Ryan Williams
274 Whittemore Hall
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Assistant Professor
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2014
B.S., Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2005
Selected Papers
Williams, R. K., A. Gasparri, and G. Ulivi, "Decentralized Matroid Optimization for Topology Constraints in Multi-Robot Allocation Problems," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017, Best multi-robot paper finalist.
Williams, R. K., A. Gasparri, G. Ulivi, and G. S. Sukhatme. 2017. “Generalized Topology Control for Nonholonomic Teams With Discontinuous Interactions.” IEEE Transactions on Robotics PP (99): 1–8.
R. K. Williams and G. S. Sukhatme, “Constrained Interaction and Coordination in Proximity-Limited Multi-Agent Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 29, pp. 930–944, 2013.
Selected Projects
CRII: RI: Distributed, Stable and Robust Topology Control: New Methods for Asymmetrically Interacting Multi-Robot Teams, National Science Foundation