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---+ Damian M. Lyons; Promotion Materials

Resume [[%ATTACHURL%/Lyons_2012_CV.pdf][pdf]].

List of Publications [[%ATTACHURL%/Lyons_publications_and_patents_2012v1.pdf][pdf]].


---++++ Selected Publications (22 papers)

This document contains a list of my selected publications. The publications are grouped by research topic to show the continuity and progress in my work. A sentence or two is added by way of introduction for each topic. A link is provided to the PDF source for each publication listed.

---++++++ A. Analysis of Robot Behavior (10 papers)

This is my longest and most active research topic, dating back to my original PhD Thesis. The core of the work is a unique focus on <em>process algebra</em> as a technique for analyzing robot programs and plans.

A.1. Lyons, D., Arkin, R., Nirmal, P., and Jiang, S., "Designing Autonomous Robot Missions with Performance Guarantees,'' Accepted for publication in:<em>Proc. 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012), </em>Algarve, PT, October 2012.    [[%ATTACHURL%/verif_iros12_finalv3.pdf][pdf]].

A.2. Ronald C. Arkin and Damian Lyons, &ldquo;Getting it Right the First Time: Predicted Performance Guarantees from the Analysis of Emergent Behavior in Autonomous and Semi-autonomous Systems,&rdquo;  <em>Unmanned Systems Technology XIV </em>at the _SPIE Defense and Security Symposium_, Baltimore MD, April 2012.   [[%ATTACHURL%/SPIE-DTRAv11pictureV2.pdf][pdf]].

A.3. Lyons, D.M., Arkin, R.A., "Towards Performance Guarantees for Emergent Behavior,"<em> IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, </em>New Orleans LA, April 2004.[[%ATTACHURL%/icra_2004_LyonsArkin.pdf][pdf]].

A.4. Lyons, D.M., <em>Cluster Computing for Robotics and Computer Vision. </em>World Scientific, 2011.[[%ATTACHURL%/beo_book.pdf][pdf]].


A.5.  Lyons, D.M., "Discrete-Event Modeling of Misrecognition in PTZ Tracking,"<strong><em> </em></strong> _IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video & Signal-Based Surveillance_ <strong>, </strong> July 21-22, 2003, Miami Beach FL.[[%ATTACHURL%/avsbs2003.pdf][pdf]].

A.6. Lyons, D.M. and Hendriks, A., "Planning as Incremental Adaptation of a Reactive System,"  <em>Journal of Robotics & Autonomous Systems </em>14, 1995, pp.255-288. [[%ATTACHURL%/Robotics_Autononmous_Systmes_001.pdf][pdf]].

A.7. Lyons, D.M. and Hendriks, A., "Exploiting Patterns of Interaction to Achieve Reactive Behavior,"  <em>Special Issue on Computational Theories of Interaction, Artificial Intelligence </em>73, 1995, pp.117-148. [[%ATTACHURL%/Artificial_Intelligence_PDF_Portfolio.pdf][pdf]].

A.8. Lyons, D.M., "Representing and Analyzing Action Plans as Networks of Concurrent Processes," <em>IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation </em>June 1993. [[%ATTACHURL%/IEEETransactionsonRoboticsAutomation_001.pdf][pdf]].

A.9. Lyons, D.M. and Hendriks, A., "Reactive Planning,"  <em>Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence,</em> 2nd Edition, Wiley & Sons, December, 1991[[%ATTACHURL%/Encyclopedia_of_AI_2nd_Edtion_001.pdf][pdf]].

A.10. Lyons, D.M. and Arbib, M.A., "A Formal Model of Computation for Sensory-based Robotics,"<em> IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation </em> 5(3), Jun. 1989. [[%ATTACHURL%/FormalModelofComputation_001.pdf][pdf]].

---++++++ B. Landmark Recognition: Terrain Spatiograms (3 papers)

Thanks to a grant from the Dept. of Energy, I was able to purchase a team of 15 Pioneer 3-AT robots and an 88-node computational cluster. I am developing a unique approach to the representation of range an image data for landmarks using this unique resource.

B.1. Lyons, D., &ldquo;Selection and Recognition of Landmarks Using Terrain Spatiograms,&rdquo; _IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS)_, Tapei, Taiwan, October 2010. [[%ATTACHURL%/Lyons_IROS_2010.pdf][pdf]].

B.2. Lyons, D., &ldquo;Detection and Filtering of Landmark Occlusions using Terrain Spatiograms,&rdquo; <em>IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, </em>Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010. [[%ATTACHURL%/Lyons_icra_2010_final.pdf][pdf]].

B.3. Lyons, D.M., &ldquo;Sharing Landmark Information Using MOG Terrain Spatiograms<strong>,&rdquo; </strong><em>IEEE/RSJ </em> _International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS)_, St Louis, MO, October 2009. [[%ATTACHURL%/IROS_2009_Lyons_Final.pdf][pdf]].



---++++++ C. Visual Tracking using Combinatorial Fusion (4 papers)

Combinatorial Fusion is a novel information fusion method developed by Frank Hsu, and he and I have conducted research on the application of this method to visual tracking of multiple targets with occlusions. 

C.1. Lyons, D.M., and Hsu, D.F., "Method of Combining Multiple Scoring Systems for Target Tracking using Rank-Score Characteristics,"<em> Information Fusion 10(2) 2009</em> [[%ATTACHURL%/Info_Fusion07_final.pdf][pdf]].

C.2. Lyons, D.M. and Hsu, D.F., "Comparing CFA and Discrimination for Selecting Tracking Features," <em>Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications </em>at the _SPIE Defense and Security Symposium_, 18-20 March 2008, Orlando (Kissimmee), FL.[[%ATTACHURL%/Lyons_DSS_08.pdf][pdf]].

C.3 Lyons, D.M., Hsu, D.F., Ma, Q., and Wang, L., "Combinatorial Fusion Criteria for Robot Mapping," _21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications_ (AINA 2007), May 21-23 2007, Niagara Falls Canada.[[%ATTACHURL%/Lyons-combinatorial.pdf][pdf]].

C.4. Hsu, D.F. and Lyons, D.M., "A Dynamic Pruning and Feature Selection Strategy for Real-Time Tracking," _International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications_ (AINA 2005), March 2005, Taipei Taiwan. [[%ATTACHURL%/lyons_d_dynamicpruning.pdf][pdf]].


---++++++ D. Cognitive Robotics: Fusion of Real and Synthetic Imagery (3 papers)

Paul Benjamin (Pace University) and Deryl Lonsdale (Brigham Young Univ) and I have developed an approach to cognitive robotics where a 3D physics engine is used as a low level resource for predicting complex behavior by fusion of the real and synthetic visual imagery. 

D.1. D.M. Lyons, P. Nirmal, &ldquo;Navigation of uncertain terrain by fusion of information from real and synthetic imagery.&rdquo;  <em>Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications </em>at the _SPIE Defense and Security Symposium_, Baltimore MD, April 2012.     [[%ATTACHURL%/lyonsetal2012.pdf][pdf]].

D.2. Stephen D. Fox, Damian M. Lyons, &ldquo;An approach to stereo-point cloud registration using image homographies.&rdquo; _SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXVII: Algorithms and Techniques, San Francisco, CA, January 2012._ [[%ATTACHURL%/SPIE_Computer_Vision.pdf][pdf]].

D.3. Lyons, D.M., Benjamin, P., "Locating and Tracking Objects by Efficient Comparison of Real and Predicted Synthetic Video Imagery," _SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXVI: Algorithms and Techniques, San Jose, CA, January 2009._ [[%ATTACHURL%/Lyons_SPIE_2009.pdf][pdf]].

---++++++ E. Tripedal Locomotion (2 papers)

My graduate student Kiran Pamnany and I developed a unique tripedal robot, funded by the Army office of research. 

E.1. Lyons, D., "A Novel Approach to Efficient Legged Locomotion," <em>10<sup>th</sup> Int. Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots. </em>16-18 July 2007, Singapore. [[%ATTACHURL%/Lyons07_A4.pdf][pdf]].

E.2. Lyons, D., and Pamnany, K., "Analysis of gaits for a rotating tripedal robot," _SPIE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXIV_, 23-26 Oct. 2005, Boston, MA. [[%ATTACHURL%/SPIE05.pdf][pdf]].



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pdf	ArkinEtAlSPIE2012.pdf	r1	manage	1077.3 K	2012-09-17 - 01:53	DamianLyons
pdf	Artificial_Intelligence_PDF_Portfolio.pdf	r1	manage	7699.1 K	2012-09-16 - 23:30	DamianLyons	Artificial Intelligence PDF Portfolio.pdf
pdf	Encyclopedia_of_AI_2nd_Edtion_001.pdf	r1	manage	4465.3 K	2012-09-16 - 23:28	DamianLyons	Encyclopedia of AI, 2nd Edtion 001.pdf
pdf	FormalModelofComputation_001.pdf	r1	manage	4690.6 K	2012-09-16 - 23:26	DamianLyons	FormalModelofComputation
pdf	IEEETransactionsonRoboticsAutomation_001.pdf	r1	manage	5765.5 K	2012-09-16 - 23:27	DamianLyons	IEEETransactionsonRobotics&Automation 001.pdf
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pdf	Info_Fusion07_final.pdf	r2 r1	manage	610.5 K	2012-09-21 - 21:32	DamianLyons
pdf	Lyons-combinatorial.pdf	r1	manage	333.4 K	2012-09-21 - 21:39	DamianLyons
pdf	Lyons07_A4.pdf	r1	manage	576.0 K	2012-09-21 - 21:51	DamianLyons
pdf	Lyons_2012_CV.pdf	r2 r1	manage	120.0 K	2012-10-22 - 01:24	DamianLyons	Updated (10/21) resume
pdf	Lyons_DSS_08.pdf	r1	manage	615.3 K	2012-09-21 - 21:32	DamianLyons
pdf	Lyons_IROS_2010.pdf	r1	manage	567.1 K	2012-09-17 - 01:56	DamianLyons
pdf	Lyons_SPIE_2009.pdf	r1	manage	1459.3 K	2012-09-21 - 22:00	DamianLyons
pdf	Lyons_SPIE_IRCV_2010.pdf	r1	manage	5163.4 K	2012-09-17 - 02:01	DamianLyons
pdf	Lyons_icra_2010_final.pdf	r1	manage	286.6 K	2012-09-17 - 01:56	DamianLyons
pdf	Lyons_publications_and_patents_2012.pdf	r1	manage	168.7 K	2012-09-17 - 01:47	DamianLyons	pubs
pdf	Lyons_publications_and_patents_2012v1.pdf	r1	manage	168.7 K	2012-09-17 - 01:50	DamianLyons
pdf	Robotics_Autononmous_Systmes_001.pdf	r1	manage	9202.4 K	2012-09-16 - 23:29	DamianLyons	Robotics &Autononmous Systmes 001.pdf
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pdf	beo_book.pdf	r1	manage	330.5 K	2012-09-21 - 21:15	DamianLyons
pdf	icra_2004_LyonsArkin.pdf	r1	manage	295.6 K	2012-09-21 - 22:08	DamianLyons
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pdf	lyons_d_dynamicpruning.pdf	r1	manage	270.2 K	2012-09-25 - 15:40	DamianLyons
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Topic revision: r10 - 2013-03-08 - DamianLyons