Publications of R. Patel

Books and proceedings

1. J. R. Peters and R. Patel. Thinking Robotics: Teaching Robots to Make Decisions. www.teachengineering.org, February 2015. [bibtex-entry]

Thesis

1. R. Patel. Robotic Surveillance and Deployment Strategies. PhD thesis, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, April 2015. Keyword(s): Robotic Networks. [bibtex-entry]

Articles in journal or book chapters

1. X. Duan, M. George, R. Patel, and F. Bullo. Robotic Surveillance Based on the Meeting Time of Random Walks. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 36(4):1356-1362, 2020. Keyword(s): Robotic Networks. [bibtex-entry]
2. R. Patel, A. Carron, and F. Bullo. The Hitting Time of Multiple Random Walks. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 37(3):933-954, 2016. Keyword(s): Robotic Networks. [bibtex-entry]
3. R. Patel, P. Frasca, J. W. Durham, R. Carli, and F. Bullo. Dynamic Partitioning and Coverage Control with Asynchronous One-To-Base-Station Communication. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 3(1):24-33, 2016. Keyword(s): Robotic Networks. [bibtex-entry]
4. R. Patel, P. Agharkar, and F. Bullo. Robotic Surveillance and Markov Chains with Minimal Weighted Kemeny Constant. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 60(12):3156-3167, 2015. Keyword(s): Robotic Networks. [bibtex-entry]
5. R. Patel, P. Frasca, and F. Bullo. Centroidal Area-Constrained Partitioning for Robotic Networks. ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, 136(3):031024-031024-8, 2014. Keyword(s): Robotic Networks. [bibtex-entry]

Conference articles

1. A. Carron, R. Patel, and F. Bullo. Hitting time for doubly-weighted graphs with application to robotic surveillance. In European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, pages 661-665, June 2016. [bibtex-entry]
2. P. Agharkar, R. Patel, and F. Bullo. Robotic surveillance and Markov chains with minimal first passage time. In IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, CA, USA, pages 6603-6608, December 2014. [bibtex-entry]
3. R. Patel, P. Frasca, and F. Bullo. Centroidal area-constrained partitioning for robotic networks. In ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, Stanford, USA, October 2013. Keyword(s): Robotic Networks. [bibtex-entry]