Research
I have published papers in the areas of virtual reality, robotics,
computational biology, and applied math. I have been a researcher at
Iowa State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Duke University, and the University of Oulu.
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Published Research Articles
Head tracking for the Oculus Rift. S. M. LaValle, A. Yershova, M. Katsev, and M. Antonov. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014. [pdf].
Mapping and pursuit-evasion strategies for a simple wall-following robot. M. Katsev, A. Yershova, B. Tovar, R. Ghrist, and S. M. LaValle. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 27(1):113-128, 2011. [pdf].
Generating uniform incremental grids on SO(3) using the Hopf fibration. A. Yershova, S. Jain, S. M. LaValle, and J. C. Mitchell. International Journal of Robotics Research, 29(7), 2010. [pdf].
Motion planning for highly constrained spaces. A. Yershova and S. M. LaValle. In Proceedings IEEE Conference on Robot Motion and Control, 2009. [pdf].
Generating uniform incremental grids on SO(3) using the Hopf fibration. A. Yershova, S. M. LaValle, and J. C. Mitchell. In Proceedings Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2008. [pdf].
Extracting visibility information by following walls. A. Yershova, B. Tovar, and S. M. LaValle. In S. Fekete, R. Fleischer, R. Klein, and A. Lopez-Ortiz, editors, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 06421. Dagstuhl, 2007. [pdf].
Improving motion planning algorithms by efficient nearest-neighbor searching. A. Yershova and S. M. LaValle. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 23(1):151-157, February 2007. [pdf].
Bitbots: Simple robots solving complex tasks. A. Yershova, B. Tovar, R. Ghrist, and S. M. LaValle. In Proceedings AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005. [pdf].
Dynamic-domain RRTs: Efficient exploration by controlling the sampling domain. A. Yershova, L. Jaillet, T. Simeon, and S. M. LaValle. In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005. [pdf].
Adaptive tuning of the sampling domain for dynamic-domain RRTs. L. Jaillet, A. Yershova, S. M. LaValle, and T. Simeon. In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005. [pdf].
Information spaces for mobile robots. B. Tovar, A. Yershova, J. M. O'Kane, and S. M. LaValle. In Proceedings International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (RoMoCo 2005), 2005. [pdf].
Deterministic sampling methods for spheres and SO(3). A. Yershova and S. M. LaValle. In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004. [pdf].
Incremental grid sampling strategies in robotics. S. R. Lindemann, A. Yershova, and S. M. LaValle. In M. Erdmann, D. Hsu, M. Overmars, and A. F. van der Stappen, editors, Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, VI. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005. [pdf].
Efficient nearest neighbor searching for motion planning. A. Yershova and S. M. LaValle. In Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 632-637, 2002. [pdf].