Mini-Vitae for 2004 [Download Word Document ]

Name: Andrew Fagg
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science

Teaching
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Thesis Completed
Sam Weinger (chair, undergraduate honors thesis committee,  CS): Multimodal interfaces for wearable computers

Kevin Kohler (chair, undergraduate honors thesis committee,  CS): Multimodal interfaces for wearable computers

Dissertations Completed
Antonio Morales (PhD committee member, CSE, Universitat Jaume I, Spain): Learning to Predict Grasp Reliability with Multifinger Robot Hand by Using Visual Features


Advisees
Undergraduate:   4
  Graduate:   Masters: 0   PhD: 6

Awards and Recognitions
No data available

Research and Creative Activity
Conference Papers: Platt, Jr., R., Fagg, A. H., Grupen, R. A. (2004), Manipulation Gaits; Sequences of Grasp Tasks, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'04)

Fagg, A. H., Rosenstein, M. T., Platt, Jr., R., Grupen, R. A. (2004), Extracting User Intent in Mixed Initiative Teleoperator Control, Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Intelligent Systems Technical Conference

Ou, S., Karuppiah, D. R., Fagg, A. H. and Riseman, E. (2004), An Augmented Virtual Reality Interface for Assistive Monitoring of Smart Spaces, In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. Supporting videos

Morales, A., Chinellato, E., Fagg, A. H., del Pobil, A.P. (2004), An active learning approach for assessing robot grasp reliability, In IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2004), Sendai, Japan, September.

Morales, A. , Chinellato, E., Sanz, P. J., Fagg, A. H., del Pobil, A. P. (2004), Vision based planar grasp synthesis and reliability assessment for a multifinger robot hand: a learning approach, In the International Conference on Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping (IMG04), Genoa, Italy

Morales, A., Chinelalto, E., Sanz, P. J., Fagg, A. H., del Pobil, A.P. (2004), Learning to predict grasp reliability with a multifinger robot hand by using visual features, In IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Marbella, Spain, September

Journal Papers: Shah, A., Fagg, A. H., Barto, A. G. (2004) Cortical Involvement in the Recruitment of Wrist Muscles, Journal of Neurophysiology, 91:2445 - 2456.

Patents: No data available
Refereed Book Chapters: No data available
Non-Refereed Book Chapters: No data available

Books
Authored Books: No data available
Co-Authored Books: No data available
Edited Books: No data available

Grants
External Funding: No data available
Internal Funding: No data available

Presentations
National: Platt, Jr., R., Fagg, A. H., Grupen, R. A. (2004), Learning Dexterous Manipulation Skills Using the Control Basis AAAI Fall Symposium on Real-life Reinforcement-Learning, Oct. 22-24

Regional: No data available

Service
University: No data available
Department: Member, graduate recruitment committee

Professional: Reviewer, Journal of Autonomous Robotics

Reviewer, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2005)

Reviewer, Neurocomputing Journal

Reviewer, internal grant proposal at Vanderbilt University

Reviewer, Humanoids Symposium (2004)

Reviewer, Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Journal




Other Activities
Technical Advisor to an engineering senior design clinic group at Smith College: "Design of a non-visually accessible campus mapping/database interface"

Technical advisor to a high school group in Enid, OK for their "Internet Science and Technology Fair" entry on robotics