Welcome to my web page!

So who am I? I'm a Systems Scientist in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I primarily work in the CORAL Research group on adversarial multi-robot projects with Prof. Manuela Veloso. I first arrived in the US during September of 2000 from my home country of Australia. Most of my research interests revolve around the adversarial multi-robot domain of robot soccer.

You can find my latest resume can be found here.

Contact Information

Office	Newell Simon Hall Room 3220
Phone	+1 412 268 6021
Fax	+1 412 268 3078
Email	brettb (at) cs.cmu.edu
Assistant	Marliese Bonk
Snail Mail	Brett Browning Carnegie Mellon University Newell Simon Hall 4000B 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

Research Interests

I am interested in developing autonomous robots that use vision as their primary (but not only) sensor and are able to function in dynamic, real world environments with other robots and/or humans. In particular, much of my work but not all, has focused on the domain of RoboCup robot soccer. Concretely, some of the areas I am interested in are:

Fast, robust robot vision for variable lighting conditions
Learning skills for single robot behavior from a human teacher
Intelligent autonomous single robot behavior in dynamic environments
Intelligent, adaptable teamwork and cooperation
Fast robot navigation and motion control

Activites & Events

The following are my current or past activities:

I co-chaired the RoboCup 2005 US Open Segway League.
I organized the Robotics Institute Seminars in 2004, and helped set up the upcoming on-line version of the seminars.
I am an executive for the small-size league for the RoboCup Federation
I co-chaired the RoboCup 2003 International Symposium to be held in Padua, Italy, June 10-11, 2003.
I co-organized the innagural RoboCup American Open a regional RoboCup competition held at Carnegie Mellon in May 2003.
I am on the supervisor committee for the RI machine shop.
I was chair of the small size league for RoboCup 2002. (See the smallsize league for RoboCup 2002 pages or RoboCup 2002).

Recent Publications

This list was automatically generated from my latex bibfile using Pat Riley's bib2html software. This is a variant of an earlier of Prof. Manuela Veloso's bibsty file. Please email me if any papers are missing or if you have any difficulties retrieving them.

Students

The following are students I am currently working with:

Jeremy Searock - RI Masters. Co-advised with Manuela Veloso.
Brenna Argall - RI PhD. Co-advised with Manuela Veloso.
Yang Gu - CSD PhD. (Advised by Manuela Veloso).
Matt Faria, Freshman CSD
Chris Cassinghino, Sophmore CSD
Barbie Dematti, Sophmore MechE
Cory Stawartz, Sophmore MechE

Students I have worked with in the past:

Dinesh Govindaraju - RI Masters
Jared Go - CSD undergrad
Michael V Sokolsky - ECE undergrad
Jennifer Lin - CSD, graduated 2004
Ling Xu - CSD, graduated 2003.
Erick Tryzelaar - MechE, graduated 2003
Allen Chang - CSD, graduated 2002

Current Research Projects

	Human-Robot Soccer This is a new project using Segway RMP robots to play soccer both indoors and outside with human teammates. Uses a size 5 soccer ball, field scales with number of players Research issues are single robot autonomy, localization, multi-object tracking, skill learning, robust vision, teamwork with pickup teams With Manuela Veloso Links to our publications, images, and movies are available
	Small-Size Robot Soccer Teams of small autonomous robots compete in games of soccer Uses an overhead camera, golf ball, 5 robots per team Research issues are team autonomy, opponent modelling, fast path planning and control, robust hardware, skill learning With Manuela Veloso Links to code, publications, images, and movies are available
	Teams of UAVs This is a new project working with a large team lead by Rockwell Scientific Planning and teamwork for teams of UAVs performing a range of tasks With Manuela Veloso and James Bruce Links to be forthcoming
	Treasure Hunt A project funded by Boeing to send a team of heterogeneous robots into a complex domain to retrieve items of interest (treasure). Humans take part in the team in a commander role and interact with robots via speech With Manuela Veloso, Tony Stentz, Alex Rudnicky, and Bernardine Dias Links to the project page
	Aiding Driver Safety A project to learn safety grade maps using low-cost sensors With Reid Simmons
	CAMEO A project to observe and infer the interactions at meetings With Manuela Veloso, Paul Rybski, Fernando Del Torre, and Takeo Kanade

Old Projects

UberSim

A small project to build a high fidelity simulation that contains realisitc dynamics, and configurable hardware platforms, for rapid prototyping robot control algorithms
A small-size simulator version is available, and we are developing a version for Segway and other vision-centric robots
Links to code, publications, images, and movies are available
This project has now been taken on by Mike Bowling at the University of Alberta to develop the next generation simulator.

Biologically Plausible Spatial Navigation

My dissertation work focused on building a robot navigation system for a vision-based robot that was based on biologically inspired models of the rat hippocampus. The hippocampus is the well studied region of the rat brain that seems to play a significant role in spatial memory. This work has been continued at the University of Queensland as part of the RatSLAM project and they now have some very impressive results for it.
My dissertation can be found in my publications page here.

Last Updated August 11, 2004

Welcome to my web page!

Contact Information

Research Interests

Activites & Events

Recent Publications

Students

Current Research Projects

Human-Robot Soccer

Small-Size Robot Soccer

Teams of UAVs

Treasure Hunt

Aiding Driver Safety

CAMEO

Old Projects

UberSim

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