Research

I'm a Ph.D. student at College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
I work in Mobile Robot Lab, which is directed by Prof. Ronald Arkin.
I have worked on numerous research projects as a graduate research assistant (GRA). [More]
After working with real robots, I started having deeper appreciation on how remarkably animals deal with navigational tasks.
For example, a honeybee. The little bug can find the way home from a very distant randomly arrived food source.
 It can also transfer this spatial information to other honeybees.
That's hard for a robot to do!
For mammals, the scientists agree that the hippocampus is the part where the "cognitive map" is formed.
Inspired by this, I came up with a method of how a robot can localize with respect to its "cognitive map". [More]
This work is now extended as my Ph.D. dissertation.
I am trying to determine how episodic memories can be utilized by a robot to accomplish anticipation and improvisation.
The dissertation should be available very soon!
Meanwhile, below is the list of my publications.

 

List of Publications

  • Summary:
     ◊  Ph.D. dissertation related: [1], [8], [10]
    ◊      Multi-robot mission specification related: [2], [3], [4], [6], [9], [11], [14]
    ◊      Usability studies: [5], [9]
    ◊      Field results: [2], [13]
    ◊  CBR related: [3], [4], [5], [9], [11]
    ◊  POMDP related: [1]
    ◊      Sensor-fusion related: [7]
    ◊      Cognitive science related: [8], [10], [12]

  • The PDF versions available from Georgia Tech Mobile Robot Lab website.

  1. Y. Endo, "Anticipatory Robot Control for a Partially Observable Environment Using Episodic Memories," presented at IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, Calif., 2008.

  2. M. Hsieh, A. Cowley, J. Keller, L. Chaimonwicz, B. Grocholsky, V. Kumar, C. Taylor, Y. Endo, R. C. Arkin, B. Jung, D. Wolf, G. Sukhatme, and D. Mackenzie, "Adaptive Teams of Autonomous Aerial and Ground Robots or Situational Awareness," J. Field Robotics, vol. 4, 2007, pp. 991-1014.

  3. P. Ulam, Y. Endo, A. R. Wagner, and R. C. Arkin, "Integrated Mission Specification and Task Allocation for Robot Teams - Design and Implementation," Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation, 2007, pp. 4428-4435.

  4. A. R. Wagner, Y. Endo, P. Ulam, and R. C. Arkin, "Multi-robot User Interface Modeling," in Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 7, M. Gini and R. Voyles, eds., Springer, Tokyo, 2006.

  5. L. Moshkina, Y. Endo, and R. C. Arkin, "Usability Evaluation of an Automated Mission Repair Mechanism for Mobile Robot Mission Specification," Proc. ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conf. Human-Robot Interaction, 2006, pp. 57-63.

  6. Georgia Tech Mobile Robot Laboratory, MissionLab: User Manual for MissionLab 7.0. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga, 2006.

  7. Y. Endo, P. D. Ulam, R. C. Arkin, T. Balch, and M. D. Powers, "An Empirical Evaluation of Context-Sensitive Pose Estimators in an Urban Outdoor Environment," Georgia Institute of Technology, Technical Report GIT-GVU-05-13, 2005.

  8. Y. Endo, "Anticipatory and Improvisational Robot via Recollection and Exploitation of Episodic Memories," Proc. 2005 AAAI Fall Symp.: From Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Embodied Systems, 2005, pp. 57-64.

  9. Y. Endo, D. C. MacKenzie, and R. C. Arkin, "Usability Evaluation of High-Level User Assistance for Robot Mission Specification," IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, vol. 34, 2004, pp. 168-180.

  10. Y. Endo and R. C. Arkin, "Anticipatory Robot Navigation by Simultaneously Localizing and Building a Cognitive Map," Proc. Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems 2003, pp. 460-466.

  11. R. C. Arkin, Y. Endo, B. Lee, D. MacKenzie, and E. Martinson, "Multistrategy Learning Methods for Multirobot Systems," Proc. Int'l Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, 2003, pp. 137-150.

  12. Y. Endo and R. C. Arkin, "Implementing Tolman's Schematic Sowbug: Behavior-based Robotics in the 1930s," Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation, 2001, pp. 477- 484.

  13. T. R. Collins, R. C. Arkin, M. J. Cramer, and Y. Endo, "Field Results for Tactical Mobile Robot Missions," presented at Unmanned Systems 2000, Orlando, Fla., 2000.

  14. R. C. Arkin, T. R. Collins, and Y. Endo, "Tactical Mobile Robot Mission Specification and Execution," Proc. Mobile Robots XIV, 1999, pp. 150-163.

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