systems: Theory and Applications, Springer 2010.
  4. Paruchuri, P., Varakantham, P., Sycara, K., Scerri, P. Effect of Human Biases on Human Agent Teams, International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Aug 30-Sep 3, Toronto, CA, 2010.
  5. Velagapudi, P., Sycara, K., Scerri, P. Decentralized Prioritized Planning in Large Multirobot Teams, IROS, October 18-22, Taipei, Taiwan,  2010.
  6. Chakraborty, N., Sycara, K. Reconfiguration Algorithms for Mobile Robotic Networks, ICRA, Alaska,  May 8-11, 2010.

  7. Lewis, M., Wang, H., Chien, S., Velagapudi, P., Scerri, P. & Sycara, K. (2010). Choosing autonomy modes for multirobot search, Human Factors, pre-published, doi:10.1177/0018720810366859

  8. Lewis, M. & Wang, J. (2010). Coordination and automation for controlling robot teams, in M. Barnes & F. Jentsch (Eds), Human-Robot Interactions in Future Military Operations, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 397-418.
  9. Kolling, A., Kleiner, A., Lewis, M., & Sycara, M. (2010). Pursuit-evasion in 2.5d based on team-visibility, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’10), October 18-22.
  10. A. Kolling, A. Kleiner, M. Lewis, and K. Sycara (2010). Solving Pursuit-Evasion Problems on Height Maps, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010) Workshop: Search and Pursuit/Evasion in the Physical World: Efficiency, Scalability, and Guarantees, (Anchorage, Alaska), May 2010.
  11. Chien, S., Wang, H, & Lewis, M. (2010). Human vs. algorithmic path planning for search and rescue by robot teams, Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES’10), September 27- October 1.
  12. Lee, P., Wang, H., Chien, S., Lewis, M., Scerri, P., Velagapudi, P., Sycara, K. & Kane, B. (2010). Teams for Teams: Performance in Multi-Human/Multi-Robot Teams. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES’10), September 27- October 1.

  13. Wang, H., Lewis, M., Chien, S., Scerri, P., Velagapudi, P., Sycara, K. & Kane, B. (2010). Teams organization and performance in multi-human/multi-robot teams, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, (SMC’10), October 10-13.

  14. Xu, Y, Dai, T., Sycara, K. & Lewis, M. (2010). Service level differentiation in multi-robots control, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’10), October 18-22.

  15. Scerri, P., Velagapudi, P., Sycara, K., Wang, H., Chien, S. & Lewis, M. (2010). Towards an understanding of the impact of autonomous path planning on victim search in USAR, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’10), October 18-22. 

 

Publications 2009

 

  1. Zivan, R., Glinton, R, Sycara, K., Distributed Constraint Optimization for large teams of mobile sensing agents, In proceedings of the International conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Milan, Italy, September 15-18, 2009.
  2. Yu, B., Li, C. Sycara, K. An Incentive Mechanism for Message Relaying in Unstructured Peer to Peer Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications Volume 8, Issue 6, November-December 2009, Pages 315-326
  3. Paruchuri, P., Glinton R., Sycara, K. Scerri, P. Effect of Humans on Belief propagation in large heterogeneous teams,  in Hirsch, M Pardalos, P. and Murphy R (eds), Dynamics of Information Systems, Springer, 2009.
  4. Glinton, R., Paruchuri, P., Scerri, P. Sycara, K Self-organized criticality of belief propagation in large heterogeneous teams, Hirsch, M Pardalos, P. and Murphy R (eds), Dynamics of Information Systems, Springer, 2009
  5. Velagapudi, P., Prokopiev, O., Scerri, P., Sycara, K. A Token-Based Approach to Sharing Beliefs in a Large Multiagent Team, Control and Information systems, Springer, 2009.
  6. Glinton, R., Sycara, K, Scerri, D., and Scerri P., The Statistical Mechanics of Belief Sharing in Multi Agent Systems, International Journal Information Fusion. DOI information: 10.1016/j.inffus.2009.09.003
  7. Velagapudi, P., Prokopyev, O., Sycara, K. Scerri, P. Analyzing the performance of randomized information sharing, AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 15-19, 2009.

  8. Glinton, Scerri, Paruchuri, Sycara Analysis and Design of Information Dynamics in Large Scale Networked Systems International Conference on the Dynamics of Information System, Gainsville, Fla, Jan 28-30, 2009.

  9. Paruchuri, Glinton, Scerri, Sycara, K The role of humans in information propagation in Large Scale Heterogeneous Teams International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems, Gainsville, Fla, Jan 28-30, 2009

  10. Okamoto, S, Sycara, K. and Scerri, P., Software Personal Assistants for Human Organizations, Virginia Dignum (ed) Multi Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, IGI, ISBN: 1-60566-256-9, February 2009

  11. Glinton, R., Scerri, P., Sycara, K. Towards the Understanding of Information Dynamics in Large Scale Networked Systems, Twelfth International conference on information Fusion 2009, Seattle WA., July 6-9, 2009.

  12. Owens, S., Sycara, K., Scerri, P. Using Immersive 3D Terrain Models for Fusion of UAV Surveillance Imagery, In Proceedings of AIAA, 2009

  13. Reitter, D.  Lebiere, C.  Lewis, M. Wang, H. and Ma Z..  A cognitive model of visual path planning in a multi-robot control system.  In: Proceedings Systems Man Cybernetics 2009 (IEEE-SMC), San Antonio, TX, October 2009.
  14. Velagapudi, P., Wang, H., Lewis, M., Scerri, P., and Sycara, K. (2009). Scaling Effects for Streaming Video vs. Static Panorama in Multirobot Search, The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, October.
  15. Wang, H., Lewis, M., Velagapudi, P., Scerri, P., and Sycara, K. (2009b).  Scaling effects for synchronous vs. asynchronous video in multi-robot search, Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, October.
  16. Wang, H., Chien, S., Lewis, M., Velagapudi, P., Scerri, P., and Sycara, K. (2009). Human teams for large scale multirobot control, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October.

  17. Ma, Z., Lee, P., Xu, Y., Lewis, M. & Scerri, P. (2009). An initial evaluation of approaches to building entry for large robot teams, 2009 IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR’09), IEEE.

  18. Wang, H., Lewis, M., Velagapudi, P., Scerri, P., and Sycara K. (2009a). How Search and its Subtasks Scale in N Robots, Proceedings of the Forth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'09),  New York, NY, USA, ACM 2009, pp. 141-148.
  19. Lewis, M., Wang, H., Velagapudi, P., Scerri, P. & Sycara, K. (2009). Using humans as sensors in robotic search, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Fusion, July 6-9. 2009.
  20. Baishya, D. & Lewis, M.   (2009). Algorithm steering for mixed-initiative robot teams, 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS09) Workshop on Mixed-Initiative MAS, May 10-15.

  21. Lewis, M., Balakirsky, S. & Carpin, S. (2009). Contributions of the virtual robot RoboCup Rescue competition to research in robotics, 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’09) Workshop on Competitions in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, July 12.

  22. Lewis, M., Sycara, K., & Scerri, P. Scaling up wide-area-search-munition teams, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 24(3), 10-13, 2009.

  23. Velagapudi, P., Owens, S., Scerri, P., Sycara, K., & Lewis, M. (2009). Environmental factors affecting situation awareness in unmanned aerial vehicles, AIAA Unmanned..Unlimited Conference, April 6-9.

  24. Lewis, M. and Wang, J. (2009). Measuring coordination demand in multirobot teams, Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, October.

  25. Lewis, M. and Wang, J. (2009). Assessing coordination demand in cooperating robots,  In Madhavan, Tunstel and Messina (Ed.) Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems, Springer, New York, 169-186.

  26. Choi,  H. Bruent, L. and  How, J. Consensus-based decentralized auctions for robust task allocation, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (in press), 2009.
  27. Parasuraman, R. (2009). Neuroergonomics applied to adaptive automation for supervision of multiple unmanned vehicles. In Proceedings of the Army Science Confererence, Orlando, FL.
  28. Parasuraman, R., Cosenzo, K., & de Visser, E. (2009). Adaptive automation for human supervision of multiple uninhabited vehicles: Effects on change detection, situation awareness, and mental workload. Military Psychology, 21.270-297.
  29. Reitter D. and Lebiere. C Towards explaining the evolution of domain languages with cognitive simulation.   In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), Manchester, UK, 2009.
  30. Reitter D. and Lebiere C.  A subsymbolic and visual model of spatial path planning. In: Proc. Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS), 2009. Best paper award BRIMS 2009.
  31. Undurti A and How, J. Task planning for teams with disobedient agents, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009.
  32. Nehme, C. Modeling human supervisory control in heterogeneous unmanned vehicle systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2009.

 

Publications 2008

 

  1. Chechetka, A., Sycara, K, Scerri, P. Insights into the Impact of Social Networks on Evolutionary Games, in A. Yang, Y. Shin (eds.) Application of Complex Adaptive systems, IDEA Group Inc, 2008.
  2. Glinton, R., Scerri, P. Sycara, K. Agent Organized Networks Redux, Proceedings of the AAAI, Chicago, Il. July 13-17, 2008.
  3. Simonetto A., Scerri, P. Sycara, K. A Mobile Network for Mobile Sensors, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, June 30-July 3, 2008.
  4. Okamoto, S., Scerri, P., Sycara, K. The Impact of Vertical Specialization on Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems, Proceedings of the AAAI, Chicago, Il. July 13-17, 2008.
  5. Glinton, R., Scerri, P. Sycara, K. Agent-Based Sensor Coalition formation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Fusion, Cologne, Germany, June 30-July 3, 2008.
  6. Xu, Y., Scerri, P., Lewis, M. and Sycara, K. (2008). Information Sharing among Large Scale Teams, In Proceedings of FUSION'08.
  7. Velagapudi, P., Scerri, P., Sycara, K., Wang, H., Lewis, M., and Wang, J. (2008a). Scaling effects in multi-robot control, 2008  International  Conference on  Intelligent  Robots and Systems (IROS08).
  8. Velagapudi, P., Wang, H., Scerri, P., Lewis, M., and Sycara, K. (2008b). Potential scaling effects for asynchronous video in multirobot search, Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS08).
  9. Nehme, C. Kilgore, R and Cummings, M. Predicting the impact of heterogeneity on unmanned vehicle team performance, in Proceedings of HFES 2008: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society, New York, NY, USA, September 2008.
  10. Nehme, C Mekdeci, B.  Crandall, J. and Cummings, M. The impact of heterogeneity on operator performance in future unmanned vehicle systems, The International Command and Control Journal, vol. 2, 2008.
  11. Grier, R. A., Parasuraman, R., Entin, E. E., Bailey, N., & Stelzer, E. (2008, September). A test of intra- versus inter-modality interference as a function of time pressure in a warfighting simulation. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Santa Monica, CA, pp, 1229-1232.
  12. Cummings M. and Mitchell, P. Predicting controller capacity in remote supervision of multiple unmanned vehicles, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A Systems and Humans, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 451460, 2008.