Shawna L. Thomas

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2003-2021
Publications (10 Years): 17

Top Topics

Motion Planning

Protein Folding

Collision Detection

International Symposium

Top Venues

Int. J. Robotics Res.

Publications

Shawna L. Thomas, Robert Lightfoot
Convergence in Collaborative Course Design while Remaining Virtual. FIE (2021)
Tracy Hammond, Randy Brooks, Shawna L. Thomas, Charles W. Peak, Pauline Wade, Charles Patrick, Samantha Ray, Paul Taele
A Virtual Community of Practice for Enhanced Teaching and Convergence to Strengthen Student Learning, Engagement, and Inclusion. FIE (2021)
Shawna L. Thomas
Best Practices in Robotics Education: Perspectives from an IEEE RAS Women in Engineering Panel [Women in Engineering. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 28 (1) (2021)
James Motes, Read Sandström, Hannah Lee, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Multi-Robot Task and Motion Planning With Subtask Dependencies. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 5 (2) (2020)
Diane Uwacu, Regina Rex, Bonnie Wang, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Annotated-skeleton Biased Motion Planning for Faster Relevant Region Discovery. CoRR (2020)
Nancy M. Amato, Greg Hager, Shawna L. Thomas, Miguel Torres-Torriti
Special issue on the International Symposium on Robotics Research, 2017. Int. J. Robotics Res. 38 (12-13) (2019)
James Motes, Read Sandström, Will Adams, Tobi Ogunyale, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Interaction Templates for Multi-Robot Systems. IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett. 4 (3) (2019)
Nancy M. Amato, Chinwe Ekenna, Shawna L. Thomas, Nicholas Roy
Editorial. Int. J. Robotics Res. 37 (10) (2018)
Nancy M. Amato, Oliver Brock, Marco Morales, Shawna L. Thomas
Special issue on "Robotics: Science and Systems", 2016. Auton. Robots 42 (7) (2018)
Read Sandström, Andrew Bregger, Ben Smith, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Topological Nearest-Neighbor Filtering for Sampling-Based Planners. ICRA (2018)
Troy McMahon, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Sampling-based motion planning with reachable volumes for high-degree-of-freedom manipulators. Int. J. Robotics Res. 37 (7) (2018)
Mukulika Ghosh, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Fast Collision Detection for Motion Planning Using Shape Primitive Skeletons. WAFR (2018)
Timothy Ebinger, Sascha Kaden, Shawna L. Thomas, Robert Andre, Nancy M. Amato, Ulrike Thomas
A General and Flexible Search Framework for Disassembly Planning. ICRA (2018)
Troy McMahon, Read Sandström, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Manipulation planning with directed reachable volumes. IROS (2017)
Nancy M. Amato, Charles W. 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
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Robot Learning and Planning (RLP 2016). CoRR (2016)
Mukulika Ghosh, Shawna L. Thomas, Marco Morales, Samuel Rodríguez, Nancy M. Amato
Motion planning using hierarchical aggregation of workspace obstacles. IROS (2016)
Chinwe Ekenna, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Adaptive local learning in sampling based motion planning for protein folding. BMC Syst. Biol. 10 (S-2) (2016)
Troy McMahon, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Reachable volume RRT. ICRA (2015)
Chinwe Ekenna, Diane Uwacu, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Improved roadmap connection via local learning for sampling based planners. IROS (2015)
Hsin-Yi Cindy Yeh, Aaron Lindsey, Chih-Peng Wu, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Decoy Database Improvement for Protein Folding. J. Comput. Biol. 22 (9) (2015)
Chinwe Ekenna, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Adaptive local learning in sampling based motion planning for protein folding. BIBM (2015)
Hsin-Yi Cindy Yeh, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Using motion planning to rank ligand binding affinity. BCB (2015)
Hsin-Yi Cindy Yeh, Jory Denny, Aaron Lindsey, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
UMAPRM: Uniformly sampling the medial axis. ICRA (2014)
Troy McMahon, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Sampling-based motion planning with reachable volumes: Theoretical foundations. ICRA (2014)
Jory Denny, Evan Greco, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
MARRT: Medial Axis biased rapidly-exploring random trees. ICRA (2014)
Troy McMahon, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Sampling based motion planning with reachable volumes: Application to manipulators and closed chain systems. IROS (2014)
Aaron Lindsey, Hsin-Yi Cindy Yeh, Chih-Peng Wu, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Improving decoy databases for protein folding algorithms. BCB (2014)
Cesar Rodriguez, Jory Denny, Sam Ade Jacobs, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Blind RRT: A probabilistically complete distributed RRT. IROS (2013)
Sam Ade Jacobs, Nicholas Stradford, Cesar Rodriguez, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
A scalable distributed RRT for motion planning. ICRA (2013)
Chinwe Ekenna, Sam Ade Jacobs, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Adaptive neighbor connection for PRMs: A natural fit for heterogeneous environments and parallelism. IROS (2013)
Sam Ade Jacobs, Kasra Manavi, Juan Burgos, Jory Denny, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
A scalable method for parallelizing sampling-based motion planning algorithms. ICRA (2012)
Hsin-Yi Yeh, Shawna L. Thomas, David Eppstein, Nancy M. Amato
UOBPRM: A uniformly distributed obstacle-based PRM. IROS (2012)
Shuvra Kanti Nath, Shawna L. Thomas, Chinwe Ekenna, Nancy M. Amato
A multi-directional rapidly exploring random graph (mRRG) for protein folding. BCB (2012)
Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Phillip Coleman, Nancy M. Amato
Reachable Distance Space: Efficient Sampling-Based Planning for Spatially Constrained Systems. Int. J. Robotics Res. 29 (7) (2010)
Nancy M. Amato, Lydia Tapia, Shawna L. Thomas
A Motion Planning Approach to Studying Molecular Motions. Commun. Inf. Syst. 10 (1) (2010)
Lydia Tapia, Shawna L. Thomas, Bryan Boyd, Nancy M. Amato
An unsupervised adaptive strategy for constructing probabilistic roadmaps. ICRA (2009)
Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Planning with Reachable Distances. WAFR (2008)
Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Lydia Tapia, Nancy M. Amato
Tools for Simulating and Analyzing RNA Folding Kinetics. RECOMB (2007)
Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Planning with Reachable Distances: Fast Enforcement of Closure Constraints. ICRA (2007)
Lydia Tapia, Xinyu Tang, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Kinetics analysis methods for approximate folding landscapes. ISMB/ECCB (Supplement of Bioinformatics) (2007)
Shawna L. Thomas, Marco Morales, Xinyu Tang, Nancy M. Amato
Biasing Samplers to Improve Motion Planning Performance. ICRA (2007)
Shawna L. Thomas, Xinyu Tang, Lydia Tapia, Nancy M. Amato
Simulating Protein Motions with Rigidity Analysis. J. Comput. Biol. 14 (6) (2007)
Samuel Rodríguez, Shawna L. Thomas, Roger A. Pearce, Nancy M. Amato
RESAMPL: A Region-Sensitive Adaptive Motion Planner. WAFR (2006)
Dawen Xie, Marco Morales, Roger A. Pearce, Shawna L. Thomas, Jyh-Ming Lien, Nancy M. Amato
Incremental Map Generation (IMG). WAFR (2006)
Shawna L. Thomas, Xinyu Tang, Lydia Tapia, Nancy M. Amato
Simulating Protein Motions with Rigidity Analysis. RECOMB (2006)
Xinyu Tang, Bonnie Kirkpatrick, Shawna L. Thomas, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato
Using Motion Planning to Study RNA Folding Kinetics. J. Comput. Biol. 12 (6) (2005)
Shawna L. Thomas, Gabriel Tanase, Lucia K. Dale, José M. Moreira, Lawrence Rauchwerger, Nancy M. Amato
Parallel protein folding with STAPL. Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 17 (14) (2005)
Xinyu Tang, Bonnie Kirkpatrick, Shawna L. Thomas, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato
Using motion planning to study RNA folding kinetics. RECOMB (2004)
Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
Parallel Protein Folding with STAPL. IPDPS (2004)
Guang Song, Shawna L. Thomas, Ken A. Dill, J. Martin Scholtz, Nancy M. Amato
A Path Planning-Based Study of Protein Folding with a Case Study of Hairpin Formation in Protein G and L. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (2003)
Jyh-Ming Lien, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
A general framework for sampling on the medial axis of the free space. ICRA (2003)
Guang Song, Shawna L. Thomas, Nancy M. Amato
A general framework for PRM motion planning. ICRA (2003)