Bryan J. Thibodeau
Ph.D. Candidate
Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics
Department of Computer Science
UMASS Amherst

thibodea (at) cs.umass.edu
(413)577-0618

 

Education:
M.S. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006
 B.S. Computer Science, University of Rochester, 2001
B.A. Cognitive Science and Philosophy, University of Rochester, 2001

Research:
I'm currently working on the uBot-5 mobile manipulator.  My current research interests include mobile manipulation, postural control, and the generation of energetic movements.

Publications:

Deegan, P., Grupen, R., Hanson, A., Horrell, E., Ou, S., Riseman, E., Sen, S., Thibodeau, B., Williams, A., and Xie, D. 2008. Mobile manipulators for assisted living in residential settings. Auton. Robots 24, 2 (Feb. 2008), 179-192.

Deegan, P., Thibodeau, B., Grupen, R. Designing a Self-Stabilizing Robot For Dynamic Mobile Manipulation, Robotics: Science and Systems - Workshop on Manipulation for Human Environments. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August, 2006.

Thibodeau, B., Deegan, P., Grupen, R. Static Analysis of Contact Forces With a Mobile Manipulator, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Orlando, Florida. May, 2006.  © 2006 IEEE

Thibodeau, B.J., Fagg, A.H., Levine, B.N. Signal Strength Coordination for Cooperative Mapping, University of Massachusetts Amherst Computer Science technical report #04-64, July 2004. (pdf: 296KB)

Thibodeau, B.J., Hart, S.W., Karuppiah, D.R., Sweeney, J.D., and Brock, O. Cascaded Filter Approach to Multi-Objective Control, in the Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2004. © 2004 IEEE. (pdf: 1.4M)

Thibodeau, B.J., Hart, S.W., Karuppiah, D.R., Sweeney, J.D., and Brock, O. Video H: A Cascaded Filter Approach to Multi-Objective Control using the Segway RMP, Video proceedings at ICRA 2004, New Orleans, April 2004. (avi (wm9): 27MB; avi (divx): 27MB)

Wang, Y., Thibodeau, B., Fagg, A., and Grupen, R. Learning Optimal Switching Policies for Path Tracking Tasks on a Mobile Robot. In the Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 2002 © 2002 IEEE (ps: 2.3MB)