Publications

  • E. Maki, A. Weinert, and M. J. Kochenderfer, "Efficiently Estimating Ambient Near Mid-Air Collision Risk for Unmanned Aircraft," in AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, 2010. bibtex
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Maki2010,
      author = {Evan Maki and Andrew Weinert and Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Efficiently Estimating Ambient Near Mid-Air Collision Risk for Unmanned Aircraft},
      booktitle = {AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference},
      year = {2010},
      address = {Fort Worth, Texas}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, J. P. Chryssanthacopoulos, and P. Radecki, "Robustness of Optimized Collision Avoidance Logic to Modeling Errors," in IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010. bibtex
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2010dasc,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and James P. Chryssanthacopoulos and Peter Radecki},
      title = {Robustness of Optimized Collision Avoidance Logic to Modeling Errors},
      booktitle = {IEEE/AIAA Digital Avionics Systems Conference},
      year = {2010},
      address = {Salt Lake City, Utah}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, M. W. M. Edwards, L. P. Espindle, J. K. Kuchar, and J. D. Griffith, "Airspace Encounter Models for Estimating Collision Risk," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, vol. 33, iss. 2, pp. 487-499, 2010. bibtex
    @ARTICLE{Kochenderfer2010jgcd,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Matthew W. M. Edwards and Leo P. Espindle and James K. Kuchar and J. D. Griffith},
      title = {Airspace Encounter Models for Estimating Collision Risk},
      journal = {Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics},
      volume = {33},
      number = {2},
      pages = {487-499},
      doi = {10.2514/1.44867},
      year = {2010}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, J. D. Griffith, and J. E. Olszta, "On Estimating Mid-Air Collision Risk," in AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, 2010. bibtex
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2010atio,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and J. D. Griffith, and Jessica E. Olszta},
      title = {On Estimating Mid-Air Collision Risk},
      booktitle = {AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference},
      year = {2010},
      address = {Fort Worth, Texas}
    }
  • J. P. Chryssanthacopoulos, M. J. Kochenderfer, and R. E. Williams, "Improved Monte Carlo Sampling for Conflict Probability Estimation," in AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2010. bibtex
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Chryssanthacopoulos2010,
      author = {James P. Chryssanthacopoulos and Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Richard E. Williams},
      title = {Improved {Monte Carlo} Sampling for Conflict Probability Estimation},
      booktitle = {AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference},
      year = {2010},
      address = {Orlando, Florida}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer and J. P. Chryssanthacopoulos, "A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Developing Robust Collision Avoidance Logic," in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Madeira Island, Portugal, 2010. bibtex
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2010itsc,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and James P. Chryssanthacopoulos},
      title = {A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Developing Robust Collision Avoidance Logic},
      booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems},
      year = {2010},
      address = {Madeira Island, Portugal}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, J. P. Chryssanthacopoulos, L. P. Kaelbling, T. Lozano-Perez, and J. K. Kuchar, "Model-Based Optimization of Airborne Collision Avoidance Logic," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, Project Report ATC-360, 2010. bibtex Go to document
    @TECHREPORT{Kochenderfer2010atc360,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and James P. Chryssanthacopoulos and Leslie P. Kaelbling and Tomas Lozano-Perez and James K. Kuchar},
      title = {Model-Based Optimization of Airborne Collision Avoidance Logic},
      institution = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory},
      year = {2010},
      type = {Project Report},
      number = {ATC-360},
      url = {http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/aviation/publications/publication-files/atc-reports/Kochenderfer_2010_ATC-360_WW-18658.pdf}
    }
  • S. Temizer, M. J. Kochenderfer, L. P. Kaelbling, T. Lozano-Pérez, and J. K. Kuchar, "Collision Avoidance for Unmanned Aircraft using Markov Decision Processes," in AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2010. bibtex
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Temizer2010,
      author = {Selim Temizer and Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Leslie P. Kaelbling and Tomas Lozano-P\'{e}rez and James K. Kuchar},
      title = {Collision Avoidance for Unmanned Aircraft using {M}arkov Decision Processes},
      booktitle = {AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference},
      year = {2010},
      address = {Toronto, Canada}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, L. P. Espindle, M. W. M. Edwards, J. K. Kuchar, and J. D. Griffith, "Airspace Encounter Models for Conventional and Unconventional Aircraft," in Eighth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar, Napa, Calif., 2009. bibtex Go to document
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2009atm,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Leo P. Espindle and Matthew W. M. Edwards and James K. Kuchar and J. D. Griffith},
      title = {Airspace Encounter Models for Conventional and Unconventional Aircraft},
      booktitle = {Eighth USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar},
      year = {2009},
      address = {Napa, Calif.},
      url = {http://atm2003.eurocontrol.fr/8th-seminar-united-states-june-2009/papers/paper_012}
    }
  • L. P. Espindle and M. J. Kochenderfer, "Classification of Primary Radar Tracks using Gaussian Mixture Models," IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, vol. 3, iss. 6, pp. 559-568, 2009. bibtex Go to document
    @ARTICLE{Espindle2009,
      author = {Leo P. Espindle and Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Classification of Primary Radar Tracks using Gaussian Mixture Models},
      journal = {IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation},
      year = {2009},
      volume = {3},
      number = {6},
      pages = {559-568},
      doi = {10.1049/iet-rsn.2008.0182},
      url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/iet-rsn.2008.0182}
    }
  • M. W. M. Edwards, M. J. Kochenderfer, J. K. Kuchar, and L. P. Espindle, "Encounter Models for Unconventional Aircraft," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, Project Report ATC-348, 2009. bibtex Go to document
    @TECHREPORT{Edwards2009,
      author = {Matthew W. M. Edwards and Mykel J. Kochenderfer and James K. Kuchar and Leo P. Espindle},
      title = {Encounter Models for Unconventional Aircraft},
      institution = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory},
      type = {Project Report},
      number = {ATC-348},
      year = {2009},
      url = {http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/aviation/publications/publication-files/atc-reports/Edwards_2009_ATC-348_WW-18098.pdf}
    }
  • S. Temizer, M. J. Kochenderfer, L. P. Kaelbling, T. Lozano-Perez, and J. K. Kuchar, "Unmanned Aircraft Collision Avoidance using Partially-Observable Markov Decision Processes," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, Project Report ATC-356, 2009. bibtex
    @TECHREPORT{Temizer2009,
      author = {Selim Temizer and Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Leslie P. Kaelbling and Tomas Lozano-Perez and James K. Kuchar},
      title = {Unmanned Aircraft Collision Avoidance using Partially-Observable Markov Decision Processes},
      institution = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory},
      year = {2009},
      type = {Project Report},
      number = {ATC-356}
    }
  • J. D. Griffith, M. J. Kochenderfer, and J. K. Kuchar, "Electro-optical system analysis for sense and avoid," in AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008. bibtex
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Griffith2008,
      author = {J. D. Griffith and Mykel J. Kochenderfer and James K. Kuchar},
      title = {Electro-optical system analysis for sense and avoid},
      booktitle = {AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference},
      year = {2008},
      address = {Honolulu, Hawaii}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, L. P. Espindle, J. D. Griffith, and J. K. Kuchar, "Encounter modeling for sense and avoid development," in Eighth Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference, Bethesda, Md., 2008. bibtex Go to document
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2008icns,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Leo P. Espindle and J. D. Griffith and James K. Kuchar},
      title = {Encounter modeling for sense and avoid development},
      booktitle = {Eighth Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference},
      year = {2008},
      address = {Bethesda, Md.},
      doi = {10.1109/ICNSURV.2008.4559177},
      url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4559177}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, L. P. Espindle, J. K. Kuchar, and J. D. Griffith, "A comprehensive aircraft encounter model of the national airspace system," Lincoln Laboratory Journal, vol. 17, iss. 2, pp. 41-53, 2008. bibtex Go to document
    @ARTICLE{Kochenderfer2008lljournal,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Leo P. Espindle and James K. Kuchar and J. D. Griffith},
      title = {A comprehensive aircraft encounter model of the national airspace system},
      journal = {Lincoln Laboratory Journal},
      year = {2008},
      volume = {17},
      pages = {41-53},
      number = {2},
      url = {http://www.ll.mit.edu/publications/journal/pdf/vol17_no2/17_2_2Kochenderfer.pdf}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, J. K. Kuchar, L. P. Espindle, and J. D. Griffith, "Correlated Encounter Model for Cooperative Aircraft in the National Airspace System," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, Project Report ATC-344, 2008. bibtex Go to document
    @TECHREPORT{Kochenderfer2008cor,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and James K. Kuchar and Leo P. Espindle and J. D. Griffith},
      title = {Correlated Encounter Model for Cooperative Aircraft in the National Airspace System},
      institution = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory},
      type = {Project Report},
      number = {ATC-344},
      year = {2008},
      url = {http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/aviation/publications/publication-files/atc-reports/Kochenderfer_2008_ATC-344_WW-18099.pdf}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, J. K. Kuchar, L. P. Espindle, and J. D. Griffith, "Uncorrelated Encounter Model of the National Airspace System," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, Project Report ATC-345, 2008. bibtex Go to document
    @TECHREPORT{Kochenderfer2008uncor,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and James K. Kuchar and Leo P. Espindle and J. D. Griffith},
      title = {Uncorrelated Encounter Model of the National Airspace System},
      institution = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory},
      year = {2008},
      type = {Project Report},
      number = {ATC-345},
      url = {http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/aviation/publications/publication-files/atc-reports/Kochenderfer_2008_ATC-345_WW-18178.pdf}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, J. K. Kuchar, L. P. Espindle, and J. L. Gertz, "Preliminary Uncorrelated Encounter Model of the National Airspace System," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, Project Report CASSATT-1, 2008. bibtex
    @TECHREPORT{Kochenderfer2008pre,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and James K. Kuchar and Leo P. Espindle and Jeffrey L. Gertz},
      title = {Preliminary Uncorrelated Encounter Model of the National Airspace System},
      institution = {Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory},
      year = {2008},
      type = {Project Report},
      number = {CASSATT-1}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, J. D. Griffith, and J. K. Kuchar, "Hazard alerting using line-of-sight rate," in AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008. bibtex
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2008los,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and J. D. Griffith and James K. Kuchar},
      title = {Hazard alerting using line-of-sight rate},
      booktitle = {AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference},
      year = {2008},
      address = {Honolulu, Hawaii}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, L. P. Espindle, J. K. Kuchar, and J. D. Griffith, "A Bayesian approach to aircraft encounter modeling," in AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2008. bibtex
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2008em,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Leo P. Espindle and James K. Kuchar and J. D. Griffith},
      title = {A {B}ayesian approach to aircraft encounter modeling},
      booktitle = {AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference},
      year = {2008},
      month = {Honolulu, Hawaii}
    }
  • Rakesh Gupta and Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Systems and methods for using statistical techniques to reason with noisy data, 2007. bibtex
    @PATENT{Gupta2007, nationality = {United States},
      patentNumber = {7,299,110},
      year = {2007},
      author = {Rakesh Gupta and Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Systems and methods for using statistical techniques to reason with noisy data},
      assignee = {Honda Motor Co., Ltd.},
      issueDate = {#nov# 20}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, "Adaptive Modelling and Planning for Learning Intelligent Behaviour," PhD Thesis , University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, 2006. bibtex Go to document
    @PHDTHESIS{Kochenderfer2006thesis,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Adaptive Modelling and Planning for Learning Intelligent Behaviour},
      institution = {University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics},
      year = {2006},
      url = {http://mykel.kochenderfer.com/thesis/thesis.pdf}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, "Adaptive Abstraction for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning," University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, Technical Report EDI-INF-RR-0806, 2006. bibtex Go to document
    @TECHREPORT{Kochenderfer2006techrep,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Adaptive Abstraction for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning},
      institution = {University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics},
      year = {2006},
      type = {Technical Report},
      number = {EDI-INF-RR-0806},
      url = {http://mykel.kochenderfer.com/publications/Kochenderfer-2006-tech.pdf}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer and G. Hayes, "Adaptive Partitioning of State Spaces using Decision Graphs for Real-Time Modeling and Planning," in Workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005. bibtex Go to document
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2005ijcai1,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Gillian Hayes},
      title = {Adaptive Partitioning of State Spaces using Decision Graphs for Real-Time Modeling and Planning},
      booktitle = {Workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
      year = {2005},
      address = {Edinburgh, Scotland},
      url = {http://mykel.kochenderfer.com/publications/Kochenderfer2005ijcai1.pdf}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer and G. Hayes, "Modeling and Planning in Large State and Action Spaces," in Workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005. bibtex Go to document
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2005ijcai2,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Gillian Hayes},
      title = {Modeling and Planning in Large State and Action Spaces},
      booktitle = {Workshop on Planning and Learning in A Priori Unknown or Dynamic Domains, Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
      year = {2005},
      address = {Edinburgh, Scotland},
      url = {http://mykel.kochenderfer.com/publications/Kochenderfer2005ijcai2.pdf}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, "Adaptive Modeling and Planning for Reactive Agents," in Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2005. bibtex Go to document
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2005aiaa,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Adaptive Modeling and Planning for Reactive Agents},
      booktitle = {Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
      year = {2005},
      address = {Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania},
      url = {http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2005/DC05-007.pdf}
    }
  • R. Gupta and M. J. Kochenderfer, "Common sense data acquisition for indoor mobile robots," in Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, Calif., 2004. bibtex Go to document
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Gupta2004aiaa,
      author = {Rakesh Gupta and Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Common sense data acquisition for indoor mobile robots},
      booktitle = {Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
      year = {2004},
      address = {San Jose, Calif.},
      url = {http://www.openmind.org/papers/gupta-aaai04.pdf}
    }
  • R. Gupta and M. J. Kochenderfer, "Using statistical techniques and WordNet to reason with noisy data," in Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining, Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Jose, Calif., 2004. bibtex Go to document
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Gupta2004atem,
      author = {Rakesh Gupta and Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Using statistical techniques and WordNet to reason with noisy data},
      booktitle = {Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining, Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
      year = {2004},
      address = {San Jose, Calif.},
      url = {http://www.isi.edu/info-agents/RISE/atem-04/gupta.pdf}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, "Evolving hierarchical and recursive teleo-reactive programs through genetic programming," in Sixth European Conference on Genetic Programming, Essex, England, 2003, pp. 84-94. bibtex Go to document
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2003eurogp,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Evolving hierarchical and recursive teleo-reactive programs through genetic programming},
      booktitle = {Sixth European Conference on Genetic Programming},
      year = {2003},
      editor = {C. Ryan and T. Soule and M. Keijzer and E. Tsang and R. Poli and E. Costa},
      volume = {2610},
      series = {LNCS},
      pages = {84-94},
      address = {Essex, England},
      publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
      url = {http://mykel.kochenderfer.com/publications/Kochenderfer2003eurogp.pdf}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer and R. Gupta, "Common sense data acquisition for indoor mobile robots," in Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture Workshop, Second International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Sanibel, Fla., 2003. bibtex Go to document
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2003dckcap,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Rakesh Gupta},
      title = {Common sense data acquisition for indoor mobile robots},
      booktitle = {Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture Workshop, Second International Conference on Knowledge Capture},
      year = {2003},
      address = {Sanibel, Fla.},
      url = {http://mykel.kochenderfer.com/publications/Kochenderfer2003dckcap.pdf}
    }
  • M. J. Kochenderfer, "Evolving teleo-reactive programs for block stacking using indexicals through genetic programming," in Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming at Stanford, Stanford, Calif., 2002, pp. 111-118. bibtex Go to document
    @INPROCEEDINGS{Kochenderfer2002,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Evolving teleo-reactive programs for block stacking using indexicals through genetic programming},
      booktitle = {Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming at Stanford},
      publisher = {Stanford Bookstore},
      year = {2002},
      editor = {John R. Koza},
      pages = {111-118},
      address = {Stanford, Calif.},
      url = {http://mykel.kochenderfer.com/publications/Kochenderfer2002.pdf}
    }

Selected Research Course Project Papers

  • Meg Aycinena and Mykel J. Kochenderfer and David C. Mulford, An evolutionary approach to natural language grammar induction, 2003. bibtex Go to document
    @UNPUBLISHED{Aycinena2003,
      author = {Meg Aycinena and Mykel J. Kochenderfer and David C. Mulford},
      title = {An evolutionary approach to natural language grammar induction},
      note = {Final project for CS224N: Natural Language Processing, Stanford University},
      year = {2003},
      url = {http://mykel.kochenderfer.com/publications/Aycinena2003.pdf}
    }
  • Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Learning unknown additive normal form games, 2001. bibtex Go to document
    @UNPUBLISHED{Kochenderfer2001,
      author = {Mykel J. Kochenderfer},
      title = {Learning unknown additive normal form games},
      note = {Final project for CS224M: Multi Agent Systems, Stanford University},
      year = {2001},
      url = {http://mykel.kochenderfer.com/publications/Kochenderfer2001.pdf}
    }