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Matthew J. Bays

My name is Matthew Bays, and I am a robotics researcher at the Naval Surface Warfare Center - Panama City Division.  My research focuses on stochastic and optimal path planning with application to maritime robotics.  

I obtained my Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, with my dissertation focusing primarily on path planning algorithms for autonomous underwater vehicles that inherently optimize for classification missions.  This involves approaches with formal probability guarantees as well as linear programming using approximations to Bayes risk objective functions.

To gain an understanding of my research, please see my Publications page.  All have either been on the academic side only or approved for public release if the research was affiliated with NSWC PCD.

Matthew J. Bays

mjb222 {at} ieee  [dot] org

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05/12 - Paper published in JIRS

You can find my latest work on partially-decoupled service agent - transport agent task allocation and scheduling here.

10/1 - Happy New Fiscal Year!

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05/22 - Interns arrive!

Looking forward to another great year of interns at the base!