I am currently a PhD student at the College of Computing. My interests fall under the header of Intelligent Systems but more specifically I am interested in robotics, multi agent systems, and machine learning.
I am currently working at the Mobile Robotics Lab where I am working with Ronald Arkin.
Publications:
Patrick Ulam and Tucker Balch. "Niche Selection in Foraging Tasks in Multi-Robot Teams Using Reinforcement Learning". 2nd International Workshop on the Mathematics and Algorithms of Social Insects, Atlanta, Georgia, 2003. pdf ps.gz
Patrick Ulam and Ronald Arkin. "When Good Comms Go Bad: Communications Recovery for Multi-Robot Teams". ICRA 2004. New Orleans, LA, 2004. pdf
Patrick Ulam, Ashok Goel, and Joshua Jones. "Reflection in Action: Model-Based Self-Adaptation in Game Playing Agents". AAAI Challenges in Game AI Workshop. San Jose, CA, 2004.
Patrick Ulam and Tucker Balch. Using Optimal Foraging Models to Evaluate Learned Robotic Foraging Behavior. Adaptive Behavior 2004 12: 213-222. pdf
Patrick Ulam, Ashok Goel, Joshua Jones and William Murdoch. "Using Model-Based Reflection to Guide Reinforcement Learning". IJCAI Workshop on Reasoning, Representation and Learning in Computer Games. Edinburgh, UK, 2005. pdf
Alan R. Wagner, Yoichiro Endo, Patrick Ulam, Ronald C. Arkin (2006). Multi-Robot User Interface Modeling. In Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems 7. M. Gini and R. Voyles (eds.). Tokyo, Japan, Springer-Verlag. pdf
Patrick Ulam, Yoichiro Endo, Alan Wagner, Ronald Arkin (2007) Integrated Mission Specification and Task Allocation for Robot Teams - Design and Implementation. In Proceedings of ICRA 2007. Rome, Italy, 2007. pdf
Patrick Ulam, Ronald Arkin (2008) Biasing behavioral activation with intent for an entertainment robot. Intelligent Service Robotics.
Contact Information:
pulam -at- cc.gatech.edu
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280