Publications

TOPIC AREAS:

• General Robotics & Autonomous Systems

• General Space Robotics

• Planetary Mission Surface Operations

• Intelligent Control / Soft Computing

• Symbolic Computation for Robot Manipulator Modeling

• Robotics Education

General Robotics & Autonomous Systems: 

1. Hou, M., Banbury, S., Cain, B., Fang, S., Willoughby, H., Foley, L., Tunstel, E. and Rudas, I. J., “IMPACTS Homeostasis Trust Management System: Optimizing trust in human-AI teams,” ACM Computing Surveys, Special Issue on Trustworthy AI, Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, DOI:10.1145/3649446 

2. Lartey, B., Bedada, W., Yan, X., Homaifar, A., Karimoddini, A. and Tunstel, E., “An Efficient Profit-Aware Scalable Vehicle Dispatch Framework for On-Demand Ridesharing,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, Vol. 2, Aug. 2024, pp. 542-555, doi: 10.1109/TICPS.2024.3446957.

3. Zeleke, L., Lartey, B., Ayalew, Y., Homaifar, A., Lacher, A. R. and Tunstel, E., “Explainable AI-Guided Situational Awareness Application in Detect-And-Avoid Systems,” IEEE/AIAA 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference, San Diego, CA, Sep. 29 - Oct. 3, 2024.

4. Ayalew, Y., Nuhu, A.-R., Zeleke, L., Hemmatti, V., Homaifar, A., Lacher, A. and Tunstel, E., “Flight Risk Assessment of Urban Air Mobility Vehicles and Routes Based on Battery Energy Consumption,” IEEE/AIAA 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference, San Diego, CA, Sep. 29 - Oct. 3, 2024.

5. Yan, X., Sarkar, M., Lartey, B., Gebru, B., Homaifar, A., Karimoddini, A. and Tunstel, E., “An Online Learning Framework for Sensor Fault Analysis in Autonomous Cars,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 24, No. 12, pp. 14467-14479, Dec. 2023.

6. Rotithor, G., Salehi, I., Tunstel, E. and Dani, A. P., "Stitching Dynamic Movement Primitives and Image-Based Visual Servo Control," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Vol. 53, No. 5, May 2023, pp. 2583-2593.

7. Gebru, F., L. Zeleke, D. Blankson, M. Nabil, S. Nateghi, A. Homaifar and E. Tunstel, "A Review on Human–Machine Trust Evaluation: Human-centric and machine-centric perspectives," IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 952-962, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/THMS.2022.3144956.

8. Hou, M., Wang, Y., Trajkovic, L., Plataniotis, K.N., Kwong, S., Zhou, M., Tunstel, E., Rudas, I., Kacprzyk, J. and Leung, H., "Frontiers of Brain-Inspired Autonomous Systems: How does defense R&D drive the innovations?," IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 8-20, April 2022.

9. Wang, Y., Karray, F., Kwong, S., Plataniotis, K.N., Leung, H., Hou, M., Tunstel, E., Rudas, I. J., Trajkovic, L., Kaynak, O., Kacprzyk, J., Zhou, M., Smith, M.H., Chen, P. and Patel, S., “On the Philosophical, Cognitive and Mathematical Foundations of Symbiotic Autonomous Systems,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (A): Math, Phys & Engg Sci., 379(219x), 2021, Oxford, UK, arXiv:2102.07617 [cs.AI].

10. Tunstel, E., Cobo, M.J., Herrera-Viedma, E., Rudas, I.J., Filev, D., Trajkovic, L., Chen, C.L.P., Pedrycz, W., Smith M.H. and Kozma, R., “Systems Science and Engineering Research in the Context of Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Recollection, trends, and future directions,” IEEE Transactions on SMC: Systems, Vol. 51, No. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 5-21.

11. Wang, Y., Hou, M., Plataniotis, K. N., Kwong, S., Leung, H., Tunstel, E., Rudas, I. J. and Trajkovic, L., “Towards a Theoretical Framework of Autonomous Systems Underpinned by Intelligence and Systems Sciences,” IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Vol. 8, No. 1, Jan. 2021, pp. 52-63.

12. Sarkar, M., Homaifar, A., Erol, B.A., Behniapoor, M., Tunstel, E., “PIE: A Tool for Data-Driven Autonomous UAV Flight Testing,” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol. 98, 2020, pp. 421–438.

13. Wang, Y., Yanushkevich, S., Hou, M., Plataniotis, K., Coates, M., Gavrilova, M., Hu, Y., Karray, F., Leung, H., Mohammadi, A., Kwong, S., Tunstel, E., Trajkovic, L., Rudas, I.J. and Kacprzyk, J., “A Tripartite Theory of Trustworthiness for Autonomous Systems,” 2020 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Toronto, Canada, Oct. 2020.

14. Yan, X., Nazmi, S., Erol, B.A., Homaifar, A., Gebru, B. and Tunstel, E., “An Efficient Unsupervised Feature Selection Procedure Through Feature Clustering,” Pattern Recognition Letters, 2020, Vol. 131, pp. 277-284, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2019.12.022.

15. Tunstel, E., Dani, A., Martinez, C., Blakeslee, B., Mendoza, J., Saltus, R., Trombetta, D., Rotithor, G., Fuhlbrigge, T., Lasko, D. and Wang, J., “Robotic Wire Pinning for Wire Harness Assembly Automation,” IEEE/ASME International Conf. on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Boston, MA, July 2020, pp. 1208-1215.

16. Y. Wang, S. Kwong, H. Leung, J. Lu, M.H. Smith, L. Trajkovic, E. Tunstel, K.N. Plataniotis, G. Yen and W. Kinsner, “Brain-Inspired Systems: A transdisciplinary exploration on cognitive cybernetics, humanity and systems science towards autonomous AI,” IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1, Jan. 2020.

17. B. Blakeslee, E. Tunstel, J. Ding and J. Ryde, “A Scale-Based Interest Operator for Autonomous Robotic Exploration,” 2019 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Bari, Italy, Oct. 2019, pp. 1251-1258.

18. O. Oshin, E.A. Bernal B. Nair, J. Ding, R. Varma, R. Osborne, E. Tunstel and F. Stramandinoli, “Coupling Deep Discriminative and Generative Models for Reactive Robot Planning in Human-Robot Collaboration,” 2019 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Bari, Italy, Oct. 2019, pp. 1869-1874.

19. A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini, B.A. Erol, M.A. Khan, E. Tunstel, R.L. Roberts, R.F. Young, K. Snyder, R.S. Swanson, M. Jamshidi, Y. Seong and E.A. Doucette, “Operationalizing Autonomy – A Transition From the Innovation Space to Real-World Operations,” IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4, Oct. 2019, pp. 23-32.

20. Y. Wang, K.N. Plataniotis, S. Kwong, H. Leung, S. Yanushkevich, F. Karray, M. Hou, N. Howard, R.A. Fiorini, P. Soda, E. Tunstel, J. Wang and S. Patel, “On Autonomous Systems: From reflexive, imperative and adaptive intelligence to autonomous and cognitive intelligence,” Intl. Conf. on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing, Milan, Italy, Jul. 2019, pp. 7-12. {Best Paper Award}

21. Y. Rizk, M. Awad and E. Tunstel, “Cooperative Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems: A Survey,” ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 52, Iss. 2, May 2019, pp. 29:1-31.

22. Y. Wang and E. Tunstel, “The Emergence of Abstract Sciences and Transdisciplinary Advances: Developments in Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,” IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, Apr. 2019, pp. 12-19.

23. Y. Rizk, M. Awad and E. Tunstel, “Decision Making in Multi Agent Systems: A Survey,” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Vol. 10, Issue 3, Sep. 2018, pp. 514-529.

24. Ciesielski, A., Yeh, B., Gordge, K., Basescu, M. and Tunstel, E., "Vocal Human-Robot Interaction Inspired by Battle Management Language," 2017 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Banff, Canada, Oct. 2017.

25. Moore, J., Wolfe, K.C., Johannes, M.S., Katyal, K.D., Para, M.P., Murphy, R.J., Hatch, J., Taylor, C.J., Bamberger Jr., R.J. and Tunstel, E., "Nested Marsupial Robotic System for Search and Sampling in Increasingly Constrained Environments," 2016 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 2016.

26. Wolfe, K.C. Kutzer, M.D.M. and Tunstel, E., “Exploiting Redundancy to Improve Bimanual Telepresent Manipulation,” World Automation Congress – Intl. Symp. on Robotics With Applications, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, Aug. 2016.

27. Fanti, M.P., Mangini, A.M., Pedroncelli, G., Tunstel E. and Ukovich, W., "Distributed Algorithms for Multi-Robot Incident Response Victim Extraction," 2016 European Control Conference, Aalborg, DK, June 2016, pp. 1868-1873.

28. Katyal, K., C. Brown, S. Hechtman, M. Para, T. McGee, K. Wolfe, R. Murphy, M. Kutzer, E. Tunstel, M. McLoughlin and M. Johannes, “Approaches to Robotic Teleoperation in a Disaster Scenario: From supervised autonomy to direct control,” IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, IL, Sept. 14-18, 2014, pp. 1874-1881.

29. Opoku, D., Homaifar, A. and Tunstel, E., “Towards Incremental A-r-Star,” in Proc. 3rd Annual World Conference on Soft Computing, San Antonio, TX, Dec. 2013; also published in Advance Trends in Soft Computing, Jamshidi, M., Kreinovich, V., Kacprzyk, J. (Eds.), Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Vol. 312, Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 191-202.

30. Tunstel, E.W., Wolfe, K.C., Kutzer, M.D.M., Johannes, M.S., Brown, C.Y., Katyal, K.D., Para, M.P. and Zeher, M.J., "Recent Enhancements to Mobile Bimanual Robotic Teleoperation with Insight Toward Improving Operator Control," Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, Vol. 32, No. 2, Dec. 2013, pp. 584-594.

31. Hinton, M.A., Burck, J.M., Collins, K.R., Johannes, M.S., Tunstel, E.W. and Zeher, M.J., "Integration of Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic Systems Within a Modular Open Systems Architecture," Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, Vol. 32, No. 2, Dec. 2013, pp. 595-604.

32. Kutzer, M.D.M., Tunstel, E.W., Brown, C.Y., Vahdat, D., Clark, J.E., Cowan, N.J. and Armand, M., "Morphable Limbs for Multi-Legged Climbing on Convex Structures," Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, Vol. 32, No. 2, Dec. 2013, pp. 613-618.

33. Opoku, D., Homaifar, A. and Tunstel, E., “The A-r-star (Ar*) Pathfinder,” International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol. 67, No. 8, Apr. 2013, pp. 32-44.

General Space Robotics: [Back to Top]

1. Zhu, H., Kwong, S., Rudas, I., Tunstel, E., Kozma, R. and Shi, P., “Model-Based Systems Engineering Requires Metamodel Renovation: Requirements for metamodel renovation,” in IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 4, Oct. 2024, pp. 4-14, doi: 10.1109/MSMC.2024.3408415. 

2. Tunstel, E., Thayer, C., Hayashi, Saltus, R., “ModuLink: A Robotic Manipulation Applique for In-Space Servicing Vehicles,” IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2023.

3. Opoku, D., Tunstel, E. and Homaifar, A., “Path Planning for Planetary Surface Exploration Using Incremental A-r-Star Pathfinder,” Proc. 2016 NSBE Aerospace Systems Conference, Arlington, VA, Aug. 2016, pp. 144-148.

4. Tunstel, E., Van Besien, W. and Rodriguez, S.B., “Ground Operations Emulation for On-Orbit Telerobotics,” Proc. 2016 NSBE Aerospace Systems Conference, Arlington, VA, Aug. 2016, pp. 131-138.

5. Hedge, G.M., Ye, C., Robinson, C.A., Stroupe, A. and Tunstel, E., “Computer Vision Based Estimation of Wheel-Terrain Interaction Parameters for Robotic Lunar Exploration Tasks,” IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 18, No. 4, Aug. 2013, pp. 1346-1356.

6. M. Chacin and E. Tunstel, “Gravity-Independent Locomotion: Dynamics and Position-based Control of Robots on Asteroid Surfaces,” In (A. Dutta, Ed.), Robotic Systems - Applications, Control and Programming, InTech, ISBN 978-953-307-941-7, Feb. 2012.

7. Tunstel, E., Cushman, A., Kutzer, M. and McGee, T., “Toward Space Object Contact Operations using Robotic Nanosatellites,” Proc. 2012 NSBE Aerospace Systems Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 2012, pp. 114-120.

8. E. Wilson Jr., E.W. Tunstel, G.T. Anderson, C-H. Wu and D.L. McDaniel, “A Mobile Instrument Suite for Detecting Biogases on the Surface of Mars,” AIAA Space 2011 Conference & Exposition, Long Beach, CA, Sep. 2011, Paper# AIAA 2011-7316.

9. C.J. Krupiarz, E.J. Birrane, B.W. Ballard, L. Benmohamed,A.A. Mick, K.A. Stambaugh and E.W. Tunstel, “Enabling the Interplanetary Internet,” Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, Vol. 30, No. 2, Aug. 2011, pp. 122-134.

10. M.H. Kaplan, B. Boone, R. Brown, T.B. Criss and E.W. Tunstel, "Engineering Issues for All Major Modes of In Situ Space Debris Capture," AIAA Space 2010 Conference & Exposition, Anaheim, CA, Aug. 30-Sep. 2, 2010.

11. G. Hedge, C.A. Robinson, C. Ye, A. Stroupe and E. Tunstel, "Computer Vision Based Wheel Sinkage Detection for Robotic Lunar Exploration Tasks," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Xi’an, China, Aug. 2010. [Toshio Fukuda Best Paper Award in Mechatronics]

12. E. Tunstel and L.R. Palmer III, "Gravity-Independent Locomotion: Potential Approaches to Robotic Mobility on Asteroid Surfaces," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Planetary Rover Workshop, Anchorage, AK, May 2010.

13. E. Tunstel, R. Turner and C. Olson, "Open-Source Simulation for Planetary Surface Robotics," Proc. 2010 NSBE Aerospace Systems Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 2010, pp. 217-223.

14. B. Horan, S. Nahavandi and E. Tunstel, "Haptic Mobility Control for Teleoperated Rovers," Proc. 2010 NSBE Aerospace Systems Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 2010, pp. 197-203.

15. E. Tunstel, L. McFarlane and V. Mejia, "Rover Prototype for Mobile Surveying Technology Development," Proc. 2010 NSBE Aerospace Systems Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 2010, pp. 204-210.

16. E. Tunstel, J.M. Dolan, T. Fong and D. Schreckenghost, "Mobile Robotic Surveying Performance for Planetary Surface Site Characterization," In (Madhavan, Tunstel and Messina, Eds.), Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems, Springer, 2009.

17. A. Diaz-Calderon, P.G. Backes, C. Leger, E. Tunstel, E. Mumm, J. Herman, K. Davis, G. Paulsen and K. Zacny, "Planetary Sample Acquisition, Handling and Processing," in Y. Bar-Cohen and K. Zacny (Eds.), Drilling in Extreme Environments – Penetration and Sampling on Earth and Other Planets, Wiley VCH, Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

18. E. Tunstel, "Space and Exploration Automation," Chapter 69 in S.Y. Nof (Ed.), Springer Handbook of Automation, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

19. E. Tunstel, "Mobile Robotic Surveying Performance for Planetary Surface Site Characterization," Proc. Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS'08), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, August 2008.

20. E. Tunstel, L. MacFarlane and V. Mejia, "Rover Technology for Open-Path Spectroscopy Surveys," 9th International Symp. on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, & Automation in Space, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 2008.

21. E. Tunstel, "Operational Performance Metrics for Mars Exploration Rovers," Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue on Quantitative Performance Evaluation of Robotic and Intelligent Systems, v. 24, issue 8-9, 2007, pp. 651-670.

22. G.T. Anderson, E. Tunstel and E. Wilson, "A Robot System to Search for Life on Mars," IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, v. 22, issue 12, Dec. 2007, pp. 23-30.

23. E. Tunstel, G. Anderson and E. Wilson, "Autonomous Mobile Surveying for Science Rovers Using In Situ Distributed Remote Sensing," IEEE International Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Montreal, 2007, pp. 2348-2353.

24. B. Horan, S. Nahavandi, D. Creighton and E. Tunstel, "Fuzzy Haptic Augmentation for Telerobotic Stair Climbing," IEEE International Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Montreal, 2007, pp. 2437-2442.

25. E. Tunstel, "Prototype Rover Field Testing and Planetary Surface Operations," Proc. Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS'07), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Aug. 2007.

26. E.W. Wilson, E. Tunstel and G.T. Anderson, "BioGAS Spectrometer for Biogenic Gas Detection and Location on the Surface of Mars," AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2007 Conference and Exhibit, May 2007.

27. R. Howard, E. Tunstel, D. Elliott-Lewis, H. Bussey, J. Bridges and C. Taylor, "Mobile Surface Systems in a Moonbase System of Systems," IEEE International Conference on System of Systems Engineering, San Antonio, TX, April 2007, pp. 1-6.

28. G. Anderson, C. Sheesley, J. Tolson, E. Wilson and E. Tunstel, "A Mobile Robot System for Remote Measurements of Ammonia Vapor in the Atmosphere," IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October, 2006, pp. 241-246.

29. E. Tunstel, "Performance Metrics for Operational Mars Rovers," in R. Madhavan and E. Messina (Eds.), Proc. 2006 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS'06), NIST Special Publication 1062, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Aug. 2006, pp. 69-76.

30. E. Tunstel, G. Anderson and E. Wilson, "Motion Trajectories for Wide-Area Surveying With a Rover-Based Distributed Spectrometer," 11th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications, World Automation Congress, Budapest, Hungary, July 24-27, 2006.

31. A. Howard and E. Tunstel, Editors, Intelligence for Space Robotics, TSI Press, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

32. E. Tunstel, A. Howard and T. Huntsberger, "Robotics Challenges for Space and Planetary Robotics," in A. Howard and E. Tunstel (Eds.), Intelligence for Space Robotics, TSI Press, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

33. M. Maimone, J. Biesiadecki, E. Tunstel, Y. Cheng and C. Leger, "Surface Navigation and Mobility Intelligence on the Mars Exploration Rovers," in A. Howard and E. Tunstel (Eds.), Intelligence for Space Robotics, TSI Press, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

34. R. Howard, E. Tunstel, W. Thompson, H. Bussey and J. Scott-Williams, "Project Arusha: Systems overview for a pressurized rover," 10th ASCE Biennial Intl. Conference on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments, Earth & Space 2006, League City/Houston, TX, March 2006.

35. E. Tunstel, T. Huntsberger and E. Baumgartner, " Earth-Based Rover Field Testing for Exploration Missions on Mars," Proc. World Automation Congress, International Symposium on Robotics with Applications, Vol. 15, Seville, Spain, 2004, pp. 307-312.

36. Schenker, P.S., T.L. Huntsberger, P. Pirjanian, E.T. Baumgartner, and E. Tunstel, "Planetary Rover Developments Supporting Mars Exploration, Sample Return and Future Human-Robotic Colonization," Autonomous Robots, Vol. 14, 2003, pp. 103-126.

37. Tunstel, E., "Autonomous Mobility Software Validation Challenges for Planetary Surface Missions," Int'l Conf. on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology, Pasadena, CA, 2003, pp. 167-173.

38. T. Huntsberger, H. Aghazarian, Y. Cheng, E.T. Baumgartner, E. Tunstel, C. Leger, A. Trebi-Ollennu and P.S. Schenker, "Rover Autonomy for Long Range Navigation and Science Data Acquisition on Planetary Surfaces," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington, DC, 2002, pp. 3161-3168.

39. E. Tunstel, T. Huntsberger, H. Aghazarian, P. Backes, E. Baumgartner, Y, Cheng, M. Garrett, B. Kennedy, C. Leger, L. Magnone, J. Norris, M. Powell, A. Trebi-Ollennu and P. Schenker, "FIDO Rover Field Trials as Rehearsal for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission," 9th Intl. Symp. on Robotics & Applications, 5th World Automation Congress, Orlando, FL, 2002.

40. E. Tunstel and A. Howard, "Sensing and Perception Challenges in Planetary Surface Robotics," First IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Orlando, FL, June 2002.

41. P. Schenker, T. Huntsberger, P. Pirjanian, E. Baumgartner, H. Aghazarian, A. Trebi-Ollennu, P. Leger, Y. Cheng, P. Backes, E. Tunstel, S. Dubowsky, K. Iagnemma and G. McKee, "Robotic Automation for Space: Planetary surface exploration, terrain-adaptive mobility, and multi-robot cooperative tasks," Proc. SPIE Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XX: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision Conference, Vol. #4572, 2001.

42. T. Estlin. S. Hayati, A. Jain, J. Yen, G. Rabideau, R. Castano, R. Petras, S. Peters, D. Decoste, E. Tunstel, S. Chien, E. Mjolsness, R. Steele, D. Mutz, A. Gray and T. Mann, "An Integrated Architecture for Cooperating Rovers," 5th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 1999, pp. 255-262.

43. E. Tunstel, R. Welch and B. Wilcox, "Embedded Control of a Miniature Science Rover for Planetary Exploration," 7th International Symposium on Robotics with Applications, 3rd World Automation Congress, Anchorage, Alaska, 1998.

44. J.M. Cameron, E. Tunstel, T. Nguyen and B.K. Cooper, "Manipulator Control for Rover Planetary Exploration," SPIE Cooperative Intelligent Robotics in Space III, V. 1829, Boston, MA, 1992, pp. 495-504.

Planetary Mission Surface Operations: [Back to Top]

1. Biesiadecki, J.J., Baumgartner, E.T., Bonitz, R.G., Cooper, B.K., Hartman, F.R., Leger, P.C., Maimone, M.W., Maxwell, S.A., Trebi-Ollennu, A., Tunstel, E.W. and Wright, J.R., "Mars Exploration Rover Surface Operations: Driving Opportunity at Meridiani Planum ,"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Special Issues on Mars Exploration Rovers, v. 13 no. 2, June 2006, pp. 63-71.

2. E. Tunstel, M. Maimone, A. Trebi-Ollennu, J. Yen, R. Petras, R. Willson, "Mars Exploration Rover Mobility and Robotic Arm Operational Performance," 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct. 2005, pp. 1807-1814.

3. Biesiadecki, J.J., Baumgartner, E.T., Bonitz, R.G., Cooper, B.K., Hartman, F.R., Leger, P.C., Maimone, M.W., Maxwell, S.A., Trebi-Ollennu, A., Tunstel, E.W. and Wright, J.R., "Mars Exploration Rover Surface Operations: Driving Opportunity at Meridiani Planum ,"IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hawaii, Oct. 2005, pp. 1823-1830.

4. E. Tunstel, A. Howard, M. Maimone and A. Trebi-Ollennu, "Mars Exploration Rover Baseline for Flight Rover Autonomy Technology Assessment," 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation in Space, Munich, Germany, 2005.

Intelligent Control / Soft Computing:   [Back to Top]

1. Nuhu A.-R., Nabil, M., Ayalew, Y., Hemmati, V., Homaifar, A. and Tunstel, E., "Local (Per-Input) Robustness Based Guided Adversarial Training of Deep Neural Networks (DNN)," IEEE 14th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference, Columbia University, New York, NY, Oct. 2023.

2. Nuhu, A.-R., Gupta, K.D., Bedada, W.B., Mahmoud, M., Zeleke, L., Homaifar, A. and Tunstel, E., "Negative Selection Approach to support Formal Verification and Validation of BlackBox Models' Input Constraints," IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Singapore, Dec. 2022, pp. 413-420.

3. Yan, X., Homaifar, A., Sarkar, M., Girma, A. and Tunstel, E., “A Clustering-based Framework for Classifying Data Streams,” 30th Intl. Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21), Montreal, Canada, Aug. 2021.

4. X. Yan, S. Nazmi, B.A. Erol, A. Homaifar, B. Gebru, and E. Tunstel, “An Efficient Unsupervised Feature Selection Procedure Through Feature Clustering,” Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 131, March 2020, pp. 277-284.

5. X. Yan, A. Homaifar, M. Razeghi-Jahromi, A. Girma and E. Tunstel, “A Novel Streaming Dynamic Clustering Algorithm Based on Fitness Proportionate Sharing,” IEEE Access, Vol. 7, June 2019, pp. 184985-185000, DOI: 0.1109/ACCESS.2019.2922162.

6. S. Ramyar, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini and E. Tunstel, "Identification of Anomalies in Lane Change Behavior Using One-Class SVM," 2016 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 4405-4410. Oct. 2016.

7. M.G. Sefidmazgi, M.M. Kordmahalleh, A. Homaifar, A. Karimoddini and E. Tunstel, "A Bounded Switching Approach for Identification of Switched MIMO Systems," 2016 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 4743-4748. Oct. 2016.

8. E. Tunstel, “Flexibilities in Control Structure for Modulated Behaviour of Autonomous Robots,” Proc. International Conference on Complex Systems: Synergy of control, communications and computing (COSY 2011), Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, Sep. 2011.

9. R. Kozma, T. Huntsberger, H. Aghazarian, E. Tunstel, R. Ilin and W.J. Freeman, "Intentional Control for Planetary Rover SRR," Advanced Robotics, Robotics Society of Japan, v. 22 no. 12, 2008, pp. 1309-1327.

10. B. Horan, Z. Najdovski, S. Nahavandi and E. Tunstel, "Haptic Control Methodologies for Telerobotic Stair Climbing," International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, v. 13 no. 1, March 2008, pp. 3-14.

11. A. Shirkhodaie and E. Tunstel, "Rover Traversability Assessment via Visual Sensing of Spatial and Textural Terrain Image Features," International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Special Issue: Soft computing for space autonomy, v. 14 no. 3, 2008, pp. 293-315.

12. B. Horan, Z. Najdovski, S. Nahavandi and E. Tunstel, "3D Virtual Haptic Cone for Intuitive Vehicle Motion Control," Proc. IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI 2008), Reno, NV, Mar. 2008, pp. 67-74.

13. R. Kozma, H. Aghazarian, T. Huntsberger, E. Tunstel and W.J. Freeman, "Computational Aspects of Cognition and Consciousness in Intelligent Devices," IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, v. 2 no. 3, August 2007, pp. 53-64.

14. E. Tunstel, "Evolution of an Architecture and Mobile Robots for Autonomous Navigation and Control Research," Workshop on Systems and Intelligent Control, Waikoloa, HI, Oct. 2005; in A.I. El-Osery and E. Tunstel (Eds.), Systems Engineering and Autonomous Control, TSI Press, San Antonio, TX, 2007, pp. 173-180.

15. G. Yang, G. Anderson and E. Tunstel, "A RFID Landmark Navigation Auxiliary System," 11th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications, World Automation Congress, Budapest, Hungary, July 24-27, 2006.

16. T. Huntsberger, H. Aghazarian, E. Tunstel and R. Kozma, "Onboard Learning Strategies for Planetary Surface Rovers," in A. Howard and E. Tunstel (Eds.), Intelligence for Space Robotics, TSI Press, San Antonio, TX, 2006.

17. A. Howard and E. Tunstel, "Using Geospatial Information for Autonomous Systems Control," in S. Rana and J. Sharma (Eds.), Frontiers of Geographic Information Technology, Springer Science, 2005.

18. R. Kozma and E. Tunstel, "A Novel Approach to Distributed Sensory Networks Using Biologically-Inspired Sensory Fusion," IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hawaii, 2005, pp. 1005-1010.

19. A. Homaifar, H. Hawari, A. Esterline, A. Iran-Nejad, E. Tunstel and C.W. Bou-Saba, "Soft Computing for Agent-Based Decision Making Using the Biofunctional Theory of Knowledge," IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Hawaii, 2005, pp. 423-429.

20. T. Huntsberger, H. Aghazarian and E. Tunstel, "Onboard Adaptive Learning for Planetary Surface Rover Control in Rough Terrain," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

21. A. Shirkhodaie, R. Amrani, T. Devgan and E. Tunstel, "Intelligent Visual Terrain Sensing Skills of Planetary Mobile Robots," RoboSphere 2004 Workshop on Self-Sustaining Robotic Systems, NASA Ames Research Center, Nov. 2004.

22. R. Kozma, W.J. Freeman and E. Tunstel, "Dynamical Systems Approach to Decision Making in Network of Distributed Autonomous Agents," 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Workshop on Networked Robotics: issues, architectures and applications, Sendai, Japan.

23. A. Shirkhodaie, R. Amrani, R. and E. Tunstel, "Visual Terrain Mapping for Traversable Path Planning of Mobile Robots," SPIE Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXII: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, Optics East, SPIE vol. 5608, Oct. 25-28, 2004, Philadelphia, PA.

24. R. Kozma, D. Wong, E. Tunstel and W.J. Freeman, "Modeling the Role of Motivation in the Behavior of Intentional Autonomous Agents," 1st AIAA Intelligent Systems Technical Conference, Sep. 20-22, 2004, Chicago, IL.

25. D. Wong, R. Kozma, E. Tunstel and W.J. Freeman, "Navigation in a Challenging Martian Environment Using Multi-Sensory Fusion in KIV Model," 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, LA, April-May, 2004, pp. 672-677.

26. Tunstel, E., Howard, A., Huntsberger, T.,Trebi-Ollennu, A. and Dolan, J.M, "Applied Soft Computing Strategies for Autonomous Field Robotics," in C. Zhou, D. Maravall, and D. Ruan (Eds.), Autonomous Robotic Systems: Soft Computing and Hard Computing Methodologies and Applications, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Series, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg; New York, 2003.

27. E. Tunstel, A. Howard, "Approximate Reasoning for Safety and Survivability of Planetary Rovers," Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Special Issue: Fuzzy Set Techniques for Intelligent Robotic Systems, Vol. 134, No. 1, 2003, 27-46.

28. M. Jamshidi, S. Sheikh-Bahaei, J. Kitzinger, P. Sridhar, S. Beatty, S. Xia, Y. Wang, T. Song, U. Dole, J. Liu, E. Tunstel, M. Akbarzadeh, P. Lino, A. El-Osery, M. Fathi, X. Hu and B.P. Zeigler, "V-LAB® – A Distributed Intelligent Discrete-Event Environment for Autonomous Agents Simulation," International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, vol. 9 no. 3, 2003, pp. 181-214.

29. M. Jamshidi, S. Sheikh-Bahaei, J. Kitzinger, P. Sridhar, S. Xia, Y. Wang, J. Liu, E. Tunstel, M. Akbarzadeh, A. El-Osery, M. Fathi, X. Hu and B.P. Zeigler, "A Distributed Intelligent Discrete-Event Environment for Autonomous Agents Simulation," Chapter 11 in M.S. Obaidat and G.I. Papadimitriou (Eds.), Applied System Simulation: Methodologies and applications, Kluwer Publishing Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003.

30. E. Tunstel, A. Howard, T. Huntsberger, A. Trebi-Ollennu and J.M. Dolan, "Applied Soft Computing Strategies for Autonomous Field Robotics," in C. Zhou, D. Maravall, and D. Ruan (Eds.), Autonomous Robotic Systems: Soft Computing and Hard Computing Methodologies and Applications, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Series, vol. 116, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg; New York, Jan. 2003.

31. E. Tunstel, A. Howard, and H. Seraji, "Rule-Based Reasoning and Neural Network Perception for Safe Off-Road Mobility," Expert Systems: The International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Neural Networks, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2002, 191-200.

32. E. Tunstel, M.A.A. de Oliveira, and S. Berman, "Fuzzy Behavior Hierarchies for Multi-Robot Control," International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Special Issue: Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 17, No. 5, 2002, 449-470.

33. A. Homaifar, E. Tunstel, G. Dozier and D. Battle, "Genetic and Evolutionary Methods for Mobile Robot Motion Control and Path Planning," Chapter 20 in A. Zilouchian and M. Jamshidi (Eds.), Intelligent Control Systems Using Soft Computing Methodologies, CRC Press LLC, 2001.

34. G. Dozier, A. Homaifar, E. Tunstel and D. Battle, "An Introduction to Evolutionary Computation," Chapter 17 in A. Zilouchian and M. Jamshidi (Eds.), Intelligent Control Systems Using Soft Computing Methodologies, CRC Press LLC, 2001.

35. E. Tunstel, H. Seraji and A. Howard, "Soft Computing Approach to Safe Navigation of Autonomous Planetary Rovers," Chapter 11 in A. Zilouchian and M. Jamshidi (Eds.), Intelligent Control Systems Using Soft Computing Methodologies, CRC Press LLC, 2001.

36. E. Tunstel, "Ethology as an Inspiration for Adaptive Behavior Synthesis in Autonomous Planetary Rovers," Autonomous Robots, Special Issue on Biomorphic Robotics, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2001, 333-339.

37. E. Tunstel, "Fuzzy-Behavior Synthesis, Coordination, and Evolution in an Adaptive Behavior Hierarchy," in Saffiotti, A. and Driankov, D. (Eds.) Fuzzy Logic Techniques for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Series, Vol. 61, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg; New York, 2001.

38. E. Tunstel, H. Seraji and A. Howard, "Soft Computing Approach to Safe Navigation of Autonomous Planetary Rovers," in A. Zilouchian & M. Jamshidi (Eds.), Intelligent Control Systems Using Soft Computing Methodologies, CRC Press LLC, 2001.

39. H. Seraji, A. Howard and E. Tunstel, "Terrain-based Navigation of Mobile Robots: A fuzzy logic approach," 6th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, Montreal, Canada, 2001.

40. A. Howard, E. Tunstel, D. Edwards and A. Carlson, "Enhancing Fuzzy Robot Navigation Systems by Mimicking Human Visual Perception of Natural Terrain Traversability," Joint 9th IFSA World Congress/20th NAFIPS International Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2001.

41. E. Tunstel, A. Howard and H. Seraji, "Fuzzy Rule-Based Reasoning for Rover Safety and Survivability," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul, Korea, May 2001, pp. 1413-1420.

42. A. Howard, H. Seraji and E. Tunstel, "A Rule-Based Fuzzy Traversability Index for Mobile Robot Navigation," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul, Korea, May 2001, pp. 3067-3071.

43. H. Seraji, A. Howard and E. Tunstel, "Safe Navigation on Hazardous Terrain," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul, Korea, May 2001, pp. 3084-3091.

44. E. Tunstel, Commentary on "The Nature of Distributed Learning and Remembering," The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Winter and Spring 2000, vol. 21 nos. 1 and 2, pp. 185-188.

45. M.-R. Akbarzadeh, M. Jamshidi, K. Kumbla and E. Tunstel, "Soft Computing for Autonomous Robotic Systems," International Journal of Computers & Electrical Engineering, vol. 26 no. 1, 2000, pp. 5-32.

46. A. Homaifar, D. Battle, E. Tunstel and G. Dozier, "Genetic Programming Design of Fuzzy Controllers for Mobile Robot Path Tracking," International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2000, pp. 33-52.

47. G. Dozier, A. Homaifar and E. Tunstel, "Distributed Neuro-Evolutionary Path Planning in Non-Stationary Environments," 8th International Symposium on Robotics with Applications, 4th World Automation Congress, Maui, HI, Jun. 2000, ISORA:59.1-59.6.

48. M.A.A. de Oliveira, E. Tunstel, S. Berman and M. Jamshidi, "Remote Surface Exploration with Multiple Soft Computing Based Cooperative Rovers," 8th International Symposium on Robotics with Applications, 4th World Automation Congress, Maui, HI, Jun. 2000, ISORA:35.1-35.6.

49. G. Dozier, A. Homaifar and E. Tunstel, "Distributed Neuro-Evolutionary Path Planning," 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics, Feb. 2000, pp. 586-589.

50. G. Dozier, A. Homaifar and E. Tunstel, "Neuro-Evolutionary Path Planning," 3rd International Workshop on Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms, Feb. 2000, pp. 1027-1030.

51. A. Homaifar, D. Battle and E. Tunstel, "Soft Computing-based Design and Control for Mobile Robot Path Tracking," 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Monterey, CA, Nov. 1999, pp. 35-40.

52. D. Battle, A. Homaifar, E. Tunstel and G. Dozier "Genetic Programming of Full Knowledge Bases for Fuzzy Logic Controllers," GECCO-99: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 13-17, 1999, Orlando, FL, pp. 1463-1468.

53. E. Tunstel, "Evolution of Autonomous Self-Righting Behaviors for Articulated Nanorovers," 5th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 1999, pp. 341-346.

54. E. Tunstel, "Fuzzy-Behavior Modulation with Threshold Activation for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation," 18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), New York, NY, 1999, pp. 776-780.

55. M.R. Akbarzadeh, E. Tunstel, K. Kumbla and M. Jamshidi, "Soft Computing Paradigms for Hybrid Fuzzy Controllers: Experiments and applications," IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 1998 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998, pp. 1200-1205.

56. G. Dozier, S. McCullough, A. Homaifar, E. Tunstel and L. Moore, "Multiobjective Evolutionary Path Planning via Fuzzy Tournament Selection," IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, 1998 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998, pp. 684-689.

57. D. Battle, J. Baghdadchi, A. Homaifar and E. Tunstel, "Mobile Robot Navigation Enhancement Using Genetic Programming," Proceedings of the NASA University Research Centers Technical Conference, Huntsville, AL, Feb. 1998, pp. 235-240.

58. E. Tunstel, H. Danny, T. Lippincott and M. Jamshidi, "Autonomous Navigation using an Adaptive Hierarchy of Multiple Fuzzy-Behaviors," IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, Monterey, CA, July 1997, pp. 276-281.

59. M.R. Akbarzadeh-T, E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming: Combining strengths in one evolutionary strategy," Proceedings of the 1997 Waste Education and Research Consortium/Hazardous Substance Research Center (WERC/HSRC) Joint Conference on the Environment, Albuquerque, NM, April 1997, pp. 373-377.

60. E. Tunstel, H. Danny, T. Lippincott and M. Jamshidi, "Adaptive Fuzzy-Behavior Hierarchy for Autonomous Navigation," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque, NM, April 1997, pp. 829-834.

61. E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "On Decision-Making Among Multiple Rule-Bases in Fuzzy Control Systems," Proc. of the NASA University Research Centers Technical Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 1997, pp. 735-740.

62. E. Tunstel, H. Danny, T. Lippincott and M. Jamshidi, "Fuzzy Behavior-based Navigation for Planetary Microrovers," Proc. of the NASA University Research Center Technical Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 1997, pp. 729-734.

63. H. Xue, M. Jamshidi and E. Tunstel, "Genetic Algorithms for Optimization of Fuzzy Systems in Prediction and Control," International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1997, pp. 13-21.

64. E. Tunstel, T. Lippincott and M. Jamshidi, "Behavior Hierarchy for Autonomous Mobile Robots: Fuzzy-behavior modulation and evolution," International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1997, pp. 37-49.

65. E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "Intelligent Control and Evolution of Mobile Robot Behavior," in Jamshidi, Titli, Zadeh, & Boverie (Eds.) Applications of Fuzzy Logic: Towards High Machine Intelligent Quotient Systems, Volume 8, Prentice-Hall Series on Environmental & Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, 1997.

66. E. Tunstel, M. Jamshidi, "On Genetic Programming of Fuzzy Rule-based Systems for Intelligent Control," International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1996, pp. 273-284.

67. E. Tunstel, M.R. Akbarzadeh-T, K. Kumbla, K. and M. Jamshidi, "Soft Computing Paradigms for Learning Fuzzy Controllers with Applications to Robotics," Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS), Berkeley, CA, June 1996, pp. 355-359.

68. E. Tunstel and T. Lippincott, "Genetic Programming of Fuzzy Coordination Behaviors for Mobile Robots," 1st Intl. Symp. on Soft Computing for Industry, Best Student Paper Award in Robotics, 2nd World Automation Congress, Montpellier, France, May 1996, pp. 647-652.

69. E. Tunstel, "Mobile Robot Autonomy via Hierarchical Fuzzy Behavior Control," 6th Intl. Symp. on Robotics & Manuf., 2nd World Automation Congress (WAC'96), Montpellier, France, May 1996, pp. 837-842.

70. E. Tunstel, D.E. Gonzales and M. Jamshidi, "Embedded Mobile Robot Control Using Fuzzy Logic Integrated Circuits," Proceedings of the 1st National Student Conference, National Alliance of NASA University Research Centers, NCA&T State University, Greensboro, NC, March 1996, pp. 178-181.

71. E. Tunstel, "Coordination of Distributed Fuzzy Behaviors in Mobile Robot Control," IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 1995, pp. 4009-4014.

72. E. Tunstel, M.R. Akbarzadeh-T, K. Kumbla and M. Jamshidi, "Hybrid Fuzzy Control Schemes for Robotic Systems," 10th IEEE Intl. Symp. on Intelligent Control, Monterey, CA, Aug. 27-29, 1995, pp. 171-176.

73. E. Tunstel, "Fuzzy Spatial Map Representation for Mobile Robot Navigation," ACM 10th Annual Symposium on Applied Computing, Nashville, TN, Feb. 26-28, 1995, pp. 586-589.

74. E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "Embedded Fuzzy Logic-Based Wall Following Behavior for Mobile Robot Navigation," Proc. of 1st Intl. Joint Conf. of NAFIPS/IFIS/NASA '94, Hall L., Ying, H., Langari. R. and Yen, J. (Eds.), San Antonio, TX, Dec. 18-21, 1994, pp. 329-330.

75. E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "Fuzzy Relational Representation of Uncertain Spatial Maps for Autonomous Vehicles," 1st Industry/Univ. Symp. on High Speed Civil Transport Vehicles (HSCTV), NCA&T, Greensboro, NC, Dec. 4-6, 1994, pp. 162-167.

76. A. Martinez, E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "Fuzzy Logic Based Collision Avoidance for a Mobile Robot," Robotica, Vol. 12 Part 6, Nov.-Dec. 1994, pp. 521-527.

77. E. Tunstel, S. Hockemeier and M. Jamshidi, "Fuzzy Control of a Hovercraft Platform," Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on Control Applications of Fuzzy Logic", vol. 7 no. 5, Oct. 1994, pp. 513-519.

78. E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "On Embedded Fuzzy Controllers," 1st World Automation Congress (WAC'94), Maui, Hawaii, August 14-17, 1994, pp. 619-624.

79. A. Martinez, E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "Collision Avoidance of Mobile Robots Using Fuzzy Logic," 5th Intl Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing ISRAM'94, Maui, Hawaii, August 14-17, 1994, pp. 193-198.

80. A. Asgharzadeh, E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "An Embedded Fuzzy Controller for a Video Printer," 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Nets and Soft Computing, Iizuka'94, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan, Aug 1-7, 1994.

81. E. Tunstel, A. Asgharzadeh and M. Jamshidi, "Towards Embedded Fuzzy Control of Mobile Robots," 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Nets and Soft Computing, Iizuka'94, Iizuka, Fukuoka, Japan, Aug 1-7, 1994.

82. E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "Fuzzy Logic and Behavior Control Strategy for Autonomous Mobile Robot Mapping," 3rd IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Orlando, FL, June 26-July 2, 1994, pp. 514-517.

83. E. Tunstel, A. Martinez and M. Jamshidi, "Mobile Robot Collision Avoidance Using a Fuzzy Logic Controller," Engineering & Architecture Symposium, Workshop, and Exhibition, Prairie View A&M Univ, Prairie View, TX, March 21-22 1994, pp. 304-309.

84. E. Tunstel, S. Hockemeier and M. Jamshidi, "Fuzzy Control for Stabilization of a Hovercraft Platform," Engineering & Architecture Symposium, Workshop, and Exhibition, Prairie View A&M Univ, Prairie View, TX, March 21-22 1994, pp. 294-299.

85. A. Martinez, E. Tunstel and M. Jamshidi, "Fuzzy Logic Based Collision Avoidance for a Mobile Robot," 3rd International Conference on Industrial Fuzzy Control & Intelligent Systems, Houston, TX, December, 1993, pp. 66-69.

Symbolic Computation for Robot Manipulator Modeling: [Back to Top]

1. E. Tunstel and N. Vira, "Computer Generation of Geometrical Error Equations Applicable for Improvement of Robots' Positioning Accuracy," Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, vol. 7 no. 1, March 1991, pp 3-26.

2. N. Vira, T. Gill and E. Tunstel, "Application of Symbolic Computation in Robot Pose Error Modelling," Journal of Symbolic Computation, vol. 10, March 1990, pp. 509-523.

3. E. Tunstel and N. Vira, "An Interactive Program for Symbolic Kinematic Solution of Industrial Robots," International Journal of Applied Engineering Education, vol. 5 no. 5, 1989, pp 577-585.

4. N. Vira and E. Tunstel, "Computer Generation of Geometrical Error Equations Applicable for Improvement of Robots' Positioning Accuracy," Intelligent Autonomous Systems 2 Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, vol. 2, Dec. 11-14, 1989, pp. 650-660.

5. N. Vira and E. Tunstel, "Automatic Robot Error Equation Modeler Using MACSYMA," IASTED Proceedings of Fifth International Symposium on Expert Systems and Neural Networks, Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 16-18, 1989.

6. E. Tunstel and N. Vira, "Mechanization of Manipulator Kinematic Equations via MACSYMA," Proceedings of ASME Computers in Engineering Conference, July 1989, pp. 649-655.

Robotics Education: [Back to Top]

1. C.D. Bowman, S.H. Lievense, E. Tunstel, E. Chalfant and J. Norris, "NASA Robotics Education: Inspiring the next generation of explorers," International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Special Issue: Global Look at Robotics Education, v. 13 no. 1, 2007, pp. 69-80.

2. E. Tunstel, T. Lippincott and M. Jamshidi, "Introduction to Fuzzy Logic With Application to Mobile Robotics," Proc. 1st National Students Conference of the National Alliance of NASA University Research Centers, NC A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC, 1996.

3. N. Vira and E. Tunstel, "Use of Symbolic Computation in Robotics Education," IEEE Transactions on Education, v. 35 no. 1, 1992, pp. 18-30.

4. E. Tunstel and N. Vira, "An Interactive Program for Symbolic Kinematic Solution of Industrial Robots," International Journal of Applied Engineering Education, Vol. 5 No. 5, 1989, pp 577-585.