Publications




Obstacle detection and safeguarding for a high-speed autonomous hydraulic excavator
Patrick (Chris) Leger, Patrick Rowe, John Bares, Scott Boehmke, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Mobile Robots XIII and Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 3525, pp. 146 - 156, November, 1998
Office Plant #1
Marc Boehlen
Journal Article, Leonardo Special Edition (Catalogue to the Digital Salon), pp. 345 - 349, November, 1998
Omega: On-line Memory-Based General Purpose System Classifier
Kan Deng
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-98-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1998
Optimal Weighting Functions for Feature Detection
Simon Baker and S. K. Nayar
Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '98), pp. 1059 - 1063, November, 1998
The Ascender System: Automated Site Modeling from Multiple Aerial Images
Robert Collins, Chris Jaynes, Yong-Qing Cheng, Xiaoguang Wang, Frank Stolle, Howard Schultz, Edward Riseman, and Allen Hanson
Journal Article, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 72, No. 2, pp. 143 - 162, November, 1998
Toward a General 3-D Matching Engine: Multiple Models, Complex Scenes, and Efficient Data Filtering
Andrew Johnson, Owen Carmichael, Daniel Huber, and Martial Hebert
Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '98), pp. 1097 - 1107, November, 1998
A drowsy driver detection system for heavy vehicles
Richard Grace, V. E. Byrne, D. M. Bierman, J.-M. Legrand, D. Gricourt, B. K. Davis, J. J. Staszewski, and B. Carnahan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th DASC AIAA / IEEE / SAE Digital Avionics Systems Conference, Vol. 2, pp. 1361 - 1368, October, 1998
A Modular Approach to Spoken Language Translation for Large Domains
Monika Woszczyna, Matthew Broadhead, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavalda, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, and Alex Waibel
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA '98), pp. 31 - 49, October, 1998
A Robotic Excavator for Autonomous Truck Loading
Anthony (Tony) Stentz, John Bares, Sanjiv Singh, and Patrick Rowe
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1885 - 1893, October, 1998
An image overlay system for medical data visualization
Mike Blackwell, Constantinos Nikou, Anthony M. Digioia, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI '98), pp. 232 - 240, October, 1998
Detection of Small Obstacles at Long Range Using Multibaseline Stereo
Todd Williamson and Chuck Thorpe
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Vehicles (IV '98), Vol. 1, pp. 311 - 316, October, 1998
Robust execution monitoring for navigation plans
J. L. Fernandez and R. G. Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 551 - 557, October, 1998
Scheduling Multi-Capacitated Resources under Complex Temporal Constraints
A. Cesta, A. Oddi, and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '98), pp. 465, October, 1998
Sensor-Fused Navigation and Manipulation for a Planetary Rover
E. T. Baumgartner, Patrick (Chris) Leger, P. S. Schenker, and T. L. Huntsberger
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems, Vol. 3523, pp. 58 - 66, October, 1998
The lane-curvature method for local obstacle avoidance
Nak Yong Ko and R. G. Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1615 - 1621, October, 1998
A Framework for Programming Embedded Systems: Initial Design and Results
Sebastian Thrun
Tech. Report, CMU-CS-98-142, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1998
A Miniature Mobile Parts Feeder: Operating Principles and Simulation Results
Arthur Quaid
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-98-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1998
A Photo-Realistic 3-D Mapping System for Extreme Nuclear Environments: Chernobyl
Mark Maimone, L. Matthies, James Osborn, Eric Rollins, James Teza, and Scott Thayer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1521 - 1527, October, 1998
A Scenario for Planning Visual Navigation of a Mobile Robot
Alvaro Soto and Illah Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '98 Fall Symposium, October, 1998
A Task Description Language for Robot Control
Reid Simmons and D. Apfelbaum
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1931 - 1937, October, 1998
Adaptation of Pronunciation Dictionaries for Recognition of Unseen Languages
Tanja Schultz and Alex Waibel
Workshop Paper, SPECOM '98 Workshop on Speech and Communication, pp. 207 - 210, October, 1998
An image guided navigation system to intraoperatively measure acetabular implant alignment
Anthony M. Digioia, Branislav Jaramaz, and Mike Blackwell
Journal Article, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Vol. 355, pp. 8 - 22, October, 1998
Analysis of actuation and dynamic balancing for a single-wheel robot
Yangsheng Xu, Kwok Wai Au, G. C. Nandy, and H. Benjamin Brown
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1789 -1794, October, 1998
Bayesian Landmark Learning for Mobile Robot Localization
Sebastian Thrun
Journal Article, Machine Learning, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 41 - 76, October, 1998
CCR: A Complete Algorithm for Contact-Sensor Based Coverage of Rectilinear Environments
Zack Butler
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-98-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1998
Dynamic aggregation with circular visual designs
Mei Chuah
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS '98), pp. 35 - 43, October, 1998
Fast Software Image Stabilization with Color Registration
C. Guestrin, Fabio Cozman, and Eric Krotkov
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 19 - 24, October, 1998
Higher Order Generalization
Jianguo Lu, M. Harao, and M. Hagiya
Workshop Paper, JELIA '98 European Workshop on Logics in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 368 - 381, October, 1998
Hydraulic System Modeling through Memory-based Learning
Murali Krishna and John Bares
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1733 - 1738, October, 1998
Interoperability among Heterogeneous Software Agents on the Internet
Katia Sycara, Jianguo Lu, and Matthias Klusch
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-98-22, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1998
Jacobian Images of Super-Resolved Texture Maps for Model-Based Motion Estimation and Tracking
Frank Dellaert, Sebastian Thrun, and Chuck Thorpe
Workshop Paper, 4th IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '98), pp. 2 - 7, October, 1998
Laser Intensity-Based Obstacle Detection
John Hancock, Martial Hebert, and Chuck Thorpe
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1541 - 1546, October, 1998
Miniature Factories: Tabletop Assembly Systems for Mechatronic Products
Ralph Hollis and Jay Gowdy
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IARP Micro Robots and Systems Conference, October, 1998
Modeling and Identification of Soil-tool Interaction in Automated Excavation
O. Luengo, Sanjiv Singh, and Howard Cannon
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1900 - 1906, October, 1998
Modular Optimization for Robotic Explorers
Kimberly Shillcutt and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '98 Fall Symposium on Integrated Planning for Autonomous Agent Architectures, October, 1998
Moving target classification and tracking from real-time video
Alan Lipton, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, and Raju Patil
Workshop Paper, 4th IEEE Workshop on Application of Computer Vision (WACV '98), pp. 8 - 14, October, 1998
Non-invasive Imaging of Living Human Skin with Dual-wavelength Optical Coherence Tomography in Two and Three Dimensions
Yingtian Pan and Daniel Farkas
Journal Article, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 446 - 455, October, 1998
Omni-directional Visual Servoing for Human-Robot interaction
Peng Chang and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1801 - 1807, October, 1998
Predicting Lane Position for Roadway Departure Prevention
Parag Batavia, Dean Pomerleau, and Chuck Thorpe
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '98), pp. 245 - 251, October, 1998
Real-time Human Motion Analysis by Image Skeletonization
Hironobu Fujiyoshi and Alan Lipton
Workshop Paper, 4th IEEE Workshop on Application of Computer Vision (WACV '98), pp. 15 - 21, October, 1998
Reduced-dimension representations of human performance data for human-to-robot skill transfer
Christopher Lee and Yangsheng Xu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1956 - 1961, October, 1998
Robust control of cooperative underactuated manipulators
Marcel Bergerman, Yangsheng Xu, and Y.-H. Liu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 443 - 448, October, 1998
Saying It In Graphics: from Intentions to Visualizations
Stefan Kerpedjiev, Giuseppe Carenini, Nancy Green, Johanna Moore, and Steven F. Roth
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS '98), pp. 97 - 101, October, 1998
Simplifying Surfaces with Color and Texture using Quadric Error Metrics
Michael Garland and Paul Heckbert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS '98), pp. 263 - 269, October, 1998
Solid-State Six Degree of Freedom, Motion Sensor for Field Robotic Applications
A. M. Madni, Deepak Bapna, Paul Levin, and Eric Krotkov
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1389 - 1398, October, 1998
Super-Resolved Texture Tracking of Planar Surface Patches
Frank Dellaert, Chuck Thorpe, and Sebastian Thrun
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 197 - 203, October, 1998
Temporal Photoreception for Adaptive Dynamic Range Image Sensing and Encoding
Vladimir Brajovic, Ryohei Miyagawa, and Takeo Kanade
Journal Article, Neural Networks, Vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 1149 - 1158, October, 1998
The Carnegie Mellon TruckSim: a tool to improve driving safety
Richard Grace, A. Guzman, J. Staszewski, B. A. Peters, M. Mallis, and D. F. Dinges
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th AIAA/IEEE/SAE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC '98), October, 1998
Unconstrained Registration of Large 3D Point Sets for Complex Model Building
Owen Carmichael and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 360 - 367, October, 1998
Automated Learning and Discovery: State-Of-The-Art and Research Topics in a Rapidly Growing Field
Sebastian Thrun, C. Faloutsos, Tom Mitchell, and L. Wasserman
Tech. Report, CMU-CALD-98-100, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1998