Publications




1991 Year End Report Autonomous Planetary Rover
Eric Krotkov, Reid Simmons, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-92-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1992
Concurrent planning and execution for autonomous robots
R. G. Simmons
Magazine Article, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 46 - 50, February, 1992
Coordinating space telescope operations in an integrated planning and scheduling architecture
Nicola Muscettola, Stephen Smith, A. Cesta, and D. D'Aloisi
Magazine Article, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 28 - 37, February, 1992
High-Resolution Terrain Map from Multiple Sensor Data
In So Kweon and Takeo Kanade
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 278 - 292, February, 1992
Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) - Tethered Underwater Robot JASON
Hagen Schempf
Book Section/Chapter, 7th ed. of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, February, 1992
Robotic instrumented compliant wrist
Yangsheng Xu and Richard P. Paul
Journal Article, ASME Journal of Industry Engineering, Vol. 114, No. 1, pp. 120 - 123, February, 1992
Scheduling by Iterative Partition of Bottleneck Conflicts
Nicola Muscettola
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-92-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1992
Surface-Normal Electrostatic Pneumatic Actuators
Kaigham Gabriel, O. Tabata, and S. Sugiyama
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS '92), pp. 128 - 132, February, 1992
Towards Task-Level Planning: Action-Based Sensor Design
Michael Erdmann
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-92-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1992
A Multiple-baseline Stereo Method
Takeo Kanade, M. Okutomi, and T. Nakahara
Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '92), pp. 409 - 426, 1992
CMU Image Understanding Program
Takeo Kanade
Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '92), pp. 51 - 62, 1992
Efficient Exploration In Reinforcement Learning.
Sebastian Thrun
Tech. Report, CMU-CS-92-102, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992
Implementation of the Pure Pursuit Path Tracking Algorithm
R. Craig Coulter
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-92-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992
Learning Audit Selection Rules from Data
D. Greene, R. Meservey, and Stephen Smith
Book Section/Chapter, Expert Systems in Finance, 1992
Letter from Moravec to Penrose
Hans Moravec
Book Section/Chapter, Thinking Robots, an aware internet and cyberpunk librarians: the 1992 LITA president's program, 1992
ODYSSEUS: An Autonomous Mobile Robot
Reid Simmons, Sebastian Thrun, Charalambos Athanassiou, J. Cheng, L. Chrisman, R. Goodwin, G.-T. Hsu, and H. Wan
Magazine Article, AI Magazine, 1992
Optimization of Robotic Trajectories For Thermal Spray Shape Deposition
M. M. Fasching, Lee Weiss, and Fritz B. Prinz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME International Thermal Spray Conference, 1992
Planar Sliding with Dry Friction: a Review
Michael Erdmann and Matthew T. Mason
Book Section/Chapter, The Robotics Review 2, pp. 47 - 50, 1992
Qualitative Reasoning Methods in Design
Dundee Navin-Chandra and Katia Sycara
Book Section/Chapter, Intelligent Design and Manufacturing, pp. 103 - 131, 1992
Robot Vision 1992
Takeo Kanade
Miscellaneous, 1992
Silicon Micro-Velcro
M. L. Reed, H. Han, and Lee Weiss
Journal Article, Advanced Materials, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 48 - 51, 1992
The Factorization Method for the Recovery of Shape and Motion from Image Streams
C. Tomasi and Takeo Kanade
Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '92), pp. 459 - 470, 1992
The PERSUADER
Katia Sycara
Book Section/Chapter, Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 1992
Three basic problems in robotics
Yangsheng Xu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Automatic Manufacturing, pp. 304 - 309, 1992
Active Exploration in Dynamic Environments
Sebastian Thrun and K. Moeller
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 531 - 538, December, 1991
An approach to automatic tuning of phase-lead and phase-lag compensators
Jie Yang, C. F. Chen, C. S. Chen, and Yangsheng Xu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '91), Vol. 3, pp. 2944 - 2945, December, 1991
Fast, Robust Adaptive Control by Learning only Forward Models
Andrew Moore
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 571 - 578, December, 1991
Design and control of a two-degree-of-freedom lightweight flexible arm
V. Feliu, K. S. Rattan, and H. Benjamin Brown
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '91), Vol. 2, pp. 1391 - 1395, December, 1991
Distributed Constrained Heuristic Search
Katia Sycara, Steven F. Roth, Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, and Mark S. Fox
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1446 - 1461, December, 1991
Feature Based Robotic Visual Tracking of 3-D Translational Motion
N. P. Papanikolopoulos and Pradeep Khosla
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '91), Vol. 2, pp. 1877 - 1882, December, 1991
Global Optimum Path Planning for a Redundant Space Robot
Om P. Agrawal and Yangsheng Xu
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1991
Graphics and Natural Language as Components of Automatic Explanation
Steven F. Roth, Joseph Mattis, and X. Mesnard
Book Section/Chapter, Intelligent User Interfaces, December, 1991
Knowledge-Based Production Management: Approaches, Results and Prospects
Stephen Smith
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1991
Modeling Group Decision and Negotiation in Concurrent Product Design
Katia Sycara and C. M. Lewis
Journal Article, Systems Automation: Research and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 3, December, 1991
Second Annual Report for Perception for Outdoor Navigation
Chuck Thorpe and Takeo Kanade
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1991
Some Approaches to Finding Birds in Video Imagery
Paul E. Allen and Chuck Thorpe
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1991
VANTAGE, A Frame-Based Geometric Modeling System Programmer/User's Manual V2.0
Purushothaman Balakumar, J. C. Robert, R. Hoffman, Katsushi Ikeuchi, and Takeo Kanade
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-31, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1991
Modeling and control strategy of a 3-D flexible space robot
Hiroshi Ueno, Yangsheng Xu, and Tetsuji Yoshida
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 978 - 983, November, 1991
3-D measurements from imaging laser radars: how good are they?
Martial Hebert and Eric Krotkov
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 359 - 364, November, 1991
A configuration space friction cone
Michael Erdmann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 455 - 460, November, 1991
A Framework for Recognizing Grasps
Sing Bing Kang and Katsushi Ikeuchi
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1991
A Telerobotic Solution for Tool Insertion Tasks in Nuclear Servicing
R. Craig Coulter, Anthony (Tony) Stentz, P. Keller, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Remote Systems Session of the ANS Winter Meeting, November, 1991
Dead Reckoning Navigation for Walking Robots
G. P. Roston and Eric Krotkov
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1991
Determining reflectance properties of an object using range and brightness images
Katsushi Ikeuchi and K. Sato
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 13, No. 11, pp. 1139 - 1153, November, 1991
Dynamic Lens Compensation for Active Color Imaging and Constant Magnification Focusing
Reg Willson and Steven Shafer
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1991
Exploiting Redundancy to Reduce Impact Force
M. Gertz, Jin-Oh Kim, and Pradeep Khosla
Conference Paper, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 1, pp. 179 - 184, November, 1991
Hybrid Efficient Control Algorithms for Robot Manipulators
Ju-Jang Lee
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-30, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1991
Integrating Position Measurement and Image Understanding for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
Chuck Thorpe, Omead Amidi, Jay Gowdy, Martial Hebert, and D. Pomerleau
Workshop Paper, Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on High Precision Navigation, November, 1991
Learning Reliable Manipulation Strategies Without Initial Physical Models
Alan D. Christiansen, Matthew T. Mason, and Tom Mitchell
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 7 - 18, November, 1991
MICRO-BOSS: A Micro-Opportunistic Factory Scheduler
Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-22, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1991