Presentations

2004

• "Using Simulations of Advanced Life Support Systems to Develop Integrated Control Algorithms," Habitation 2004 Conference, Orlando Florida, 2004.
• "Simulating Advanced Life Support Systems to Test Integrated Control Approaches," Congress on Space Research 2004, Paris, France, 2004.

2003

• "Layered Architectures for Controlling Real-World Agents," invited talk, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas, October 2003.
• "Integrated, Autonomous Control of Advanced Life Support Systems," invited talk, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, September, 2003.
• "Worlds to Explore: Autonomy Challenges for Human Space Flight," invited talk, Bowdoin College, September, 2003.
• "Advantages of Hierarchical, Centralized Architectures for Controlling Real-World Systems," invited talk NASA Advanced System Integration and Control Workshop, Monterey CA, August 2003.
• "An Advanced Life Support Simulation for Integrated Controls Research," invited talk NASA Advanced System Integration and Control Workshop, Monterey CA, August 2003.

2002

• "Space Robotics Capabilities, (with Liam Pedersen)," Workshop on In-Space Construction and Maintenance of Complex Science Facilities, College Park MD, May 2002.
• "Using Machine Learning to Control Coupled Dynamical Life Support Systems," invited talk, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas, May 2002.

2001

• "Space Robotics Capabilities," invited talk, AI Seminar, Linkoping University, Linkoping Sweden, December 2001.
• "Space Robotics Capabilities," (with Liam Pedersen), ICASE/USRA/LaRC Workshop on Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts for Human/Robotic Exploration of the Solar System, Langley VA, November 2001.

2000

• "Distributed Adaptive Control of Advanced Life Support Systems," invited talk, RIACS Workshop on Validation and Verification of Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Pacific Grove CA, December 2000.
• "Evaluating Machine Learning Approaches to Control of Advanced Life Support Systems," NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA, December 2000.
• Robots Around the World and in Space," invited talk, University of Texas, Pan-American, McAllen TX, November 2000.
• Intelligent Robots for Space Applications," invited talk, 9th International Seminar on Informatics, Tampico Mexico, October, 2000.

1999

• "Integrating Active Perception with an Autonomous Robot Architecture," invited talk, University of Virginia Computer Science Department, Charlottesville VA, June, 1999.
• "Adjustable Autonomy Issues in Intelligent Robot Control," The Robotics Institute Seminar Series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, January, 1999.

1998

• "An Architecture for Autonomous Space Robots," invited talk, University of Texas at Arlington Computer Science Department, Arlington, TX, January, 1998.

1997

• "Integrating Active Perception with an Autonomous Robot Architecture," invited talk, Rice University Computer Science Department, Houston TX, November, 1997.
• "Recognizing and Interpreting Gestures on a Mobile Robot," invited talk, Daimler-Benz Research Center, Ulm, Germany, July, 1997.
• "Integrating a Behavior-based Approach to Active Stereo Vision with an Intelligent Control Architecture for Mobile Robots," invited talk, SFB-527 Symposium on Hybrid Information Processing in Adaptive Autonomous Vehicles, Reisensburg, Germany, July, 1997.
• "Integrating Stereo-based Active Vision and Intelligent Control on a Mobile Robot," invited seminar, Naval Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., April, 1997.
• "An Automomous Flying Camera for Inspection and EVA Assistance," invited talk, NASA Highly Autonomous Systems Workshop, Pasadena, California, April 1997.
• "Experiences with a Architecture for Intelligent, Reactive Robots," invited talk, ProTem-CC/NSF Joint Workshop on Intelligent Robotic Agents, Porto Allegre, Brazil, March 1997.

1996

• "Using Active Vision Techniques and Intelligent Control Architectures to Create Human/Robot Teams," invited talk, Carnegie Mellon University Artificial Intelligence Seminar, October 1996.
• "Integrating Planning and Robot Control," invited talk, AAAI-96 Workshop on Theories of Action, Planning and Robot Control: Bridging the Gap, August 1996.
• "Experiences with a Hierarchical Software Architecture for Combining Reactivity and Deliberation in Autonomous Robots," invited talk, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on Robotic Planning and Execution, April, 1996.
• "Perceptual and Architectural Considerations for Human/Robot Teams," invited talk, The University of Chicago Artificial Intelligence Seminar, January, 1996.