Short Biography
After receiving an MSc degree in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) in 2006, Amanda Prorok spent two years in Japan, where she first worked at the Advanced R&D Center of Mitsubishi Electric in Amagasaki, and subsequently joined the Science & Technology Office at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tokyo. She then returned to Switzerland to complete her PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Alcherio Martinoli. Currently, Amanda is a postdoctoral researcher at the lab.
Nationalities: British, Swiss
Personal Website: www.prorok.me
Professional course
Research Assistant, Distributed Intelligent Systems & Algorithms Lab., EPFL, Switzerland, 2008-2013
Diplomatic Intern, Science & Technology Office, Embassy of Switzerland, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
Research Intern, Advanced R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric, Amagasaki, Japan, 2006-2007
Education
PhD, Computer, Communication and Information Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland, 2013
MSc, Computer Science, EPFL Switzerland, 2006
BSc, Computer Science, EPFL Switzerland, 2004
Publications
2014
Accurate Indoor Localization with Ultra-Wideband using Spatial Models and Collaboration
International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). 2014. Vol. 33, num. 4, p. 547-568. DOI : 10.1177/0278364913500364.2013
Models and Algorithms for Ultra-Wideband Localization in Single- and Multi-Robot Systems
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013.Low-Cost Multi-Robot Localization
Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems; Springer, 2013. p. 15-33.Accurate Localization with Ultra-Wideband: Tessellated Spatial Models and Collaboration
2013. 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Quebec, Canada, June, 2012. p. 321-335. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-00065-7_23.Self-Organized Robotic Systems: Large-Scale Experiments in Aggregation and Self-Assembly using Miniature Robots
Handbook of Collective Robotics; Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing, 2013. p. 229-259.2012
Online Model Estimation of Ultra-Wideband TDOA Measurements for Mobile Robot Localization
2012. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2012. p. 807-814. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224869.Low-Cost Collaborative Localization for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems
2012. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2012. p. 4236-4241. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225016.2011
An Adaptive Field Estimation Algorithm for Sensor Networks in Dynamic Environments
2011. Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco,Accommodation of NLOS for Ultra-Wideband TDOA Localization in Single- and Multi-Robot Systems
2011. International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Portugal, September 21-23, 2011.Two-Phase Online Calibration for Infrared-based Inter-Robot Positioning Modules
2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Fransisco, CA, USA, September 25-30, 2011. p. 3313-3319. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6094979.A Reciprocal Sampling Algorithm for Lightweight Distributed Multi-Robot Localization
2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Fransisco, CA, USA, September 25-30, 2011. p. 3241-3247. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6094993.A Framework for NLOS Ultra-Wideband Ranging in Collaborative Mobile Robot Systems
2011. International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Minho, Portugal, September, 2011.Multi-level Spatial Modeling for Stochastic Distributed Robotic Systems
The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). 2011. Vol. 30, num. 5, p. 574-589. DOI : 10.1177/0278364910399521.2010
Indoor Navigation Research with the Khepera III Mobile Robot: An Experimental Baseline with a Case-study on Ultra-wideband Positioning
2010. IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), ETH Zurich, September 15-17, 2010. p. 1-9. DOI : 10.1109/IPIN.2010.5647880.Towards Optimally Efficient Field Estimation with Threshold-Based Pruning in Real Robotic Sensor Networks
2010. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 3-8. p. 5453-5459. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509782.2008
Assembly of Configurations in a Networked Robotic System: A Case Study on a Reconfigurable Interactive Table Lamp
2008. IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 21-23, 2008. p. 1–7. DOI : 10.1109/SIS.2008.4668318.Invited Talks
“Towards better Indoor Localization for Large-Scale Systems: UWB and Collaborative Strategies”
CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, USA, 2012
“Any-Time Low-Cost Localization for Large-Scale Multi-Robots Systems”
Workshop on Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems,
IROS, San Francisco, USA, 2011
“An Adaptive Field Estimation Algorithm for Sensor Networks in Dynamic Environments”
Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring,
IROS, San Francisco, USA, 2011
“Accommodation of NLOS for Ultra-Wideband TDOA Localization in Single- and Multi-Robot Systems”
NCCR Mobile Information & Communication Systems
Scientific Workshop, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2011
“High Precision Indoor Localization: Mobile Robots for UWB – UWB for Mobile Robots”
NCCR Mobile Information & Communication Systems,
Scientific Workshop, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010