Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

An Optical Proximity Sensor for Measuring Surface Position and Orientation for Robot Manipulation

Takeo Kanade and Thomas M. Sommer

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1983

H. Asada, Takeo Kanade, and I. Takeyama

Journal Article, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 105, No. 3, pp. 136 - 142, September, 1983

Correspondence in Line Drawings of Multiple Views of Objects

Chuck Thorpe and Steven Shafer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '83), pp. 959 - 965, August, 1983

Flexible Learning of Problem Solving Heuristics Through Adaptive Search

Stephen Smith

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '83), pp. 422 - 425, August, 1983

Implementation of Automatic Focusing Algorithms for a Computer Vision System with Camera Control

John F. Schlag, Arthur C. Sanderson, Charles P. Neuman, and Frank C. Wimberly

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1983

Myopic Heuristics for the Weighted Tardiness Problem on Identical Parallel Machines

Ram Mohan V. Rachamadugu and Thomas E. Morton

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1983

Appropriate Lengths Between Phalanges of Multijointed Fingers for Stable Grasping

Tokuji Okada and Takeo Kanade

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 1983

Design of Direct-Drive Mechanical Arms

H. Asada and Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, Journal of Vibration, Acoustics, Stress, and Reliability in Design, Vol. 105, No. 3, pp. 312 - 316, July, 1983

Exploiting Temporal Knowledge to Organize Constraints

Stephen Smith

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 1983

Geometrical Aspects of Interpreting Images as a Three-Dimensional Scene

Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 789 - 802, July, 1983

An Optical Proximity Sensor for Measuring Surface Position and Orientation

Thomas M. Sommer

Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, June, 1983

ISIS: A Constraint-Directed Reasoning Approach to Job Shop Scheduling System Summary

Mark S. Fox, Bradley P. Allen, Stephen Smith, and Gary A. Strohm

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1983

Flexible Conformable Clamps for a Machining Cell with Application to Turbine Blade Machining

Eiki Kurokawa

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1983

ISIS: A Constraint-Directed Reasoning Approach to Job Shop Scheduling

Mark S. Fox, Stephen Smith, B. P. Allen, G. A. Strohm, and Frank C. Wimberly

Conference Paper, Proceedings IEEE Trends and Applications Conference, pp. 76 - 81, May, 1983

POPEYE: A Gray-Level Vision System for Robotic Applications

Rafael Bracho, John F. Schlag, and Arthur C. Sanderson

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1983

Representation for Shape based on Peaks and Ridges in the Difference of Low-pass Transform

James L. Crowley and Alice C. Parker

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1983

Statistical Modeling of a Fluorescent Tube Coating Process

Michael J. Rauh, Charles P. Neuman, and Frank C. Wimberly

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1983

Techniques for Sensor-Based Diagnosis

Mark S. Fox, Simon Lowenfeld, and Pam Kleinosky

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-07, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1983

The Human Side of Robotics: Results from a Prototype Study on How Workers React to a Robot

Linda Argote, Paul S. Goodman, and David Schkade

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1983

Adapting Optical-Flow to Measure Object Motion in Reflectance and X-Ray Image Sequences

Nancy H. Cornelius and Takeo Kanade

Workshop Paper, ACM SIGGRAPH/SIGART Interdisciplinary Workshop on Motion: Representation and Perception, pp. 145 - 153, April, 1983

Grippers for an Unmanned Forging Cell

Mark R. Cutkosky and Eiki Kurokawa

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1983

The converging squares algorithm: An efficient multidimensional peak picking method

L. O'Gorman and Arthur C. Sanderson

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '83), pp. 112 - 115, April, 1983

Using Shadows in Finding Surface Orientations

Steven Shafer and Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 145 - 176, April, 1983

Precision Flexible Machine Cells Within a Manufacturing System

Mark R. Cutkosky, Paul S. Fussell, and Robert Milligan Jr.

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1983

The Rocket/Skyhook Combination

Hans Moravec and F. B. Carley

Journal Article, L5 News, Vol. 8, No. 3, March, 1983

Dynamically Stable Legged Locomotion: Second Report to DARPA, October 1,1981 - December 31,1982

Marc Raibert, H. Benjamin Brown, Michael A. Chepponis, Eugene F. Hastings, Sesh Murthy, and Frank C. Wimberly

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1983

The Theory of Straight Homogeneous Generalized Cylinders and A Taxonomy of Generalized Cylinders

Steven Shafer and Takeo Kanade

Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '83), pp. 210 - 218, 1983

Autonomous Vehicle Navigation: Smart Vehicle Simulator Version 1

Chuck Thorpe and D. McKeown

Tech. Report, December, 1982

The Intelligent Management System: An Overview

Mark S. Fox

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-81-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1982

Adaptable Manipulation without Sensors

Matthew T. Mason

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME Annual Winter Meeting: Robotics Research and Advanced Applications, November, 1982

Visual Sensing and Interpretation: Image Understanding Point of View

Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME Annual Winter Meeting: Robotics Research and Advanced Applications, pp. 129 - 144, November, 1982

Arm Dynamics Simulation

Neil M. Swartz

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-82-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1982

Fast Computation of the Difference of Low-Pass Transform

James L. Crowley and Richard M. Stern

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-82-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1982

Myopic Heuristics for the Single Machine Weighted Tardiness Problem

Thomas E. Morton and Ram Mohan V. Rachamadugu

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-09, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1982

RAPIDbus Architecture and Realization

John C. Willis and Arthur C. Sanderson

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-82-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 1982

A flexible manufacturing cell for swaging

P. K. Wright and D. Bourne

Journal Article, Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 104, No. 10, pp. 76 - 83, October, 1982

A Numberless, Tensed Language for Action Oriented Tasks

David Bourne

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-82-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1982

Automatic Inspection for Printed Wiring

Robert H. Thibadeau, Mark Friedman, and John Seto

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-82-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1982

DP-Command Set

Dario Giuse

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-82-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1982

Workshop on Computer Engineering for Robotics, Summary

Roberto Bisiani and Raj Reddy

Miscellaneous, October, 1982

A Prototype Tactile Sensor Array

James P. Christ and Arthur C. Sanderson

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-82-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1982

Fault Analysis in a Flexible Manufacturing Cell

P. K. Wright, D. A. Bourne, and R. M. Milligan

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference, pp. 511 - 518, September, 1982

KBS: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Flexible Simulation

Y. V. Reddy and Mark S. Fox

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-82-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1982

The Need for Active Systems in the Factory of the Future

Mark S. Fox

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th Annual Conference of the Society for Information Management, pp. 81 - 88, September, 1982

Job-Shop Scheduling: An Investigation in Constraint-Directed Reasoning

Mark S. Fox, B. Allen, and G. Strohm

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '82), pp. 155 - 158, August, 1982

Representation and Control in Vision

Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of NATO Advanced Study Institute on Pictorial Data Analysis, Vol. 4, pp. 171 - 197, August, 1982

Space Robotics

Richard E. Korf

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-82-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1982

The CMU Rover

Hans Moravec

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '82), pp. 377 - 380, August, 1982

Underwater Landmark Identification

Chuck Thorpe

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME 2nd International Computer Engineering Conference, pp. 1 - 6, August, 1982

Color Image Quantization for Frame Buffer Display

Paul Heckbert

Journal Article, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 297 - 307, July, 1982