Dr. Masoud Asadpour

Short biography (note: Masoud Asadpour is now a faculty at the University of Teheran)

Masoud Asadpour (مسعود اسدپور) born in Iran, in 1975, received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Software Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1997. He got his M.Sc. degree in Machine Intelligence and Robotics from the University of Tehran, in 1999. He received the Distinguished Researcher Award from University of Tehran, in 2000. He worked for two years as a researcher at the School of Intelligent Systems, Institute for Studies on Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran. He has just finished his PhD at Autonomous Systems Lab., EPFL (newly moved to ETHZ) and joined Bio-Inspired Robotics Group. He will work on Roombot project.

Research Interests

Machine Learning
Cooperative Learning
Swarm Intelligence
Modular Robots
Robotics Education (check out my weblog on robotics in persian)

Publications

you can check our publication database as well.

Theses:

[1] Behavior Design in Microrobots: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning under Resource Constraints, PhD. Thesis, Autonomous Systems Lab., EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2006.
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[2] Study of Cooperative Learning in a Team of Object Transferring Robots, MSc. Thesis, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2000 (in persian).

[3] A Persian Web Browser, BSc. Thesis, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1997 (in persian).

Journal Papers:

[1]	M. Asadpour, F. Tâche, G. Caprari, W. Karlen, and R. Siegwart. Robot-animal interaction: Perception and behavior of insbot. Int. Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems, 3:93-98, 2006. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[2]	M. Asadpour and R. Siegwart. Compact q-learning optimized for micro-robots with processing and memory constraints. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 48:49-61, 2004. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[3]	Majid Nili Ahmadabadi and Masoud Asadpour. Expertness based cooperative q-learning. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B, 32(1):66-76, 2002. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[4]	Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Masoud Asadpour, and Eiji Nakano. Cooperative q-learning: the knowledge sharing issue. Advanced Robotics, 15(8):815-832, 2001. [ bib \| .pdf ]

Conference Papers:

[1]	Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Ahmad Imanipour, Babak N. Araabi, Masoud Asadpour, and Roland Siegwart. Knowledge-based extraction of area of expertise for cooperation in learning. In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS], Beijing, China, Oct. 2006. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[2]	Masoud Asadpour, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, and Roland Siegwart. Heterogeneous and hierarchical cooperative learning via combining decision trees. In Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS], Beijing, China, Oct. 2006. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[3]	Masoud Asadpour, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, and Roland Siegwart. Reduction of learning time for robots using automatic state abstraction. In H.I. Christensen, editor, Proc. of the First European Symposium on Robotics, volume 22 of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, pages 79-92, Palermo, Italy, Mar. 2006. Springer-Verlag. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[4]	Imad Riachi, Masoud Asadpour, and Roland Siegwart. Cooperative learning for very long learning tasks: A society inspired approach to persistence of knowledge. In European Conf. on Machine Learning, Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning workshop [ECML], Porto, Portugal, 2005. [ bib ]
[5]	M. Asadpour, F. Tâche, G. Caprari, W. Karlen, and R. Siegwart. Robot-animal interaction: Perception and behavior of insbot. In Conceptual Modeling and Simulation Conf. [CMS], Marseille,France, 2005. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[6]	Simon Garnier, Christian Jost, Raphaël Jeanson, Jacques Gautrais, Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari, and Guy Theraulaz. Collective decision-making by a group of cockroach-like robots. In Proc. of the IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Pasadena, CA, June 2005. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[7]	F. Tâche, M. Asadpour, G. Caprari, W. Karlen, and R. Siegwart. Perception and behavior of insbot : Robot-animal interaction issues. In IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics [ROBIO], Hong Kong, 2005. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[8]	Simon Garnier, Christian Jost, Raphaël Jeanson, Jacques Gautrais, Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari, and Guy Theraulaz. Aggregation behaviour as a source of collective decision in a group of cockroach-like robots. In M. Capcarrere, editor, Proc. of the 8th European Conf. on Artificial Life [ECAL], volume 3630 of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 169-178, Berlin Heidelberg, September 2005. Springer-Verlag. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[9]	Christian Jost, Simon Garnier, Raphaël Jeanson, Masoud Asadpour, Jacques Gautrais, and Guy Theraulaz. The embodiment of cockroach behaviour in a micro-robot. In Proc. of the 35th Int. Symposium on Robotics, Paris, France, Mar. 2004. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[10]	M. Asadpour and R. Siegwart. Compact q-learning for micro-robots. In Proc. of the first European Conf. on Mobile Robots [ECMR], Poland, 2003. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[11]	Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Masoud Asadpour, Seyyed Hojjat Khodaabakhsh, and Eiji Nakano. Expertness measuring in cooperative learning. In Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS], volume 3, pages 2261-2267, 2000. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[12]	Masoud Asadpour and M.N. Ahmadabadi. Weighted Strategy Sharing: A New Multi-Agent Cooperative Learning Method Based on Expertness Measuring. In Proc. of 8th Iranian Conf. on Electrical Engineering, Isfahan, Iran, 2000 (in Persian).
[13]	H. Khodaabakhsh, Masoud Asadpour. Cooperative Learning in Object Pushing. The 1st Iranian Symposium on Intelligent Systems, Tehran, Iran, 2000 (in Persian).

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