Publications

2009

Jason Derenick, John Spletzer, and Ani Hsieh, "An Optimal Approach to Collaborative Target Tracking with Performance Guarantees," the Journal of Intelligent and Robot Systems, Vol. 56, Issues 1-2, Pages 47-68, Sep 2009.

C. Gao, M. Sands and J. R. Spletzer, "Towards Autonomous Wheelchair Systems in Urban Environments," the 7th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR 2009), Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2009
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T. H. Miller, D. A. Stolfo and J. R. Spletzer, "An Automated Asset Locating System (AALS) with Applications to Inventory Management," the 7th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR 2009), Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 2009
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Jon Bohren, Tully Foote, Jim Keller, Alex Kushleyev, Daniel Lee, Alex Stewart, Paul Vernaza, Jason Derenick, John Spletzer, and Brian Satterfield, "Little Ben: The Ben Franklin Racing Team's entry to the DARPA Urban Challenge," Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 25, No. 9, Pages 598-614, September 2008.
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C. Gao, I. Hoffman, T. Miller, T. Panzarella, and J. Spletzer, "Autonomous Docking of a Smart Wheelchair for the Automated Transport and Retrieval System (ATRS)", Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 25, No. 4-5, Pages 203-222, April 2008.
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J. Derenick and J. Spletzer, "Convex Optimization Strategies for Coordinating Large-scale Robot Formations", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Volume 23, No. 6, Pages 1252-1259, December 2007.
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J. Derenick and J. Spletzer, "Second-order Cone Programming (SOCP) Techniques for Coordinating Large-scale Robot Teams in Polygonal Environments", in Advances in Cooperative Control and Optimization, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Volume 369, Pages 95-108, Oct 2007

C. Gao, I. Hoffman, T. Miller, T. Panzarella, and J. Spletzer, "Performance Characterization of LIDAR Based Localization for Docking a Smart Wheelchair System," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007) Workshop on Assistive Technologies: Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics, October 2007
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J. Derenick, J. Spletzer and M. Ani Hsieh, "A Graph Theoretic Approach to Optimal Target Tracking for Mobile Robot Teams", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007), San Diego, October 2007
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C.J. Taylor and J. Spletzer, "A Bounded Approach to Cooperative Localization Using Relative Bearing Constraints," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007), San Diego, October 2007
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C. Gao, I. Hoffman, T. Panzarella, and J. Spletzer, "Automated Transport and Retrieval System (ATRS): A Technology Solution to Automobility for Wheelchair Users," the 6th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR2007), July 2007
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J. Derenick, C. Mansley and J. Spletzer, "Efficient Motion Planning Strategies for Large-scale Sensor Networks", the Seventh International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2006), New York, July 2006.
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H. Sermeno-Villalta and J. Spletzer, "Vision-based Control of a Smart Wheelchair for the Automated Transport and Retrieval System," the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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J. Derenick and J. Spletzer, "Optimal Shape Changes for Robot Teams," Lehigh University Technical Report LU-CSE-05-029.
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V. Isler, S. Khanna, J. Spletzer and C.J. Taylor, "Target Tracking with Distributed Sensors: the Focus of Attention Problem," Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding: Special Issue on Attention and Performance in Computer Vision, Volume 100, Issues 1-2, Pages 225-247, October-November 2005.
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J. Derenick, C. Thorne and J. Spletzer, "Hybrid Free-space Optics/Radio Frequency (FSO/RF) Networks for Mobile Robot Teams," in Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Alan C. Schultz and Lynne E. Parker (eds.), Springer, March 2005.
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J. Derenick, C. Thorne and J. Spletzer, "On the Deployment of a Hybrid FSO/RF Mobile Ad-hoc Network," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Edmonton, August 2005.
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Edmund F. LoPresti, Jim Osborn, Thomas Panzarella, Thomas Panzarella, Jr., and John Spletzer, "Automatic Transport and Retrieval System for Power Wheelchairs," RESNA, June 2005.
J. Spletzer and R. Fierro, "Optimal Positioning Strategies for Shape Changes in Robot Teams", in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 754-759, Barcelona, April 2005.
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R. Fierro, C. Branca and J. Spletzer, "On-line Optimzation-based Coordination of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles," IEEE International Conference On Networking, Sensing and Control, Tucson, AZ, March 2005.
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M. Casey, H. Sermeno-Villalta and J. Spletzer, "A Vision-based Approach to Wireless Optical Networking," LU-CSE-04-015, Lehigh University, Oct 2004.
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J. Spletzer, "A New Approch to Range-only SLAM for Wireless Sensor Networks," LU-CSE-04-008, Lehigh University, Mar 2004.
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J. Spletzer and C.J. Taylor, "A Bounded Uncertainty Approach to Multi-robot Localization", In Proceedings of IROS 2003, pp. 1258-1265, Las Vegas, USA, Oct 2003.
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