Publications




A Robot Supervision Architecture for Safe and Efficient Space Exploration and Operation
Ehud Halberstam, Luis Ernesto Navarro-Serment, Ronald Conescu, Sandra Mau, Gregg Podnar, Alan D. Guisewite, H. Benjamin Brown, Alberto Elfes, John M. Dolan, and Marcel Bergerman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments and 2nd NASA/ARO/ASCE Workshop on Granular Materials in Lunar and Martian Exploration (Earth & Science '06), March, 2006
A Robust Compositional Architecture for Autonomous Systems
Guillaume Brat, Ewen Denney, Kimberley Farrell, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, Ari Jonsson, Jeremy Frank, Mark Boddy, Todd Carpenter, Tara Estlin, and Mikhail Pivtoraiko
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, March, 2006
A spatial model of engagement for a social robot
Marek Piotr Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, and Reid Simmons
Workshop Paper, 9th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC '06), pp. 762 - 767, March, 2006
An Any-space Algorithm for Distributed Constraint Optimization
Anton Chechetka and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '06 Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management, pp. 33 - 40, March, 2006
Attaining Situational Awareness for Sliding Autonomy
Brennan Peter Sellner, Laura M. Hiatt, Reid Simmons, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 80 - 87, March, 2006
Autonomous Detection of Novel Biologic and Geologic Features in Atacama Desert Rover Imagery
David R. Thompson, Trey Smith, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '06), March, 2006
Autonomous Rover Detection and Response Applied to the Search for Life Via Chlorophyll Fluorescence in the Atacama Desert
Trey Smith, David R. Thompson, S. Weinstein, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 37th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '06), March, 2006
Best Laid Plans of Robots and Men
Mary Koes, Katia Sycara, and Illah Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '06 Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management, pp. 49 - 56, March, 2006
Common Metrics for Human-Robot Interaction
Aaron Steinfeld, Terrence W. Fong, David Kaber, Jean Scholtz, Alan Schultz, and Michael Goodrich
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 33 - 40, March, 2006
Design and Flight Testing of a High-Bandwidth H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for a Robotic Helicopter
Marco La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, William Messner, and Takeo Kanade
Journal Article, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 485 - 494, March, 2006
Encouraging Physical Therapy Compliance with a Hands-Off Mobile Robot
Rachel Kirby and Maja J. Mataric
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 150 - 155, March, 2006
Evaluation of Autonomous Ground Vehicle Skills
Phillip L. Koon
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2006
Fingertip Vibratory Transducer for Detecting Optical Edges using Regenerative Feedback
K. Zawrotny, A. Craig, D. Weiser, Roberta Klatzky, and George D. Stetten
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (HAPTICS '06), pp. 373 - 374, March, 2006
FOCUS: A Generalized Method for Object Discovery for Robots that Observe and Interact with Humans
Manuela Veloso, Paul Rybski, and Felix von Hundelshausen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 102 - 109, March, 2006
Generalized Motion Planning for Underactuated Mechanical Systems
Elie A. Shammas
Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2006
Human Telesupervision of a Fleet of Autonomous Robots for Safe and Efficient Space Exploration
Gregg Podnar, John M. Dolan, Alberto Elfes, Marcel Bergerman, H. Benjamin Brown, and Alan D. Guisewite
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 325 - 326, March, 2006
Human-robot interaction
Aaron Steinfeld
Book Section/Chapter, International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, 2nd Edition, March, 2006
Improved 2D/3D Registration Robustness Using Local Spatial Information
E. De Momi, Kort Eckman, Branislav Jaramaz, and Anthony M. Digioia
Conference Paper, Proceedings for SPIE, pp. 977 - 984, March, 2006
Incremental Reconstruction of Generalized Voronoi Diagrams on Grids
Nidhi Kalra, David Ferguson, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '06), pp. 114 - 123, March, 2006
Inkjet deposition system with computer vision-based calibration for targeting accuracy
Lee Weiss, Lawrence Schultz, and Eric Miller
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2006
Interactions with a Moody Robot
Rachel Kirby, Jodi Forlizzi, and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 186 - 193, March, 2006
Multi-Agent Management of Joint Schedules
Stephen Smith, Anthony T. Gallagher, Terry Lyle Zimmerman, Laura Barbulescu, and Zack Rubinstein
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '06 Spring Symposium on Distributed Plan and Schedule Management, pp. 128 - 135, March, 2006
Multi-resolution Field D*
David Ferguson and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '06), pp. 65 - 74, March, 2006
Multimodal person tracking and attention classification
Marek Piotr Michalowski and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 347 - 348, March, 2006
On the Dimensionality of Deformable Face Models
Iain Matthews, Jing Xiao, and Simon Baker
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2006
On the study of human-robot collaboration
I. Nourbakhsh
Workshop Paper, 9th IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC '06), pp. 9 - 11, March, 2006
Optical Merger of Direct Vision with Virtual Images for Scaled Teleoperation
Samuel Clanton, David C. Wang, V. Chib, Yoky Matsuoka, and George D. Stetten
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 277 - 285, March, 2006
Parameterizing Homographies
Simon Baker, Ankur Datta, and Takeo Kanade
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2006
Perceptions of ASIMO: An exploration on co-operation and competition with humans and humanoid robots
Bilge Mutlu, Steven Osman, Jodi Forlizzi, Jessica K. Hodgins, and Sara Kiesler
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 351 - 352, March, 2006
Robots in the wild: observing human-robot social interaction outside the lab
S. Sabanovic, Marek Piotr Michalowski, and Reid Simmons
Workshop Paper, 9th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC '06), pp. 596 - 601, March, 2006
Safe and Efficient Robotic Space Exploration with Tele-Supervised Autonomous Robots
Alberto Elfes, John M. Dolan, Gregg Podnar, Sandra Mau, and Marcel Bergerman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '06 Spring Symposium, pp. 104 - 113, March, 2006
Socially Distributed Perception
Marek Piotr Michalowski, Carl Francis DiSalvo, Selma Sabanovic, Didac Busquets Font, Laura M. Hiatt, Nicholas Melchior, and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 349 - 350, March, 2006
Statistical Modeling and Localization of Nonrigid and Articulated Shapes
Jiayong Zhang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2006
The First Segway Soccer Experience: Towards Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teams
Brenna Argall, Yang Gu, Brett Browning, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 321 - 322, March, 2006
The Human-Robot Interaction Operating System
Terrence W. Fong, Clayton Kunz, Laura Hiatt, and Magda Bugajska
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '06), pp. 41 - 48, March, 2006
Mapping Disaster Zones
Illah Nourbakhsh, Randy Sargent, Anne Wright, Kathryn Cramer, Brian McClendon , and Michael Jones
Journal Article, Commentary in Nature, Vol. 439, pp. 787 - 788, February, 2006
Coordinating Component Analysis
F. De la Torre
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2006
Movement differences between deliberate and spontaneous facial expressions: Zygomaticus major action in smiling
Karen Schmidt, Zara Ambadar, Jeffrey Cohn, and Lawrence Ian Reed
Journal Article, Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, Vol. 30, pp. 37 - 52, February, 2006
A Formalism for Utilization of Sensor Systems and Integrated Project Models for Active Construction Quality Control
Burcu Akinci, Frank Boukamp, Chris Gordon, Daniel Huber, Catherine Lyons, and Kuhn Park
Journal Article, Automation in Construction, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 124 - 138, February, 2006
Computer-Assisted Total Hip Arthroplasty: The Present and the Future
M. A. Hafez and Anthony M. Digioia
Journal Article, Future Rheumatology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 121 - 131, February, 2006
Dynamic facial expression understanding based on temporal modeling of transferable belief model
Zakia Hammal
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP '06), Vol. 2, pp. 93 - 100, February, 2006
Explorer: Gas Pipeline Robot Robot Design, Field Test Results and Future Developments
Hagen Schempf
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ANS Conference, February, 2006
Mission-level path planning and re-planning for rover exploration
Paul Tompkins, Anthony (Tony) Stentz, and David Wettergreen
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Special Issue on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 174 - 183, February, 2006
Parametric models for facial features segmentation
Z. Hammal, N. Eveno, A. Caplier, and P-Y Coulon
Journal Article, Signal Processing, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 399 - 413, February, 2006
Percutaneous Intrapericardial Interventions Using a Highly Articulated Robotic Probe
Amir Degani, Howie Choset, Alon Wolf, Takeyoshi Ota, and Marco A. Zenati
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st IEEE & RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob '06), pp. 7 - 12, February, 2006
Scalable robot fault detection and identification
Vandi Verma and Reid Simmons
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Special Issue on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 184 - 191, February, 2006
Sensor-based coverage with extended range detectors
E. U. Acar, Howie Choset, and Ji Yeong Lee
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 189 - 198, February, 2006
The Asymmetry of Image Registration and its Application to Face Tracking
Goksel Dedeoglu, Takeo Kanade, and Simon Baker
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-06-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2006
The Geometric Path Planner for Navigating Unmanned Vehicles in Dynamic Environments
Juan Pablo Gonzalez, Bryan Nagy, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings 1st Joint Emergency Preparedness and Response/Robotic and Remote Systems Topical Meeting, February, 2006
Three Degrees-of-freedom joint for spatial hyper-redundant robots
Elie A. Shammas, Alon Wolf, and Howie Choset
Journal Article, Journal of Mechanism and Machine Theory, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 170 - 190, February, 2006