The Computing Research Association (CRA) recently honored two seniors computer and engineering outstanding research in their specific areas of computer science: Jory Denny has been named finalist for the outstanding researcher of baccalaureate Prize 2011 and Jeffrey Deuel named honorable mention.
These are important prizes in computing research at the undergraduate level, and only the best entries are considered for the award.
Students first nation autour cycle are nominated by their teachers, and an Award Committee research nominations for excellence demonstrated with regard to calculation of research. Quality research plays a major role in the decision-making processes, but also considered as is the student academic record as well as community service.
Centered Denny research on multiple robotic problems ranging from motion simulation of the behaviour of group planning.
His first project involves the development and improvement of planning techniques in complex environments of movement. Complex environments are large and may contain areas of free space or narrow passages. Denny work improves the existing methods of motion planning by improving the identification of the region.
"I've designed and implemented a method of storing parts of hierarchical modular way, which is used in a manner recursive rupture and descends into regions, if necessary. Previously only a common statistical clustering method K-means, was used for the identification of the region. I've questioned the effectiveness of the K-means and conducted a comparative study of it with other statistical methods of grouping to identify the regions on a wide variety of environments. "We concluded that various methods considerably change the created regions and have an impact on the effectiveness of motion planning", said Denny.
His work has led to a document by first author on the topic that is currently in review at the IEEE robots and automation (ICRA) International Conference in 2011. Denny wrote the first draft of this document, developed and implemented the algorithm and designed experimental analysis for it.
Second draft of the Denny focuses on the modular design and behavioral Framework implementation and multi-agent interactions. The research explored communication explicitly how between agents can affect behaviour and dynamic group formation in the hierarchical structure of the group.
"My first contribution was design and explicit implementation of decentralised communication infrastructure for the simulation and experimental Robotics inter-agent communication." I designed and implemented a passage generic message simulation behaviors with this communication implementation framework and improving the framework for distributed applications. Message passing framework manages two main types of communication, intragroup and Intergroup. I discovered that agents can benefit from explicit message passing, improving efficiency of capture to the prosecutors in the heuristic-based research-evasion strategies. »
Denny has overseen by Dr. Takis Zourntos (Department of electrical and computer engineering) and Dr. Nancy Amato.
Deuel work focused on the construction of a podcast for Nokia phones smart search engine.
A phone application has been designed to take a research podcast user-defined, compile results from prominent podcast search engines and create the html to display the results in a manner which is easily visible on a portable code. This page will open in the default browser of the user using a method of connection of their choice. On this page that they could choose for more information about a specific result, download of podcasts on their phone or view other results if desired.
"One of the most important aspects of this generation is the speed with which he is completing each task," said Deuel. "Initially research obtained full results for each podcast." Popular topics could serve up to 1,000 sets of podcast, each with several episodes. To expedite the process, I found a way that allows the research retrieve only the basic information about each result during the initial search. We used a second server Java who consults the source for the result site and displays relevant information page. This method significantly reduces the time loading for popular queries. »
Deuel research supervised by Dr. Frank Shipman.
Written by Tony Okonski tonyo@cse.tamu.edu
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