Diana Spears
Co-Director, UW Distributed Robotics Laboratory,with William Spears
Associate Professor
4087 Engineering Hall
Computer Science Department
Dept. 3315
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
dspears arobase cs.uwyo.edu
Phone: 307.766.5485
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1990
Primary Research Interests:
Videos/Audio about our Current Research
Video lecture: Robot swarm localization (by Paul Maxim and William Spears)
Video of our robots moving down the hallway in formation with the Spring 2008 Modern Robots class following
Our latest high-speed robot chase using trilateration (by grad students Paul Maxim, Suranga Hettiarachchi, and Tom Kunkel)
Some videos on our latest successes with teams of our Maxelbots doing box-pushing, chemical plume tracing, etc. (by grad students Dimitri Zarzhitsky, Paul Maxim, Tom Kunkel, and Christer Karlsson)
Two of our small robots on Channel 5 (courtesy of KWGN TV CBS Cheyenne).
Seven robots getting into formation (thanks to Rod Heil and Paul Hansen).
Seven robots getting into formation and moving towards a goal (thanks to Rod Heil and Paul Hansen).
A prototype outdoor robot, designed and built by Ben Palmer at UWYO.
Low resolution version of a TV documentary of our work (courtesy of Wyoming Signatures by UW TV).
Interview by National Public Radio
Recent Activities
Member of the 2008-2009 AAAI Presidential Panel on "The Future of AI."
Program committee member for AAMAS'06, AAMAS'07, and AAMAS'08 - International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
Organizing committee member (Program Co-Chair) for SASEMAS'06 - International Workshop on Safety and Security in Multi-Agent Systems.
Advisory Board member for the online Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).
Nature
A panoramic view of Vedauwoo, while we were hiking, about 17 miles from the university (video).
