Publications




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
Automatic Rock Detection and Classification in Natural Scenes
Heather Dunlop
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006
CMOS-MEMS Membrane Gravimetric Biosensor
Anna L. Liao
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006
Development and characterization of a high-spatial-temporal-resolution foot-sole-pressure measurement system
Abhinav Kalamdani
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006
Evolving visual sonar: Depth from monocular images
Martin C. Martin
Journal Article, Pattern Recognition Letters: Evolutionary Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 27, No. 11, pp. 1174 - 1180, August, 2006
Gait Regulation and Feedback on a Robotic Climbing Hexapod
Galen Clark Haynes and Alfred Rizzi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '06), August, 2006
Improving Robot Navigation Through Self-Supervised Online Learning
Boris Sofman, Ellie Lin Ratliff, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, Nicolas Vandapel, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '06), August, 2006
Integrated Planning and Control for Convex-bodied Nonholonomic Systems Using Local Feedback
David C. Conner, Howie Choset, and Alfred Rizzi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '06), pp. 57 - 64, August, 2006
Integrated Planning and Control for Convex-bodied Nonholonomic systems using Local Feedback Control Policies
David C. Conner, Howie Choset, and Alfred Rizzi
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006
Learning and Predicting Moving Object Trajectory: a piecewise trajectory segment approach
Pak Yan Choi and Martial Hebert
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-42, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006
Meet point planning for multirobot coordination
Siddhartha Srinivasa and David Ferguson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Automation (ISRA '06), August, 2006
Modeling Dynamics and Exploring Control of a Single-Wheeled Dynamically Stable Mobile Robot with Arms
Eric Schearer
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-37, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006
On the Beaten Path: Exploitation of Entities Interactions For Predicting Potential Link
Young-Woo Seo and Katia Sycara
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006
Planning with Uncertainty in Position Using High-Resolution Maps
Juan Pablo Gonzalez and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006
Sliding Autonomy for Complex Coordinated Multi-Robot Tasks: Analysis & Experiments
Frederik Heger and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Systems and Science (RSS '06), August, 2006
Spectral Rounding & Image Segmentation
David Tolliver
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-44, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2006
Toward Effective Needle Steering in Brain Tissue
Johnathan A. Engh, Gregg Podnar, D. Kondziolka, and Cameron Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '06), pp. 559 - 562, August, 2006
Volatile Organic Compound Detection Using Nanostructured Copolymers
Bo Li, Genevieve Sauvé, Mihaela C. Iovu, Malika Jeffries-El, Rui Zhang, Jessica Cooper, Suresh Santhanam, Lawrence Schultz, Joseph C. Revelli, Aaron G. Kusne, Tomasz Kowalewski, Jay L. Snyder, Lee E. Weiss, Gary K. Fedder, Richard D. McCullough, and David N. Lambeth
Journal Article, Nano Letters, Vol. 6, No. 8, pp. 1598 - 1602, August, 2006
PPCP: Efficient Probabilistic Planning with Clear Preferences in Partially-Known Environments
Maxim Likhachev and Anthony Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '06) and 18th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI '06), pp. 860 - 867, July, 2006
A Comparative Study of Market-Based and Threshold-Based Task Allocation
Nidhi Kalra and Alcherio Martinoli
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS '06), pp. 91 - 101, July, 2006
A Markov Random Field Model of Context for High-Level Information Fusion
Robin Glinton, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '06), pp. 1535 - 1542, July, 2006
Acquiring Scattering Properties of Participating Media by Dilution
Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, Mohit Gupta, Craig Donner, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Shree Nayar, and Henrik Wann Jensen
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 25, No. 3, July, 2006
An Asymptotically Optimal Algorithm for the Max k-Armed Bandit Problem
M. J. Streeter and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '06) and 18th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI '06), pp. 135 - 142, July, 2006
Anterior-posterior Radiographs and Pelvic Flexion
Kort Eckman, M. A. Hafez, Branislav Jaramaz, and Anthony M. Digioia
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th World Congress of Biomechanics, July, 2006