Publications




Learning robot motion control from demonstration and human advice
Brenna Argall, Brett Browning, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '09 Spring Symposium on Agents that Learn from Human Teachers, pp. 8 - 15, March, 2009
Relationship between projector defocus and global illumination for statistically-modeled scenes
Y. Tian, M. Gupta, S. G. Narasimhan, and L. Zhang
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2009
Robot Diaries: Creative technology fluency for middle school girls
Illah R. Nourbakhsh
Magazine Article, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 16 - 18, March, 2009
Using Memory Models to Improve Adaptive Efficiency in Dynamic Problems
G. Barlow and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (SCIS '09), pp. 7 - 14, March, 2009
A Generic Framework for Automated Multi-Attribute Negotiation
G. Lai and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 169 - 187, March, 2009
Autonomous Robot Navigation using Advanced Motion Primitives
Mikhail Pivtoraiko, Alonzo Kelly, and Issa Nesnas
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, March, 2009
Configuring innovative regolith moving techniques for lunar outposts
Krzysztof Skonieczny, Matthew E. DiGioia, Raymond L Barsa, David Wettergreen, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, March, 2009
Differentially constrained mobile robot motion planning in state lattices
Mikhail Pivtoraiko, Ross Alan Knepper, and Alonzo Kelly
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 308 - 333, March, 2009
Digital Servo Calibration and Modeling
Ethan Tira-Thompson
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-41, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2009
EXOMOON - A Discovery And Scout Mission Capabilities Expansion Concept
David Lawrence, Richard Elphic, Jonathan Weinberg, Gregory Delory, Richard Dissly, Jonathan Evanyo, Dana Crider, Paul Lucey, Terrence W. Fong, Richard Vondrak, Kris Zacny, and Irene Yachbes
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '09), March, 2009
Learning Mobile Robot Motion Control from Demonstration and Corrective Feedback
Brenna Argall
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2009
Learning Sequential Composition Plans Using Reduced-Dimensionality Examples
Nicholas Melchior and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '09 Spring Symposium on Agents that Learn from Human Teachers, pp. 103 - 110, March, 2009
Moon/Mars Science And Exploration In Pressurized Rovers: Early Lessons From Analog Studies At The Haughton-Mars Project Site, Devon Island, High Arctic
Pascal Lee, Michael Gernhardt, Andrew Abercromby, Steven Braham, Tom Chase, Jean-Marc Comtois, Matthew Deans, Rainer Effenhauser, Terrence W. Fong, Charles Frankel, Brian Glass, Ed Hodgson, Steven Hoffman, Jeffery Jones, Jonathan Nelson, John Schutt, and Marcelo Vasquez
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '09), March, 2009
Moon/Mars Science And Exploration In Pressurized Rovers: Early Lessons From Analog Studies At The Haughton-Mars Project Site, Devon Island, High Arctic
Marcelo Vasquez
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '09), March, 2009
Potential Of Probing The Lunar Regolith Using Rover-Mounted Ground Penetrating Radar: Moses Lake Dune Field Analog Study
Essam Heggy, Terrence W. Fong, David Kring, Matthew Deans, Andre Anglade, Karim Mahiouz, Maria Bualat, Pascal Lee, and Friedrich Horz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '09), March, 2009
Real-Time Assessment of Robot Performance during Remote Exploration Operations
Debra Schreckenghost, Terrence W. Fong, Tod Milam, Estrellina Pacis, and Hans Utz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Aerospace Conference, March, 2009
Relating initial turns of human-robot dialogues to discourse
Maxim Makatchev, Min Kyung Lee, and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '09), pp. 321 - 322, March, 2009
Shared Understanding within Military Coalitions: a Definition and Review of Research Challenges
P. Smart, Andrew Willmott, Katia Sycara, D. Braines, M. Strub, and N. Shadbolt
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations Conference (KSCO '09), March, 2009
Street smarts for Boss
Christopher R. Baker and John M. Dolan
Magazine Article, Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 78 - 87, March, 2009
The Oz of Wizard: Simulating the Human for Interaction Research
Aaron Steinfeld, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, and Brian Scassellati
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '09), pp. 101 - 108, March, 2009
The Snackbot: Documenting the design of a robot for long-term Human-Robot Interaction
Min Kyung Lee, Jodi Forlizzi, Paul Rybski, Frederick L. Crabbe, Wayne C. Chung, Josh Finkle, Erik Glaser, and Sara Kiesler
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '09), pp. 7 - 14, March, 2009
The Theory and Practice of Coplanar Shadowgram Imaging for Acquiring Visual Hulls of Intricate Objects
S. Yamazaki, S. G. Narasimhan, S. Baker, and T. Kanade
Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 81, No. 3, pp. 259 - 280, March, 2009
Tracking control of hysteretic piezoelectric actuator using adaptive rate-dependent controller
U-Xuan Tan, Win Tun Latt, Ferdinan Widjaja, Cheng Yap Shee, Cameron Riviere, and Wei-Tech Ang
Journal Article, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 150, pp. 116 - 123, March, 2009
Traverse Planning For Robotic Recon And Human Exploration Of Hadley Rille
Terrence W. Fong, Michael Broxton, Matthew Deans, Mark Helper, Kip V. Hodges, Gerald Schaber, Harrison H. Schmitt, and Trey Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '09), March, 2009
Multiscale 3D Reference Visualization
Michael Glueck, Keenan Crane, Sean Anderson, Andres Rutnik, and Azam Khan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D '09), pp. 225 - 232, February, 2009
Automatic Steering Methods for Autonomous Automobile Path Tracking
Jarrod M. Snider
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2009
Communications for Agent-based Human Team Support
Gita Sukthankar, Katia Sycara, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Christopher Burnett
Book Section/Chapter, Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, pp. 285 - 313, February, 2009
Comparing a Novel Model Based on the Transferable Belief Model with Humans During the Recognition of Partially Occluded Facial Expressions
Z. Hammal, M. Arguin, and F. Gosselin
Journal Article, Journal of Vision, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 1 - 19, February, 2009
Efficient Multi-Robot Search for a Moving Target
Geoffrey Hollinger, Sanjiv Singh, Joseph Djugash, and Athanasios Kehagias
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 201 - 219, February, 2009
Flow-Through Policies for Hybrid Controller Synthesis Applied to Fully Actuated Systems
David C. Conner, Howie Choset, and Alfred A. Rizzi
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 136 - 146, February, 2009
Personal Assistants for Human Organizations
Steven Okamoto, Katia Sycara, and Paul Scerri
Book Section/Chapter, Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models, pp. 514 - 540, February, 2009
Process Mediation Framework for Semantic Web Services
Roman Vaculin, R. Neruda, and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 27 - 58, February, 2009
Autonomous Route Finding and Collision Avoidance in 3D for flying rotorcraft
Sebastian Scherer and Sanjiv Singh
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2009-046, January, 2009
Recognizing Multiple Objects via Regression Incorporating the Co-occurrence of Categories
Takahiro Okabe, Yuhi Kondo, Kris M. Kitani, and Yoichi Sato
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT '09), pp. 497 - 508, January, 2009
Exploiting Semantics for Scheduling Data Collection from Sensors on Real-Time to Maximize Event Detection
Ronen Vaisenberg, Sharad Mehrotra, and Deva Ramanan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, Vol. 7253, January, 2009
A Data-Driven Approach to High Level Planning
Matthew Zucker
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-42, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
A Hierarchical Image Analysis for Extracting Parking Lot Structures from Aerial Images
Young-Woo Seo and Christopher Urmson
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
An Integrated Approach to High-Level Information Fusion
Katia Sycara, Robin Glinton, Bin Yu, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Sean R. Owens, and LTC Charles Grindle
Journal Article, Information Fusion: Special Issue on High-level Information Fusion and Situation Awareness, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 25 - 50, 2009
Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information Systems: Creation, Refinement, Use in Surrogates, and Evaluation
Michael Christel
Book, 2009
Characterization of Three Algorithms for Detecting Surface Flatness Defects from Dense Point Clouds
Pingbo Tang, Burcu Akinci, and Daniel Huber
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Conference on Electronic Imaging, Science and Technology, Vol. 7239, 2009
Design and Experimentation of a Rover Concept for Lunar Crater Resource Survey
David Wettergreen, Dominic Jonak, David Kohanbash, Scott Jared Moreland, Spencer Spiker, James Teza, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 2009
Hierarchical Segmentation of Piecewise Pseudoextruded Surfaces for Uniform Coverage
Prasad N. Atkar, David C. Conner, Aaron Greenfield, Howie Choset, and Alfred A. Rizzi
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 107 - 120, 2009
Keepon: A playful robot for research, therapy, and entertainment
Hideki Kozima, Marek Piotr Michalowski, and Cocoro Nakagawa
Journal Article, International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009
Localization, Mapping, and Planning in 3D Environments
Nathaniel Fairfield
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drive Robots
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle, Devin J. Balkcom, and Matthew T. Mason
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 66 - 80, 2009
Prioritized Multihypothesis Tracking by a Robot with Limited Sensing
Paul Rybski and Manuela Veloso
Journal Article, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, pp. 138 - 154, 2009
The role of humans in information propagation in Large Scale Heterogeneous Teams
Praveen Paruchuri, Robin Glinton, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems (DIS '09), 2009
Traverse Planning for Robotic Recon and Human Exploration of Hadley Rille
Terrence W. Fong, Michael Broxton, Matthew Deans, Mark Helper, Kip V. Hodges, Gerald. G. Schaber, Harrison H. Schmitt, and Trey Smith
Miscellaneous, Technical Memorandum TM-2008-215367, 2009
What Do the Sun and Sky Tell Us About the Camera?
Jean-Francois Lalonde, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, and Alexei A. Efros
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
Incremental smoothing and mapping
Michael Kaess
Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, December, 2008