Andrew G Curtis, Billie Strong, Edward Steager, Mark Yim, Michael Rubenstein.
Autonomous 3D Position Control for a Safe Single Motor Micro Aerial Vehicle. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2023.
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Jingxian Wang, Michael Rubenstein.
PCBot: a Minimalist Robot Designed for Swarm Applications. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022).
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Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein.
Decentralized Localization in Homogeneous Swarms Considering Real-World Non-idealities. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, no. 4 (2021): 6765-6772.
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Petras Swissler, Michael Rubenstein.
ReactiveBuild: Environment-Adaptive Self-Assembly of Amorphous Structures. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 2021. (best student paper award)
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Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein.
Generating Goal Configurations for Scalable Shape Formation in Robotic Swarms. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 2021.
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Petras Swissler, Michael Rubenstein.
FireAnt3D: a 3D self-climbing robot towards non-latticed robotic self-assembly. 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020).
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Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein.
A Fast, Accurate, and Scalable Probabilistic Sample-Based Approach for Counting Swarm Size. Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 20).
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Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein.
Walk, Stop, Count, and Swap: Decentralized Multi-agent Path Finding with Theoretical Guarantees. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5, no. 2 (2020): 1119-1126.
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Yihan Zhang, Lyon Zhang, Hanlin Wang, Fabian Bustamante, Michael Rubenstein.
SwarmTalk -- Towards Benchmark Software Suites for Swarm Robotics Platforms. 2020 Proceedings of the Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 20).
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Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein.
Shape Formation in Homogeneous Swarms Using Local Task Swapping. IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
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Taosha Fan, Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein, Todd Murphey.
Efficient and Guaranteed Planar Pose Graph Optimization Using the Complex Number Representation. 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 19). (best student paper award)
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Michael Rubenstein, Zachary Manchester.
Bio-Inspired Position Control of Satellite Constellations. Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 18).
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Andrew SaLoutos, Michael Rubenstein.
SpinBot: An Autonomous, Externally Actuated Robot for Swarm Applications. Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 18).
[pdf] (Nominated best student paper)
Petras Swissler, Michael Rubenstein.
FireAnt: A Modular Robot with Full-Body Continuous Docks. Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 18).
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German Espinosa, Michael Rubenstein.
Using Hardware Specialization and Hierarchy to Simplify Robotic Swarms. Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 18).
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German Espinosa, Michael Rubenstein.
Towards mixed reality system with quadrotor: Autonomous drone positioning in real and virtual. Workshop: Robotics in Virtual Reality, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 18).
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Melinda Malley, Michael Rubenstein, Radhika Nagpal.
Flippy: A soft, autonomous climber with simple sensing and control. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 17).
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Marc Gyongyosi, Alexander Daley, Blake Resnick, Michael Rubenstein.
Low cost sensing and communication system for rotor-craft. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 17).
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Melvin Gauci, Monica E Ortiz, Michael Rubenstein, Radhika Nagpal.
Error Cascades in Collective Behavior: A Case Study of the Gradient Algorithm on 1000 Physical Agents. Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 16).
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Hanlin Wang, Michael Rubenstein.
Autonomous mobile robot with independent control and externally driven actuation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2016 (IROS 2016).
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Martin EW Nisser, Samuel M Felton, Michael T Tolley, Michael Rubenstein, Robert J Wood.
Feedback-controlled self-folding of autonomous robot collectives. 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 16).
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Melvin Gauci, Radhika Nagpal, Michael Rubenstein.
Programmable Self-Disassembly for Shape Formation in Large-Scale Robot Collectives. 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 16).
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Michael Rubenstein, Bo Cimino, Radhika Nagpal, Justin Werfel.
AERobot: An Affordable One-Robot-Per-Student System for Early Robotics Education. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015.
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Lucian Cucu, Michael Rubenstein, Radhika Nagpal.
Towards Self-assembled Structures with Mobile Climbing Robots. in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015.
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Michael Rubenstein, Alejandro Cornejo, Radhika Nagpal.
Programmable Self-Assembly in a Thousand-Robot Swarm. in Science, Vol 345, no 6198, 15 Aug 2014.
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Aaron Becker, Golnaz Habibi, Justin Werfel, Michael Rubenstein, James McLurkin.
Massive Uniform Manipulation: Controlling Large Populations of Simple Robots with a Common Input Signal. in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013.
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Michael Rubenstein, Christian Ahler, Nick Hoff, Adrian Cabrera, Radhika Nagpal.
Kilobot: A Low Cost Robot with Scalable Operations Designed for Collective Behaviors. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal 2013.
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Michael Rubenstein, Adrian Cabrera, Justin Werfel, Golanz Habibi, James McLurkin, Radhika Nagpal.
Collective Transport of Complex Objects by Simple Robots: Theory and Experiments. Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), Saint Paul Minnesota, 2013.
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Michael Rubenstein, Christian Ahler, and Radhika Nagpal.
Kilobot: A Low Cost Scalable Robot System for Collective Behaviors. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Automations, St. Paul, May 2012.
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Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen.
Automatic Scalable Size Selection for the Shape of a Distributed Robotic Collective. In Proc. 2010 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei Taiwan, October 2010.
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Michael Rubenstein.
Self-Assembly and Self-Healing for Robotic Collectives. PhD Dissertation, Dec 2009.
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Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen.
Scalable Self-Assembly and Self-Repair in a Collective Of Robots. In Proc. 2009 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, October 2009.
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Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen.
A Scalable and Distributed Approach for Self-Assembly and Self-Healing of a Differentiated Shape. In Proc. 2008 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, September 2008.
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Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen.
A Scalable And Distributed Model for Self-Organization and Self-Healing. In Proc. 2008 Intl. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Estoril, Portugal, May 2008.
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Michael Rubenstein, Maks Krivokon, Wei-Min Shen.
Robotic Enzyme-Based Autonomous Self-Replication. In Proc. 2004 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, 2004.
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Michael Rubenstein, Kenneth Payne, Peter Will, Wei-Min Shen.
Docking among Independent and Autonomous CONRO Self-Reconfigurable Robots. In Proc. 2004 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, April/May 2004.
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Harris Chiu, Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen.
'Deformable Wheel'-A Self-Recovering Modular Rolling Track. In Proc. 2008 Intl. Symposium on Distributed Robotic Systems, Tsukuba, Japan, November 2008.
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Wei-Min Shen, Harris Chiu, Michael Rubenstein, Behnam Salemi.
Rolling and Climbing by the Multifunctional SuperBot Reconfigurable Robotic System. In Proc. Space Technology and Applications Intl. Forum (STAIF-08), AIP Conference Proceedings No. 969, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, February 2008.
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Harris Chiu, Michael Rubenstein, Wei-Min Shen.
Multifunctional SuperBot with Rolling Track Configuration. In Proc. 2007 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA, November 2007. IROS 2007 Workshop on Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Systems & Applications.
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Wei-Min Shen, Maks Krivokon, Harris Chiu, Jacob Everist, Michael Rubenstein, Jagadesh Venkatesh.
Multimode Locomotion via SuperBot Robots. In Proc. 2006 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Orlando, FL, 2006.
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Wei-Min Shen, Maks Krivokon, Harris Chiu, Jacob Everist, Michael Rubenstein, Jagadesh Venkatesh.
Multimode Locomotion for Reconfigurable Robots. Autonomous Robots, 2006.
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