The following are publications related to the various robotics projects at the Univeristy of Minnesota.

Scout Related Publications

E. Kadioglu, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Method for Transporting a Team of Miniature Robots," Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.

P. E. Rybski, F. Zacharias, J. F. Lett, O. Masoud, M. Gini and N. Papanikolopoulos, "Building Topological Maps with Sensor-Limited Miniature Mobile Robots," Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

J. L. Pearce, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Dispersion Behaviors for a Team of Miniature Robots," Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.

Sascha A. Stoeter, Ian T. Burt, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos. Scout Robot Motion Model. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2003. (pdf)

Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, Bradley Kratochvil, Brad Nelson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Kemal Berk Yesin, "Communication and Mobility Enhancements to the Scout Robot", Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct. 2002. (pdf)

S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Autonomous Stair-Hopping with Scout Robots," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 721-726, Lausanne, Switzerland, September/October 2002.(pdf)

P. Rößler, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Visual Servoing of a Miniature Robot Toward a Marked Target," Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, July 2002. (pdf)

A. Drenner, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, B. Kratochvil, C. P. McMillen, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, K. Stubbs, D. Waletzko, K. B. Yesin, "Mobility Enhancements to the Scout Robot Platform," Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1069-1074, Washington, DC, May 2002. (pdf)

D. P. Perrin, E. Kadioglu, S. A. Stoeter, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Localization of Miniature Robots Using Constant Curvature Dynamic Countours," Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 702-707, Washington DC, May 2002.

P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, A. Schoolcraft, S. Osentoski and M. Gini, "Evaluation of Control Strategies for Multi-Robot Search and Retrieval," Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-7), pp. 281-288, Marina del Rey, CA, March 2002. (pdf)

C. P. McMillen, K. Stubbs, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Resource Scheduling and Load Balancing in Distributed Robotic Control Systems," Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-7), pp. 223-230, Marina del Rey, CA, March 2002.

P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Effects of Limited Bandwidth Communications Channels of the Control of Multiple Robots," Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 369-374, Maui, HI, October 2001. (pdf)

P. E. Rybski, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, D. G. Krantz, F. Nageotte, N. Papanikolopoulos, S. A. Stoeter, "System Architecture for Versatile Autonomous and Teleoperated Control of Multiple Miniature Robots," Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul, Korea, May 2001. (pdf)

D. F. Hougen, M. D. Erickson, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Autonomous Mobile Robots and Distributed Exploratory Missions," Fifth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), Knoxville, TN, October 2000.

S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. D. Erickson, M. Wyman, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Robot Team for Exploration and Surveillance: Design and Architecture," Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems 6, pp. 767-774, Venice, Italy, July 2000. (ps)

N. Papanikolopoulos, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, M. Erickson, "Experiments with a Team of Miniature Robots," Proceedings of the IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation, Rio, Greece, July 2000.

P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. D. Erickson, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Team of Robotic Agents for Surveillance," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 9-16, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000.(pdf)

D. F. Hougen, S. Benjaafar, J. C. Bonney, J. R. Budenske, M. Dvorak, M. Gini, H. French, D. G. Krantz, P. Y. Li, F. Malver, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, R. Voyles and K. B. Yesin, "A Miniature Robotic System for Reconnaissance and Surveillance," Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 501-507, San Francisco, CA, April 2000.

COTS Scout Related Publications

Ben Jackson, Ian Burt, Bradley E. Kratochvil, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos. "A Control System for Teams of Off-the-Shelf Scouts and MegaScouts", to appear, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Rhodes, Greece, June 2003.

Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, Derek Goerke, Bradley E. Kratochvil, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos. "COTS Scout Robot", To Appear in Video proceedings of the SPIE International Symposium on Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology V, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., April 2003.

Bradley E. Kratochvil, Ian T. Burt, Andrew Drenner, Derek Goerke, Bennett Jackson, Colin McMillen, Christopher Olson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Adam Pfeifer, Sascha A. Stoeter, Kristen Stubbs, David Waletzko. "Heterogeneous Implementation of an Adaptive Robotic Sensing Team." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2003.

MegaScout Related Publications

Bradley Kratochvil, Ian T. Burt, Andrew Drenner, Derek Goerke, Bennett Jackson, Colin McMillen, Christopher Olson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Adam Pfeifer, Sascha A. Stoeter, Kristen Stubbs, David Waletzko. "Heterogeneous Implementation of an Adaptive Robotic Sensing Team." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2003.

Ranger Related Publications

Sascha A. Stoeter, Frédéric Le Mauff, Nikolaos P. Papanikolopoulos. "Real-time Door Detection in Cluttered Environments." Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Rio, Greece, pp. 187-192, July 2000.(ps)

Pioneers Related Publications

Software Related Publications