Amato, Nancy
individual record
Professor - Term Appointment
Positions:
- Professor - Term Appointment, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
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
selected publications
Academic Articles44
- 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.
- Motes, J., Sandstrom, 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.
- Amato, N. M., Ekenna, C., Thomas, S., & Roy, N. (2018). Editorial. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 37(10), 1115-1116.
- 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.
- 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.
Books2
- Akella, S., Amato, N. M., Huang, W. H., & Mishra, B. (2008). Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics: Preface.
Conference Papers181
- Pattanshetti, S., Sandstrom, R., Kottala, A., Amato, N. M., & Ryu, S. C. (2019). Feasibility Study of Robotic Needles with a Rotational Tip-Joint and Notch Patterns. 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 00, 1534-1540.
- Denny, J., Sandstrm, R., & Amato, N. M. (2018). A General Region-Based Framework for Collaborative Planning. ROBOTICS RESEARCH, VOL 2. 3, 563-579.
- Ebinger, T., Kaden, S., Thomas, S., Andre, R., Amato, N. M., & Thomas, U. (2018). A General and Flexible Search Framework for Disassembly Planning. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). 00, 1-8.
- McMahon, T., Jenkins, O. C., & Amato, N. (2018). Affordance Wayfields for Task and Motion Planning. 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 00, 2955-2962.
- Sandstrem, R., Bregger, A., Smith, B., Thomas, S., & Amato, N. M. (2018). Topological Nearest-Neighbor Filtering for Sampling-Based Planners. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018 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
Co-Principal Investigator6
- CERT (Center for Exascale Radiation Transport) awarded by DOE-National Nuclear Security Administration 2014 - 2020
- 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
- CSCE285 Hnr-directed Studies Instructor
- CSCE491 Hnr-research Instructor
- CSCE491 Hnr-research Instructor
- CSCE491 Research Instructor
- CSCE491 Research Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- Sandstrom, Read Mullan (2020-05). Approximating Configuration Space Topology with Workspace Models. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Sandstrom, Read Mullan (2020-04). Approximating Configuration Space Topology with Workspace Models. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Ghosh, Mukulika (2019-05). Geometric Approximations and their Application to Motion Planning. (Doctoral Dissertation)
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