Publications




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
Frontiers of research and future directions in information and communication technology
Angel Jordan
Journal Article, Technology in Society, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 388 - 396, August, 2008
Intelligent Mapping for Autonomous Robotic Survey
David R. Thompson
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Measurement of 3D Foot Shape Deformation in Motion
Makoto Kimura, Masaaki Mochimaru, and Takeo Kanade
Workshop Paper, 5th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Projector camera systems (PROCAMS '08), August, 2008
Psychophysics of Virtual Texture Perception
Bertram Unger
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-45, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Tactile Tissue Characterization by Piezoelectric Systems
R. Stroop, D. Oliva Uribe, M. Orta Martinez, M. Brakelmann, T. Hemsel, and J. Wallasheck
Journal Article, Journal of Electroceramics, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 237 - 241, August, 2008
The Role and Implementation of Compliance in Legged Locomotion
Jonathan W. Hurst
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-48, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Unsupervised Learning of Human Activity Grammars from Noisy Input Sequences
Kris M. Kitani, Yoichi Sato, and Akihiro Sugimoto
Journal Article, IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Image Media, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 86 - 99, July, 2008
Unsupervised Action Category Discovery Using Visual Context
Kris M. Kitani, Takahiro Okabe, Yoichi Sato, and Akihiro Sugimoto
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU '08), July, 2008
Using the Co-occurrence of Multiple Categories for Object Recognition
Takahiro Okabe, Yuhi Kondo, Kris M. Kitani, and Yoichi Sato
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU '08), July, 2008
Hypothesis Pruning and Ranking for Large Plan Recognition Problems
Gita Sukthankar and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial intelligence (AAAI '08), pp. 998 - 1003, July, 2008
IMOS AUV Facility
S. B. Williams, O. Pizarro, I. Mahon, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Australian Marine Science Association Conference (AMSA '08), July, 2008
Kinematic characteristics of athetoid movement during target acquisition
S. Sibenaller, D. Ding, B. Dicianno, R. A. Cooper, and C. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Rehabilitation Engineering Conference (RESNA '08), July, 2008
LADAR-Based Vehicle Tracking and Trajectory Estimation for Urban Driving
Daniel D. Morris, Paul Haley, William Zachar, and Steve McLean
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Unmanned Systems North America Conference (AUVSI '08), July, 2008
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