Publications

Journal articles

• "Visibility-based pursuit-evasion with limited field of view".
  Brian P. Gerkey and Sebastian Thrun, and Geoff Gordon. Intl. Journal of Robotics Research, 25(4):299-316, April 2006.
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• "A formal analysis and taxonomy of task allocation in multi-robot systems".
  Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J Mataric´. Intl. Journal of Robotics Research, 23(9):939-954, September 2004. (Also Technical Report CRES-03-013)
  [gzipped PS: 116k] [PDF: 176k]

• "Sold!: Auction methods for multi-robot coordination".
  Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J Mataric´. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Special Issue on Multi-robot Systems, 18(5):758-768, October 2002. (Also Technical Report IRIS-01-399)
  [PDF: 684k]

Book chapters

• "Reusable Robot Software and the Player/Stage Project"
  Richard T. Vaughan, and Brian Gerkey. In Davide Brugali, editor, Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics, pages 267--289, Springer Tracts on Advanced Robotics, Springer, 2007.

• "Trends in Robotic Software Frameworks"
  Davide Brugali, Gregory S. Broten, Antonio Cisternino, Diego Colombo, Jannik Fritsch, Brian P. Gerkey, Gerhard Kraetzschmar, Richard Vaughan, and Hans Utz. In Davide Brugali, editor, Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics, pages 259--266, Springer Tracts on Advanced Robotics, Springer, 2007.

Conference papers

• "Outdoor Mapping and Navigation using Stereo Vision"
  Kurt Konolige, Motilal Agrawal, Robert C. Bolles, Cregg Cowan, Martin Fischler, and Brian P. Gerkey. In Proc. of the Intl. Symp. on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2006), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 6-10, 2006.
  [gzipped PS: 3.2M] [PDF: 825K]

• "Player 2.0: Toward a Practical Robot Programming Framework"
  Toby H.J. Collett, Bruce A. MacDonald, and Brian P. Gerkey. In Proc. of the Australasian Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2005), Sydney, Australia, December 5-7, 2005.
  [PDF: 671k]

• "Visibility-based pursuit-evasion with limited field of view".
  Brian P. Gerkey, Sebastian Thrun, and Geoff Gordon. In Proc. of the Natl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2004), pages 20-27, San Jose, California, July 25 - 29, 2004.
  [gzipped PS: 148k] [PDF: 180k]

• "On Device Abstractions For Portable, Resuable Robot Code".
  Richard T. Vaughan, Brian P. Gerkey, and Andrew Howard. In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2003), pages 2121-2427, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 27 - 31, 2003. (Also Technical Report CRES-03-009)
  [gzipped PS: 48k] [PDF: 76k]

• "Multi-Robot Task Allocation: Analyzing the Complexity and Optimality of Key Architectures".
  Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J Mataric´. In Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2003), pages 3862-3868, Taipei, Taiwan, September 14 - 19, 2003. (Also Technical Report CRES-02-005)
  [gzipped PS: 56k] [PDF: 76k]

• "The Player/Stage Project: Tools for Multi-Robot and Distributed Sensor Systems".
  Brian P. Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan, and Andrew Howard. In Proc. of the Intl. Conf. on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2003), pages 317-323, Coimbra, Portugal, June 30 - July 3, 2003.
  [gzipped PS: 240k] [PDF: 188k]

• "Exploiting physical dynamics for concurrent control of a mobile robot".
  Brian P. Gerkey, Maja J Mataric´, and Gaurav S Sukhatme. In Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002), pages 3467 - 3472, Washington, DC, May 11 - 15, 2002.
  [gzipped PS: 136k] [PDF: 193k]
  

• "Pusher-watcher: An approach to fault-tolerant tightly-coupled robot coordination".
  Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J Mataric´. In Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002), pages 464 - 469, Washington, DC, May 11 - 15, 2002. (Also Technical Report IRIS-01-403)
  [gzipped PS: 144k] [PDF: 164k]
  

• "Most Valuable Player: A Robot Device Server for Distributed Control".
  Brian P. Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Andrew Howard, Gaurav S Sukhatme, and Maja J Mataric´. In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2001), pages 1226-1231, Wailea, Hawaii, October 29 - November 3, 2001.
  [gzipped PS: 112k] [PDF: 312k]
  

  Also appears in Proc. of the Second Intl. Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS at Autonomous Agents 2001, Montreal, Canada, May 29, 2001.
  [gzipped PS: 136k] [PDF: 368k]

• "Principled Communication for Dynamic Multi-Robot Task Allocation".
  Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J Mataric´. In D. Rus and S. Singh, editors, Experimental Robotics VII, LNCIS 271, pages 353-362. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2001 (presented at ISER 2000).
  [gzipped PS: 372k] [PDF: 192k]

Conference poster

• "MURDOCH: Publish/Subscribe Task Allocation for Heterogeneous Agents".
  Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J Mataric´. In Proc. of Autonomous Agents 2000, Barcelona, Spain, June 3-7, 2000, pp 203-204.
  [gzipped PS: 32k] [PDF: 80k]

  Also appears as a Student Abstract in Proc. of the National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2000), Austin, Texas, 30 July - 3 August 2000.
  [gzipped PS: 12k] [PDF: 12k]

Refereed workshop papers

• "Extending Player/Stage/Gazebo towards Cognitive Robots Acting in Ubiquitous Sensor-equipped Environments".
  Radu Bogdan Rusu, Alexis Maldonado, Michael Beetz, and Brian P. Gerkey. In Proc. of the ICRA Workshop on Network Robot Systems, Rome, Italy, April 2007.
  [PDF: 1.7MB]

• "Commbots: Distributed control of mobile communication relays".
  Brian P. Gerkey, Roger Mailler, and Benoit Morisset. In Proc. of the AAAI Workshop on Auction Mechanisms for Robot Coordination (AuctionBots), pages 51-57, Boston, Massachusetts, July 17, 2006.
  [gzipped PS: 540k] [PDF: 133k]

• "Parallel stochastic hill-climbing with small teams".
  Brian P. Gerkey, Sebastian Thrun, and Geoff Gordon. In L.E.Parker and others, editors, Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume III, pages 65-77, Springer, 2005 (presented at 2005 Intl. Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems).
  [gzipped PS: 967k] [PDF: 302k]

• "A Framework for Studying Multi-Robot Task Allocation".
  Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J Mataric´. In A.C. Schultz and others, editors, Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume II, pages 15-26, Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands, 2003 (presented at 2003 Intl. Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems).
  [gzipped PS: 60k] [PDF: 132k]

Invited papers

• "Principled Approaches to the Design of Multi-Robot Systems".
  Chris Jones, Dylan Shell, Maja J Mataric´, and Brian Gerkey. In Proc. of the Workshop on Networked Robotics, IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2004), Sendai, Japan, September 2004.
  [PDF: 167k]

• "On role allocation in RoboCup".
  Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J Mataric´. In Daniel Polani, Andrea Bonarini, Brett Browning, and Kazuo Yoshida, editors, RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, LNCS 3020, pages 43-53, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
  [gzipped PS: 120k] [PDF: 108k]

Technical reports (which are not otherwise published)

• "G'day Mate. Let me Introduce you to Everyone: An Infrastructure for Scalable Human-System Interaction".
  Ashley Tews, Maja J Mataric´, Gaurav S Sukhatme, and Brian P. Gerkey. Technical Report CRES-02-004, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, School of Engineering, University of Southern California, September 2002.
  [PDF: 89k]

• "Player Robot Server".
  Brian P. Gerkey, Kasper Støy and Richard T. Vaughan. Technical Report IRIS-00-392, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, School of Engineering, University of Southern California, November 2000.
  [gzipped PS: 120k] [PDF: 280k]

Other workshop/symposia papers

• "Are (explicit) multi-robot coordination and multi-agent coordination really so different?"
  Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J Mataric´. In Proc. of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Bridging the Multi-Agent and Multi-Robotic Research Gap, pages 1-3, Palo Alto, California, March 22-24, 2004.
  [gzipped PS: 24k] [PDF: 36k]

• "A market-based formulation of sensor-actuator network coordination"
  Brian P. Gerkey and Maja J Mataric´. In Proc. of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Embedded and Distributed Systems, pages 21-26, Palo Alto, California, March 25-27, 2002.
  [gzipped PS: 36k] [PDF: 68k]

Dissertation / thesis

• On Multi-Robot Task Allocation.
  Brian P. Gerkey. PhD Dissertation. University of Southern California Computer Science Department, August 2003. (Also Technical Report CRES-03-012)
  [gzipped PS: 984k] [PDF: 1200k]

• Task Allocation for Heterogeneous Robots.
  Brian P. Gerkey. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Tulane University Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, April 1998.
  [gzipped PS: 408k] [PDF: 696k]
  (Condensed version: [gzipped PS: 37k] [PDF: 112k])

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