William Bentz

William Bentz
William Bentz

Role: PhD Aerospace (2015 - 2020)

Now: Attitude Control Systems Engineer @ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

PhD Thesis: Dynamic Coverage Control and Estimation in Collaborative Networks of Human-Aerial/Space Co-Robots

Papers

Expanding human visual field: online learning of assistive camera views by an aerial co-robot.

Auton. Robots

@article{DBLP:journals/arobots/BentzQP22,
  author       = {William Bentz and
                  Long Qian and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {Expanding human visual field: online learning of assistive camera
                  views by an aerial co-robot},
  journal      = {Auton. Robots},
  volume       = {46},
  number       = {8},
  pages        = {949--970},
  year         = {2022},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-022-10059-4},
  doi          = {10.1007/S10514-022-10059-4},
  timestamp    = {Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:53:19 +0100},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/arobots/BentzQP22.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
A hybrid approach to persistent coverage in stochastic environments.

Autom.

@article{DBLP:journals/automatica/BentzP19,
  author       = {William Bentz and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {A hybrid approach to persistent coverage in stochastic environments},
  journal      = {Autom.},
  volume       = {109},
  year         = {2019},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2019.108554},
  doi          = {10.1016/J.AUTOMATICA.2019.108554},
  timestamp    = {Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:15:52 +0100},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/automatica/BentzP19.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Unsupervised Learning of Assistive Camera Views by an Aerial Co-robot in Augmented Reality Multitasking Environments.

ICRA

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icra/BentzDP19,
  author       = {William Bentz and
                  Sahib Dhanjal and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {Unsupervised Learning of Assistive Camera Views by an Aerial Co-robot
                  in Augmented Reality Multitasking Environments},
  booktitle    = {International Conference on Robotics and Automation, {ICRA} 2019,
                  Montreal, QC, Canada, May 20-24, 2019},
  pages        = {3003--3009},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2019},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793587},
  doi          = {10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793587},
  timestamp    = {Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:14:51 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/icra/BentzDP19.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Bayesian-inferred Flexible Path Generation in Human-Robot Collaborative Networks.

IROS

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/iros/BentzP18,
  author       = {William Bentz and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {Bayesian-inferred Flexible Path Generation in Human-Robot Collaborative
                  Networks},
  booktitle    = {2018 {IEEE/RSJ} International Conference on Intelligent Robots and
                  Systems, {IROS} 2018, Madrid, Spain, October 1-5, 2018},
  pages        = {1816--1822},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2018},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593611},
  doi          = {10.1109/IROS.2018.8593611},
  timestamp    = {Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:14:51 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/iros/BentzP18.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Complete 3-D dynamic coverage in energy-constrained multi-UAV sensor networks.
William Bentz Tru Hoang Enkhmurun Bayasgalan Dimitra Panagou

Auton. Robots

@article{DBLP:journals/arobots/BentzHBP18,
  author       = {William Bentz and
                  Tru Hoang and
                  Enkhmurun Bayasgalan and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {Complete 3-D dynamic coverage in energy-constrained multi-UAV sensor
                  networks},
  journal      = {Auton. Robots},
  volume       = {42},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {825--851},
  year         = {2018},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-017-9661-x},
  doi          = {10.1007/S10514-017-9661-X},
  timestamp    = {Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:02:27 +0100},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/arobots/BentzHBP18.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Energy-aware Persistent Coverage and Intruder Interception in 3D Dynamic Environments.

ACC

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/amcc/BentzP18,
  author       = {William Bentz and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {Energy-aware Persistent Coverage and Intruder Interception in 3D Dynamic
                  Environments},
  booktitle    = {2018 Annual American Control Conference, {ACC} 2018, Milwaukee, WI,
                  USA, June 27-29, 2018},
  pages        = {4426--4433},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2018},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.23919/ACC.2018.8431191},
  doi          = {10.23919/ACC.2018.8431191},
  timestamp    = {Sun, 08 Aug 2021 01:40:57 +0200},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/amcc/BentzP18.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Persistent coverage of a two-dimensional manifold subject to time-varying disturbances.

CDC

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/cdc/BentzP17,
  author       = {William Bentz and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {Persistent coverage of a two-dimensional manifold subject to time-varying
                  disturbances},
  booktitle    = {56th {IEEE} Annual Conference on Decision and Control, {CDC} 2017,
                  Melbourne, Australia, December 12-15, 2017},
  pages        = {387--392},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2017},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2017.8263695},
  doi          = {10.1109/CDC.2017.8263695},
  timestamp    = {Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:29:55 +0100},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cdc/BentzP17.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
An energy-aware redistribution method for multi-agent dynamic coverage networks.

CDC

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/cdc/BentzP16,
  author       = {William Bentz and
                  Dimitra Panagou},
  title        = {An energy-aware redistribution method for multi-agent dynamic coverage
                  networks},
  booktitle    = {55th {IEEE} Conference on Decision and Control, {CDC} 2016, Las Vegas,
                  NV, USA, December 12-14, 2016},
  pages        = {2644--2651},
  publisher    = {{IEEE}},
  year         = {2016},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2016.7798661},
  doi          = {10.1109/CDC.2016.7798661},
  timestamp    = {Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:29:43 +0100},
  biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cdc/BentzP16.bib},
  bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}