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Journal
  1. H. G. Tanner and J. L. Piovesan, "Randomized Receding Horizon Navigation," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, (to appear)
  2. R. A. Cortez, H. G. Tanner, R. Lumia and C. T. Abdallah, "Information Surfing for Radiation Map Building," International Journal of Robotics and Automation, 2010 (to appear).
  3. Ye Yuan, and Herbert Tanner, "Sensor Graphs for Guaranteed Cooperative Localization Performance," Control and Intelligent Systems, 2010 (to appear).
  4. Michael M. Zavlanos, Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie, and George J. Pappas , "Hybrid Control for Connectivity Preserving Flocking," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 54(12): 2869-2875 (2009)
  5. R. A. Cortez, H. G. Tanner, R. Lumia and J. Wood, Radiation Mapping Using Multiple Robots,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society,  vol 99, (2008), pp 157-159.
  6. A. Clauset, H.G. Tanner, C.T. Abdallah, and R.H. Byrne, "Controlling across complex networks; emerging links between networks and control," Annual Reviews in Control, 32:183-192, 2008.
  7. R.A. Cortez, X. Papageorgiou, H.G. Tanner, A.V. Klimenko, K.N. Borozdin, R. Lumia, J. Wood, and W.C. Priedhorsky, "Smart Radiation Sensor Management; Nuclear Search and Mapping using Mobile Robots," IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol 15, Issue 3, pp. 85-93, 2008
  8. Jorge L. Piovesan, Chaouki T. Abdallah, and Herbert G. Tanner, "A Hybrid Framework for Resource Allocation among Multiple Agents Moving on Discrete Environments," Asian Journal of Control, Vol 10, no 2, pp 171-186, 2008.
  9. Herbert G. Tanner and Dimitrios Christodoulakis, “Decentralized Cooperative Control of Heterogeneous Vehicle Groups,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol 55, no 11, pp 811-823, 2007
  10. Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas, "Flocking in Fixed and Switching Networks," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol 52, no 5, May 2007 pp 863-868.
  11. A.V. Klimenko, W.C. Priedhorsky, H. Tanner, K.N. Borozdin, and N. Hengartner, “Intelligent Sensor Management in Nuclear Searches and Radiological Surveys,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, vol 95, pp 21-22, 2006.
  12. Dushyant Palejiya and Herbert Tanner, "Hybrid Velocity/Force Control for Robot Navigation in Compliant Unknown Environments," Robotica, (c) Cambridge University Press Vol 24, No 06, pp 745--758, November 2006.
  13. Herbert G. Tanner, "Mobile Manipulation of Flexible Objects Under Deformation Constraints," IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol 22, No 1, pp 179--184, February 2006.
  14. Georgios Tzeremes, Herbert Tanner, Tsai Liao and Christos Christodoulou, "Wireless Communication with Smart Antennas using Transmission Power Control," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol 3, No 13, pp 232--235, April 2004
  15. Herbert G. Tanner, "ISS Properties of Nonholonomic Vehicles," Systems & Control Letters, Volume 53, No 3-4, November 2004, pp 229-235.
  16. Herbert G. Tanner, George J. Pappas and Vijay Kumar, "Leader-to-Formation Stability", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol 20, no 3, June 2004, pp. 433-455.
  17. Herbert G. Tanner, S. Loizou and K. J. Kyriakopoulos, "Nonholonomic Navigation and Control of Cooperating Mobile Manipulators," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol 19, no 1, February 2003, pp 53-64.
  18. Herbert G. Tanner and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, "Backstepping for non smooth systems," Automatica, vol 39, pp 1259-1265, 2003.
  19. H. G. Tanner and K.J. Kyriakopoulos, "Kane's approach to modeling mobile manipulators," Advanced Robotics, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp 57-85, 2002.
  20. H. G. Tanner and K.J. Kyriakopoulos, "Mobile Manipulator Modeling with Kane's Approach," Robotica, Vol. 19, pp. 675-690, 2001.
  21. H. G. Tanner, K. J. Kyriakopoulos and N. I. Krikelis, "Advanced Agricultural Robots: Kinematics and Dynamics of Multiple Mobile Manipulators Handling Non-rigid Material," IFAC Journal on Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, special issue on AI and Smart Machines in Agriculture, Elsevier, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2001, pp 91-105.
  22. H. G. Tanner, K. J. Kyriakopoulos and N. I. Krikelis, "Modeling of Multiple Mobile Manipulators Handling a Common Deformable Object," Journal of Robotic Systems 15(11) 599-623 (1998).
  23. K. J. Kyriakopoulos, H.G. Tanner and N. I. Krikelis, "Navigation of Nonholonomic Vehicles in Complex Environments with Potential Fields and Tracking," Int. Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, 487- 495 (1996)
Edited Volumes
  1. R. Andres Cortez, H. G. Tanner, and R. Lumia, "Distributed Robotic Radiation Mapping," Experimental Robotics, O. Khatib, V. Kumar, and G. Pappas (eds), Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics vol 54, 2008 pp. 147-156.
  2. Wenqi Zhang and Herbert G. Tanner, "Composition of Motion Description Languages," Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, M. Egerstedt and B. Misrha (eds), Springer, 2008 pp. 570-583.
  3. Herbert G. Tanner and Amit Kumar, "Formation Stabilization of Multiple Agents Using Decentralized Navigation Functions," Robotics: Science and Systems I, S. Thrun, G. Sukhatme, S. Schaal and O. Brock (eds), MIT Press, 2005, pp 49–56.
  4. Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas, “Flocking in Teams of Nonholonomic Agents,” in S. Morse, N. Leonard and V. Kumar (eds.), Cooperative Control, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences , Vol. 09 Springer, pp 229-239.
  5. H. G. Tanner and K. J. Kyriakopoulos,"A Manipulated Deformable Object as an Underactuated System," in D. Henrich and H. Worn (eds.), Robot Manipulation of Deformable Objects, pp 175-198, Advanced Manufacturing Series, Springer, 2000.
Conference Papers
  1. Varsha Bhambhani and Herbert G. Tanner, "Topology Optimization in Cellular Neural Networks," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2011 (to appear).
  2. Dimitra Panagou, Herbert G. Tanner and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos, "Dipole-like fields for stabilization of systems with Pfaffian constraints", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010 pp 4499 - 4504
  3. J. L. Piovesan and H. G. Tanner, "Randomized Model Predictive Control for Robot Navigation," IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2009 pp. 94-99.
  4. Jorge L. Piovesan, Chaouki T. Abdallah and Herbert G. Tanner, "Modeling Multi-agent Systems with Hybrid Interacting Dynamics," Proc. IEEE American Control Conference, 2009 pp. 3644-3649.
  5. Jorge L. Piovesan and Herbert G. Tanner, "Randomized Model Predictive Control for Robot Navigation," Proc. IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2009 pp. 94-99.
  6. I. Lopez, C.T. Abdallah, S.K. Jayaweera, and H. Tanner, "Conditions for Tracking in Networked Control Systems," Proc.IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2008 pp 3626-3632.
  7. R. A. Cortez, H. G. Tanner and R. Lumia, “The Entropy of Cooperative Radiation Sensing by Distributed Sensors,” Proc. 2nd ANS International Joint Topical Meeting on Emergency Preparedness & Response and Robotic & Remote Systems, March 2008, pp 563-568.
  8. A. Closet, B. Tanner, R. Byrne and C.T. Abdallah, “Controlling Across Complex Networks: Emerging Links between Networks and Control,” Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, Nantes France, 2007.
  9. R.A. Cortez, X. Papageorgiou, H.G. Tanner, A.V. Klimenko, K.N. Borozdin and W.C. Priedhorsky, "Experimental Implementation of Robotic Sequential Nuclear Search," Proc. IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2007 pp 1-6
  10. Herbert G. Tanner, “Switched UAV-UGV Cooperation Scheme for Target Detection,” Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007 pp. 3457-3462
  11. D. Kumar and H.G. Tanner, “How Sensor Graph Topology Affects Localization Accuracy,” Proc. European Control Conference, 2007 pp. 868-873
  12. Xanthi Papageorgiou, Herbert G. Tanner, and Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos “Motion Tasks for Robot Manipulators on Embedded 2-D Manifolds under Input Constraints,” Proc. European Control Conference, 2007 p.p 3783-3789
  13. Jorge L. Piovesan, Chaouki T. Abdallah, and Herbert G. Tanner, “Leader-Follower Control with Odometry Error Analysis,” Proc. European Control Conference, 2007 pp. 3783-3789
  14. Jorge Piovesan, Chaouki T. Abdallah, Magnus Egerstedt, Herbert Tanner and Yorai Wardi, “Statistical Learning for Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems,” Proc. IEEE American Control Conference, 2007, pp 2775-2780
  15. Herbert Tanner, Jorge Piovesan, Chaouki T. Abdallah, "Discrete Asymptotic Abstractions of Hybrid Systems," Proc. 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp 917-922
  16. Herbert Tanner and Dimitrios Christodoulakis, "Cooperation between Aerial and Ground vehicle groups for Reconnaissance missions," Proc. 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2006 pp. 5918-5923
  17. A. Kumar, H.G. Tanner, A.V. Klimenko, and W.C. Priedhorsky, "Automated Sequential Search for Weak Radiation Sources," Proc. 14th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, June 28-30, 2006, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy, pp 1-6.
  18. K. N. Borozdin, A. V. Klimenko, W. C. Priedhorsky, N. W. Hengartner, C. C. Alexander, R. A. Cortez, and H. G. Tanner, "Optimized Strategies for Smart Nuclear Search," Proc. 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego CA, pp 926-928
  19. Herbert G. Tanner and Dimitrios K. Christodoulakis, "The stability of synchronization in local-interaction networks is robust with respect to time delays," Proc. 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005, pp 4945–4950.
  20. Herbert G. Tanner and Amit Kumar, "Towards Decentralization of Mutli-robot Navigation Functions," Proc. 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, pp 4143-4148
  21. A. Regmi, R. Sandoval, R. Byrne, H. Tanner and C.T. Abdallah, "Experimental Implementation of Flocking Algorithms in Wheeled Mobile Robots," Proc. 2005 American Control Conference, pp 4917 - 4922.
  22. Herbert G. Tanner, "On the Controllability of Nearest Neighbor Interconnections," Proc. 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, December 14-17 2004. pp 2467-2472
  23. Herbert G. Tanner, "Flocking with Obstacle Avoidance in Switching Networks of Interconnected Vehicles," Proc. 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans LA, April 26-May 1, pp. 3006-3011
  24. Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas, "Stable Flocking of Mobile Agents, Part I: Fixed Topology," Proc. 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui Hawaii, December 2003, pp. 2010-2015
  25. Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas, "Stable Flocking of Mobile Agents, Part II: Dynamic Topology," Proc. 42th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui Hawaii, December 2003, pp. 2016-2021
  26. Savvas G. Loizou, Herbert G. Tanner, Vijay Kumar and Kostas Kyriakopoulos, "Closed Loop Motion Planning and Control for Mobile Robots in Uncertain Environment", Proc. 42th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui Hawaii, December 2003, pp. 2010-2015
  27. Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas, "Coordination of Multiple Autonomous Agents", Proc. 11th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Rhodes Greece, 2003
  28. Herbert G. Tanner, "ISS Properties of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots", Proc. IEEE / RSJ Intl. Conference on Robots and Systems, 2003, Las Vegas NV, October 27-31, pp.3799 - 3804
  29. Savvas G. Loizou, Herbert G. Tanner, Vijay Kumar and Kostas Kyriakopoulos, "Closed Loop Navigation for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments", Proc. IEEE / RSJ Intl. Conference on Robots and Systems, 2003, Las Vegas NV, October 27-31, pp. 3769 - 3774
  30. Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas. "Flocks of Autonomous Mobile Agents", Proc. Second Annual Symposium on Autonomous Intelligent Networks and Systems, Menlo Park CA, June 30-July 1, 2003.
  31. Herbert G. Tanner and George J. Pappas, "Abstractions of Constrained Linear Systems", Proceedings of the 2003 American Control Conference, Denver CO, pp 3381-3386.
  32. Herbert G. Tanner, George J. Pappas and Vijay Kumar, "Input-to-State Stability on Formation Graphs", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, 2002, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 2439-2444.
  33. Herbert G. Tanner, Vijay Kumar and George J. Pappas, "Stability Properties of Interconnected Vehicles", Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, South Bend IN, August 2002.
  34. Herbert G. Tanner and George J. Pappas, "Simulation Relations for Discrete-Time Linear Systems", Proceedings of the 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, Barcelona, Spain, 2002, pp 1302-1307.
  35. Herbert G. Tanner and George J. Pappas, "Formation Input-to-State Stability", Proceedings of the 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, Barcelona, Spain, 2002, pp 1512-1517.
  36. Herbert G. Tanner, Vijay Kumar and George J. Pappas, "The effect of Feedback and Feedforward on Formation ISS", Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 11-15, Washington DC, pp 3448-3453.
  37. H.G. Tanner and K.J. Kyriakopoulos, "Discontinuous Backstepping for Stabilization of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots", Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 11-15, Washington DC, pp 3948-3953.
  38. H.G. Tanner, S. Loizou and K.J. Kyriakopoulos, "Nonholonomic Stabilization with Collision Avoidance for Mobile Robots," Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Oct 29- Nov 3, Maui, Hawaii, pp 1220-1225.
  39. H. G. Tanner and K.J. Kyriakopoulos, "Stabilization and Output Tracking for Underactuated Mechanical Systems with Inequality Constraints," Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechantronics, 8-12 July 2001, pp 862-867.
  40. H.G. Tanner and K.J. Kyriakopoulos, "Position and Force Control by Reaction Compensation," Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 21-26, Seoul, Korea, pp. 3926-3931
  41. H. Tanner, S. Loizou, K. Kyriakopoulos, K. Arvanitis and N. Sigrimis, "Coordinating the Motion of a Manipulator and a Mobile Base in Tree Environments," in Proceedings of the 2nd IFAC/CIGR International Workshop on Bio-Robotics, Information Technology and Intelligent Control for Bioproduction Systems, November 2000, Osaka, Japan, pp 73-78 .
  42. H. G. Tanner and K. J. Kyriakopoulos, "Nonholonomic Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators," in Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, April 2000, pp 1233-1238.
  43. H. G. Tanner and K. J. Kyriakopoulos, "Analysis of Deformable Object Handling," in Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Detroit, May 1999, pp. 2674-2679.
  44. H. G. Tanner, K. J. Kyriakopoulos and N.I. Krikelis, "Modeling of Multiple Mobile Manipulators Handling a Common Deformable Object," in Proceedings of the 1st IFAC Workshop on Control Applications and Ergonomics in Agriculture, Athens, June 1998, pp. 295-301.
  45. H. G. Tanner and K.J. Kyriakopoulos, "Modeling of a Mobile Manipulator with the Use of Kane's Dynamic Equations," in Proceedings of the 3rd IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Madrid, 1998, pp 14-20.
  46. H. G. Tanner, K. J. Kyriakopoulos and N. I. Krikelis, "Nonholonomic Vehicle Navigation in Constrained Environments with Direct Use of Potential Fields," in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control Theory and Applications, June 1996, Chania Greece.

Techical Reports

  1. Herbert Tanner and Jorge Piovesan “Randomized Model Predictive Navigation,"  UDMETR-2010-001, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, February 2010. 
  2. Dimitra Panagou and Herbert Tanner “Modeling of a Hexapod Robot; Kinematic Equivalence to a Unicycle,"  UDMETR-2009-001, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, April 2009.
  3. Thomas J. Otahal and Herbert G. Tanner, "Extended Kalman Filter Implementation for the Khepera II Mobile Robot," METR-08-001, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, January 2009.
  4. J. Piovesan, C. Abdallah, H. Tanner, ``Interconnected Hybrid Systems: A Framework for Multi-agent Systems with Hybrid Interacting Dynamics," Technical Report EECE-TR-08-001, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univeristy of New Mexico, March 2008.
  5. Jorge Piovesan, Chaouki Abdallah, and Herbert Tanner, "Leader-Follower Control with Odometry Error Analysis,'' Technical Report EECE-TR-07-002, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univeristy of New Mexico, July 2007.
  6. Andres R. Cortez and Herbert G. Tanner, "Information Surfing for Model-driven Radiation Mapping," ME-TR-07-001, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, June 2007.
  7. J. Piovesan, C. Abdallah, H. Tanner, H. Jerez, and J. Khoury. “Resource allocation for multi-agent problems in the design of future communication networks.” EECE-TR-07-001, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univeristy of New Mexico, April 2007.
  8. Herbert Tanner, ``Task-driven multi-formation control for coordinated UAV/UGV ISR missions," ME-TR-06-002, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, October 2006.
  9. Deepti Kumar and Herbert G. Tanner, "Increasing the Accuracy of Cooperative Localization by Controlling the Sensor Graph," ME-TR-06-001, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, March 2004.
  10. Amit Kumar and Herbert G. Tanner, "Almost Global Asymptotic Formation Stabilization Using Navigation Functions," ME-TR-04-001, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, October 2004.
  11. Herbert G. Tanner, Ali Jadbabaie and George J. Pappas, "Stability of Flocking Motion", Technical Report No MS-CIS-03-03, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, January 2003.

Book Reviews

Herbert G. Tanner, "Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints, - A.H. Glattfelder and W. Schaufelberger", Automatica, Volume 41, Issue 4, April 2005, Pages 731-733

July 18, 2010