James R Taylor
- Associate Professor of Practice
- Department of Computer Science
- George Washington University
- Email : jrt (at) gwu (dot) edu
Expertise
- Software Development
- Software Validation and Testing
- Robotics
- Multi-Rigid Body Dynamic Simulation
- Spatial Modeling
Dissertation
Publications
Publications in robotic simulation
- James R. Taylor and Evan M. Drumwright, “Validating Multi-Rigid Body Simulation of a Wild Robot”, Autonomous Robots (AURO), Submitted March 2017, Accepted pending revision January 2018, Revised June 2018, Under Review
- James R Taylor, Evan M. Drumwright, and John Hsu, “Analysis of Grasping Failures in Multi-Rigid Body Simulations”, IEEE International Conference on Simulation and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), 2016. [simpar-2016-grasping.pdf]
- James R Taylor and Evan M. Drumwright, “State Estimation of a Wild Body Toward Validation of Rigid Body Simulation”, IEEE International Conference on Simulation and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), 2016. [simpar-2016-wb.pdf]
- James R. Taylor, Evan M. Drumwright and Gabriel Parmer, “Making Time Make Sense in Robotic Simulation”, The 2014 International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2014), Bergamo, Italy, Oct 2014. [taylor2014a.pdf]
- James R. Taylor, Evan M. Drumwright and Gabriel Parmer, “Temporally Consistent Simulation of Robots and Their Controllers”, Proceedings ASME 2014 International Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC), Buffalo, NY, Aug 2014. [taylor2014_1.pdf]
Open Source Software
Research Projects
- Reveal
- Time Consistent Simulator (TCS)
Contributions
Work History
- Management Computer Controls, LLC. Memphis TN, 1996-2008
- Positronics Lab, Washington DC, 2011-2018
- Mujin, Tokyo Japan, 2015
- GWU Computer Vision Lab, Washington DC, 2019-2020
- Adjunct Professor, GWU, Washington DC, 2018-2019
- Professor of Practice, GWU, Washington DC, 2019-2022
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