Loy McGuire

Distributed Autonomous Systems Section Member @U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Distributed Sensor Search Created an algorithm that plans search paths based on a fleet of robots’ future potential capacity to collect information in lethally hazardous, communications-denied environments Simulated massive number of trials to collect data to analyze new algorithm against similar behaviors Updated large code base to current version of Julia, resolved many issues from major changes released in Julia 1.0 Developing a large multi-robot system using off-the-shelf robots with a suite of sensors, integrating the system with CoppeliaSimSwarm Behavior Developed a decentralized algorithm for swarm agents that leveraged swarm size to guide fellow agents out of local minima Ran hardware experiments on autonomous robotic blimps and simulations in the SCRIMMAGE simulator Wrote a journal paper, edited several draft versions from multiple reviewers, consolidated video media to standardsOther Conducted experiments for UAVs localizing and mapping with acoustic sensors Contributed with the development of robotic platforms and integrating sensors, actuators, and communications Mentored interns with structuring research proposal, conducting experiments, writing papers, and submitting to publications