B. Browning
Papers
12
Total Citations
512
H-Index
9
About
B. Browning is a leading researcher in multi-robot systems, specializing in dynamically formed heterogeneous robot teams, adversarial coordination, and learning from demonstration. His pioneering work addresses the "pickup team challenge"—enabling robots with no prior knowledge of each other to execute tightly-coordinated tasks, as detailed in his highly cited 2006 paper (154 citations). Browning also developed the STP framework (Skills, Tactics, and Plays), which allows robot teams to make rapid decisions and execute coordinated actions in adversarial environments like robot soccer (110 citations). His contributions extend to making robotics accessible to non-experts through learning from demonstration, where robots acquire control policies from human task executions (77 citations). Notably, Browning introduced the Segway Soccer domain, a novel platform for investigating mixed human-robot team coordination in real-time, dynamically balancing mobile robots. His work on real-time adaptive color-based vision and improbability filtering for false-positive rejection has further advanced robot perception and tracking. With over 500 total citations across his most influential publications, Browning's research has fundamentally shaped how heterogeneous robot teams collaborate in dynamic, adversarial settings.
Research Focus
Key Achievements
Top Papers
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- 3Learning robot motion control with demonstration and advice-operators77 citations · 2008
- 4Multi-robot team response to a multi-robot opponent team49 citations · 2004
- 5Development of a soccer-playing dynamically-balancing mobile robot31 citations · 2004
- 6Real-time, adaptive color-based robot vision29 citations · 2005
- 7Turning segways into soccer robots19 citations · 2005
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- 9Improbability filtering for rejecting false positives15 citations · 2003
- 10A navigation system for robot soccer5 citations · 1999