Publications




Field Experiments with the Ames Marsokhod Rover
Daniel A. Christian, David Wettergreen, Maria Bualat, Kurt Schwehr, Deanne Tucker, and Eric Zbinden
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '97), pp. 96 - 103, December, 1997
Geometric and Dynamic Sensing: Observation of Pose and Motion through Contact
Yan-Bin Jia
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-50, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1997
Incorporating Spatial Representations at Multiple Levels of Abstraction in a Replicated Multilayered Architecture for Robot Control
Alberto Elfes
Book Section/Chapter, Intelligent Robots: Sensing, Modelling, and Planning, pp. 249 - 266, December, 1997
Learning and transfer of human real-time control strategy
Michael Nechyba and Yangsheng Xu
Journal Article, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 137 - 154, December, 1997
Lessons from the Development and Deployment of Dante II
John Bares and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '97), pp. 74 - 81, December, 1997
Limbless Locomotion: Learning to Crawl with a Snake Robot
Kevin Dowling
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-48, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1997
Mission Failure Probability Calculations for Critical Function Mechanizations in the Automated Highway System
Eushiuan Tran and Philip Koopman
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-44, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1997
Mobile Robots and Smart Cars
Chuck Thorpe
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '97), pp. 1 - 5, December, 1997
Modeling and Interpreting Multimodal Inputs: A Semantic Integration Approach
Minh Tue Vo and Alex Waibel
Tech. Report, CMU-CS-97-192, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, No. CMU-CS-97-192, December, 1997
Operating Nomad during the Atacama Desert Trek
David Wettergreen, Maria Bualat, Daniel A. Christian, Kurt Schwehr, Hans Thomas, Deanne Tucker, and Eric Zbinden
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '97), pp. 82 - 89, December, 1997
Rotation Invariant Neural Network-Based Face Detection
Henry Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, and Takeo Kanade
Tech. Report, CMU-CS-97-201, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1997
Shaping robot behavior using principles from instrumental conditioning
Lisa Saksida, S. M. Raymond, and David S. Touretzky
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 231 - 249, December, 1997
Simulation Study of Multiple Intelligent Vehicle Control using Stochastic Learning Automata
Cem Unsal, P. Kachroo, and J. S. Bay
Journal Article, Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation International: Special Issue on simulation methodology in transportation systems, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 193 - 210, December, 1997
Synergy: A Language and Framework for Robot Design
Lalitesh Katragadda
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-98-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1997
Towards gesture-based programming: Shape from motion primordial learning of sensorimotor primitives
Richard Voyles, James Morrow, and Pradeep Khosla
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 361 - 375, December, 1997
View-Invariant Analysis of Cyclic Motion
Steven Seitz and Charles Dyer
Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 231 - 251, December, 1997
Xavier: Experience with a Layered Robot Architecture
Reid Simmons, R. Goodwin, K. Haigh, S. Koenig, Joseph O'Sullivan, and Manuela Veloso
Journal Article, ACM SIGART Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 22 - 33, December, 1997
Accessing Video Contents: Cooperative Approach between Image and Natural Language Processing
Takeo Kanade, S. Satoh, and Y. Nakamura
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Research, Development and Practice in Digital Libraries (ISDL '97), pp. 143 - 150, November, 1997
An Ontology for Multi-Modal Transportation Planning and Scheduling
Marcel Becker and Stephen Smith
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-98-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1997
Anomaly detection through registration
Mei Chen, Takeo Kanade, Dean Pomerleau, and Henry Rowley
Workshop Paper, NASA Image Registration Workshop, November, 1997
Anomaly Detection through Registration
Mei Chen, Takeo Kanade, Henry Rowley, and Dean Pomerleau
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-41, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1997
Asynchronous Teams (A-Teams) and the A-Teams Toolkit: An Agent-Based Problem-Solving Architecture and Software Framework
Philip Chang, John M. Dolan, James Hemmerle, Michael Terk, and Sarosh Talukdar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering Conference (ANNiE '97), Vol. 7, pp. 73 - 78, November, 1997
Designing and Prototyping Interactive Fluid Dynamics Exhibits for the Carnegie Science Center: An Undergraduate Team Project Experience
Susan Finger and C. Amon
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th Annual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference: Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change (FIE '97), Vol. 1, pp. 366 - 370, November, 1997
Discovering Landmarks and Learning Models for Mobile Robot Navigation
Sebastian Thrun
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '97 Fall Symposium on Model-directed Autonomous Systems, November, 1997
Experiments in Spoken Document Retrieval at CMU
Matthew Siegler, Michael Witbrock, Sean Slattery, Kristie Seymore, Rosie Jones, and Alex Hauptmann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC '97), pp. 291 - 302, November, 1997
Face-Direction Estimating System Using Stereo Vision
T. Minagawa, Hideo Saito, and S. Ozawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd Annual International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation (IECON '97), pp. 1454 - 1459, November, 1997
Image Stabilization for Feature Tracking and Generation of Stable Video Overlays
Carlos Guestrin, Fabio Cozman, and Eric Krotkov
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-42, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1997
Integrated MEMS in Conventional CMOS
Gary K. Fedder
Workshop Paper, NSF/AFOSR/ASME Workshop on Tribology Issues and Opportunities in MEMS, pp. 17 - 29, November, 1997
Integrating Radar and Carrier Phase GPS for Classifying Roadway Obstacles
Dirk Langer and Bala Kumar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '97), pp. 835 - 840, November, 1997
Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents
Keith Decker and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 239 - 260, November, 1997
Kinematics of Objects in Contact using Dual Vectors and its Applications
George Paul
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1997
Learning To Learn
Sebastian Thrun and L. Pratt
Book, November, 1997
Low-latency photonic network using ultrashort-pulse transmission and time-domain processing
Andreas Nowatzyk
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Multimedia Networks: Security, Displays, Terminals and Gateways, Vol. 3228, pp. 366, November, 1997
Measurement of Reflecting Direction from the Center Frequency of the Echo in Ultrasonic Sensing
Teruko Yata and S. Yuta
Journal Article, Advanced Robotics, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 269 - 283, November, 1997
Media-independent Communicative Actions in Integrated Text and Graphics Generation
Nancy Green, Stefan Kerpedjiev, Steven F. Roth, Giuseppe Carenini, and Johanna Moore
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '97 Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, November, 1997
Mobile Robot Obstacle Avoidance via Depth from Focus
Illah Nourbakhsh, David Andre, Carlo Tomasi, and Michael Genesereth
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 151 - 158, November, 1997
Nodal Simulation of Suspended MEMS With Multiple Degrees of Freedom
Jan E. Vandemeer, Michael S. Kranz, and Gary K. Fedder
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th Symposium on Microelectromechanical Systems: ASME Winter Annual Meeting (IMECE '97), pp. 16 - 21, November, 1997
Overtaking Vehicle Detection Using Implicit Optical Flow
Parag Batavia, Dean Pomerleau, and Chuck Thorpe
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC ''97), pp. 729 - 734, November, 1997
Semantic Analysis for Video Contents Extraction - Spotting by Association in News Video
Yuichi Nakamura and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (Multimedia '97), pp. 393 - 401, November, 1997
Simulation Study of Learning Automata Games in Automated Highway Systems
Cem Unsal, P. Kachroo, and J. S. Bay
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '97), pp. 936 - 941, November, 1997
Tensegrity Prisms as Adaptive Structures
I. J. Oppenheim and W. O. Williams
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition: Adaptive Structures and Material Systems, pp. 113 - 120, November, 1997
The 1997 Automated Highway Free Agent Demonstration
Chuck Thorpe, Todd Jochem, and Dean Pomerleau
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '97), pp. 496 - 501, November, 1997
The future of computing technology
Raj Reddy
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference: Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change (FIE '97), Vol. 1, November, 1997
Visibility Estimation from a Moving Vehicle Using the RALPH Vision System
Dean Pomerleau
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '97), pp. 906 - 911, November, 1997
A cellular neural network for mobile robot self-localization
B. Siemiatkowska and A. Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd National Conference on Neural Networks and their Applications, October, 1997
Active Mobile Robot Localization by Entropy Minimization
W. Burgard, Dieter Fox, and Sebastian Thrun
Workshop Paper, 2nd EUROMICRO Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots, pp. 155 - 162, October, 1997
Application of a model of instrumental conditioning to mobile robot control
Lisa Saksida and David S. Touretzky
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 3209, pp. 55 - 66, October, 1997
Dynamic Performance of a Magnetic Levitation Haptic Device
Peter Berkelman and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, Vol. 3206, pp. 140 - 149, October, 1997
High-performance laser range scanner
John Hancock, E. Hoffman, R. Sullivan, D. Ingimarson, Dirk Langer, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 3207, pp. 40 - 49, October, 1997
JAVA Front-end for Web-based Multimodal Human-computer Interaction
Xing Jing, Jie Yang, Minh Tue Vo, and Alex Waibel
Workshop Paper, Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI '97), October, 1997