Roland Siegwart, Davide Scaramuzza and I have published the second
edition of our textbook last year
Mobile Robots
textbook with the MIT Press.
Websites include the Ethics and Robotics course website, Robotic
Autonomy summer course, CMUcam
website for low-overhead robotic vision; the
Personal Rover website
for our future home robot technology, which can climb 8 inch ledges, and
of course the Palm Pilot Robot Kit
website.
For a whole website devoted to the 16x62 final contest
in 1999, click here!
I have been designing and teaching introductory and advanced
robotics courses at all secondary and upper levels of education,
including middle school, high school, undergrad and graduate levels.
For an example of my middle-school curriculum, click
here. Former students of mine
have developed Legobotics
and BugBotics, which is
a course taught for C-Mites
here at CMU.
For more detailed information about my educational work, click
here. Here are short summaries of three
current courses at CMU:
16899E Ethics and Robotics
This new experimental course, taught as an open-web course with a strong on-line component, exposes students to both the study of ethics and its application to the domain of robotics, where we can discuss the role ethics has and should have in the practice of robotics research, engineering and the public understanding and policymaking processes surrounding robotics. The link above goes to a teacher resource on ethics and robotics I am now releasing to facilitate incorporation of ethics lessons into any robotics course.
16467 Human Robot Interaction
This link serves the 2016 offering of HRI, which I am teaching solo because Reid Simmons is on sabbatical at the NSF.
16867 Principles of Human Robot Interaction
This is an advanced course on human-robot interaction designed for upperclass students, MS and PhD students.
16362/16862 Mobile Robot Programming
NOTE: This course is taught now by Prof. Al Kelly.
This course covers all aspects
of mobile robotics programming, starting at low-level PID control and behavioral
control and graduating all the way to robot team communication and
interleaving planning and execution.
The class presents a
strong formal approach and will apply those formalisms to real
robots that you program in teams. We will use six Noma
d Scout robots.
This course is for any undergraduate or graduate who has
working knowledge of at least one programming language and
has strong intellectual enthusiasm. This class, which is limited
enrollment, will challenge you.
For more information on this class, including news articles and
animation, click here.
Publications
"Community-Empowered Air Quality Monitoring System," Y-C. Hsu, P. Dille, J. Cross, B. Dias, R. Sargent. CHI 2017.
"Engineering and Computational Thinking Talent in Middle School Students: a framework for defining and recognizing student affinities," J. Cross, E. Hamner, L. Zito, I. Nourbakhsh. IEEE Frontiers in Education, 2016.
"Development of an Assessment for Measuring Middle School Student Abilities towards Rbotics Activities," J. Cross, E. Hamner, L. Zito, I. Nourbakhsh, D. Bernstein. IEEE Frontiers in Education, 2016.
"Arts and Bots: application and outcomes of a secondary school robotics program," J. Cross, E. Hamner, C. Bartley, I Nourbakhsh. IEEE Frontiers in Education, 2015.
"Explorable Visual Analytics, Knowledge Discovery in Large and High-Dimensional Data," Saman Amirpour Amraii, Michael Lewis, Randy Sargent, Illah Nourbakhsh. KDD Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics Workshop, NYC, USA, 2014. Click here for a PDF.
"Knowledge Discovery in Large and High-Dimensional Space," Saman Amraii, Randy Sargent, Illah Nourbakhsh, Michael Lewis. 1st PA Spatial Cognition Symposium, Penn State Univ., 2014. Click here for link.
"A Visual Robot-Programming Environment for Multidisciplinary Education," Jenn Cross, Chris Bartley, Emily Hamner, Illah Nourbakhsh. In Proc. 2013 ICRA. Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013.
"ChargeCar Community Conversions: Practical, Custom Electric Vehicles Now!,"
Ben Brown, Chris Bartley, Jennifer Cross, Illah Nourbakhsh. In print,
IEVC 2012. Click here for a PDF.
"Designing POMDP Models of Socially Situated Tasks," Frank Broz, Reid Simmons, Illah Nourbakhsh. RO-MAN 2011.
"Active Management of a Heterogenous Energy Store for Electric Vehicles," Alex Styler, Gregg Podnar, Paul Dille, Matt Duescher, Christopher Bartley, Illah Nourbakhsh. IEEE FISTS 2011. Vienna, Austria, 2011.
"Designing the Finch: Creating a Robot Aligned to Computer Science Concepts," Tom Lauwers & Illah Nourbakhsh. Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2010.
"Gigapixels for Science," I. Nourbakhsh. In IEEE Robotics and
Automation. In print, June 2010. Click here for a
PDF.
"A Strategy for Collaborative Outreach: Lessons from the CSBots
Project," T. Lauwers, E. Hamner, I. Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings
of SIGCSE, 2010. Click here for a PDF.
"GigaPan Conversations: Diversity and Inclusion in the Community," I.
Nourbakhsh, C. Acedo, R. Sargent, C. Strebel, L. Tomokiyo, C.
Belalcazar. In Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference
on Technology for Development. United Nations, Lausanne, Switzerland 2010.
Click here for a PDF.
"Robot Diaries: Creative Technology Fluency for Middle School Girls," I.
Nourbakhsh. In IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2009. Click
here for a PDF.
"CSbots: Design and Deployment of a Robot Designed for the CS1 Classroom," T. Lauwers, I. Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of SIGCSE 2009. Click
here for a PDF.
"The Neighborhood Networks Projects: A Case Study of Critical Engagement
and Creative Expression Through Participatory Design," C. DiSalvo, I. Nourbakhsh,
D. Holstius, A. Akin, M. Louw. Proceedings of the 2008 Participatory Design
Conference, Bloomington, Indiana. 2008. Click here for a PDF.
"Planning for Human-Robot Interaction using Time-State Aggregated POMDPs," F. Broz, I. Nourbakhsh, R. Simmons. Proceedings of the NCAI AAAI 2008. Menlo Park, CA. Click here for a PDF.
"Robot Diaries interim project report: Development of a technology program
for middle school girls," E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, K. Stubbs, K. Crowley, I. Nourbakhsh. Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report
CMU-RI-TR-08-25. 2008. Click here for
a PDF.
"Using a Robot Proxy to Create Common Ground in Exploration Tasks," K. Stubbs, D. Wettergreen, I. Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of HRI 2008. Click
here for a PDF.
"Robot Diaries: Broadening participation in the Computer Science pipeline through social technical exploration," E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, I. Nourbakhsh, C. DiSalvo. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, 2008. Click here for a PDF.
"Iterative Design of a Robot-Centered Curriculum for the Introduction to
Computer Science Course," T. Lauwers, I. Nourbakhsh. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, 2008. Click
here for a PDF.
"Working with a robot: Exploration relationship potential in human-robot systems," D. Bernstein, K. Crowley, I. Nourbakhsh. Interaction Studies Special Issue on Psychological Benchmarks of Human-Robot Interaction. pp. 465-482. Vol 8, Issue 3, 2007. Click here for a PDF.
"TeRK: A Flexible Tool for Science and Technology Education," I. Nourbakhsh,
E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, C. DiSalvo, D. Bernstein. Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues. Click
here for a PDF.
"Informing Curricular Design by Surveying CS1 Educators," T. Lauwers, I. Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of AMIREA 2007. Click here for a PDF.
"A Roadmap for Technology Literacy and a Vehicle for Getting There: Educational Robotics and the TeRK Project," I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, C. DiSalvo. In IEEE ROMAN 2006. Click
here for a PDF.
"Cognitive Evaluation of Human-Robot Systems (CEHRS): A Method for
Analyzing Cognitive Change in Human-Robot Systems," K. Stubbs, D. Bernstein,
K. Crowley, I. Nourbakhsh. IEEE ROMAN 2006. Click
here for a PDF.
"Constraint Optimization Coordination Architecture for Search and Rescue
Robotics," M. Koes, I. Nourbakhsh, K. Sycara. In Proceedings of ICRA 2006.
"A Constraint Optimization Framework for Fractured Robot Teams," M. Koes, K. Sycara, I. Nourbakhsh. In AAMAS 2006.
"Best Laid Plans of Robots and Men," M. Koes, K. Sycara, I. Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management. AAAI Press, March 2006.
"A Preliminary Study of Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Interaction," T. Fong et al. In Proceedings of IEEE SMC 2006.
"On the Study of Human-Robot Collaboration," I. Nourbakhsh, Invited
paper at AMC 2006. Istanbul, Turkey.
"Mobile Robot Programming in Education," J. Lalonde, C. Bartley,
I. Nourbakhsh. ICRA 2006. Click
here for a PDF.
"Method and system for concurrent error identification in
resource scheduling," C. Hite, T. Morse, O. Matan, T. Boehmer,
I. Nourbakhsh, S. Uckun, J. Fama, E. Reusser, G. Fichtenholtz, S.
Shvarts. United States Patent #6,959,405.
"Method and Apparatus for Multi-Contact Scheduling," I. Nourbakhsh,
O. Matan, J. Fama, S. Veach, E. Hamilton, A. Fukunaga. United
States Patent #6,952,732, 2005.
"Heterogeneous Multirobot Coordination with Spatial and
Temporal Constraints," M. Koes, I. Nourbakhsh, K. Sycara.
Accepted at AAAI 2005. This paper will be available
after the conference occurs.
"Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction," K. Stubbs, D. Bernstein,
K. Crowley, I. Nourbakhsh. Accepted at AIED 2005. Click
here for a PDF of this article.
"Human-Robot Teaming for Search and Rescue: A facility for integrated testing of
an agent-based rescue system in both simulated and real-world environments,"
I. Nourbakhsh, M. Lewis, K. Sycara, M. Koes, M. Yong and S. Burion. IEEE
Pervasive Computing, 2005. Click
here for a PDF of this article.
"Interaction Challenges in Human Robot Space Exploration,"
T. Fong, I. Nourbakhsh. Invited article for ACM Interactions, 2005.
Click here for a PDF of this
article.
"Up Close and Personal from Mars," E. Hamner, M. Lotter,
I. Nourbakhsh, S. Shelly. Invited article for ACM Interactions, 2005.
Click here for a PDF of this
article.
"Parents, Docents and Robots: Examining Mediation at the Personal
Exploration Rover Exhibit," D. Bernstein, K. Crowley, I. Nourbakhsh,
K. Stubbs. Invited poster at ASTC-2004. Click
here for a PDF of the poster.
"The Design of a Highly Reliable Robot for Unmediated Museum Interaction,"
I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, E. Porter, B. Dunlavey, E. Ayoob, T. Hsiu,
M. Lotter, S. Shelly. Published at ICRA-2005. Click
here for a PDF.
"Educational Results of the Personal Exploration Rover Museum Exhibit,"
I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, B. Dunlavey, D. Bernstein, K. Crowley.
Published at ICRA-2005. Click
here for a PDF.
"The Robot Autonomy Mobile Robotics Course: Robot Design, Curriculum
Design and Educational Assessment," I. Nourbakhsh, K. Crowley,
A. Bhave, E. Hamner, T. Hsiu, A. Perez-Bergquist, S. Richards, K. Wilkinson.
in Autonomous Robotics Journal 18(1), January 2005. Click
here for a PDF of this paper.
"The Personal Exploration Rover: Educational assessment of a robotic
exhibit for informal learning venues," I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, D. Bernstein,
K. Crowley, E. Ayoob, M. Lotter, S. Shelly, T. Hsiu, E. Porter, B. Dunlavey,
D. Clancy. International Journal of Engineering Education, Special Issue on Trends in Robotics Education. Vol. 22, No. 4, pp 777 - 791, 2006.
Click here for a PDF.
"Techniques for Evaluating Optical Flow for Visual Odometry
in Extreme Terrain," J. Campbell, R. Sukthankar, I. Nourbakhsh.
In Proceedings of IROS 2004, 2004. Click
here for
a PDF version.
"Communication Efficiency in Multi-agent Systems," M. Berna-Koes, I.
Nourbakhsh, K. Sycara. In Proceedings of ICRA 2004, 2004. A PDF
version is available
here.
"Low Overhead Manipulation of Bound Book Pages," J. Young, I. Nourbakhsh,
In Proceedings of ICRA 2004, 2004. A PDF version is available
here.
"Formal Measures of Learning in a Secondary School Mobile Robotics
Course," I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, K. Crowley, K. Wilkinson, In
Proceedings of ICRA 2004, 2004. A PDF version is available
here.
"Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots," R. Siegwart
and I. Nourbakhsh. MIT Press, 2004. Click
here for MIT Press order information on this
mobile robotics textbook.
"The Smart Wheelchair Component System," R. Simpson, E. LoPresti,
S. Hayashi, I. Nourbakhsh, D. Miller.
Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development. May/June 2004.
A PDF version is available
here.
"Energy storage device used in locomotion machine," H. Benjamin
Brown, Garth Zeglin and Illah Nourbakhsh. United
States Patent #6,558,297, 2004.
"A Survey of Space Robotics," L. Pedersen, D. Kortenkamp, D. Wettergreen,
I. Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium
on Artificial Intelligent, Robotics and Automation in Space
(i-SAIRAS-03), 2003. A PDF version is available
here.
"The educational impact of the Robotic Autonomy
mobile robotics course," I. Nourbakhsh, K. Crowley,
K. Wilkinson, E. Hamner. CMU Technical
Report CMU-RI-TR-03-29, formerly 03-18. August 2003.
Click here
for a PDF version.
"Designing a Low-cost, Expressive Educational
Robot," T. Hsiu, S. Richards, A. Bhave,
A. Perez-Bergquist, I. Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings
of IROS 2003, Las Vegas (in print).
Click here
for a PDF version.
"The Mobot Museum Robot Installations: A Five Year
Experiment," I. Nourbakhsh, C. Kunz, T. Willeke.
In Proceedings of IROS 2003, Las Vegas (in print).
Click here for
a PDF version.
"The Personal Rover Project: The comprehensive design of a
domestic personal robot," E. Falcone, R. Gockley, E. Porter,
I. Nourbakhsh. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special
Issue on Socially Interactive Robots 42 (3-4), pp 245-258, 2003.
Click here for a PDF version.
"A survey of socially interactive robots," T. Fong, I. Nourbakhsh,
K. Dautenhahn. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special issue on
Socially Interactive Robots 42 (3-4), pp 143-166, 2003.
Click here
for a PDF version.
"Socially Interactive Autonomous Robot," C. Kunz, T. Willeke,
I. Nourbakhsh. United States Patent #6,539,284.
"A survey of socially interactive robots: Concepts, Design and
Applications," T. Fong, I. Nourbakhsh,
K. Dautenhahn. Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-02-29,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA, December 2002. Click
here for a PDF version of this long paper (longer than the journal version above).
"Staff Scheduling for Inbound Call Centers and Contact Centers,"
A. Fukunaga, E. Hamilton, D. Andre, O. Matan, J. Fama, I. Nourbakhsh.
AI Magazine, 23(4), Winter 2002.
Click here for
a PDF version of this paper.
"Hybrid Simultaneous Map-Building: A Natural Integration of
Topological and Metric," N. Tomatis, I. Nourbakhsh, R. Siegwart.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal. In print. Click
here for a PDF version.
"Evaluation of Sensors for a Smart Wheelchair," E.F. LoPresti,
R.C. Simpson, D. Miller, I. Nourbakhsh. Proceedings of
the RESNA 2002 Annual Conference. pp 166-168. June 2002.
Click here for a PDF of the paper.
"Learning Probabilistic Models for State Tracking of Mobile Robots,"
Daniel Nikovski, Illah Nourbakhsh. In print, IROS 2002. Click
here for a PDF of this paper.
"Learning Probabilistic Models for Optimal Visual Servo Control of
Dynamic Manipulation," Daniel Nikovski, Illah Nourbakhsh. In
print, IROS 2002. Click here for a
PDF of this paper.
"A Low Cost Embedded Color Vision System," Anthony Rowe, Charles
Rosenberg, Illah Nourbakhsh. In print, IROS 2002. For a PDF version
click here.
"Staff Scheduling for Inbound Call Centers," Alex Fukunaga,
Edward Hamilton, David Andre, Ofer Matan, Jason Fama, Illah Nourbakhsh.
In Proceedings, IAAI 2002. Click here for
a PDF version of this paper.
"The Role of Expressiveness and Attention in Human-Robot Interaction,"
Allison Bruce, Illah Nourbakhsh, Reid Simmons. Proceedings of ICRA 2002.
Click here for a PDF version.
"Hybrid simultaneous localization and map building: closing the loop
with multi-hypothesis tracking," Nicola Tomatis, Illah Nourbakhsh,
Roland Siegwart. In print, ICRA 2002. Click
here for a PDF version of this
paper.
"A simple low-cost color vision system," Anthony Rowe, Charles Rosenberg,
Illah Nourbakhsh. Tech Sketch at CVPR 2001. Click
here
for a PDF version of this tech sketch.
"Agent scheduling system and method having improved post-processing step,"
Dave Andre and Illah Nourbakhsh. United States
Patent #6,278,978. August 2001.
"Narrative-level visual interpretation of human motion for human-robot
interaction," Adrian Hilti, Illah Nourbakhsh, Bjorn Jensen,
Roland Siegwart. In Proceedings of IROS 2001. Maui, Hawaii, October 29 -
November 3, 2001. Click
here for a PDF version of
this paper.
"Simultaneous localization and map-building: a global topological
model with local metric maps," Nicola Tomatis, Illah Nourbakhsh and
Roland Siegwart. In Proceedings of IROS 2001. Maui, Hawaii, October 29
- November 3, 2001. Click here for a PDF
version of this paper.
"The Role of Expressiveness and Attention in Human-Robot Interaction,"
Allison Bruce, Illah Nourbakhsh, Reid Simmons. In Proceedings,
AAAI Fall Symposium. 2001. A PDF version is available
here.
"Combining Topological and Metric: A Natural Integration for
Simultaneous Localization and Map Building," Nicola Tomatis, Illah Nourbakhsh
and Roland Siegwart. In Proceedings of the Fourth European Workshop on
Advanced Mobile Robots (Eurobot 2001). Lund, Sweden, September 19-21,
2001. Click here for a PDF version of
this paper.
"The history of the Mobot museum robot series: An Evolutionary Study,"
Thomas Willeke, Clay Kunz and Illah Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of
FLAIRS 2001. Florida. May 2001. Click
here for a Postscript version of this paper.
"A hybrid approach for robust and precise mobile robot navigation with
compact environment modeling," Nicola Tomatis, Illah Nourbakhsh, Kai
Arras and Roland Siegwart. In Proceedings of ICRA 2001. Seoul,
Korea. May 2001. Click here for a PDF
version of this paper.
"Deriving and matching image fingerprint sequences for mobile
robot localization," Pierre Lamon, Illah Nourbakhsh,
Bjorn Jensen and Roland Siegwart. In Proceedings of ICRA 2001.
Seoul, Korea. May 2001. Click here for
a PDF version of this paper.
"Learning State Grounding for Optimal Visual Servocontrol of Dynamic
Manipulation," Daniel Nikovski and Illah Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings
of the AAAI Spring Symposium on State Grounding and Abstraction.
Stanford, CA. March, 2001. Click here for a postscript version of this paper.
"Insect Telepresence: Using robotic tele-embodiment to bring insects
face-to-face with humans," Stacy All and Illah Nourbakhsh.
Autonomous Robots, special issue on Personal Robotics, (10):149-161, 2001
.
Click
here for a PDF of this paper.
"Material Classification by Drilling," Diana LaBelle, John Bares and
Illah Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of the 17th International
Symposium on Robotics and Automation in Construction. Taipei,
Taiwan. September 2000. Click here for
a PDF of this paper.
"Path Planning for the Cye Robot," Parag Batavia and Illah Nourbakhsh.
In Proceedings of IROS 2000. 2000. Click
here for a PDF of this paper.
"Property Mapping: A simple technique for mobile robot programming,"
Illah Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of AAAI 2000.
Click
here for a PDF of this paper.
"Appearance-Based Obstacle Detection with Monocular Color Vision," Iwan
Ulrich and Illah Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of AAAI 2000.
Click
here for a PDF of this paper.
"When students meet robots," Illah Nourbakhsh. IEEE Intelligent
Systems and Their Applications, Vol. 15, No. 6, p. 15. 2000.
You can view an on-line version here.
"Learning Probabilistic Models for Decision-Theoretic Navigation of
Mobile Robots," Daniel Nikovski and Illah Nourbakhsh. In
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning 2000.
Click
here for a postscript of this paper.
"Robotics and education in the classroom and in the museum: On the study of
robots, and robots for study," Illah Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings, Workshop
for Personal Robotics for Education. IEEE ICRA 2000. Click
here for a PDF of this paper.
"Robot Improv: Using drama to create believable agents," Allison Bruce,
Jonathan Knight, Sam Listopad, Brian Magerko and Illah Nourbakhsh.
In Proceedings of ICRA 2000. Click
here for a PDF of this paper.
"Appearance-Based Place Recognition for Topological Localization," Iwan
Ulrich and Illah Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of ICRA 2000.
Click here for a PDF of this paper.
Also, here is
a web page Iwan made describing this work very nicely.
"Firewire Untethered: High-quality images for notebook computers,"
Iwan Ulrich and Illah Nourbakhsh. Advanced Imaging. January, 2000.
Available here is a website on
this work. And here is a pdf of the article.
"An Affective Mobile Educator with a Full-time Job," Illah Nourbakhsh,
Judith Bobenage, Sebastien Grange, Ron Lutz, Roland Meyer and Alvaro Soto.
Artificial Intelligence, 114 (1-2), pp. 95-124. October 1999. Click
here for a PDF of this paper.
"Learning Discrete Bayesian Models for Autonomous Agent Navigation,"
Daniel Nikovski and Illah Nourbakhsh. IEEE International Symposium on
Computational Intelligence in Robotics & Automation (CIRA '99). Monterey,
CA. 1999. Click here for a PDF of the paper.
"Topological Localization by Training a Vision-based Transition Detector,"
Dandapani Radhakrishnan and Illah Nourbakhsh. IROS 1999. Click
here for a PDF of this paper.
"Big Decisions for the Small Call Center,"
Illah Nourbakhsh and Shannon Hughes. Call Center Solutions.
TMC, Inc. 17(4), October 1998.
"Depth categorization for depth recovery of dynamic scenes,"
Illah Nourbakhsh and David Andre. United States Patent #5,793,900.
October 1998.
"Automatic Mapping of Dynamic Office Environments," Clayton
Kunz, Thomas Willeke and Illah Nourbakhsh. Autonomous Robots
Journal. 7(2) 1999. Click here for
a PDF of this paper.
"Using Abstraction to Interleave Planning and Execution," Illah
Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings, Third Biannual World Automation
Congress. WAC 1998. Click here for
a PDF of this paper.
"NaviGates: A Benchmark for Indoor Navigation," Ryan Knotts, Illah
Nourbakhsh and Robert Morris. In Proceedings, Third International
Conference and Exposition on Robotics for Challenging Environments.
ASCE. Reston, VA, 1998. Click here for
a PDF of this paper.
"Playing the Numbers: Using ACD Statistics for Workforce Management,"
Ofer Matan and Illah Nourbakhsh. Telemarketing and Call Center Solutions,
March 1998. A PDF version is available.
"Dervish," Illah Nourbakhsh. Artificial Intelligence and
Mobile Robots, Chapter 3.
Editors: D. Kortenkamp, R.P. Bonasso and R. Murphy. The MIT Press, 1998.
"Deformable and Elastic Tensile-Integrity Structure,"
Ofer Matan and Illah Nourbakhsh. United States
Patent 5,688,604. November, 1997.
"A Hybrid Human-Computer Autonomous Vehicle Architecture,"
Michelle Bayouth, Illah Nourbakhsh and Charles Thorpe.
In Proceedings, Third ECPD International Conference on Advanced Robotics,
Intelligent Automation and Control, 1997. Click here for a PDF of this paper.
"Mobile Robot Obstacle Avoidance via Depth from Focus,"
Illah Nourbakhsh, David Andre, Carlo Tomasi and Michael
Genesereth. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 22 (1997) 151-158.
Click here for a zipped PDF of this paper.
"The 1996 AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition,"
David Kortenkamp, Illah Nourbakhsh and David Hinkle. AI
Magazine, 18(2), 1997.
"Automatic Mapping of Dynamic Office Environments," Clayton Kunz,
Thomas Willeke and Illah Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings, IEEE
Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1997.
Interleaving Planning and Execution for Autonomous
Robots, Illah Nourbakhsh. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
"A Sighted Robot," Illah Nourbakhsh. The Robot
Practitioner, 2(1), 1996.
"Assumptive Planning and Execution: a Simple, Working Robot
Architecture," Illah Nourbakhsh and Michael Genesereth. Autonomous
Robots Journal, 3(1), pp. 49-67, 1996. A text version is available.
"The Sonars of Dervish," Illah Nourbakhsh. The Robot
Practitioner, 1(4), 1995.
"Dervish: An Office-Navigating Robot," Illah Nourbakhsh, Rob Powers and
Stan Birchfield. AI Magazine, 16(2), 1995.
"The Real-World Navigator," Marko Balabanovic, Craig Becker, Sarah
Morse and Illah Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings, Conference on
Intelligent Robots for Factory, Field, Service, and Space, 1994.
"The Winning Robots from the 1993 Robot Competition," Illah Nourbakhsh,
Sarah Morse, Craig Becker, Marko Balabanovic, Erann Gat, Reid Simmons,
Steven Goodridge, Harsh Potlapalli, David Hinkle, Ken Jung and David
Van Vactor. AI Magazine, 14(4), 1993.
"Time-Saving Tips for Problem-Solving with Incomplete Information," Michael
Genesereth and Illah
Nourbakhsh. In Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, 1993. Text
version available.
"Vagabond: A Demonstration of Autonomous, Robust Outdoor Navigation,"
Benjamin Dugan and Illah Nourbakhsh. In IEEE Robotics and Automation
Video Proceedings, 1993.
"Methods and Algorithms for Statistical Analysis of Protein Sequences,"
Volker Brendel, Philip Bucher, Illah Nourbakhsh, Edwin Blaisdell and Samuel
Karlin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the
United States of America, 89(6), 1992.
Business Projects
In addition to Blue Pumpkin and Witness described below, I serve from time to time as an
expert witness and a consultant in the fields of computer software and
consumer robotics. I have also served as an expert for an International Trade Commission case. My clients have included
Hyperbot, Mobot,
Probotics,
MGA
Entertainment, Proctor & Gamble,
AT Sciences, Axonn Robotics and Intel
Research.
Blue Pumpkin Software, Inc.
I am one of the founders of Blue Pumpkin Software, where we
design and implement end-to-end forecasting and scheduling
solutions for telephony call centers. The AI disciplines of
scheduling, search and optimization play crucial roles in this
work, as does the OR discipline of queuing theory. All this must
be wrapped up in highly intuitive graphical user interfaces. Note
that in 2006 Witness Systems acquired Blue Pumpkin Software.
Visit Blue Pumpkin's website for more
information.
Biographical Sketch
Illah R. Nourbakhsh is Professor of Robotics, Director of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology
Empowerment (CREATE) lab (http://www.cmucreatelab.org) and Associate Director for robotics faculty
at Carnegie Mellon University.
His current research projects explore community-based robotics, including
educational and social robotics and ways to use robotic technology to empower
individuals and communities, as described in this CREATE Lab white paper.
The CREATE Lab's researchers lead diverse projects, from the application of GigaPan technology to scientific, citizen science and educational endeavours internationally to
Hear Me, a project that uses technology to empower students to become leads in advocating for meaningful social change; Arts and Bots, a program for creative art and robotics fusion in middle school; Message from Me, a new system of communication between pre-K children and their parents to improve home-school consistency;
Explorables, interactive visualization tools that empower communities of practice to make sense of data and communicate to broad audiences, to many other programs. The CREATE Lab's programs have already engaged more than 40,000 people globally, and the CREATE Satellite program is forging additional CREATE lab partners in new geographic zones.
While on leave from Carnegie Mellon in 2004, he
served as Robotics Group lead at NASA/Ames Research Center. He was a
founder and chief scientist of Blue Pumpkin Software, Inc., which was
acquired by Witness Systems, Inc.
Illah earned his bachelor's, master's and PhD in computer science at Stanford University and has been a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon since 1997.
In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences named him a Kavli Fellow. In 2013 he was inducted into the June Harless West Virginia Hall of Fame. He is co-author of the second edition MIT Press textbook, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots.
He is author of the MIT Press book for general readership, Robot Futures. Most recently he published Parenting for Technology Futures, as an Amazon paperback. He is a trustee of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, and he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project. He is also CEO and Chairman of Airviz, Inc., a company dedicated to empowering individuals regarding home air quality. He is a member of the Global Future Council on the Future of AI and Robotics for the World Economic Forum, and the IEEE Global Initiative for the Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems, the Global Innovation Council of the Varkey Foundation and Senior Advisor to The Future Society, Harvard Kennedy School.
You can download my formal CV in PDF.
Contact Information
| Office: |
3105 Newell-Simon Hall
(412) 268-2007 (voice)
(412) 268-7350 (fax) |
| Lab: |
Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment Lab
Collaborative Innovation Center, CMU Campus
(412) 268-6723
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| Mail: |
Illah R. Nourbakhsh
Robotics Institute, NSH 3105
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 |
| E-mail: |
illah "at" cs.cmu.edu |
[ The Robotics Institute |
Carnegie Mellon University ]
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Illah R. Nourbakhsh (
illah "at" cs.cmu.edu)
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