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Publications

Journal Articles

  • S. McCammon and G. Hollinger "Topological Path Planning for Autonomous Information Gathering," Autonomous Robots, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 821-842, Sept 2021.
  • S. McCammon, G. Marcon dos Santos, M. Frantz, T. P. Welch, G. Best, R. K. Shearman, J. D. Nash, J. A. Barth, J. A. Adams, and G. Hollinger, "Ocean front detection and tracking using a team of heterogeneous marine vehicles," Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 854-881, Sept 2021.
  • N. Lawrance, R. DeBortoli, D. Jones, S. McCammon, L. Milliken, A. Nicolai, T. Somers and G. Hollinger, "Shared autonomy for low-cost underwater vehicles," Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 495-516, May 2019.
  • K. Benoit-Bird, T. Welch, C. Waluk, I. Wangen, P. McGill, C. Okuda, G. Hollinger, M. Sato, S. McCammon. "Equipping an underwater glider with a new echosounder to explore ocean ecosystems," Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, vol. 16, no. 11, pp.734-749, Nov. 2018.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

  • S. McCammon, S. Jamieson, T. A. Mooney, Y. Girdhar "Discovering Biological Hotspots with a Passively Listening AUV" to appear in Proc IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 2024.
  • Y. Girdhar, N. McGuire, L. Cai, S. Jamieson, S. McCammon, B. Claus, J. E. San Soucie, J. E. Todd, T. A. Mooney, Yogesh, et al. "CUREE: A curious underwater robot for ecosystem exploration." in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 2023.
  • S. McCammon, N. Aoki, T. A. Mooney, and Y. Girdhar "Adaptive Online Sampling of Periodic Processes with Application to Coral Reef Acoustic Abundance Monitoring" in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 2022.
  • I. Rankin, S. McCammon, and G. Hollinger "Robotic Information Gathering using Semantic Language Instructions," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi’an, China (virtual), May. 2021.
  • S. McCammon, D. Jones, and G. Hollinger, "Topology-Aware Self-Organizing Maps for Robotic Information Gathering" in Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, NV (virtual), Oct. 2020.
  • S. McCammon, T. Welch, C. Waluk, K. Benoit-Bird, J. Barth, and G. Hollinger, "Onboard autonomy system for the Slocum glider," in Proc. IEEE/MTS OCEANS Conference, Seattle, WA, Oct. 2019.
  • S. McCammon and G. Hollinger. "Topological hotspot identification for informative path planning with a marine robot," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, May 2018.
  • S. McCammon and G. Hollinger. "Planning and executing optimal non-entangling paths for tethered underwater vehicles," In proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore, May 2017. Finalist: Best Automation Paper Award
  • N. Lawrance, T. Somers, D. Jones, S. McCammon, and G. Hollinger. "Ocean deployment and testing of a semi-autonomous underwater vehicle." in Proc. MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference, Monterey, CA, Sept 2016.

Workshop Papers and Poster Presentations

  • S. McCammon, F. Jensen, T. A. Mooney, Y. Girdhar "A Visual Acoustic Sensor Emplacement for Long-Term Monitoring of Coral Reef Biodiversity" In Proc. Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM), Virtual, 2022.
  • I. Rankin, S. McCammon, and G. Hollinger, "Optimized robotic information gathering using semantic language instructions," in Proc. Robotics: Science and Systems Conference Workshop on Robots in the Wild: Challenges in Deploying Robust Autonomy for Robotic Exploration (RSS), virtual, July, 2020.
  • S. McCammon and G. Hollinger, “Planning non-entangling paths for tethered underwater robots using simulated annealing,” in Proc. Robotics: Science and Systems Conf. Workshop on Robot Learning and Planning (RSS16), Ann Arbor, MI, June, 2016.
  • N. Lawrance, T. Somers, D. Jones, S. McCammon and G. Hollinger, "Ocean deployment and testing of a semi-autonomous underwater vehicle," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on Marine Robot Localization and Navigation (ICRA), Stockholm, May 2016.