Mac Schwager

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009Mac-Schwager-p

Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering

Contact Information:

110 Cummington Street, ENG
Room 303
(617) 353-3414
schwager@bu.edu
http://people.bu.edu/schwager/

Research Interests:

  • Robotics
  • Nonlinear and adaptive control
  • Cooperative control, estimation, and inference in multi-robot systems
  • Information theoretic active sensing and estimation
  • System identification of multi-agent biological and robotic systems

Abbreviated CV:

Professor Schwager’s research is in the area of multi-robot systems. He studies group behaviors in robots and animals using tools from control theory, optimization, and statistical inference. In January 2012 he  joins the faculty at the Boston University Mechanical Engineering Department. Previously, he worked as a postdoc with Prof. Vijay Kumar at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Schwager finished his PhD at MIT in 2009 working with Daniela Rus in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).

Selected Publications:

  • M. Schwager, B. Julian, M. Angermann and D. Rus, “Eyes in the Sky: Decentralized Control for the Deployment of Robotic Camera Networks,” Proceedings of the IEEE, September, 2011, vol. 99, no. 9, pp. 1541-1561.
  • R. N. Smith, M. Schwager, S. L. Smith, B. H. Jones, D. Rus and G. S. Sukhatme, “Persistent Ocean Monitoring with Underwater Gliders: Adapting Sampling Resolution,” Journal of Field Robotics, September-October, 2011, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 714-741.
  • M. Schwager, D. Rus and J. J. Slotine, “Unifying Geometric, Probabilistic, and Potential Field Approaches to Multi-Robot Deployment,” International Journal of Robotics Research, March, 2011, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 371-383.
  • M. Schwager, D. Rus and J. J. Slotine, “Decentralized, Adaptive Coverage Control for Networked Robots,” International Journal of Robotics Research, March, 2009, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 357-375.
  • M. Schwager, C. Detweiler, I. Vasilescu, D. M. Anderson and D. Rus, “Data-Driven Identification of Group Dynamics for Motion Prediction and Control,” Journal of Field Robotics, June-July, 2008, vol. 25, no. 6-7, pp. 305-324.
  • M. Schwager, D. M. Anderson, Z. Butler and D. Rus, “Robust Classification of Animal Tracking Data,” Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, March, 2007, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 46-59.