Graduate Assistantships History

• NAVAIR Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) Project (2007)

  • Collaborated with NAVAIR researchers to improve the usability of Georgia Tech’s MissionLab (multi-robot mission specification tool) in terms of heterogeneous multi-robot naval mission specification using CBR (case-based reasoning).

  • Developed the user interface and CBR mechanism.

  • The integrated system was successfully demonstrated at a navy base (Pax River) and a NASA flight facility (Wallops).

• NAVAIR/Lockheed-Martin Intelligent Autonomy (IA) Project (2006 – 2007)

  • Integrated Georgia Tech’s MissionLab (multi-robot mission specification tool) into Lockheed-Martin’s ICARUS (multi-robot mission control system) framework.

  • Developed the user interface and CBR (case-based reasoning) mechanism.

• ONR AO-FNC Project (2005 – 2006)

  • Developed a software system to easily specify, launch, and coordinate heterogeneous multi-robot naval missions using CBR (case-based reasoning) and CNP (contract net protocol).

  • Two papers were published.

• DARPA Mobile Autonomous Robot Software 2020 (MARS 2020) Project (2004)

  • Collaborated with researchers from private companies (BBN and Mobile Intelligence) and research institutions (UPenn and USC) to launch and coordinate heterogeneous multi-robot urban military missions by integrating multiple robotic development environments.

  • Developed the user interface, behavioral libraries, a sensor-fusion mechanism, and hardware drivers for the project.

  • The integrated system was successfully demonstrated at an army base (Ft. Benning).

  • This work was published as a journal paper.

• DARPA Mobile Autonomous Robot Software (MARS) Project (2001 – 2004)

• Developed a memory-based (CBR) user assistance feature for multi-robot mission specification.

• Conducted multiple formal usability studies to evaluate the utility of the new feature.

• Published an IEEE journal paper as the main author.

• DARPA Tactical Mobile Robotics (TMR) Project (1998 – 2001)

• Developed the software technologies to easily specify and deploy tactical mobile robot missions.

• The integrated system was successfully demonstrated at an army base (Ft. Sam Houston) and an urban firefighting training facility (Rockville, MD).

• Two papers were published.