Brendan was a PhD student in the Robotics and
Biology Laboratory. He was working on
sampling-based motion planning. He graduated in
spring 2007 with his PhD and is now an assistant
professor at Union College. His new Web site is here.
Brendan was the first PhD to graduate from this lab!
Publications
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock.
Sampling-Based Motion Planning With Sensing Uncertainty.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference
on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy,
April 2007.
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock.
Single-Query Motion Planning With Utility-Guided Random Trees.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference
on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy,
April 2007.
Katz, Dov, Emily Horrell, Yuandong Yang, Brendan
Burns, Thomas Buckley, Anna Grishkan,
Volodymyr Zhylkovskyy, Oliver Brock, Erik Learned-Miller.
The UMass Mobile Manipulator UMan: An Experimental
Platform for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation.
In Workshop on Manipulation in Human Environments
at Robotics: Science and Systems,
Philadelphia, USA, August 2006.
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock.
Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Uncertain Knowledge.
Technical Report 06-30.
Computer Science Department,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
June 2006.
Brendan Burns and Oliver Brock.
Utility-Guided Random Trees.
Technical Report 06-29.
Computer Science Department,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
June 2006.
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, and Brian N. Levine.
Autonomous Enhancement of Disruption Tolerant Networks.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation,
Orlando, USA, May 2006.
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock.
Toward Optimal Configuration Space Sampling.
In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and
Systems,
Cambridge, USA, June 2005.
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock.
Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Predictive Models.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation,
Barcelona, Spain, April 2005.
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock.
Single-Query Entropy-Guided Path Planning.
In Proceedings of the IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation,
Barcelona, Spain, April 2005.
Burns, Brendan, Oliver Brock, and Brian N. Levine.
MV - Routing and Capacity Building in Disruption
Tolerant Networks.
To appear in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2005,
Miami, USA, March 2005.
Burns, Brendan, Oliver Brock, and Brian N. Levine.
MV - Routing and Capacity Building in Disruption
Tolerant Networks.
Technical Report 04-68.
Computer Science Department,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
September 2004.
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock.
Single-Query Entropy-Guided Motion Planning.
Technical Report 04-76.
Computer Science Department,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
September 2004.
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock.
Model-Based Motion Planning.
Technical Report 04-32.
Computer Science Department,
University of Massachusetts Amherst,
September 2004.
Burns, Brendan and Oliver Brock.
Information Theoretic Construction of Probabilistic Roadmaps.
In Proceedings of the IEEE
International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems, pages 650-655,
Las Vegas, USA, Oktober 2003.
