Publications




Linear-Relaxation Techniques for Task Management in Uncertain Settings
P. Varakantham and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '08), pp. 363 - 371, September, 2008
Manifold learning with local geometry preserving and global affine transformation
Dong Huang and Xiaorong Pu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS '08), pp. 1187 - 1192, September, 2008
Navigate Like a Cabbie: Probabilistic Reasoning from Observed Context-Aware Behavior
Brian D. Ziebart, Andrew Maas, Anind Dey, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computation (UbiComp '08), pp. 322 - 331, September, 2008
Reasoning about Executional Uncertainty to Strengthen Schedules
L. M. Hiatt, T. L. Zimmerman, S. F. Smith, and R. Simmons
Workshop Paper, ICAPS '08 WS5: Workshop on A Reality Check for Planning and Scheduling Under Uncertainty, September, 2008
Scaling effects in multi-robot control
Prasanna Velagapudi, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara, Wang-Hsuan Lee, and J. Wang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2121 - 2126, September, 2008
Spontaneous Pain Expression Recognition in Video Sequences
Z. Hammal, M. Kunz, M. Arguin, and F. Gosselin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Visions of Computer Science: BCS International Academic Conference (VoCS '08), pp. 191 - 210, September, 2008
Towards Image-based Marine Habitat Classification
O. Pizarro, J. Colquhoun, P. Rigby, M. Johnson-Roberson, and S. B. Williams
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE/MTS Oceans: Quebec (OCEANS '08), September, 2008
On preparatory object rotation to adjust handle orientation for grasping
Lillian Y. Chang and Nancy S. Pollard
Workshop Paper, IROS '08 Workshop on Grasp and Task Learning by Imitation, September, 2008
A Framework for Culturally-Sensitive Policy Management
C. Brodie, C. M. Karat, J. Karat, T. J. Norman, Morten Rasmussen, W. Sieck, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA '08), September, 2008
A Multisensor Multiobject Tracking System for an Autonomous Vehicle Driving in an Urban Environment
Michael Darms, Paul Rybski, and Christopher Urmson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control (AVEC '08), September, 2008
A perception mechanism for supporting autonomous intersection handling in urban driving
Young-Woo Seo and Christopher Urmson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1830 - 1835, September, 2008
Agent Support for Mission Planning Under Policy Constraints
Christopher Burnett, Daniele Masato, Mairi McCallum, Timothy J. Norman, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Martin Kollingbaum, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA '08), September, 2008
Aligned Cluster Analysis for Temporal Segmentation of Human Motion
Feng Zhou, Fernando De la Torre Frade, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gestures Recognition (FG '08), September, 2008
Blended local planning for generating safe and feasible paths
Ling Xu and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 709 - 716, September, 2008
Control Strategies for a Multi-Legged Hopping Robot
Rolf Allan Luders, Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1519 - 1524, September, 2008
Differentially Constrained Motion Replanning Using State Lattices with Graduated Fidelity
Mikhail Pivtoraiko and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2611 - 2616, September, 2008
Discriminative Sparse Image Models for Class-Specific Edge Detection and Image Interpretation
Julien Mairal, Marius Leordeanu, Francis Bach, Martial Hebert, and Jean Ponce
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 43 - 56, September, 2008
Facial Feature Detection with Optimal Pixel Reduction SVMs
Minh Hoai Nguyen, Joan Perez, and Fernando De la Torre Frade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '08), September, 2008
Fast Feature Detection and Stochastic Parameter Estimation of Road Shape using Multiple LIDAR
Kevin Peterson, Jason Ziglar, and Paul Rybski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 612 - 619, September, 2008
Fast Motion Consistency Through Matrix Quantization
Pyry K. Matikainen, Martial Hebert, Rahul Sukthankar, and Yan Ke
Conference Paper, Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC '08), pp. 1055 - 1064, September, 2008
Fast Planning for Dynamic Preferences
Brian D. Ziebart, Anind Dey, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '08), pp. 412 - 419, September, 2008
Field Testing of Utility Robots for Lunar Surface Operations
Terrence W. Fong, Maria Bualat, Matthew Deans, Mark Allan, Xavier Bouyssounouse, Michael Broxton, Laurence Edwards, Rick Elphic, Lorenzo Fluckiger, Jeremy Frank, Leslie Keely, Linda Kobayashi, Pascal Lee, Susan Y. Lee, David Lees, Estrellina Pacis, Eric Park, Liam Pedersen, Debra Schreckenghost, Trey Smith, Vinh To, and Hans Utz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA Space '08, No. 2008, September, 2008
Generalizing metamodules to simplify planning in modular robotic systems
D. J. Dewey, M. P. Ashley-Rollman, M. De Rosa, S. C. Goldstein, T. C. Mowry, Siddhartha Srinivasa, P. Pillai, and Jason Campbell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1338 - 1345, September, 2008
Laziness is a virtue: Motion stitching using effort minimization
James McCann, Christos Faloutsos, Nancy Pollard, and Lei Li
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Eurographics '08 (Short Papers), pp. 87 - 90, September, 2008
Learning Image Alignment without Local Minima for Face Detection and Tracking
Minh Hoai Nguyen and Fernando De la Torre Frade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '08), September, 2008
Learning Robot Motion Control with Demonstration and Advice-Operators
Brenna Argall, Brett Browning, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 399 - 404, September, 2008
Minimally invasive epicardial injections using a novel semiautonomous robotic device
Takeyoshi Ota, Nicholas Patronik, David Schwartzman, Cameron Riviere, and Marco A. Zenati
Journal Article, Circulation, Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. S115 - S120, September, 2008
Modeling and Discovery of Data Providing Services
Roman Vaculin, H. Chen, R. Neruda, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS '08), pp. 54 - 61, September, 2008
Motion Planning in Urban Environments: Part I
David Ferguson, Thomas Howard, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1063 - 1069, September, 2008
Motion Planning in Urban Environments: Part II
David Ferguson, Thomas Howard, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1070 - 1076, September, 2008
Multi-Criteria Optimization for Regional Timetable Synchronization in Public Transport
Ingmar Schule, Anca Dragan, Alexander Radev, Michael Schroder, and Karl-Heinz Kufer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Operations Research '08, September, 2008
On the Sustained Tracking of Human Motion
Yaser Ajmal Sheikh, Ankur Datta, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '08), September, 2008
Overcoming Sensor Noise for Low-Tolerance Autonomous Assembly
Brennan Peter Sellner, Frederik Heger, Laura Hiatt, Nicholas Melchior, Stephen Roderick, David Akin, Reid Simmons, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4017 - 4023, September, 2008
Process Mediation, Execution Monitoring and Recovery for Semantic Web Services
Katia Sycara and Roman Vaculin
Journal Article, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin: Special Issue on Semantic Web Services: Composition and Analysis, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 13 - 18, September, 2008
Real-Time Gradient-Domain Painting
James McCann and Nancy Pollard
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 27, No. 3, September, 2008
Robust 3D Head Tracking by Online Feature Registration
Jun-Su Jang and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '08), September, 2008
The effects of highlighting and pop-up interruptions on task performance
Pablo-Alejandro Quinones, Jigar Vora, Aaron Steinfeld, Asim Smailagic, Jeffery Hansen, Daniel Siewiorek, Pete Phadhana-Anake, and Abhishek Shah
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 52nd Annual Meeting (HFES '08), pp. 177 - 181, September, 2008
Traffic Interaction in the Urban Challenge: Putting Boss on its Best Behavior
Christopher R. Baker and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1752 - 1758, September, 2008
Robot-Proxy Grounding
Kristen Stubbs
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-37, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Recalling the Single-FFT Direct Poisson Solve
James McCann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '08 (Poster), August, 2008
A Novel Highly Articulated Robotic Surgical System for Cardiac Ablation
T. Ota, A. Degani, D. Schwartzman, B. Zubiate, J. McGarvey, H. Choset, and M. A. Zenati
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '08), pp. 250 - 253, August, 2008
Continuation Methods for Adapting Simulated Skills
KangKang Yin, Stelian Coros, Philippe Beaudoin, and Michiel van de Panne
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 27, No. 3, August, 2008
Highly Articulated Robotic Probe for Minimally Invasive Surgery
A. Degani, H. Choset, M. A. Zenati, T. Ota, and B. Zubiate
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '08), pp. 3273 - 3276, August, 2008
Potential scaling effects for asynchronous video in multirobot search
Prasanna Velagapudi, Wang-Hsuan Lee, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Workshop Paper, 8th Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS ’08), pp. 35 - 42, August, 2008
A Graph Search Algorithm for Indoor Pursuit / Evasion
Athanasios Kehagias, Geoffrey Hollinger, and Sanjiv Singh
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Anomaly Pattern Detection in Categorical Datasets
K. Das, J. Schneider, and D. Neill
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '08), pp. 169 - 176, August, 2008
Anytime Guaranteed Search using Spanning Trees
Geoffrey Hollinger, Athanasios Kehagias, Sanjiv Singh, David Ferguson, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Autoregressive Modeling of Physiological Tremor under Microsurgical Conditions
Brian Becker, Harsha Tummala, and Cameron Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '08), pp. 1948 - 1951, August, 2008
Coordinated Control and Range Imaging for Mobile Manipulation
Dean Anderson, Thomas Howard, David Apfelbaum, Herman Herman, and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '08), pp. 547 - 556, August, 2008
Estimating displacement of periodic motion with inertial sensors
U-Xuan Tan, Kalyana C. Veluvolu, Win Tun Latt, Cheng Yap Shee, Cameron Riviere, and Wei-Tech Ang
Journal Article, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 8, No. 8, pp. 1385 - 1388, August, 2008