Publications




Planning and Executing Navigation Among Movable Obstacles
Michael Stilman, Koichi Nishiwaki, Satoshi Kagami, and James Kuffner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 820 - 826, October, 2006
Public-Private Collaborations in R&D and Innovation - Impact on Economic Development
Angel Jordan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Conference on Innovation and Regional Economic Development, October, 2006
Scheduling to Minimize Downtime in Human-Multirobot Supervisory Control
Sandra Mau and John M. Dolan
Workshop Paper, 5th International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space (IWPSS '06), October, 2006
Teaching technical creativity through Robotics: A case study in Ghana
G. Ayorkor Korsah, M. Bernardine Dias, Brett Browning, and Nathan Amanquah
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-46, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2006
Time-optimal Trajectories for an Omni-directional Vehicle
Devin Balkcom, Paritosh A. Kavathekar, and Matthew T. Mason
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 25, No. 10, pp. 985 - 999, October, 2006
Toward Legless Locomotion Control
Ravi Balasubramanian, Alfred Rizzi, and Matthew T. Mason
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5594 - 5599, October, 2006
Towards Proactive Replanning for Multi-Robot Teams
Brennan Peter Sellner and Reid Simmons
Workshop Paper, 5th International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling in Space, October, 2006
Trajectory and Spline Generation for All-Wheel Steering Mobile Robots
Thomas Howard and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4827 - 4832, October, 2006
Performance Evaluation of Handoff for Instrument Placement
Liam Pedersen, Clay Kunz, Randy Sargent, Richard Madison, Paul Backes, Max Bajracharya, Daniel Clouse, Issa Nesnas, and Matthew Deans
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA SPACE Forum, September, 2006
Obstacle avoidance in a simple hopping robot
E Dittri.ch, Hartmut Geyer, A. Karguth, and A. Seyfarth
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR '06), September, 2006
Is ASR accurate enough for automated reading tutors, and how can we tell?
Jack Mostow
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH '06), pp. 837 - 840, September, 2006
Learning to Predict Driver Route and Destination Intent
Reid Simmons, Brett Browning, Yilu Zhang, and Varsha Sadekar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC '06), pp. 127 - 132, September, 2006
Precomputed Search Trees: Planning for Interactive Goal-Driven Animation
Manfred Lau and James Kuffner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '06), pp. 299 - 308, September, 2006
Stereoscopic Imaging for Coral Segmentation and Classification
M. Johnson-Roberson, S. Kumar, O. Pizarro, and S. Williams
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE/MTS Oceans (OCEANS '06), September, 2006
Tracking of Linear Appearance Models Using Second Order Minimization
Jose Gonzalez-Mora, Nicolás Guil, and Emilio L. Zapata
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS '06), pp. 1002 - 1013, September, 2006
A Roadmap for Technology Literacy and a Vehicle for Getting There: Educational Robotics and the TeRK Project
Illah Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Tom Lauwers, Debra Bernstein, and Carl Francis DiSalvo
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '06), pp. 391 - 397, September, 2006
A Simple Distribution-Free Approach to the Max k-Armed Bandit Problem
M. J. Streeter and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings 12th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '06), pp. 560 - 574, September, 2006
A Texture Synthesis Method for Liquid Animations
Adam W. Bargteil, FunShing Sin, J. E. Michaels, T. G. Goktekin, and J. F. O'Brien
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '06), pp. 345 - 351, September, 2006
Automatic Transition of Ballbot from Statically Stable State to Dynamically Stable State
Anish Mampetta
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-41, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2006
Cognitive Evaluation of Human-Robot Systems: A Method for Analyzing Cognitive Change in Human-Robot Systems
Kristen Stubbs, Debra Bernstein, Kevin Crowley, and Illah Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '06), pp. 59 - 65, September, 2006
Cooperative air and ground surveillance
Benjamin P. Grocholsky, J. Keller, V. Kumar, and G. Pappas
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 16 - 25, September, 2006
Enhancing Facial Expression Classification By Information Fusion
I. Buciu, Z. Hammal, A. Caplier, N. Nikolaidis, and I. Pitas
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO '06), pp. 1 - 4, September, 2006
Extracting Scale and Illuminant Invariant Regions Through Color
Ranjith Unnikrishnan and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC '06), September, 2006
Hierarchical Simplification of City Models to Maintain Urban Legibility
Remco Chang, Thomas Butkiewicz, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Zachary Wartell, Nancy Pollard, and William Ribarsky
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Sketches Program, September, 2006
Human-Robot Site Survey and Sampling for Space Exploration
Terrence W. Fong, Maria Bualat, Laurence Edwards, Lorenzo Flueckiger, Clayton Kunz, Susan Y. Lee, Eric Park, Vinh To, Hans Utz, Nir Ackner, Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, and Joseph Gannon
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA Space '06, September, 2006
Local Detection of Occlusion Boundaries in Video
Andrew Stein and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC '06), September, 2006
Minimally Invasive Surgery and Computer Assisted Surgery in Total Hip Replacement
K. J. Stanley, Branislav Jaramaz, and Anthony M. Digioia
Journal Article, Tecniche Chirurgiche in Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 179 - 182, September, 2006
Modeling Affect in Socially Interactive Robots
Rachel Kirby, Reid Simmons, and Jodi Forlizzi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '06), pp. 558 - 563, September, 2006
Modeling and Control Techniques for a Class of Mobile Robot Error Recovery Problems
Ravi Balasubramanian
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-39, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2006
Physics-Based Motion Retiming
James McCann, Nancy Pollard, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '06), pp. 205 - 214, September, 2006
Robotic Compensation of Biological Motion to Enhance Surgical Accuracy
Cameron N. Riviere, Jacques Gangloff, and Michel de Mathelin
Journal Article, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 94, No. 9, pp. 1705 - 1716, September, 2006
Roillo: Creating a social robot for playrooms
Marek Piotr Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, and Philipp Michel
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '06), pp. 587 - 592, September, 2006
School-aged children exhibit domain-specific responses to biological motion
Elizabeth J. Carter and Kevin A. Pelphrey
Journal Article, Social Neuroscience, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 396 - 411, September, 2006
Single Agent and Multi-agent Path Planning in Unknown and Dynamic Environments
David Ferguson
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-54, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2006
Statistical probabilistic model checking with a focus on time-bounded properties
Håkan L. S. Younes and Reid G. Simmons
Journal Article, Information and Computation, Vol. 204, No. 9, pp. 1368 - 1409, September, 2006
Surgical Navigation for Total Hip Arthroplasty
Anthony M. Digioia, S. Blendea, and Branislav Jaramaz
Book Section/Chapter, The Adult Hip, 2nd Edition, Vol. 2, pp. 1053 - 1059, September, 2006
Task Constrained Motion Planning in Robot Joint Space
Michael Stilman
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2006
Task Structure and User Attributes as Elements of Human-Robot Interaction Design
Bilge Mutlu, Steven Osman, Jodi Forlizzi, Jessica K. Hodgins, and Sara Kiesler
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '06), pp. 74 - 79, September, 2006
Toward Human-Robot Interface Standards II: An Examination of Common Elements in Human-Robot Interaction Across the Space Enterprise
Jeffrey Ferketic, Loel Goldblatt, Edward Hodgson, Sean Murray, Robert Wichowski, Arthur Bradley, Terrence W. Fong, John Evans, Wendell Chun, Randy Stiles, Michael A. Goodrich, Aaron Steinfeld, Dan King, and Catherine Erkorkmaz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA Space '06 Session: EX-2: Human/Robotic Systems, September, 2006
Tracking of Moving Objects from a Moving Vehicle Using a Scanning Laser Rangefinder
Robert MacLachlan and Christoph Mertz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '06), pp. 301 - 306, September, 2006
Compliant leg behaviour explains basic dynamics of walking and running
Hartmut Geyer, Andre Seyfarth, and Reinhard Blickhan
Journal Article, Phil Trans R Soc B, Vol. 273, pp. 2861 - 2867, August, 2006
Compliant limb behavior: Exploiting the basic mechanics of biological legged locomotion for the control of legged systems
H. Geyer, A. Seyfarth, and R. Blickhan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MOVIC '06), August, 2006
A Decentralized Model for Multi-attribute Negotiations
Katia Sycara, G. Lai, and C. Li
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC '06), pp. 3 - 10, August, 2006
Acousto-optic compensation of tremor for use in a handheld laser microsurgical instrument
R. Cernat, C. Matei, L. Olteanu, C. Riviere, and D. Dumitraş
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '06), pp. 3862 - 3864, August, 2006
An Analysis of Price Matching Policy
G. Lai, Katia Sycara, L. Debo, and C. Li
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC '06), pp. 451 - 462, August, 2006
Building Models of Animals from Video
D. Ramanan, D. A. Forsyth, and K. Barnard
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 28, No. 8, pp. 1319 - 1334, August, 2006
Improved Traction for a Mobile Robot Traveling on the Heart
Nicholas Patronik, Takeyoshi Ota, Marco A. Zenati, and Cameron Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '06), pp. 339 - 342, August, 2006
The Personal Exploration Rover: Educational Assessment Of A Robotic Exhibit For Informal Learning Venues
Illah Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Ellen Ayoob, Eric Porter, Brian Dunlavey, Debra Bernstein, Kevin Crowley, Mark Lotter, Skip Shelly, Thomas Hsiu, and Daniel Clancy
Journal Article, International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 777 - 791, August, 2006
A Robust Approach to High-Speed Navigation for Unrehearsed Desert Terrain
Christopher Urmson, Joshua Anhalt, Daniel Bartz, Michael Clark, Tugrul Galatali, Alexander Gutierrez, Sam Harbaugh, Joshua Johnston, Hiroki Kato, Phillip L. Koon, William Messner, Nick Miller, Aaron Mosher, Kevin Peterson, Charlie Ragusa, David Ray, Bryon K. Smith, Jarrod M. Snider, Spencer Spiker, Joshua C. Struble, Jason Ziglar, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 467 - 508, August, 2006
An Explicit Characterization of Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drives
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle, Devin J. Balkcom, and Matthew T. Mason
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 12th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR '06), August, 2006