Research interests: Swarm robotics, bio-inspired control of multi-robot systems
Education: I have been a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania since 2005. My advisor is Prof. Vijay Kumar. I received the B.S.E. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a certificate in Robotics and Intelligent Systems from Princeton University in 2005.
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Optimized Stochastic Policies for Task Allocation in Swarms of Robots
Spring Berman, Adam Halasz, M. Ani Hsieh, and Vijay Kumar.
Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2009.
Biologically Inspired Redistribution of a Swarm of Robots Among Multiple Sites
M. Ani Hsieh, Adam Halasz, Spring Berman, and Vijay Kumar.
Swarm Intelligence, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 121-141, 2008.
Book Chapter
Ant-Inspired Allocation: Top-Down Controller Design for Distributing a Robot Swarm among Multiple Tasks
Spring Berman, Adam Halasz, and M. Ani Hsieh.
To appear in Bio-inspired Computing and Communication Networks, eds. Yang Xiao and Fei Hu, Auerbach Publications, CRC Press.
Abstractions and Algorithms for Assembly Tasks with Large Numbers of Robots and Parts
Spring Berman and Vijay Kumar.
To appear in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE'09), Bangalore, India.
Stochastic Strategies for a Swarm Robotic Assembly System
Loic Matthey, Spring Berman, and Vijay Kumar.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'09), Kobe, Japan.
Movies:
Navigation-Based Optimization of Stochastic Strategies for Allocating a Robot Swarm among Multiple Sites
Spring Berman, Adam Halasz, M. Ani Hsieh, and Vijay Kumar.
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC'08), Cancun, Mexico.
Dynamic Redistribution of a Swarm of Robots Among Multiple Sites
Adam Halasz, M. Ani Hsieh, Spring Berman, and Vijay Kumar.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'07), pp. 2320-2325, San Diego, CA.
Bio-Inspired Group Behaviors for the Deployment of a Swarm of Robots to Multiple Destinations
Spring Berman, Adam Halasz, Vijay Kumar, and Stephen Pratt.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'07), pp. 2318-2323, Rome, Italy.
MARCO: A Reachability Algorithm for Multi-Affine Systems with Applications to Biological Systems
Spring Berman, Adam Halasz, and Vijay Kumar.
International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'07). LNCS 4416, eds. A. Bemporad, A. Bicchi, G. Buttazzo. pp. 76-89, 2007.
Algorithms for the Analysis and Synthesis of a Bio-Inspired Swarm Robotic System
Spring Berman, Adam Halasz, Vijay Kumar, and Stephen Pratt.
9th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'06). LNCS 4433, eds. E. Sahin, W. Spears, A. Winfield. pp. 56-70, 2007.
Teaching
Fall 2006: TA for MEAM 321 - Vibrations of Mechanical Systems
Spring 2007: TA for MEAM 211 - Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics
Fall 2007: TA for MEAM 110 - Introduction to Mechanics
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2005-2007)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2007-2010)
University of Pennsylvania Ashton Scholarship