Bio

I joined the Planning and Scheduling Group at Ames in late 2007, where I am a member of the EUROPA development team. My current projects include an emergency landing planner for damaged aircraft and a prototype system to author and manage constraints for Mission Control. Previously, I had a chance to play with footfall planning for the ATHLETE robot as well as an ISS crew planning demonstration, both part of the A4O (Automation for Operations) project.

I came down to Ames from Oregon, where I had a great time at On Time Systems, Inc. (OTS) developing optimization algorithms for large industrial problems. While there, I was able to complete a Ph. D. in Computer and Information Sciences next door at the University of Oregon.

In what is quickly becoming the distant past, I graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from Williams College in 1998 and spent the following two years teaching math at the Casablanca American School before heading to Eugene.

Select Publications

All are available on request.

A Comparison of Risk Sensitive Path Planning Methods for Aircraft Emergency Landing
Nicolas Meuleau, Christian Plaunt, David E. Smith and Tristan Smith

In ICAPS Bridging the Gap Between Task and Motion Planning Workshop. Thessaloniki, Greece. September 2009.

A Practical Comparison of Motion Planning Techniques for Robotic Legs in Environments with Obstacles
Tristan Smith and Daniel Chavez-Clemente

In Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology. Pasadena, CA. July 2009.

An Emergency Landing Planner for Damaged Aircraft
Nicolas Meuleau, Christian Plaunt, David E. Smith and Tristan Smith

In Proceedings of the Twenty-First Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference. Pasadena, CA. July 2009.

ATHLETE's Feet: Multi-Resolution Planning for a Hexapod Robot
Tristan Smith, Javier Barreiro, David E. Smith, Vytas Sunspiral, and Daniel Chavez-Clemente

In ICAPS Scheduling and Planning Applications Workshop. Sydney, Australia. September 2008.

Stochastic Shipyard Simulation with SimYard
Oliver Dain, Matthew Ginsberg, Erin Keenan, John Pyle, Tristan Smith and Andrew Stoneman.
In Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference. Monterey, CA. December 2006.

Automated Scheduling to Minimize Shipbuilding Cost.
Oliver M. Dain, David W. Etherington, Matthew L. Ginsberg, Erin O. Keenan and Tristan B. Smith.
In The Twelfth International Conference on Computer Applications in Shipbuilding. Busang, Korea. August 2005.

An Effective Algorithm for Project Scheduling with Arbitrary Temporal Constraints
Tristan B. Smith and John M. Pyle.
InThe Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2004). San Jose, CA. July 2004.

Window-Based Project Scheduling Algorithms
Tristan B. Smith
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon. June 2004.