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Michael Quinlan
Michael researches various aspects of robotic systems, including motion, vision and localization. He currently teaches a class on Autonomous Vehicles and competes as part of the Austin Villa team at RoboCup using the Nao humanoid robots. In his spare time he enjoys basketball, cycling, running and soccer.
Homepage:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mquinlan
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Projects
TEXPLORE: Real-Time Sample Efficient Reinforcement Learning Since 2009
Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) Since 2004
Demos
TEXPLORE: Real-Time Sample Efficient Reinforcement LearningTodd Hester2012
Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM)
Publications
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{RTMBA}: A Real-Time Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Architecture for Robot Control Todd Hester and Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone In {IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2012. 2012
{A}ustin {V}illa 2011: Sharing is Caring: Better Awareness through Information Sharing Samuel Barrett and Katie Genter and Todd Hester and Piyush Khandelwal and Michael Quinlan and Peter ... Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, January 2012. T... 2012
Setpoint Scheduling for Autonomous Vehicle Controllers Tsz-Chiu Au and Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone In {IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2012. 2012
Austin Villa 2010 Standard Platform Team Report Samuel Barrett and Katie Genter and Matthew Hausknecht and Todd Hester and Piyush Khandelwal and Juh... Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, January 2011. T... 2011
A Real-Time Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Architecture for Robot Control Todd Hester and Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone %RefShort% 2011
Generalized Model Learning for Reinforcement Learning on a Humanoid Robot Todd Hester and Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone In International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010. 2010
MARIOnET: Motion Acquisition for Robots through Iterative Online Evaluative Training Adam Setapen and Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone In International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2010. 2010
Bringing Simulation to Life: A Mixed Reality Autonomous Intersection Michael Quinlan and Tsz-Chiu Au and Jesse Zhu and Nicolae Stiurca and Peter Stone In Proceedings of IROS 2010-IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (... 2010
MARIOnET: Motion Acquisition for Robots through Iterative Online Evaluative Training Adam Setapen and Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone In Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Agents Learning I... 2010
Controlled Kicking under Uncertainty Samuel Barrett and Katie Genter and Todd Hester and Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone In The Fifth Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots at Humanoids 2010, Nashville, TN, 2010. 2010
Three Humanoid Soccer Platforms: Comparison and Synthesis Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Todd Hester and Michael Quinlan and Yinon Bentor and Peter Stone In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium 2009, 2009. Springer Verlag. 2009
Improving Particle Filter Performance Using SSE Instructions Peter Djeu and Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone In Proceedings of IROS 2009: 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Sys... 2009
TT-UT Austin Villa 2009: Naos across Texas Todd Hester and Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone and Mohan Sridharan Technical Report UT-AI-TR-09-08, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Science, ... 2009
A General Purpose Task Specification Language for Bootstrap Learning Ian Fasel and Michael Quinlan and Peter Stone In AAAI Spring 2009 Symposium on Agents that Learn from Human Teachers, March 2008. 2008
UT Austin Villa 2008: Standing on Two Legs Todd Hester, Michael Quinlan, and Peter Stone Technical Report UT-AI-TR-08-8, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Sciences, ... 2008
Areas of Interest
Autonomous Driving Autonomous Traffic Management Humanoid Robots Multi-Robot Systems Real Robot Soccer RoboCup Robot Soccer Robotics
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