Interest Research issues

Mobile robot navigation and planning.

Supervision, detection, diagnosis and exception recovery in autonomous mobile robots.

Planning under uncertainty using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP)

Developing techniques to analyze execution trace data of real time distributed systems to determine if the data are consistent with the execution expecifications. ITCL proyect

Robots

Xavier and Amelia in the Learning Robotics Lab at CMU

Rato and Gato in the University of Vigo

Publications

Phd Thesis

Supervision, detection, diagnosis and exception recovery in autonomous mobile robots,
Joaquín López Fernández.
University of Vigo. March 2000.
English version
Spanish version

Papers

Lessons Learned From Xavier,
R. Simmons, J. Fernández, R. Goodwin, S. Koenig and J. O'Sullivan.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol 7, No 2, pp 33-39, June 2000.

Chapters in books

Conference presentations

A.R.Diéguez, R. Sanz, J. López
"Improving global motion planning for mobile robots by experimental measurement of traveling time".
Presented in the 3th IFAC Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles IAV´98. (Madrid)
Robust Execution Monitoring for Navigation Plans, J.L. Fernadez & R. Simmons, Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Victoria Canada, 1998
A.R.Diéguez, C. Raimundez, R. Sanz, J. López, E. Delgado.
"An Intelligent Supervisory Model for Path Planning and Guidance of Mobile Robots in Non-Structured Env".
10º IFAC Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles 1995 Spoo (Finlandia).

Workshops

Reid Simmons, Sven Koenig, Joaquin Lopez & Richard GodWin.
"Towards self-reliant autonomous systems".
NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling fore Space Octubre 1997 Mandalay Beach Resort, Oxnard, California.

Internal notes

Reid G. Simmons & Joaquín L. Fernández.
Calibrating the laser sytem in Xavier.
Nota interna del laboratorio "Robots Learning Laboratory" de la universidad de Carnegie Mellon.

Projects

Research projects

Guiding system based on artificial vision for mobile robots.
Founded by: CICYT (TAP 94-1102).
Directed by: Dr. Ricardo Marín Martín.
1994 - 1996
Development of industrial automatic storage systems. Industrial application to aerial warehouse.
Founded by: CICYT (TAP96-0578).
Directed by: Dr. Ricardo Marín Martín.
1996& - 1998
Desarrollo de sistemas basados en robots cooperantes. Integración de tareas en robots móviles autónomos
Founded by: CICYT (TAP98-0955-C03-01).
Directed by: Dr. Rafael Sanz Domínguez.
1999 - 2002.

Interest

Research issues

Robots