Publications

2012

Todd Hester, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone. RTMBA: A Real-Time Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Architecture for Robot Control. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2012. pdf bib


Tsz-Chiu Au, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone. Setpoint Scheduling for Autonomous Vehicle Controllers. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2012. pdf bib


Samuel Barrett, Katie Genter, Todd Hester, Piyush Khandelwal, Michael Quinlan, Peter Stone, and Mohan Sridharan. Austin Villa 2011: Sharing is Caring: Better Awareness through Information Sharing. Technical Report UT-AI-TR-12-01, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2012. pdf bib


2011

Samuel Barrett, Katie Genter, Matthew Hausknecht, Todd Hester, Piyush Khandelwal, Juhyun Lee, Michael Quinlan, Aibo Tian, Peter Stone, and Mohan Sridharan. Austin Villa 2010 Standard Platform Team Report, Technical Report UT-AI-TR-11-01, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2011. pdf bib

2010

Michael Quinlan, Tsz-Chiu Au, Jesse Zhu, Nicolae Stiurca, and Peter Stone. Bringing Simulation to Life: A Mixed Reality Autonomous Intersection, In Proceedings of IROS 2010-IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010), October 2010. pdf bib video


Todd Hester, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone. Generalized Model Learning for Reinforcement Learning on a Humanoid Robot, In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2010. pdf bib video


Peter Stone, Michael Quinlan, and Todd Hester. The Essence of Soccer: Can Robots Play Too?, In Soccer and Philosophy, Popular Culture and Philosophy, Open Court Publishing Company, ISBN-13: 978-0812696769, 2010. pdf bib amazon


Samuel Barrett, Katie Genter, Todd Hester, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone. Controlled Kicking under Uncertainty, In The Fifth Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at Humanoids 2010, December 2010. pdf bib


Adam Setapen, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone. MARIOnET: Motion Acquisition for Robots through Iterative Online Evaluative Training, In Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Agents Learning Interactively from Human Teachers Workshop (AAMAS - ALIHT), May 2010. pdf bib video

2009

Peter Djeu, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone. Improving Particle Filter Performance Using SSE Instructions, In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2009)//, October 2009. pdf bib git


Michael J. Quinlan, and Richard H. Middleton. Multiple Model Kalman Filters: A Localization Technique for RoboCup Soccer, In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium 2009, Springer Velarg, July 2009. pdf amazon


Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Todd Hester, Michael Quinlan, Yinon Bentor, and Peter Stone. Three Humanoid Soccer Platforms: Comparison and Synthesis, In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium 2009, Springer Velarg, July 2009. pdf bib amazon


Ian Fasel, Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone. A Task Specification Language for Bootstrap Learning, In AAAI Spring 2009 Symposium on Agents that Learn from Human Teachers, March 2009. pdf bib


Todd Hester, Michael Quinlan, Peter Stone, and Mohan Sridharan. TT-UT Austin Villa 2009: Naos across Texas, Technical Report UT-AI-TR-09-08, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Science, AI Laboratory, 2009. pdf bib


2008

B. Goldsmith, S. Chalup and M.Quinlan Regime Type and International Conflict: Towards a general model. Journal of Peace Research Published in Issue 45,6, November 2008. pdf


Todd Hester, Michael Quinlan, Peter Stone. UT Austin Villa 2008: Standing on Two Legs. Technical Report UT-AI-TR-08-8, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, AI Laboratory, 2008. pdf bib


2007

Stephan K. Chalup, Craig L. Murch, and Michael J. Quinlan. Machine Learning with AIBO Robots in the Four-Legged League of RoboCup. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics C Vol. 37, No. 3, May 2007. pdf


Michael J. Quinlan, Oliver Obst, and Stephan K. Chalup. Towards Autonomous Strategy Decisions in the RoboCup Four-Legged League. In Seventh IJCAI International Workshop on Nonmontonic Reasoning, Action and Change, January 2007.


M. J. Quinlan, S.P. Nicklin, N. Henderson, R. Fisher, F. Knorn, S.K. Chalup, R.H. Middleton, and King. R. The 2006 NUbots Team Report. EECS Technical Report, University of Newcastle,2007. pdf


2006

Michael J. Quinlan. Machine Leaning on AIBO Robots. PhD Thesis, The University of Newcastle, Australia, October 2006. pdf


S. K. Chalup, M. Dickinson, R. Fisher, R. H. Middleton, M. J. Quinlan, and P. Turner. Proposal of a Kit-Style Robot as the New Standard Platform for the Four-Legged League, In: Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA'2006), December 2006. pdf


Michael J. Quinlan, and Stephan K. Chalup. Impact of Tactical Variations in the RoboCup Four-Legged League. Proceedings of International Symposium on Practical Cognitive Agents and Robots (PCAR 2006), November 2006. ISBN 1-74052-130-7.


2005

M. J. Quinlan, S.P. Nicklin, K. Hong, N. Henderson, S.R. Young, T.G. Moore, R. Fisher, P. Douangboupha, S.K. Chalup, R.H. Middleton, and King. R. The 2005 NUbots Team Report. EECS Technical Report, University of Newcastle,2005. pdf


2004

Michael J. Quinlan, Stephan K. Chalup, and Richard H. Middleton. Application of SVMs for Colour Classification and Collision Detection with AIBO Robots. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS'2003), 2004. pdf


Michael J. Quinlan, Craig L. Murch, Richard H. Middleton, and Stephan K. Chalup. Traction Monitoring for Collision Detection with Legged Robots, pp. 374 - 384, In Daniel Polani, Brett Browning, Andrea Bonarini, and Kazuo Yoshida. RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3020. Springer-Verlag 2004 (received paper award) pdf


M. Quinlan, C.L. Murch, T.G. Moore, R. H. Middleton, L.A.Yung Li, Robert King, and Stephan K. Chalup. The 2004 NUbots Team Report, EECS Technical Report//, University of Newcastle,2004. pdf


2003

M. J. Quinlan, S. K. Chalup, and R. H. Middleton. Techniques for Improving Vision and Locomotion on the AIBO Robot. Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA'2003), 2003. pdf


J. Bunting, S. Chalup, M. Freeston, W. McMahan, R. Middleton, C. Murch, M. Quinlan, C. Seysener and G. Shanks. Return of the NUbots! The 2003 NUbots Team Report, EECS Technical Report, University of Newcastle, 2003. pdf


M. Quinlan, C.L. Murch, T.G. Moore, R. H. Middleton, L.A.Yung Li, Robert King, and Stephan K. Chalup. The 2004 NUbots Team Report, EECS Technical Report//, University of Newcastle,2004. pdf


2002

S. Chalup, N. Creek, L. Freeston, N. Lovell, J. Marshall, R. Middleton, C. Murch, M. Quinlan, G. Shanks, C. Stanton, M-A. Williams. When NUbots Attack! The 2002 NUbots Team Report. EECS Technical Report. University of Newcastle, 2002. pdf


2001

A.S.M. Sajeev, M. Quinlan, and L. Kyungmi. Beyond the Web: Judicious Use of Internet in a Smart Card based Health Records System. Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Web Conference, Changsha, China, November 2001