Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Cooperation of Multiple Manipulators with Passive Joints

Yanxi Liu and Yangsheng Xu

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1478 - 1483, April, 1997

Dynamically Equivalent Manipulator for Space Manipulator Systems: Part 1

Bin Liang, Yangsheng Xu, and Marcel Bergerman

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 2765 - 2770, April, 1997

Error-Responsive Feedback Mechanisms for Speech Recognizers

Lin Chase

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1997

Evolving an Intelligent Vehicle for Tactical Reasoning in Traffic

Rahul Sukthankar, Shumeet Baluja, and John Hancock

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 519 - 524, April, 1997

Force Characterization and Commutation of Planar Linear Motors

Arthur Quaid, Yangsheng Xu, and Ralph Hollis

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1202 - 1207, April, 1997

Indexing and Search of Multimodal Information

Alex Hauptmann and Howard Wactlar

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '97), Vol. 1, pp. 195 - 198, April, 1997

Integrating Force and Vision Feedback Within Virtual Environments for Telerobotic Systems

Bradley Nelson and Pradeep Khosla

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1588 -1593, April, 1997

Manipulation Task Primitives for Composing Robot Skills

James Morrow and Pradeep Khosla

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3354 - 3359, April, 1997

Mechanics for Vibratory Manipulation

Wesley Huang and Matthew T. Mason

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2391 - 2396, April, 1997

Modular Precision Assembly Systems

Ralph Hollis

Journal Article, SPIE Newsletter, April, 1997

Natural Terrain Hazard Detection with a Laser Rangefinder

Lars Henriksen and Eric Krotkov

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 968 - 973, April, 1997

Nonprehensile Manipulation for Orienting Parts in the Plane

Nina Zumel and Michael Erdmann

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2433 - 2439, April, 1997

On the Parameter Estimation Accuracy of Model-Matching Feature Detectors

Simon Baker

Miscellaneous, April, 1997

Optimal Stereo Mast Configuration for Mobile Robots

Wesley Huang and Eric Krotkov

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 1946 - 1951, April, 1997

Parcel Manipulation and Dynamics with a Distributed Actuator Array: The Virtual Vehicle

Jonathan E. Luntz, William Messner, and Howie Choset

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1541 - 1546, April, 1997

Planning Collision-Free Motions for Underactuated Manipulators in Constrained Configuration Space

Marcel Bergerman and Yangsheng Xu

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 549 - 555, April, 1997

Sensor Based Planning for a Planar Rod Robot: Incremental Construction of the Planar Rod-HGVG

Howie Choset, Brian Mirtich, and Joel Burdick

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3427 - 3434, April, 1997

Sensorless Parts Orienting with a One Joint Manipulator

Srinivas Akella, Wesley Huang, Kevin Lynch, and Matthew T. Mason

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2383 - 2390, April, 1997

Michael Nechyba and Yangsheng Xu

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 278-283, April, 1997

Subvoxel model-based 3D segmentation using implicit snakes

Eric Bainville

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1997

Talk Without Introductory Remarks

Takeo Kanade

Miscellaneous, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 30 - 31, April, 1997

Tethering System Design for Dante II

Murali Krishna, John Bares, and Edward Mutschler

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1100 - 1105, April, 1997

The Global Phone Project: Multilingual LVCSR With JANUS-3

Tanja Schultz, Martin Westphal, and Alex Waibel

Workshop Paper, 2nd SQEL Workshop: Multilingual Information Retrieval Dialogs, pp. 20 - 27, April, 1997

Tropism-Based Cognition for the Interpretation of Context-Dependent Gestures

Richard Voyles, Arvin Agah, Pradeep Khosla, and George A. Bekey

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3481 - 3486, April, 1997

A Comparison of Japanese and American University Research Environments

Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, Science & Technology Journal, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 26 - 27, March, 1997

A paraperspective factorization method for shape and motion recovery

C. J. Poelman and Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern and Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 206 - 218, March, 1997

An Ontology for Constructing Scheduling Systems

Stephen Smith and Marcel Becker

Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '97 Spring Symposium on Ontological Engineering, pp. 120 - 129, March, 1997

Automated tuning of a neural network for localization of a mobile robot

A. Dubrawski

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Automation Conference (Automation '97), pp. 601 - 608, March, 1997

Challenges for a mixed initiative spoken dialog system for oral reading tutoring

Gregory Aist

Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '97 Spring Symposium on Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction, pp. 1 - 6, March, 1997

Development and Validation of a Navigational Guidance System for Acetabular Implant Placement

David Simon, Branislav Jaramaz, Mike Blackwell, Fritz Morgan, Anthony M. Digioia, Eric Kischell, Bruce Colgan, and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, pp. 583 - 592, March, 1997

Development of a Video-Rate Stereo Machine

Takeo Kanade, Hiroshi Kano, Shigeru Kimura, Eiji Kawamura, Atsushi Yoshida, and Kazuo Oda

Journal Article, Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 261 - 267, March, 1997

Distributed MEMS: New Challenges for Computation

A. Berlin and Kaigham Gabriel

Journal Article, IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 12 - 16, March, 1997

Empirical Studies in Discourse

M. A. Walker and Johanna Moore

Journal Article, Computational Linguistics, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 1 - 12, March, 1997

Experience with Rule Induction and k-Nearest Neighbour Methods for Interface Agents that Learn

Terence Payne, Peter Edwards, and Claire L. Green

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 329 - 335, March, 1997

Final Report For The Second International Workshop On Robotics And Computer Assisted Medical Interventions

Anthony M. Digioia, Takeo Kanade, and Peter Wells

Journal Article, Computer Aided Surgery, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 69 - 101, March, 1997

Frameworks For Evaluating Accuracy In CAOS

David Simon

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st Joint CVRMed/MRCAS Conference, pp. 195 - 197, March, 1997

Geometric Constraint Analysis and Synthesis: Methods for Improving Shape-Based Registration Accuracy

David Simon and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, pp. 181 - 190, March, 1997

Glyphs for software visualization

Mei Chuah and S. G. Eick

Workshop Paper, 5th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, pp. 183 - 191, March, 1997

Looking out, looking in

Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, Economist, March, 1997

Object shape morphing with intermediate reflectance properties

Yoichi Sato, I. Sato, and Katsushi Ikeuchi

Journal Article, International Journal of Shape Modeling, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 91 - 106, March, 1997

On the Adequacy of Projective Camera Models

Robert Collins

Journal Article, Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: Image Understanding, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 434 - 435, March, 1997

Partitioned Dynamics

David Baraff and Andrew Witkin

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1997

Processes overview

Lee Weiss

Journal Article, JTEC/WTEC panel report on rapid prototyping in Europe and Japan, Vol. 1, March, 1997

Prototyping Intelligent Vehicle Modules Using Evolutionary Algorithms

Shumeet Baluja, Rahul Sukthankar, and John Hancock

Book Section/Chapter, Evolutionary Algorithms in Engineering Applications, pp. 241 - 257, March, 1997

Range Of Motion After Total Hip Arthroplasty: Experimental Verification of the Analytical Simulator

Branislav Jaramaz, Constantinos Nikou, David Simon, and Anthony M. Digioia

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st Joint CVRMed/MRCAS Conference, pp. 573 - 582, March, 1997

Simulating Arthroscopic Knee Surgery Using Volumetric Object Representations, Real-Time Volume Rendering and Haptic Feedback

S. Gibson, J. Samosky, and Andrew Mor

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st Joint CVRMed/MRCAS Conference, pp. 369 - 378, March, 1997

Spotting by Association in News Video

Yuichi Nakamura and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '97 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Integration and Use of Text, Image, Video, and Audio Corpora, pp. 113 - 119, March, 1997

The 1996 AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition

David Kortenkamp, Illah Nourbakhsh, and David Hinkle

Magazine Article, AI Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 25 - 32, March, 1997

The Dynamic Window Approach to Collision Avoidance

Dieter Fox, W. Burgard, and Sebastian Thrun

Magazine Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 23 - 33, March, 1997

To Know or not to Know, 1997: The Role of Models in Mobile Robotics

Sebastian Thrun

Journal Article, AI Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 1, March, 1997