Publications




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
Automatic Three-Dimensional Point Cloud Processing for Forest Inventory
Jean-Francois Lalonde, Nicolas Vandapel, and Martial Hebert
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2006
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Surveying on the North West Continental Shelf of Australia
S. B. Williams, O. Pizarro, I. Mahon, P. Rigby, M. Johnson-Roberson, and M. Rees
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Australian Marine Science Association Conference (AMSA '06), July, 2006
Challenges to Grounding in Human-Robot Collaboration: Errors and Miscommunications in Remote Exploration Robotics
Kristen Stubbs, Pamela Hinds, and David Wettergreen
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2006
Constrained Optimization Path Following of Wheeled Robots in Natural Terrain
Thomas Howard, Ross Alan Knepper, and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '06), pp. 343 - 352, July, 2006
Coordinated Multi-Agent Teams and Sliding Autonomy for Large-Scale Assembly
Brennan Peter Sellner, Frederik Heger, Laura Hiatt, Reid Simmons, and Sanjiv Singh
Journal Article, Proceedings of the IEEE: Special Issue on Multi-Robot Systems, Vol. 94, No. 7, pp. 1425 - 1444, July, 2006
DD* Lite: Efficient Incremental Search with State Dominance
G. Ayorkor Korsah, Anthony (Tony) Stentz, and M. Bernardine Dias
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '06) and 18th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI '06), pp. 1032 - 1038, July, 2006
Geographic Routing in Distributed Sensor Systems without Location Information
B. Yu and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '06), pp. 522 - 529, July, 2006
How multirobot systems research will accelerate our understanding of social animal behavior
Tucker Balch, Frank Dellaert, Adam Feldman, Andrew Guillory, Charles Isbell, Zia Khan, Stephen Pratt, Andrew Stein, and Hank Wilde
Journal Article, Proceedings of the IEEE: Special Issue on Multi-Robot Systems, Vol. 94, No. 7, pp. 1445 - 1463, July, 2006
Learning from and about the Opponent
P. Huang and Katia Sycara
Book Section/Chapter, Adversarial Reasoning: Computational Approaches to Reading the Opponent’s Mind, pp. 315 - 334, July, 2006
Learning the Quality of Sensor Data in Distributed Decision Fusion
B. Yu and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '06), pp. 514 - 521, July, 2006
Long-term motion estimation from images
Dennis Strelow and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '06), pp. 65 - 74, July, 2006
Market-based multirobot coordination: a survey and analysis
M. Bernardine Dias, Robert Michael Zlot, Nidhi Kalra, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Journal Article, Proceedings of the IEEE: Special Issue on Multi-Robot Systems, Vol. 94, No. 7, pp. 1257 - 1270, July, 2006
Maximum Margin Planning
Nathan Ratliff, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Martin Zinkevich
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 729 - 736, July, 2006
Monitoring Food Safety by Detecting Patterns in Consumer Complaints
Artur Dubrawski, Kimberly Elenberg, Andrew Moore, and Maheshkumar Sabhnani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '06) and 18th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI '06), pp. 1782 - 1788, July, 2006
Navigation in Minimally Invasive Total Knee Arthroplasty and Total Hip Arthroscopy
M. A. Hafez, M. J. Seel, Branislav Jaramaz, and Anthony M. Digioia
Journal Article, Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 207 - 210, July, 2006
Planning Among Movable Obstacles with Artificial Constraints
Michael Stilman and James Kuffner
Workshop Paper, 7th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '06), pp. 119 - 135, July, 2006
Quality and continued improvement in software processes
Angel Jordan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Universidad de Pública de Navarra Summer Courses, July, 2006
Quantified Symmetry for Entorhinal Spatial Maps
Erick Chastain and Yanxi Liu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS '06), July, 2006
Rapid object indexing using locality sensitive hashing and joint 3D-signature space estimation
B. Matei, Ying Shan, H. S. Sawhney, Yi Tan, R. Kumar, Daniel Huber, and Martial Hebert
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 28, No. 7, pp. 1111 - 1126, July, 2006
Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping and Dense Stereoscopic Seafloor Reconstruction Using an AUV
Stefan Williams, Oscar Pizarro, Ian Mahon, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, pp. 407 - 416, July, 2006
Simultaneous Team Assignment and Behavior Recognition from Spatio-temporal Agent Traces
Gita Sukthankar and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '06) and 18th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI '06), pp. 716 - 721, July, 2006
Sluice: Secure Dissemination of Code Updates in Sensor Networks
P. E. Lanigan, R. Gandhi, and P. Narasimhan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '06), pp. 53, July, 2006
Subgradient Methods for Maximum Margin Structured Learning
Nathan Ratliff, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Martin Zinkevich
Workshop Paper, ICML '06 Workshop on Learning in Structured Output Spaces, July, 2006
The influence of sex in the construction of a statistical atlas of the hemi-pelvis
Patricia E. Murtha, Chenyu Wu, Andrew Mor, and Branislav Jaramaz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th World Congress of Biomechanics, July, 2006
The Minimum-time Trajectories for an Omni-directional Vehicle
Devin J. Balkcom, Paritosh A. Kavathekar, and Matthew T. Mason
Workshop Paper, 7th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '06), pp. 343 - 358, July, 2006
Topological Exploration of Subterranean Environments
David Silver, David Ferguson, Aaron Christopher Morris, and Scott Thayer
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 395 - 415, July, 2006