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A Kinect-based system for automatic recording of some pigeon behaviors by Lyons, Damian M., MacDonall, James S., Cunningham, Kelly M.

“…Contact switches and touch screens are the state of the art for recording pigeons’ pecking behavior. Recording other behavior, however, requires a different…”
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An Approach to Cooperative, Wide Area Visual Navigation by Leveraging Blockchain Consensus by Lyons, Damian M., Rahouti, Mohamed

“…This work presents WAVN (Wide Area Visual Navigation) for mobile robot teams, targeting small-scale precision agriculture which requires long-term deployment,…”
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WAVN: Wide Area Visual Navigation for Large-scale, GPS-denied Environments by Lyons, Damian M., Rahouti, Mohamed

“…This paper introduces a novel approach to GPS-denied visual navigation of a robot team over a wide (i.e., out of line of sight) area which we call WAVN (Wide…”
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Leveraging area bounds information for autonomous decentralized multi-robot exploration by Liu, Tsung-Ming, Lyons, Damian M.

“…This paper proposes a simple and uniform, decentralized approach to the problem of dispersing a team of robots to explore an area quickly. The Decentralized…”
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Probabilistic Verification of Multi-robot Missions in Uncertain Environments by Lyons, Damian M., Arkin, Ronald C., Shu Jiang, Harrington, Dagan, Feng Tang, Peng Tang

“…The effective use of autonomous robot teams in highly-critical missions depends on being able to establish performance guarantees. However, establishing a…”
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Combining multiple scoring systems for target tracking using rank–score characteristics by Lyons, Damian M., Hsu, D. Frank

“…Video target tracking is the process of estimating the current state, and predicting the future state of a target from a sequence of video sensor measurements…”
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Detection and filtering of landmark occlusions using Terrain Spatiograms by Lyons, Damian M

“…A team of robots cooperating to quickly produce a map needs to share landmark information between members so that the local maps can be accurately merged…”
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Performance Verification for Behavior-Based Robot Missions by Lyons, Damian M., Arkin, Ronald C., Shu Jiang, Tsung-Ming Liu, Nirmal, Paramesh

“…Certain robot missions need to perform predictably in a physical environment that may have significant uncertainty. One approach is to leverage automatic…”
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Performance guarantees for C-WMD robot missions by Shu Jiang, Arkin, Ronald C., Lyons, Damian M., Tsung-Ming Liu, Harrington, Dagan

“…Robotics has been considered as one of the five key technology areas for defense against attacks with weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, due to the…”
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Improving Multi-Robot Visual Navigation Using Cooperative Consensus by Lyons, Damian M., Rahouti, Mohamed

“…WAVN (Wide Area Visual Navigation) is an approach to robot team navigation that uses the current visual information from all team members to allow any team…”
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Sharing landmark information using mixture of Gaussian terrain spatiograms by Lyons, D.M.

“…In this paper we evaluate the use of a novel spatial histogram, the terrain spatiogram, as a common representation for exchanging landmark information between…”
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Selection and recognition of landmarks using terrain spatiograms by Lyons, D M

“…A team of robots working to explore and map an area may need to share information about landmarks so as to register their local maps and to plan effective…”
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Towards performance guarantees for emergent behavior by Lyons, D.M., Arkin, R.C.

“…It is important to be able to guarantee the safety and effectiveness of robot behavior in applications where robots must operate alongside people or in…”
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Towards Lakosian Multilingual Software Design Principles by Lyons, Damian M, Zahra, Saba B, Marshall, Thomas M

“…Large software systems often comprise programs written in different programming languages. In the case when cross-language interoperability is accomplished…”
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Lightweight Multilingual Software Analysis by Lyons, Damian M, Bogar, Anne Marie, Baird, David

“…Damian Lyons, Anne-Marie Bogar, David Baird Lightweight Multilingual Software Analysis in: Challenges and Opportunities in ICT Research Projects (Ed. C. Mota)…”
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Lightweight Call-Graph Construction for Multilingual Software Analysis by Bogar, Anne Marie, Lyons, Damian M, Baird, David

“…Anne-Marie Bogar, Damian Lyons, David Baird, Lightweight Call-Graph Construction for Multilingual Software Analysis 13th Int. Conf. on Software Technologies…”
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Comprehension and prediction of astronaut dynamics by Benjamin, D P, Monaco, J V, Yixia Lin, Lyons, D M

“…A robot collaborating with astronauts needs to comprehend and predict their movements. We present an approach to perceiving and modeling astronaut movement…”
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Landmark detection with surprise saliency using convolutional neural networks by Feng Tang, Lyons, Damian M., Leeds, Daniel D.

“…Landmarks can be used as a reference to enable people or robots to localize themselves or to navigate in their environment. Automatic definition and extraction…”
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A dynamic pruning and feature selection strategy for real-time tracking by Hsu, D.F., Lyons, D.M.

“…Automated video tracking is useful in a number of applications such as surveillance, multisensor networks, robotics and virtual reality. In this paper we…”
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Effect of Field of View in Stereovision-Based Visual Homing by Lyons, Damian, DelSignore, Luca, Barriage, Benjamin

“…Navigation is challenging for an autonomous robot operating in an unstructured environment. Visual homing is an AI local navigation technique used to direct a…”
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