Publications




Environmental Factors Affecting Situation Awareness in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Prasanna Velagapudi, Sean R. Owens, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, April, 2009
Lie group integrators for animation and control of vehicles
Marin Kobilarov, Keenan Crane, and Mathieu Desbrun
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 28, No. 2, April, 2009
Photogeometric Sensing for Mobile Robot Control and Visualization Tasks
A. Kelly, D. Anderson, and H. Herman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 383 - 388, April, 2009
T-Cube Web Interface in Support of Real-Time Bio-surveillance Program
Artur Dubrawski, Maheshkumar Sabhnani, Michael Knight, Michael Baysek, Daniel Neill, Saswati Ray, Anna Michalska, and Nuwan Waidyanatha
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD '09), pp. 495, April, 2009
A Highly Articulated Robotic Surgical System for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Takeyoshi Ota, Amir Degani, David Schwartzman, Brett Zubiate, Jeremy McGarvey, Howie Choset, and Marco A. Zenati
Journal Article, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 1253 - 1256, April, 2009
A Space-Carving Approach to Surface Estimation
Santosh Kumar Divvala, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Martial Hebert
Miscellaneous, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2009
Anytime Online Novelty Detection for Vehicle Safeguarding
Boris Sofman, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2009
Conjoined Lander-Rovers for Planetary Exploration
Steven Huber
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2009
Creating trustworthy robots: Lessons and inspirations from automated systems
Munjal Desai, Kristen Stubbs, Aaron Steinfeld, and Holly Yanco
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AISB '09 Convention: New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, April, 2009
Embracing Conflicts: Exploiting Inconsistencies in Distributed Schedules using Simple Temporal Network Representations
Anthony T. Gallagher
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2009
Exploiting Probabilistic Independence for Permutations
Jonathan Huang, Carlos Ernesto Guestrin, Xiaoye Jiang, and Leonidas Guibas
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '09), pp. 248 - 255, April, 2009
Heliogyro Control
Richard Blomquist
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2009
How do people talk with a robot?: an analysis of human-robot dialogues in the real world
Min Kyung Lee and Maxim Makatchev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '09), pp. 3769 - 3774, April, 2009
Improving Child Literacy in Africa: Experiments with an Automated Reading Tutor
G. Ayorkor Korsah, Jack Mostow, M. Bernardine Dias, Tracy Morrison Sweet, Sarah M. Belousov, Malcolm Frederick Dias, and Haijun Gong
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD '09), pp. 129 - 138, April, 2009
Information-Theoretic Multi-Robot Adaptive Exploration and Mapping of Environmental Hotspot Fields
Kian Hsiang Low, John M. Dolan, and Pradeep Khosla
Workshop Paper, IPSN '09 Workshop on Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (ESSA '09), April, 2009
Integrated long-range UAV/UGV collaborative target tracking
Mark B. Mosely, Benjamin P. Grocholsky, Carol Cheung, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Unmanned Systems Technology XI, Vol. 7332, April, 2009
Inverse Optimal Heuristic Control for Imitation Learning
Nathan Ratliff, Brian D. Ziebart, Kevin Peterson, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, Martial Hebert, Anind Dey, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '09), pp. 424 - 431, April, 2009
Learning Thin Junction Trees via Graph Cuts
Dafna Shahaf, Anton Chechetka, and Carlos Ernesto Guestrin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '09), pp. 113 - 122, April, 2009
OWLS-MX: A Hybrid Semantic Web Service Matchmaker for OWL-S Services
Matthias Klusch, Gregory Fries, and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, Journal of Web Semantics, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 121 - 133, April, 2009
Robot Boats as a Mobile Aquatic Sensor Network
Kian Hsiang Low, Gregg Podnar, Stephen B. Stancliff, John M. Dolan, and Alberto Elfes
Workshop Paper, IPSN '09 Workshop on Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (ESSA '09), April, 2009
CSbots: design and deployment of a robot designed for the CS1 classroom
Tom Lauwers, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Emily Hamner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGSCE '09), pp. 428 - 432, March, 2009
Emphatic Visual Speech Synthesis
J. Melenchon, F. De la Torre, E. Martinez, and J. A. Montero
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 459 - 468, March, 2009
Good vibrations: Asymmetric vibrations for directional haptic cues
Hanns Tappeiner, Roberta L. Klatzky, Bertram Unger, and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WHC '09), pp. 285 - 289, March, 2009
How Search and its Subtasks Scale in N Robots
Wang-Hsuan Lee, Prasanna Velagapudi, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’09), pp. 141 - 148, March, 2009
Human Behavior Modeling with Maximum Entropy Inverse Optimal Control
Brian D. Ziebart, Andrew L. Maas, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anind Dey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '09 Spring Symposium on Human Behavior Modeling, pp. 92 - 97, March, 2009
Human-Robot Physical Interaction with Dynamically Stable Mobile Robots
Umashankar Nagarajan, George A. Kantor, and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '09), pp. 281 - 282, March, 2009
Improving the Performance of Physiologic Hot Flash Measures With Support Vector Machines
Rebecca C. Thurston, Karen A. Matthews, Javier Hernandez, and Fernando De la Torre
Journal Article, Psychophysiology, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 285 - 292, March, 2009
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