Publications




Communications Coverage in Unknown Underground Environments
Michael Tatum
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-19, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2020
Autonomous aerial cinematography in unstructured environments with learned artistic decision‐making
Rogerio Bonatti, Wenshan Wang, Cherie Ho, Aayush Ahuja, Mirko Gschwindt, Efe Camci, Erdal Kayacan, Sanjiban Choudhury, and Sebastian Scherer
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 606 - 641, June, 2020
Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Robotics
F. Bonsignorio, D. Hsu, M. Johnson-Roberson, and J. Kober
Magazine Article, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 20 - 21, June, 2020
Influence of Culture, Transparency, Trust, and Degree of Automation on Automation Use
Shih-Yi Chien, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, Asiye Kumru, and Jyi-Shane Liu
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 205 - 214, June, 2020
Machine learning for soft robotic sensing and control
Keene Chin, Tess Hellebrekers, and Carmel Majidi
Journal Article, Advanced Intelligent Systems: Special Issue: Soft Robotics, Vol. 2, No. 6, June, 2020
Membrane-peeling with a handheld tremor-cancelling robotic device for vitreoretinal surgery
Jennifer Adeghate, Yuqiao Han, Arpita Routray, Cameron Riviere, and Joseph Martel
Journal Article, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science: ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract, Vol. 61, No. 7, pp. 3727, June, 2020
Models of Trust in Human Control of Swarms with Varied Levels of Autonomy
Changjoo Nam, Phillip Walker, Huao Li, Michael Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Vol. 50, No. 3, pp. 194 - 204, June, 2020
Soft actuators using liquid crystal elastomers with encapsulated liquid metal joule heaters
Teresa A. Kent, Michael Joseph Ford, Eric J. Markvicka, and Carmel Majidi
Journal Article, Multifunctional Materials, Vol. 3, No. 2, June, 2020
Unsupervised Pedestrian Pose Prediction - A deep predictive coding network based approach for autonomous vehicle perception
X. Du, R. Vasudevan, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Magazine Article, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 129 - 138, June, 2020
Behavior Mixing with Minimum Global and Subgroup Connectivity Maintenance for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Systems
Wenhao Luo, Sha Yi, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 9845 - 9851, May, 2020
Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation from a Single Image
Timothy E. Lee, Jonathan Tremblay, Thang To, Jia Cheng, Terry Mosier, Oliver Kroemer, Dieter Fox, and Stan Birchfield
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 9426 - 9432, May, 2020
CNN-based Simultaneous Dehazing and Depth Estimation
Byeong-Uk Lee, Kyunghyun Lee, Jean Oh, and In So Kweon
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 9722 - 9728, May, 2020
FG-GMM-Based Interactive Behavior Estimation for Autonomous Driving Vehicles in Ramp Merging Control
Yiwei Lyu, Chiyu Dong, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1250 - 1255, May, 2020
Hierarchical Coverage Path Planning in Complex 3D Environments
Chao Cao, Ji Zhang, Matthew Travers, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3206 - 3212, May, 2020
Human Driver Behavior Prediction Based on UrbanFlow
Zhiqian Qiao, Jing Zhao, Jin Zhu, Zachariah Tyree, Priyantha Mudalige, Jeff Schneider, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 10570 - 10576, May, 2020
In-Hand Object Pose Tracking via Contact Feedback and GPU-Accelerated Robotic Simulation
Jacky Liang, Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk, Viktor Makoviychuk, Oliver Kroemer, and Dieter Fox
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6203 - 6209, May, 2020
Intensity Scan Context: Coding Intensity and Geometry Relations for Loop Closure Detection
Han Wang, Chen Wang, and Lihua Xie
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2095 - 2101, May, 2020
A Comprehensive Study of Unsupervised Classification Techniques for Hyperspectral Datasets
Himanshi Yadav
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
Bitwise Trajectory Elimination: An Efficient Method for Filtering Trajectory Libraries for Quadrotor Navigation
Vaibhav K. Viswanathan
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
Hierarchical Gaussian Distributions for Real-Time SLAM
Aditya Nandakumar Dhawale
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
How Smart Do You Have To Be? Using Random Search To Solve Puzzles
Robert Li
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
Online Connectivity-aware Dynamic Distribution for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot
Chendi Lin
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
Visual-Inertial Source Localization for Co-Robot Rendezvous
Xi Sun
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
DeepBLE: Generalizing RSSI-based Localization Across Different Devices
Harsh Agarwal
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
Grounding Abstract Concepts Through Robotic Manipulatives
Samantha Speer
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
Multi-hypothesis Incremental Smoothing and Mapping for Ambiguity-aware Passive and Active SLAM
Ming Hsiao
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
Hybrid Soft Sensing in Robotic Systems
Tess Hellebrekers
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
Evolutionary Population Curriculum for Scaling Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Qian Long
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2020
MGpi: A Computational Model of Multiagent Group Perception and Interaction
Navyata Sanghvi, Ryo Yonetani, and Kris Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '20), pp. 1196 - 1205, May, 2020
A Fast and Accurate Solution for Pose Estimation from 3D Correspondences
Lipu Zhou, Shengze Wang, and Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1308 - 1314, May, 2020
A Generative Approach for Socially Compliant Navigation
Chieh-En Tsai and Jean Oh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2160 - 2166, May, 2020
A Volumetric Albedo Framework for 3D Imaging Sonar Reconstruction
Eric Westman, Ioannis Gkioulekas, and Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 9645 - 9651, May, 2020
Assistive Gym: A Physics Simulation Framework for Assistive Robotics
Zackory Erickson, Vamsee Gangaram, Ariel Kapusta, C. Karen Liu, and Charles C. Kemp
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 10169 - 10176, May, 2020
BiGAN: Collaborative Filtering with Bidirectional Generative Adversarial Networks
Rui Ding, Guibing Guo, Xiaochun Yan, Bowei Chen, Zhirong Liu, and Xiuqiang He
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM '20), pp. 82 - 90, May, 2020
Contact Localization for Transparent Robots using Velocity Constraints
Sean J. Wang, Ankit Bhatia, Matthew T. Mason, and Aaron M. Johnson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Dynamic Walking '20, May, 2020
Cooperative Perception and Localization for Cooperative Driving
Aaron Miller, Kyungzun Rim, Parth Chopra, Paritosh Kelkar, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1256 - 1262, May, 2020
Deep-Learning Assisted High-Resolution Binocular Stereo Depth Reconstruction
Yaoyu Hu, Weikun Zhen, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 8637 - 8643, May, 2020
Detecting Execution Anomalies As an Oracle for Autonomy Software Robustness
Deborah S. Katz, Casidhe Hutchison, Milda Zizyte, and Claire Le Goues
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 9366 - 9373, May, 2020
DexPilot: Vision-Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm System
Ankur Handa, Karl Van Wyk, Wei Yang, Jacky Liang, Yu-Wei Chao, Qian Wan, Stan Birchfield, Nathan D. Ratliff, and Dieter Fox
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 9164 - 9170, May, 2020
Driving in Dense Traffic with Model-Free Reinforcement Learning
Dhruv Mauria Saxena, Sangjae Bae, Alireza Nakhaei, Kikuo Fujimura, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5385 - 5392, May, 2020
Electromechanical characterization of 3D printable conductive elastomer for soft robotics
Suhan Kim, Sukjun Kim, Houriyeh Majditehran, Dinesh K. Patel, Carmel Majidi, and Sarah Bergbreiter
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft '20), pp. 318 - 324, May, 2020
ICS: Incremental Constrained Smoothing for State Estimation
Paloma Sodhi, Sanjiban Choudhury, Joshua G. Mangelson, and Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 279 - 285, May, 2020
Incremental shape and pose estimation from planar pushing using contact implicit surfaces
Sudharshan Suresh, Joshua G. Mangelson, and Michael Kaess
Workshop Paper, ICRA '20 Workshop on Closing the Perception-Action Loop with Vision and Tactile Sensing (ViTac '20), May, 2020
Inferring Task-Space Central Pattern Generator Parameters for Closed-loop Control of Underactuated Robots
Nathan D. Kent, Raunaq M. Bhirangi, Matthew J. Travers, and Thomas M. Howard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 8833 - 8839, May, 2020
Learning an Action-Conditional Model for Haptic Texture Generation
Negin Heravi, Wenzhen Yuan, Allison M. Okamura, and Jeannette Bohg
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 11088 - 11095, May, 2020
Learning hierarchical control for robust in-hand manipulation
Tingguang Li, Krishnan Srinivasan, Max Qing-Hu Meng, Wenzhen Yuan, and Jeannette Bohg
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 8855 - 8862, May, 2020
Learning Shape-based Representation for Visual Localization in Extremely Changing Conditions
Hae-Gon Jeon, Sunghoon Im, Jean Oh, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 7135 - 7141, May, 2020
Leveraging the Template and Anchor Framework for Safe, Online Robotic Gait Design
Jinsun Liu, Pengcheng Zhao, Zhenyu Gan, M. Johnson-Roberson, and Ram Vasudevan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 10869 - 10875, May, 2020
LiDAR-enhanced Structure-from-Motion
Weikun Zhen, Yaoyu Hu, Huai Yu, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6773 - 6779, May, 2020
LiStereo: Generate Dense Depth Maps from LIDAR and Stereo Imagery
Junming Zhang, Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal, Ram Vasudevan, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 7829 - 7836, May, 2020