Publications




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
Cadaveric central venous access using the Sonic Flashlight, a novel ultrasound display system
Wilson Chang, N. Amesur, A. Zajko, and George D. Stetten
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Radiological Society of North America Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, December, 2004
Controlling a motorized marionette with human motion capture data
Katsu Yamane, Jessica K. Hodgins, and H. Benjamin Brown
Journal Article, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 651 - 669, December, 2004
Creating Realistic Animations Using Video
Kiran Bhat
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-54, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004
Extending the OneSAF Testbed into a C4ISR Testbed
Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sean R. Owens, Robin Glinton, Young-Woo Seo, Bin Yu, and Charles E. Grindle
Journal Article, SIMULATION: Special Issue on Military Simulation Systems and Command and Control Systems Interoperability, Vol. 80, No. 12, pp. 681 - 691, December, 2004
Integrated Collision Warning System Final Technical Report
U. of C. PATH and CMU RI
Miscellaneous, Carnegie Mellon University, FTA-PA-26-7006-04.1, December, 2004
Layered Detection for Multiple Overlapping Objects
Hironobu Fujiyoshi and Takeo Kanade
Journal Article, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. 87, No. 12, pp. 2821 - 2827, December, 2004
Literature Review on Multi-attribute Negotiations
Guoming Lai, Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara, and Joseph Andrew Giampapa
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-66, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004
Looking Ahead to Select Tutorial Actions: A Decision-Theoretic Approach
R. C. Murray, K. VanLehn, and Jack Mostow
Journal Article, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 235 - 278, December, 2004
Motion estimation from image and inertial measurements
Dennis Strelow and Sanjiv Singh
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 23, No. 12, pp. 1157 - 1195, December, 2004
Prototype Epicardial Crawling Device for Intrapericardial Intervention on the Beating heart
Cameron Riviere, Nicholas Patronik, and Marco A. Zenati
Journal Article, Heart Surgery Forum, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 639 - 643, December, 2004
Real-Time and 3D Vision for Autonomous Small and Micro Air Vehicles
Takeo Kanade, Omead Amidi, and Qifa Ke
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '04), Vol. 2, pp. 1655 - 1662, December, 2004
Scan Matching for Flooded Subterranean Voids
David Silver, David Bradley, and Scott Thayer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM '05), Vol. 1, pp. 422 - 427, December, 2004
Shape-based recognition of wiry objects
O. Carmichael and M. Hebert
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 26, No. 12, pp. 1537 - 1552, December, 2004
SnapFind: brute force interactive image retrieval
L. Huston, Rahul Sukthankar, Derek Hoiem, and Jiaying Zhang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Image and Graphics (ICIG '04), pp. 154 - 159, December, 2004
The Personal Exploration Rover: The Ground-up Design, Deployment and Educational Evaluation of an Educational Robot for Unmediated Informal Learning Sites
Illah Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Debra Bernstein, Kevin Crowley, Eric Porter, Thomas Hsiu, Brian Dunlavey, Ellen M. Ayoob, Mark Lotter, Skip Shelly, Anuja Parikh, and Daniel Clancy
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004
Non-linear dimensionality reduction by locally linear isomaps
Ashutosh Saxena, Abhinav Gupta, and Amitabha Mukerjee
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP '04), pp. 1038 - 1043, November, 2004
Confounded Expectations: Informedia at TRECVID 2004
Alexander G. Hauptmann, Ming-yu Chen, Michael G. Christel, C. Huang, Wei-Hao Lin, Tobun D. Ng, Norman Papernick, A. Velivelli, J. Yang, Rong Yan, H. Yang, and Howard D. Wactlar
Workshop Paper, TREC '04 TRECVID Workshop, November, 2004
Development of Humanoid Robot Platform KHR-2
Ill-Woo Park, Jung-Yup Kim, Seo-Wook Park, and Jun-Ho Oh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '04), pp. 292 - 310, November, 2004
Navigation Among Movable Obstacles: Real-time Reasoning in Complex Environments
Michael Stilman and James Kuffner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '04), pp. 322 - 341, November, 2004
A Tiered Planning Strategy for Biped Navigation
Joel Chestnutt and James Kuffner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '04), pp. 422 - 436, November, 2004
Accurate and Flexible Simulation for Dynamic, Vision-Centric Robot
Jared Go, Brett Browning, and Manuela Veloso
Tech. Report, CMU-CS-04-180, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004
Active Appearance Models Revisited
Iain Matthews and Simon Baker
Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 135 - 164, November, 2004
Atlas-Based Hippocampus Segmentation In Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Owen Carmichael, Howard Aizenstein, Simon W. Davis, Jim Becker, Paul M. Thompson, Carolyn Meltzer, and Yanxi Liu
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-53, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004
Classification d'expressions faciales par la theorie de l'évidence
Z. Hammal, A. Caplier, and M. Rombaut
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Rencontre Francophones sur la Logique Floue et ses Applications (LFA '04), November, 2004
Explorer: Live Distribution Gas Main Inspection Robot
Hagen Schempf
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Gas Research Conference, November, 2004
Far-field terrain evaluation using geometric and toposemantic vision
Alec Avedisyan, David Wettergreen, Terrence W. Fong, and Charles Baur
Workshop Paper, 8th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and Automation (ASTRA '04), November, 2004
Fast and Robust Track Initiation Using Multiple Trees
Jeremy Martin Kubica, Andrew Moore, Andrew J. Connolly, and Robert Jedicke
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-62, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004
Finding Organized Structures in 3-D LADAR Data
Nicolas Vandapel and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th Army Science Conference, November, 2004
Fingerprinting: Bounding Soft-Error-Detection Latency and Bandwidth
J. C. Smolens, B. T. Gold, Jangwoo Kim, B. Falsafi, J. C. Hoe, and Andreas Nowatzyk
Journal Article, IEEE Micro, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 22 - 29, November, 2004
Focussed processing of MDPs for path planning
David Ferguson and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI '04), pp. 310 - 317, November, 2004
Installation, Running and Editing Instructions for the ClassificationBox Text Classification Tool
Michael Rectenwald, Young-Woo Seo, Kevin Lee, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-58, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004
Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On: Part 5
Simon Baker, Raju Patil, Kong Man Cheung, and Iain Matthews
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-64, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004
Motion estimation from image and inertial measurements
Dennis Strelow
Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, CMU-CS-04-178, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004
Person Tracking From a Dynamic Balancing Platform
Dinesh Govindaraju and Brett Browning
Tech. Report, CMU-CS-04-181, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004
Planning with Uncertainty in Position: an Optimal Planner
Juan Pablo Gonzalez and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-63, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004
Spatial Data Structures for Efficient Trajectory-Based Queries
Jeremy Martin Kubica, Andrew Moore, Andrew J. Connolly, and Robert Jedicke
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-61, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2004
The Software Engineering Institute and Process Management for Software Development
Angel Jordan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Conference on Software Improvement, November, 2004
Cognitive primitives for mobile robots
Ethan Tira-Thompson, N. S. Halelamien, J. J. Wales, and David S. Touretzky
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '04 Fall Symposium on The Intersection of Cognitive Science and Robotics: From Interfaces to Intelligence", pp. 110 - 111, October, 2004
Development of the Side Component of the Transit Integrated Collision Warning System
Aaron Steinfeld, David Duggins, Jay Gowdy, John Kozar, Robert MacLachlan, Christoph Mertz, Arne Suppe, Chuck Thorpe, and Chieh-Chih Wang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '04), pp. 343 - 348, October, 2004
Meticulously detailed eye model and its application to analysis of facial image
Tsuyoshi Moriyama, Jing Xiao, Jeffrey Cohn, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '04), pp. 629 - 634, October, 2004
Segmentation and Classification of Meetings using Multiple Information Streams
P. Rybski, S. Banerjee, F. De la Torre, C. Vallespi, A. Rudnicky, and M. Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Multimodal interfaces (ICMI '04), pp. 335 - 336, October, 2004
Sensing Capacity for Target Detection
Yaron Rachlin, R. Negi, and Pradeep Khosla
Workshop Paper, IEEE Information Theory Workshop, pp. 147 - 152, October, 2004
A Framework for robust mobile robot systems
Nicholas Melchior and William D. Smart
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Mobile Robots XVII, Vol. 5609, pp. 145 - 154, October, 2004