Publications




Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva
Sebastian Thrun, M. Beetz, Maren Bennewitz, Wolfram Burgard, A. B. Creemers, Frank Dellaert, Dieter Fox, Dirk Hahnel, Chuck Rosenberg, Nicholas Roy, Jamieson Schulte, and Dirk Schulz
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 972 - 999, November, 2000
Real Time Tomographic Reflection with Ultrasound: Stationary and Hand-Held Implementations
George D. Stetten and Vikram S. Chib
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-00-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2000
Reconstructing specimens using DIC microscope images
Farhana Kagalwala and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (BIBE '00), pp. 307 - 315, November, 2000
Robotic Rock Classification and Autonomous Exploration
Liam Pedersen
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-01-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2000
Technology and Field Demonstration of Robotic Search for Antarctic Meteorites
Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, Michael D. Wagner, Benjamin Shamah, Liam Pedersen, Kimberly Shillcutt, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 1015 - 1032, November, 2000
Trident Sensing System: A Configuration of Sensors to Aid Alignment of an Intelligent Grasping Device Used for Field-container Handling
M. Bernardine Dias and Hagen Schempf
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-00-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2000
Coordinated deployment of multiple, heterogeneous robots
R. Simmons, D. Apfelbaum, D. Fox, R. P. Goldman, K. Z. Haigh, D. J. Musliner, M. Pelican, and S. Thrun
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 2254 - 2260, October, 2000
Distributed visual servoing with a roving eye
D. Hershberger, R. Burridge, D. Kortenkamp, and R. Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 441 - 447, October, 2000
Motion Planning for a Modular Self-Reconfiguring Robotic System
Cem Unsal, Han Kiliccote, Mark Patton, and Pradeep Khosla
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS '00), pp. 165 - 175, October, 2000
Reconfigurable Robots for All Terrain Exploration
P. S. Schenker, P. Pirjanian, B. Balaram, K. S. Ali, A. Trebi-Ollennu, T. L. Huntsberger, H. Aghazarian, B. A. Kennedy, E. T. Baumgartner, K. Iagnemma, A. Rzepniewski, S. Dubowsky, P. C. Leger, and D. Apostolopoulos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems III, Vol. 4196, pp. 454 - 468, October, 2000
Solutions for 3-D Self-reconfiguration in a Modular Robotic System: Implementation and Motion Planning
Cem Unsal and Pradeep Khosla
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems III, Vol. 4196, pp. 388 - 401, October, 2000
Tomographic Reflection to Merge Ultrasound Images with Direct Vision
George D. Stetten, V. Chib, and R. Tamburo
Workshop Paper, 29th Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, pp. 200 - 205, October, 2000
Towards automatic verification of autonomous systems
R. Simmons, C. Pecheur, and G. Srinivasan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 1410 - 1415, October, 2000
Robotic Comfort Zones
Maxim Likhachev and Ronald C. Arkin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems III, Vol. 4196, pp. 27 - 41, October, 2000
A Social Robot that Stands in Line
Yasushi Nakauchi and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 357 - 364, October, 2000
An Active Hand-held Instrument for Enhanced Microsurgical Accuracy
Wei-Tech Ang, Cameron Riviere, and Pradeep Khosla
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI '00), pp. 878 - 886, October, 2000
Automatic Keystone Correction for Camera-assisted Presentation Interfaces
Rahul Sukthankar, Robert Stockton, and Matthew Mullin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Multimedia Interfaces (ICMI '00), pp. 607 - 614, October, 2000
Emulation of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Qifa Ke, D. Maltz, and D. Johnson
Workshop Paper, 7th International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MoMuC '00), October, 2000
Eye-State Action Unit Detection by Gabor Wavelets
Ying-Li Tian, Takeo Kanade, and Jeffrey Cohn
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '00), pp. 143 - 150, October, 2000
Fast and inexpensive color image segmentation for interactive robots
J. Bruce, Tucker Balch, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 2061 - 2066, October, 2000
Gradient-oriented profiles for unsupervised boundary classification
Robert Joseph Tamburo and George D. Stetten
Workshop Paper, 29th Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, pp. 206 - 212, October, 2000
Investigating The Viability Of MEMS Vapor Sensors For Detecting Land Mines
M. Bernardine Dias
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-00-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2000
Learning-Based Task Allocation in Decentralized Multirobot Systems
Poj Tangamchit, John M. Dolan, and Pradeep Khosla
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS '00), pp. 381 - 390, October, 2000
Mechanics, planning, and control for tapping
Wesley Huang and Matthew T. Mason
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 19, No. 10, pp. 883 - 894, October, 2000
Modifying Soft Tissue Models: Progressive Cutting with Minimal New Element Creation
Andrew Mor and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI '00), pp. 598 - 607, October, 2000
Multi agent collaboration using distributed value functions
Enrique Ferreira and Pradeep Khosla
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '00), pp. 404 - 409, October, 2000
Path Planning for the Cye Robot
Parag Batavia and Illah Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 15 - 20, October, 2000
Recognition of human task by attention point analysis
Koichi Ogawara, Soshi Iba, Tomikazu Tanuki, Hiroshi Kimura, and Katsushi Ikeuchi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 2121 - 2126, October, 2000
Robust Midsagittal Plane Extraction from Coarse, Pathological 3D Images
Yanxi Liu, Robert Collins, and William E. Rothfus
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Medical Imaging Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI '00), pp. 83 - 94, October, 2000
Side Collision Warning Systems for Transit Buses
Christoph Mertz, Sue McNeil, and Chuck Thorpe
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV '00), pp. 344 - 349, October, 2000
Solar Based Navigation for Robotic Explorers
Kimberly Shillcutt
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-00-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2000
Spoken Dialog Management for Robots
Nicholas Roy, Joelle Pineau, and Sebastian Thrun
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '00), October, 2000
Task characteristics and intelligent aiding [route-planning tasks]
Terri L. Lenox, Susan K. Hahn, Terence Payne, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '00), Vol. 2, pp. 1123 - 1127, October, 2000
Use of amplitude of echo for environment recognition by mobile robots
Teruko Yata, A. Ohya, and S. Yuta
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 1298 - 1303, October, 2000
Using one bit wave memory for mobile robots' new sonar-ring sensors
Teruko Yata, A. Ohya, and S. Yuta
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '00), Vol. 5, pp. 3562 - 3567, October, 2000
Medical robotics and computer-integrated surgery: information driven systems for 21st-century operating rooms
R. H. Taylor, G. Fichtinger, P. Jensen, and C. Riviere
Journal Article, Journal of Japan Society of Computer Aided Surgery, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 47 - 53, September, 2000
A Group Theoretical Formalization of Contact Motion
Yanxi Liu
Workshop Paper, 2nd International Workshop on Algebraic Frames for the Perception Action Cycle (AFPAC '00), pp. 229 - 240, September, 2000
Evaluation of Computer Vision Algorithms for Autonomous Navigation in Polar Terrains
Nicolas Vandapel, Raja Chatila, Stewart Moorehead, Simon Lacroix, Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '00), pp. 1057 - 1064, September, 2000
Periodic Pattern Analysis Under Affine Distortions Using Wallpaper Groups
Yanxi Liu and Robert Collins
Workshop Paper, 2nd International Workshop on Algebraic Frames for the Perception Action Cycle (AFPAC '00), pp. 241 - 250, September, 2000
A histogram-based method for detection of faces and cars
Henry Schneiderman and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '00), Vol. 3, pp. 504 - 507, September, 2000
A Study of Reinforcement Learning in the Continuous Case by the Means of Viscosity Solutions
Remi Munos
Journal Article, Machine Learning, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 265 - 299, September, 2000
Acquiring hand-action models in task and behavior levels by a learning robot through observing human demonstrations
Koichi Ogawara, Jun Takamatsu, Soshi Iba, Tomikazu Tanuki, Hiroshi Kimura, and Katsushi Ikeuchi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '00), September, 2000
Applications of Linear Programming for Linear Systems Trajectory Generation
Marco La Civita and William Messner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th Mechatronics Forum International Conference, September, 2000
Automatic Detection of Significant Variation from Designed Intent Utilizing Survey Data / CIAMS: Constuction Information and Management System
DeWitt Talmadge Latimer, Ogbemi Hammond, Richard Hallon, Christian T. Stidsen, and Sze-Lok Lam
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th IAARC/IFAC/IEEE International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC '00), pp. 861 - 865, September, 2000
CyberScout: Distributed Agents for Autonomous Reconnaissance and Surveillance
Mahesh Saptharishi, Christopher Diehl, Kiran Bhat, John M. Dolan, and Pradeep Khosla
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th Annual Conference of Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP '00), pp. 93 - 100, September, 2000
Distributed Coverage of Rectilinear Environments
Zack Butler
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-00-23, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2000
EigenFiltering for Flexible Eigentracking
F. De la Torre, J. Vitria, P. Radeva, and J. Melenchon
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR '00), Vol. 3, pp. 1106 - 1109, September, 2000
EventScope: Amplifying Human Knowledge and Experience via Intelligent Robotic Systems and Information Interaction
Peter Coppin, Richard Pell, Michael D. Wagner, John R. Hayes, Junlei Li, Liza Hall, Karl Fischer, David Hirschfield, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Workshop Paper, 9th IEEE International Workshop on Robot-Human Interaction (RO-MAN '00), pp. 292 - 296, September, 2000
Growing Gaussian mixture models for pose invariant face recognition
Ralph Gross, Jie Yang, and Alex Waibel
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR '00), Vol. 1, pp. 1088 - 1091, September, 2000
Incorporation of Audio in Virtualized Reality
Saurabh Gupta, Sundar Vedula, and Takeo Kanade
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-00-22, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2000