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Professor - Term Appointment, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering

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education and training

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - (Urbana, Illinois, United States) 1995
M.S. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley - (Berkeley, California, United States) 1988
B.S. in Mathematical Sciences, Stanford University - (Stanford, California, United States) 1986
A.B. in Economics, Stanford University - (Stanford, California, United States) 1986

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Academic Articles45

Motes, J., Sandstrm, R., Adams, W., Ogunyale, T., Thomas, S., & Amato, N. M. (2019). Interaction Templates for Multi-Robot Systems. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 4(3), 2926-2933.
Agha-mohammadi, A., Agarwal, S., Kim, S., Chakravorty, S., & Amato, N. M. (2018). SLAP: Simultaneous Localization and Planning Under Uncertainty via Dynamic Replanning in Belief Space. IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 34(5), 1195-1214.
Amato, N. M., Ekenna, C., Thomas, S., & Roy, N. (2018). Editorial. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 37(10), 1115-1116.
McMahon, T., Thomas, S., & Amato, N. M. (2018). Sampling-based motion planning with reachable volumes for high-degree-of-freedom manipulators. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 37(7), 779-817.
Amato, N. M., Brock, O., Morales, M., & Thomas, S. (2018). Special issue on “Robotics: Science and Systems”, 2016. Autonomous Robots. 42(7), 1299-1300.

Books2

Levent Akin, H., Amato, N. M., Isler, V., & Van der Stappen, A. F. (2015). Preface.
Akella, S., Amato, N. M., Huang, W. H., & Mishra, B. (2008). Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics: Preface.

Conference Papers182

Adams, M. P., Adams, M. L., Hawkins, W. D., Smith, T., Rauchwerger, L., Amato, N. M., ... Brown, P. (2020). Provably optimal parallel transport sweeps on semi-structured grids. Journal of Computational Physics. 407, 109234-2553.
Pattanshetti, S., Sandström, R., Kottala, A., Amato, N. M., & Ryu, S. C. (2019). Feasibility Study of Robotic Needles with a Rotational Tip-Joint and Notch Patterns. 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA). 00, 1534-1540.
McMahon, T., Jenkins, O. C., & Amato, N. (2018). Affordance Wayfields for Task and Motion Planning. 2019 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS). 00, 2955-2962.
Ebinger, T., Kaden, S., Thomas, S., Andre, R., Amato, N. M., & Thomas, U. (2018). A General and Flexible Search Framework for Disassembly Planning. 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA). 00, 1-8.
Sandström, R., Bregger, A., Smith, B., Thomas, S., & Amato, N. M. (2018). Topological Nearest-Neighbor Filtering for Sampling-Based Planners. 2014 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA). 00, 3053-3060.

researcher on

Principal Investigator4

Doctoral Student Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2015
AF: Small: Motion Planning Techniques for Protein Motion awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2019
RI: Small: Scalable Roadmap-Based Methods for Simulating and Controlling Behaviors of Interacting Groups: from Robot Swarms to Crowd Control awarded by National Science Foundation 2009 - 2015
DC: Small: Collaborative Research: Shape Representation of Large Geometries via Convex Approximation awarded by National Science Foundation 2009 - 2015

Co-Principal Investigator6

Workshop on Architecture and Software for Emerging Applications (WASEA) awarded by National Science Foundation 2016 - 2019
CERT (Center for Exascale Radiation Transport) awarded by DOE-National Nuclear Security Administration 2014 - 2020
XPS: FULL: DSD: Asynchronous PDE Algorithms for Turbulent Flows at Exascale awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2019
Efri-Odissei: Synthesizing Complex Structures From Programmable Self-Folding Active Materials awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2019
RI: Small: Sampling Based Feedback Motion Planners awarded by National Science Foundation 2012 - 2016

Investigator1

Nutrition, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Training Grant awarded by DHHS-NIH-National Cancer Institute 2013 - 2021

awards and honors

recent teaching activities

chaired theses and dissertations

Sandstrom, Read Mullan (2020-05). Approximating Configuration Space Topology with Workspace Models. (Doctoral Dissertation)
Motes, James (2019-12). Interaction Templates for Multi-Robot Systems. (Master's Thesis)
Ghosh, Mukulika (2019-05). Geometric Approximations and their Application to Motion Planning. (Doctoral Dissertation)
Ebinger, Timothy (2018-12). A General Framework for a Sampling-Based Planning Approach to Disassembly Sequence Planning. (Master's Thesis)
Mishra, Saurabh (2018-05). A Task Hand-Off Framework for Multi-Robot Systems. (Master's Thesis)

Email

amato@tamu.edu

First Name

Nancy

Last Name

Amato

mailing address

Texas A&M University; Engineering Academic Coordination; 3126 TAMU

College Station, TX 77843-3112

USA

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