Publications




Manipulation Capabilities with Simple Hands
Alberto Rodriguez, Matthew T. Mason, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '10), pp. 285 - 299, December, 2010
Motion-aided Network SLAM
Joseph Djugash and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '10), pp. 447 - 460, December, 2010
On-line Mobile Robot Model Identification using Integrated Perturbative Dynamics
Forrest Rogers-Marcovitz and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '10), pp. 417 - 431, December, 2010
Online Learning Techniques for Improving Robot Navigation in Unfamiliar Domains
Boris Sofman
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-10-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2010
Optical Computing for Fast Light Transport Analysis
Matthew O'Toole and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 29, No. 6, December, 2010
Planner for single-arm manipulation (ROS package)
Maxim Likhachev
Miscellaneous, software - open-source and is available under http://www.sbpl.net (under software tab), December, 2010
Pre-grasp interaction as a manipulation strategy for movable objects
Lillian Y. Chang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-10-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2010
Real-Time Estimation of 3-D Needle Shape and Deflection for MRI-Guided Interventions
Yong-Lae Park, Santhi Elayaperumal, Bruce Daniel, Seok Chang Ryu, Mihye Shin, Joan Savall, Richard J. Black, Bezhad Moslehi, and Mark R. Cutkosky
Journal Article, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 906 - 915, December, 2010
Representation of Pre-Grasp Strategies for Object Manipulation
Daniel Kappler, Lillian Y. Chang, Markus Przybylski, Nancy Pollard, Tamim Asfour, and Rudiger Dillmann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS 10th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '10), pp. 617 - 624, December, 2010
The Bayes Tree: An Algorithmic Foundation for Probabilistic Robot Mapping
Michael Kaess, Viorela Ila, Richard Roberts, and Frank Dellaert
Workshop Paper, 9th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '11), pp. 157 - 173, December, 2010
Towards Experimental Analysis of Challenge Scenarios in Robotics
Geoffrey Hollinger and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '10), pp. 909 - 921, December, 2010
Using Mobile Phones and Open Source Tools to Empower Social Workers in Tanzania
Mary Beatrice Dias, Daniel Nuffer, Anthony Velazquez, Ermine A. Teves, Hatem Said Alismail, Sarah M. Belousov, Malcolm Frederick Dias, Rotimi Abimbola, Bradley Hall, and M. Bernardine Dias
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD '10), December, 2010
Learning Table Tennis with a Mixture of Motor Primitives
Muelling, K., Kober, J., and Peters, J.
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '10), pp. 411 - 416, November, 2010
Graphical Models and Overlay Networks for Reasoning about Large Distributed Systems
Stanislav Funiak
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-10-39, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2010
Enhanced Visual Scene Understanding through Human-Robot Dialog
M. Johnson-Roberson, J. Bohg, D. Kragic, G. Skantze, J. Gustafson, and R. Carlson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '10 Fall Symposium: Dialog with Robots, pp. 143 - 144, November, 2010
Face recognition with decision tree-based local binary patterns
Daniel Maturana, Domingo Mery, and Alvaro Soto
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV '10), pp. 618 - 629, November, 2010
Semi-Autonomous Virtual Valet Parking
Arne Suppe, Luis E. Navarro-Serment, and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '10), pp. 139 - 145, November, 2010
Subspace Regression: Predicting a Subspace from One Sample
M. Kim, Z. Zhang, F. De la Torre, and W. Zhang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV '10), November, 2010
A Novel Hand-gesture Recognition Method based on Finger State Projection for Control of Robotic Hands
Wenzhen Yuan and Wenzeng Zhang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA'10), pp. 671 - 682, November, 2010
Adapting Traditional Macro and Micro Photography for Scientific Gigapixel Imaging
Randy Sargent, Jay Longson, Gene Cooper, Rich Gibson, Molly Gibson, and John Rawlins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science, November, 2010
How Many Pixels? Statistics from the GigaPan Web Site
Randy Sargent, Paul S. Heckbert, Miriam Goldberg, Gabriel O'Donnell, Rich Henderson, and Ken Tew
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science, November, 2010
A Basis Illumination Approach to BRDF Measurement
Abhijeet Ghosh, Shruthi Achutha, Wolfgang Heidrich, and Matthew O'Toole
Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 183 - 197, November, 2010
Agent Support for Policy-Driven Mission Planning Under Constraints
M. Sensoy, D. Masato, T. J. Norman, M. J. Kollingbaum, C. Burnett, K. Sycara, and J. Oh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '10 Fall Symposium on Proactive Assistant Agents (PAA '10), pp. 44 - 50, November, 2010
Carnegie Mellon Launches a Mega Million Dollar Robotics Education Initiative
Tom Atwood and Robin Shoop
Magazine Article, Robot Magazine, No. 25, pp. 70 - 71, November, 2010
Design and Analysis of Diagnostic Service Centers
X. Wang, L. Debo, A. Scheller-Wolf, and S. F. Smith
Journal Article, Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 11, pp. 1873 - 1890, November, 2010
Do You Really Want to Know? Display Questions in Human-Robot Dialogues
Maxim Makatchev and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '10 Fall Symposium on Dialog with Robots, pp. 157 - 158, November, 2010
Exploratory analysis of collaborative web accessibility improvement
Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Masatomo Kobayashi, Shinya Kawanaka, and Chieko Asakawa
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), Vol. 3, No. 2, November, 2010
Generality and Simple Hands
Matthew T. Mason, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Andres S. Vazquez, and Alberto Rodriguez
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-10-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2010
Geolocation with Range: Robustness, Efficiency and Scalability
Joseph Djugash
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-10-44, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2010
Hyperelastic Pressure Sensing with a Liquid Embedded Elastomer
Yong-Lae Park, Carmel Majidi, Rebecca Kramer, Phillipe Berard, and Robert J. Wood
Journal Article, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 20, No. 12, November, 2010
Latent Gaussian Mixture Regression for Human Pose Estimation
Yan Tian, Leonid Sigal, Hernan Badino, Fernando De la Torre Frade, and Yong liu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV '10), November, 2010
Minimalistic Dynamic Climbing
Amir Degani
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-10-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2010
T-Cube Web Interface as a Tool for Detecting Disease Outbreaks in Real-Time: A Pilot in India and Sri Lanka
Nuwan Waidyanatha, Chamindu Sampath, Artur Dubrawski, Maheshkumar Sabhnani, Lujie Chen, M. Ganesan, and P. Vincy
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE RIVF International Conference on Computing & Communication Technologies, Research, Innovation, and Vision for the Future (RIVF '10), November, 2010
Timelapse GigaPan: Capturing, Sharing, and Exploring Timelapse Gigapixel Imagery
James Randal Sargent, Christopher Bartley, Paul S. Dille, Jeffrey M. Keller, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Rich LeGrand
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science, November, 2010
Flow Separation for Stereo Visual Odometry
Frank Dellaert, Michael Kaess, and Kai Ni
Miscellaneous, US Patent Application US12900581, October, 2010
A New Approach to Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation
J. P. Tardif, M. George, M. Laverne, A. Kelly, and A. Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4161 - 4168, October, 2010
Acting and Interacting in Natural Environments
Danica Kragic, Jeannette Bohg, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Workshop Paper, IROS '10 Workshop on Semantic Mapping and Autonomous Knowledge Acquisition, October, 2010
Actuated handpiece for teledermatological diagnosis and intervention
C. N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd World Congress of Teledermatology, October, 2010
Attention Based Active 3D Point Cloud Segmentation
M. Johnson-Roberson, Jeannette Bohg, Marten Bjorkman, and Danica Kragic
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1165 - 1170, October, 2010
Instance-selecting regularization penalty for supervised image classifcation
J. Hernandez Rivera, Z. Harchaoui, and F. De la Torre
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-10-42, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2010
Learning Probabilistic Discriminative Models of Grasp Affordances under Limited Supervision
Ayse Naz Erkan, Oliver Kroemer, Renaud Detry, Yasemin Altun, Justus Piater, and Jan Peters
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1586 - 1591, October, 2010
Mobile robot task allocation in hybrid wireless sensor networks
Brian Coltin and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2932 - 2937, October, 2010
Robust Tracking of the Upper Limb for Functional Stroke Assessment
Sonya Allin, Nancy Baker, Emily Eckel, and Deva Ramanan
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 542 - 550, October, 2010
Sasayaki: an augmented voice-based web browsing experience
Shaojian Zhu, Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '10), pp. 279 - 280, October, 2010
Strategies for Multi-Modal Scene Exploration
Jeannette Bohg, M. Johnson-Roberson, Marten Bjorkman, and Danica Kragic
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4509 - 4515, October, 2010
Subgraph-preconditioned Conjugate Gradients for Large Scale SLAM
Frank Dellaert, Justin David Carlson, Viorela Ila, Kai Ni, and Chuck Thorpe
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2566 - 2571, October, 2010
Unsupervised Summarization of Rushes Video
Yang Liu, Feng Zhou, Wei Liu, Fernando De la Torre, and Yan Liu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '10), pp. 751 - 754, October, 2010
Vision Aided Inertial Navigation for Power Line Inspection
J. P. Tardif, M. George, M. Laverne, A. Kelly, and A. Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI '10), October, 2010
A Biomimetic Approach to Robot Table Tennis
Muelling, K., Kober, J., and Peters, J.
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1921 - 1926, October, 2010
A New Approach to Advanced Planetary Field Geology
Kip Hodges, Harrison H. Schmitt, and Terrence W. Fong
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Geologic Society of America Annual Meeting, October, 2010