Publications

Conference papers, journal papers, books, and presentations

The following constitute an inexhaustive list of research outputs from our personnel.

Conference Papers

  1. D.A. Williams, A. Chapman, and C. Manzie, "Generalized Asynchronous Event-Triggered Measurement and Control for Non-Linear Systems", presented at the 2024 Australian and New Zealand Control Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, Feb. 2024. (Federation University Best Student Paper Award)
  2. S. Mallick, A. Chapman and E. Schoof, "Second-Order Coverage Control for Multi-Agent UAV
    Photogrammetry", submitted to the 2023 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, Dec. 2023.
  3. E. Schoof, A. Chapman, and C. Manzie, "Path Planning Over Visibility Maps", presented at the 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, Jul. 2023.
  4. E. Vella, and A. Chapman, "Dynamic Preference Learning for Complex Cobotic Tasks", presented at the 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, Jul. 2023.
  5. J. Kennedy, P. Dower, and A. Chapman, "Experimental Validation of a State-Independent Input-To-
    Output Stable Coverage Controller", presented at the 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, Jul. 2023.
  6. E. Vella, A. Chapman, and E. Schoof, "Continuous Monitoring of Transmission Lines by a Swarm of Multicopters", presented at the 2023 European Control Conference, Bucharest, Romania, Jun. 2023.
  7. C. Therakam et al. (including R. Mearns and Airlie Chapman), "The SpIRIT Thermal Management Integrated System (TheMIS)", presented at the 51st International Conference on Environmental Systems, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 2022.
  8. E. Vella, D. A. Williams, R. Walton, A. Chapman and A. Michalewicz, “Did That Stone Move? Staging Stone Swarms in Virtual Reality and IRL Galleries,” presented at EVA London 2022, London, UK, Jul. 2022, doi: http://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.43. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JIxaZcoLbw
  9. E. Vella, D. A. Williams, A. Chapman, and C. Manzie, “Individual and Team Trust Preferences for Robotic Swarm Behaviors,” presented at the 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Jun. 2022.
  10. J. Kennedy, P. Dower, and A. Chapman, "Regions of Exponential Convergence for a Coverage
    Controller", presented at the 2022 American Control Conference (ACC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Jun. 2022, pp. 3905–3910.
  11. E. Vella et al. (including D. A. Williams and A. Chapman), “Can You Trust a Stone?” presented at ANAT Spectra 2022: Multiplicity, Melbourne, Australia, Apr. 2022. [Online]. Available: https://spectra.org.au/spectralive/#day-2
  12. R. Wen, E. Schoof and A. Chapman, "Estimation for Ultra-Wideband Sensor Networks: a Rigidity Perspective," presented at the 2021 Australian New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC), Nov. 2021, pp. 12–17, doi: 10.1109/ANZCC53563.2021.9628214. (Student Paper High Commendation Award)
  13. J. Kennedy, P. Dower, and A. Chapman, “Exponential Convergence in Voronoi-based Coverage Control,” presented at the 2021 Australian New Zealand Control Conference (ANZCC), Nov. 2021, pp. 226–231. doi: 10.1109/ANZCC53563.2021.9628220.
  14. A. Michalewicz et al. (including E. Vella and D. A. Williams), “Standing Stones and Swarm Robotics: Replication, Re/construction, Preservation,” presented at Living Digital Heritage Conference, Sydney, Australia, Nov. 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m91Lwct5_iw
  15. A. Michalewicz et al. (including E. Vella and D. A. Williams), “Investigating Standing Stones and Swarm Robotics: A New Approach to Ancient and Emerging Technologies", presented at the Computer Applications & Quantitative Method in Archaeology Australasia Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Sep. 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZaZPmGcsnU
  16. E. Vella, A. Azim, H. X. Gaetjens, B. Repasky, and T. Payne, “Improved Detection for WAMI using Background Contextual Information,” presented at Digital Image Computing: Technqiues and Applications (DICTA), Dec. 2019, pp. 1–9. doi: 10.1109/DICTA47822.2019.8945924.
  17. A. Chapman, P. Lewien, and E. Vella, “Network-Of-Networks in Multi-City Epidemic Models,” presented at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Vaccine Workshop, 2020.
  18. H. Parastvand, O. Bass, M. A. S. Masoum, Z. Moghaddam, S. Lachowicz, and A. Chapman, “Placement and Sizing of EV Charging Stations According to Centrality of the Underlying Network,” presented at Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC), Oct. 2020, pp. 1–6. doi: 10.1109/IETC47856.2020.9249203.
  19. D. Burke, A. Chapman, and I. Shames, “Generating Minimum-Snap Quadrotor Trajectories Really Fast,” presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct. 2020, pp. 1487–1492. doi: 10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341794.
  20. C.K. Liao, C. Manzie and A. Chapman, "A Distributed Algorithm for UAV-Based Communication Networks Using Constrained Extremum Seeking", presented at the 21st IFAC World Congress, Virtual, Jul. 2020, pp. 5429–5434.
  21. P. Lewien and A. Chapman, “Time-scale Separation on Networks for Multi-City Epidemics,” presented at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec. 2019, pp. 746–751. doi: 10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9030236.
  22. D. Burke, A. Chapman, and E. Schoof, “Rigidity in Non-Euclidean Frameworks for Formation Control: The Manhattan Metric,” presented at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec. 2019, pp. 740–745. doi: 10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029715.
  23. J. Kennedy, A. Chapman, and P. M. Dower, “Generalized Coverage Control for Time-Varying Density Functions,” presented at the 18th European Control Conference (ECC), Jun. 2019, pp. 71–76. doi: 10.23919/ECC.2019.8796308.
  24. T. N. Tran and A. Chapman, “Generalized Graph Product: Spectrum, Trajectories and Controllability,” presented at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec. 2018, pp. 5358–5363. doi: 10.1109/CDC.2018.8618713.
  25. E. Schoof, C. Manzie, I. Shames, A. Chapman, and D. Oetomo, “‪An experimental platform for heterogeneous multi-vehicle missions‬,” presented at the International Conference on Science and Innovation for Land Power, Adelaide, Australia, 2018. Accessed: Dec. 14, 2021.

Journal Papers

  1. E. Vella, A. Chapman, Nir Lipovetzky, Learning User Preferences for Complex Cobotic Tasks: Meta-
    Behaviors and Human Groups, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023. (accepted)
  2. R. Wen, E. Schoof and A. Chapman, Exponential Convergence of Network Clock Synchronization Under Practical Assumptions, Automatica, 2023. (submitted)
  3. M. Thomas et al. (including A. Chapman and R. Mearns), Localisation of gamma-ray bursts from the combined SpIRIT+HERMES-TP/SP nano-satellite constellation, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 40, E008, 2023.
  4. J. Kennedy, P. Dower and A. Chapman, Input-to-Output stability of a Coverage Controller, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2022. (accepted)
  5. E. Vella and A. Chapman, Can You Trust What You See? Trust Evaluation of Swarm Meta-Behaviours by
    Human Observers, International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022. (submitted)
  6. D. Burke, A. Chapman, and I. Shames, Fast Spline Trajectory Planning: Minimum Snap and Beyond, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021. (submitted)
  7. R. Wen, A. Chapman, and E. Schoof, Clock Rigidity and Joint Position-Clock Estimation in Ultra-Wideband Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2022. (accepted)
  8. H. Parastvand, A. Chapman, O. Bass, and S. Lachowicz, “The impact of graph symmetry on the number of driver nodes in complex networks,” Journal of the Franklin Institute, vol. 358, no. 7, pp. 3919–3942, May 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2021.02.032.
  9. H. Parastvand, A. Chapman, O. Bass, and S. Lachowicz, “Graph automorphic approaches to the robustness of complex networks,” Control Engineering Practice, vol. 108, p. 104705, Mar. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2020.104705.
  10. H. Parastvand et al. (including A. Chapman), “A Graph Automorphic Approach for Placement and Sizing of Charging Stations in EV Network Considering Traffic,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 4190–4200, Sep. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2020.2984037.
  11. C.-K. Liao, C. Manzie, and A. Chapman, “A distributed algorithm for UAV-based communication networks using constrained extremum seeking,” IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 5429–5434, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.1541.
  12. H. Parastvand et al. (including A. Chapman), “Robust Placement and Sizing of Charging Stations From a Novel Graph Theoretic Perspective,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 118593–118602, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3005677.
  13. H. Parastvand et al. (including A. Chapman), “Cyber-Security Constrained Placement of FACTS Devices in Power Networks From a Novel Topological Perspective,” IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 108201–108215, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3001308.
  14. C.-K. Liao, C. Manzie, A. Chapman, and T. Alpcan, “Constrained extremum seeking of a MIMO dynamic system,” Automatica, vol. 108, p. 108496, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.automatica.2019.108496.
  15. M. H. Matheny et al. (including A. Chapman), “Exotic states in a simple network of nanoelectromechanical oscillators,” Science, vol. 363, no. 6431, p. eaav7932, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.1126/science.aav7932.

Book Chapters

  1. A. Chapman, E. Schoof and Mehran Mesbahi, Chapter: Online Adaptive Network Design for Disturbance
    Rejection, Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  2. A. Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi, Chapter: UAV Swarms: Models and Effective Interfaces, Handbook of
    Unmanned Aerial Vehicles    , Springer, 2015.
  3. A. Chapman and Mehran Mesbahi, Chapter: Security and Infiltration of Networks: A Structural Controllability and Observability Perspective. Control of Cyber-Physical Systems: Lecture Notes on Control and Information Sciences, Springer, (449) 143-160, 2013.

Books

  1. A. Chapman, E. Schoof, and M. Mesbahi, “‪Online Adaptive Network Design for Disturbance Rejection‬,” in Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  2. A. Chapman, Semi-Autonomous Network: Effective Control for Networked System through Protocols, Design and Modeling, Springer Theses, 2015.

Presentations and Workshops

  1. D. A. Williams, A. Chapman, and C. Manzie, “A Framework for Trust-Mediated Interactions between Humans and Autonomous Swarms,” presented at the Thinking Swarms Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, May, 2022.
  2. E. Vella, D. A. Williams, A. Chapman, and C. Manzie, “Individual and Team Trust Preferences for Robotic Swarm Behaviors,” presented at the Thinking Swarms Workshop, Brisbane, Australia, May, 2022.

Grants

  1. A. Chapman*, P. Dower, C. Manzie, "Dynamic coverage control for multi-agent UAS to support the sensing, tracking and prediction of a contamination plume", Centre for Advanced Defence Research in Robotics and Autonomous Grant, 2023–2024.
  2. C. Manzie*, A. Chapman, P. Dower, "Coordinated control for multiple unmanned vehicles", Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Research Grant, 2023–2024.
  3. R. Walton*, A. Chapman*, A. Michalewicz, E. Vella, D. A. Williams, G. Đurić, T. Keep, “Contemplating time and trust: encounters with ancient standing stones and swarm robotics in performance artwork ‘Sacrifice’”, Academic Seed Funding Program, Center for Contemplative Studies, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, May 2022.
  4. R. Walton*, A. Chapman*, G. Đurić, J. Green, A. Michalewicz, E. Vella, D. A. Williams, “Sacrifice: Can you trust a stone?  Rehearsing human and robot swarms via ancient standing stones”, Art, AI and Digital Ethics Seed Funding, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 2021.
  5. I. Shames*, A. Chapman, J. Marton, C.Manzie, "Design of Real-time Optimisation Methods with Guaranteed Performance", Discovery Project, Australian Research Council, 2021–2023.
  6. M. Trenti*, A. Chapman with Inovor Technologies, Sitael Australia, Nova Systems and Neumann Space, "SpIRIT (Space Industry - Responsive - Intelligent - Thermal) Nanosatellite Mission", International Space Investment (ISI), 2020–2023.
  7. A. Chapman*,  C. Manzie, G. Nair, D. Nešić, I. Shames with investigators at DefendTex, RMIT, and DSTG, "Trusted Scalable Effect Delivery by Expendable, Autonomous Swarms", Defence-CRC in Trusted Autonomous Systems, 2019–2022.
  8. A. Chapman*, "UAS Swarms for Urban Environments", DSTG Research, 2019.

* Lead/Principal Investigators