Research

Research Interest

  • Artificial Intelligence Planning & Scheduling

  • Multi-vehicle coordination for underground and surface exploration

  • Planning and Robotics

  • Probabilistic Planning

  • Knowledge Engineering and Modeling

  • Space and Ocean Exploration

Previous Projects

  • Resilient Spacecraft Executive Architecture (MIT, Caltech, JPL and WHOI )

  • Uhura - A Driver’s Personal Coach for Managing Risk (MIT)

  • Geordi - A Driver’s Assistant for Risk-bounded Maneuvering (MIT)

  • Automated Planning and Scheduling Multi-Robot Activities for Single and Multi-Person HRI (UofT)

  • Autonomous Telepresence Robots (UofT)

  • itSIMPLE project. A Knowledge Engineering Environment for Designing AI Planning Domains. Download the tool here. (USP and UofT)

Thesis

  • 2011 PhD thesis. "Post-Design Analysis for AI Planning Applications" (pdf)

  • 2007 Master's thesis. "itSIMPLE: integrated environment for modeling and analysis of automated planning domains."