Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Fractal Modeling of Natural Terrain: Analysis and Surface Reconstruction with Range Data

Kenichi Arakawa and Eric Krotkov

Journal Article, Graphical Models and Image Processing, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 413 - 436, September, 1996

Fusing Radar and Vision for Detecting, Classifying and Avoiding Roadway Obstacles

Dirk Langer and Todd Jochem

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles (IV '96), pp. 333 - 338, September, 1996

Informedia: CMU Digital Video Library Project

Takeo Kanade and Shin'ichi Satoh

Journal Article, Journal of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol. 37, No. 9, pp. 841 - 847, September, 1996

Limiting Cases of Impulsive Manipulation

Wesley Huang and Matthew T. Mason

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-96-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1996

Mapping a Space Manipulator to a Dynamically Equivalent Manipulator

Bin Liang, Yangsheng Xu, and Marcel Bergerman

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-96-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1996

Reflectance analysis for 3D computer graphics model generation

Yoichi Sato and Katsushi Ikeuchi

Journal Article, Graphical Models and Image Processing, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 437 - 451, September, 1996

Robot Spatial Perception by Stereoscopic Vision and 3D Evidence Grids

Hans Moravec

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-96-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1996

Robotic Manipulation Using High Bandwidth Force and Vision Feedback

Bradley Nelson and Pradeep Khosla

Journal Article, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 11 - 29, September, 1996

Robust joint and Cartesian control of under-actuated manipulator systems

Marcel Bergerman and Yangsheng Xu

Journal Article, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 118, No. 3, pp. 557 - 565, September, 1996

Theory of rodent navigation based on interacting representations of space

David S. Touretzky and A. D. Redish

Journal Article, Hippocampus, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 247 - 270, September, 1996

Vision Based Intersection Navigation

Todd Jochem, Dean Pomerleau, and Chuck Thorpe

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles (IV '96), pp. 391 - 396, September, 1996

A Machine Learning Architecture for Optimizing Web Search Engines

Justin Boyan, D. Freitag, and T. Joachims

Workshop Paper, AAAI '96 Workshop on Internet-Based Information Systems, August, 1996

Adaptive Intelligent Vehicle Modules for Tactical Driving

Rahul Sukthankar, John Hancock, Shumeet Baluja, Dean Pomerleau, and Chuck Thorpe

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 8th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI '96/IAAI '96), pp. 13 - 22, August, 1996

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Reid Simmons, Sebastian Thrun, Greg Armstrong, R. Goodwin, K. Haigh, S. Koenig, Shyjan Mahamud, Daniel Nikovski, and Joseph O'Sullivan

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 8th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI '96/IAAI '96): Robot Competition & Exhibition Abstracts, pp. 1358, August, 1996

Cloning for Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents

K. Decker, Katia Sycara, and M. Williamson

Workshop Paper, 2nd Australian Workshop on Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI '96): Multi-Agent Systems Methodologies and Applications, pp. 63 - 75, August, 1996

Designing a Multi-Agent Portfolio Management System

Katia Sycara, K. Decker, and Dajun Zeng

Workshop Paper, AAAI '96 Workshop on Internet Information Systems, pp. 26 - 34, August, 1996

Designing Stereo Heads Using Task Domain Constraints

Scott Thayer and Christopher S. Gourley

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR '96), pp. 820 - 824, August, 1996

Easy and Hard Testbeds for Real-Time Search Algorithms

Sven Koenig and Reid Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 8th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI '96/IAAI '96), pp. 279 - 285, August, 1996

End-to-end Evaluation in JANUS: A Speech-to-speech Translation System

Donna Gates, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin, Alex Waibel, Marsal Gavalda, Monika Woszczyna, and Puming Zhan

Workshop Paper, ECAI '96 Workshop on Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems (DPSLS '96), pp. 195 - 206, August, 1996

FEASPAR : A Feature Structure Parser Learning to Parse Spoken Language

Finn Dag Buo and Alex Waibel

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '96), pp. 188 - 193, August, 1996

How Does an Agent Learn to Negotiate?

Dajun Zeng and Katia Sycara

Workshop Paper, ECAI '96 Workshop on Intelligent Agents III, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL '96), pp. 233 - 244, August, 1996

Integrating Grid-Based and Topological Maps for Mobile Robot Navigation

Sebastian Thrun and A. Buecken

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 8th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI '96/IAAI '96), pp. 944 – 950, August, 1996

Laser Deposition of Metals for Shape Deposition Manufacturing

J. R. Fessler, R. Merz, A. H. Nickel, Fritz B. Prinz, and Lee Weiss

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, August, 1996

Learning Topological Maps: An Alternative Approach

A. Buecken and Sebastian Thrun

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 8th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI '96/IAAI '96), pp. 1380, August, 1996

Linear-time dynamics using Lagrange multipliers

David Baraff

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH '96), pp. 137 - 146, August, 1996

Multi-Agent Integration of Information Gathering and Decision Support

Katia Sycara and Dajun Zeng

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '96), pp. 549 - 553, August, 1996

Multi-lingual Translation of Spontaneously Spoken Language in a Limited Domain

Alon Lavie, Donna Gates, Marsal Gavalda, Alex Waibel, and Lori Levin

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '96), pp. 442 - 447, August, 1996

Search in a Learnable Spoken Language Parser

Finn Dag Buo and Alex Waibel

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '96), pp. 562 - 566, August, 1996

Shape Deposition Manufacturing of Wearable Computers

Lee Weiss, Eugene Neplotnik, Fritz B. Prinz, Lawrence Schultz, P Padmanabhan, R. Krishnan, and R. Merz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, August, 1996

Toward Image-Based Scene Representation Using View Morphing

Steven Seitz and C. R. Dyer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR '96), pp. 84 - 89, August, 1996

Using virtual node generation to speed up sheet metal bending operation planning

Satyandra Gupta and David Bourne

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference (DETC '96), August, 1996

View Morphing

Steven Seitz and Charles Dyer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH '96), pp. 21 - 30, August, 1996

A Blackboard Architecture for Integrated Process Planning and Production Scheduling

T. J. Laliberty, David W. Hildum, Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, J. McA'Nulty, Dag Kjenstad, and Stephen Smith

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME Design for Manufacturing Conference (DETC/DFM '96), August, 1996

A Kernel-oriented model for autonomous-agent coalition-formation in general environments: implementation and results

Onn Shehory and S. Kraus

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 8th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI '96/IAAI '96), pp. 134 - 140, August, 1996

A Monte-Carlo Algorithm for Extended Constraint-Posting Scheduling Search

A. Oddi and Stephen Smith

Workshop Paper, Italian Planning Workshop, August, 1996

A Survey of Automation in Excavation

Sanjiv Singh

Journal Article, Journal of the Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan, Vol. 112, No. 8, pp. 497 - 504, August, 1996

Algorithms for Pattern Rejection

Simon Baker and S. K. Nayar

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR '96), pp. 869 - 874, August, 1996

An Agent-Based Approach to the Design of Rapidly Deployable Fault Tolerant Manipulators

Chris Paredis

Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1996

An Autonomous Vision-Guided Helicopter

Omead Amidi

Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1996

Analysis and synthesis of the sounds of impact based on shape-invariant properties of materials

Eric Krotkov, Roberta Klatzky, and Nina Zumel

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR '96), pp. 115 - 119, August, 1996

BOA: Pipe Asbestos Insulation Abatement Robot System

Hagen Schempf

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management (SPECTRUM '96), August, 1996

Compact 2D Pattern Development from 3D Polygonal Surfaces

Cheng-Hua Wang and David Bourne

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference (DETC '96), August, 1996

Cooperative goal-satisfaction without communication in large-scale agent-systems

Onn Shehory and S. Kraus

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '96), pp. 544 - 548, August, 1996

Geometric Sensing of Known Planar Shapes

Yan-Bin Jia and Michael Erdmann

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 365 - 392, August, 1996

Human Hand Tracking from Binocular Image Sequences

Kenichi Nirei, Hideo Saito, Masaaki Mochimaru, and S. Ozawa

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 22th International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control, and Instrumentation (IECON '96), pp. 297 - 302, August, 1996

Intelligent Adaptive Information Agents

Katia Sycara, K. Decker, and M. Williamson

Workshop Paper, AAAI '96 Intelligent Adaptive Agents Workshop, pp. 117 - 126, August, 1996

Laser Ranger based Hazard Detection

Lars Henriksen

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-96-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1996

Mesh Generation Using Relaxation in Warped Space

Paul Heckbert and Frank Bossen

Conference Paper, Proceedings of FIAT LUX '96, August, 1996

Modeling Ill-Structured Optimization Tasks through Cases

K. Miyashita, Katia Sycara, and R. Mizoguchi

Journal Article, Decision Support Systems, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 345 - 364, August, 1996