Contact Information
Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
The Stata Center, 32-376
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: slsmith (at) mit (dot) edu
I am a Postdoctoral Associate in CSAIL at MIT. I work
in the Distributed
Robotics Lab with Professor Daniela Rus. I
completed my Ph.D. at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, advised by Professor Francesco Bullo. I
completed my Master's degree at the University of Toronto advised by
Professors Bruce
A. Francis and Mireille
E. Broucke.
Research Interests
My research interests are in developing algorithms for task allocation and vehicle routing in groups of mobile autonomous robots.
- In distributed task allocation I have considered settings with a fixed set of spatially distributed tasks that must be completed efficiently. Here are some slides on Monotonic Target Assignment.
- Lately I've focused on dynamic vehicle routing. In these problems, new tasks appear in real-time, and the robots must adapt, and re-plan routes as new task information becomes available. Examples include Dynamic team forming, and Dynamic vehicle routing with priority classes.
- To find out more about my research please see my list of publications.
Recent and Upcoming Travel and Talks
- 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 16-18, 2009, Shanghai, China
- 2009 American Control Conference, Jun 10-12, 2009, St. Louis, MO
- 17th Southern California Control Workshop, May 22, 2009, California Institute of Technology, CA
- 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec 9-11, 2008, Cancun, Mexico
- 2008 American Control Conference, Jun 11-13, 2008, Seattle, WA
- 2008 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 19-23, 2008, Pasadena, CA