Lisa A. Meeden
Professor
Computer Science Department
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave.
Swarthmore, PA 19081
Phone: (610) 328-8565
Email: meeden AT cs.swarthmore.edu
Research
Selected papers
- Editorial: Introduction to Developmental
Robotics, co-authored with Douglas Blank. Connection
Science, Volume 18, Number 2, 2006.
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- Bringing up robot: Fundamental mechanisms for
creating a self-motivating, self-organizing architecture,
co-authored with Douglas Blank, Deepak Kumar, and Jim Marshall.
Cybernetics and Systems, Volume 36, Number 2, 2005.
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- An emergent framework for self-motivation in
developmental robotics, co-authored with James Marshall and
Douglas Blank, presented at The Third International Conference on
Development and Learning, 2004.
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- Heterogeneity in the coevolved behaviors of
mobile robots: The emergence of specialists, co-authored with
Mitchell Potter and Alan Schultz, Proceedings of the Seventeenth
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan
Kaufmann, 2001.
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- Alfred: The Robot Waiter Who Remembers
You, co-authored with Bruce Maxwell, Nii Saka Addo, Laura
Brown, Paul Dickson, Jane Ng, Seth Olshfski, Eli Silk, and Jordan
Wales, unpublished.
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- REAPER: A Reflexive Architecture for
Perceptive Agents, co-authored with Bruce Maxwell, Nii Saka
Addo, Paul Dickson, Nathaniel Fairfield, Nik Johnson, Edward Jones,
Suor Kim, Pukar Malla, Matthew Murphy, Brandon Rutter, and Eli Silk,
AI Magazine, volume 22, number 1, 2001.
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- Nature versus Nurture in Evolutionary
Computation: Balancing the Roles of the Training Environment and the
Fitness Function in Producing Behavior, co-authored with Jordan
Wales and Jesse Wells, GECCO Late Breaking Paper, 2000.
postscript
- Integrating Robotics Research with
Undergraduate Education, co-authored with Bruce Maxwell,
Special Issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems, edited by Robin
Murphy, volume 15, number 6, 2000.
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- The AAAI 1999 Mobile Robot Competitions and
Exhibition, co-authored with Alan Schultz, Tucker Balch, Rahul
Bhargava, Karen Zita Haigh, Marc Bohlen, Cathryne Stein, and David
Miller, AI Magazine, Volume 21, Number 3, pages 69-78, 2000.
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- Trends in Evolutionary Robotics,
co-authored with Deepak Kumar, Soft Computing
for Intelligent Robotic Systems, edited by L.C. Jain and
T. Fukuda, Physica-Verlag, New York, NY, pages 215-233, 1998.
postscript
- Bridging the gap between robot
simulations and reality with improved models of sensor noise,
Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference on Genetic
Programming, edited by Koza, J.R, et. al., Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, San Francisco, CA, pages 824-831, 1998.
postscript
- A Hybrid Connectionist and
BDI Architecture for Modeling Embedded Rational Agents,
co-authored with Deepak Kumar, presented at the Workshop on
Cognitive Robotics, AAAI Fall Symposium Series at MIT,
October, 1998.
postscript
- Use of robot simulations
can enhance integration, co-authored with Doug Blank, presented at
the Workshop on Integrating Robotics Research, AAAI Spring
Symposium Series, at Stanford, March, 1998.
postscript
- Innovation via
competition: Taking the next leap, co-authored with Doug Blank,
presented at the Workshop on Integrating Robotics Research,
AAAI Spring Symposium Series, at Stanford, March, 1998.
postscript
- Learning in autonomous robots: A
summary of the 1996 Robolearn Workshop, co-authored with Henry
Hexmoor, Knowledge Engineering Review, Volume 11, Issue
4, 1997.
postscript
- An incremental approach to developing
intelligent neural network controllers for robots, IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B:
Cybernetics, Volume 26, Number 3, pages 474-485, 1996.
postscript
- Towards planning: Incremental
investigations into adaptive robot control, unpublished dissertation
done under the guidance of Mike Gasser at Indiana University, 1994.
postscript
- Emergent control and planning in
an autonomous vehicle, co-authored with Gary McGraw and Doug
Blank, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Hillsdale, NJ, pages 735-740, 1993.
postscript
- Exploring the
symbolic/subsymbolic continuum: A case study of RAAM, co-authored
with Doug Blank and Jim Marshall, The Symbolic and
Connectionist Paradigms: Closing the Gap, edited by J. Dinsmore,
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pages 113-148, 1992.
postscript
- Technical report: Learning with
Sparse Distributed Memory
postscript
and A
User's Manual and Guide to an SDM Simulator on a Connection
Machine
postscript,
both co-authored with Jim Marshall, 1989.
Teaching
Grants and Awards
- NSF CCLI EMD grant (2003-2006) Beyond LEGOs:
Hardware, Software, and Curriculum for the Next Generation Robot
Laboratory
- NSF ILI grant (1996-1998) A
robot-based laboratory for teaching Artificial Intelligence
postcript or
compressed.
Education