M. ANI HSIEH Visiting Assistant Professor, Engineering Department, Swarthmore College

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1 M. ANI HSIEH Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Chestnut St, Randell (office) Philadelphia, PA (lab) U.S.A. Permanent Resident EDUCATION Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering 2007 Thesis: Motion Control Strategies for Networked Robot Teams in Environments with Obstacles University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Advised by Vijay Kumar M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering 2005 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA B.S. Engineering 1999 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA B.A. Economics 1999 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2014-present Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University Visiting Assistant Professor, Engineering Department, Swarthmore College Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania Engineer, R. W. Beck AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 2013 National Science Foundation CAREER Award for proposal entitled CAREER: A New Paradigm in Control and Coordination of Robot Teams in Geophysical Flows 2012 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award for proposal entitled Collaborative Robots in Geophysical Flows: Understanding How Local Measurements Imply Global Structures ONR Summer Research Faculty, Naval Research Laboratory, June-Sept 2011 Best Paper Award, the 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS 2010), Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2010 Research Co-op Award, Drexel University, 2010 The John A. Goff Prize, University of Pennsylvania, 2007 Mechanical Engineering Teaching Award, University of Pennsylvania ( ) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Professional Society Membership Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Editorship Editorial Member, Swarm Intelligence, 2013-present

2 2 of 10 Associate Editor, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 Associate Editor, Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2012-present Guest Editor, Journal of Field Robotics Special Issue on Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC), Vol 29, Issue 5, September/October 2012 Associate Editor, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Associate Editor, 14th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, Cambridge, MA USA, 2009 Conference and Workshop Organization Interactive Session Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA USA, 2015 Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, Marrakech/Essaouira, Morocco, 2014 Interactive Session Chair, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, IL USA, 2014 Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Linkoping, Sweden, 2013 Co-Organizer IEEE/NSF CASE Workshop on Cloud Manufacturing and Automation, Madison, WI USA, 2013 Co-Organizer, NRI Workshop on Cloud Robotics, Philadelphia, PA USA, 2013 Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), College Station, TX USA, 2012 Program Chair, 11th Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS), Baltimore, MD USA, 2012 Poster Session Chair, Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS), College Park, MD USA, 2012 Program Committee, Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS), College Park, MD USA, 2012 Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), Brussels, Belgium, 2010, 2012 Travel Award Committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Travel Award Committee, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Program Committee, 12th Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems Conference (TAROS), Sheffield, UK, 2011 Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 2011 Program Committee, 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS), Brussels, Belgium, 2010 Technical Co-Chair, 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010 Publication Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK USA, 2010 Registration Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, CA USA, 2008 Reviewer National Science Foundation, Fall 2008, Winter 2009, Spring 2009, Winter 2013 Journals: IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), Swarms Intelligence (SI), Journal of Field Robotics (JFR), Robotica, Physica A, Asian Journal of Control, Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics (JIST), and ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics. Conferences and Workshops: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS), and IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC). INVITED LECTURES, SEMINARS, AND COLLOQUIA Technical University of Munich, PLUS Workshop, Munich, Germany Oct 6, 2014 Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering, West Lafayette, IN Apr 23, 2014 MIT, Mechanical Engineering, Boston, MA Mar 31, 2014 University of Michigan, Mechanical Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI Mar 24, 2014

3 3 of 10 Virginia Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA Mar Mar 19, 2014 Columbia University, Mechanical Engineering, New York, NY Mar 6, 2014 University of Delaware, Mechanical Engineering, Newark, DE Feb 26, 2014 Purdue University, Aerospace Engineering, West Lafayette, IN, Feb 20, 2014 Boston University, Mechanical Engineering, Boston, MA, Jan 17, 2014 Rutgers University, Computer Science Department, New Brunswick, NJ USA, Nov 18, 2013 Yale University, New Haven, CT USA, Aug 2, 2013 ASME Drexel Student Chapter, Philadelphia, PA, May 15, 2013 Johns Hopkins CTY Science and Technology Series, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, May 11, 2013 IEEE Philadelphia Chapter, Philadelphia, PA, May 7, 2013 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Apr 19, 2013 Temple University, NSF CAREER Workshop, Mar 15, 2013 Boston University, Boston, MA, Mar 1, 2013 University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, Feb 11, 2013 University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA, Dec 14, 2012 Harvard University, Boston, MA USA, Oct 25, 2012 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA, Oct 15, 2012 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA, Oct 2, 2012 Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ USA, Apr 11, 2012 Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC USA, Apr 9, 2012 École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, May 8, 2012 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA, Mar 29, 2012 AAAI Symposium AI, The Fundamental Social Aggregation Challenge, and the Autonomy of Hybrid Agent Groups, Palo Alto, CA USA, Mar 27, 2012 Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA USA, Mar 24, 2012 College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ USA, Nov 11, 2011 Rutgers University, Mechanical Engineering Department, New Brunswick, NJ USA, Nov 2, 2011 Zif Workshop on Swarm Intelligence and Critical Behavior, Bielefeld, Germany, Mar 22-24, 2011 University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, CA USA, Feb 28, 2011 Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea, Feb. 22, 2011 University of West Virginia (UWV), Morgantown, WV USA, Oct 21, 2010 Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ USA, Mar 10, 2010 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Washington, DC USA, Jun 29, 2010 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA USA, Oct 22, 2009 Villanova University, Villanova, PA USA, Jan 25, 2008 TEACHING Courses Developed and Taught at Drexel University MEM666-7 Advanced Dynamics I and II (F 2014, W 2015) MEM800 Math Fundamentals in Robotics/Applied Autonomous Robots (S 2013, W 2014) MEM355 Performance Enhancement of Dynamic Systems (S 2009, F 2010, S 2011, F 2013, S 2014) MEM456/380 Robotics II/Mobile Robots II/Applied Autonomous Robots II (W 2009, W 2010, W 2012, W 2013) MEM455/380 Introduction to Robotics/Applied Autonomous Robots I (F 2008, F 2009, S 2010, W 2011, F 2012) Courses Developed and Taught at Swarthmore College E058 Control Theory and Design(S 2008) E028 Mobile Robotics (S 2008) E091 Dynamics (F 2007) E015 Fundamentals of Digital Systems Laboratory (F 2007) MENTORING Doctoral Students 1. John Alexander, Ph.D., Estimated, Jun Dennis Larkin, Ph.D., Estimated, Jun 2015

4 4 of James Worcester, Ph.D., Estimated, Dec T. William Mather, Ph.D., An Ensemble Approach Towards Dynamics Task Assignment for Many Robot Systems, Jun 2013 B.S./M.S. and Masters Students 1. Matthew Michini, M.S., Tracking of Manifolds and Coherent Structures in Flows: Simulations and Experiments, Jun T. James Milligan, B.S./M.S., Collaborative Localization for Small Networked Robot Teams, Estimated, Jun Joshua Rogoff, B.S./M.S., Distributed Assembly Strategies for Teams of Autonomous Robots, Jun 2011 Doctoral and M.S. Student Committee Membership Hossein Rastgoftar (MEM, Ph.D., Anticipated 2015) Kiwon Sohn (MEM, Ph.D., Anticipated 2014) Eric Peterson (MEM, Ph.D., Anticipated 2014) Robert Ellenberg (MEM, Ph.D., 2014) Youngbum Jun (MEM, Ph.D. 2014) Dal Hyung Kim (MEM, Ph.D. 2013) Heeten Choxi (CS, M.S. 2013) Keith Sevcik (MEM, Ph.D. 2009) James Hing (MEM, Ph.D. 2009) Edward Steager (MEM, Ph.D. 2009) Kyle Usbe (CS, M.S. 2009) External Examination Committee 1. Johannes Strom, Ph.D., Communication-aware state estimation and collaboration for multi-robot teams, University of Michigan, (Anticipated 2016) 2. Kristiyan Georgiev, Ph.D., Realtime Mapping and Scene Reconstruction Based on Mid-Level Geometric Features, Temple University, (Jul 2014) 3. Victor Kuo, Ph.D., Enabling Parallel Wireless Communication in Mobile Robot Teams, University of Sydney, (Jul 2013) 4. Dean Galarowicz, M.S., An RGB-D Camera Based Online Error Correction System for Autonomous Robotic Assembly, University of New Mexico, (Aug 2013) 5. Grégory Mermoud, Ph.D., Design, Modeling and Optimization of Stochastic Reactive Distributed Robotic Systems, École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL), (May 2012) 6. Ke Xu, Ph.D., Integrating Centralized and Decentralized Approaches for Multi-Robot Coordination, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ USA (May 2010) Undergraduate Students Senior Design Teams: 2014 Krishna Baweja (MEM), Stephen Brennan (MEM), Jeremy Lim (ECE), Stephen Mich (MEM) 2014 Thanh Nguyen (MEM), Jaymeen Shah (MEM), Vincent Truong (MEM), Dayu Zhang (MEM) 2014 Tyler Aaron (MEM), John Burchmore (MEM), Ian DeOrio (ECE), Jeff Gao (MEM) 2013 Devashish Bhargava (MEM), Zhijian Liang (MEM), Christine Nolan (MEM), Wei Yi (ECE), Yongping Zhou (MEM) 2013 Alicia Andrescavage (MEM), Joseph Boales (MEM), Carol Engel (MEM), Michael Oake (MEM) 2013 Lara Branco (MEM), Andrew Ellenberg (MEM), Alison Krick (MEM) (Co-Advised) 2013 Arturs Berg (MEM), Thomas Boyd (ECE), Kevin Hall (ECE), Marko Jacovic (ECE) (Co-Advised) 2012 Derya Teoman (MEM), Nidhi Sinha (MEM), Satyam Singh (MEM) (Co-Advised) 2011 Robert DeRose (ECE), Peterson Fortune (MEM), Lamine Kone (ECE), Jamal Morris (MEM) 2010 Christopher Berry (ECE), Theodore Bieniosek (MEM), Houstin Lichtenwalner (ECE), Derek Mitchell (MEM) 2009 Jason Czop (MEM), Jeff Grabner (ECE), Glenn Gilroy (ECE), Matthew Minnick (MEM), Ansar Tavir (ECE) Freshmen Design: 2013 Zachary Block, Patrick Cross, Casey Hungler 2012 Justin Agren, Stephen Calabro, Jared Pagats, Zachary Palanker 2012 Amanda Fowler, Daniel Lamando, Daniel S. Lewis, Nathan Massouda, Sameer Patel 2011 Christian Guzman, Eric Angell, Cody Maust, Melissa Bloecker, Mike Setaro 2011 Ian Adam, Zain Abdul Wahid, Joe Laschenski, Mike Lucas Undergraduate Research: Stephanie Teleski (MEM Hess Scholar 2013), Matthew Annen (MEM Hess Scholar 2010), Michael Heffner (MEM Hess Scholar 2010), James Milligan (MEM Hess Scholar ), Mickey

5 5 of 10 Whitzer (MEM Hess Scholar 2010), Joshua Rogoff (MEM Hess Scholar ), Theodore Bienosek (MEM Hess Scholar, 2008), Nicholas Kitten (2008) Research Co-op: Christopher Braun (MEM 2010), David Kumpf (MEM 2012) REU and Summer Research: Riusen Liu (Swarthmore College, 2014), Victoria Edwards (Colby College, 2014), Alexandra Abad (Cornell University, 2013), Malcom Augat (Swarthmore College, 2009), Kevin Pastore (Worcester Polytechnique Institute, 2010), Seth Foster (Swarthmore College, 2012) FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS 1. Office of Naval Research, Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, Multi-Robot Fluid Tracking Testbed for DOD Supported Research in Tracking and Identification of Coherent Structures in Geophysical Flows, PI, National Science Foundation, Workshop on Cloud Robotics and Real-Time Big Data, PI, 02/15/2013-1/31/ National Science Foundation, CAREER: A New Paradigm in Control and Coordination of Robot Teams in Geophysical Flows, PI, 02/01/ /31/ Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Program, Collaborative Robots in Geophysical Flows: Understanding How Local Measurements Imply Global Structures, PI, 09/01/ /31/ National Science Foundation, Student Travel for PerMIS2012, PI, 04/01/ /31/ National Science Foundation, CRI II-NEW: MM-SISTR - Infrastructure for Enabling Mobile-Manipulation Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (MM-UAV) Research and Design, co-pi [w/ Paul Oh (PI), James Tangorra, and Jin Kang], 07/01/ /30/ National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: International: US-Brazil Multi-Robot Systems for Large Scale Cooperative Tasks, PI [w/ Rafael Fierro], 09/15/ /14/ National Science Foundation, EAGER: Ensemble Design of Resource-Aware Control Strategies for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems, PI, 09/15/ /31/ National Science Foundation, MRI-R2: Development of Common Platform for Unifying Humanoids Research, Senior Personnel [w/ Youngmoo Kim (PI), Stefan Schaal, Yury Gogotsi, William Regli, Dennis Hong], 07/01/ /30/ Korean Ministry of Knowledge, via ETRI, Probabilistic Task Assignment in Real World Environments, PI at Drexel [w/ Young-Jo Cho (ETRI) and Nak Young Chong (JAIST)], 09/01/ /30/ Mathworks, Inc., Integration of High Fidelity 3-D Simulation Environments for Robotics Education, PI, 07/01/ /30/2012. PUBLICATIONS Refereed Journal Publications J1. C. Heckman, M. A. Hsieh, and I. B. Schwartz. Toward Efficient Navigation in Uncertain Gyre-Like Flows, Submitted to International Journal of Robotics Research: Special Issue on ISER 2014, Under Review. J2. J. Worcester and M. A. Hsieh. Task Partitioning with Cooperative Manipulation for Distributed Assembly, Submitted to Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), Under Review. J3. C. Heckman, M. A. Hsieh, and I. B. Schwartz. Going with the flow: enhancing stochastic switching rates in multigyre systems, Accepted for Publication in the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control: Special Issue on Stochastic Models, Control, and Algorithms in Robotics. J4. M. Michini, M. A. Hsieh, E. Forgoston, and I. B. Schwartz. Robotic Tracking of Coherent Structures in Flows, IEEE Trans. on Robotics, Vol. PP, No. 99, 1-11, J5. T. W. Mather and M. A. Hsieh. Synthesis and Analysis of Distributed Ensemble Control Strategies for Allocation to Multiple Tasks, Robotica: Special Issue Distributed Autonomous Systems (DARS), Vol. 32, No. 2, , 2014.

6 6 of 10 J6. J. Worcester, R. Lakaemper, and M. A. Hsieh. Distributed Assembly with Online Workload Balancing and Visual Error Detection and Correction, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1-13, J7. K. Mallory, M. A. Hsieh, E. Forgoston, and I. B. Schwartz. Distributed Allocation of Mobile Sensing Swarms in Gyre Flows, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., Vol. 20, No. 5, , J8. T. W. Mather and M. A. Hsieh. Macroscopic Modeling of Stochastic Deployment Policies with Time Delays for Robot Ensembles, International Journal of Robotics Research: Special Issue on Stochasticity in Robotics & Biological Systems, Part 1, Vol. 30, No. 5, Apr J9. S. Berman, A. Halasz, M. A. Hsieh, V. Kumar. Optimal Stochastic Policies for Task Allocation in Swarms of Robots, Vol 25, Issue 4, Transactions on Robotics, pp , J10. J. Derenick, J. Spletzer and M. A. Hsieh. An Optimal Approach to Collaborative Target Tracking with Performance Guarantees, Vol. 56, No. 1-2, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, pp 47-67, J11. M. A. Hsieh, A. Halasz, S. Berman, and V. Kumar. Biologically Inspired Redistribution of a Swarm of Robots Among Multiple Sites, Swarm Intelligence, Vol. 2, No. 2-4, Dec 2008, pp J12. M. A. Hsieh, V. Kumar and L. Chaimowicz. Decentralized Controllers for Shape Generation with Robotic Swarms, Robotica, Vol. 26, Issue 5, Sept 2008, pp J13. M. A. Hsieh, A. Cowley, V. Kumar and C.J. Taylor. Maintaining Network Connectivity and Performance in Robot Teams, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 26, Issue 1-2, Jan 2008, pp J14. 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, Issue 11-12, Nov 2007, pp Book Chapter B1. M. A. Hsieh and G. Chirikjian (Eds.). The 11th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol 104, Springer B2. M. A. Hsieh and T. W. Mather. Robustness in the Presence of Task Differentiation in Robot Ensembles, in Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems, eds. D. Milutinovic and J. Rosen, Springer Berlin Heidelberg B3. S. Berman, A. Halasz, and M. A. Hsieh. Ant-Inspired Allocation: Top-Down Controller Design for Distributing a Robot Swarm among Multiple Tasks, Bio-inspired Computing and Communication Networks, Eds. Y. Xiao and F. Hu, Auerbach Publications, CRC Press Refereed Conference Papers C1. V. Digani, M. A. Hsieh, L. Sabattini, and C. Secchi, A Quadratic Programming Framework for Coordinating Multi-AGV Systems, submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2015), May 2015, Seattle, WA USA. C2. D. Kularatne, R. N. Smith, and M. A. Hsieh, Zig-Zag Wanderer: Towards Adaptive Tracking of Time-Varying Coherent Structures in the Ocean, submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2015), May 2015, Seattle, WA USA. C3. M. Michini, M. A. Hsieh, E. Forgoston, and I. B. Schwartz, Experimental Validation of Robotic Manifold Tracking in Gyre-Like Flows, in the Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2014), Sep 2014, Chicago, IL USA. C4. D. Larkin, M. Michini, A. Abad, S. Teleski, and M. A. Hsieh, Design of the multi-robot Coherent Structure Testbed (mcoste) for Distributed Tracking of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, accepted to the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Aug 2014, Buffalo, NY USA.

7 7 of 10 C5. C. R. Heckman, M. A. Hsieh, and I. B. Schwartz, Controlling Basin Breakout for Robots Operating in Uncertain Flow Environments, in the Proc. of the 2014 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2014), Jun 2014, Marrkech/Essaouira, Morocco. C6. M. Michini, H. Rastgoftar, M. A. Hsieh, and S. Jayasuriya, Distributed Formation Control for Collaborative Tracking of Manifolds in Flows, in the Proc. of the 2014 American Control Conference (ACC 2014), Jun 2014, Portland, Oregon USA. C7. M. A. Hsieh, K. Mallory, E. Forgoston, and I. B. Schwartz, Distributed Allocation of Mobile Sensing Agents in Geophysical Flows, in the Proc. of the 2014 American Control Conference (ACC 2014), Jun 2014, Portland, Oregon USA. C8. M. Michini, K. Mallory, D. Larkin, M. A. Hsieh, E. Forgoston, and P. A. Yecko. An Experimental Testbed for Multi-Robot Tracking of Manifolds and Coherent Structures in Flows, in the Proc. of the 2013 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Oct 2013, Palo Alto, CA USA. C9. J. Milligan, M. A. Hsieh, and L. Chaimowicz. Vision-Based Cooperative Localization for Small Networked Robot Teams, in the Proc. of the 14th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2013), Aug 2013, Oxford, UK. C10. J. Worcester and M. A. Hsieh. Task Partitioning via Ant Colony Optimization for Distributed Assembly, in the Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2012), Sep, 2012, Brussels, Belgium. C11. T. W. Mather and M. A. Hsieh. Ensemble Modeling and Control for Congestion Management in Automated Warehouses, (Finalist, Best Student Paper), in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2012), Aug 2012, Seoul, Korea. C12. P. Abichandani, K. Mallory, and M. A. Hsieh. Experimental Multi-Vehicle Path Coordination under Communication Connectivity Constraints, in the Proc. of the 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER2012), Jun 2012, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. C13. J. Worcester, R. Lakaemper, and M. A. Hsieh. 3-Dimensional Tiling for Distributed Assembly by Robot Teams, in the Proc. of the 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER2012), Jun 2012, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. C14. M. A. Hsieh, E. Forgoston, T. W. Mather, and I. B. Schwartz. Robotic Manifold Tracking of Coherent Structures in Flows, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2012), May 2012, St. Paul, MN, USA. C15. T. W. Mather and M. A. Hsieh. Ensemble Synthesis of Distributed Control and Communication, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2012), May 2012, St. Paul, MN, USA. C16. J. Worcester, J. Rogoff, and M. A. Hsieh. Constrained Task Partitioning for Distributed Assembly, in the Proc. of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2011), Sep 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA. C17. T. W. Mather and M. A. Hsieh. Distributed Robot Ensemble Control for Deployment to Multiple Sites, in the Proc. of the 2011 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Jun-Jul 2011, Los Angeles, CA USA. C18. T. W. Mather, C. Braun, and M. A. Hsieh. Distributed Filtering for Time-Delayed Deployment to Multi-Sites, Best Paper, in the Proc. of the 10th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems (DARS 2010), Nov 2010, Lausanne, Switzerland. C19. M. A. Hsieh and J. Rogoff. Complexity Measures for Distributed Assembly Tasks, in the Proc. of the 2010 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS10), Sep 2010, Baltimore, MD, USA. C20. T. W. Mather, M. A. Hsieh, and E. Frazzoli. Towards Dynamic Team Formation for Robot Ensembles, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2010), May 2010, Anchorage, AK, USA.

8 8 of 10 C21. A. Cowley, M. A. Hsieh, and C. J. Taylor. Development of Top-Down Analysis of Distributed Assembly Tasks, in the Proc. of the 2009 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS09), Sep 2009, Washington, D.C., USA. C22. M. A. Hsieh, A. Halasz, E. D. Cubuk, S. Schoenholz, and A. Martinoli. Specialization as an Optimal Strategy Under Varying External Conditions, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 09), May 2009, Kobe, Japan. C23. S. Berman, A. Halasz, M. A. Hsieh, and V. Kumar. Navigation-Based Optimization of Stochastic Deployment Strategies for a Robot Swarm to Multiple Sites, in the Proc. of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 08), Dec 2008, Cancun, Mexico, pp C24. J. Fink, M. A. Hsieh, and V. Kumar. Multi-Robot Manipulation via Caging in Environments with Obstacles, in the Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA08), May 2008, Pasedena, CA, USA, pp C25. J. Derenick, J. Spletzer, and M. A. Hsieh. A Graph Theoretic Approach to Optimal Target Tracking for Mobile Robot Teams, in the Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 07), Oct-Nov 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, pp C26. A. Halasz, M. A. Hsieh, S. Berman, and V. Kumar. Dynamic Redistribution of a Swarm of Robots Among Multiple Sites, in the Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 07), Oct-Nov 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, pp C27. M. A. Hsieh, S. Loizou and V. Kumar. Stabilization of Multiple Robots on Stable Orbits via Local Sensing, in the Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 07), Apr 2007, Rome, Italy, pp C28. M. A. Hsieh and V. Kumar. Pattern Generation with Multiple Robots, in the Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 06), May 2006, Orlando, FL, USA, pp C29. 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 the Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 06), Apr-May 2006, Orlando, FL, USA, pp C30. L. Chaimowicz, A. Cowley, D. Gomez-Ibanez, B. Grocholsky, M. A. Hsieh, H. Hsu, J. F. Keller, V. Kumar, R. Swaminathan, and C. J. Taylor, Deploying Air-Ground Multi-Robot Teams in Urban Environments, in the Proc. of the 2005 International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, Mar 2005, Washington DC, USA, pp C31. M. A. Hsieh, P. Srivastava, V. Kumar, and C.J. Taylor. Composable Communication Constraint Based Control, in the Proc. SPIE Optics East 2004, Oct 2004, Philadelphia, PA. C32. M. A. Hsieh, V. Kumar, and C.J. Taylor. Constructing Radio Signal Strength Maps with Multiple Robots, in the Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 04), Apr 2004, New Orleans, LA, USA, pp Patents P1. M. A. Hsieh, E. Forgoston, and I.B. Schwartz. Collaborative Robot Manifold Tracker, Application No. 101,738 and 101,738-US3

9 REFERENCES FOR M. ANI HSIEH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DREXEL UNIVERSITY 1. Professor Vijay Kumar UPS Foundation Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Pennsylvania Towne S. 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA Phone: Fax: Professor Gaurav S. Sukhatme Professor and Chairman Department of Computer Science University of Southern California MC 2905 Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH 405) 3710 South McClintock Avenue Los Angeles, California Phone: Fax: Dr. Ira B. Schwartz Head, Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Section Code 6792 Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC Phone: Alternate 4. Professor Alcherio Martinoli Associate Professor Director of the Doctoral Program in Robotics and Manufacturing Systems Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) EPFL ENAC IIE DISAL GR A2 454 (Btiment GR) Station 2 CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland Phone: +( ) or alcherio.martinoli@epfl.ch 5. Phil A. Yecko Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics Director, Science Honors Innovation Program Department of Mathematical Sciences Montclair State University 1 Normal Avenue Montclair, New Jersey USA Phone: Fax: yeckop@mail.montclair.edu

10 6. Professor Lynne Molter (Teaching) Professor of Engineering 500 College Ave. Swarthmore, PA Office Phone: Lab Phone: M. Ani Hsieh 10 of 10