Professor and Distinguished James McGill Chair
McGill University School of Computer Science
Associate member, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gregory Dudek
Centre for Intelligent Machines
McGill University
McConnell Engineering Building, Room 440
3480 University Street
Montreal, Que, Canada H3A 2A7
This is a cross-section showing selected publications across my career.
A more comprehensive and up-to-date list including on-line versions is on the
publication list by topic
and there is also lab list (not up to date)
mobile robotics lab publications page.
One of the early applications of LLMs to robotics. We used
a foundation model to create a
photo-acquisition robot
that could adapt to different domains by using an LLM to produce domain-specific
criteria and evaluation metrics. Followup up papers sometimes refer to this as a
photoobt, although in much earlier papers (without an LLM) we introduced a more general idea of a ``photo documentarian''
that would seek to document different kinds of phenomenon (final ICRA 2023 version of
paper here)
Our paper "Generating adversarial driving scenarios in high-fidelity simulators", looks at using
adversarial methods to allow autonomous driving agents to improve.
The paper was an
early example of the developing trend to develop more robust agents
by making the environment part of the learning cycyle.
Searching for novelty is video, and using it to navigate a swimming robot to maximize the
stuff that is observed. Autonomous
Adaptive Underwater Exploration using Online Topic Modeling with Yogesh my student and Philippe (from Laval University).
This combines an automated search for novelty with the behavior of our amphibious robot. A journal version can
also be found in the Intl Journal of Robotics Research in 2013.
Human-robot
interaction (HRI) and dialog
is a key aspect of robotics and the student author (Junead) is now professor at the University of Minnesota. This 2011 paper
is an eraly step in validating HRI methods.
Graphical state space programming, from 2011-2009, (GSSP) material and executable code.
A generic framework for developing light weight robot controllers.
With Dimitri Marinakis looked at
at
inferring the topology of
sensor networks using very sparse event information. A more recent paper one this is
our 2010 article in the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
A preliminary paper on our older
recommender system work. It's notable feature was a relatively large user-generated tag base for recommendation, a very usualy feature especailly at that time.
Work on using visual landmarks for pose estimation.
We have look at several variants of this and the following
CVPR 2001 paper (postscript, gz)
uses generative models.
Initial work on reconstruction of depth images from intensity data
with Luz-Abril Torres Mendez, from
the proc. IEEE Workshop of Applications of Computer Vision 2002
(PDF file). (Starting paper, see
newer
papers for better results.)
With Yiannis Rekleitis and Evangelos Milios, we
looked at using multiple robots to reduce errors during mapping.
This paper is
Multi-Robot Collaboration for Robust Exploration
(this link is for a PDF reprint from the
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2001).
A Taxonomy
for Multi-Agent Robotics. Combines a taxonomy, some new results,
and a survey of existing work. A preprint of this article can
be found as a PDF file (an older journal article that was retreaded and
updated for the book Robot Teams: From Diversity to Polymorphism, T. Balch and
L. E. Parker (Eds.), 2002).
Try our
movie recommendation system. Unmaintained. To use it, rate a few movies
that you like and dislike, and we'll try and provide some
additional suggestions to you. Not an active project.
Robotics
in the New
York Times. The 1998 perspective, still interesting. (Knight Ridder Syndicated, April 1999.)
