James Kurien Intelligent Systems Division NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035 phone: 650-604-1685

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Research Interests

Publications related to Mission Operations

• Planning Applications for Three Mars Missions with Ensemble
  IWPSS 2007
  Arash Aghevli, Andrew Bachmann, John Bresina, Kevin Greene, Bob Kanefsky, James Kurien, Michael McCurdy, Paul Morris, Guy Pyrzak, Christian Ratterman, Alonso Vera, Steven Wragg

Publications on Discrete Diagnosis and Planning

• Fragment-based Conformant Planning
  A new approach to conformant planning.
  Proceedings of AIPS 2002
  James Kurien, P. Pandurang Nayak and David E. Smith

• Livingstone2: Discrete Diagnosis
  Back to the Future for Consistency-based Trajectory Tracking.
  Proceedings of AAAI-2000 and DX-2000.
  James Kurien and P. Pandurang Nayak.

• Phd Thesis: Model-Based Monitoring, Diagnosis and Control
  My PhD thesis includes everything in the Livingstone 2 paper and conformant planning paper, plus additional material, in a longer, easier to understand format.
  Actually, this link is not the final thesis. Presumably I have it around here somewhere.
  Brown University, 2003

• Design of the Remote Agent Experiment for Spacecraft Autonomy
  In IEEE Aerospace 1998.
  Authored by the Remote Agent team

• Discrete Bayesian Uncertainty Models for Mobile-Robot Navigation.
  In IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1996
  Anthony Cassandra, Leslie Pack Kaelbling and James A. Kurien. 1996. 

• Model-Based Autonomy for Robust Mars Operations.
  Founding Convention of the Mars Society
  James Kurien, P. Pandurang Nayak and Brian C. Williams. 1998. 

Distributed and Hybrid Diagnosis work done at Xerox PARC

· de Kleer, J. and Kurien, J. (2003) Fundamentals of model-based diagnosis, SafeProcess 2003

· Koutsoukos, X. D.; Kurien, J. A.; Zhao, F. Estimation of distributed hybrid systems using particle filtering methods. Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC '03); 2003 April 3-5; Prague, Czech Republic. Springer Verlag; 2003; Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2623: 298-313.

· Koutsoukos, X. D.; Kurien, J. A.; Zhao, F. Monitoring and diagnosis of hybrid systems using particle filtering methods. Fifteenth International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2002); 2002 August 12-16; Notre Dame; IN; USA.

· Su, R.; Kurien, J. A.; Koutsoukos, X. D. Distributed diagnosis for qualitative systems. Workshop on Discrete Event Systems; 2002 October 2-4; Zaragoza; Spain.

· Zhao, F.; Koutsoukos, X. D.; Kurien, J. A. Diagnosis of embedded systems using distributed, qualitative and hybrid techniques. AAAI Spring Symposium: Information Refinement and Revision for Decision Making: Modeling for Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Prediction; 2002 March 25-27; Palo Alto; CA; USA.

· Zhao, F.; Koutsoukos, X. D.; Kurien, J. Collaborative, embedded sensing and diagnosis. Workshop on Reliability in Embedded Systems; 2001 October 29; New Orleans, LA.

Patents

· James A. Kurien, Xenofon Koutsoukos, and Feng Zhao. "Systems and Methods for Distributed Algorithm for Optimization-Based Diagnosis", Patent No: US 6,687,653, Feb. 3, 2004.

· James A. Kurien, Xenofon Koutsoukos, and Rong Su. "Systems and Methods for Distributed Fault Diagnosis Using Precompiled Finite Automata", Patent No: US 6,778,943, Aug. 17, 2004.

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Last updated (October, 2007).