Dartmouth Reality and Robotics Lab
The Reality and Robotics Lab (RLab) is directed by Professors Devin Balkcom and Alberto Quattrini Li. We study topics at the intersection of computing and physical reality, including robotics, 3D fabrication, sensing, automation, and artificial intelligence. Funding sources include NSF, Google, Adobe, the MBR Center for Accelerated Research, and the Neukom Institute.
We are actively looking for motivated students to join our lab. If you are interested, please email one of the faculty leads.
News
- 2025.08.20
- Dartmouth News featured RLab's work on reconfigurable modular robots in “Multipurpose Robots Take Shape.”
- 2023.08.14
- Dartmouth News featured RLab's StarBlocks research in “Computer Science Researcher Creates Flexible Robots.”
- 2023.05.05
- Dartmouth News profiled RLab's aquatic robotics and underwater construction research in “Reality and Robotics Lab Looks to the Sea.”
- 2022.03.01
- Alberto Quattrini Li has been awarded NSF CAREER award #2144624 to study algorithms and systems for autonomous aquatic exploration with resilient low-cost robot teams.
- 2020.09.04
- Alberto Quattrini Li and Jesse Casana have been awarded NSF grant #2024541 to study Cooperative Underwater Structure Inspection and Mapping for underwater archaeology. This is part of a collaborative research involving Ioannis Rekleitis from University of South Carolina and Philippos Mordohai from Stevens Institute of Technology.
- 2020.05.12
- Sam Lensgraf has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship on underwater construction, and Monika Roznere has received a honorable mention for her application to the NSF GRFP on underwater exploration.
- 2019.09.17
- Alberto Quattrini Li, Jesse Casana, Devin Balkcom, Xia Zhou, and Bo Zhu have been awarded NSF grant #1919647 to acquire marine multirobot systems for underwater monitoring and construction.
- 2019.09.15
- Devin Balkcom is part of a team who has been awarded a new NSF grant, RI: Medium: Robust Assembly of Compliant Modular Robots. The team includes Kostas Bekris (Rutgers), Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio (Yale), and Weifu Wang (Albany). We're studying modular assembly and mobility of tensegrity robots like the NASA super ball bot.
- 2019.08.09
- Alberto Quattrini Li, Holly Ewing, Ioannis Rekleitis, Annie Bourbonnais, and Paolo Stegagno have been awarded NSF grant #1923004 to study Computational Methods and Autonomous Robotics Systems for Modeling and Predicting Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms, involving other multiple institutions: Bates College, Colby College, University of New Hampshire, University of Rhode Island, University of South Carolina.
- 2019.04.09
- Charles Carver has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- 2019.03.21
- Xia Zhou has been selected as the 2019 ACM SIGMOBILE RockStar.
- 2018.11.06
- Josiah Putman has been awarded a Neukom Research scholarship to work on efficient representations of robot motion, and Christina Lu has been awarded a Junior Research scholarship to work on the Teaching Human Motion project.
- 2018.09.10
- Devin Balkcom, Xia Zhou, David Kraemer, and Weifu Wang have been awarded an NSF grant to study devices and methods for teaching human motion.
- 2018.07.26
- Devin Balkcom, Emily Whiting, and Weifu Wang have been awarded an NSF grant to study Computational Joinery, a construction method using interlocking puzzle pieces.
Research
Active projects include:
- Aquatic robotics: On-water and underwater robots for exploration, construction, and environmental monitoring
- Tensegrity robotics: Modular soft robots, self-assembly, and shape-changing structures
Concluded projects include:
- Tying: Simple devices that tie knots
- Folding: Robot origami and laundry folding
- Assembly: Building robust structures from smaller components
- Geodesics: Efficient motion and planning for robots
- Human motion: Technology for teaching humans how to move
Publications
2026
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Amel Nestor Docena, Alberto Quattrini Li.Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2026.@inproceedings{docena2026aamas, author = "Docena, Amel Nestor and Li, Alberto Quattrini", title = "A Hierarchical Approach with Crisis Mitigation for Multi-Robot Spatio-Temporal Restoration", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems", year = "2026", month = "May", doi = "10.65109/UYQK9511", url = "https://doi.org/10.65109/UYQK9511" } -
Mingi Jeong, Alberto Quattrini Li.Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(22):18333–18341, March 2026.@inproceedings{jeong2026aaai, author = "Jeong, Mingi and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto", title = "RENEW: Risk- and Energy-Aware Navigation in Dynamic Waterways", booktitle = "Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence", volume = "40", number = "22", pages = "18333–18341", year = "2026", month = "March", doi = "10.1609/aaai.v40i22.38897", url = "https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i22.38897" } -
Luyang Zhao, Yitao Jiang, Chun-Yi She, Devin Balkcom, Haibo Dong, Muhao Chen.AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, January 2026.@inproceedings{zhao2026aiaa, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Jiang, Yitao and She, Chun-Yi and Balkcom, Devin and Dong, Haibo and Chen, Muhao", title = "Design of A Lightweight Robotic Tensegrity Morphing Airfoil", booktitle = "AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum", year = "2026", month = "January", doi = "10.2514/6.2026-0259", url = "https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2026-0259" } -
Luyang Zhao, Yitao Jiang, Chun-Yi She, Alberto Quattrini Li, Muhao Chen, Devin Balkcom.npj Robotics, 4(1), January 2026.
@article{zhao2026softrafts, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Jiang, Yitao and She, Chun-Yi and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Chen, Muhao and Balkcom, Devin", title = "SoftRafts: floating and adaptive soft modular robots", journal = "npj Robotics", volume = "4", number = "1", articleno = "8", year = "2026", month = "January", doi = "10.1038/s44182-025-00070-z", url = "https://doi.org/10.1038/s44182-025-00070-z" }
2025
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Luyang Zhao, Yitao Jiang, Chun-Yi She, Muhao Chen, Devin Balkcom.Soft Robotics, 12(6):698–707, December 2025.
@article{zhao2025softsnap, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Jiang, Yitao and She, Chun-Yi and Chen, Muhao and Balkcom, Devin", title = "SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules", journal = "Soft Robotics", volume = "12", number = "6", pages = "698–707", year = "2025", month = "December", doi = "10.1089/soro.2024.0170", url = "https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2024.0170", video = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWuYzo7xSno" } -
Atul Rohit Agarwal, Dhawal Sirikonda, Atharv Agashe, Ziang Ren, Dinithi Silva-Sassaman, Charles Carver, Alberto Quattrini Li, Xia Zhou, Adithya Pediredla.ACM Transactions on Graphics, 44(6), December 2025.@article{agarwal2025aocomm, author = "Agarwal, Atul Rohit and Sirikonda, Dhawal and Agashe, Atharv and Ren, Ziang and Silva-Sassaman, Dinithi and Carver, Charles and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Zhou, Xia and Pediredla, Adithya", title = "Underwater Optical Backscatter Communication using Acousto-Optic Beam Steering", journal = "ACM Transactions on Graphics", volume = "44", number = "6", articleno = "259", numpages = "13", year = "2025", month = "December", doi = "10.1145/3763289", url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3763289" } -
Mingi Jeong, Cristian Molinaro, Tonmoay Deb, Youzhi Zhang, Andrea Pugliese, Eugene Santos Jr., V. S. Subrahmanian, Alberto Quattrini Li.Autonomous Robots, 50(1), November 2025.@article{jeong2025multiobject, author = "Jeong, Mingi and Molinaro, Cristian and Deb, Tonmoay and Zhang, Youzhi and Pugliese, Andrea and Santos Jr., Eugene and Subrahmanian, V. S. and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto", title = "Multi-object active search and tracking by multiple agents in untrusted, dynamically changing environments", journal = "Autonomous Robots", volume = "50", number = "1", articleno = "1", year = "2025", month = "November", doi = "10.1007/s10514-025-10218-3", url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-025-10218-3" } -
Amel Nestor Docena, Alberto Quattrini Li.2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2025.@inproceedings{Amel2025persistent, author = "Docena, Amel Nestor and Quattrini Li, Alberto", booktitle = "2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)", title = "Persistent Preservation of a Spatio-temporal Environment Under Uncertainty", year = "2025", month = "October", pages = "18110–18117", doi = "10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11247091", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11247091" } -
Yewei Huang, John McConnell, Xi Lin, Brendan Englot.2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2025.@inproceedings{huang2025iros, author = "Huang, Yewei and McConnell, John and Lin, Xi and Englot, Brendan", title = "DRACo-SLAM2: Distributed Robust Acoustic Communication-efficient SLAM for Imaging Sonar Equipped Underwater Robot Teams with Object Graph Matching", booktitle = "2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)", pages = "3587–3594", year = "2025", month = "October", doi = "10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246631", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246631" } -
Yitao Jiang, Luyang Zhao, Alberto Quattrini Li, Muhao Chen, Devin Balkcom.2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2025.
@inproceedings{jiang2025iros, author = "Jiang, Yitao and Zhao, Luyang and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Chen, Muhao and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Exploring Spontaneous Social Interaction Swarm Robotics Powered by Large Language Models", booktitle = "2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)", pages = "10198–10205", year = "2025", month = "October", doi = "10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246362", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246362" } -
Mingi Jeong, Arihant Chadda, Ziang Ren, Luyang Zhao, Haowen Liu, Aiwei Zhang, Yitao Jiang, Sabriel Achong, Samuel Lensgraf, Monika Roznere, Alberto Quattrini Li.IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics, 2:737–752, August 2025.@article{jeong2025tfr, author = "Jeong, Mingi and Chadda, Arihant and Ren, Ziang and Zhao, Luyang and Liu, Haowen and Zhang, Aiwei and Jiang, Yitao and Achong, Sabriel and Lensgraf, Samuel and Roznere, Monika and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto", title = "SeePerSea: Multimodal Perception Dataset of In-Water Objects for Autonomous Surface Vehicles", journal = "IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics", volume = "2", pages = "737–752", year = "2025", month = "August", doi = "10.1109/TFR.2025.3602937", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/TFR.2025.3602937" } -
Luyang Zhao, Yitao Jiang, Muhao Chen, Kostas Bekris, Devin Balkcom.Nature Communications, 16, July 2025.
@article{zhao2025tensegrity, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Jiang, Yitao and Chen, Muhao and Bekris, Kostas and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Modular shape-changing tensegrity-blocks enable self-assembling robotic structures", journal = "Nature Communications", volume = "16", articleno = "5888", year = "2025", month = "July", doi = "10.1038/s41467-025-60982-0", url = "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60982-0" } -
Luyang Zhao, Yitao Jiang, Chun-Yi She, Mingi Jeong, Haibo Dong, Alberto Quattrini Li, Muhao Chen, Devin Balkcom.2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), April 2025.
@inproceedings{zhao2025dolphin, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Jiang, Yitao and She, Chun-Yi and Jeong, Mingi and Dong, Haibo and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Chen, Muhao and Balkcom, Devin", title = "An Untethered Bioinspired Robotic Tensegrity Dolphin with Multi-Flexibility Design for Aquatic Locomotion", booktitle = "2025 IEEE 8th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft)", pages = "1–7", year = "2025", month = "April", doi = "10.1109/RoboSoft63089.2025.11020959", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/RoboSoft63089.2025.11020959", video = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avUUYTJ178g" } -
Viona B. Blanchet, Megan E. Hillis, Yeongji Lee, Qijia Shao, Xia Zhou, Devin Balkcom, David J. M. Kraemer.Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2025.@inproceedings{blanchet2025chi, author = "Blanchet, Jules Brooks and Hillis, Megan E. and Lee, Yeongji and Shao, Qijia and Zhou, Xia and Balkcom, Devin and Kraemer, David J. M.", title = "Enhancing the Educational Potential of Online Movement Videos: System Development and Empirical Studies with TikTok Dance Challenges", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems", articleno = "587", pages = "1–19", year = "2025", month = "April", doi = "10.1145/3706598.3714062", url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714062" }
2024
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Amel Nestor Docena, Alberto Quattrini Li.2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2024.@inproceedings{Amel2024search, author = "Docena, Amel Nestor and Quattrini Li, Alberto", booktitle = "2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)", title = "Search-based Strategy for Spatio-Temporal Environmental Property Restoration", year = "2024", month = "October", pages = "12024–12031", doi = "10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801411", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801411" } -
Mingi Jeong, Arihant Chadda, Alberto Quattrini Li.2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2024.
@inproceedings{jeong2024iros, author = "Jeong, Mingi and Chadda, Arihant and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto", title = "Active Learning-augmented Intention-aware Obstacle Avoidance of Autonomous Surface Vehicles in High-traffic Waters", booktitle = "2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)", pages = "10005–10012", year = "2024", month = "October", doi = "10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802205", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802205" }
2023
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Viona B. Blanchet, Megan E. Hillis, Yeongji Lee, Qijia Shao, Xia Zhou, David J. M. Kraemer, Devin J. Balkcom.Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 2023.
@inproceedings{Blanchet2023a, author = "Blanchet, Julien and Hillis, Megan E. and Lee, Yeongji and Shao, Qijia and Zhou, Xia and Kraemer, David J. M. and Balkcom, Devin J.", title = "LearnThatDance: Augmenting TikTok Dance Challenge Videos with an Interactive Practice Support System Powered by Automatically Generated Lesson Plans", booktitle = "Adjunct Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology", articleno = "84", pages = "1–4", year = "2023", month = "October", doi = "10.1145/3586182.3615801", url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3586182.3615801" } -
Luyang Zhao, Yijia Wu, Wenzhong Yan, Weishu Zhan, Xiaonan Huang, Joran Booth, Ankur Mehta, Kostas Bekris, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Devin Balkcom.IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(8):4521–4528, August 2023.
@article{zhao2023starblocks, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Wu, Yijia and Yan, Wenzhong and Zhan, Weishu and Huang, Xiaonan and Booth, Joran and Mehta, Ankur and Bekris, Kostas and Kramer-Bottiglio, Rebecca and Balkcom, Devin", title = "StarBlocks: Soft Actuated Self-Connecting Blocks for Building Deformable Lattice Structures", journal = "IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters", volume = "8", number = "8", pages = "4521–4528", year = "2023", month = "August", doi = "10.1109/LRA.2023.3284361", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2023.3284361", video = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xno0FBs3ZdQ" } -
Viona B. Blanchet, Megan E. Hillis, Yeongji Lee, Qijia Shao, Xia Zhou, David J. M. Kraemer, Devin J. Balkcom.Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, February 2023.
@inproceedings{Blanchet2023, author = "Blanchet, Julien and Hillis, Megan E. and Lee, Yeongji and Shao, Qijia and Zhou, Xia and Kraemer, David J. M. and Balkcom, Devin J.", title = "Automatic Generation and Teaching of Dance Lessons from Video", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications", pages = "145", year = "2023", month = "February", doi = "10.1145/3572864.3581592", url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3572864.3581592" }
2022
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Luyang Zhao, Yijia Wu, Viona B. Blanchet, Maxine Perroni-Scharf, Xiaonan Huang, Joran Booth, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Devin Balkcom.IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(3):5942–5949, July 2022.
@article{zhao2022soft, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Wu, Yijia and Blanchet, Julien and Perroni-Scharf, Maxine and Huang, Xiaonan and Booth, Joran and Kramer-Bottiglio, Rebecca and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Soft Lattice Modules That Behave Independently and Collectively", journal = "IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters", volume = "7", number = "3", pages = "5942–5949", year = "2022", month = "July", doi = "10.1109/LRA.2022.3160611", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3160611", video = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYLYyijfzCg" }
2020
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Luyang Zhao, Josiah Putman, Weifu Wang, Devin Balkcom.IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2020.@inproceedings{zhao2020plrc, author = "Zhao, Luyang and Putman, Josiah and Wang, Weifu and Balkcom, Devin", title = "PLRC*: A piecewise linear regression complex for approximating optimal robot motion", booktitle = "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)", pages = "6681–6688", year = "2020", month = "October", doi = "10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341312", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341312" } -
Yinan Zhang, Devin Balkcom.Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics (WAFR), 2020.@inproceedings{Zhang2018-interlocking, author = "Zhang, Yinan and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Interlocking block assembly", booktitle = "Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics ({WAFR})", year = "2020", pages = "709–726", doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-44051-0\_41", url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44051-0\_41" } -
Weifu Wang, Devin Balkcom.Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics (WAFR), 2020.@inproceedings{Wang2018-time-optimal, author = "Wang, Weifu and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Time-optimal motion of spatial {D}ubins systems", booktitle = "Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics ({WAFR})", year = "2020", pages = "529–544", doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-44051-0\_31", url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44051-0\_31" } -
Jason Moulton, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis.International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2020.@inproceedings{moulton2018iser, author = "Moulton, Jason and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)", title = "External Force Field Modeling for Autonomous Surface Vehicles", year = "2020", pages = "328–338", doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-33950-0\_29", url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33950-0\_29" }
2019
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Josiah Putman, Lisa Oh, Luyang Zhao, Evan Honnold, Galen Brown, Weifu Wang, Devin Balkcom.International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), August 2019.
@inproceedings{putman2019lldm, author = "Putman, Josiah and Oh, Lisa and Zhao, Luyang and Honnold, Evan and Brown, Galen and Wang, Weifu and Balkcom, Devin", title = "LLDM: Locally linear distance maps for robot motion planning: Extended Abstract", booktitle = "International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS)", year = "2019", month = "August", doi = "10.1109/MRS.2019.8901071", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/MRS.2019.8901071" } -
Ruibo Liu, Qijia Shao, Siqi Wang, Christina Ru, Devin Balkcom, Xia Zhou.Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., 3(1):19:1–19:26, March 2019.@article{liu2019, author = "Liu, Ruibo and Shao, Qijia and Wang, Siqi and Ru, Christina and Balkcom, Devin and Zhou, Xia", title = "Reconstructing Human Joint Motion with Computational Fabrics", journal = "Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.", issue_date = "March 2019", volume = "3", number = "1", month = "March", year = "2019", issn = "2474-9567", pages = "19:1–19:26", articleno = "19", numpages = "26", doi = "10.1145/3314406", url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3314406" } -
Alberto Quattrini Li, Phani Krishna Penumarthi, Jacopo Banfi, Nicola Basilico, Jason M. O'Kane, Ioannis Rekleitis, Srihari Nelakuditi, Francesco Amigoni.Autonomous Robots, 44(3–4):299–319, 2019.@article{quattrinili2019auro, author = "{Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Penumarthi, Phani Krishna and Banfi, Jacopo and Basilico, Nicola and O'Kane, Jason M. and Rekleitis, Ioannis and Nelakuditi, Srihari and Amigoni, Francesco", journal = "Autonomous Robots", title = "Multi-robot Online Sensing Strategies for the Construction of Communication Maps", year = "2019", volume = "44", number = "3–4", pages = "299–319", doi = "10.1007/s10514-019-09862-3", url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-019-09862-3" } -
Francesco Amigoni, Jacopo Banfi, Nicola Basilico, Ioannis Rekleitis, Alberto Quattrini Li.International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2019.@inproceedings{amigoni2018dars, author = "Amigoni, Francesco and Banfi, Jacopo and Basilico, Nicola and Rekleitis, Ioannis and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto", booktitle = "International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)", title = "Online Update of Communication Maps for Exploring Multirobot Systems under Connectivity Constraints", year = "2019", pages = "513–526", doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-05816-6\_36", url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05816-6\_36" }
2018
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Tianxing Li, Xia Zhou.10th Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop, October 2018.
@inproceedings{li2018-mobicom, author = "Li, Tianxing and Zhou, Xia", title = "Battery-Free Eye Tracker on Glasses", booktitle = "10th Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop", year = "2018", month = "October", pages = "27–29", doi = "10.1145/3264877.3264885", url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3264877.3264885" } -
Yichen Li, Tianxing Li, Ruchir A. Patel, Xing-Dong Yang, Xia Zhou.The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), October 2018.
@inproceedings{li2018-uist, author = "Li, Yichen and Li, Tianxing and Patel, Ruchir A. and Yang, Xing-Dong and Zhou, Xia", title = "Self-Powered Gesture Recognition with Ambient Light", booktitle = "The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology ({UIST})", year = "2018", month = "October", pages = "595–608", doi = "10.1145/3242587.3242635", url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242635" } -
Yinan Zhang, Emily Whiting, Devin Balkcom.IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 15(3):945 – 954, July 2018.@article{Zhang2018a, author = "Zhang, Yinan and Whiting, Emily and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Assembling and disassembling planar structures with divisible and atomic components", journal = "{IEEE} Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering", year = "2018", month = "July", volume = "15", number = "3", pages = "945 – 954", doi = "10.1109/TASE.2018.2809595", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2018.2809595" } -
Zhao Tian, Yu-Lin Wei, Wei-Nin Chang, Xi Xiong, Changxi Zheng, Hsin-Mu Tsai, Kate Ching-Ju Lin, Xia Zhou.ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2018.
@inproceedings{tian2018, author = "Tian, Zhao and Wei, Yu-Lin and Chang, Wei-Nin and Xiong, Xi and Zheng, Changxi and Tsai, Hsin-Mu and Lin, Kate Ching-Ju and Zhou, Xia", title = "Augmenting Indoor Inertial Tracking with Polarized Light", booktitle = "ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services ({MobiSys})", year = "2018", month = "June", pages = "362–375", doi = "10.1145/3210240.3210340", url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3210240.3210340" } -
Devin Balkcom, Andrei Furtuna, Weifu Wang.IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2018.@inproceedings{Balkcom2018, author = "Balkcom, Devin and Furtuna, Andrei and Wang, Weifu", title = "The Dubins car and other arm-like mobile robots", booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)", year = "2018", month = "May", pages = "380–386", doi = "10.1109/ICRA.2018.8461017", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2018.8461017" } -
Alessandro Montanari, Zhao Tian, Elena Francu, Benjamin Lucas, Brian Jones, Xia Zhou, Cecilia Mascolo.Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., 2(1):25:1–25:30, March 2018.
@article{Montanari2018, author = "Montanari, Alessandro and Tian, Zhao and Francu, Elena and Lucas, Benjamin and Jones, Brian and Zhou, Xia and Mascolo, Cecilia", title = "Measuring Interaction Proxemics with Wearable Light Tags", journal = "{Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.}", year = "2018", month = "March", volume = "2", number = "1", pages = "25:1–25:30", doi = "10.1145/3191757", url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3191757" } -
Weifu Wang, Devin Balkcom.International Journal of Robotics Research, 37(2-3):378 – 399, February 2018.@article{Wang2018, author = "Wang, Weifu and Balkcom, Devin", title = "Knot grasping, folding, and re-grasping", journal = "International Journal of Robotics Research", year = "2018", month = "February", volume = "37", number = "2-3", pages = "378 – 399", doi = "10.1177/0278364918754676", url = "https://doi.org/10.1177/0278364918754676" } -
Libby Ferland, Ziwei Li, Shridhar Sukhani, Joan Zheng, Luyang Zhao, Maria L. Gini.AAAI Workshop on Health Intelligence, 2018.
@inproceedings{ferland2018assistive, author = "Ferland, Libby and Li, Ziwei and Sukhani, Shridhar and Zheng, Joan and Zhao, Luyang and Gini, Maria L.", title = "Assistive AI for Coping with Memory Loss", booktitle = "AAAI Workshop on Health Intelligence", year = "2018", pages = "431–434", url = "https://cdn.aaai.org/ocs/ws/ws0528/17360-76000-1-PB.pdf" } -
Haixiang Liu, Yuanming Hu, Bo Zhu, Wojciech Matusik, Eftychios Sifakis.SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Technical Papers, 2018.@inproceedings{liu2018, author = "Liu, Haixiang and Hu, Yuanming and Zhu, Bo and Matusik, Wojciech and Sifakis, Eftychios", title = "Narrow-band Topology Optimization on a Sparsely Populated Grid", booktitle = "SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Technical Papers", series = "SIGGRAPH Asia '18", year = "2018", doi = "10.1145/3272127.3275012", url = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3272127.3275012" } -
Hunter Damron, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis.IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS), 2018.@inproceedings{damron2018iros, author = "Damron, Hunter and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS)", title = "Underwater Surveying via Bearing only Cooperative Localization", year = "2018", pages = "3957–3963", doi = "10.1109/IROS.2018.8593431", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593431" } -
Md Modasshir, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis.Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), 2018.@inproceedings{modasshir2018crv, author = "Modasshir, Md and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV)", title = "Deep Neural Networks: a Comparison on Different Computing Platforms", year = "2018", pages = "383–389", doi = "10.1109/CRV.2018.00060", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/CRV.2018.00060" } -
Sandeep Manjanna, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ryan N. Smith, Ioannis Rekleitis, Gregory Dudek.IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.@inproceedings{manjanna2018icra, author = "Manjanna, Sandeep and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Smith, Ryan N. and Rekleitis, Ioannis and Dudek, Gregory", booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)", title = "Heterogeneous Multirobot System for Exploration and Strategic Water Sampling", year = "2018", doi = "10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460759", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460759" } -
Nare Karapetyan, Jason Moulton, Jeremy S. Lewis, Alberto Quattrini Li, Jason M. O'Kane, Ioannis Rekleitis.IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.@inproceedings{karapetyan2018icra, author = "Karapetyan, Nare and Moulton, Jason and Lewis, Jeremy S. and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and O'Kane, Jason M. and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)", title = "Multi-robot {Dubins} Coverage with Autonomous Surface Vehicles", year = "2018", pages = "2373–2379", doi = "10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460661", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460661" } -
Sharmin Rahman, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis.IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.@inproceedings{rahman2018icra, author = "Rahman, Sharmin and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)", title = "{Sonar Visual Inertial {SLAM} of Underwater Structures}", year = "2018", pages = "1–7", doi = "10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460545", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460545" } -
Alberto Quattrini Li, Raffaele Fioratto, Francesco Amigoni, Volkan Isler.International Conference on Autonomous & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2018.@inproceedings{quattrinili2018aamas, author = "{Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Fioratto, Raffaele and Amigoni, Francesco and Isler, Volkan", booktitle = "International Conference on Autonomous \& Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)", title = "A Search-Based Approach to Solve Pursuit-Evasion Games with Limited Visibility in Polygonal Environments", year = "2018", pages = "1693–1701", url = "https://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2018/pdfs/p1693.pdf" } -
Francesco Amigoni, Alberto Quattrini Li.Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 99:135–147, 2018.@article{amigoni2018ras, author = "Amigoni, Francesco and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto", journal = "Robotics and Autonomous Systems", title = "Comparing Methods for Merging Redundant Line Segments in Maps", year = "2018", pages = "135–147", volume = "99", doi = "10.1016/j.robot.2017.10.016", url = "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2017.10.016", keywords = "Map merging, Line segment maps" } -
Jacopo Banfi, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis, Francesco Amigoni, Nicola Basilico.Autonomous Robots, 42:875–894, 2018.@article{banfi2018auro, author = "Banfi, Jacopo and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis and Amigoni, Francesco and Basilico, Nicola", journal = "Autonomous Robots", title = "Strategies for coordinated multirobot exploration with recurrent connectivity constraints", year = "2018", pages = "875–894", volume = "42", doi = "10.1007/s10514-017-9652-y", url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-017-9652-y", keywords = "Multirobot systems, Exploration, Communication constraints, Recurrent connectivity" } -
Johanna Hansen, Sandeep Manjanna, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis, Gregory Dudek.Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS – Charleston, SC, 2018.@inproceedings{hansen2018oceans, author = "Hansen, Johanna and Manjanna, Sandeep and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis and Dudek, Gregory", booktitle = "Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS – Charleston, SC", title = "Autonomous Marine Sampling Enhanced by Strategically Deployed Drifters in Marine Flow Fields", year = "2018", pages = "1–7", doi = "10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604873", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604873" } -
Sharaf Malebary, Jason Moulton, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis.Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS – Charleston, SC, 2018. -
Jason Moulton, Nare Karapetyan, Sharon Bukhsbaum, Chris McKinney, Sharaf Malebary, George Sophocleous, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis.Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS – Charleston, SC, 2018.@inproceedings{moulton2018oceans, author = "Moulton, Jason and Karapetyan, Nare and Bukhsbaum, Sharon and McKinney, Chris and Malebary, Sharaf and Sophocleous, George and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS – Charleston, SC", title = "An Autonomous Surface Vehicle for Long Term Operations", year = "2018", pages = "1–10", doi = "10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604718", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604718" } -
Sharmin Rahman, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis.Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS – Charleston, SC, 2018.@inproceedings{rahman2018oceans, author = "Rahman, Sharmin and {Quattrini Li}, Alberto and Rekleitis, Ioannis", booktitle = "Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS – Charleston, SC", title = "A Modular Sensor Suite for Underwater Reconstruction", year = "2018", pages = "1–6", doi = "10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604819", url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604819" }
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