Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Administrative Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Boston University (2012 - 2015)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania (2010 - 2012)
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT (2009 - 2011)
  • Automation Engineer, Applied Materials, Inc (2000 - 2002)

Honors & Awards

  • Best Paper Finalist, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2016)
  • King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2016)
  • Early Career Research Excellence Award, Boston University College of Engineering (2015)
  • CAREER Award, NSF (2014)
  • Best Paper Finalist, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2011)
  • Best Paper Award, Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB) (2008)
  • Best Paper Finalist, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (2008)

Professional Education

  • PhD, MIT, Mechanical Engineering (2009)
  • MS, MIT, Mechanical Engineering (2005)
  • BS, Stanford, Mechanical Engineering (2000)

Contact

  • Academic
    schwager@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: Aeronautics and Astronautics Position: Assistant Professor
    • Durand Building Room 209
    • 496 Lomita Mall
    • Stanford,  California  94305 

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 4035

Links

2019-20 Courses

Stanford Advisees

  • Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
    Andrew Bylard, Michelle Chernick, Ashley Clark, Duncan Eddy, Vince Giralo, Zack Hammond, Boris Ivanovic, Kyle Julian, Karen Leung, Corinne Lippe, Aditya Mahajan, Jeff Park, Nathan Stacey, David Stonestrom, Josh Sullivan, Adam Wiktor
  • Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
    David Fridovich-Keil, Negar Zahedi Mehr
  • Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
    Adam Caccavale, Eric Cristofalo, Preston Culbertson, Ravi Haksar, Trevor Halsted, Jun En Low, Haruki Nishimura, Kunal Shah, Olaoluwa Shorinwa, Mingyu Wang, Patrick Washington
  • Orals Evaluator
    Ashley Clark, Kyle Julian, Josh Sullivan
  • Master's Program Advisor
    Caitlin Driscoll, Racheal Erhard, Bernard Lange, Aliyah Smith, Karthik Srivatsan, Gadi Sznaier Camps, Javier Yu, Remy Zawislak
  • Doctoral (Program)
    Claire Chen

All Publications

  • An untethered isoperimetric soft robot SCIENCE ROBOTICS Usevitch, N. S., Hammond, Z. M., Schwager, M., Okamura, A. M., Hawkes, E. W., Follmer, S. 2020; 5 (40)

    View details for DOI 10.1126/scirobotics.aaz0492

    View details for Web of Science ID 000520870400001

  • Multi-agent sensitivity enhanced iterative best response: A real-time game theoretic planner for drone racing in 3D environments ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS Wang, Z., Taubner, T., Schwager, M. 2020; 125

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.robot.2019.103410

    View details for Web of Science ID 000515203900012

  • GRAPE: Geometric Risk-Aware Pursuit-Evasion ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS Shah, K., Schwager, M. 2019; 121

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.robot.2019.07.016

    View details for Web of Science ID 000491214500008

  • Tracking a Markov Target in a Discrete Environment With Multiple Sensors IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL Leahy, K., Schwager, M. 2019; 64 (6): 2396–2411

    View details for DOI 10.1109/TAC.2018.2857760

    View details for Web of Science ID 000469913800014

  • Distributed multi-robot formation control in dynamic environments AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Alonso-Mora, J., Montijano, E., Nageli, T., Hilliges, O., Schwager, M., Rus, D. 2019; 43 (5): 1079–1100

    View details for DOI 10.1007/s10514-018-9783-9

    View details for Web of Science ID 000468274800002

  • Control in belief space with temporal logic specifications using vision-based localization INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH Leahy, K., Cristofalo, E., Vasile, C., Jones, A., Montijano, E., Schwager, M., Belta, C. 2019; 38 (6): 702–22

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0278364919846340

    View details for Web of Science ID 000468940000005

  • Translational and Rotational Invariance in Networked Dynamical Systems IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL OF NETWORK SYSTEMS Vasile, C., Schwager, M., Belta, C. 2018; 5 (3): 822–32

    View details for DOI 10.1109/TCNS.2017.2648499

    View details for Web of Science ID 000445357100001

  • Agile Coordination and Assistive Collision Avoidance for Quadrotor Swarms Using Virtual Structures IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS Zhou, D., Wang, Z., Schwager, M. 2018; 34 (4): 916–23

    View details for DOI 10.1109/TRO.2018.2857477

    View details for Web of Science ID 000442341000016

  • Controlling Noncooperative Herds with Robotic Herders IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS Pierson, A., Schwager, M. 2018; 34 (2): 517–25

    View details for DOI 10.1109/TRO.2017.2776308

    View details for Web of Science ID 000430595400017

  • Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning for Fighting Forest Fires with a Network of Aerial Robots Haksar, R. N., Schwager, M., Kosecka, J., Maciejewski, A. A., Okamura, A., Bicchi, A., Stachniss, C., Song, D. Z., Lee, D. H., Chaumette, F., Ding, H., Li, J. S., Wen, J., Roberts, J., Masamune, K., Chong, N. Y., Amato, N., Tsagwarakis, N., Rocco, P., Asfour, T., Chung, W. K., Yasuyoshi, Y., Sun, Y., Maciekeski, T., Althoefer, K., AndradeCetto, J., Chung, W. K., Demircan, E., Dias, J., Fraisse, P., Gross, R., Harada, H., Hasegawa, Y., Hayashibe, M., Kiguchi, K., Kim, K., Kroeger, T., Li, Y., Ma, S., Mochiyama, H., Monje, C. A., Rekleitis, Roberts, R., Stulp, F., Tsai, C. H., Zollo, L. IEEE. 2018: 1067–74

    View details for Web of Science ID 000458872701029

  • Controlling Large, Graph-based MDPs with Global Control Capacity Constraints: An Approximate LP Solution Haksar, R. N., Schwager, M., IEEE IEEE. 2018: 35–42

    View details for Web of Science ID 000458114800005

  • Active Motion-Based Communication for Robots with Monocular Vision Nishimura, H., Schwager, M., IEEE IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2018: 2948–55

    View details for Web of Science ID 000446394502041

  • Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation Culbertson, P., Schwager, M., IEEE IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2018: 278–85

    View details for Web of Science ID 000446394500029

  • Safe Distributed Lane Change Maneuvers for Multiple Autonomous Vehicles Using Buffered Input Cells Wang, M., Wang, Z., Paudel, S., Schwager, M., IEEE IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2018: 4678–84

    View details for Web of Science ID 000446394503082

  • Cooperative Object Transport in 3D with Multiple Quadrotors using No Peer Communication Wang, Z., Singh, S., Pavone, M., Schwager, M., IEEE IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2018: 1064–71

    View details for Web of Science ID 000446394500113

  • Wireframe Mapping for Resource-Constrained Robots Caccavale, A., Schwager, M., Kosecka, J., Maciejewski, A. A., Okamura, A., Bicchi, A., Stachniss, C., Song, D. Z., Lee, D. H., Chaumette, F., Ding, H., Li, J. S., Wen, J., Roberts, J., Masamune, K., Chong, N. Y., Amato, N., Tsagwarakis, N., Rocco, P., Asfour, T., Chung, W. K., Yasuyoshi, Y., Sun, Y., Maciekeski, T., Althoefer, K., AndradeCetto, J., Chung, W. K., Demircan, E., Dias, J., Fraisse, P., Gross, R., Harada, H., Hasegawa, Y., Hayashibe, M., Kiguchi, K., Kim, K., Kroeger, T., Li, Y., Ma, S., Mochiyama, H., Monje, C. A., Rekleitis, Roberts, R., Stulp, F., Tsai, C. H., Zollo, L. IEEE. 2018: 8658–65

    View details for Web of Science ID 000458872707108

  • Adapting to sensing and actuation variations in multi-robot coverage INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH Pierson, A., Figueiredo, L. C., Pimenta, L. C., Schwager, M. 2017; 36 (3): 337-354

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0278364916688103

    View details for Web of Science ID 000401023100006

  • Localization of a Ground Robot by Aerial Robots for GPS-Deprived Control with Temporal Logic Constraints Cristofalo, E., Leahy, K., Vasile, C., Montijano, E., Schwager, M., Belta, C., Kulic, D., Nakamura, Y., Khatib, O., Venture, G. SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG. 2017: 525–37

    View details for DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50115-4_46

    View details for Web of Science ID 000418796400046

  • Distributed Multi-Robot Localization from Acoustic Pulses Using Euclidean Distance Geometry Halsted, T., Schwager, M., Giordano, P. R. IEEE. 2017

    View details for Web of Science ID 000427919700015

  • Learning a Dynamical System Model for a Spatiotemporal Field Using a Mobile Sensing Robot Lan, X., Schwager, M., IEEE IEEE. 2017: 170–75

    View details for Web of Science ID 000427033300027

  • Force-Amplifying N-robot Transport System (Force-ANTS) for cooperative planar manipulation without communication INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH Wang, Z., Schwager, M. 2016; 35 (13): 1564-1586

    View details for DOI 10.1177/0278364916667473

    View details for Web of Science ID 000385847500002

  • Rapidly Exploring Random Cycles: Persistent Estimation of Spatiotemporal Fields With Multiple Sensing Robots IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS Lan, X., Schwager, M. 2016; 32 (5): 1230-1244

    View details for DOI 10.1109/TRO.2016.2596772

    View details for Web of Science ID 000385180400013

  • Correlated Orienteering Problem and its Application to Persistent Monitoring Tasks IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS Yu, J., Schwager, M., Rus, D. 2016; 32 (5): 1106-1118

    View details for DOI 10.1109/TRO.2016.2593450

    View details for Web of Science ID 000385180400005

  • Vision-Based Distributed Formation Control Without an External Positioning System IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS Montijano, E., Cristofalo, E., Zhou, D., Schwager, M., Saguees, C. 2016; 32 (2): 339-351

    View details for DOI 10.1109/TRO.2016.2523542

    View details for Web of Science ID 000374306700007