Jennifer Gage's Personal Webpage

Welcome to Jennifer Gage's (minimal) personal webpage.

Information about me:
I am a PhD Candidate working with Dr. Robin Murphy at the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue. I have completed my Masters: Analysis of How Mobile Robots Fail in the Field(bibtex), and am currently persuing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of South Florida.

Teaching

Spring 2005:	Taught Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2005:	Teaching Assistant for Intro. to AI Robotics
	Room - ENB 335
	Phone - 974-3914
	Office Hours - TR 2-3:30pm
	See also: Blackboard and Local Resources

Research

I am primarily interested in problems that arise when autonomous robots are used in unknown or very complex (difficult to model) environments, for example natural outdoor or field environments. Especially problems that arise in the following areas:

Perception
Learning
FDIR (fault detection, identification, and recovery)
Performance monitoring

Other related research interests include:

Autonomic Computing
Homeostatic Control

This page provides links to papers that I have authored since I joined CRASAR including reports, published (or in print) conference papers, and journal articles. A better maintained list of CRASAR's published and accepted papers (including mine) can be found here. This page also includes documentation of some past software projects, a LaTeX style file for producing USF Master's and PhD's, and amusing images I've run across lately.

Papers

Title or Description	Published	Bibtex Entry
Original Fault Tolerance Lit. Review	Internal
Reliability Analysis of Mobile Robots	IEEE International Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2003	bibtex
Follow-up Analysis of Mobile Robot Failures	ICRA 2004	bibtex
An Investigation of MML Methods for Fault Dianogsis in Mobile Robots	IEEE International Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2004	bibtex
Conflict Metric as a Measure of Sensing Quality	ICRA 2005	bibtex
ICRA 2004 Fault Diagnosis Workshop Report	Technical Report for the Safety Security Rescue Research Center	bibtex
How UGVs Physically Fail in the Field	IEEE Transactions on Robotics 21(3) 2005	bibtex
Use of Dempster-Shafer Conflict Metric to Detect Interpretation Inconsistency	Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2005	bibtex
Use of Dempster-Shafer Conflict Metric to Adapt Sensor Allocation to Unknown Environments	International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS) 2006	bibtex

Documentation

Description	Link
Image Processing Project Documentation	Image Processing/
MML Diagnosis Javadocs	MMLDiagnosis Simulator/

LaTeX Style File for USF Master's Thesis and PhD Dissertation

Warning: For Latex experts only. Use at your own risk. If you choose to use this style file it is likely you will have to do additional work on it. It is correct for the Spring 2004 Master's formatting. I have not looked at the PhD formatting requirements. But if you'd planned to use Latex for your Thesis or Disstertation then this style file will help. Download.

Tutorials

Tutorials developed by Dr. Aaron Gage and posted here for public viewing.

GDB - a powerful UNIX/Linux debugger for C/C++ programs
gcc/g++/make - basics of how to compile and execute C/C++ programs on UNIX/Linux
A detailed make tutorial.
A general UNIX tutorial.

Amusements

A gas station owner in Menlo Park, Calif., expresses his opinion on the recent surge in gasoline prices.
Paul Sakuma, Associated Press.
May 19, 2004

One of the lab's robots dressed up for the season.
Created by Colleen Cleveland.
October 27, 2004

What luck for rulers that men do not think. --Adolf Hilter

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes.