Howard Coffin

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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · none

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Reinforcement learning · 62% Robot navigation and mapping · 19% Motion planning and robot control · 19%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › exploration
ergodic search
0.612022
Multi-Agent Dynamic Ergodic Search with Low-Information Sensors · ICRA 2022
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
target tracking
0.212022
Multi-Agent Dynamic Ergodic Search with Low-Information Sensors · ICRA 2022
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
trajectory optimization
0.212022
Multi-Agent Dynamic Ergodic Search with Low-Information Sensors · ICRA 2022

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

mutual information map · 0.6ergodic trajectory optimization · 0.6
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2022 Multi-Agent Dynamic Ergodic Search with Low-Information Sensors
abstract
The long-term goal of this work is to enable agents with low-information sensors to perform tasks usually restricted to ones with more sophisticated, high-information sensing capabilities. Our approach is to regulate the motion of these low-information agents to obtain “high-information” results. As a first step, we consider a multi-agent system tasked with locating and tracking a moving target using only noisy binary sensors that measure the presence (or lack thereof) of a target in the sensor's field of view. To generate effective paths for these agents, we use ergodic trajectory optimization with a novel mutual information map that is fast to compute and can handle the discontinuous measurement models often associated with low-information sensing. We compare our approach with existing motion planning methods in multiple simulated experiments. Our experiments show that agents using our method outperform purely coverage-based approaches as well as naive ergodic approaches.
Howard Coffin, Ian Abraham, Guillaume Sartoretti, Tyler Dillstrom, Howie Choset
ICRA1
2022 Large-Scale Heterogeneous Multi-robot Coverage via Domain Decomposition and Generative Allocation
Jiaheng Hu, Howard Coffin, Julian Whitman, Matthew J. Travers, Howie Choset
WAFR2