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Dan Stilwell

Dr. Dan Stilwell
Dr. Dan Stilwell
Office Location:
3015 Torgersen Hall

Mailing Address:
302 Whittemore Hall
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Affiliations

Co-director, Center for Marine Autonomy and Robotics
Professor, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Seale Coastal Observatory Faculty Fellow
 

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1999
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1993
B.S., Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 1991

Selected Honors

NSF CAREER award
ONR Young Investigator Program award
Outstanding Assistant Professor, VT College of Engineering
2015 DSCD/ASME JDSMC Kalman Best Paper Award

Selected Papers

G. P. Kontoudis, S. Krauss, and D. J. Stilwell, “Model-based learning of underwater acoustic communication performance for marine robots,” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 142, p. 103811, 2021, doi:10.1016/j.robot.2021.103811.

B. Biggs, J. McMahon, P. Baldoni, and D. J. Stilwell, “Multi-agent receding horizon search with terminal cost,” in Proc. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.

D. Muniraj, H. He, M. Farhood, and D. J. Stilwell, “A distributed connectivity maintenance algorithm with formal guarantees for a communication-constrained network of unmanned underwater vehicles,” IEEE Systems Journal, 2021. (in press, early access online) doi:10.1109/JSYST.2021.3065839..

 

Selected Projects

Unconventional Marine Platforms, Office of Naval Resarch, with Brizzolara.

Planning Under Uncertainty for Advanced Sensor Networks, Office of Naval Research, with Stark.

Collaborative Subsea Mapping, Office of Naval Research.

Software Library for Real-Time Control, Naval Research Laboratory.