Education
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
B.Sc. in Engineering, Swarthmore College, 1999
B.A. in Economics, Swarthmore College, 1999
Under Construction
Publications
Journal Publications
- M. A. Hsieh, L. Chaimowicz and V. Kumar. "Decentralized Controllers for Shape Generation with Robotic Swarms", Accepted to Robotica.
- 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," Accepted to Journal of Field Robotics.
- M. A. Hsieh, A. Cowley, V. Kumar and C.J. Taylor. "Maintaining Network Connectivity and Performance in Robot Teams", Accepted to Journal of Field Robotics.
Refereed Conference Papers
- J. Derenick, J. Spletzer and M. A. Hsieh. "A Graph Theoretic Approach to Optimal Target Tracking for Mobile Robot Teams", accepted to the 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
- A. Halasz, M. A. Hsieh, S. Berman, and V. Kumar. "Dynamic Redistribution of a Swarm of Robots Among Multiple Sites", accepted to the 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
- M. A. Hsieh, S. G. Loizou, and V. Kumar. "Stabilization of Multiple Robots on Stable Orbits via Local Sensing", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'07) , April 2007, Rome, Italy. PDF
- M. A. Hsieh and V. Kumar. "Pattern Generation with Multiple Robots," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'06), pp. 2442-2447, May 2006, Orlando, FL. PDF
- 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 Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'06), pp. 2085-2090, May 2006, Orlando, FL. PDF
- 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 Proceedings of the 2005 International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems, pp. 223-234, Washington - DC, March 2005. PDF
- M. A. Hsieh, P. Srivastava, V. Kumar and C.J. Taylor. "Composable Communication Constraint Based Control," in Proc. SPIE Optics East 2004, October, 2004, Philadelphia, PA. Available upon request.
- M. A. Hsieh, V. Kumar and C.J. Taylor. "Constructing Radio Signal Strength Maps with Multiple Robots," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'04), pp. 4184-4189, April-May, 2004, New Orleans, LA. PDF
Thesis
Motion Control Strategies for Networked Robot Teams in Environment with Obstacles, 2007. University of Pennsylvania.