Rodney Brooks - Roboticist

Publications of Rodney Allen Brooks

Books

Articles in Referred Journals

  • Brooks, R.A., L. Aryananda, A. Edsinger, P. Fitzpatrick, C. Kemp, U.-M. O’Reilly, E. Torres-Jara, P. Varshavskaya and J. Weber, "Sensing and Manipulating Built-For-Human Environments", International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 1:1, March 2004, pp. 1–28.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Humanoid Robotics", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 3, March 2002, pp. 33 –38.
  • Brooks, R.A., "The Relationship Between Matter and Life", Nature, Vol. 409, January 18, 2001, pp. 409–411. (Invited)
  • Adams, B., Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney A. Brooks, Brian Scassellati, "Humanoid Robots: A New Kind of Tool", IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications: Special Issue on Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 15, No. 4, July/August 2000, pp. 25--31.
  • Brooks, R.A., Cynthia Breazeal, Matthew Marjanovic, Brian Scassellati, Matthew Williamson, "The Cog Project: Building a Humanoid Robot" in Computation for Metaphors, Analogy, and Agents. C. Nehaniv (ed), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1562. New York, Springer, 52–87, 1999.
  • Brooks, R.A., "The Cog Project", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Special Issue (Mini) on Humanoid, Vol. 15, No. 7, Toshihiro Matsui, editor, October 1997.
  • Brooks, R.A., "From Earwigs to Humans", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 20, Nos. 2–4, June 1997, pp. 291–304.
  • Udayakumar, K.R., J. Chen, A.M. Flynn, S.F. Bart, L.S. Tavrow, D.J. Ehrlich, L.E. Cross and R.A. Brooks, "Ferroelectric Thin Films for Piezoelectric Micromotors", Ferroelectrics, Vol. 160, 1994, pp. 347--356.
  • Brooks, R.A. and L.A. Stein, "Building Brains for Bodies", Autonomous Robots (1:1), November 1994, pp. 7–25.
  • Flynn, A. M., L. S. Tavrow, S. F. Bart, R. A. Brooks, D. J. Ehrlich, K. R. Udayakumar and L. E. Cross "Piezoelectric Micromotors for Microrobots", Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (1), March 1992, pp. 44–51.
  • Brooks, R. A., "New Approaches to Robotics", Science (253), September 1991, pp. 1227–1232.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Intelligence Without Representation", Artificial Intelligence Journal (47), 1991, pp. 139–159.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Integrated Systems Based on Behaviors", SIGART Bulletin (2:4), August 1991, pp. 46–50.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Elephants Don't Play Chess", Robotics and Autonomous Systems (6), 1990, pp. 3–15.
  • Brooks, R. A. and A. M. Flynn "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: A Robot Invasion of the Solar System", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, October 1989, pp. 478–485.
  • Flynn, A. M., R. A. Brooks, W. M. Wells III and D. S. Barrett "Intelligence for Miniature Robots", International Journal of Sensors and Actuators, Vol. 20, December 1989, pp. 187–196.
  • Brooks, R. A. "A Robot that Walks; Emergent Behavior from a Carefully Evolved Network", Neural Computation, 1:2, Summer 1989, pp. 253–262. Also in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Scottsdale, AZ, May 1989, pp. 292–296.
  • Brooks, R. A. "A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot", IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1986, pp. 14–23; also MIT AI Memo 864, September 1985.
  • Brooks, R. A. and T. Lozano-Pérez, "A Subdivision Algorithm in Configuration Space for Findpath with Rotation", IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC-15, March/April 1985, pp. 224–233. Also in Proceedings of 8th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 1983, pp. 799–806.
  • Brooks, R. A. "Planning Collision Free Motions for Pick and Place Operations", International Journal of Robotics Research, 2:4, December 1983, pp. 19–44.
  • Brooks, R. A. "Solving the Find-Path Problem by Good Representation of Free Space", IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC-13, 190–197, March 1983; also in Proceedings of 2nd Annual Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Pittsburgh, PA, August 1982, pp. 381–386.
  • Brooks, R. A. "Model-Based Three Dimensional Interpretations of Two Dimensional Images", IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 140–150, March 1983; also in Proceedings of 7th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, August 1981, pp. 619–624.
  • Brooks, R. A. "Symbolic Error Analysis and Robot Planning", International Journal of Robotics Research, 1:4, December 1982, pp. 29–68.
  • Brooks, R. A. "Symbolic Reasoning Among 3-D Models and 2-D Images", Artificial Intelligence Journal, 17, (1-3), 1981, pp. 285–348.

Proceedings of Refereed Conferences

  • Brooks, R.A, "Kunstliche Intelligenz und Roboter-Entwicklung (translation: Artificial Intelligence and Robot Development”), Proceedings of the Heinz Nixdorf Museum Paderborn Podium- Computer Gehirn: Was kann der Mensch? Was Konnen die Computer?, Ferdinand Shoningh Press, October, 2001, pp. 15–37.
  • Brooks, R.A., C. Breazeal (Ferrell), R. Irie, C. Kemp, M. Marjanovic, B. Scassellati and M. Williamson, "Alternate Essences of Intelligence", Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998, pp. 961--976.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Behaviour-based Robots for Dangerous and Difficult Environments", Proceedings of FSR '97, Canberra, Australia, December 1997.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Using Human Development as a Model for Adaptive Robotics", Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium of Robotics Research, edited by Y. Nakamura, Hayama, Japan, October 1997.
  • Lorigo, L.M., R.A. Brooks and W.E.L. Grimson, "Visually-Guided Obstacle Avoidance in Unstructured Environments", Proceedings of IROS '97, Grenoble, France, September 1997, pp. 373–379.
  • Brooks, R. A. with contributions from M. Coen, D. Dang, J. DeBonet, J. Kramer, T. Lozano-Perez, J. Mellor, P. Pook, C. Stauffer, L. Stein, M. Torrance and M. Wessler, "The Intelligent Room Project", Proceedings of the Second International Cognitive Technology Conference (CT'97), Aizu, Japan, August 1997.
  • Brooks, R.A. and Charles Rosenberg, "L –A Common Lisp for Embedded Systems", Association of Lisp Users Meeting and Workshop LUV'95, August, 1995.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Coherent Behavior from Many Adaptive Processes", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats 3, edited by D. Cliff, P. Husbands, J.A. Meyer and S. Wilson, Brighton, United Kingdom, MIT Press, August, 1994, pp. 22–29.
  • Brooks, R. A. and L.A. Stein, "Building Brains for Bodies", Proceedings of the AIAA/NASA Conference on Intelligent Robots for Factory, Field, Service, and Space, Houston, Texas, March 1994.
  • Brooks, R. A., "The Engineering of Physical Grounding", Proceedings of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boulder, Colorado, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., June 1993, pp. 153–154.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Artificial Life and Real Robots", Towards a Practice of Autonomous Systems: European Conference on Artifcial Life, Paris, France, MIT Press, December 1991, pp. 3–10.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Intelligence Without Reason", Proceedings of 12th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Sydney, Australia, August 1991, pp. 569–595.
  • Udayakumar, K. R., S. F. Bart, A. M. Flynn, J. Chen, L. S. Tavrow, L. E. Cross, R. A. Brooks, and D. J. Ehrlich, "Ferroelectric Thin Film Ultrasonic Micromotors", IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems: An Investigation of Micro Structures, Sensors, Actuators, Machines and Robots, Nara, Japan, January, 1991, pp. 109–113.
  • Flynn, A. M., L. S. Tavrow, S. F. Bart, R. A. Brooks, D. J. Ehrlich, K. R. Udayakumar and L. E. Cross, "Piezoelectric Micromotors for Microrobots", 1990 Ultrasonics Symposium, Honolulu, HI, December 1990.
  • Konishi, Mashide and R.A. Brooks, "Multiple Unfused Passive Sensors for Operating in Busy Indoor Environments", October 5, 1990.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Challenges for Complete Creature Architectures", First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Paris, France, September 1990, pp. 434–443.
  • Maes, P. and R. A. Brooks, "Learning to Coordinate Behaviors", AAAI, Boston, MA, August 1990, pp. 796–802.
  • Mataric, M. J. and R. A. Brooks, "Learning a Distributed Map Representation Based on Navigation Behaviors", Japan–USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, Kyoto, Japan, July 1990, pp. 499–506.
  • Brooks, R. A., P. Maes, M. J. Mataric and G. More, "Lunar Base Construction Robots", IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Tsuchiura, Japan, July 1990, pp. 389–392.
  • Angle, C. M. and R. A. Brooks, "Small Planetary Rovers", IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Tsuchiura, Japan, July 1990, pp. 383–388.
  • Flynn, A. M. and R. A. Brooks, "Building Robots: Expectations and Experiences", Proceedings IROS '89, Tskuba, Japan, September, 1989, pp. 236–243.
  • Flynn, A. M., R. A. Brooks, W. M. Wells and D. S. Barrett, "The World's Largest One Cubic Inch Robot", IEEE Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems Workshop, Salt Lake City, UT, February 1989, pp. 98–101.
  • Horswill, I. D. and R. A. Brooks, "Situated Vision in a Dynamic World: Chasing Objects", Proceedings AAAI, St. Paul, MN, August 1988, pp. 796–800.
  • Flynn, A. M. and R. A. Brooks, "MIT Mobile Robots —What's Next?", 1988 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Philadelphia, PA, April 1988, 611–-617.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Micro-Brains for Micro-Brawn; Autonomous Microbots", Proceedings IEEE Workshop on Micro Robots and Teleoperators, Hyannis, MA, IEEE Catalog No. 87TH0204-8, November 1987.
  • Brooks, R. A., A. M. Flynn and T. Marill, "Self Calibration of Motion and Stereo Vision for Mobile Robot Navigation", Fourth International Symposium of Robotics Research, Santa Cruz, CA, MIT Press, August 1987, pp. 267–276.
  • Brooks, R. A., "A Hardware Retargetable Distributed Layered Architecture for Mobile Robot Control", Proceedings of 1987 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Raleigh, NC, March 1987, pp. 106–110.
  • Cudhea, P. W., and R. A. Brooks, "Coordinating Multiple Goals for a Mobile Robot", Preprints of Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 1986, pp. 168–174.
  • Brooks, R. A., and J. Connell, "Asynchronous Distributed Control System for a Mobile Robot", Proceedings of SPIE's Cambridge Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Engineering, Cambridge, MA, October 1986, pp. 77–84.
  • Brooks, R. A., "A Robust Programming Scheme for a Mobile Robot", Proceedings of NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Languages for Sensor-Based Control in Robotics, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy, September 1986.
  • Brooks, R. A., J. H. Connell, and A. Flynn, "A Mobile Robot with Onboard Parallel Processor and Large Workspace Arm", Proceedings of Fifth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Philadelphia, PA, August 1986, pp. 1096–1100.
  • Brooks, R. A., D. B. Posner, J. L. McDonald, J. L. White, E. Benson, and R. P. Gabriel, "Design of An Optimizing, Dynamically Retargetable Compiler for Common Lisp", Proceedings of 1986 ACM Symposium on Lisp & Functional Programming, Cambridge, MA, August 1986, pp. 67–85.
  • Kuan, D. T., J. C. Zamiska, R. A. Brooks, "Natural Decomposition of Free Space for Path Planning", Proceedings of 1985 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Louis, MO, March 1985, pp. 168–173.
  • Kuan, D. T., R. A. Brooks, J. C. Zamiska and M. Das, "Automatic Path Planning for a Mobile Robot Using a Mixed Representation of Free Space", Proceedings IEEE First Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications, Denver, CO, December 1984, pp. 70–74.
  • Brooks, R. A. and R. P. Gabriel, "A Critique of Common Lisp", Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Lisp and Functional Programming, Austin, TX, August 1984, pp. 1–8.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Trading Data Space for Reduced Time and Code Space in Real-Time Garbage Collection on Stock Hardware", Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Lisp and Functional Programming, Austin, TX, August 1984, pp. 256–262.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Find-Path for a Puma-Class Robot", Proceedings of the Third Annual National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, D. C., August 1983, pp. 40–44.
  • Brooks, R. A., R. P. Gabriel and G. L. Steele, Jr., "Lisp--in--Lisp: High Performance and Portability", Proceedings of 8th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Karlsruhe, Germany, August 1983, pp. 845–849.
  • Brooks, R. A., R. P. Gabriel and G. L. Steele, Jr., "S-1 Common Lisp Implementation", Proceedings 1982 ACM Symposium on Lisp and Functional Programming, Pittsburgh, PA, August 1982, pp. 108–113.
  • Brooks, R. A., R. P. Gabriel and G. L. Steele, Jr., "An Optimizing Compiler for Lexically Scoped Lisp", Proceedings ACM Sigplan 1982 Symposium on Compiler Construction, Boston, MA, June 1982, pp. 261–275.
  • Binford, T. O., R. A. Brooks and D. Lowe, "Image Understanding via Geometric Models", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Miami, FL, December 1980, pp. 364–369.
  • Brooks, R. A. and T. O. Binford, "Interpretive Vision and Restriction Graphs", Proceedings of the First Annual National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stanford, CA, August 1980, pp. 21–27.
  • Brooks, R. A., R. Greiner and T. O. Binford, "The ACRONYM Model-Based Vision System", Proceedings of 6th Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Tokyo, Japan, August 1979, pp. 105–113.

Other Major Publications

  • Brooks, R.A. "The Robots are Here”, Technology Review, February 2004, p. 30.
  • Brooks, R.A. "Toward a Brain-Internet Link”, Technology Review, November 2003, p. 30.
  • Brooks, R.A. "Making Living Systems”, The New Humanists: Science at the Edge, John Brockman (editor), Barnes and Noble Books, 2003, pp. 169–176.
  • Brooks, R.A. "Building a Non-Human Intelligence”, Understanding Artificial Intelligence, from the editors of Scientific American, Inc., Warner Books, 2002, pp. vii–ix.
  • Brooks, R.A. "The Merger of Flesh and Machines”, The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century, John Brockman (editor), Vintage Books-Randomhouse, Inc., 2002, pp. 183–193.
  • Brooks, R.A, "Flesh and Machines”, The Invisible Future, Peter J. Denning (editor), McGraw-Hill, 2002, pp. 57–63.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Steps Towards Living Machines", Proceedings of the Evolutionary Robotics 2001 Symposium, LNCS 2217, Springer Press, October, 2001, pp. 72–93.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Toward Better Semisentient Robots", IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 16, No. 5, 2001, pp. 69.
  • Brooks, R.A., "From Robot Dreams to Reality", Nature, Vol. 406, August 31, 2000, pp. 945–947. (News and Views)
  • Brooks, R.A., C. Breazeal, B. Scassellati and U.-M. O'Reilly, "Technologies for Human/Humanoid Natural Interactions", HURO-99: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Humanoid Robots, Tokyo, Japan, 1999, pp. 135–147.
  • Brooks, R.A., Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Humanoid and Human Friendly Robotics, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, 1998, Section I-3, pp. 1–36.
  • Brooks, R.A., C. Breazeal (Ferrell), R. Irie, C. Kemp, M. Marjanovic, B. Scassellati and M. Williamson, "Alternate Essences of Intelligence", Evolutionary Robotics: From Intelligent Robots to Artificial Life (ER'98), Vol. II AAI Books, Ontario, Canada, 1998, pp.307–326.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Evolutionary Robotics; Where From and Where To", Evolutionary Robotics: From Intelligent Robots to Artificial Life ER'97, AAI Books, Ontario, Canada, 1997, pp. 1–19.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Autonomy As Tolerance to Perturbation", Proceedings of the International Workshop: Towards Real Autonomy, Osaka, Japan. November 1996.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Behavior-Based Humanoid Robotics", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems:IROS 96, Osaka, Japan, November 1996.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Prospects for Human Level Intelligence for Humanoid Robots", Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Humanoid Robots (HURO-96), Tokyo, Japan, October, 1996.
  • Brooks, R.A., "From Earwigs to Humans", Proceedings IIAS The Third Brain and Mind International Symposium Concept Formation, Thinking and Their Development, Kyoto, Japan, May 1996, pp. 59–66.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Human Level Cognition in Embodied Robots", Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN '93), Nagoya, Japan, October 1993, pp. 1079–1084.
  • Gavin, A.S. and R.A. Brooks, "Low Computation Vision-Based Navigation for a Martian Rover", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 1993.
  • Brooks, R.A., "Forward" to Active Vision, as edited by Blake, A. and Yuille, A., MIT Press, 1993, pages ix–xi.
  • Brooks, R.A., "The Role of Learning in Autonomous Robots", Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory (COLT '91), Santa Cruz, CA, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, August 1991, pp. 5–10.
  • Maes, P. and R. A. Brooks, "Robot Insect Societies", Data Manager Magazine, May, 1990.
  • Brooks, R. A. and A. M. Flynn, "A Robot Being", Proceedings NATO Workshop on Robotics and Biological Systems, Pisa, Italy, June 1989. Also appeared as "Robot Beings" at IROS '89, Tskuba, Japan, Sept, 1989, pp. 2–10.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Vision and Spatial Modeling for Mobile Robots", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Industrial Applications of Machine Intelligence and Vision, Tokyo, Japan, April 1989, pp. 9–11.
  • Brooks, R. A., "How To Build Complete Creatures Rather Than Isolated Cognitive Simulators", Architectures for Intelligence, K. VanLehn (ed), Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, Fall 1989, pp. 225–239.
  • Brooks, R. A., "AI: Great Expectations", guest editorial in Manufacturing Engineering, 148, March 1988.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Real-Time Vision through Sensor Fission", Preprints of Japan AI-87, Osaka, Japan, October 1987, pp. 443–446.
  • Brooks, R. A., "The Whole Iguana", SDF Benchmark Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA, August 1987, Robotics Science, Michael Brady (ed), MIT Press, 1989, pp. 432–456.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Intelligence Without Representation", Preprints of the Workshop in Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Endicott House, Dedham, MA, June, 1987.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Autonomous Mobile Robots", AI in the 1980s and Beyond, W. Eric L. Grimson and Ramesh S. Patil, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1987, pp. 343–363.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Model Based 3-D Interpretation of 2-D Images", From Pixels to Predicates: Recent Advances in Computational and Robotic Vision, Alex P. Pentland (ed.), Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, NJ, 1986, pp. 299–321.
  • Brooks, R. A., "A Layered Intelligent Control System for a Mobile Robot", Proceedings of the Third International Symposium of Robotics Research, Gouvieux, France, MIT Press, October 1985, pp. 1–8.
  • Lozano-Pérez, T. and R. A. Brooks, "Task-Level Manipulator Programming", in Handbook of Industrial Robots, Shimon Y. Nof (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1985, pp. 404–418.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Visual Map Making for a Mobile Robot" (Invited), Proceedings of 1985 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Louis, MO, March 1985, pp. 824–829.
  • Lozano-Pérez, T. and R. A. Brooks, "An Approach to Automatic Robot Programming", Solid Modeling by Computers, Pickett and Boyse (ed.), Plenum Press, New York, pp. 293–328, 1985; also in Proceedings of 1986 ACM Computer Science Conf., Cincinnatti, OH, February 1986, pp. 61–69; also MIT AI Memo 842, April 1985.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Aspects of Mobile Robot Visual Map Making", Proceedings of the Second International Symposium of Robotics Research, Kyoto, Japan, MIT Press, August 1984, pp. 287–293.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Representing Possible Realities for Vision and Manipulation" (Invited), IEEE Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Conference, Las Vegas, NV, June 1982, pp. 587–592.
  • Brooks, R. A. and T. O. Binford, "Geometric Modeling in Vision for Manufacturing", Proceedings of SPIE, Washington, D. C., April 1981.
  • Brooks, R. A. and T. O. Binford, "Representing and Reasoning about Paritally Specified Scenes", Proceedings of ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, College Park, MD, April 1980, pp. 95–103.
  • Brooks, R. A., "Goal-Directed Edge Linking and Ribbon Finding", Proceedings of ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Menlo Park, CA, April 1979, pp. 72–76.
  • Binford, T. O. and R. A. Brooks, "Geometric Reasoning in ACRONYM", Proceedings of ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Menlo Park, CA, April 1979, pp. 48–54.
  • Brooks, R. A., R. Greiner and T. O. Binford, "Progress Report on a Model-Based Vision System", Proceedings of ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1978, pp. 145–151; also in Proceedings of NSF Workshop on the Representation of Three-Dimensional Objects, Section C, University of Pennsylvania, May 1979.
  • Brooks, R. A., R. Greiner and T. O. Binford, "A Model-Based Vision System", Proceedings of ARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Cambridge, MA, May 1978, pp. 36–44.

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