Publications

Please see my Google Scholar for an up-to-date list of publications. Feel free to contact me if you are unable to access any of the publications.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

• A Hardware and Software Testbed for Underactuated Self-Assembling Robots. A. Q. Nilles, J. Wasserman, A. Born, C. Horn, J. Born, S. M. LaValle. In the IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems, 2019. [Extended Abstract], [Poster].

• A Visibility-Based Approach to Computing Nondeterministic Bouncing Strategies. A. Q. Nilles, Y. Ren, I. Becerra, S. M. LaValle. In the 13th Annual Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, 2018. [pdf].

• Improv: Live Coding for Robot Motion Design. A. Q. Nilles, C. Gladish, M. Beckman, A. LaViers. In ACM MOCO: 5th International Conference on Movement and Computing, 2018. [pdf].

• Periodic Trajectories of Mobile Robots. A. Q. Nilles, I. Becerra, and S. M. LaValle. In IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017. [pdf].

Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers

• Choreographic and Somatic Approaches for the Development of Expressive Robotic Systems. A. LaViers, C. Cuan, C. Maguire, K. Bradley, K. B. Mata, A. Nilles, I. Vidrin, N. Chakraborty, M. Heimerdinger, U. Huzaifa, R. McNish, I. Pakrasi, and A. Zurawski. In MDPI – Arts, 2018. [pdf].

Workshop Papers

• Robust Combinatorial Planning over Simple Boundary Interactions. A. Q. Nilles, S. M. LaValle. In Workshop on Robust Task and Motion Planning at Robotic Science and Systems (RSS) Conference, 2019. [pdf].

• Robot Design: Formalisms, Representations, and the Role of the Designer. A. Q. Nilles, D. A. Shell, and J. M. O’Kane. In Workshop on Autonomous Robot Design at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018. [arXiv].

Posters

• Controllable Billiards: Characterizing the Paths of Simple Mobile Robots. A. Q. Nilles, I. Becerra, and S. M. LaValle. In Dynamics Days, 2018. [pdf].