Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Appearance Simulator for Computer Vision Research

Yoshimasa Fujiwara, S. K. Nayar, and Katsushi Ikeuchi

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1991

Combining artificial neural networks and symbolic processing for autonomous robot guidance

Dean Pomerleau, Jay Gowdy, and Chuck Thorpe

Journal Article, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 279 - 285, August, 1991

Dynamic Control of a Space Robot System with No Thrust Jets Controlled Base

Yangsheng Xu and Heung-Yeung Shum

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1991

Extracting the Orientation of a Grasped Object from Contact Information: An approach for overcoming prohibitive calibration requirements

David M. Siegel and Nancy S. Pollard

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC '91), pp. 215 - 220, August, 1991

Mobile Robots

Chuck Thorpe

Journal Article, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5, No. 3, August, 1991

Outdoor visual navigation for autonomous robots

Chuck Thorpe

Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Special Issue on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 85 - 98, August, 1991

Real-Time Scheduling of Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems

David B. Stewart and Pradeep Khosla

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems Engineering, pp. 139 - 142, August, 1991

Toward Autonomous Driving: The CMU Navlab. Part I: Perception

Chuck Thorpe, Martial Hebert, Takeo Kanade, and Steven Shafer

Journal Article, IEEE Expert, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 31 - 42, August, 1991

Toward Autonomous Driving: The CMU Navlab. Part II: System and Architecture

Chuck Thorpe, Martial Hebert, Takeo Kanade, and Steven Shafer

Journal Article, IEEE Expert, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 44 - 52, August, 1991

Animation of Dynamic Legged Locomotion

Marc Raibert and Jessica K. Hodgins

Journal Article, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 349 - 358, July, 1991

Converting a Commercial Electric Direct-Drive Robot to Operate from Joint Torque Commands

Patrick Muir

Miscellaneous, July, 1991

Coping with friction for non-penetrating rigid body simulation

David Baraff

Journal Article, Computer Graphics, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 31 - 40, July, 1991

GA-1: A Parallel Associative Memory Processor for Rule Learning with Genetic Algorithms

H. Kitano, Stephen Smith, and T. Higuchi

Conference Paper, Proceedings 4th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA '91), pp. 311 - 317, July, 1991

Introduction to the Special Issue on Physical Modeling in Computer Vision

Takeo Kanade and Katsushi Ikeuchi

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 609 - 610, July, 1991

Knowledge of Knowledge and Intelligent Experimentation for Learning Control

Andrew Moore

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Seattle International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vol. 2, pp. 683 - 688, July, 1991

Leveling of the AMBLER Walking Machine: A Comparison of Methods

Pablo Gonzalez de Santos, Peter V. Nagy, and William (Red) L. Whittaker

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 1991

Reaction-diffusion textures

Andrew Witkin and Michael Kass

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH '91), pp. 299 - 308, July, 1991

Surface reflection: physical and geometrical perspectives

S. K. Nayar, Katsushi Ikeuchi, and Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 13, No. 7, pp. 611 - 634, July, 1991

A Multiple Baseline Stereo

M. Okutomi and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 63 - 69, June, 1991

Active perception of material and shape by a walking robot

Eric Krotkov

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '91), pp. 37 - 42, June, 1991

Adaptive Robotic Visual Tracking

N. Papanikolopoulos, Pradeep Khosla, and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '91), pp. 962 - 967, June, 1991

Ambler: a six-legged planetary rover

Eric Krotkov, John Bares, Takeo Kanade, Tom Mitchell, Reid Simmons, and William (Red) L. Whittaker

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '91), pp. 717 - 722, June, 1991

An Approach for Mapping Kinematic Task Specifications into a Manipulator Design

Chris Paredis and Pradeep Khosla

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '91), pp. 556 - 561, June, 1991

Building Object and Terrain Representation for an Autonomous Vehicle

M. Hebert

Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '91), pp. 441 - 444, June, 1991

Design and modeling of a micromechanical surface bonding system

H. Han, Lee Weiss, and M. L. Reed

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (TRANSDUCERS '91), pp. 974 - 977, June, 1991

Design and Performance Evaluation of an Actively Compliant Underwater Manipulator for Full-Ocean Depth

Hagen Schempf, D. DiPietro, and D. Yoerger

Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on Underwater Robotics, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 371 - 392, June, 1991

Determining 3-D Object Pose Using the Complex Extended Gaussian Image

Sing Bing Kang and Katsushi Ikeuchi

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 580 - 585, June, 1991

Differential manipulation

Michael Gleicher and Andrew Witkin

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th Graphics Interface Conference (GI '91), pp. 61 - 67, June, 1991

Ground Penetrating Radar Data Acquisition System

Robert Beck, Jay Cosentino, David W. Collier, and James Osborn

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1991

Integrated Scheduling Frameworks

Stephen Smith

Conference Paper, Proceedings Norwegian National Conference on Project Management, June, 1991

Interpolation for Polygon Texture Mapping and Shading

Paul Heckbert and Henry Moreton

Book Section/Chapter, State of the Art in Computer Graphics: Visualization and Modeling, pp. 101 - 111, June, 1991

Learning by Error-driven Decomposition

Dieter Fox, V. Heinze, K. Moeller, Sebastian Thrun, and G. Veenker

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN '91), June, 1991

Model-Based Recognition of Specular Objects Using Sensor Models

K. Sato, Katsushi Ikeuchi, and Takeo Kanade

Workshop Paper, IEEE Workshop on Directions in Automated CAD-Based Vision (CADVIS '91), pp. 2 - 10, June, 1991

Path planning for mobile manipulators for multiple task execution

W. F. Carriker, Pradeep Khosla, and Bruce Krogh

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 403 - 408, June, 1991

Predictive Path Tracking of Mobile Robots

A. Ollero and Omead Amidi

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '91), Vol. 2, pp. 1081 - 1086, June, 1991

Real-Time LQG Robotic Visual Tracking

N. P. Papanikolopoulos and Pradeep Khosla

Conference Paper, Proceedings of European Robotics and Intelligent Systems Conference (EURISCON '91), pp. 305 - 312, June, 1991

The Driving Pipeline: A Driving Control Scheme for Mobile Robots

Y. Goto, Steven Shafer, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-88-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1991

Three Dimensional Migration and Forward Modelling of Ground Penetrating Radar Data

Robert Beck and James Osborn

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-91-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1991

Three Generations of Passive Dynamic Walking

Hagen Schempf, T. McGeer, and T. Lim

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '91), June, 1991

Variable Resolution Dynamic Programming: Efficiently Learning Action Maps in Multivariate Real-valued State-spaces

Andrew Moore

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 333 - 337, June, 1991

Design and Control of the JASON Vehicle

Hagen Schempf and JASON Design-team

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Intervention/ROV '91 Conference & Exposition (ROV '91), May, 1991

ARC: Adaptive Roboterkontrolle mit kuenstlichen Neu ronalen Netzen

K. Moeller and Sebastian Thrun

Journal Article, Journal on "Wirtschaftsinformatik", Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 408 - 419, May, 1991

Computer Vision as a Physical Science

Takeo Kanade

Book Section/Chapter, Carnegie Mellon Computer Science: a 25-Year Commemorative, pp. 345 - 369, May, 1991

Real-Time Scheduling of Sensor-Based Control Systems

D. B. Stewart and Pradeep Khosla

Workshop Paper, IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Operating Systems and Software (RTOS '91), pp. 144 - 150, May, 1991

The Terregator Mobile Robot

L. Champeny-Bares, S. Coppersmith, and Kevin Dowling

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-93-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1991

The Warp machine on Navlab

J. D. Crisman and J. A. Webb

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 13, pp. 451 - 465, May, 1991

A Sprayed Steel Tool for Permanent Mold Casting of Aluminum

P. S. Fussell, K. W. Hartmann, H. O. K. Kirchner, E. P. Patrick, Fritz B. Prinz, Lawrence Schultz, L. Thuel, and Lee Weiss

Conference Paper, Proceedings of SAE Aerospace Atlantic Conference & Exposition, April, 1991

Computing the Possible Rest Configurations of Two Interacting Polygons

Randy C. Brost

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 686 - 693, April, 1991

Concurrent planning and execution for a walking robot

R. Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 300 - 305, April, 1991

Integrating multiple representations for incremental, causal simulation

R. G. Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd Annual Conference on AI, Simulation and Planning in High Autonomy Systems (AIHAS '91), pp. 88 - 96, April, 1991