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Dr. Williams is Co-Chair of the Technical Program committee for the upcoming Ridge and Valley AUVSI Symposium on Intersections in Autonomous Systems, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, Ridge and Valley Chapter, October 9, 2018.
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Dr. Williams is the PI on a recently awarded NSF NRI 2.0 grant for $1.47M over 4 years! This work will study multi-UAV systems for search and rescue, National Science Foundation, October 1, 2018.
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Dr. Williams is the PI on a recently awarded NSF CPS grant, funded by the USDA for $823k over 3 years! This work will study heterogeneous multi-robot systems for precision grazing, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agricuture, September 1, 2018.
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Our paper on observability with environmental disturbances for multi-agent systems will appear at CDC 2018 in Miami, Florida USA, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, August 1, 2018.
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Congratulations to Vihan Talur on successfully defending his MEng project "Investigating a Low-Power Edge Computing Solution for SAR Applications", ECE Department, Virginia Tech, August 1, 2018.
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Dr. Williams has won an ICTAS Junior Faculty award for $80k over 2 years! This work will study multi-UAV systems in search and rescue, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, Virginia Tech, April 5, 2018.
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Congratulations to Anand Bangad on successfully defending his MEng project "Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Communication", ECE Department, Virginia Tech, February 12, 2018.
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We have four papers that will appear at ICRA 2018 in Brisbane, Australia!, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, January 15, 2018.
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Dr. Williams is the Technical Program Chair for the upcoming Ridge and Valley AUVSI Symposium on Trust in Autonomous Systems, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, Ridge and Valley Chapter, October 15, 2017.
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Our paper on asymmetric motion control for multi-agent systems will appear at CDC 2017 in Melbourne, Australia, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, August 1, 2017.
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Congratulations to Siddharth Bhal on successfully defending his M.S. thesis "Fog Computing for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems with Adaptive Task Allocation", ECE Department, Virginia Tech, June 22, 2017.
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Dr. Williams is co-organizing the Robotic Wireless Networks Workshop on June 12th at SECON 2017, IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, June 1, 2017.
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Dr. Williams is the PI on a recently awarded NSF CRII grant for $174k over 2 years! This work will study asymmetric interactions in multi-robot systems, National Science Foundation, April 1, 2017.
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Our paper "Decentralized Matroid Optimization for Topology Constraints in Multi-Robot Allocation Problems" is a finalist for Best Multi-Robot Paper at ICRA 2017!, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, March 1, 2017.