Vytas SunSpiral

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Publications

(Note: Prior to marriage in 2005, published as Thomas Willeke)

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Vytas SunSpiral, DW Wheeler, Daniel Chavez-Clemente, David Mittman, "Development and Field Testing of the FootFall Planning System for the ATHLETE Robots," The Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 29: pp 483–505. 2012. Download PDF.

 

Clayton Kunz, Thomas Willeke, Illah Nourbakhsh. "Automatic Mapping of Dynamic Office Environments." Autonomous Robots Journal. Editor George A. Bekey. Kluwe Academic Publishers, Vol. 7, No. 2, September 1999.   Download PDF.

 

WHITE PAPERS

Vytas SunSpiral. "Automated Location Based Services" – An Apisphere Whitepaper, Feb. 2009 Download PDF.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Terrence Fong, Reginald Berka, Maria Bualat, Myron Diftler, Mark Micirie, David Mittman, Vytas SunSpiral, Chris Provencher, “The Human Exploration Telerobotics Project,” to appear in Proceedings of The Global Space Exploration Conference, Washington, DC, May 2012.

 

Dawn Wheeler, Daniel Chavez-Clemente, Vytas SunSpiral, “FootSpring: A Compliance Model for the ATHLETE Family of Robots”, In proceedings, 10th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, (i-SAIRAS 2010). Sapporo, Japan, August 2010. Download PDF.

 

Vytas SunSpiral, Daniel Chavez-Clemente, Michael Broxton, Leslie Keely, Patrick Mihelich, David Mittman, Curtis Collins “FootFall: A Ground Based Operations Toolset Enabling Walking for the ATHLETE Rover”, In proceedings, AIAA Space2008, San Diego, California, Sept. 2008. Download PDF.

 

Tristan B. Smith, Javier Barreiro, David E. Smith, Vytas SunSpiral, Daniel Chavez-Clemente, “ATHLETE's Feet: Multi-Resolution Planning for a Hexapod Robot”, In proceedings, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Sydney, Australia, Sept. 2008. Download PDF.

 

Vytas SunSpiral, Mark B. Allan, Rodney Martin, Kevin R. Wheeler, “Modeling and Classifying Six-Dimensional Trajectories for Tele-operation Under Time Delay”, in proceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford, CA, 2006. Download PDF.

 

Kevin Wheeler, Rodney Martin, Mark Allan, Vytas SunSpiral, “Predictive Interfaces for Long-Distance Tele-Operations”, in Proceedings, ISAIRAS Conference, Munich Germany, 2005.  Download PDF.

 

Emmanuel Benazera, Richard Levinson, Thomas Willeke, Howard Cannon, “Runtime Decision Sampling and Branch Utility Re-Evaluation in the Robust Execution of Contingent Plans”, In Proceedings of International Conference of Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, April 2005.  Download PDF.

 

Thomas Willeke, Richard Dearden, “Building Hybrid Rover Models: Lessons Learned” in Proceedings of 15th International Workshop on Principals of Diagnosis, Carcassone, France. June 2004.  Download PDF.

 

Richard Dearden, Frank Hutter, Reid Simmons, Sebastian Thrun, Vandi Verma, and Thomas Willeke, “Real-time Fault Detection and Situational Awareness for Rovers: Report on the Mars Technology Program Task”, In Proceedings,  IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2004.  Download PDF.

 

Illah Nourbakhsh, Clay Kunz, Thomas Willeke, "The Mobot Museum Robot Installations: A Five Year Experiment” In Proceedings of IROS 2003, Las Vegas  Download PDF.

 

Thomas Willeke, Clayton Kunz, Illah Nourbakhsh. “The History of the Mobot Museum Robot Series: An Evolutionary Study.”  Proceedings of FLAIRS 2001. Florida.  May 2001.  Download PDF.

 

Clayton Kunz, Thomas Willeke and Illah Nourbakhsh , "Automatic Mapping of Dynamic Office Environments,". In Proceedings, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, volume 2, pages 1681—1687, 1997.

 

 

TECHNICAL REPORTS

Rodney A. Martin, Kevin R. Wheeler, Mark B. Allan, and Vytas SunSpiral. "Optimized algorithms for prediction within robotic tele-operative interfaces." Technical Report NASA/TM-2010-216417, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, November 2010. Download PDF

 

Thomas Willeke. "Genetic Evolution of Behavior-Oriented Robots." Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming at Stanford 1995, Editor John R. Koza. Stanford University, 1995.