TBA, German summer school on Monitoring and Coordination Across
Networked Autonomous Entities", August 2008, Bad Muenster am Stein-Ebernburg,
Germany.
"From Birds and Bees to Multi-Robot Teams: What Nature Can
Teach Roboticists", Global Conference on Educational Robotics, July 8, 2008,
Norman, OK.
"Dealing with Heterogeneity in Multi-Robot Teams",
IRIDIA seminar, Université Libre de Bruxelles, June 20, 2008,
Brussels, Belgium.
"A Progress Report on Networked Robot Systems Research in
the USA", Workshop on Network Robot Systems: Benchmarks and Platforms
Towards Human-Robot Interaction, IEEE International Conference on
Robotics and Automation, May 19, 2008, Pasadena, CA.
"Towards Strongly Cooperative Multi-Robot Teams: Dealing with
Heterogeneity and Faulty Systems", Colloquium Series, College of Engineering and Information
Technology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, March 21, 2008,
Little Rock, AR.
2007
"Distributed Intelligence: Overview of the Field
and its Application in Multi-Robot Systems", AAAI Fall Symposium on
"Regarding the Intelligence in Distributed Intelligent Systems",
November 10, 2007, Arlington, VA.
"Advances in Robotics", Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellows
Program, July 3, 2007, Washington, D.C.
"Distributed Intelligence", Next Generation Innovation Forum,
Naval Surface Warfare Center, May 22, 2007, Port Hueneme, CA.
"Building Multi-Robot Coalitions: Enabling Sensor and Capability
Sharing Across Heterogeneous Teams", U. S. National Intelligence
Council's (NIC) Science and Technology Expert Partnership (STEP) Workshop on
Advanced Robotics,
March 20, 2007, McLean, VA.
"Creating Intelligent Mobile Robot Teams", Oak Ridge
Philosophical Society, March 2, 2007, Oak Ridge, TN.
Invited Academic Panelist, Unmanned Systems Capabilities Conference,
January 23, 2007, Nashville, TN.
2006
"Collaborative Processing in Sensor Networks", tutorial,
International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and
Vision, December 5, 2006, Singapore.
"Towards Strongly Cooperative Multi-Robot Teams: Dealing with
Heterogeneity and Faulty Systems",
The City College of New York, November 13, 2006, New York,
New York.
Invited Panelist, New Trends in Multi-Vehicle Systems, International
Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) First Workshop on Multivehicle
Systems, October 3, 2006, Salvador, Brazil.
"Intelligence, Reasoning, and Knowledge in Multi-Vehicle Systems:
Recent Advances and Current Research Challenges",
plenary talk, IFAC First Workshop on Multivehicle Systems, October 2, 2006,
Salvador, Brazil.
Invited Panelist, Robotics Science and Systems Workshop on Science
and Technology Challenges, August 18, 2006, Philadelphia, PA.
Invited Panelist, NSF Workshop on the Future of Robotics Research,
May 14, 2006, Orlando, FL.
"Intelligence, Reasoning and Knowledge: Current State of the Field
and Open Research Challenges, Keynote speaker, International Advanced Robotics
Programme Planning Forum, May 13, 2006, Orlando, FL.
"Overview of Research in Distributed Intelligence Laboratory",
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, March 6, 2006,
Cherry Hill, NJ.
2005
"Dealing with Heterogeneity in Multi-Robot Teams",
Workshop on Fieldable Multirobot Systems, International Conference
on Robotics and Automation, April 18, 2005, Barcelona, Spain.
"Experiments with a Large-Scale Heterogeneous Mobile
Robot Team", EURON (European Robotics Research Network) Annual Meeting,
Warsaw University of Technology, February 17, 2005, Warsaw, Poland.
"Creating Intelligent Mobile Robot Teams", Sarah Moore
Green Technology Magnet School, February 10, 2005, Knoxville, TN.
"Generating Coalescent Multi-Robot Teams through Distributed
Sensor Sharing", Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University, January 27, 2005, Nashville, TN.
2004
"Software Reconfigurability for Networked Heterogeneous
Mobile Robots", Workshop on Networked Robotics, International Conference
on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 29, 2004, Sendai, Japan.
"Autonomously Reconfigurable Distributed Schemas for
Task-Level Multi-Robot Team Control: Proof of Concept",
Workshop on Issues and Approaches to Task Level Control,
International Conference
on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 28, 2004, Sendai, Japan.
"Real-World Challenges in Deploying a Large-Scale Mobile Sensor
Network", Workshop on Urban Search and Rescue, International Conference
on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September 28, 2004, Sendai, Japan.
"Smart Machines: Robots that Integrate Perception, Reasoning, and
Action to Perform Cooperative Tasks", University of Tennessee Pre-Game
Faculty Showcase Lecture, September 18, 2004, Knoxville, TN.
"Experiments with a Large-Scale Heterogeneous Mobile
Robot Team", University of Notre Dame, September 16, 2004, South Bend, IN.
"Indoor Target Intercept Using an Acoustic Sensor Network and
Dual Wavefront Path Planning", 10th International Topical Meeting on
Robotics and Remote Systems for Hazardous Environments, invited
session in Intelligent Microsystems, March 30, 2004,
Gainesville, FL.
"Generating Fault Tolerance through Learning in Heterogeneous
Multi-Robot Teams", DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT)
Workshop on Distributed Cognitive Systems Focused on Team/Multiagent
Learning, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, June 2, 2004,
Cambridge, MA.
2003
"Adaptable Tactical Behaviors for Unmanned Ground Vehicles",
Army Research Laboratory Tactical Behaviors Workshop, U.S. Army War
College, October 28, 2003, Carlisle, PA.
"Heterogeneous Mobile Sensor Net Planning and Deployment
Using Robot Herding", Georgia Institute of Technology, October 20, 2003, Atlanta, GA.
"Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Herding for Mobile Sensor Network
Deployment", The Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon Unversity, September 5, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA.
"Distributed Intelligence Research at The University of Tennessee",
Intel Robotics Workshop and Forum, January 23, 2003, Hillsboro, OR.
2002
"Robots and How they Might Some Day Change Your Life",
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences,
Knoxville Area Home and Community Section, December 5, 2002, Knoxville, TN.
"From Theoretical to Practical Implementations of Distributed
Robot Teams", The Second Swedish Workshop on Autonomous Robotics,
October 11-12, 2002, Stockholm, Sweden.
"Towards Practical Implementations of 100+ Heterogeneous Robot
Teams", Workshop on Cooperative Robotics at the 2002 IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems", October 1, 2002, Lausanne,
Switzerland.
"Multi-Robot Systems: Where we've been and Where we're going", Plenary speech, Joint session of Sixth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems and 2002 RoboCup Symposium, June 25, 2002, Fukuoka, Japan.
"Advances in Multi-Robot Systems", Plenary speech, Seventh International Conference
on Artificial Life and Robotics, January 16, 2002, Beppu, Japan.
"Distributed Robotics and Team Learning in Inherently Cooperative Tasks",
University of Tokyo, Institute for Industrial Science, January 15, 2002, Tokyo, Japan.
2001
"Towards Cooperative Robot Teams in Complex Site Preparation Tasks", Carnegie Mellon
University, The Robotics Institute, December 11, 2001, Pittsburgh, PA.
"Distributed Robotics and Team Learning in Inherently Cooperative Tasks", George Mason
University, Computer Science Department Seminar Series, November 16, 2001,
Fairfax, VA.
"Distributed Robot Cooperation and Team Learning in Inherently
Cooperative Tasks", Penn State University,
Department of Mathematics Distinguished Visitors Program, October 31, 2001, University Park, PA.
"Cooperative Robot Teams", Czech Technical University,
Department of Cybernetics, August 30, 2001, Prague, Czech Republic.
"Distributed Robot Team Learning in Inherently Cooperative Tasks",
Silesian University, Institute for Computer Science,
August 27, 2001, Opava, Czech Republic.
"Robotics Research at ORNL", Knoxville Technical Society, July 9, 2001,
Knoxville, TN.
"Autonomous and Cooperative Robotics at ORNL",
Vanderbilt University, Center for Intelligent Systems,
May 18, 2001, Nashville, TN.
"Multi-Robot Systems", American Nuclear Society of Knoxville/Oak Ridge,
April 24, 2001, Knoxville, TN.
"Looking to the Future ... Multi-Robot Teams",
Tennessee Technological University, Center for Manufacturing
Research seminar series, March 29, 2001, Cookeville, TN.
"Multi-Robot Teams", Oak Ridge
Institute for Continued Learning, Frontiers of Science and Technology class,
February 28, 2001, Oak Ridge, TN.
"Cooperative Autonomous Mobile Robotics Research
at ORNL", East Tennessee Economic
Council, February 16, 2001, Oak Ridge, TN.
"Behavior-Based and Cooperative Robotics", Universidad Carlos III
de Madrid, short course, February 5-9, 2001, Madrid, Spain.
"Cooperation and Learning in Multi-Robot Teams",
University of Tennessee Department of Nuclear Engineering
seminar series, January 31, 2001, Knoxville, TN.
"Teaching Robots to Cooperate", Roane/Anderson Counties
Professional Society and Friends of ORNL, January 10, 2001,
Oak Ridge, TN.
2000
"Multi-Robot Cooperation: From Fundamental Research to
Real-World Applications", Institute for Mathematics and its
Applications/Association for Women in Mathematics
Workshop on Connecting Women in Mathematical
Sciences to Industry, September 8-10, 2000, Minneapolis, MN.
The ALLIANCE Architecture for Multi-Robot Control,
NASA Surface Systems Meeting, Panel on Multi-Robot
Control Architectures -- Redundancies and Commonalities,
March 24, 2000, Pasadena. CA.
"Ethics in Robotics: Implications of
Asimov's Three Laws", Women in Science and Technology
Conference, Panel on
Ethics, March 10, 2000, Oak Ridge, TN.
"System of Systems Robotics: Multi-Robot Cooperation",
Center for Intelligent Systems Seminar,
Science Applications International Corporation, March 8, 2000,
Littleton, CO.
"Cooperation and Learning in Multiple Robot Teams",
Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial
Intelligence Seminar Series, Naval Research Laboratory, March 6, 2000,
Washington, D.C.
"Robotics Research",
35th Annual Junior Science and Humanities Symposium,
March 3, 2000, Oak Ridge, TN.
1999
"An Overview of ORNL's Research in Robotics",
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory
Seminar, November 2, 1999, Idaho Falls, ID.
"We Don't See Eye to Eye: A Distributed Robot's View
of Sensor Fusion", (together with
Prof. Robin
Murphy), SPIE Robotics and Machine Perception Technical
Group meeting, September 20, 1999, Boston, MA.
"Collective and Cooperative Robotics", University of Buenos
Aires, Escuela de Ciencias Informaticas,
July 1999, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"Generating Self-Reliant Teams of Autonomous
Cooperating Robots: Desired Design Characteristics,"
Autonomous Agents (Agents '99) Autonomy Control Software Workshop,
May 1, 1999, Seattle, WA.
"From Social Animals to Teams of Cooperating Robots",
short presentation for DARPA workshop on Biologically
Inspired Approaches for Micro Air Vehicles,
April 21-22, 1999, Washington, D.C.
"Multi-Robot Cooperation", SIAM Southeastern-Atlantic Sectional Meeting, University
of Tennessee, March 19-20, 1999, Knoxville, TN.
1998
"Overview of Autonomous and Cooperative Robotics Research
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory", JAUGS (Joint Architecture for Unmanned
Ground Systems) Working Group Meeting, October 6, 1998, Huntsville, AL.
"Distributed Motion Control for Multi-Robot Observation
of Multiple Moving Targets", University of Southern California, Department
of Computer Science, August 18, 1998, Los Angeles, CA.
"Small-Scale Locomotion, Intelligent Cooperation, and Energy-
Efficient Computation: A Concept for Cooperating Heterogeneous
Biomorphic Explorers", First NASA/JPL Workshop on Biomorphic Explorers
for Future Missions, August 20, 1998, Pasadena, CA.
"Cooperative Robotics Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory",
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)
Robotics Workshop, August 13, 1998, Oak Ridge, TN.
"Cooperating Multi-Robot Teams," ORNL Advisory
Committee Review, April 20, 1998, Oak Ridge, TN.
"On the Design of Cooperating Multi-Robot Teams,"
University of Arkansas, Department of Applied Science Seminar Series,
January 21, 1998, Little Rock, AR.
"Cooperating Multi-Robot Teams,"
Harding University, January 22, 1998, Searcy, AR.
1997
"Multi-Robot Cooperation,"
University of Wisconsin, Computer Science Department
Seminar Series, November 14, 1997, Milwaukee, WI.
"From Social Animals to Teams of Cooperating Robots: Examples
of Successful Multi-Robot Cooperation," IROS '97 Workshop Multi-Robot
Cooperation: Current Trends and Key Issues,
September 7, 1997, Grenoble, France.
"Fault Tolerance and Heterogeneity in Multi-Robot
Reconnaissance," short presentation for DARPA workshop on
Small Multi-Agent Reconnaissance Technology,
May 21, 1997, Washington, D.C.
"Multi-Robot Cooperation," Distinguished Lecture,
LSU 25th Anniversary Symposium, Department of Computer Science,
April 18, 1997, Baton Rouge, LA.
1996
"Multi-Robot Cooperation," Caterpillar, Inc.,
October 22, 1996, Peoria, IL.
"Behavior-Based Robot Control," guest lecture,
University of Tennessee Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
class on Real-Time Robot Control, March 25, 1996, Knoxville, TN.
"Cooperative Robot Control," guest lecture,
University of Tennessee Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
class on Real-Time Robot Control, March 27, 1996, Knoxville, TN.
"Multi-Robot Team Design for Real-World Applications,"
ONR Autonomous Robotics Workshop,
June 1996, Newport, RI.
"From Social Animals to Teams of Cooperating Robots,"
Biologically Inspired Autonomous Systems Workshop, Duke University,
March 4, 1996, Durham, NC.
"Mobile Robots: Real-Life Fact versus Hollywood Fiction,"
Wattec Science in Action
presentation, Tennessee Valley Authority, February 22, 1996,
Knoxville, TN.