Lawrence Erickson
Hello! I am Lawrence Erickson, a PhD student working under Prof. Steven LaValle at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
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Educational Background
Undergraduate:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aug. 2004 - May 2008
B.S. in Computer Science
B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures (Japan)
Graduate:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 2008 - Present
M.S. in Computer Science in Winter 2012
Expected Ph.D. completion in Spring 2014
Research
Art Galleries/Partially Distinguishable Landmarks
- Lawrence H. Erickson, Steven M. LaValle. Navigation among visually connected sets of partially distinguishable landmarks, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224694.
- Lawrence H. Erickson, Steven M. LaValle. An art gallery approach to ensuring that landmarks are distinguishable, Robotics: Science and Systems, 2011.
- Lawrence H. Erickson, Steven M. LaValle. How many landmark colors are needed to avoid confusion in a polygon?. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979838.
Combinatorial Filtering
Cops and Robbers in Graphs
Blind Robots
Path Planning