Anthony Cowley, PhD

Functional roboticist.

Serve Robotics
GRASP Laboratory

email: acowley at gmail.com

Publications

• A. Cowley, I. Miller, and C.J. Taylor UPSLAM: Union of Panoramas SLAM IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.
• I. Miller, A. Cowley, R. Konkimalla, S. Shivakumar, T. Nguyen, T. Smith, C. J. Taylor, and V. Kumar Any Way You Look At It: Semantic Crossview Localization and Mapping With Lidar IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Volume 6, 2021.
• I. Miller, F. Cladera, A. Cowley, S. Shivakumar, E. Lee, L. Jarin-Lipschitz, A. Bhat, N. Rodrigues, A. Zhou, A. Cohen, et al. "Mine Tunnel Exploration Using Multiple Quadrupedal Robots" IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Volume 5, 2020.
• D. Mox, A. Cowley, M. A. Hsieh, and C. J. Taylor "Information based exploration with panoramas and angle occupancy grids," to appear in Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, 2016.
• C.J. Taylor, A. Cowley, B. Niu, M. Gupta, R. Kettler, K. Ninomiya "Mapping with Depth Panoramas," Proceedings of the IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015.
• A. Cowley and C.J. Taylor "HOCL: A Family of Embedded Languages," Technical Report. pdf
• A. Cowley, B. Cohen, W. Marshall, C.J. Taylor, and M. Likhachev "Perception and Motion Planning for Pick-and-Place of Dynamic Objects," Proceedings of the IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013. pdf video
• E. Steager, M. Sakar, C. Magee, M. Kennedy, A. Cowley, and V. Kumar "Automated biomanipulation of single cells using magnetic microrobots," in The International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(3), 2013.
• A. Cowley, W. Marshall, B. Cohen, and C.J. Taylor "Depth Space Collision Detection for Motion Planning," Technical Report. pdf
• 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. pdf
• 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.

Invited Talks

• "Framing the Discussion with EDSLs," Boston Haskell, March 2015. video
• "Robots on Haskell," Compose Conference, January 2015. video
• "Rendering Solutions to Vision Problems," Lehigh University, December 2013.
• "Abstractions for the Functional Roboticist," New York Haskell Users Group, August 2013. video
• "Rendering Solutions to Vision Problems," University of New Mexico, April 2013.
• "My types depend on my robots: My robots depend on my types," in Off the Beaten Track (co-located with POPL 2012).