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[ journal articles | thesis | book chapters | conference papers | tutorials | workshop papers | tech reports | videos | Player/Stage | other | submissions ]

Journal articles

  1. LOST: Localization-Space Trails for Robot Teams
    Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Stoy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme and Maja J. Mataric (2002) IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Vol.18 No.5 pp.796-812.
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  2. Experiments in Automatic Flock Control.
    Richard T. Vaughan, Neil Sumpter, Jane Henderson, Andy Frost and Stephen Cameron (2000) Robotics and Autonomous Systems 31 pp.109-117
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf) [Copyright 2000 Elsevier Science B.V].

Thesis

  1. Experiments in Animal-Interactive Robotics.
    Richard T. Vaughan (1999) DPhil. Thesis, University of Oxford.
    (gzipped postscript A4) (pdf A4)
    (gzipped postscript US letter) (pdf US letter)

Book chapters

  1. Really Reused Robot Code from the Player/Stage Project
    Richard T. Vaughan and Brian Gerkey (to appear 2006)
    in Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics, Davide Brugali (Ed.). Springer.
  2. Interaction with Animals
    Richard T. Vaughan and David McFarland (to appear ??) in Towards the Whole Iguana David McFarland and Owen Holland (Eds.). MIT Press.
  3. Experiments with Aerial-Ground Robots
    Gaurav S. Sukhatme, James Montgomery and Richard T. Vaughan, (2002) in Robot Teams: From Diversity to Polymorphism T. Balch and L.E. Parker (Eds.). AK Peters.

Refereed conference papers

  1. An Integrated Particle Filter & Potential Field Method for Cooperative Robot Target Tracking
    Roozbeh Mottaghi and Richard T. Vaughan.
    Accepted 2005, to appear Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2006. (PDF)
  2. Ganging up: Team-Based Aggression Expands the Population/Performance Envelope in a Multi-Robot System
    Yinan Zhang and Richard T. Vaughan.
    Accepted 2005, to appear Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2006. (PDF)
  3. Reducing Spatial Interference in Robot Teams by Local-Investment Aggression
    Mauricio Zuluaga and Richard T. Vaughan (2005) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2005, Edmonton, Alberta, August 2-6, 2005.
    (PDF)
  4. Recharging Robot Teams: A Tanker Approach
    Pawel Zebrowski and Richard T. Vaughan (2005) International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'05), Seattle, Washington, July 18th-20th, 2005.
    (PDF)
  5. Rational Aggressive Behaviour Reduces Interference in a Mobile Robot Team
    Sarah Brown, Mauricio Zuluaga, Yinan Zhang and Richard Vaughan (2005), International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR'05), Seattle, Washington, July 18th-20th, 2005.
    (PDF)
  6. On device abstractions for portable, resuable robot code.
    Richard T. Vaughan, Brian Gerkey, and Andrew Howard. (2003) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS2003) Las Vegas, USA.
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  7. The Player/Stage Project: Tools for Multi-Robot and Distributed Sensor Systems.
    Brian Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan and Andrew Howard. (2003) 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Coimbra, Portugal (ICAR'03).
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  8. Using Task-level Features to Transform Between Reference Frames in Robot Teams
    Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Stoy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme and Maja J. Mataric. (2002) Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, Washington DC, USA. (ICRA'02)
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  9. Most Valuable Player: A Robot Device Server for Distributed Control
    Brian P. Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Stoy, Andrew Howard, Gaurav S. Sukhatme and Maja J Mataric (2001) Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Robotic Systems, Maui, Hawaii. (IROS'01)
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  10. Evaluating Control Strategies for Wireless-Networked Robots Using an Integrated Robot and Network Simulation
    We Ye, Richard T. Vaughan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin and Maja J. Mataric. (2001) Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA'01).
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  11. Go ahead, make my day: robot conflict resolution by aggressive competition.
    Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Stoy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme and Maja J Mataric (2000) Proc. Int. Conf. Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Paris, France.
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  12. Blazing a trail: insect-inspired resource transportation by a robot team.
    Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Stoy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme and Maja J Mataric (2000) Proc. Int. Symp. Distributed Autonomous Robot Systems.
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  13. Fly spy: lightweight localization and target tracking for cooperating ground and air robots.
    Richard T. Vaughan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Javier Mesa-Martinez and James A. Montgomery. (2000) Proc. Int. Symp. Distributed Autonomous Robot Systems.
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  14. Whistling in the dark: cooperative trail following in uncertain localization space.
    Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Stoy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme and Maja J Mataric (2000) Proc. Int. Conf. Autonomous Agents, Barcelona, Spain.
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  15. Experiments in Automatic Flock Control
    Richard T. Vaughan, Frost, A. and Stephen Cameron (1998) in Proc. Symp. Intelligent Robotic Systems, Edinburgh, UK. (an earlier version of the RAS paper of the same title)
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf).
  16. Robot Sheepdog Project achieves automatic animal control.
    Richard T. Vaughan, Neil Sumpter, Andy Frost and Stephen Cameron (1998) in Proc.Int. Conf. Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour, Zurich, Switzerland.
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
    A poster summary shown at the same conference:
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  17. Robot control of animal flocks.
    Richard T. Vaughan, Neil Sumpter, Andy Frost and Stephen Cameron (1998) in Proc. Int. Symp. Intelligent Control, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  18. Learning Models of Animal Behaviour for a Robotic Sheepdog.
    Neil Sumpter, Andrew Bulpitt, Richard T. Vaughan, Robin Tillet and Roger Boyle. (1998) Proc. IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Chiba, Japan.
  19. Introducing the Robot Sheepdog Project.
    Richard T. Vaughan, Jane Henderson and Neil Sumpter (1997) in Proc. Int. Workshop on Robotics and Automation for Bio-production, Valencia, Spain.

Tutorials & Workshops

  1. State of the Art in Ant Robotics
    Sven Koenig, Israel Wagner, Andrew Russell, Richard Vaughan and Dave Payton.

    Presented at

Invited Papers in Workshop Proceedings

  1. Getting to Grips with Mobile Manipulation Abstractions
    Richard Vaughan
    Robot Middleware and Integration Frameworks, B-IT tutorial, Bonn, Germany, Dec 13-15, 2005.
  2. The Player/Stage Project: Free Software tools for robotics research
    Richard Vaughan, Brian Gerkey and Andrew Howard
    Robot Middleware and Integration Frameworks, B-IT tutorial, Bonn, Germany, Dec 13-15, 2005.
  3. Really Reused Robot Code
    Richard Vaughan and Brian Gerkey
    Principle and Practice of Software Development in Robotics : crafting modular and interoperable systems, workshop at IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2005.
  4. Most Valuable Player: A Robot Device Server for Distributed Control
    Brian P. Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Andrew Howard, Gaurav S. Sukhatme and Maja J Mataric. Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS at Autonomous Agents 2001, Montreal, Canada, May 29, 2001.
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)

Published videos

  1. The Robot Sheepdog Project: experiments in automatic flock control (video)
    Richard T. Vaughan, Neil Sumpter, Andy Frost and Stephen Cameron. (2000) in the Video Proceedings, IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA2000).
    (hi-res AVI, 104MB) (lo-res AVI, 35MB)

Collected Player/Stage material

Technical Reports

  1. LOST: Localization-Space Trails for Robot Teams
    Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Stoy, Gaurav S. Sukhatme and Maja J. Mataric. Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Technical Report IRIS-01-401, University of Southern California, 2001
    (gzipped postscript) (pdf)
  2. Stage: a multiple robot simulator.
    Richard T. Vaughan. Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Technical Report IRIS-00-393, University of Southern California, 2000.
    THIS IS AN OLD, ARCHIVED VERSION. For the current Stage manual, look here instead.
    (gzipped postscript)
  3. Player Robot Server.
    Brian Gerkey, Kasper Stoy and Richard T. Vaughan. Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Technical Report IRIS-00-391, University of Southern California, 2000.
    (gzipped postscript)

Other

  1. Aggression Proportional to Task Investment Can Improve Group Efficiency
    Yinan Zhang, Maurico Zuluaga, Sarah Brown & Richard T. Vaughan
    Last-Minute-Results Poster at the International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB'04), Santa Monica, California, 23-17 July 2004.
    (PDF)

Current Submissions

  1. Sounds Good: Simulation and Evaluation of Audio Communication for Multi-Robot Exploration
    Pooya Karimian, Richard Vaughan and Sarah Brown.
    Submitted 2006 to Int. Conf. Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS 2006)

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