Feili Hou

USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292

Email:   fhou@usc.edu
Phone:  (310)448-9430    Fax: (310) 822-0751

    I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department of University of Southern California. I'm working as a research assistant in the Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory at the Information Sciences Institute, and my advisor is Dr. Wei-Min Shen.

• Self-Reconfigurable Robots and System
• Multi-agent System

• SuperBot: Modular,Multifunctional and Reconfigurable Robots (In The Press)
  A new generation of self-reconfigurable robots for space applications.

• SOLAR: Self-Assembly for Space Solar Power Systems
  A new project for building self-assembly robots for space solar power systems.

• ALN: Applied Learning Networks
  ALN applies experience with previous network connections to help tune future network connections. It  provides a demonstration of nontrivial learning in complex communication protocols such as TCP that result in task-specific performance enhancements.

• Experimental Research on a Real-time High-accuracy Visual Positioning System
  Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program)

Control Engineering Lab, University of Science and Technology of China

• Development of a Distributed Control System for AnQing Copper Mine

Network and Information Center, University of Southern California

• Construction of the University's Website

• Feili Hou, Nadeesha Ranasinghe, Behnam Salemi, Wei-Min Shen, "Wheeled Locomotion for Payload Carrying with Modular Robot", 2007 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), Nice, France, September 2008. (To Appear)

• Feili Hou, Wei-Min Shen, "Distributed, Dynamic, and Autonomous Reconfiguration Planning for Chain-Type Self-Reconfigurable Robots", Proc. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008),Pasadena, CA, May 2008.

• Wei-Min Shen, Behnam Salemi, Mark Moll, Chi Ho Chiu, Jacob Everist, Feili Hou, Nadeesha Ranasinghe, Michael Rubenstein, "Multifunctional Behaviors of Reconfigurable SuperBot Modules", Proc. 2007 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007), San Diego, CA, October 2007. (video)

• Feili Hou, Nadeesha Ranasinghe, Behnam Salemi, Wei-Min Shen, "Remotely-Controlled Autonomous TricycleBot Locomotion via SuperBot", Proc. 2007 IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop on Self-Reconfigurable Robots/Systems and Applications

• Jacob Everist, Feili Hou, and Wei-Min Shen, "Transformation of Control in Congruent Self-Reconfigurable Robot Topologies", Proc. 2006 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2006) , Beijing, China, October 2006.
• Feili Hou and Wei-Min Shen "Mathematical Foundation for Hormone-Inspired Control for Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Systems". Proc. 2006 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2006), Orlando, FL, May 2006.
• Feili Hou and Wei-Min Shen, "Hormone-inspired Adaptive Distributed Synchronization of Reconfigurable Robots", The 9th Intl. Conf. Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS-9), Tokyo, Japan, March 2006.
• Kenneth Payne, Jacob Everist, Feili Hou, and Wei-Min Shen, "Single-Sensor Probabilistic Localization on the SeReS Self-Reconfigurable Robot", The 9th Intl. Conf. Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS-9), Tokyo, Japan, March 2006.

• Feng Zhu, Feili Hou, "Filter Algorithm for Visual Positioning and Tracking of Maneuvering Target", Journal of Scientific Instrument, Vol.27 No.2 P.165-170,175, 2006. (In Chinese)
• Feili Hou, Feng Zhu, "A Filter Method for Pose Estimation of Maneuvering Target", Proc. 2004 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2004), Sendai, Japan, September 2004.
• Feili Hou, Feng Zhu,"Filter Algorithm for 3D Pose Estimation of Maneuvering Target",  Proc. the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2004), Cambridge, United Kingdom, Aug. 2004.

• Fuzhen Xue, Feili Hou, Chao Luo,"Simulation Software of Control System Diagram Configuration Based on Elements", Journal of System Simulation, Vol. 14, No. 7, July 2002. (In Chinese)
• Fuzhen Xue, Feili Hou , Chao Luo , "Simulation Software Design Oriented to Control System Block Diagram", Proc.System Simulation Technology and Application, Vol. 3, 2001. (In Chinese)