Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Interaction Challenges in Human-Robot Space Exploration

Journal Article, Interactions, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 42 - 45, March, 2005

Life in the Atacama - Year 2: Geologic Reconnaissance Through Long-Range Roving and Implications on the Search for Life

James M. Dohm, Nathalie A. Cabrol, Edmond A. Grin, Jeffrey Moersch, Guillermo Chong Diaz, Charles Cockell, Peter Coppin, Gregory Fisher, Andrew N. Hock, Lucia Marinangeli, Edwin Minkley, G. G. Ori, Jennifer L. Piatek, Kim Warren-Rhodes, Shmuel Weinstein, Michael Wyatt, Trey Smith, Michael D. Wagner, Kristen Stubbs, Geb Thomas, and Justin Glasgow

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '05), March, 2005

Mission planning and target tracking for autonomous instrument placement

L. Pedersen, D. E. Smith, M. Deans, R. Sargent, C. Kunz, D. Lees, and S. Rajagopalan

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 34 - 51, March, 2005

Orientation Preserving Angular Swivel Joint

Elie A. Shammas and Howie Choset

Miscellaneous, US Patent Number 6,871,563, March, 2005

Perceptual Limits for a Robotic Rehabilitation Environment Using Visual Feedback Distortion

Bambi Roberts Brewer, M. Fagan, Roberta Klatzky, and Yoky Matsuoka

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1 - 11, March, 2005

Robotic Technologies for Surveying Habitats and Seeking Evidence of Life: Results from the 2004 Field Experiments of the "Life in the Atacama" Project

David Wettergreen, Nathalie Cabrol, William (Red) L. Whittaker, Guillermo Chong Diaz, Francisco Calderon, Stuart Heys, Dominic Jonak, Rolf Allan Luders, Jeffrey Moersch, David Pane, Marion Smith, Kristen Stubbs, James Teza, Paul Tompkins, Daniel Villa, Chris Williams, Michael D. Wagner, Alan Waggoner, Shmuel Weinstein, and Michael Wyatt

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '05), March, 2005

Searching for Life with Rovers: Exploration Methods and Science Results from the 2004 Field Campaign of the "Life in the Atacama" Project and Applications to Future Mars Missions

Nathalie A. Cabrol, David Wettergreen, William (Red) L. Whittaker, Edmond A. Grin, Jeffrey Moersch, Guillermo Chong Diaz, Charles Cockell, Peter Coppin, James M. Dohm, Gregory Fisher, Andrew N. Hock, Lucia Marinangeli, Edwin Minkley, G. G. Ori, Jennifer Piatek, Alan Waggoner, Kim Warren-Rhodes, Shmuel Weinstein, Michael Wyatt, Francisco Calderon, Stuart Heys, Dominic Jonak, Rolf Allan Luders, David Pane, Trey Smith, Kristen Stubbs, James Teza, Paul Tompkins, Daniel Villa, Chris Williams, Michael D. Wagner, Geb Thomas, and Justin Glasgow

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '05), March, 2005

SOLAR: Sound Object Localization and Retrieval in Complex Audio Environments

Derek Hoiem, Yan Ke, and Rahul Sukthankar

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '05), Vol. 5, pp. 429 - 432, March, 2005

Spectroscopic Results from the Life in the Atacama (LITA) Project 2004 Field Season

Jennifer L. Piatek, Jeffrey E. Moersch, Michael Wyatt, Michael Rampey, Nathalie A. Cabrol, David Wettergreen, William (Red) L. Whittaker, Edmond A. Grin, Guillermo Chong Diaz, Charles Cockell, Peter Coppin, James M. Dohm, Gregory Fisher, Andrew N. Hock, Lucia Marinangeli, Edwin Minkley, G. G. Ori, Alan Waggoner, Kim Warren-Rhodes, Shmuel Weinstein, Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, Trey Smith, Michael D. Wagner, Kristen Stubbs, Geb Thomas, and Justin Glasgow

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '05), March, 2005

The Ames MER Microscopic Imager Toolkit

Randy Sargent, Matthew Deans, Clay Kunz, Michael Sims, and Ken Herkenhoff

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 927 - 941, March, 2005

Three-Dimensional Scene Flow

Sundar Vedula, Simon Baker, Peter Rander, Robert Collins, and Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 475 - 480, March, 2005

Towards a Telesupervisory Multi-Robot Lunar and Planetary Exploration Architecture

John M. Dolan, Gregg Podnar, and Alberto Elfes

Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA Space Automation & Robotics Symposium, March, 2005

Up Close and Personal from Mars

Emily Hamner, Mark Lotter, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Skip Shelly

Journal Article, interactions, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 30 - 36, March, 2005

Use of a Novel Rover-mounted Fluorescence Imager and Fluorescent Probes to Detect Biological Material in the Atacama Desert in Daylight

Shmuel Weinstein, David Pane, Kim Warren-Rhodes, Charles Cockell, Lauren A. Ernst, Edwin Minkley, Gregory Fisher, Sujata Emani, David Wettergreen, Michael D. Wagner, Nathalie Cabrol, and Alan Waggoner

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '05), March, 2005

Using Near Real-time Mission Data for Education and Public Outreach: Strategies from the Life in the Atacama E/PO Report

Eben Myers, Peter Coppin, Michael D. Wagner, Karl Fischer, Dan Luisa Lu, Ron McCloskey, David Seneker, Nathalie Cabrol, David Wettergreen, and Alan Waggoner

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '05), March, 2005

Web services lookup: a matchmaker experiment

T. Kawamura, T. Hasegawa, A. Ohsuga, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara

Magazine Article, IT Professional, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 36 - 41, March, 2005

STP: Skills, tactics and plays for multi-robot control in adversarial environments

Brett Browning, James Bruce, Michael Bowling, and Manuela Veloso

Journal Article, Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, Vol. 219, No. 1, pp. 33 - 52, February, 2005

Development and Preliminary Testing of a Mobile Robot for Cardiac Intervention

Nicholas Patronik

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2005

Efficient Algorithms for the Identification of Potential Track/Observation Associations in Continuous Time Data

Jeremy Martin Kubica, Andrew Moore, Andrew J. Connolly, and Robert Jedicke

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2005

Face Databases

Ralph Gross

Book Section/Chapter, Handbook of Face Recognition, February, 2005

Spring-mass running: simple approximate solution and application to gait stability

Hartmut Geyer, Andre Seyfarth, and Reinhard Blickhan

Journal Article, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 232, No. 3, pp. 315 - 328, February, 2005

Enhancing Stochastic Search Performance by Value-Biased Randomization of Heuristics

V. Cicirello and S. F. Smith

Journal Article, Journal of Heuristics, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 5 - 34, January, 2005

Bearings based robot homing with robust landmark matching and limited horizon view

Ivan Kirigin and Sanjiv Singh

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

Calibrating Courier/Overhead Manipulator Pairs in Minifactory

Robert Schlender

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, 2005

Digital Papercutting

Yanxi Liu, James H. Hays, Ying-Qing Xu, and Heung-Yeung Shum

Miscellaneous, Technical Sketch, SIGGRAPH, 2005

Distributed Multimodal Sensing: Sensor Suitability

Luis Ernesto Navarro-Serment

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, 2005

Dynamic Outside Options in Alternating-Offers Negotiations

Cuihong Li, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS '05), 2005

Extraction des traits caracteristiques du visage à l'aide de modèle paramétriques adaptés (Parametric models for facial features segmentation)

Z. Hammal, N. Eveno, A. Caplier, and P-Y Coulon

Journal Article, Traitement du signal (TS 2005), Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 59 - 71, 2005

GasNetTM: Sensing and communications network system for low- and high-pressure distribution gas mains

Hagen Schempf

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Natural Gas Technologies III Conference, 2005

Human-Robot Teaming for Search and Rescue

Illah Nourbakhsh, Katia Sycara, Mary Koes, Mark Yong, and Steve Burion

Journal Article, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 72 - 78, 2005

Incorporating Background Invariance into Feature-Based Object Recognition

Andrew Stein and Martial Hebert

Workshop Paper, 7th IEEE Workshops on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV/MOTION '05), pp. 37 - 44, 2005

Interactive Multimodal Robot Programming

Soshi Iba, Chris Paredis, and Pradeep Khosla

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 83 - 104, 2005

Measurements of Acetabular Cup Position and Pelvic Spatial Orientation After Total Hip Arthroplasty Using Computed Tomography/Radiography Matching

Sorin Blendea, Kort Eckman, Branislav Jaramaz, Timothy J. Levison, and Anthony M. DiGioia III

Journal Article, Computer Aided Surgery, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 37 - 43, 2005

Measures of Similarity

Ranjith Unnikrishnan and Martial Hebert

Workshop Paper, 7th IEEE Workshops on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV/MOTION '05), pp. 394 - 400, 2005

Measuring facial action by manual coding, facial EMG, and automatic facial image analysis

Jeffrey Cohn and P. Ekman

Book Section/Chapter, Handbook of nonverbal behavior research methods in the affective sciences, 2005

Modeling Multi-attribute Negotiations in the Navy Detailing Process

Guoming Lai, Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara, and Joseph Andrew Giampapa

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

Multilevel Spectral Partitioning for Efficient Image Segmentation and Tracking

David Tolliver, Simon Baker, and Robert Collins

Workshop Paper, 7th IEEE Workshops on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV/MOTION '05), pp. 414 - 420, 2005

Multimodal Oriented Discriminant Analysis

Fernando De la Torre Frade and Takeo Kanade

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

Omnidirectional Video Capturing, Multiple People Tracking and Identification for Meeting Monitoring

Fernando De la Torre Frade, Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez, Paul Rybski, Manuela Veloso, and Takeo Kanade

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

On the use of computable features for film classification

Z. Rasheed, Y. Sheikh, and M. Shah

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 52 - 64, 2005

Robust Probabilistic Filtering in Distributed Systems

Stanislav Funiak, Carlos Ernesto Guestrin, Mark Paskin, and Rahul Sukthankar

Tech. Report, CMU-CALD-05-111, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

Semi-Supervised Self-Training of Object Detection Models

Charles Rosenberg, Martial Hebert, and Henry Schneiderman

Workshop Paper, 7th IEEE Workshops on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV/MOTION '05), pp. 29 - 36, 2005

Sun-Synchronous Robotic Exploration: Technical Description and Field Experimentation

David Wettergreen, Paul Tompkins, Christopher Urmson, Michael D. Wagner, and William (Red) L. Whittaker

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 3 - 30, 2005

The Robotic Autonomy Mobile Robotics Course: Robot Design, Curriculum Design and Educational Assessment

Illah Nourbakhsh, Kevin Crowley, Ajinkya Bhave, Emily Hamner, Thomas Hsiu, Andres Santiago Perez-Bergquist, Steve Richards, and Katie Wilkinson

Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 103 - 127, 2005

Planning for Markov Decision Processes with Sparse Stochasticity

Maxim Likhachev, Geoff Gordon, and Sebastian Thrun

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 785 - 792, December, 2004

Seeing Through Water

Alexei A. Efros, Volkan Isler, Jianbo Shi, and Mirko Visontai

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 393 - 400, December, 2004

A regional point descriptor for global localization in subterranean environments

David Bradley, David Silver, and Scott Thayer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM '05), Vol. 1, pp. 440 - 445, December, 2004

A Study of Polynomial Curvature Clothoid Paths for Motion Planning for Car-like Robots

Mikhail Pivtoraiko and Alonzo Kelly

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-68, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004

Autonomous exploration and mapping of abandoned mines

Sebastian Thrun, Scott Thayer, Chuck Whittaker, Christopher R. Baker, Wolfram Burgard, David Ferguson, Dirk Haehnel, Michael Montemerlo, Aaron Christopher Morris, Zachary Omohundro, Carlos Reverte, and William (Red) L. Whittaker

Magazine Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 79 - 91, December, 2004

Autonomous River Navigation

Franklin D. Snyder, Daniel D. Morris, Paul H. Haley, Robert Collins, and Andrea M. Okerholm

Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Mobile Robots XVII, Vol. 5609, pp. 221 - 232, December, 2004