KJO Publications

Balch, T., Summet, J., Blank, D., Kumar, D., Guzdial, M., O'Hara, K., Walker, D., Sweat, M., Gupta, G., Tansley, S., Jackson, J., Gupta, M., Muhammad, M., Prashad, S., Eilbert, N., and Gavin, A. "Designing Personal Robots for Education: Hardware, Software, and Curriculum." Pervasive Computing. 7(2). April 2008.
O'Hara, K., Walker, D., and Balch, T. "Physical Path Planning Using a Pervasive Embedded Network." IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 24(3). June 2008.
O'Hara, K., Summet, J., Balch, T., Blank, D., and Kumar, D. "Personal Robots as Vehicles for Introductory Computer Science and Beyond." Tutorial. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). May 2008.
Kumar, D., Blank, D., O'Hara, K., Tansley, D.S.W., Guzdial, M., and Balch, T. "Engaging Computing Students with AI and Robotics." AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science. March 2008.

O'Hara, K., Blank, D., Hybinette, M., Rus, D. Workshop on Research in Robots for Education. Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (Workshop Summary). June 2007. [workshop summary]
Nathuji, R., O'Hara, K., Schwan, K., and Balch, T. "CompatPM: Enabling Energy Efficient Multimedia Workloads for Distributed Mobile Platforms." Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN'07). January 2007.

Keith J. O'Hara and Tucker Balch. "Mobility and Pervasiveness in Physical Computing Systems." Workshop on Mobility and Scalability in Wireless Sensor Networks (MSWSN) as part of the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS). June 2006. [invited presentation]
Himanshu Raj, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, Keith J. O'Hara, Ripal Nathuji, Karsten Schwan, and Tucker Balch. "Spirits: Using Virtualization and Pervasiveness to Manage Mobile Robot Software Systems." Second IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managed Networks, Systems & Services (SelfMan). June 2006.
Keith J. O'Hara, Ripal Nathuji, Himanshu Raj, Karsten Schwan, and Tucker Balch. "AutoPower: Toward Energy-Aware Software Systems for Distributed Mobile Robots." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). April 2006. [paper]
Keith J. O'Hara, Victor Bigio, Shaun Whitt, Daniel Walker, and Tucker Balch. "Evaluation of a Large Scale Pervasive Embedded Network for Robot Path Planning." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). April 2006. [paper]

Keith J. O'Hara, Victor Bigio, Eric Dodson, Arya Irani, Daniel Walker, and Tucker Balch."Physical Path Planning Using the Gnats." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. April 2005.[paper]
Keith J. O'Hara, Daniel Walker, and Tucker Balch."The GNATs -- Low-Cost Embedded Networks for Supporting Mobile Robots". Third International Multi-Robot Systems Workshop. March 2005. [paper]

Keith J. O'Hara and Tucker Balch."Pervasive Embedded Networks for Supporting Multi-Robot Activities." AAAI-04 workhop on Sensor Networks. July 2004.
Keith J. O'Hara and Tucker Balch."Distributed Path Planning for Robots in Dynamic Environments Using a Pervasive Embedded Network." 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. July 2004. [paper] [poster]
Keith J. O'Hara and Tucker Balch. "Pervasive Sensor-less Networks for Cooperative Multi-Robot Tasks." 7th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. June 2004. [paper]
Paulos, A., Dumitras, T., Narasimhan, P., Thaker, G. and O'Hara, K. "Empirical Evaluation of MEAD's Fault Tolerant CORBA Infrastructure." The Fourth Workshop on The ACE ORB (TAO). Arlington, VA. 2004. [presentation]
Lardieri, P., Thaker, G., and O'Hara, K. "Tools for QoS Award Allocation and Depolyment of CCM Based Applications." The Object Management Group's (OMG) Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-Time and Embedded Systems. Washington DC. July 2004. [presentation]

Keith J. O'Hara. "Navigation Networks: Biological Inspiration for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Navigation." 2nd International Workshop on the Mathematics and Algorithms of Social Insects. December 2003. [Extended Abstract]
Thaker, G., Lardieri, P., Winter, C., Mulholland, E., O'Hara, K., and Naik, G. "Implementation Experience with OMG's SCIOP Mapping." 5th International Conference on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA). November 2003. [paper]
Thaker, G., Lardieri, P., Winters, C., Mulholland, E., Cohen, J., and O'Hara, K. "SCIOP Implementation in a Real-time ORB Using an Extensible Transport Framework." The Object Management Group's (OMG) Workshop on Distributed Object Computing for Real-time and Embedded Systems. Arlington, VA. July 2003. [presentation]
O'Hara, K. and Kay, J. "Open Source Software and Computer Science Education." The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. Volume 18, Number 3. February 2003.[paper]
O'Hara, K. and Kay, J. "Investigating Open Source Software and Educational Robotics." The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. Volume 18, Number 3. February 2003. [paper]

O'Hara, K., Lardieri P., Thaker, G., and Winters C. "SCTP and its adaptation to TAO." The Second Workshop on The ACE ORB (TAO). Arlington, VA. 2002. [presentation]
Thaker, G., Lardieri P., Krecker, D., O'Hara, K., and Winters C. "Achieving Bounded End-to-End Latencies with Real-time Linux and Real-time CORBA." The Object Management Group's (OMG) Real-Time and Embedded Distributed Object Computing Workshop. Arlington, VA. 2002. [presentation]

Keith's Publications