Shawna Thomas

Papers with Parasol Lab:

• Using Guided Motion Planning to Study Binding Site Accessibility

  by Diane Uwacu, Abigail Ren, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, September 2020

• Fast Collision Detection for Motion Planning Using Shape Primitive Skeletons

  by Mukulika Ghosh, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XIII. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR). The 2018 Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), May 2020

• Multi-Robot Task and Motion Planning with Subtask Dependencies

  by James Motes, Read Sandström, Hannah Lee, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), February 2020

• Interaction Templates for Multi-Robot Systems

  by James Motes, Read Sandström, Will Adams, Tobi Ogunyale, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, June 2019

• Using Motion Planning to Evaluate Protein Binding Site Accessibility

  by Diane Uwacu, Everett Yang, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  Technical Report, TR18-001, July 2018

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

  by Troy McMahon, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M Amato
  The International Journal of Robotics Research, June 2018

• A General and Flexible Search Framework for Disassembly Planning

  by Timothy Ebinger, Sascha Kaden, Shawna Thomas, Robert Andre, Nancy M. Amato, and Ulrike Thomas
  In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2018

• Topological Nearest-Neighbor Filtering for Sampling-Based Planners

  by Read Sandström, Andrew Bregger, Ben Smith, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2018

• Manipulation Planning with Directed Reachable Volumes

  by Troy McMahon, Read Sandström, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2017

• Motion Planning using Hierarchical Aggregation of Workspace Obstacles

  by Mukulika Ghosh, Shawna Thomas, Marco Morales, Sam Rodriguez, Nancy M. Amato
  In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2016

• The Impact of Approximate Methods on Local Learning in Motion Planning

  by Diane Uwacu, Chinwe Ekenna, Shawna Thomas, Nancy Amato
  1st International Workshop on Robot Learning and Planning (RLP 2016), in conjunction with RSS 2016, June 2016

• Studying Learning Techniques in Different Phases of PRM Construction

  by Chinwe Ekenna, Diane Uwacu, Shawna Thomas, Nancy Amato
  In Machine Learning in Planning and Control of Robot Motion Workshop (IROS-MLPC), October 2015

• Improved Roadmap Connection via Local Learning for Sampling Based Planners

  by Chinwe Ekenna, Diane Uwacu, Shawna Thomas, Nancy Amato
  Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intel. Rob. Syst. (IROS), October 2015

• Decoy Database Improvement for Protein Folding

  by Hsin-Yi (Cindy) Yeh, Aaron Lindsey, Chih-Peng Wu, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  Journal of Computational Biology, September 2015

• Sampling-Based Motion Planning with Reachable Volumes: Theoretical Foundations

  by Troy McMahon, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June 2014

• Adaptive Neighbor Connection using Node Characterization

  by Chinwe Ekenna, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  N/A, January 2014

• Blind RRT: A Probabilistically Complete Distributed RRT

  by Cesar Rodriguez, Jory Denny, Sam Ade Jacobs, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  In. Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), November 2013

• Adaptive Neighbor Connection for PRMs: A Natural Fit for Heterogeneous Environments and Parallelism

  by Chinwe Ekenna, Sam Ade Jacobs, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  In. Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), November 2013

• Rigidity Analysis for Protein Motion and Folding Core Identification

  by Shawna Thomas, Lydia Tapia, Chinwe Ekenna, Hsin-Yi (Cindy) Yeh, Nancy M. Amato
  Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Workshop, July 2013

• A scalable distributed RRT for motion planning

  by Sam Ade Jacobs, Nicholas Stradford, Cesar Rodriguez, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2013

• UOBPRM: A uniformly distributed obstacle-based PRM

  by Hsin-Yi Yeh, Shawna Thomas, David Eppstein, Nancy M. Amato
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2012

• A Multi-Directional Rapidly Exploring Random Graph (mRRG) for Protein Folding

  by Shuvra Nath, Shawna Thomas, Chinwe Ekenna, Nancy M. Amato
  Proc. ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (BCB), October 2012

• A Scalable Method for Parallelizing Sampling-Based Motion Planning Algorithms

  by Sam Ade Jacobs, Kasra Manavi, Juan Burgos, Jory Denny, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2012

• Reachable distance space: Efficient sampling-based planning for spatially constrained systems

  by Xinyu Tang, Shawna Thomas, Phillip Coleman, Nancy M. Amato
  The International Journal of Robotics Research, June 2010

• A Motion Planning Approach to Studying Molecular Motions

  by Lydia Tapia, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  Communications in Information and Systems, January 2010

• Incremental Map Generation (IMG)

  by Dawen Xie, Marco Morales, Roger Pearce, Shawna Thomas, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato
  Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VII, January 2008

• RESAMPL: A Region-Sensitive Adaptive Motion Planner

  by Samuel Rodriguez, Shawna Thomas, Roger Pearce, Nancy M. Amato
  Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VII, January 2008

• Kinetics Analysis Methods for Approximate Folding Landscapes

  by Lydia Tapia, Xinyu Tang, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  Bioinformatics, July 2007

• Biasing Samplers to Improve Motion Planning Performance

  by Shawna Thomas, Marco Morales, Xinyu Tang, Nancy M. Amato
  In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), April 2007

• Tools for Simulating and Analyzing RNA Folding Kinetics

  by Xinyu Tang, Shawna Thomas, Lydia Tapia, Nancy M. Amato
  In. Proc. International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, April 2007

• Planning with Reachable Distances: Fast Enforcement of Closure Constraints

  by Xinyu Tang, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), April 2007

• Parallel Protein Folding with STAPL

  by Shawna Thomas, Gabriel Tanase, Lucia K. Dale, Jose E. Moreira, Lawrence Rauchwerger, Nancy M. Amato
  Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, December 2005

• Protein Folding by Motion Planning

  by Shawna Thomas, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato
  Physical Biology, November 2005

• Parallel Protein Folding with STAPL

  by Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 2004

• Using Motion Planning to Study RNA Folding Kinetics

  by Xinyu Tang, Bonnie Kirkpatrick, Shawna Thomas, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato
  In Proc. Int. Conf. Comput. Molecular Biology (RECOMB), March 2004

• A General Framework for PRM Motion Planning

  by Guang Song, Shawna Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
  In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Autom. (ICRA), September 2003

• A Path Planning-based Study of Protein Folding With a Case Study of Hairpin Formation in Protein G and L

  by Guang Song, Shawna Thomas, Ken A. Dill, J. Martin Scholtz, Nancy M. Amato
  In Proc. Pac. Symp. of Biocomputing (PSB), January 2003