Publications in Refereed Journals and Conferences

• Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Connectivity Repair with K-Redundancy,Nuzhet Atay and Burchan Bayazit,WAFR 2008: The Eighth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics , in press, December 2008.
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• Emergent Task Allocation for Mobile Robots,Nuzhet Atay and O. Burchan Bayazit,Proceedings of the 2007 Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) , in press, June 2007.
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• Adaptive Embedded Roadmaps for Sensor Networks,Gazihan Alankus, Nuzhet Atay, Chenyang Lu, O. Burchan Bayazit,Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , pp. 3645--3652, April 2007.
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• A Motion Planning Processor on Reconfigurable Hardware,Nuzhet Atay and Burchan Bayazit,Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , pp. 125-132, May 2006.
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• Roadmap Query for Sensor Network Assisted Navigation in Dynamic Environments,Sangeeta Bhattacharya, Nuzhet Atay, Gazihan Alankus Chenyang Lu, O. Burchan Bayazit, Gruia-Catalin Roman,International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS)06 , Best Paper,, pp. 17-36, June 2006.
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• Automated Motion Synthesis for Dancing Characters,Gazihan Alankus, A. Alphan Bayazit and O. Burchan Bayazit,In Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds , October 2005, To Appear.    (pdf)
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• Spatiotemporal Query Strategies for Navigation in Dynamic Sensor Network Environments,Gazihan Alankus, Nuzhet Atay, Chenyang Lu and Burchan Bayazit,In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intel. Rob. Syst. (IROS) , August 2005, To Appear.    (pdf)
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• Adaptive Embedded Roadmaps for Sensor Networks,Gazihan Alankus, Nuzhet Atay, Chenyang Lu and Burchan Bayazit,In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intel. Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , April 2007, To Appear.    (pdf)
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• Iterative Relaxation of Constraints: A Framework for Improving Automated Motion Planning,O. Burchan Bayazit, Dawen Xie and Nancy M. Amato,In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intel. Rob. Syst. (IROS) , August 2005, To Appear.    (pdf)
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• Collision Detection Chip on Reconfigurable Hardware,Nuzhet Atay, John Lockwood and Burchan Bayazit,In Proc. 2005 Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics) , October 2005, To Appear.    (pdf)
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• Shepherding Behaviors,Jyh-Ming Lien, O. Burchan Bayazit, Ross T. Sowell, Samuel Rodriguez, Nancy M. Amato,In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA) , April 2004, 4159--4164.    (pdf)
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• Enhancing Randomized Motion Planners: Exploring with Haptic Hints,O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato,Autonomous Robots Journal, Special Issue on Personal Robotics , 10,, 2001, 163--174.    (pdf)
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• Choosing Good Distance Metrics and Local Planners for Probabilistic Roadmap Methods,Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Lucia K. Dale, Chris Jones, Daniel Vallejo,IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation , 16(4),, August 2000, 442-447.    (pdf)
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• Better Flocking Behaviors using Rule-Based Roadmaps,O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato, Proceedings of the 2002 Artificial Life (ALIFE) , , December 2002.    (pdf)
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• Better Group Behaviors in Complex Environments using Global Roadmaps,O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato,Proceedings of the 2002 Pacific Graphics , December 2002.    (pdf)
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• Roadmap-Based Flocking for Complex Environments,O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato,the Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) , December 2002.    (pdf)
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• Probabilistic Roadmap Motion Planning for Deformable Objects,O. Burchan Bayazit, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato,Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , May 2002, 2126-2133.    (pdf)
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• Ligand Binding with OBPRM and Haptic User Input,O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato,Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'01) , May 2001, 954--959.    (pdf)
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• Enhancing Randomized Motion Planners: Exploring with Haptic Hints,O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato,Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'00) , April 2000, 529--536.    (pdf)
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• OBPRM: An Obstacle-Based PRM for 3D Workspaces,Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Lucia K. Dale, Chris Jones, Daniel Vallejo,Proceedings of the Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR'98) , March 1998, 155--168.    (pdf)
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• Choosing Good Distance Metrics and Local Planners for Probabilistic Roadmap Methods,Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Lucia K. Dale, Chris Jones, Daniel Vallejo, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'98) , May 1998, 630--637.    (pdf)
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• Roadmap Query Protocols for Sensor Network Guided Navigation in Dynamic Environments,Sangeeta Bhattacharya,Nuzhet Atay, Gazihan Alankus, Chenyang Lu, O. Burchan Bayazit and Gruia-Catalin Roman,Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Networks (DCOSS 2006), Gibbons, P. B., Abdelzaher, T., Aspnes, J., and Rao, R., (editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4026, Springer, San Francisco, USA, June 2006, pp. 17-36. (Best Paper Award) , 2006.    (pdf)
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• Emergent Task Allocation for Mobile Robots,Nuzhet Atay and Burchan Bayazit,Proceedings of the Robotics Conference (RSS'07) , July 2007.    (pdf)
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• Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Connectivity Repair with K-Redundancy,Nuzhet Atay and Burchan Bayazit,Under Review - Typos Corrected Version , 2007.    (pdf)
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• Ligand Binding with OBPRM and Haptic User Input:Enhancing Automatic Motion Planning with Virtual Touch,O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato,Currents in Computational Molecular Biology, ed. El-Mabrouk, Lengauer, Sankoff, Les Publications CRM, Montreal, Canada, April 2001. Also poster presented at Research on Comp. Mol. Biology (RECOMB) 2001 .
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• Solving Motion Planning Problems by Iterative Relaxation of Constraints,O. Burchan Bayazit,PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University , May 2003.    (pdf)
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• Choosing Good Distance Metrics and Local Planners for Probabilistic Roadmap Methods,O. Burchan Bayazit,M.S. Thesis, Department of Computer Science,Texas A&M University , May 1998.    (pdf)
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• A Collision Detection Chip on Reconfigurable Hardware,Nuzhet Atay, John Lockwood and Burchan Bayazit,Technical Report WUCSE-2005-33, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University , 2005.    (pdf)
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• Emergent Task Allocation for Mobile Robots through Intentions and Directives,Nuzhet Atay and Burchan Bayazit,Technical Report, WUCSE-2007-2, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis , 2007.    (pdf)
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• Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Connectivity Repair with K-Redundancy,Nuzhet Atay and Burchan Bayazit,Technical Report,WUCSE-2007-48, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis , 2007.    (pdf)
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• Automated Motion Synthesis for Virtual Choreography,Gazihan Alankus, A. Alphan Bayazit, O. Burchan Bayazit,Technical Report WUCSE-2004-66, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University , 2004.    (pdf)
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• Force Feedback Applications in Motion Planning,O. Burchan Bayazit,Symposium on Computer Graphics & Digital Art, TEXGRAPH'00, Texas A&M University , May 2000.
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• Providing Haptic 'Hints' to Automatic Motion Planners,O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato,Phantom Users Group Workshop (PUG99) , October 1999.    (pdf)
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• Providing Haptic 'Hints' to Automatic Motion Planners,Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Kyunghwan Kim, Wookho Son, Guang Song,Technical Report TR98-026, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University , Nov 1998 (Revised February, 1999).    (pdf)
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• Cooperative Motion Planning: Providing Hints to Automatic Motion Planners,Nancy M. Amato, O. Burchan Bayazit, Kyunghwan Kim, Wookho Son, Guang Song,Presentation at Workshop on Motion Support in Virtual Prototyping, Stanford University , May 1999.
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• Gray Level Texture Generation by Binary Markov Random Field Model with Morphological Operations,O. Burchan Bayazit, Levent Erkok, Okan Uludag, Fatos Yarman Vural,Technical Report 95-10, Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University , July 1995.
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