Ashley Tews

About

Ashley Tews is a pioneering researcher in multi-agent robotics, autonomous surveillance, and human-robot interaction, whose work has shaped how teams of robots coordinate in dynamic environments. His most influential contributions center on the development of the Multi-Agent Planning System (MAPS), a framework for multi-robot coordination that enables agents to produce meaningful, coordinated behavior without explicit communication—relying instead on shared world models and potential fields. This work, demonstrated in the robot soccer domain, has garnered over 28 citations and laid the groundwork for scalable multi-agent systems. Tews also made significant strides in biosecurity with his 2015 paper on autonomous surveillance for biosecurity (39 citations), addressing real-world challenges in environmental monitoring. His research extends to large-scale human-robot interaction, where he proposed infrastructure for many-to-many interactions, allowing multiple operators to manage numerous robots seamlessly. Notably, his work on robust outdoor color beacon detection tackled the practical difficulties of vision-based robotics in harsh lighting conditions. With a career spanning from foundational multi-agent coordination to applied biosecurity, Tews’s research continues to influence the fields of field robotics, multi-robot systems, and human-robot collaboration.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Autonomous surveillance for biosecurity

   39 citations · 2015
2. 2
   MAPS: a system for multi-agent coordination

   28 citations · 2000
3. 3
   Multi-robot coordination in the robot soccer environment

   23 citations · 1999
4. 4
   Is the sun too bright in Queensland? An approach to robust outdoor colour beacon detection

   7 citations · 2005
5. 5
   UQ RoboRoos: Kicking on to 2000

   6 citations · 2001
6. 6
   The UQ RoboRoos Small-Size League Team Description for RoboCup’98

   5 citations · 1999
7. 7
   Scaling High Level Interactions Between Humans and Robots 1

   4 citations · 2003
8. 8
   An Infrastructure for Large-Scale Human-Robot Interaction

   4 citations · 2002
9. 9
   G'day Mate. Let me Introduce you to Everyone: An Infrastructure for Scalable Human-System Interaction

   3 citations · 2002
10. 10
    Acoustic Masking of a Stealthy Outdoor Robot Tracking a Dynamic Target

    2 citations · 2013

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