Publications

Monographs

N. Correll. Coordination schemes for distributed boundary coverage with a swarm of miniature robots: synthesis, analysis and experimental validation. EPFL PhD thesis #3919, 2007.

Journal Papers

S. Rutishauser, N. Correll, and A. Martinoli. Collaborative Coverage using a Swarm of Networked Miniature Robots. Robotics & Autonomous Systems, 57(5):517-525, 2009. [preprint]

P. Amstutz, N. Correll, and A. Martinoli. Distributed Boundary Coverage with a Team of Networked Miniature Robots using a Robust Market-Based Algorithm. Annals of Mathematics and Artifcial Intelligence, Special Issue on Distributed Coverage. Special Issue on Coverage, Exploration, and Search, Gal Kaminka and Amir Shapiro, editors, 52(2-4):307-333, 2009. [preprint]

N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Towards Multi-Robot Inspection of Industrial Machinery - From Distributed Coverage Algorithms to Experiments with Miniature Robotic Swarms. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 16(1):103-112. [preprint]

J. Halloy, G. Sempo, G. Caprari, C. Rivault, M. Asadpour, F. Tache, I. Said, V. Durier, S. Canonge, J. Ame, C. Detrain, N. Correll, A. Martinoli, F. Mondada, R. Siegwart, and J.-L. Deneubourg. Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices. Science, 318(5853):1155-1158, 2007. [preprint]

Book reviews

N. Correll. Cells and Robots --- Modeling and Control of Large-Size Agent Populations by Dejan Lj. Milutinovic and Pedro Lima. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Volume 28, Number 5, pages 140-141, October 2008. [preprint]

Magazine articles (unrefereed)

N. Correll and A. Martinoli. A Challenging Application in Swarm Robotics: The Autonomous Inspection of Complex Engineered Structures. Bulletin of the Swiss Society for Automatic Control, (46):15-19, 2007.

Conference Proceedings

2009

N. Correll, N. Arechiga, A. Bolger, M. Bollini, B. Charrow, A. Clayton, F. Dominguez, K. Donahue, S. Dyar, L. Johnson, H. Liu, A. Patrikalakis, T. Robertson, J. Smith, D. Soltero, M. Tanner, L. White, D. Rus. Building a Distributed Robot Garden. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO. To appear.

J. Beal, N. Correll, L. Urbina and J. Bachrach. Behavior Modes for Randomized Robotic Coverage. In Proceedings of the 2nd Int. Conf. on Robot Communication and Coordination (ROBOCOM), Odense, Denmark, 2009. To appear.

N. Correll, D. Rus, J. Bachrach and D. Vickery. Ad-hoc Wireless Network Coverage with Networked Robots that Cannot Localize. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, to appear May 2009. [preprint]

2008

T. Lochmatter, P. Roduit, C. Cianci, N. Correll, J. Jacot and A. Martinoli. SwisTrack - A Flexible Open Source Tracking Software for Multi-Agent Systems. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, 2008

N. Correll, M. Schwager and D. Rus. Social Control of Herd Animals by Integration of Artificially Controlled Congeners. In the 10th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Osaka, Japan, 2008. Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 5040, pages 437-447. Best Paper Award.

N. Correll. Parameter Estimation and Optimal Control of Swarm-Robotic Systems: A Case Study in Distributed Task Allocation. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 3302-3307, Pasadena, USA, 2008.

2007

N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Robust Distributed Coverage using a Swarm of Miniature Robots. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 379 - 384, Rome, Italy, 2007.

2006

N. Correll, G. Sempo, Y. Lopez de Meneses, J. Halloy, J.-L. Deneubourg, and A. Martinoli. SwisTrack: A Tracking Tool for Multi-Unit Robotic and Biological Systems. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 2185-2191, Beijing, China, 2006.

N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Towards Optimal Control of Self-Organized Robotic Inspection Systems. In 8th International IFAC Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO), Bologna, Italy, 2006.

N. Correll, S. Rutishauser, and A. Martinoli. Comparing Coordination Schemes for Miniature Robotic Swarms: A Case Study in Boundary Coverage of Regular Structures. In The 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Rio de Janeiro, 2006. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, volume 38, pages 471-480, 2008.Student Travel Fellowship award

N. Correll and A. Martinoli. System Identification of Self-Organizing Robotic Swarms. In The 8th Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), Minneapolis, USA. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems VII, pages 31-40. Springer Verlag, 2006. Best Paper Award.

2005

N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Modeling and Analysis of Beaconless and Beacon-Based Policies for a Swarm-Intelligent Inspection System. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pages 2488-2493, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

2004

N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Collective Inspection of Regular Structures using a Swarm of Miniature Robots. In The 9th Int. Symp. on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Singapore, 2004. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, pages 375-385, 2006. Ang Jr., Marcelo H.; Khatib, Oussama (Eds.).

N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Modeling and Optimization of a Swarm-Intelligent Inspection System. In The 7th Int. Symp. on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), Toulouse, France. 2004. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems VI, Springer Verlag, pages 369-378, 2007.

Workshop papers

N. Correll and A. Martinoli. Modeling Self-Organized Aggregation in a Swarm of Miniature Robots. In IEEE 2007 International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on Collective Behaviors inspired by Biological and Biochemical Systems, Rome, Italy, 2007.

N. Correll, C. M. Cianci, X. Raemy, and A. Martinoli. Self-Organized Embedded Sensor/Actuator Networks for ''Smart'' Turbines. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Workshop on Network Robot System: Toward intelligent robotic systems integrated with environments, Beijing, China, 2006.

Conference Videos and Demos

H.Balakrishnan, N. Correll, J. Eriksson, S. Lim, S. Madden and D. Rus. PCP: The Personal Commute Portal. In 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '08), pages 353-354, Raleigh, NC, USA, 2008. [preprint]

Theses

N. Correll. Collaborative Exploration and Coverage, Master's Thesis, Collective Robotics Group, California Institute of Technology/Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 2003.

N. Correll. 6-DOF Visual Servoing Using the Lie Group of Affine Transformations, ISRN LUTFD2/TFRT--5690--SE, June 2002, Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden.

N. Correll. Modellbasierte Segmentierung von Maeuseknochen, Semesterproject, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zuerich, 2002.

Co-Authors

Jean-Marc Ame, Patrick Amstutz, Nikos Arechiga, Masoud Asadpour, Jonathan Bachrach, Hari Balakrishnan, Jacob Beal, Adrienne Bolger, Mario Bollini, Gilles Caprari, Stephane Canonge, Benjamin Charrow, Christopher Cianci, Adam Clayton, Claire Detrain, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Felipe Dominguez, Kenneth Donahue, Virginie Durier, Samuel Dyar, Jakob Eriksson, Jose Halloy, Jacques Jacot, Luke Johnson, Sejoon Lim, Huan Liu, Thomas Lochmatter, Samuel Madden, Yuri Lopez de Meneses, Alcherio Martinoli, Francesco Mondada, Alexander Patrikalakis, Xavier Raemy, Timothy Robertson, Pierre Roduit, Colette Rivault, Daniela Rus, Samuel Rutishauser, Imene Said, Gregory Sempo, Mac Schwager, Roland Siegwart, Daniel Soltero, Jeremy Smith, Fabien Tache, Melissa Tanner, Leonardo Urbina, Daniel Vickery, Lauren White