Publications




Personalized Dynamics Models for Adaptive Assistive Navigation Systems
Eshed Ohn-Bar, Kris Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CoRL) Conference on Robot Learning, Vol. 87, pp. 16 - 39, October, 2018
Safe Data Gathering in Physical Spaces
Sankalp Arora
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-64, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2018
Integrating kinematics and environment context into deep inverse reinforcement learning for predicting off-road vehicle trajectories
Zhang Yanfu, Wenshan Wang, Rogerio Bonatti, Daniel Maturana, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CoRL) Conference on Robot Learning, pp. 894 - 905, October, 2018
Learning Audio Feedback for Estimating Amount and Flow of Granular Material
Samuel Clarke, Travers Rhodes, Christopher Atkeson, and Oliver Kroemer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CoRL) Conference on Robot Learning, pp. 529 - 550, October, 2018
Learning Audio Feedback for Estimating Amount and Flow of Granular Material
Samuel Clarke, Travers Rhodes, Christopher G. Atkeson, and Oliver Kroemer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Conference on Robot Learning, Vol. 87, pp. 529-550, October, 2018
Learning Neural Parsers with Deterministic Differentiable Imitation Learning
Tanmay Shankar, Nicholas Rhinehart, Katharina Muelling, and Kris M. Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CoRL) Conference on Robot Learning, pp. 592 - 604, October, 2018
Underwater AprilTag SLAM and calibration for high precision robot localization
Eric Westman and Michael Kaess
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2018
Deep Learning and Geometry-Based Image Localization Enhanced by Bluetooth Signals
Tatsuya Ishihara, Kris M. Kitani, Chieko Asakawa, and Michitaka Hirose
Journal Article, Journal of Information Processing, Vol. 26, pp. 707 - 717, October, 2018
Indoor Pursuit-Evasion with Hybrid Hierarchical Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes for Multi-Robot Systems
Sha Yi, Changjoo Nam, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS '18), pp. 251 - 264, October, 2018
Multiple interactions made easy (mime): Large scale demonstrations data for imitation
Pratyusha Sharma, Lekha Mohan, Lerrel Pinto, and Abhinav Gupta
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CoRL) Conference on Robot Learning, pp. 906 - 915, October, 2018
Assembly-aware Design of Printable Electromechanical Devices
Ruta Desai, James McCann, and Stelian Coros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '18), pp. 457 - 472, October, 2018
The Present and Future of Museum Accessibility for People with Visual Impairments
Saki Asakawa, Joao Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kris M. Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '18), pp. 382 - 384, October, 2018
A Soft Optical Waveguide Coupled With Fiber Optics for Dynamic Pressure and Strain Sensing
Celeste To, Tess Hellebrekers, Jaewoong Jung, Sohee John Yoon, and Yong-lae Park
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3821 - 3827, October, 2018
The benefit of combining neuronal feedback and feed-forward control for robustness in step down perturbations of simulated human walking depends on the muscle function
D. F. B. Haeufle, B. Schmortte, H. Geyer, R. Mueller, and S. Schmitt
Journal Article, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Vol. 12, October, 2018
Decentralized Method for Sub-swarm Deployment and Rejoining
Meghan Chandarana, Wenhao Luo, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '18), pp. 1209 - 1214, October, 2018
3D Human Pose Estimation on a Configurable Bed from a Pressure Image
Henry M. Clever, Ariel Kapusta, Daehyung Park, Zackory Erickson, Yash Chitalia, and Charles C. Kemp
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 54 - 61, October, 2018
A Rationale-Driven Team Plan Representation for Autonomous Intra-Robot Replanning
Philip Cooksey and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2389 - 2394, October, 2018
Determining Effective Swarm Sizes for Multi-Job Type Missions
Meghan Chandarana, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4848 - 4853, October, 2018
Error-Correcting Factorization
M. A. Bautista Martin, O. Pujol, F. De la Torre, and S. Escalera
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 40, No. 10, pp. 2388 - 2401, October, 2018
Human Interaction through an Optimal Sequencer to Control Robotic Swarms
Huao Li, Jaeho Bang, Sasanka Nagavalli, Changjoo Nam, Michael Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '18), pp. 3807 - 3812, October, 2018
Humanitarian Efforts for Improving Air Quality Using Solar Power
Joshua Schapiro, Michael D. Taylor, and Illah Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC '18), October, 2018
Interactive Linear Regression with Pairwise Comparisons
Yichong Xu, Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Aarti Singh, and Artur Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 52nd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 636 - 640, October, 2018
Joint Point Cloud and Image Based Localization for Efficient Inspection in Mixed Reality
Manash Pratim Das, Zhen Dong, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 6357 - 6363, October, 2018
Learning Adaptive Sampling Distributions for Motion Planning by Self-Imitation
Ratnesh Madaan, Sam Zeng, Brian Okorn, and Sebastian Scherer
Workshop Paper, IROS '18 Workshop on Machine Learning in Robot Motion Planning, October, 2018
RobotIST: Interactive Situated Tangible Robot Programming
Yasaman S. Sefidgar, Thomas Weng, Heather Harvey, Sarah Elliott, and Maya Cakmak
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '18), pp. 141 - 149, October, 2018
Synthetic Data Generation for Deep Learning of Underwater Disparity Estimation
Elizabeth Olson, Corina Barbalata, Junming Zhang, Katherine Skinner, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE/MTS Oceans: Charleston (OCEANS '18), October, 2018
Towards low cost, deep water AUV optical mapping
Eduardo Iscar, Corina Barbalata, Nicholas Goumas, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE/MTS Oceans: Charleston (OCEANS '18), October, 2018
Trust of Humans in Supervisory Control of Swarm Robots with Varied Levels of Autonomy
Changjoo Nam, Huao Li, Shen Li, Michael Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '18), pp. 825 - 830, October, 2018
R2P2: A ReparameteRized Pushforward Policy for Diverse, Precise Generative Path Forecasting
Nick Rhinehart, Paul Vernaza, and Kris Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 794 - 811, October, 2018
Robust Plant Phenotyping via Model-based Optimization
Paloma Sodhi, Hanqi Sun, Barnabas Poczos, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 7689 - 7696, October, 2018
Automated multimodal measurement of behavioral response to deep brain stimulation in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A pilot study
Jeffrey F. Cohn, Laszlo A. Jeni, Itir Onal Ertugrul, Donald Malone, Michael S. Okun, David Borton, and Wayne Goodman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI '18), pp. 40 - 44, October, 2018
SLAP: Simultaneous Localization and Planning Under Uncertainty via Dynamic Replanning in Belief Space
Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, Saurav Agarwal, Sung Kyun Kim, Suman Chakravorty, and Nancy M. Amato
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 1195 - 1214, October, 2018
3D Shape Perception from Monocular Vision, Touch, and Shape Priors
Shaoxiong Wang, Jiajun Wu, Xinyuan Sun, Wenzhen Yuan, William Freeman, Joshua Tenenbaum, and Edward H. Adelson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1606 - 1613, October, 2018
A Real-time Photoplethysmography Signal Artifacts Removal System in ICU
Y. Chen, J. H. Yoon, V. Jeanselme, M. Hravnak, A. W. Dubrawski, M. R. Pinsky, and G. Clermont
Journal Article, Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, Vol. 6, pp. 671, October, 2018
Active range and bearing-based radiation source localization
M. S. Lee, D. Shy, R. Whittaker, and N. Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1389 - 1394, October, 2018
Automatic Extrinsic Calibration of a Camera and a 3D LiDAR using Line and Plane Correspondences
Lipu Zhou, Zimo Li, and Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5562 - 5569, October, 2018
Compensating for Context by Learning Local Models of Perception Performance
Humphrey Hu and George Kantor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4629 - 4634, October, 2018
DROAN - Disparity-space Representation for Obstacle AvoidaNce: Enabling Wire Mapping & Avoidance
Geetesh Dubey, Ratnesh Madaan, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 6311 - 6318, October, 2018
Failing to Learn: Autonomously Identifying Perception Failures for Self-driving Cars
Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal, Cyrus Anderson, Ram Vasudevan, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 3860 - 3867, October, 2018
FOCS: Planning by Fusion of Optimal Control and Search and its Application to Navigation
Piero Micelli and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 8082 - 8088, October, 2018
Hierarchical registration of unordered TLS point clouds based on binary shape context descriptor
Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yang, Fuxun Liang, Ronggang Huang, and Sebastian Scherer
Journal Article, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 144, pp. 61 - 79, October, 2018
Information Sparsification in Visual-Inertial Odometry
Jerry Hsiung, Ming Hsiao, Eric Westman, Rafael Valencia, and Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1146 - 1153, October, 2018
Liquid Metal-Microelectronics Integration for a Sensorized Soft Robot Skin
Tess Hellebrekers, Kadri Bugra Ozutemiz, Jessica Yin, and Carmel Majidi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5924 - 5929, October, 2018
Model Based Estimation of Instability Severity Level in Continuously Monitored Patients
L. Chen, A. Dubrawski, G. Clermont, T. Pellathy, A. Wertz, M. R. Pinsky, and M. Hravnak
Journal Article, Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, Vol. 6, pp. 59, October, 2018
More Than a Feeling: Learning to Grasp and Regrasp Using Vision and Touch
Roberto Calandra, Andrew Owens, Dinesh Jayaraman, Justin Lin, Wenzhen Yuan, Jitendra Malik, Edward Adelson, and Sergey Levine
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 3300 - 3307, October, 2018
Motion Planning for an Underwater Mobile Manipulator by Exploiting Loose Coupling
Dina Youakim, Andrew Dornbush, Maxim Likhachev, and Pere Ridao
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 7164 - 7171, October, 2018
Multibeam Data Processing for Underwater Mapping
Pedro V. Teixeira, Michael Kaess, Franz S. Hover, and John J. Leonard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1877 - 1884, October, 2018
On-manifold GMM registration
W. Tabib, C. O’Meadhra, and N. Michael
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 3805 - 3812, October, 2018
P-CAP: Pre-computed Alternative Paths to Enable Aggressive Aerial Maneuvers in Cluttered Environments
Ji Zhang and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 8456 - 8463, October, 2018
PedPal: Connecting Pedestrians with Disabilities to Adaptive Signal Control for Safe Intersection Crossing
S. F. Smith
Journal Article, Visual Impairment and Deafblind Education Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 4, October, 2018