Lawrence Erickson

Hello! I am Lawrence Erickson, a PhD student working under Prof. Steven LaValle at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

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.
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.

Combinatorial Filtering

Lawrence H. Erickson, Jingjin Yu, Yaonan Huang, Steven M. LaValle. Counting Moving Bodies Using Sparse Sensor Beams. Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, 2012.

This paper to appear as an invited contribution to IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering in 2013.

Cops and Robbers in Graphs

James Carraher, Ilkyoo Choi, Michelle Delcourt, Lawrence H. Erickson, Douglas B. West. Locating a robber on a graph via distance queries. Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 463, pp. 54-61, 2012, DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2012.06.035.

Blind Robots

Lawrence H. Erickson, Steven M. LaValle. Toward the Design and Analysis of Blind, Bouncing Robots. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013.
Lawrence H. Erickson, Joseph Knuth, Jason M. O'Kane, Steven M. LaValle. Probabilistic localization with a blind robot. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008.

Path Planning

Lawrence H. Erickson, Steven M. LaValle. A Simple, but NP-Hard Motion Planning Problem. To appear in AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2013.
Lawrence H. Erickson, Steven M. LaValle. Survivability: Measuring and Ensuring Path Diversity, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2009.