Behnam Salemi

PhD
Computer Scientist
University of Southern California
Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292

Email: "My Last Name"@isi.edu
Voice: (310) 448-8218
Fax: (310) 822-0751 

Projects

SUPERBOT
Deployable Self Reconfigurable Robots for Space Exploration.

VISION
Feature-Based Visual Object Recognition.

SOLAR
Conducting Research on Developing Self-Assembly Robots for Space Applications.

CONRO
Controlling the Self Reconfigurable Robots. Some Videos Of My Research On CONRO.

ADAPTEAM
Improving the performance of Multi-Agent systems by Self-Organization.

PROBES
Developing tools for analyzing, explaining, and critiquing behavior in training simulations.

ANDES (Advanced Networked Distance Education System)
Andes was an early precursor to ADE to develop an internet-based architecture for distance learning
for a Cinema course at USC's School Cinema and TV.

VEIL
An experiment that links a Loom-based domain model with geometric objects produced by an image understanding program.

Autonomous Underwater Robotics
Experimenting with under water robots at USC Wrigley Marine Institute, Catalina Island.

Publications

Journal Articles:

Behnam Salemi, Peter Will, and Wei-Min Shen. "Distributed Task Negotiation in Modular Robots". Robotics Society of Japan, Special Issue on "Modular Robots", 2003. PDF

Wei-Min Shen, Behnam Salemi, and Peter Will. "Hormone-Inspired Adaptive Communication and Distributed Control for CONRO Self-Reconfigurable Robots". IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation. October 2002. PDF

Wei-Min Shen, Rogelio Adobbati, Jay Modi, Behnam Salemi. "Purposeful Behavior in Robot Soccer Team Play". RoboCup 1999: Robot Soccor World Cup III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (Ed.) M. Veloso, E. Pagello, H. Kitano. Springer 2000.

Wei-Min Shen, Jafar Adibi, Rogelio Adobatti, Bonghan Cho, Ali Erdem, Hadi Moradi, Behnam Salemi, Sheila Tejada. "Autonomous Soccer Robots". Paper Collection for RoboCup'97, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 1998. PDF

Wei-Min Shen, Jafar Adibi, Rogelio Adobatti, Bonghan Cho, Ali Erdem, Hadi Moradi, Behnam Salemi, Sheila Tejada. "Towards Integrated Soccer Robots". AI Magazine. Spring 1998. PDF

Shen, WM., J. Adibi, B. Cho, G. Kaminka, J. Kim, B. Salemi, and S. Tejada. "YODA: The Young Observant Discovery Agent". AI Magazine. 1997. PDF

Book Chapters:

"Autonomous Discovery and Functional Response to Topology Change in Self-Reconfigurable Robots" B. Salemi, P. Will and W.M. Shen in "Complex Engineering Systems: Science Meets Technology" Dan Braha, Ali A. Minai and Yaneer Bar-Yam, Editors, Springer Verlag, pp. 364-384, 2006. PDF

"VEIL: Combining Semantic Knowledge with Image Understanding" T.A. Russ, R.M. MacGregor, B. Salemi, K.E. Price, in Radius: Image Understanding for Imagery Intelligence O. Firschein, T.M. Strat, Editors, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, pp. 409-418, 1997. PDF

Conference Papers:

B. Salemi, M. Moll, W-M. Shen, "SUPERBOT: A Deployable, Multi-Functional, and Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robotic System", International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. October 2006, Beijing, China.

W. Shen, B. Salemi, and M. Moll, "Modular, Multifunctional and Reconfigurable SuperBot for Space Applications", Space 2006, September 2006, San Jose, California.

Behnam Salemi, Jorge Reis, Arash Saifhashemi, Fred Nikgohar, "MILO: Personal Robot Platform". International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. August 2005, Edmonton, Canada. PDF

Behnam Salemi, Peter Will, and Wei-Min Shen. "Autonomous Discovery and Functional Response to Topology Change in Self-Reconfigurable Robots". International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. September - October 2004, Sendai, Japan. PDF

Kenneth Payne, Behnam Salemi, Peter Will, and Wei-Min Shen. "Sensor-Based Distributed Control for Chain-Typed Self-Reconfiguration". International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. September - October 2004, Sendai, Japan. PDF

Behnam Salemi, Wei-Min Shen. "Distributed Behavior Collaboration for Self-Reconfigurable Robots". International Conference on Robotics and Automation. April - May 2004, New Orleans, LA, USA. PDF

Behnam Salemi, Wei-Min Shen, and Peter Will. "Distributed Task Negotiation in Self-Reconfigurable Robots". International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. October 2003, Las Vegas, USA. PDF

Wei-Min Shen, Behnam Salemi. "Distributed and Dynamic Task Reallocation in Robot Organizations". International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2002, Washington DC, USA. PDF

Wei-Min Shen, Behnam Salemi. "Towards Distributed and Dynamic Task Reallocation". Intelligent Autonomous Systems 7. 2002, Marina del Rey, Ca., USA. PDF

Behnam Salemi, Wei-Min Shen, and Peter Will. "Hormone-Controlled Metamorphic Robots". International Conference on Robotics and Automation.2001, Seoul, Korea. PDF

Wei-Min Shen, Behnam Salemi, and Peter Will. "Hormones for Self-Reconfigurable Robots". Intelligent Autonomous Systems 6. 2000, Venice, Italy. PDF

Tambe, M., Shen, W., Mataric, M., Goldberg, D., Modi, J., Qiu, Z., and Salemi, B. "Teamwork in cyberspace: Using TEAMCORE to make agents team-ready". Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Agents in Cyberspace. 1999. PDF

PhD Thesis:

"Experimental Evaluation of a Distributed Control System for Chain-Type Self-Reconfigurable Robots" PDF

RoboCup, International Robotic Soccer competitions

USC/ISI DreamTeam Robotic Soccer Team

Soccer Robot (1999)

RoboCup Papers and Posters

Wei-Min Shen, Jafar Adibi, Rogelio Adobatti, Bonghan Cho, Ali Erdem, Hadi Moradi, Behnam Salemi, Sheila Tejada. "Building Integrated Mobile Robots for Soccer Competition". Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 1998. PDF

Wei-Min Shen, Jafar Adibi, Rogelio Adobatti, Bonghan Cho, Ali Erdem, Hadi Moradi, Behnam Salemi, Sheila Tejada. "Building Integrated Robots for Soccer Competition". A poster at the International Conference on Multiple Agent Systems Autonomous Soccer Robots. 1998. PDF

In the News

"Robot Exhibition - Self-Reconfiguring Hardware", AI Magazine, Spring 2003.

"Digital hormones for robots", New Scientist Magazine, http://www.newscientist.co.uk/. Issue: 14th April 2001.

Robo-Profs, USC Daily Trojan, Jan, 14, 1999.

RoboCup, CNN coverage 1997.

Playing for RoboKeeper, Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1997.

They Came, They Scanned and They Conquered, USC Chronicle , September, 1997.

YODA shown at the PBS Scientific American Frontier Program (Quicktime Movie 14M).

The Little Robot that Could, USC Chronicle, September 1996.

Awards

Morpheus: First place award in the Planetary Robotic Contingency Challenge competition at the 2008 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IRCA-2008), Pasadena, California, USA.

Dreamteam: World-Champion in the 1997 World Cup Robot Soccer Competition RoboCup97 , Nagoya, Japan.

YODA: The Second Place Award for 1996 AAAI Robot Competition for Indoor Navigation, Portland, Oregon, USA.
 

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