Publications
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2021
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V Thangavelu, N Napp
Design and Simulation of a Multi-Robot Architecture for Large Scale Construction Projects
IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems MRS 2021.
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ML Smith, N Napp, KH Petersen
Imperfect comb construction reveals the architectural abilities of honeybees
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (31) 1 2021.
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N Lakshminarayana, Y Liu, K Dantu, V Govindaraju, N Napp
Active Face Frontalization using Commodity Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.08542 2021.
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E Eckman, MA Peck, N Napp
Lunar Infrastructure via Microscale Regolith Assembly
AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum 2021.
- Y Liu, J Choi, N Napp
Planning for robotic dry stacking with irregular stones
Field and Service Robotics FSR 2021.
2020
- SM Shamsi, GP Farina, M Gaboardi, N Napp
Probabilistic Programming Languages for Modeling Autonomous Systems
IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration and Itelligent Systems MFI 2020.
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SM Shamsi, N Napp
A generic online parameter (re-)calibration framework using PPL
IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering CASE 2020.
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V Thangavelu, MS da Silva, J Choi, N Napp
Autonomous Modification of Unstructured Environments with Found Material
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA 2020, 7798-7804.
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F Pescher, B Piranda, N Napp, J Bourgeois
GAPCoD: A Generic Assembly Planner by Constrained Disassembly
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2020.
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F Schoeneman, V Chandola, N Napp, O Wodo, J Zola
Learning Manifolds from Dynamic Process Data
Algorithms 13 (2) 2020.
2019
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Y Deng, Y Hua, N Napp, K Petersen
A Compiler for Scalable Construction by the TERMES Robot Collective
Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2019.
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M Saboia, V Thangavelu, N Napp
Autonomous multi-material construction with a heterogeneous robot team
Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2019.
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Y Liu, M Saboia, V Thangavelu, N Napp
Approximate stability analysis for drystacked structures
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019.
- KH Petersen, N Napp, R Stuart-Smith, D Rus, M Kovac
A review of collective robotic construction
Science Robotics 4 (28), 2019.
- MS da Silva.
Autonomous adaptive modification of unstructured environments
PhD Thesis: State University of New York at Buffalo 2019.
2018
- F Schoeneman, V Chandola, N Napp, O Wodo, J Zola.
Entropy-isomap: Manifold learning for high-dimensional dynamic processes
International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) 2018.
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KW Lee, N Sankaran, S Setlur, N Napp, V Govindaraju
Wardrobe model for long term re-identification and appearance prediction
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) 2018.
- Y. Deng, Y. Hua, N. Napp, K. Petersen.
Scalable Compiler for Distributed Assembly with TERMES
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 2018. (acceptance rate 47%).
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M. Saboia Da Silva, V. Thangavelu, W. Gosrich, N. Napp.
Autonomous Multi-Material Construction with Heterogeneous Robot Teams
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 2018, (acceptance rate 47%).
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Y. Liu, S. Shamsi, L. Fang, C. Chen, and N. Napp.
Deep Q-Learning for Dry Stacking Irregular Objects
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2018, (acceptance rate 47%).
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M. Saboia Da Silva, V. Thangavelu, W. Gosrich, N. Napp.
Autonomous Adaptive Mod-
ification of Unsftructured Environments
Robotic Science and Systems (RSS) 2018, (Finalist for
Best Systems Paper, acceptance rate estimate ~33%)
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V. Thangavelu, Y. Liu, M. Saboia Da Silva, N. Napp.
Dry Stacking for Automated Construction with Irregular Objects.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
(acceptance rate %41)
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Q. Zhang, V. Thangavelu., R. Corbisiero, I. G. Ruiz de Adana, N. Napp, L. Cavuoto.
Effects of Simulated Masonry Work on Physical and Cognitive Performance: A Pilot Study.
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, International Annual Meeting (HFES) 2018.
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Z. S. Hashemifar, K. W. Lee, N. Napp, and K. Dantu.
Geometric Mapping for Sustained Indoor Autonomy
Workshop on Internet of People, Assistive Robots and ThingS
IoPARTS@MobiSys 2018, Munich, Germany, June 2018.
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G. P. Farina , S. Shamsi, M. Gaboardi, N. Napp. Probabilistic Programming for Robotics Probabilistic Programming Languages, Semantics, and Systems (PPS), Workshop - Principles of
Programming Languages (POPL) 2018.
2017
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F. Schoeneman, S. Mahapatra, V. Chandola, N. Napp, J. Zola.
Error metrics for learning reliable
manifolds from streaming data
SIAM Data Mining 2017 (acceptance rate %27),
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N. Lakshminarayana, N. Narayan, N. Napp, V. Govindaraju.
A Discriminative Spatio-temporal Mapping of Face for Liveness Detection
International Conference on Pattern Recognition
(ICPR), 2017
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Z. S. Hashemifar and K. W. Lee and N. Napp and K. Dantu.
Consistent Cuboid Detection for Semantic Mapping
International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) pp 526-531, 2017.
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V. Thangavelu, Y. Liu, M. Saboia Da Silva, N. Napp. Dry Stacking Strategies for Au-
tonomous Construction The What without the How: Specifying Planning Problems in Robotics
Workshop at Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2017.
2016
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D. Andreen, P. Jenning, N. Napp, K. Petersen.
Emergent Structures Assembled by Large Swarms of Simple Robots.
Posthuman Frontiers: Papers for the ACADIA 2016 Conference, pp 52--61,
2016. (acceptance rate %28)
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Y. Liu, M. Saboia Da Silva, K. Schatz, M. Paul, N Napp. Biometric Patterns on Long-Evans
Rats for Automatic Behavior Analysis Visual observation and analysis of Vertebrate And Insect
Behavior Workshop - International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2016).
2015
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K. Petersen, P. Bardunias, N. Napp, J. Werfel, R. Nagpal, S. Turner
Arrestant property of recently manipulated soil on Macrotermes michaelseni as determined through visual tracking and
automatic labeling of individual termite behaviors.
Behavioral Processes , Volume 116, pp 6--11, 2015.
2014
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N. Napp and R. Nagpal.
Distributed Amorphous Ramp Construction in Unstructured Environments.
Robotica, Volume 32(2), pp. 279--290, 2014.
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- N. Napp and R. Nagpal.
Robotic Construction of Arbitrary Shapes with Amorphous Materials.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA14), 2014.
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- N. Napp, B. Araki, M. Tolley, R. Nagpal and R. J. Wood.
Simple Passive Valves for Addressable Pneumatic Actuation.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA14), 2014.
2013
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N. Napp and R. P. Adams.
Message Passing Inference with Chemical Reaction Networks.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
(NIPS 13), Lake Tahoe, USA, 2013. Selected for oral presentation.
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2012
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N. Napp and R. Nagpal.
Distributed Amorphous Ramp Construction in Unstructured Environments.
International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
(DARS12), Baltimore, Maryland, 2012. Runner-up for Best Conference
Paper award.
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N. Napp, J. M. Wu, O. R. Rappoli, and R. Nagpal.
Materials and Mechanisms for Amorphous Robotic Construction.
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS12), Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012.
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K. Petersen, N. Napp, J. Chin-Lee, J. Werfel and R. Nagpal.
3D Tracking of Building Processes in Macrotermes.
Visual Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior,
Workshop at International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR),
Tsukuba Science City, Japan, 2012. [PDF]
2011
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N. Napp and E. Klavins. Load Balancing for Multi-Robot Construction.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA11), Shanghai, China, pp 254--260, 2011.
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N. Napp and E. Klavins.
A Compositional Framework for Programming Stochastically Interacting Robots.
The International Journal of Robotics Research , Volume 30(6), pp 713--729, 2011.
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N. Napp, S. Burden, and E. Klavins.
Setpoint Regulation for Stochastically Interacting Robots.
Autonomous Robots, special RSS Issue, Volume 30(1), pp 57--71, 2011.
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2010 and older
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N. Napp and E. Klavins.
Robust by Composition: Programs for Multi-Robot Systems.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA10), Anchorage, AK, USA, pp 2459--66, 2010.
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- N. Napp, S. Burden, and E. Klavins.
Setpoint Regulation for Stochastically Interacting Robots.
Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS09),
Seattle, Washington, USA, 2009. Nominated for Best Student Paper award.
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- N. Napp, D. Thorsley, and E. Klavins.
Hidden Markov Models for Non-Well-Mixed Reaction Networks.
Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC09), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2009.
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N. Napp and E. Klavins.
An Extended State-Space Markov Chain Model for Self-Organizing Systems in Non-Well-Mixed Environments.
4th Annual Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience,
Snowbird, UT, April 2007. Contributed Talk + Abstract.
- S. Burden, N. Napp, and E. Klavins.
The statistical dynamics of programmed robotic self-assembly .
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA06), Orlando, FL, USA, pp 1469--76, 2006.
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S. Burden, N. Napp, and E. Klavins.
Tuning Reaction Networks for Self-Assembly.
3rd Annual Conference on the Foundations of Nanoscience ,
Snowbird, UT, April 2006. Poster + Abstract.
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E. Klavins, S. Burden, and N. Napp.
Optimal Rules for Programmed Stochastic Self-Assembly.
Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS06), Philadelphia, PA, 2006.
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J. Bishop, S. Burden, E. Klavins, R. Kreisberg, W. Malone, N. Napp, and
T. Nguyen.
Self-Organizing Programmable Parts .
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS05), Edmonton, AB, Canada, 2005.
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