Hey look!  A picture of me on the Great Wall of China.  It's pretty great.

If you're a new-comer to these parts, I'm a 2nd-year PhD student at Georgia Tech.
I'm studying computer science, but more specifically, robotics.  Even more
specifically, I'm studying multi-robot systems.  I'm interested in ways that a
team or group of robots can use their numbers to complete tasks efficiently, despite
problems like noisy sensors, incomplete information about their environment and
antagonistic forces working against them.

My Stuff:

My Lab:
    The BORG Lab

My Advisor:
     Tucker Balch

My CV

My Current Projects:
    MARS 2020 - My research assistantship.  See publication [1].
    RoboCup
    CS7636 Project - "Particle Filter Tracking of Opponents in Robotic Soccer"
        This has actually morphed into a larger project that will be called something like
        "Cooperative Bearing Only Tracking without Data Association".  Look for more 
        info soon, probably a publication this winter, and integration into our 2004 RoboCup team.

My Past Projects:
    CS7001 Mini-Projects   

My Publications:
    [1] M. Powers, T. Balch "Value Based Communication Preservation for Mobile Robots",
            submitted to IEEE International Conference for Robotics and Automation 2004

My Coursework:
    Fall 2002:
    CS7001: Intro to PhD studies
    CS8903L: Autonomous Multi-Robot Systems 

    Spring 2003:
    ISYE 8000C: Self-Organization
    CS7636: Computational Perception

    Fall 2003:
    CS6505: Complexity and Algorithms   
    MATH4541: Dynamics and Bifurcations I

My Contact Info:

    E-mail: mpowers@cc

    Office: 344 CRB

    Office Phone: still working on that