Publications & Talks

2020
Conference

Jory Denny and Benjamin T. Fine, “Topology-based Group Routing in Partially Known Environments,” 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2020, Brno, Czech Republic, to appear, March 30 – April 2, 2020, Brno, Czech Republic.

Benjamin T. Fine and Jory Denny. “Review of Robots for Computer Science Curriculum”. The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. CCSC Northeastern Conference. Mahwah, New Jersey. June 2020.

2019
Conference

Benjamin T. Fine. “Developing a Robotics Courses for Undergraduate Curriculum – Poster”, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. CCSC Northeastern Conference. West Haven, Connecticut. June 2019.

Other

Benjamin T. Fine and Jory Denny. “Narrow the Scope to Deepen the Study: A Recommendation for Undergraduate Robotics Courses”, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, March 2019.

2018
Conference

Benjamin T. Fine. “Algorithm Impossible: A CS1 Algorithm Design Exercise – Lightning Talk”, The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. CCSC Northeastern Conference. Manchester, New Hampshire. June 2018.

Other

Benjamin T. Fine and Jory Denny. “IEEE RAS Investment in Education”, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, September 2018.

2017
Invited Talk

Benjamin T, Fine. A guided discussion of “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains” by Nicholas Carr for the Lee Memorial Library in Allendale, NJ lecture series. February 2017.

2015
Invited Talk

Benjamin T. Fine. “Biological Insights Gained from Robots” a lecture delivered to the upper-division seminar students at Texas A&M University, March 2015.

Benjamin T, Fine. “Biological Insights Gained from Robots” a lecture delivered to the Artificial Intelligence honors students at Texas A&M University, February 2015.
2014
Invited Talk

Benjamin T, Fine. “Multi-agent Planning” a lecture delivered to the Artificial Intelligence students at Texas A&M University, March 2014.

2013
Conference

Benjamin T. Fine and Dylan A. Shell. “Eliciting Collective Behaviors through Automatically Generated Environments”,  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Tokyo, Japan. November 2013.

Journal

Benjamin T. Fine and Dylan A. Shell. “Unifying Microscopic Flocking Motion Models for Virtual, Robotic, and Biological Flock Members”, Autonomous Robots. Springer Netherlands, October 2013.

Invited Talk

Benjamin T. Fine. “Eliciting Collective Behaviors through Automatically Generated Environments” at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, July 2013.

Benjamin T. Fine “Emergent Behaviors” a lecture delivered to the Artificial Intelligence students at Texas A&M University, November 2013.

2012
Conference

Benjamin T. Fine and Dylan A. Shell. “Examining the Information Requirements for Flocking Motion”, International Conference on Adaptive Behaviour. Odense, Denmark. August 27-31, 2012.

Other

Benjamin T. Fine and Dylan A. Shell. “Flocking Motions: Examination of Information Requirements”, The 2012 Symposium on Emerging Topics in Control and Modeling: Networked Systems (CMNS). Urbana-Champaign, IL. Oct 2012.

2011
Conference

Benjamin T. Fine and Dylan Shell. “Flocking: don’t need no stinkin’ robot recognition”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. San Francisco, California, USA. September 25-30, 2011.

Lantao Liu, Benjamin Fine, Dylan Shell and Andreas Klappenecker. “Sublinear-time approximate characterization of multi-robot swarm shape”, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automations. Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China. May 2011.

2010
Journal

Robin Murphy, Dylan Shell, Amy Guerin, Brittany Duncan, Benjamin Fine, Kevin Pratt, Takis Zourntos. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream (with Flying Robots)”, Autonomous Robots, special issue on Community-Based Robotics (1-14). Springer Netherlands, 2010.

2009
Conference

Benjamin T. Fine. “Unsupervised anomaly detection with minimal sensing”, ACM-SE 47: Proceedings of the 47th Annual Southeast Regional Conference. Clemson, South Carolina, March 2009.