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Career

· Contract Instructor, Colorado School of Mines2025–2025
· Associate Head, Queen's University2025–
· Professor, Queen's University2021–
· Associate Professor, Queen's University2019–2021
· Founding Director, Ingenuity Labs Research Institute2018–2024
· KKS International Visiting Professor, Örebro University2016–2017
· Adjunct Research Professor, Carleton University2010–2018
· Assistant Professor, Queen's University2010–2016
· Assistant Professor, Carleton University2007–2010
· R&D/Control Systems Engineer IT, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, Inc. (MDA)2005–2007
· Ph.D. in Systems Control, University of Toronto2001–2005
· Research Assistant, University of Toronto2001–2005
· Research Assistant, Inco Ltd. and Queen's University1999–1999
· M.Sc. in Dynamic Systems, Queen's University1999–2001
· Research Assistant, Queen's University1999–2001
· Research Assistant, Queen's University and Brunswick Mining and Smelting1998–1998
· Engineering Assistant, McIntosh Redpath Engineering Ltd. (Stantec)1997–1997
· B.Sc.(Hons.) in Mine-Mechanical Engineering, Queen's University1995–1999

Publications (142)

Formations of vehicles in cyclic pursuit
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 2004
697
cited
Pursuit formations of unicycles
at - Automatisierungstechnik · 2006
205
cited
Multiple Mobile Robot Task and Motion Planning: A Survey
ACM Computing Surveys · 2022
101
cited
Autonomous underground tramming for center‐articulated vehicles
J. Field Robotics · 2008
90
cited
How to pick a mobile robot simulator: A quantitative comparison of CoppeliaSim, Gazebo, MORSE and Webots with a focus on the accuracy of motion simulations
Simulation modelling practice and theory · 2022
62
cited
Experiments in multirobot coordination
Robotics Auton. Syst. · 2006
53
cited
Learning‐based model predictive control for improved mobile robot path following using Gaussian processes and feedback linearization
J. Field Robotics · 2023
47
cited
Visual indoor positioning with a single camera using PnP
International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation · 2015
45
cited
Admittance Control for Robotic Loading: Design and Experiments with a 1‐Tonne Loader and a 14‐Tonne Load‐Haul‐Dump Machine
J. Field Robotics · 2016
44
cited
The Katwijk beach planetary rover dataset
Int. J. Robotics Res. · 2018
44
cited
Robotics in Mining
Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2nd Ed. · 2016
41
cited
How to pick a mobile robot simulator: A quantitative comparison of CoppeliaSim, Gazebo, MORSE and Webots with a focus on accuracy of motion
Simulation modelling practice and theory · 2022
39
cited
Toward Autonomous Excavation of Fragmented Rock: Full-Scale Experiments
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering · 2008
39
cited
A pursuit strategy for wheeled-vehicle formations
42nd IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37475) · 2003
37
cited
Experiments in feedback linearized iterative learning‐based path following for center‐articulated industrial vehicles
J. Field Robotics · 2019
34
cited
Localization in large-scale underground environments with RFID
Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2011
32
cited
What lies beneath: Material classification for autonomous excavators using proprioceptive force sensing and machine learning
Automation in Construction · 2020
31
cited
Towards intensity-augmented SLAM with LiDAR and ToF sensors
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2015
30
cited
Iterative Learning-Based Admittance Control for Autonomous Excavation
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems · 2019
28
cited
Automatic Identification of Large Fragments in a Pile of Broken Rock Using a Time-of-Flight Camera
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering · 2014
27
cited
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