Richard Mason's Publications Mason, Richard, and Jim Radford, Deepak Kumar, Robert Walters, Brian Fulkerson, Eagle Jones, David Caldwell, Jason Meltzer, Yaniv Alon, Amnon Shashua, Hiroshi Hattori, Nobuyuki Takeda, Emilio Frazzoli, and Stefano Soatto. "The Golem Group / UCLA Autonomous Ground Vehicle in the DARPA Grand Challenge." Journal of Field Robotics. Volume 23, Number 8, August 2006. (pdf) Mason, Richard. "Fluid Locomotion and Trajectory Planning for Shape-Changing Robots." Ph.D. Thesis. California Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering. June, 2003. Mason, Richard, and Joel W. Burdick. "Trajectory Planning Using Reachable-State Density Functions." Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Robotics and Automation. (compressed Postscript) Morgansen, K. A., V. Duindam, R. J. Mason, J. W. Burdick, and R. M. Murray. "Nonlinear Control Methods for Planar Carangiform Robot Fish Locomotion." Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Robotics and Automation. (compressed Postscript) Mason, Richard, and Joel Burdick. "Experiments in Carangiform Robotic Fish Locomotion." Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. (compressed Postscript) Mason, Richard, and Joel Burdick. "Propulsion and Control of Deformable Bodies in an Ideal Fluid." Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. (Postscript) Mason, Richard, and Joel Burdick. "Construction and Modelling of a Carangiform Robotic Fish." Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. (Postscript) Kelly, Scott D., Richard J. Mason, Carl T. Anhalt, Richard M. Murray, and Joel W. Burdick. "Modelling and Experimental Investigation of Carangiform Locomotion for Control." Proceedings of the 1998 American Control Conference. (compressed Postscript) Adam, P., O. Duchemin, R. Mason, and M. Noca. "Autonomous Parafoils for the Exploration of Outer Planet Atmospheres." Proceedings of the 14th Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference Mason, R., E. Rimon, and J. Burdick. "Stable Poses of Three-Dimensional Objects." Proceedings of 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Noca, M., O. Duchemin, R. Mason, and P. Adam. "Preliminary Design of Ultralight Parafoil Aerobots for Outer Planet Atmosphere Exploration." Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Mobile Planetary Robots & Rover Roundup. Alagheband, A., T. Corazzini, O. Duchemin, D. Henny, R. Mason, and M. Noca. "Neptune Explorer: An All Solar Powered Neptune Orbiter Mission." Proceedings of the 1996 AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference. AIAA 96-2980. Mason, R., E. Rimon, and J. Burdick. "The Stability of Heavy Objects with Multiple Contacts." Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Documents not releasable to the general public are not listed. I apparently have an Erdos number of 5. I co-authored a paper with Richard Murray who co-authored a paper with Jerry Marsden who co-authored a paper with Michael J. Hoffman who co-authored a paper with Allen Lowell Shields who co-authored a paper with Paul Erdos. Richard Mason