Highlights of MRC Faculty Publications

Below you will find highlights of MRC faculty publications. Each link leads to the abstract or/and full text of these publications. 

2022

Planar formation control of a school of robotic fish: theory and experiments Derek Paley Frontiers in Control Engineering
	Overcoming the force limitations of magnetic robotic surgery: magnetic pulse actuated collisions for tissue-penetrating-needle for tetherless interventions Yancy Diaz-Mercado Advanced Intelligent Systems
Deep-readout random recurrent neural networks for real-world temporal data Cornelia Fermüller and Yiannis Aloimonos SN Computer Science
	Bending properties of an extensile fluidic artificial muscle Norman Wereley Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Passivity-based control of robots: theory and examples from the literature Nikhil Chopra IEEE Control Systems Magazine
	Thermal camouflaging MXene robotic skin with bio-inspired stimulus sensation and wireless communication Po-Yen Chen Advanced Functional Materials
Universal vehicle with improved stability for safe operation in air, water and terrain environments Norman Wereley United States Patent Application
	RoboCat: a category theoretic framework for robotic interoperability using goal-oriented programming William Regli IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
B-GAP: Behavior-rich simulation and navigation for autonomous driving Dinesh Manocha IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
	Dynamic modeling and simulation of electric scooter interactions with a pedestrian crowd using a social force model Jae Kun Shim and Derek Paley IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Automatic strain sensor design via active learning and data augmentation for soft machines Po-Yen Chen Nature Machine Intelligence
	Physics-informed modeling and control of multi-actuator soft catheter robots Ryan D. Sochol and Mark D. Fuge Soft Robotics

2021

	COVID surveillance robot: Monitoring social distancing constraints in indoor scenarios Dinesh Manocha PLOS One
Going hands-free: MagnetoSuture™ for untethered guided needle penetration of human tissue ex vivo Yancy Diaz-Mercado Robotics
	Magnetically steerable serial and parallel structures by mold-free origami templating and domain setting Po-Yen Chen Advanced Materials Technologies
Viscoelastic fluid-inspired swarm behavior to reduce susceptibility to local minima: the chain siphon algorithm Michael Otte IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
	DeepPaSTL: spatio-temporal deep learning methods for predicting long-term pasture terrains using synthetic datasets Pratap Tokekar Agronomy
Robust 2D/3D vehicle parsing in arbitrary camera views for CVIS Dinesh Manocha IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2021
	BoMuDANet: unsupervised adaptation for visual scene understanding in unstructured driving environments Dinesh Manocha IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2021
HighlightMe: detecting highlights from human-centric videos Dinesh Manocha IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2021
	Modeling flight and battery dynamics of a flapping-gliding unmanned aerial vehicle Derek Paley Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
Contractile pneumatic artificial muscle generates extension by actuating an integrated pushrod Norman Wereley Smart Materials
	Discovering optimal strategies for mitigating COVID-19 spread using machine learning: Experience from Asia Miroslaw J. Skibniewskie Sustainable Cities and Society
Bayesian optimization for design of multi-actuator soft catheter robots Ryan Sochol, Axel Krieger and Mark Fuge IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
	Fully 3D-printed soft robots with integrated fluidic circuitry Ryan Sochol Science Advances
OF-VO: Efficient navigation among pedestrians using commodity sensors Dinesh Manocha IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
	Order effects of measurements in multi-agent hypothesis testing John Baras Communications in Information and Systems
Magnetic particle reinforced elastomer composites for additive manufacturing Norman Wereley IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
	Deliberative acting, planning and learning with hierarchical operational models Dana Nau Artificial Intelligence
Photogrammetric measurement and analysis of the shape profile of pneumatic artificial muscles Norman Wereley Pneumatic Soft Actuators
	Path-based sensors: paths as sensors, Bayesian updates, and Shannon information gathering Michael Otte IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
Influence of hydraulic versus pneumatic working fluids on quasi-static force response of fluidic artificial muscles Norman Wereley Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
	Relating sensor degradation to vehicle situational awareness for autonomous air vehicle certification Huan Xu Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
Unveiling the neuromechanical mechanisms underlying the synergistic interactions in human sensorimotor system Yancy Diaz-Mercado and Jae Kun Shim Scientific Reports
	Characterization and analysis of extensile fluidic artificial muscles Norman Wereley Actuators
Forecasting action through contact representations from first person video Cornelia Fermüller and Yiannis Aloimonos IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

 

2020

	A gradient-based approach for coordinating smart vehicles and traffic lights at intersections Yancy Diaz-Mercado IEEE Control Systems Letters
Robust nonlinear control-based trajectory tracking for quadrotors under uncertainty Yiannis Aloimonos, Cornelia Fermüller, and Huan Xu IEEE Control Systems Letters
	UAV state and parameter estimation in wind using calibration trajectories optimized for observability Derek Paley IEEE Control Systems Letters
Characterization and nonlinear models of bending extensile/contractile pneumatic artificial muscles Norman Wereley Smart Materials and Structures
	Rotor-induced airflow for odor source detection on nano-quadcopters Pamela Abshire IEEE Sensors
Autonomous flight-test data in support of safety of flight certification Huan Xu Journal of Air Transportation
	Models and methods for intelligent highway routing of human-driven and connected-and-automated vehicles (Book chapter) John Baras IntechOpen
Bioinspired sensing, actuation, and control in underwater soft robotic systems Derek Paley and Norman Wereley (Eds.) Springer
	Future and impact of rehabilitation robotics on post-stroke care and recovery Anindo Roy Technology and Global Public Health
Generating certification evidence for autonomous aerial vehicles decision-making Huan Xu Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
	Learning a spatial field in minimum time with a team of robots Pratap Tokekar IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Metareasoning structures, problems, and modes for multiagent systems: a survey Jeffrey Herrmann, Huan Xu, and Michael Otte IEEE Access
	A bio-hybrid odor-guided autonomous palm-sized air vehicle Timothy Horiuchi Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
Mitigation of ground impact hazard for safe unmanned aerial vehicle operations Huan Xu Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
	Communication maintenance of robotic parasitic antenna arrays Nikhil Chopra IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
A bug’s-eye view Yiannis Aloimonos and Cornelia Fermüller Science Robotics
	Construction automation and robotics for high-rise buildings: development priorities and key challenges Miroslaw J. Skibniewski The Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Learning visual motion segmentation using event surfaces Cornelia Fermüller and Yiannis Aloimonos 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
	EVDodgeNet: deep dynamic obstacle dodging with event cameras Cornelia Fermüller and Yiannis Aloimonos 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
MagnetoSuture: tetherless manipulation of suture needles Axel Krieger IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
	An experimental comparison of autonomous robotic and manual laparoscopic suturing Axel Krieger The Journal of Urology
Auctions for multi-robot task allocation in communication limited environments Michael Otte Autonomous Robots
	Novel bending and helical extensile/contractile pneumatic artificial muscles inspired by elephant trunk  Norman M. Wereley Soft Robotics
Geometric gait design for a starfish‐inspired robot using a planar discrete elastic rod model Derek A. Paley Advanced Intelligent Systems
	Integration of porous monolithic structures within microfluidic systems Donald L. Devoe  United States Patent, University of Maryland, College Park
Integrating optimal vehicle routing and control with load-dependent vehicle dynamics using a confidence bounds for trees-based approach Nikhil Chopra Journal Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control
	Bioinspired pursuit with a swimming robot using feedback control of an internal rotor Derek A. Paley Bioinspiration and Biomimetics
Geometric attitude and position control of a quadrotor in wind Derek A. Paley Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics
	Cooperative mapping and target search over an unknown occupancy graph using mutual information Derek A. Paley IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Guest editorial: Special issue on robot communication challenges: real-world problems, systems, and methods Michael Otte  Autonomous Robots
	APE: An acting and planning engine Dana Nau Advances in Cognitive Systems
Modeling locomotion in a segmented soft robot using planar discrete elastic rods Derek Paley Bulletin of the American Physical Society
	Experimental comparison of decentralized task allocation algorithms under imperfect communication Huan Xu and Michael Otte IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters