ABSTRACT Task Allocation Using a Distributed Market-Based Planning Mechanism ∗ (2008)
Dani Goldberg, Vincent Cicirello, M. Bernardine Dias, Reid Simmons, Stephen Smith, Anthony Stentz
This paper describes a market-based planning mechanism used for task and resource allocation within a larger distributed, multi-robot control and coordination architecture. We are developing an...
Augmented Markov Models (Continuing Draft) (2008)
This technical report presents augmented Markov models (AMMs), and provides detailed descriptions of their structure and one model construction algorithm. Augmented Markov models are essentially...
MULTI-VEHICLE COOPERATIVE NAVIGATION AND AUTONOMY WITH THE BLUEFIN CADRE SYSTEM (2008)
Scott Willcox, Dani Goldberg, Jerome Vaganay, Joseph A. Curcio
Abstract: The Cooperative Autonomy for Distributed Reconnaissance and Exploration (CADRE) system is a framework for the coordination of heterogeneous collections of unmanned vehicles for autonomous...
Using TEAMCORE to Make Agents Team-Ready (2007)
Milind Tambe, Wei-min Shen, Maja Mataric, David V. Pynadath, Dani Goldberg, Pragnesh Jay Modi, ...
In complex, dynamic and uncertain environments extending from disaster rescue missions, to future battlefields, to monitoring and surveillance tasks, to virtual
Multiple Agents from the Bottom Up: The Interaction Lab's Robot Competition Effort (2007)
Barry Brian, Barry Brian Werger, Team Members, Miguel Schneider Fontan, Dani Goldberg, Greg Hornby, ...
be combined to form complex behaviors (Matari'c, M. 95), how such systems can achieve tasks that require global knowledge (Werger and Matari'c 96), how robot teams and tasks can be...
Stay Outta My Way: Interference as a Guide for Designing Efficient Group Behavior (2007)
In this paper we present an ethologically inspired methodology for the incremental improvement of collective group behaviors. The goal is to aid in the implementation of efficient group behaviors,...
GRACE: An Autonomous Robot for the AAAI Robot Challenge (2003)
Reid Simmons, Dani Goldberg, Adam Goode, Michael Montemerlo, Nicholas Roy, Brennan Sellner, ...
In an attempt to solve as much of the AAAI Robot Challenge as possible, five research institutions representing academia, industry and government, integrated their research in a single robot named...
A Layered Architecture for Coordination of Mobile Robots (2002)
Reid Simmons, Trey Smith, M. Bernardine Dias, Dani Goldberg, David Hershberger, Anthony Stentz, ...
This paper presents an architecture that enables multiple robots to explicitly coordinate actions at multiple levels of abstraction. In particular, we are developing an extension to the traditional...
Maximizing Reward in a Non-Stationary Mobile Robot Environment (2002)
The ability of a robot to improve its performance on a task can be critical, especially in poorly known and non-stationary environments where the best action or strategy is dependent upon the current...
Dani Goldberg, Vincent Cicirello, M. Bernardine Dias, Reid Simmons, Stephen Smith, Trey Smith, ...
This paper presents an architecture that enables multiple robots to explicitly coordinate actions at multiple levels of abstraction. In particular, we are developing an extension to the traditional...
GRACE: An Autonomous Robot for the AAAI Robot Challenge (2002)
Reid Simmons, Dani Goldberg, Adam Goode, Michael Montemerlo, Nicholas Roy, Brennan Sellner, ...
Introduction The AAAI Robot Challenge was established four years ago as a "grand challenge" for mobile robots. The main objectives of the Challenge are to (a) provide a task that will...
Evaluating the dynamics of agent-environment interaction / (2001)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southern California, 2001.
In this chapter, we demonstrate the e ectiveness of behavior-based control in facilitating the development and evaluation of multi-robot controllers that are: (1) robust to robot failures, and (2)...
In this chapter, we demonstrate the e ectiveness of behavior-based control in facilitating the development and evaluation of multi-robot controllers that are: (1) robust to robot failures, and (2)...
Learning Multiple Models for Reward Maximization (2000)
We present an approach to reward maximization in a non-stationary mobile robot environment. The approach works within the realistic constraints of limited local sensing and limited a priori knowledge...
Detecting Regime Changes with a Mobile Robot using Multiple Models (2000)
We present an approach to the detection of global environmental regime changes by a mobile robot performing a task. The approach is based on the use of augmented Markov models (AMMs), which are...
Robust Behavior-Based Control for Distributed Multi-Robot Collection Tasks (2000)
Dani Goldberg, Maja J. Mataric
We demonstrate the effectiveness of behavior-based control in facilitating the development and evaluation of multirobot controllers that are: (1) robust to robot failures, and (2) easily modified to...
Reward Maximization in a Non-Stationary Mobile Robot Environment (2000)
In this paper, we present an approach to reward maximization in a non-stationary mobile robot environment. The approach works within the constraints of limited local sensing and limited a prior...
Mobile Robot Group Coordination Using a Model of Interaction Dynamics (1999)
We show how various levels of coordinated behavior may be achieved in a group of mobile robots by using a model of the interaction dynamics between a robot and the environment. We present augmented...
Coordinating Mobile Robot Group Behavior Using a Model of Interaction Dynamics (1999)
In this paper we show how various levels of coordinated behavior may be achieved in a group of mobile robots by using a model of the interaction dynamics between a robot and its environment. We...
Augmented Markov Models (1999)
This technical report presents augmented Markov models (AMMs), and provides detailed descriptions of their structure and one model construction algorithm. Augmented Markov models are essentially...
Teamwork in cyberspace: Using TEAMCORE to make agents team-ready (1999)
Milind Tambe, Wei-min Shen, Maja Mataric, Dani Goldberg, Pragnesh Jay Modi, Zhun Qiu, ...
GRACE: An Autonomous Robot for the AAAI Robot Challenge (1998)
Simmons, Reid, Goldberg, Dani, Goode, Adam, Montemerlo, Michael, Roy, Nicholas, Schultz, Alan C., ...
The AAAI Robot Challenge was established four years ago as a "grand challenge" for mobile robots. The main objectives of the Challenge are to (a) provide a task that will demonstrate a high level of...
GRACE and GEORGE: Autonomous Robots for the AAAI Robot Challenge (1998)
Simmons, Reid, Bruce, Allison, Goldberg, Dani, Goode, Adam, Schultz, Alan, Adams, William, ...
In an attempt to solve as much of the AAAI Robot Challenge as possible, five research institutions representing academia, industry and government, integrated their research on a pair of robots named...
Interference as a Tool for Designing and Evaluating Multi-Robot Controllers (1997)
Dani Goldberg, Maja J Matari'c
Designing and implementing cooperative group behaviors for robots is considered something of a black art involving an extensive amount of reprogramming and parameter adjustment. What seems to be...
Interference as a Tool for Designing and Evaluating Multi-Robot Controllers (1997)
Dani Goldberg, Maja J Matari'c
Designing and implementing cooperative group behaviors for robots is considered something of a black art involving an extensive amount of reprogramming and parameter adjustment. What seems to be...
Interference as a Tool for Designing and Evaluating Multi-Robot Controllers (1997)
Designing and implementing cooperative group behaviors for robots is considered something of a black art involving an extensive amount of reprogramming and parameter adjustment. What seems to be...
Using interference to design efficient robot group behaviors /--Dani Goldberg. (1996)
Senior honors thesis--Brandeis University, 1996.
Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Robot Group Behavior (1996)
they belong to. It can therefore impact all of the previous issues. Our research begins to explore some of these issues by implementing a hoarding task. The task requires the robots to search an 11...
Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Robot Group Behaviour (1996)
When working with groups of robots it may bevery di cult to determine what characteristics the group requires in order to perform a task most e ciently|i.e., in the least time. Some researchers have...
Teamwork in Cyberspace: Using TEAMCORE to Make Agents Team-Ready
Milind Tambe, Wei-min Shen, Maja Mataric, David V. Pynadath, Dani Goldberg, Pragnesh Jay Modi, ...
this document now briefly describes the TEAMCORE design, architecture and implementation. TEAMCORE Design and Architecture
Teamwork in Cyberspace: Using TEAMCORE to Make Agents Team-Ready
Milind Tambe, Wei-Min Shen, Maja Mataric, Dani Goldberg, Pragnesh Jay Modi, Zhun Qiu, ...
this document now briefly describes the TEAMCORE design, architecture and implementation.