Anthony Cowley

PhD student. Functional roboticist.

GRASP Laboratory
Computer and Information Science Department
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Pennsylvania

email: acowley at seas.upenn.edu
advisor: C.J. Taylor

Publications

• A. Cowley, W. Marshall, B. Cohen, and C.J. Taylor "Depth Space Collision Detection for Motion Planning," in preparation.
• C.J. Taylor and A. Cowley, "Parsing indoor scenes using rgb-d imagery," in Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2012. pdf
• E. Steager, M. Sakar, C. Magee, M. Kennedy, A. Cowley, and V. Kumar, "Automated biomanipulation of single cells," in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Video, 2012. Best Video Finalist.
• A. Cowley and C.J. Taylor, "Stream-oriented robotics programming: The design of roshask," in Proceedings of the IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011. pdf code
• A. Cowley and C.J. Taylor, "Towards language-based verification of robot behaviors," in Proceedings of the IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011. pdf code
• C.J. Taylor and A. Cowley, "Segmentation and Analysis of RGB-D data," in Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), RGB-D Cameras Workshop, 2011. pdf
• M. Sakar, E.B. Steager, A. Cowley, V. Kumar, and G. Pappas, "Wireless manipulation of single cells using magnetic microtransporters," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010. Best Manipulation Paper Finalist. pdf
• A. Cowley, C.J. Taylor, and B. Southall, "Rapid multi-robot exploration with topometric maps," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010. pdf
• C.J. Taylor and A. Cowley, "Fast scene analysis using image and range data," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010.
• C.J. Taylor and A. Cowley, "Fast segmentation via randomized hashing," in British Machine Vision Conference, 2009. code
• A. Cowley and C.J. Taylor, "Distributed software transactional memory," in Proceedings of the Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop, 2009.
• A. Cowley, M.A. Hsieh, and C.J. Taylor, "Development of top-down analysis of distributed assembly tasks," in Proceedings of the 2009 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop, 2009.
• M.A. Hsieh, A. Cowley, V. Kumar, and C.J. Taylor, "Maintaining network connectivity and performance in robot teams," Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 25, no. 1-2, pp. 111-131, 2008.
• A. Cowley and C.J. Taylor, "Orchestrating Concurrency in Robot Swarms," in Proceedings of the IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2007.
• A. Cowley, L. Chaimowicz, and C.J. Taylor, Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics, vol. 30 of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, ch. "ROCI: Strongly Typed Component Interfaces for Multi-robot Teams Programming", pp. 169-182. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2007.
• M.A. Hsieh, L. Chaimowicz, A. Cowley, B. Grocholsky, J.F. Keller, V. Kumar, C.J. Taylor, Y. Endo, R.C. Arkin, B. Jung, D.F. Wolf, G. Sukhatme, and D.C. MacKenzie, "Adaptive teams of autonomous aerial and ground robots for situational awareness," Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 24, no. 11-12, pp. 991-1014, 2007.
• A. Cowley, L. Chaimowicz, and C.J. Taylor, "Design Minimalism in Robotics Programming," International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 3, pp. 31-37, March 2006.
• A. Cowley, H. Hsu, and C.J. Taylor, "Opening the Dialog," in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 2775-2781, 2006.
• M.A. Hsieh, A. Cowley, V. Kumar, and C.J. Taylor, "Towards the Deployment of a Mobile Robot Network with End-To-End Performance Guarantees," in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 2085-2091, 2006.
• A. Cowley, M.A. Hsieh, J. Keller, V. Kumar, and C.J. Taylor, "Situational Awareness," in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Video, 2006.
• V. Kumar, A. Cowley, L. Chaimowicz, B. Grocholsky, M.A. Hsieh, J. Keller, and C.J. Taylor, "Adaptive Network of Heterogeneous Ground and Aerial Vehicles for Situational Awareness," in Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Video, 2006.
• L. Chaimowicz, A. Cowley, D. Gomez-Ibanez, B. Grocholsky, H. Hsu, J.F. Keller, V. Kumar, R. Swaminathan, and C.J. Taylor, "Deploying Air-Ground Multi-Robot Teams in Urban Environments," in Proceedings of the 2005 International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, 2005.
• A. Cowley, H. Hsu, and C.J. Taylor, "Software Design for Distributed Sensing and Computing Tasks," in Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5609 Mobile Robots XVII, pp. 135-144, 2004.
• A. Cowley, H. Hsu, and C.J. Taylor, "Distributed Sensor Databases for Multi-Robot Teams," in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2004.
• A. Cowley, H. Hsu, and C.J. Taylor, "Modular Programming Techniques for Distributed Computing Tasks," in Proceedings of the 2004 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop, 2004.
• L. Chaimowicz, A. Cowley, V. Sabella, and C.J. Taylor, "ROCI: A Distributed Framework for Multi-Robot Perception and Control," in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 266-271, 2003.

Talks

• "My types depend on my robots: My robots depend on my types," in Off the Beaten Track (co-located with POPL 2012).