Research interests: Analysis and synthesis of bio-inspired controllers for swarm robotic systems
spring at seas dot upenn dot edu
2005- Phd candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Advisor: Prof. Vijay Kumar
2008 M.S.E, University of Pennsylvania
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
2001-2005 B.S.E., Princeton University, summa cum laude
Major: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Certificate in Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Senior Thesis: Estimation of Ocean Field Decorrelation Scales for the Design of Underwater Glider Sampling Trajectories
Advisor: Prof. Naomi Leonard
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2005-2007)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2007-2010)
University of Pennsylvania Ashton Scholarship
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
Biologically Inspired Redistribution of a Swarm of Robots Among Multiple Sites.
M. Ani Hsieh, Adam Halasz, Spring Berman, and Vijay Kumar.
Special Issue of the Swarm Intelligence Journal, 2008.
Optimal Stochastic Policies for Task Allocation in Swarms of Robots.
Spring Berman, Adam Halasz, M. Ani Hsieh, and Vijay Kumar.
Under review for IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2008.
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 2008.
Stochastic Strategies for a Swarm Robotic Assembly System.
Loic Matthey, Spring Berman, and Vijay Kumar.
Submitted to the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'09), Kobe, Japan.
Navigation-Based Optimization of Stochastic Deployment Strategies for a Robot Swarm to Multiple Sites.
Spring Berman, Adam Halasz, M. Ani Hsieh, and Vijay Kumar.
Accepted to 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.