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. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, advised by Professor Francesco Bullo. I
completed my Master's in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto advised by
Professors Bruce
A. Francis and Mireille
E. Broucke.
Research Interests
My research interests are in distributed control of autonomous systems, robotic motion coordination, and optimization. I have focused on developing provably efficient algorithms for task allocation and dynamic vehicle routing in groups of autonomous robots.
- In task allocation I have considered 1) robots with limited communication range and bandwidth, and 2) task locations that are unknown and must be searched for by the robots.
- In dynamic vehicle routing, tasks appear in real-time, and the robots must adapt, and re-plan routes as new task information becomes available.
- To find out more about my research please see my research page and my list of publications.
Recent and Upcoming Travel and Talks
- 2010 American Control Conference, Jun 30-Jul 02, 2010, Baltimore, MD
- Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Jan 12-Feb 03, 2010, Sydney, Australia
- 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