James Taylor’s Homepage | Positronics Lab @ GWU

James

Dissertation

James R. Taylor, “Toward Consistent Robotics Simulation Through Validation”, The George Washington University, July 23, 2018, [jrt-dissertation-2018.pdf]

Publications

Publications in robotic simulation

James R. Taylor and Evan M. Drumwright, “Validating Multi-Rigid Body Simulation of a Wild Robot”, Autonomous Robots (AURO), Submitted March 2017, Accepted pending revision January 2018, Revised June 2018, Under Review

James R Taylor, Evan M. Drumwright, and John Hsu, “Analysis of Grasping Failures in Multi-Rigid Body Simulations”, IEEE International Conference on Simulation and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), 2016. [simpar-2016-grasping.pdf]

James R Taylor and Evan M. Drumwright, “State Estimation of a Wild Body Toward Validation of Rigid Body Simulation”, IEEE International Conference on Simulation and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), 2016. [simpar-2016-wb.pdf]

James R. Taylor, Evan M. Drumwright and Gabriel Parmer, “Making Time Make Sense in Robotic Simulation”, The 2014 International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2014), Bergamo, Italy, Oct 2014. [taylor2014a.pdf]

James R. Taylor, Evan M. Drumwright and Gabriel Parmer, “Temporally Consistent Simulation of Robots and Their Controllers”, Proceedings ASME 2014 International Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC),  Buffalo, NY, Aug 2014. [taylor2014_1.pdf]

Open source software:

My personal projects:

Reveal: A stress-testing and verification library (c++) for robotic simulation engines.

Time Consistent Simulation: a research platform designed to explore the application of temporal constraints within robotic simulation.

Projects I contribute to @ Positronics Lab

Moby: A multi-rigid body simulator (c++)

Ravelin: A linear algebra and dynamics library (c++) for robotics

Work history:

Positronics Lab
George Washington University
Ph.D. Student
Washington, DC
Advisor: Evan Drumwright

Research at-a-glance

Wild Robot Motion Study and Data Repository
Grasp Simulation Study and Data Repository
Time Consistent Simulation