Akella.bib


@string{ijrr = "International Journal of Robotics Research"}
@string{icra = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation"}
@string{icravideo = "Video Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation"}
@string{iros = "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems"}
@string{isrr = "International Symposium of Robotics Research"}
@string{wafr = "Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics"}
@string{jacs = "Journal of the American Chemical Society"}
@string{rss = "Robotics: Science and Systems Conference"}


@inproceedings{AgarwalA18,
author = "S. Agarwal and S. Akella",
title = "Simultaneous Optimization of Assignments and Goal Formations for Multiple Robots",
booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages = "6708--6715",
month = may,
year = "2018",
address = "Brisbane, Australia",
doi={10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460542},
ISSN={2577-087X},
}


@inproceedings{AgarwalA20,
author = "S. Agarwal and S. Akella",
title = "Line Coverage with Multiple Robots",
booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages = "3248--3254",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Paris, France",
}


@inproceedings{AgarwalA21,
author  =       "Saurav Agarwal and Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "Approximation Algorithms for the Single Robot Line Coverage Problem",
editor  =       "Steve M. LaValle and Ming Lin and Timo Ojala and Dylan Shell and Jingjin Yu",
booktitle =     "Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics {XIV (WAFR 2020)}",
publisher =     "Springer",
address =       "Cham",
pages =         "534-550",
year    =       2021,
doi     =       {10.1007/978-3-030-66723-8_32},
url     =       "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66723-8_32",
abstract="The line coverage problem is the task of servicing a given set of one-dimensional features in an environment. Its applications include the inspection of road networks, power lines, and oil and gas lines. The line coverage problem is a generalization of the standard arc routing problems, and is NP-hard in general. We address the single robot line coverage problem where the service and deadhead costs are distinct and asymmetric. We model the problem as an optimization problem that minimizes the total cost of travel on a given graph. We present approximation algorithms to obtain bounded solutions efficiently, using the minimum cost flow problem. We build the main algorithm in stages by considering three simpler subproblems. The subproblems are based on the structure of the required graph, i.e., the graph induced by the features that require servicing. We first present an optimal algorithm for the case of Eulerian graphs with only required edges. Next we consider general graphs, not necessarily Eulerian, with only required edges and present a 2-approximation algorithm. Finally, we consider the general case with both required and non-required edges. The approximation algorithm is dependent on the Asymmetric Traveling Salesperson Problem (ATSP), and is bounded by {\$}{\$}{\backslash}alpha (C) + 2{\$}{\$}$\alpha$(C)+2, where {\$}{\$}{\backslash}alpha (C){\$}{\$}$\alpha$(C)is the approximation factor of the ATSP algorithm with C connected components. Our upper bound is also an improvement over the existing results for the asymmetric rural postman problem.",
}


@inproceedings{AgarwalA20b,
author  =       "Saurav Agarwal and Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "Approximation Algorithms for the Single Robot Line Coverage Problem",
editor  =       "Steve LaValle and Ming Lin and Timo Ojala and Dylan Shell and Jingjin Yu",
booktitle =     "14th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics",
month  =        jun,
address =       "Oulu, Finland",
year    =       2020,
}
%pages = "",


@article{AgarwalA22a,
author  =       "Saurav Agarwal and Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "Area Coverage with Multiple Capacity-Constrained Robots",
journal =       "IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters",
volume  =       "7",
number  =        2,
pages	=	"3734--3741",
month  =        apr,
year    =       2022,
doi = {10.1109/LRA.2022.3146952},
}


@inproceedings{AgarwalA22b,
author  =       "Saurav Agarwal and Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "The Correlated Arc Orienteering Problem",
booktitle =     "15th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2022)",
month  =        jun,
address =       "College Park, Maryland",
year    =       2022,
}


@Inbook{AgarwalA23,
author="Saurav Agarwal and Srinivas Akella",
title="The Correlated Arc Orienteering Problem",
bookTitle="Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics {XV}: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics {(WAFR 2022)}",
editor="Steven M. LaValle and Jason M. O'Kane and Michael Otte and Dorsa Sadigh and Pratap Tokekar",
pages="402--418",
publisher="Springer",
address="Cham, Switzerland",
year="2023",
doi={10.1007/978-3-031-21090-7_24},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21090-7_24},
}


@article{AgarwalA23b,
author  =       "Saurav Agarwal and Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "The Single Robot Line Coverage Problem: Theory, Algorithms, and Experiments",
journal =       "Networks",
month  =        dec,
year    =       2023,
volume  =       "82",
number  =        4,
pages	=	"479--505",
doi = {10.1002/net.22171},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/net.22171},
note    =       "special issue on Arc Routing Problems",
}
%publisher=  "Wiley",


@article{AgarwalA24,
author  =       "Saurav Agarwal and Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "Line Coverage with Multiple Robots: Algorithms and Experiments",
journal =       "IEEE Transactions on Robotics",
note    =       "online access",
month  =        jan,
year    =       2024,
doi = {10.1109/TRO.2024.3355802},
url = {https://10.1109/TRO.2024.3355802},
}
%volume  =       "",
%number  =        ,
%pages	=	"--",



@inproceedings{Akella-icra92,
author = "S. Akella and M. T. Mason",
title = "Posing polygonal objects in the plane by pushing",
booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages = "2255--2262",
month = may,
year = "1992",
address = "Nice, France"}


@inproceedings{Akella93,
author = "M. T. Mason and S. Akella and K. M. Lynch",
title = "New results in pushing",
booktitle = "1993 NSF Design Systems Grantees Conference",
month = jan,
year = "1993",
address = "Charlotte, NC"}


@inproceedings{akella-icra95,
author = "S. Akella and M. T. Mason",
title = "Parts Orienting by push-aligning",
booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages= "414--420",
month = may,
year = "1995",
address = "Nagoya, Japan"}


@article{AkellaM98,
title = "Posing polygonal objects in the plane by pushing",
Author = "S. Akella and M. T. Mason",
journal = "International Journal of Robotics Research",
volume = "17",
number =  "1",
pages  = "70-88",
year = "1998",
month = jan} 


@inproceedings{Akella-isrr95,
Author 	= 	"S. Akella and W. H. Huang and K. M. Lynch and M. T. Mason",
Title 	= 	"Planar Manipulation on a Conveyor with a One Joint Robot",
booktitle = 	"Robotics Research: The Seventh International Symposium",
editor	=	"G. Giralt and G. Hirzinger",
pages	=	"265--276",
publisher =	"Springer",
year 	= 	"1996",
address = 	"London, UK"}


@incollection{Akella-wafr96,
author 	= 	"S. Akella and W. H. Huang and K. M. Lynch and M. T. Mason",
editor =	"J.-P. Laumond and M. Overmars",
title 	= 	"Sensorless Parts Feeding with a One Joint Robot",
booktitle =     "Algorithms for Robotic Motion and Manipulation",
publisher =     "A. K. Peters",
address =       "Wellesley, Massachusetts",
year 	= 	"1997",
pages   =       "229--237"}


@phdthesis{Akella96b,
author 	= 	"S. Akella",
title 	= 	"Robotic Manipulation for Parts Transfer and Orienting: Mechanics, Planning, and Shape Uncertainty",
note 	= 	"Robotics Institute Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-96-38",
school 	= 	"The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University", 
address =       "Pittsburgh, PA",
month 	= 	dec,
year 	= 	"1996"}


@phdthesis{Akella-phd,
author = "S. Akella",
title = "Robotic Manipulation for Parts Transfer and Orienting: Mechanics, Planning, and Shape Uncertainty",
note = "Robotics Institute Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-96-38",
school = "The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University", 
month = dec,
year = "1996"}


@inproceedings{Akella96c,
author 	= 	"S. Akella and W. H. Huang and K. M. Lynch and M. T. Mason",
title 	= 	"From robotic juggling to robotic parts feeding",
booktitle= 	"Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems",
month 	= 	jun,
year 	= 	"1996",
address = 	"New Haven, CT"}


@inproceedings{Akella97,
author 	= 	"S. Akella and W. H. Huang and K. M. Lynch and M. T. Mason",
title 	= 	"Sensorless Parts Orienting with a One-Joint Manipulator",
booktitle= 	"IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "2383--2390",
month 	= 	apr,
year 	= 	"1997",
address = 	"Albuquerque, NM"}


@misc{Akella97b,
author 	=	"S. Akella and W. H. Huang and K. M. Lynch and M. T. Mason",
title	=	"Planar Manipulation on a Conveyor with a One Joint Robot",
howpublished=	"Video Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation", 
address  =      "Albuquerque, NM",
month    =       apr,
year	=	"1997"}


@techreport{Akella97a,
   author = "S. Akella",
   title = "Packaging of Motorola Two-Way Radios: Efficient Layouts, Automation, and Defect Reduction",
   institution = "The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign",
   month = aug,
   year = "1997",
   address= "Urbana, IL",
}



@inproceedings{Akella98b,
author 	= 	"S. Akella  and M. T. Mason",
title 	= 	"Parts Orienting with Partial Sensor Information",
booktitle= 	"IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
month 	= 	may,
year 	= 	"1998",
pages   =       "557--564",
address =       "Leuven, Belgium"
}


@inproceedings{Akella98c,
author 	= 	"S. Akella and M. T. Mason",
title 	= 	"Parts Orienting with Shape Uncertainty",
booktitle= 	"IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
month 	= 	may,
year 	= 	"1998",
pages   =       "565--572",
address =       "Leuven, Belgium"}


@misc{Akella97g,
author = "S. Akella",
title = "Packaging of {M}otorola Two-Way Radios: Efficient Layouts, Automation, and Defect Reduction",
howpublished = "The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign",
month = aug,
year = "1997"}


@article{Akella00,
author 	= 	"S. Akella and W. H. Huang and K. M. Lynch and M. T. Mason",
title 	= 	"Parts Feeding on a Conveyor with a One Joint Robot",
journal = 	"Algorithmica",
volume  =       "26",
number  =       "3/4", 
month 	= 	"March/April",
year 	= 	"2000",
pages   =       "313--344"}


@article{Akella00b,
author 	= 	"S. Akella and M. T. Mason",
title 	= 	"Orienting Toleranced Polygonal Parts",
journal = 	"International Journal of Robotics Research",
volume  =       "19",
number  =       "12", 
month 	= 	dec,
pages   =       "1147--1170",
year 	= 	"2000"} 


@inproceedings{Akella99,
author 	=	"Liang Lu and Srinivas Akella",
title	=	"Folding Cartons with Fixtures: A Motion Planning Approach",
booktitle =      "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "1570--1576",
address  =      "Detroit, MI",
month    =       may,
year	=	"1999"}


@article{Akella99c,
author 	= 	"S. Akella  and M. T. Mason",
title 	= 	"Using Partial Sensor Information to Orient Parts",
journal = 	"International Journal of Robotics Research",
volume  =       "18",
number  =       "10",
pages   =       "963--997",
month 	= 	oct,
year 	= 	"1999"}


@inproceedings{Akella99d,
author 	=	"Sebastien Blind and Christopher McCullough and Srinivas Akella and Jean Ponce",
title	=	"Manipulating Parts with an Array of Pins: A Method and a Machine",
booktitle =      "Ninth International Symposium of Robotics Research",
address  =      "Snowbird, Utah",
month    =       oct,
year	=	"1999"}


@article{Akella01b,
author 	=	"Sebastien Blind and Christopher McCullough and Srinivas Akella and Jean Ponce",
title	=	"Manipulating Parts with an Array of Pins: A Method and a Machine",
journal = 	"International Journal of Robotics Research",
volume  =       20,
number  =       10,
pages   =       "808--818",
month  =        oct,
year    =       2001}


@inproceedings{Akella02,
author 	=	"Srinivas Akella and Seth Hutchinson",
title	=	"Coordinating the Motions of Multiple Robots with Specified Trajectories",
booktitle =      "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =        "624--631",
month    =       may,
year	=	"2002",
address  =      "Washington, DC"}


@misc{Akella03,
author = "S. Akella and S. J. Blind and C. McCullough and J. Ponce",
title = "Automated Reconfigurable Object Manipulation Device with An Array of Pins",
howpublished = "US Patent No. 6,633,797",
month = oct,		  
year = "2003",
}		  


@inproceedings{Akella04,
author 	=	"Srinivas Akella and Jufeng Peng",
title	=	"Time-Scaled Coordination of Multiple Manipulators",
booktitle =      "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "3337--3344",
address  =      "New Orleans, LA",
month    =       apr,
year	=	"2004"}


@book{AkellaAHM08,
editor  =       "S. Akella and N. M. Amato and W. H. Huang and B. Mishra",
title =     "Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics {VII}",
publisher =     "Springer-Verlag",
address =       "Berlin",
year    =       2008}
}
% STAR 47 Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
% ISBN 978-3-540-68404-6
% e-ISBN 978-3-540-68405-3



@incollection{Akella20,
author  =       "Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "Assignment Algorithms for Variable Robot Formations",
booktitle =     "Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics {XII}",
editor  =       "Ken Goldberg and Pieter Abbeel and Kostas Bekris and Lauren Miller",
pages   =       "912-927",
publisher =     "Springer",
address =       "Cham",
year    =       2020,
abstract="This paper describes algorithms to perform optimal assignment of teams of robots translating in the plane from an initial formation to a variable goal formation. We consider the case when each robot is to be assigned a goal position, the individual robots are interchangeable, and the goal formation can be scaled or translated.We compute the costs for all candidate pairs of initial, goal robot assignments as functions of the parameters of the goal formation, and partition the parameter space into equivalence classes invariant to the cost order using computational geometry techniques. We compute a minimum completion time assignment for an equivalence class by formulating it as a linear bottleneck assignment problem (LBAP). To improve efficiency, we solve the LBAP problem for each equivalence class by incrementally updating the solution as the formation parameters are varied. This work is motivated by applications that include the motion of droplet formations in digital microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices, and of robot and drone formations in the plane.",
doi     =       "10.1007/978-3-030-43089-4_58",
url     =       "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43089-4_58",
}


@inproceedings{Akella16,
author  =       "Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "Assignment Algorithms for Variable Robot Formations",
editor  =       "Pieter Abbeel and Kostas Bekris and Ken Goldberg and Lauren Miller",
title =         "12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics",
month  =        dec,
address =       "San Francisco, CA",
year    =       2016,
}



@misc{AkellaS20,
author = "S. Akella and V. Shekar",
title = "Microfluidic devices and applications thereof",
howpublished = "US Patent No. 10611627",
month = apr,
year = "2020",
}		  


@misc{AkellaS19,
author = "S. Akella and V. Shekar",
title = "Microfluidic devices and applications thereof",
howpublished = "US Patent Application No. 15/589,123, notice of allowance issued",
month = dec,		  
year = "2019",
}		  


@misc{AkellaS17,
author = "S. Akella and V. Shekar",
title = "Microfluidic devices and applications thereof",
howpublished = "US Patent No. 9,643,835",
month = may,		  
year = "2017",
}		  


@misc{AkellaM18,
author = "S. Akella and Z. Ma",
title = "Method and system for coordination on optically controlled microfluidic systems",
howpublished = "US Patent No. 10,118,175",
month = nov,		  
year = "2018",
}		  


@misc{AkellaM17,
author = "S. Akella and Z. Ma",
title = "Method and system for coordination on optically controlled microfluidic systems",
howpublished = "US Patent No. 9,782,775",
month = oct,		  
year = "2017",
}		  



@inproceedings{Blind00b,
author  =       "Sebastien J. Blind and Christopher C. McCullough and Srinivas Akella and  Jean Ponce",
title   =       "Manipulating Parts with an Array of Pins: A Method and a Machine",
pages   =       "123--130",
editor =       "John M. Hollerbach and Daniel E. Koditschek",
booktitle =     "Robotics Research: The Ninth International Symposium",
year    =       2000,
publisher =     "Springer-Verlag",
address	=	"London"} 


@inproceedings{Blind00,
author  =       "Sebastien J. Blind and Christopher C. McCullough and Srinivas Akella and  Jean Ponce",
title   =       "A Reconfigurable Parts Feeder with an Array of Pins",
booktitle =     "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "147--153",
month	=	apr,
year    =       2000,
address	=	"San Francisco, CA"}


@inproceedings{Blindvideo00,
author 	=	"Sebastien J. Blind and Christopher C. McCullough and Srinivas Akella and Jean Ponce",
title	=	"A Reconfigurable Parts Feeder with an Array of Pins",
booktitle=	"Video Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation", 
address  =      "San Francisco, CA",
month    =       apr,
year	=	"2000"}


@article{Blind01,
author  =       "Sebastien J. Blind and Christopher C. McCullough and Srinivas Akella and  Jean Ponce",
title   =       "Manipulating Parts with an Array of Pins: A Method and a Machine",
journal =       "International Journal of Robotics Research",
volume  =       20,
number  =       10,
pages   =       "808--818",
month  =        oct,
year    =       2001}


@inproceedings{ChakrabortyPAM06,
author  =       "N. Chakraborty and J. Peng and S. Akella and J. Mitchell",
title   =       "Proximity Queries between Convex Objects: An Interior Point Approach for Implicit Surfaces",
booktitle =     "2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "1910--1916",
month	=	may,
year    =       2006,
address	=	"Orlando, FL",
}


@article{ChakrabortyPAM08,
author  =       "N. Chakraborty and J. Peng and S. Akella and J. E. Mitchell",
title   =       "Proximity Queries between Convex Objects: An Interior Point Approach for Implicit Surfaces",
journal =       "IEEE Transactions on Robotics",
Volume =       "24", 
Number =       "1",
pages   =      "211-220", 
month	=	feb,
year    =       "2008",
}


@INPROCEEDINGS {ChakrabortyAT09,
  AUTHOR       = {N. Chakraborty and S. Akella and J.C. Trinkle},
  TITLE        = {Complementarity-based Dynamic Simulation for Kinodynamic Motion Planning},
  BOOKTITLE    = "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems",
  pages        = 787-794,
  month        = oct,
  YEAR         = {2009},
  address      = "St. Louis, MO",
}


@inproceedings{ChakrabortyAW07,
author = "N. Chakraborty and S. Akella and J. T. Wen",
title = "Coverage of a Planar Point Set with Multiple Constrained Robots",
booktitle = case,
pages = "899--904", 
address = "Scottsdale, AZ",
month	=	sep,
year = "2007",
}



@inproceedings{ChakrabortyAW08,
author  =       "N. Chakraborty and S. Akella and J. T. Wen",
title   =       "Minimum Time Point Assignment for Coverage by Two Constrained Robots",
booktitle =     "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "1378--1383",
month	=	may,
year    =       2008,
address	=	"Pasadena, CA",
}


@article{ChakrabortyAW10,
author  =       "N. Chakraborty and S. Akella and J. T. Wen",
title   =       "Coverage of a Planar Point Set with Multiple Robots subject to Geometric Constraints",
journal =       "IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering",
Volume =       "7", 
Number =       "1",
pages   =       "111--122",
month    =      jan,  
year    =       "2010",
}


@inproceedings{ChakrabortyBAT07,
author  =       "N. Chakraborty and S. Berard and S. Akella and J. C. Trinkle",
title   =       "An Implicit Time-Stepping Method for Multibody Systems with Intermittent Contact",
booktitle =     "Robotics: Science and Systems 2007",
pages   =       "177--184",
month	=	jun,
year    =       2007,
address	=	"Atlanta, GA",
}


@inproceedings{ChakrabortyBAT07a,
author = "N. Chakraborty and S. Berard and S. Akella and J. C. Trinkle",
title = "An Implicit Time-Stepping Method for Quasi-Rigid Multibody Systems
with Intermittent Contact",
booktitle = "Proceedings of ASME DETC 2007",
note = "DETC2007-35526",
month = "September",
year = 2007,
address = "Las Vegas, NV"
}



@article{ChakrabortyBAT14,
author  =       "N. Chakraborty and S. Berard and S. Akella and J. C. Trinkle",
title   =       "A Geometrically-Implicit Time-Stepping Method for Multibody Systems with Intermittent Contact",
journal =       "International Journal of Robotics Research",
month    =      mar,  
year    =       "2014",
Volume =       "33", 
Number =       "3",
pages   =       "426–-445",
}


@inproceedings{DattaA23,
author = "Sayantan Datta and Srinivas Akella",
title = "Prioritized Robotic Exploration with Deadlines: A Comparison of
Greedy, Orienteering, and Profitable Tour Approaches",
booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)",
pages = "5737-5743",
month = may,
year = "2023",
address = "London, UK",
doi     = "10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161118",
}


@inproceedings{DattaA21,
author = "Sayantan Datta and Srinivas Akella",
title = "Prioritized Indoor Exploration with a Dynamic Deadline",
booktitle = "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS)",
pages = "3108-3114",
month = sep,
year = "2021",
address = "Prague, Czech Republic",
doi={10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161118},
}


@techreport{EyermanMCDS18,
   author = "Joe Eyerman and Bradley Mooring and Maureen Catlow and S. Datta and S. Akella",
   title = "Low-light collision scene reconstruction using unmanned aerial systems",
   institution = "RTI International and University of North Carolina at Charlotte",
   month = may,
   year = "2018",
   address= "Research Triangle Park and Charlotte, NC",
}


@article{GibasLMJBRHLSYQRKNCATSM21,
title = {Implementing building-level {SARS-CoV-2} wastewater surveillance on a university campus},
author = {Cynthia Gibas and Kevin Lambirth and Neha Mittal and Md Ariful Islam Juel and Visva Bharati Barua and Lauren {Roppolo Brazell} and Keshawn Hinton and Jordan Lontai and Nicholas Stark and Isaiah Young and Cristine Quach and Morgan Russ and Jacob Kauer and Bridgette Nicolosi and Don Chen and Srinivas Akella and Wenwu Tang and Jessica Schlueter and Mariya Munir},
journal = {Science of The Total Environment},
volume = {782},
pages = {146749},
month	= mar,
year = {2021},
issn = {0048-9697},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146749},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721018179},
keywords = {Wastewater, Epidemiology, SARS-CoV-2, Mitigation},
abstract = {The COVID-19 pandemic has been a source of ongoing challenges and presents an increased risk of illness in group environments, including jails, long-term care facilities, schools, and residential college campuses. Early reports that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was detectable in wastewater in advance of confirmed cases sparked widespread interest in wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) as a tool for mitigation of COVID-19 outbreaks. One hypothesis was that wastewater surveillance might provide a cost-effective alternative to other more expensive approaches such as pooled and random testing of groups. In this paper, we report the outcomes of a wastewater surveillance pilot program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a large urban university with a substantial population of students living in on-campus dormitories. Surveillance was conducted at the building level on a thrice-weekly schedule throughout the university's fall residential semester. In multiple cases, wastewater surveillance enabled the identification of asymptomatic COVID-19 cases that were not detected by other components of the campus monitoring program, which also included in-house contact tracing, symptomatic testing, scheduled testing of student athletes, and daily symptom reporting. In the context of all cluster events reported to the University community during the fall semester, wastewater-based testing events resulted in the identification of smaller clusters than were reported in other types of cluster events. Wastewater surveillance was able to detect single asymptomatic individuals in dorms with resident populations of 150–200. While the strategy described was developed for COVID-19, it is likely to be applicable to mitigation of future pandemics in universities and other group-living environments.}
}


@inproceedings{Girdhar05,
author  =       "Y. Girdhar and C. Bystroff and S. Akella and E. Carlson",
title   =       "Efficient Sampling of Protein Folding Pathways using HMMSTR and Probabilistic Roadmaps",
booktitle =     "2005 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB 2005)",
note    =       "Poster",
address	=	"Stanford, CA",
month	=	aug,
year    =       2005}



@inproceedings{Griffith04,
author  =       "E. Griffith and S. Akella",
title   =       "Coordinating Multiple Droplets in Planar Array Digital Microfluidics Systems",
booktitle =     "Sixth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics",
address	=	"Utrecht/Zeist, The Netherlands",
month	=	jul,
year    =       2004}


@incollection{Griffith05a,
author  =       "E. Griffith and S. Akella",
title   =       "Coordinating Multiple Droplets in Planar Array Digital Microfluidics Systems",
booktitle =     "Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics {VI}",
editor  =       "M. Erdmann and D. Hsu and M. Overmars and A. F. van der Stappen",
pages   =       "219--234",
publisher =     "Springer-Verlag",
address	=	"Berlin",
year    =       2005}


@article{GriffithA05b,
author  =       "E. J. Griffith and S. Akella",
title   =       "Coordinating Multiple Droplets in Planar Array Digital Microfluidic Systems",
journal =       "International Journal of Robotics Research",
volume  =       "24",
number =       "11",
pages   =       "933--949",
month   =       nov,
year    =       2005,}


@article{GriffithAG06,
author  =       "E. J. Griffith and S. Akella and M. K. Goldberg",
title   =       "Performance Characterization of a Reconfigurable 
                 Planar Array Digital Microfluidic System",
journal =       "IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems",
volume  =       "25",
number =       "2",
pages   =       "340-352",
month   =       feb,
year    =       2006,
}


@incollection{GriffithAG06b,
author  =       "E. Griffith and S. Akella and M. K. Goldberg",
title   =       "Performance Characterization of a Reconfigurable Planar Array Digital Microfluidic System",
booktitle =     "Design Automation Methods and Tools for Microfluidics-Based Biochips",
editor  =       "Krishnendu Chakrabarty and Jun Zeng",
pages   =       "329--356",
publisher =     "Springer",
address	=	"The Netherlands",
year    =       2006}


@misc{GriffithA10,
author = "E. Griffith and S. Akella",
title = "Method, System, and Program Product for Controlling Chemical Reactions in a Digital
Microfluidics System",
howpublished = "US Patent No. 7,693,666",
month = apr,		  
year = "2010",
}		  



@inproceedings{GuptaA07,
author  =       "M. Gupta and S. Akella",
title   =       "A Scheduling and Routing Algorithm for Digital Microfluidic Ring Layouts with Bus-phase Addressing",
booktitle =     "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems",
pages   =       "3144--3150",
month	=	oct,
year    =       2007,
address	=	"San Diego, CA",
}


@article{JakkalaA22,
author  =       "Kalvik Jakkala and Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "Probabilistic Gas Leak Rate Estimation using Submodular Function Maximization with Routing Constraints",
journal =       "IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters",
volume  ={7},
number  ={2},
pages   ={5230-5237},
month   =apr,
year    =       2022,
ISSN    ={2377-3766},
doi     ={10.1109/LRA.2022.3149043},
}


@inproceedings{JakkalaA24,
author 	=	"Kalvik Jakkala and Srinivas Akella",
title	=	"Multi-Robot Informative Path Planning from Regression with Sparse Gaussian Processes",
booktitle =      "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
address  =      "Yokohama, Japan",
month    =       may,
year	=	"2024",
note    =       "to appear",}
%pages   =       "--",



@inproceedings{Lu99b,
author 	=	"Liang Lu and Srinivas Akella",
title	=	"Folding Cartons with Fixtures: A Motion Planning Approach",
booktitle =      "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "1570--1576",
address  =      "Detroit, MI",
month    =       may,
year	=	"1999"}


@misc{Luvideo99,
author 	=	"Liang Lu and Srinivas Akella ",
title	=	"Folding Cartons with Fixtures",
howpublished=	"Video Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation", 
address  =      "Detroit, MI",
month    =       may,
year	=	"1999"}


@article{Lu00,
author 	=	"Liang Lu and Srinivas Akella",
title	=	"Folding Cartons with Fixtures: A Motion Planning Approach",
journal = 	"IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation",
volume =        "16",
number  =       "4",
month 	= 	aug,
year 	= 	"2000",
pages   =       "346--356"}


@inproceedings{LuoA07,
author  =       "L. Luo and S. Akella",
title   =       "Optimal Scheduling for Biochemical Analyses on Digital Microfluidic Systems",
booktitle =     "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems",
pages   =       "3151--3157",
month	=	oct,
year    =       2007,
address	=	"San Diego, CA",
}


@inproceedings{LuoA08,
author  =       "L. Luo and S. Akella",
title   =       "Minimum Resource Characterization of Biochemical Analyses for Digital Microfluidic Biochip Design",
booktitle =     "2008 Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics",
month	=	dec,
year    =       2008,
address	=	"Guanajuato, Mexico",
}


@inproceedings{LuoA10,
author  =       "L. Luo and S. Akella",
title   =       "Minimum Resource Characterization of Biochemical Analyses for Digital Microfluidic Biochip Design",
editor = "Gregory S. Chirikjian and Howie Choset and Marco Morales and Todd Murphey",
booktitle =     "Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics {VIII}",
pages   =       "567--581",
year    =       2010,
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
address = "Berlin",
}


@article{LuoA11,
author = "L. Luo and S. Akella",
Title = "Optimal Scheduling for Biochemical Analyses on Digital Microfluidic Systems",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering",
volume = "8",
number = 1,
month = jan,
pages = "216-227",
year = "2011",
}


@inproceedings{MaA12,
author  =       "Z. Ma and S. Akella",
title   =       "Coordination of Droplets on Light-Actuated Digital Microfluidic
Systems",
booktitle =     "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "2510--2516",
month	=	may,
year    =       2012,
address	=	"St. Paul, MN",
}


@inproceedings{MaDWA13,
author  =       "Z. Ma and W. Dou and X. Wang and S. Akella",
title   =       "Tag-Latent {D}irichlet Allocation: Understanding Hashtags and Their Relationships",
booktitle =     "2013 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI)",
pages   =       "260-267",
month	=	nov,
year    =       2013,
address	=	"Atlanta, GA",
}


@article{MartinGX09,
author = "J. G. Martin and M. Gupta and Y. Xu and S. Akella and J. Liu and J. S. Dordick and R. J. Linhardt",
Title = "An Artificial {G}olgi: Redesigning the Biological Activities of Heparan Sulfate on a Digital Microfluidic Biochip",
journal = "Journal of the American Chemical Society",
month = "July",
year = "2009",
volume = "131",
number = 31,
pages = "11041-11048",
}


@inproceedings{ParnamiBPALK18,
author  =       "Archit Parnami and Prajval Bavi and Dimitris Papanikolaou and Srinivas Akella and Minwoo Lee and Siddharth Krishnan",
title   =       "Deep Learning Based Urban Analytics Platform: Applications to Traffic Flow Modeling and Prediction",
booktitle =     "3rd Mining Urban Data Workshop (MUD3)",
address	=	"London, UK",
month	=	aug,
year    =       2018,
} 



@inproceedings{Peng02,
author  =       "J. Peng and S. Akella",
title   =       "Coordinating Multiple Robots with Kinodynamic Constraints 
along Specified Paths",
booktitle =     "Fifth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics",
address	=	"Nice, France",
month	=	dec,
year    =       2002}


@incollection{Peng03b,
author  =       "J. Peng and S. Akella",
title   =       "Coordinating Multiple Robots with Kinodynamic Constraints 
along Specified Paths",
editor =	"J.-D. Boissonnat and J. Burdick and K. Goldberg and S. Hutchinson",
booktitle =     "Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics {V}",
publisher =     "Springer-Verlag",
address	=	"Heidelberg, Germany",
pages   =       "221-237",
year    =       2003}


@inproceedings{Peng03,
author  =       "J. Peng and S. Akella",
title   =       "Coordinating the Motions of Multiple Robots with Kinodynamic Constraints",
booktitle =     "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
address	=	"Taipei, Taiwan",
pages   =       "4066--4073",
month	=	sep,
year    =       2003} 


@inproceedings{Peng04,
author  =       "J. Peng and M. Anitescu and S. Akella",
title   =       "Optimal Control of Multiple Robot Systems with Friction Using MPCC",
booktitle =     "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
address	=	"New Orleans, LA",
pages   =       "5224--5231",
month	=	apr,
year    =       2004} 


@article{Peng05,
author  =       "J. Peng and S. Akella",
title   =       "Coordinating Multiple Robots with Kinodynamic
Constraints along Specified Paths",
journal =       "International Journal of Robotics Research",
volume  =       24,
number  =       4,
pages   =       "295--310",
month  =        apr,
year    =       2005}


@inproceedings{Peng05c,
author  =       "J. Peng and S. Akella",
title   =       "Coordinating Multiple Double Integrator
Robots on a Roadmap: Convexity and Global Optimality",
booktitle =     "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "2762--2769",
address	=	"Barcelona, Spain",
month	=	apr,
year    =       2005} 


@inproceedings{RaoAG11,
author  =       "R. Rao and S. Akella and G. Guley",
title   =       "Power Line Carrier {(PLC)} Signal Analysis of Smart Meters for Outlier Detection",
booktitle =     "Second IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications",
pages   =       "309--314",
month	=	oct,
year    =       2011,
address	=	"Brussels, Belgium",
}


@inproceedings{ShanA14,
author  =       "J. Shan and S. Akella",
title   =       "{3D} Human Action Segmentation and Recognition using Pose Kinetic Energy",
booktitle =     "2014 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO 2014)",
pages   =       "69--75",
month	=	sep,
year    =       2014,
address	=	"Evanston, IL",
}


@inproceedings{ShechterALTSA07,
author  =       "E. Shechter and A. Arumbakkam and P. Lamoureux and X. Tang and M. Shima and S. Akella",
title   =       "Towards Batch Fabrication and Assembly of {3D} Microstructures: A Sequential Assembly Planner with New Hard Magnet Configuration",
booktitle =     "IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems",
pages   =       "584--589",
month	=	oct,
year    =       2007,
address	=	"San Diego, CA",
}


@inproceedings{ShekarCA13,
author  =       "V. Shekar and M. Campbell and S. Akella",
title   =       "Towards Automated Optoelectrowetting on Dielectric Devices for
Multi-Axis Droplet Manipulation",
booktitle =     "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "1431-1437",
month	=	may,
year    =       2013,
address	=	"Karlsruhe, Germany",
}


@inproceedings{RakshitA13,
author  =       "S. Rakshit and S. Akella",
title   =       "The Influence of Motion Path and Assembly Sequence on the Stability of Assemblies",
booktitle =     "Robotics: Science and Systems Conference",
month	=	jun,
year    =       2013,
address	=	"Berlin, Germany",
}
%pages   =       "",


@article{RakshitA15,
author  =       "Sourav Rakshit and Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "The Influence of Motion Path and Assembly Sequence on the Stability of Assemblies",
journal =       "IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering",
Volume =       "12", 
Number =       "2",
pages   =       "615--627",
month	=	apr,
year    =       "2015",
}


@inproceedings{RakshitA16,
author  =       "Sourav Rakshit and Srinivas Akella",
title   =       "A Trajectory Optimization Formulation for Assistive Robotic Devices",
booktitle =     "IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation",
pages   =       "2068--2074",
month	=	may,
year    =       2016,
address	=	"Stockholm, Sweden",
}