Amanda Prorok

Short Biography

After receiving an MSc degree in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) in 2006, Amanda Prorok spent two years in Japan, where she first worked at the Advanced R&D Center of Mitsubishi Electric in Amagasaki, and subsequently joined the Science & Technology Office at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tokyo. She then returned to Switzerland to complete her PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Alcherio Martinoli. Currently, Amanda is a postdoctoral researcher at the lab.

Nationalities:  British, Swiss
Personal Website: www.prorok.me

Professional course

Research AssistantDistributed Intelligent Systems & Algorithms Lab., EPFL, Switzerland, 2008-2013
Diplomatic InternScience & Technology Office, Embassy of Switzerland, Tokyo, Japan, 2007-2008
Research Intern, Advanced R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric, Amagasaki, Japan, 2006-2007

Education

PhD, Computer, Communication and Information Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland, 2013
MSc, Computer Science, EPFL Switzerland, 2006
BSc, Computer Science, EPFL Switzerland, 2004

Publications

2014

Accurate Indoor Localization with Ultra-Wideband using Spatial Models and Collaboration

A. Prorok; A. Martinoli 

International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). 2014. Vol. 33, num. 4, p. 547-568. DOI : 10.1177/0278364913500364.

2013

Models and Algorithms for Ultra-Wideband Localization in Single- and Multi-Robot Systems

A. S. M. Prorok / A. Martinoli (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. 

Low-Cost Multi-Robot Localization

A. Prorok; A. Bahr; A. Martinoli 

Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems; Springer, 2013. p. 15-33.

Accurate Localization with Ultra-Wideband: Tessellated Spatial Models and Collaboration

A. Prorok; A. Martinoli 

2013. 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Quebec, Canada, June, 2012. p. 321-335. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-00065-7_23.

Self-Organized Robotic Systems: Large-Scale Experiments in Aggregation and Self-Assembly using Miniature Robots

G. Mermoud; A. Prorok; L. Matthey; C. M. Cianci; N. Correll et al. 

Handbook of Collective Robotics; Singapore: Pan Stanford Publishing, 2013. p. 229-259.

2012

Online Model Estimation of Ultra-Wideband TDOA Measurements for Mobile Robot Localization

A. Prorok; L. Gonon; A. Martinoli 

2012. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2012. p. 807-814. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224869.

Low-Cost Collaborative Localization for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems

A. Prorok; A. Bahr; A. Martinoli 

2012. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2012. p. 4236-4241. DOI : 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225016.

2011

An Adaptive Field Estimation Algorithm for Sensor Networks in Dynamic Environments

A. Prorok; W. C. Evans; A. Martinoli 

2011. Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco,

Accommodation of NLOS for Ultra-Wideband TDOA Localization in Single- and Multi-Robot Systems

A. Prorok; P. Tomé; M. Alcherio 

2011. International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Portugal, September 21-23, 2011.

Two-Phase Online Calibration for Infrared-based Inter-Robot Positioning Modules

S. Gowal; A. Prorok; A. Martinoli 

2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Fransisco, CA, USA, September 25-30, 2011. p. 3313-3319. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6094979.

A Reciprocal Sampling Algorithm for Lightweight Distributed Multi-Robot Localization

A. Prorok; A. Martinoli 

2011. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Fransisco, CA, USA, September 25-30, 2011. p. 3241-3247. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2011.6094993.

A Framework for NLOS Ultra-Wideband Ranging in Collaborative Mobile Robot Systems

A. Prorok; P. Tomé; A. Martinoli 

2011. International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), Minho, Portugal, September, 2011.

Multi-level Spatial Modeling for Stochastic Distributed Robotic Systems

A. Prorok; N. Correll; A. Martinoli 

The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). 2011. Vol. 30, num. 5, p. 574-589. DOI : 10.1177/0278364910399521.

2010

Indoor Navigation Research with the Khepera III Mobile Robot: An Experimental Baseline with a Case-study on Ultra-wideband Positioning

A. Prorok; A. Arfire; A. Bahr; J. Farserotu; A. Martinoli 

2010. IEEE International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN), ETH Zurich, September 15-17, 2010. p. 1-9. DOI : 10.1109/IPIN.2010.5647880.

Towards Optimally Efficient Field Estimation with Threshold-Based Pruning in Real Robotic Sensor Networks

A. Prorok; C. M. Cianci; A. Martinoli 

2010. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 3-8. p. 5453-5459. DOI : 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509782.

2008

Assembly of Configurations in a Networked Robotic System: A Case Study on a Reconfigurable Interactive Table Lamp

C. M. Cianci; J. Nembrini; A. Prorok; A. Martinoli 

2008. IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 21-23, 2008. p. 1–7. DOI : 10.1109/SIS.2008.4668318.

Invited Talks

“Towards better Indoor Localization for Large-Scale Systems: UWB and Collaborative Strategies”
CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, USA, 2012

“Any-Time Low-Cost Localization for Large-Scale Multi-Robots Systems”
Workshop on Redundancy in Robot Manipulators and Multi-Robot Systems,
IROS, San Francisco, USA, 2011

“An Adaptive Field Estimation Algorithm for Sensor Networks in Dynamic Environments”
Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring
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IROS, San Francisco, USA, 2011

“Accommodation of NLOS for Ultra-Wideband TDOA Localization in Single- and Multi-Robot Systems”
NCCR Mobile Information & Communication Systems
Scientific Workshop, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2011

“High Precision Indoor Localization: Mobile Robots for UWB – UWB for Mobile Robots”
NCCR Mobile Information & Communication Systems
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Scientific Workshop, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010