Publications

Journal Articles

  • Loren Fiore, Duc Fehr, Robert Bodor, Andrew Drenner, Guruprasad Somasundaram, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Multi-Camera Human Activity Monitoring", To Appear in Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems.
  • Robert Bodor, Andrew Drenner, Paul Schrater, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Optimal Camera Placement for Automated Surveillance Tasks", Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems Volume 50, Number 3, Pages 257-295, November 2007.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • Sam D. Herbert, Andrew Drenner, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Loper: A Quadruped-Hybrid Stair Climbing Robot", To appear in the proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, May 19-23, 2008.
  • Andrew Drenner, Michael Janssen, Casey Carlson, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Design, Control, and Simulation of Marsupial Systems for Extending Operational Lifetime", Proceedings of the 2007 European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, July 2-5, 2007.
  • Hyeun Jeong Min, Andrew Drenner, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Autonomous docking for an eROSI robot based on a vision system with points clustering", Proceedings of the 2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation, Athens, Greece, 2007.
  • Casey Carlson, Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Modular Mobile Docking Station Design", Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, 2006.
  • Andrew Drenner, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Docking Station Relocation for Maximizing Longevity of Distributed Robotic Teams", Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, May 2006.
  • Ian Burt, Andrew Drenner, Casey Carlson, Apostolos D. Kottas, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Impact Orientation Invariant Robot Design: An Approach to Projectile Deployed Robotic Platforms", Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, May 2006.
  • Michael Janssen, Ben A. Miller, Andrew Drenner, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "A GUI Framework for GPS-Enabled Robotic Guidance",Proceedings of the 13th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Cyprus, Greece, June 2005.
  • Robert Bodor, Andrew Drenner, Michael Janssen, Paul Schrater, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Mobile Camera Positioning to Optimize the Observability of Human Activity Recognition Tasks", Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2005.
  • Andrew Drenner, Monica Anderson LaPoint, Ian Burt, Kelly Cannon, Charles Hays, Apostolos D. Kottas, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Increasing the Scout's Effectiveness Through Local Sensing and Ruggedization",Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, Apr 2004.
  • Bradley Kratochvil, Ian T. Burt, Andrew Drenner, Derek Goerke, Bennett Jackson, Colin McMillen, Christopher Olson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Adam Pfeifer, Sascha A. Stoeter, Kristen Stubbs, David Waletzko, "Heterogeneous Implementation of an Adaptive Robotic Sensing Team", Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2003.
  • Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, Bradley Kratochvil, Brad Nelson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Kemal Berk Yesin, "Communication and Mobility Enhancements to the Scout Robot", Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct. 2002.
  • Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, Tom Dahlin, Bradley Kratochvil, Colin McMillen, Brad Nelson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Paul E. Rybski, Kristen Stubbs, David Waletzko, Kemal Berk Yesin, "Mobility Enhancements to the Scout Robot Platform", Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington D.C., USA, May 2002.

Refereed Conference Posters

  • Casey Carlson, Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Design Considerations for a Multi-Robot-Team Carrier", Poster Session of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, May 2006.
  • Casey Carlson, Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, Apostolos Kottas, Charles Hays, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Rugged Mobile Robotic System", Poster Session of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, May 2006.

Refereed Workshop Proceedings / Book Chapters

  • Andrew Drenner and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "A Framework for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Teams", Petros A. Ioannou and Andreas Pitsillides (eds.), Modeling and Control of Complex Systems, CRC Press, 2008.
  • Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, Brian Chapeau, Tom Dahlin, Bradley Kratochvil, Colin McMillen, Brad Nelson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Paul E. Rybski, Kristen Stubbs, David Waletzko, Kemal Berk Yesin, "Design of the UMN Multi-Robot System", Alan C. Schultz and Lynne E. Parker (eds.), Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Kluwer, 2002.

Videos (in refereed video collections)

  • Casey Carlson, Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, Apostolos Kottas, Charles Hays, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, "Rugged Robotic Reconnaissance System", Video proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, May 2006.
  • Esra Kadioglu, Andrew Drenner, Brad Kratochvil, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos. "A Method for Transporting a Team of Miniature Robots", Video proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2003.
  • Andrew Drenner, Ian Burt, Derek Goerke, Brad Kratochvil, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos. "COTS Scout Robot", Video proceedings of the SPIE International Symposium on Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology V, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., April 2003.
  • Brad Kratochvil, Ian Burt, Tom Dahlin, Andrew Drenner, Maria Gini, Dean Hougen, Colin McMillen, Brad Nelson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Paul E. Rybski, Sascha A. Stoeter, Kristen Stubbs, David Waletzko, Kemal Berk Yesin. "A New Generation of Scout Robots with Multiple Mobility Modes." Video proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., May 2002.
  • Brad Kratochvil, Ian Burt, Tom Dahlin, Andrew Drenner, Maria Gini, Dean Hougen, Colin McMillen, Brad Nelson, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Paul E. Rybski, Sascha A. Stoeter, Kristen Stubbs, David Waletzko, Kemal Berk Yesin. "A New Generation of Scout Robots with Enhanced Sensing and Mobility." Video proceedings of the SPIE International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., April 2002.

Unrefereed Workshop Proceedings

  • Andrew Drenner, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos. "Autonomous Multi-Robot Docking". Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Modelling and Control of Complex Systems, June 2005.
  • Paul E. Rybski, Ian Burt, Andrew Drenner, Bradley Kratochvil, Colin McMillen, Sascha Stoeter, Kristen Stubbs, Maria Gini, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos. "Evaluation of the Scout Robot for Urban Search and Rescue". Proceedings of the AAAI 2001 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, August 2001.

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