Shawna L. Thomas

According to our database, Shawna L. Thomas authored at least 49 papers between 2003 and 2021.

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2021

Best Practices in Robotics Education: Perspectives from an IEEE RAS Women in Engineering Panel [Women in Engineering.

Shawna L. Thomas

IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2021

Convergence in Collaborative Course Design while Remaining Virtual.

Shawna L. Thomas, Robert Lightfoot

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2021

A Virtual Community of Practice for Enhanced Teaching and Convergence to Strengthen Student Learning, Engagement, and Inclusion.

Tracy Hammond, Randy Brooks, Shawna L. Thomas, Charles W. Peak, Pauline Wade, Charles Patrick, Samantha Ray, Paul Taele

Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2021

2020

Multi-Robot Task and Motion Planning With Subtask Dependencies.

James Motes, Read Sandström, Hannah Lee, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2020

Annotated-skeleton Biased Motion Planning for Faster Relevant Region Discovery.

Diane Uwacu, Regina Rex, Bonnie Wang, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

CoRR, 2020

2019

Interaction Templates for Multi-Robot Systems.

James Motes, Read Sandström, Will Adams, Tobi Ogunyale, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2019

Special issue on the International Symposium on Robotics Research, 2017.

Nancy M. Amato, Greg Hager, Shawna L. Thomas, Miguel Torres-Torriti

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2019

2018

Sampling-based motion planning with reachable volumes for high-degree-of-freedom manipulators.

Troy McMahon, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2018

Editorial.

Nancy M. Amato, Chinwe Ekenna, Shawna L. Thomas, Nicholas Roy

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2018

Special issue on "Robotics: Science and Systems", 2016.

Nancy M. Amato, Oliver Brock, Marco Morales, Shawna L. Thomas

Auton. Robots, 2018

Fast Collision Detection for Motion Planning Using Shape Primitive Skeletons.

Mukulika Ghosh, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XIII, 2018

Topological Nearest-Neighbor Filtering for Sampling-Based Planners.

Read Sandström, Andrew Bregger, Ben Smith, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018

A General and Flexible Search Framework for Disassembly Planning.

Timothy Ebinger, Sascha Kaden, Shawna L. Thomas, Robert Andre, Nancy M. Amato, Ulrike Thomas

Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018

2017

Manipulation planning with directed reachable volumes.

Troy McMahon, Read Sandström, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017

2016

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Robot Learning and Planning (RLP 2016).

Nancy M. Amato, Charles Anderson, Gregory S. Chirikjian, Hamidreza Chitsaz, Vishnu R. Desaraju, Chinwe Ekenna, Kris K. Hauser, Geoffrey A. Hollinger, Reza Iraji, Minwoo Lee, Qianli Ma, Seth McCammon, Nathan Michael, Shawna L. Thomas, Diane Uwacu, Yan Yan

CoRR, 2016

Adaptive local learning in sampling based motion planning for protein folding.

Chinwe Ekenna, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

BMC Syst. Biol., 2016

Motion planning using hierarchical aggregation of workspace obstacles.

Mukulika Ghosh, Shawna L. Thomas, Marco Morales, Samuel Rodríguez, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

2015

Decoy Database Improvement for Protein Folding.

Hsin-Yi Cindy Yeh, Aaron Lindsey, Chih-Peng Wu, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

J. Comput. Biol., 2015

Improved roadmap connection via local learning for sampling based planners.

Chinwe Ekenna, Diane Uwacu, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2015

Reachable volume RRT.

Troy McMahon, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015

Using motion planning to rank ligand binding affinity.

Hsin-Yi Cindy Yeh, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, 2015

2014

Sampling based motion planning with reachable volumes: Application to manipulators and closed chain systems.

Troy McMahon, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

UMAPRM: Uniformly sampling the medial axis.

Hsin-Yi Cindy Yeh, Jory Denny, Aaron Lindsey, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

Sampling-based motion planning with reachable volumes: Theoretical foundations.

Troy McMahon, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

MARRT: Medial Axis biased rapidly-exploring random trees.

Jory Denny, Evan Greco, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

Improving decoy databases for protein folding algorithms.

Aaron Lindsey, Hsin-Yi Cindy Yeh, Chih-Peng Wu, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, 2014

2013

Blind RRT: A probabilistically complete distributed RRT.

Cesar Rodriguez, Jory Denny, Sam Ade Jacobs, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013

Adaptive neighbor connection for PRMs: A natural fit for heterogeneous environments and parallelism.

Chinwe Ekenna, Sam Ade Jacobs, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013

A scalable distributed RRT for motion planning.

Sam Ade Jacobs, Nicholas Stradford, Cesar Rodriguez, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

2012

UOBPRM: A uniformly distributed obstacle-based PRM.

Hsin-Yi Yeh, Shawna L. Thomas, David Eppstein, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012

A scalable method for parallelizing sampling-based motion planning algorithms.

Sam Ade Jacobs, Kasra Manavi, Juan Burgos, Jory Denny, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

A multi-directional rapidly exploring random graph (mRRG) for protein folding.

Shuvra Kanti Nath, Shawna L. Thomas, Chinwe Ekenna, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, 2012

2010

Reachable Distance Space: Efficient Sampling-Based Planning for Spatially Constrained Systems.

Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Phillip Coleman, Nancy M. Amato

Int. J. Robotics Res., 2010

A Motion Planning Approach to Studying Molecular Motions.

Nancy M. Amato, Lydia Tapia, Shawna L. Thomas

Commun. Inf. Syst., 2010

2009

An unsupervised adaptive strategy for constructing probabilistic roadmaps.

Lydia Tapia, Shawna L. Thomas, Bryan Boyd, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2009

2008

Planning with Reachable Distances.

Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VIII, 2008

2007

Simulating Protein Motions with Rigidity Analysis.

Shawna L. Thomas, Xinyu Tang, Lydia Tapia, Nancy M. Amato

J. Comput. Biol., 2007

Tools for Simulating and Analyzing RNA Folding Kinetics.

Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Lydia Tapia, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the Research in Computational Molecular Biology, 2007

Kinetics analysis methods for approximate folding landscapes.

Lydia Tapia, Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the Proceedings 15th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) & 6th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), 2007

Biasing Samplers to Improve Motion Planning Performance.

Shawna L. Thomas, Marco Morales, Xinyu Tang, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007

Planning with Reachable Distances: Fast Enforcement of Closure Constraints.

Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007

2006

Incremental Map Generation (IMG).

Dawen Xie, Marco Morales, Roger A. Pearce, Shawna L. Thomas, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VII, 2006

RESAMPL: A Region-Sensitive Adaptive Motion Planner.

Samuel Rodríguez, Shawna L. Thomas, Roger A. Pearce, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VII, 2006

2005

Using Motion Planning to Study RNA Folding Kinetics.

Xinyu Tang, Bonnie Kirkpatrick, Shawna L. Thomas, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato

J. Comput. Biol., 2005

Parallel protein folding with STAPL.

Shawna L. Thomas, Gabriel Tanase, Lucia K. Dale, José M. Moreira, Lawrence Rauchwerger, Nancy M. Amato

Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp., 2005

2004

Parallel Protein Folding with STAPL.

Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004), 2004

2003

A Path Planning-Based Study of Protein Folding with a Case Study of Hairpin Formation in Protein G and L.

Guang Song, Shawna L. Thomas, Ken A. Dill, J. Martin Scholtz, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 8th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2003

A general framework for PRM motion planning.

Guang Song, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003

A general framework for sampling on the medial axis of the free space.

Jyh-Ming Lien, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato

Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003