These are technical papers from the Player/Stage Project. For manuals, look here.

Refereed Journal Papers

Refereed Conference Papers

  • Matthias Kranz, Radu Bogdan Rusu, Alexis Maldonado, Michael Beetz, and Albrecht Schmidt, "A Player/Stage System for Context-Aware Intelligent Environments". Proceedings of the System Support for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop (UbiSys 2006), at the 8th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006), Orange County, California, September 2006.
    [pdf] [poster jpg]

  • T.H.J. Collett and B.A. MacDonald, "Augmented reality visualisation for player". In Proceedings of the the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2006), pages 3954-3959, Orlando, Florida, May 2006.
    [pdf]

  • Toby H.J. Collett, Bruce A. MacDonald, and Brian P. Gerkey, "Player 2.0: Toward a Practical Robot Programming Framework". In Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA 2005), Sydney, Australia, December 2005.
    [pdf]

  • G. Wieczerzak and K. Koztowski, "Don't let player get stuck!: Increasing the autonomy of agents". In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (RoMoCo '05), pages 265-270, Dymaczewo, Poland, June 2005.
    [IEEEXplore]

  • J. Xavier, M. Pacheco, D. Castro, A. Ruano, and U. Nunes, "Fast Line, Arc/Circle and Leg Detection from Laser Scan Data in a Player Driver". In Proceedings of the the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2005), pages 3930-3935, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005.
    [pdf]

  • Richard T. Vaughan, Brian Gerkey, and Andrew Howard "On Device Abstractions For Portable, Resuable Robot Code". In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS 2003), pages 2121-2427, Las Vegas, USA, October 2003.
    [gzipped postscript] [pdf]

  • Brian Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan and Andrew Howard. "The Player/Stage Project: Tools for Multi-Robot and Distributed Sensor Systems". In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2003), pages 317-323, Coimbra, Portugal, June 2003.
    [gzipped postscript] [pdf]

  • Brian P. Gerkey, Richard T. Vaughan, Kasper Støy, Andrew Howard, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Maja J Mataric. "Most Valuable Player: A Robot Device Server for Distributed Control". In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2001), pages 1226-1231, Wailea, Hawaii, October 29 - November 3, 2001.
    [gzipped PS: 160k] [PDF: 424k]

    Also appears in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Infrastructure for Agents, MAS, and Scalable MAS at Autonomous Agents 2001, Montreal, Canada, May 29, 2001.
    [gzipped PS: 136k] [PDF: 368k]

Technical Reports (which are not otherwise published)

  • Richard T. Vaughan. "Stage: A Multiple Robot Simulator". Technical Report IRIS-00-394, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 2000.

  • Brian Gerkey, Kasper Støy and Richard T. Vaughan. "Player Robot Server". Technical Report IRIS-00-392, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, School of Engineering, University of Southern California, November 2000.
    [gzipped PS: 120k] [PDF: 280k]

Presentations