Publications




Motion-Motif Graphs
Philippe Beaudoin, Michiel van de Panne, Pierre Poulin, and Stelian Coros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '08), pp. 117 - 126, July, 2008
New Techniques for Algorithm Portfolio Design
M. J. Streeter and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '08), pp. 519 - 527, July, 2008
Wearable Control and Communications System for use with UAVs, UGVs and UGSs
Hagen Schempf
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Unmanned Systems North America Conference (AUVSI '08), July, 2008
A Decentralized Model for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiations with Incomplete Information and General Utility Functions
Guoming Lai, Katia Sycara, and Cuihong Li
Journal Article, Journal of Multi Agent and Grid Systems, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 45 - 65, July, 2008
A Preliminary Examination of Science Backroom Roles and Activities for Robotic Lunar Surface Science
Terrence W. Fong, Matthew Deans, Trey Smith, Pascal Lee, Jennifer Heldmann, Estrellina Pacis, Debra Schreckenghost, Rob Landis, John Osborn, David Kring, Essam Heggy, Andrew Mishkin, Kelly Snook, and Carol Stoker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of NLSI Lunar Science Conference, July, 2008
A Robust Method of Localization and Mapping Using Only Range
Joseph Djugash and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '08), pp. 341 - 351, July, 2008
Actively Learning Level-Sets of Composite Functions
B. Bryan and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 80 - 87, July, 2008
Agent Organized Networks Redux
Robin Glinton, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial intelligence (AAAI '08), pp. 83 - 88, July, 2008
Camera parameters estimation from hand-labelled sun positions in image sequences
Jean-Francois Lalonde, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, and Alexei A. Efros
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2008
DEPTHX Autonomy Software: Design and Field Results
Nathaniel Fairfield, George A. Kantor, Dominic Jonak, and David Wettergreen
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-09, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2008
Discovering a Semantic Basis of Neural Activity Using Simultaneous Sparse Approximation
Mark Palatucci, Tom Mitchell, and Han Liu
Workshop Paper, ICML '08 Sparse Optimization and Variable Selection Workshop, July, 2008
Empirical Sampling of Path Sets for Local Area Motion Planning
Ross Alan Knepper and Matthew T. Mason
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '08), pp. 451 - 462, July, 2008
Evolving Cooperative Control on Sparsely Distributed Tasks for UAV Teams Without Global Communication
Gregory Barlow, Choong Oh, and Stephen Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO '08), pp. 177 - 184, July, 2008
EXOMOON - A Discovery and Scout Mission Capabilities Expansion Concept
Richard Elphic, Jonathan Weinberg, Richard Dissly, John Evanyo, Dana Crider, Greg Delory, David Lawrence, Paul Lucey, Terrence W. Fong, Jennifer Heldmann, Richard Vondrak, Kris Zacny, and Irene Yachbes
Conference Paper, Proceedings of NLSI Lunar Science Conference, July, 2008
Image Processing for Artist Identification - Computerized Analysis of Vincent van Gogh's Painting Brushstrokes
C. Richard Johnson, Ella Hendriks, Igor Berezhnoy, Eugene Brevdo, Shannon Hughes, Ingrid Daubechies, Jia Li, Eric Postma, and James Z. Wang
Journal Article, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 37 - 48, July, 2008
Improved Motion Planning Speed and Safety using Regions of Inevitable Collision
Nicholas Chan, James Kuffner, and Matthew Zucker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics, and Control (RoManSy '08), July, 2008
Integrating Perception and Planning for Humanoid Autonomy
Philipp Michel
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-35, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2008
Learning Outbreak Regions in Bayesian Spatial Scan Statistics
Maxim Makatchev and Daniel Bertrand Neill
Workshop Paper, ICML '08 Workshop on Machine Learning for Health Care Applications, July, 2008
Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Brian D. Ziebart, Andrew Maas, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anind Dey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '08), pp. 1433 - 1438, July, 2008
Method for determining kinematic parameters of the in vivo thumb carpometacarpal joint
Lillian Y. Chang and Nancy Pollard
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 1897 - 1906, July, 2008
On the Chance Accuracies of Large Collections of Classifiers
Mark Palatucci and Andrew Carlson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 744 - 751, July, 2008
OpenRAVE: A Planning Architecture for Autonomous Robotics
Rosen Diankov and James Kuffner
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2008
Percussive Dynamic Cone Penetrometer for Geotechnical Surface Assessment with a Planetary Rover
Kris Zacny, Terrence W. Fong, Jack Wilson, Susan Y. Lee, Linda Kobayashi, Matthew Deans, Arthur Ashley, and Chris Santoro
Conference Paper, Proceedings of NLSI Lunar Science Conference, No. 2138, July, 2008
Planning for Human-Robot Interaction using Time-State Aggregated POMDPs
Frank Broz, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, and Reid G. Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial intelligence (AAAI '08), Vol. 3, pp. 1339 - 1344, July, 2008
R* Search
Maxim Likhachev and Anthony Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '08), Vol. 1, pp. 344 - 350, July, 2008
RADAR: A Personal Assistant that Learns to Reduce Email Overload
Michael Freed, Jaime Carbonell, Geoffrey Gordon, Jordan Hayes, Brad A. Myers, Daniel Siewiorek, Stephen Smith, Aaron Steinfeld, and Anthony Tomasic
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '08), Vol. 3, pp. 1287 - 1293, July, 2008
Robust Mission Execution for Autonomous Urban Driving
Christopher R. Baker, David Ferguson, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '08), pp. 155 - 163, July, 2008
Sliding Autonomy for Peer-To-Peer Human-Robot Teams
M. Bernardine Dias, Balajee Kannan, Brett Browning, Edward Jones, Brenna Argall, Malcolm Frederick Dias, Marc B. Zinck, Manuela Veloso, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '08), pp. 332 - 341, July, 2008
The Impact of Vertical Specialization on Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems
Steven Okamoto, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial intelligence (AAAI '08), Vol. 1, pp. 138 - 143, July, 2008
The Robotic Busboy: Steps Towards Developing a Mobile Robotic Home Assistant
Siddhartha Srinivasa, David Ferguson, J. Michael Vande Weghe, Rosen Diankov, Dmitry Berenson, Casey Helfrich, and Hauke Strasdat
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '08), pp. 129 - 136, July, 2008
Towards Efficient Automated Characterization of Irregular Histology Images via Transformation to Frieze-Like Patterns
B. A. Canada, G. K. Thomas, K. C. Cheng, James Z. Wang, and Yanxi Liu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Content-based Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR '08), pp. 581 - 590, July, 2008
Context and Observation Driven Latent Variable Model for Human Pose Estimation
Abhinav Gupta, Trista Chen, Francine Chen, Don Kimber, and Larry S. Davis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Planning Long Dynamically-Feasible Maneuvers for Autonomous Vehicles
Maxim Likhachev and Dave Ferguson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '08), pp. 214 - 221, June, 2008
A case study empirical comparison of three methods to evaluate tutorial behaviors
Xiaonan Zhang, Jack Mostow, and Joseph E. Beck
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS '08), pp. 122 - 131, June, 2008
A Discriminatively Trained, Multiscale, Deformable Part Model
Pedro Felzenszwalb, David McAllester, and Deva Ramanan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
A Mobile Network for Mobile Sensors
Andrea Simonetto, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '08), pp. 838 - 845, June, 2008
Agent-Based Sensor Coalition formation
Robin Glinton, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '08), pp. 173 - 179, June, 2008
An Efficient Information Sharing Approach For Large Scale Multi-agent Team
Yang Xu, Michael Lewis, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '08), pp. 1206 - 1213, June, 2008
Data Association with Ambiguous Measurements
M. Travers, T. Murphey, and L. Pao
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '08), pp. 1875 - 1880, June, 2008
Distributed Localization of Modular Robot Ensembles
Stanislav Funiak, Padmanabhan Pillai, Michael Ashley-Rollman, Jason Campbell, and Seth Copen Goldstein
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '08), June, 2008
How Who Should Practice: Using Learning Decomposition to Evaluate the Efficacy of Different Types of Practice for Different Types of Students
Joseph E. Beck and Jack Mostow
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS '08), pp. 353 - 362, June, 2008
Increasing the Density of Active Appearance Models
Krishnan Ramnath, Simon Baker, Iain Matthews, and Deva Ramanan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
A Reasoning Framework for Autonomous Urban Driving
David Ferguson, Christopher R. Baker, Maxim Likhachev, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '08), pp. 775 - 780, June, 2008
Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge
Christopher Urmson, Joshua Anhalt, Hong Bae, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, Christopher R. Baker, Robert E. Bittner, Thomas Brown, M. N. Clark, Michael Darms, Daniel Demitrish, John M. Dolan, David Duggins, David Ferguson, Tugrul Galatali, Christopher M. Geyer, Michele Gittleman, Sam Harbaugh, Martial Hebert, Thomas Howard, Sascha Kolski, Maxim Likhachev, Bakhtiar Litkouhi, Alonzo Kelly, Matthew McNaughton, Nick Miller, Jim Nickolaou, Kevin Peterson, Brian Pilnick, Raj Rajkumar, Paul Rybski, Varsha Sadekar, Bryan Salesky, Young-Woo Seo, Sanjiv Singh, Jarrod M. Snider, Joshua C. Struble, Anthony (Tony) Stentz, Michael Taylor, William (Red) L. Whittaker, Ziv Wolkowicki, Wende Zhang, and Jason Ziglar
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, Part I, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 425 - 466, June, 2008
BiSpace Planning: Concurrent Multi-Space Exploration
Rosen Diankov, Nathan Ratliff, David Ferguson, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and James Kuffner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '08), June, 2008
Can Similar Scenes Help Surface Layout Estimation?
Santosh Kumar Divvala, Alexei A. Efros, and Martial Hebert
Workshop Paper, CVPR '08 Workshop on Internet Vision, June, 2008
Classification and tracking of dynamic objects with multiple sensors for autonomous driving in urban environments
Michael Darms, Paul Rybski, and Christopher Urmson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '08), pp. 1197 - 1202, June, 2008
Closing the Loop on Scene Interpretation
Derek Hoiem, Alexei A. Efros, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Decentralized Estimation and Control of Graph Connectivity in Mobile Sensor Networks
Peng Yang, Randy A. Freeman, Geoffrey Gordon, Kevin Lynch, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Rahul Sukthankar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '08), pp. 2678 - 2683, June, 2008
Detecting and Matching Repeated Patterns for Automatic Geo-tagging in Urban Environments
Grant Schindler, Panchapagesan Krishnamurthy, Roberto Lublinerman, Yanxi Liu, and Frank Dellaert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008