Publications




Learning to Learn From Simulation: Using simulations to learn faster on robots
Akshara Rai
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-65, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2018
Fast robot motion planning with collision avoidance and temporal optimization
Hsien-Chung Lin, Changliu Liu, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV '18), pp. 29 - 35, November, 2018
A Multimodal Dialogue System for Conversational Image Editing
T.-H. Lin, T. Bui, D. S. Kim, and J. Oh
Workshop Paper, NeurIPS '18 2nd Workshop on Conversational AI, November, 2018
Modeling and Synthesis of Kinship Patterns of Facial Expressions
Itir Onal Ertugrul, Laszlo A. Jeni, and Hamdi Dibeklioglu
Journal Article, Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 79, pp. 133 - 143, November, 2018
Systematic Labeling Bias in Galaxy Morphologies
G. Cabrera-Vives, C. Miller, and J. Schneider
Journal Article, Astronomical Journal, Vol. 156, No. 6, November, 2018
Autonomous drone cinematographer: Using artistic principles to create smooth, safe, occlusion-free trajectories for aerial filming
Rogerio Bonatti, Zhang Yanfu, Sanjiban Choudhury, Wenshan Wang, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '18), pp. 119 - 129, November, 2018
Camera-based Semantic Enhanced Vehicle Segmentation for Planar LIDAR
Chen Fu, Peiyun Hu, Chiyu Dong, Christoph Mertz, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '18), pp. 3805 - 3810, November, 2018
Continuous Behavioral Prediction in Lane-Change for Autonomous Driving Cars in Dynamic Environments
Chiyu Dong and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '18), pp. 3706 - 3711, November, 2018
POMDP and Hierarchical Options MDP with Continuous Actions for Autonomous Driving at Intersections
Zhiqian Qiao, Katharina Muelling, John Dolan, Praveen Palanisamy, and Priyantha Mudalige
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '18), pp. 2377 - 2382, November, 2018
Precision UAV Landing in Unstructured Environments
Kevin Pluckter and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '18), pp. 177 - 187, November, 2018
A Unified 3D Mapping Framework using a 3D or 2D LiDAR
Weikun Zhen and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '18), pp. 702 - 711, November, 2018
Analytically modeling unmanaged intersections with microscopic vehicle interactions
Changliu Liu and Mykel J. Kochenderfer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC '18), pp. 2352 - 2357, November, 2018
Distributed Convolutional Neural Networks for Human Activity Recognition in Wearable Robotics
Dana Hughes and Nikolaus Correll
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS '18), pp. 619 - 631, November, 2018
Effective Team Coordination Through Intra-Robot Replanning to Restore Team Plan Rationale
Philip Cooksey and Manuela Veloso
Workshop Paper, IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Workshop (AUV '18), November, 2018
Ego-Surfing: Person Localization in First-Person Videos Using Ego-Motion Signatures
Ryo Yonetani, Kris M. Kitani, and Yoichi Sato
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 40, No. 11, pp. 2749 - 2761, November, 2018
Learning to Grasp Without Seeing
Adithyavairavan Murali, Yin Li, Dhiraj Gandhi, and Abhinav Gupta
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '18), pp. 375 - 386, November, 2018
Robust Vision-Based Autonomous Navigation, Mapping and Landing for MAVs at Night
Shreyansh Daftry, Manash Das, Jeff Delaune, Cristina Sorice, Robert Hewitt, Shreetej Reddy, Daniel Lytle, Elvin Gu, and Larry Matthies
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '18), pp. 232 - 242, November, 2018
SOGO: A Social Intelligent Negotiation Dialogue System
Ran Zhao, Oscar J. Romero, and Alex Rudnicky
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '18), pp. 239 - 246, November, 2018
The Effect of Culture on Trust in Automation: Reliability and Workload
Shih-Yi Chien, Michael John Lewis, Katia P. Sycara, Jyi Shane Liu, and Asiye Kumru
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS), Vol. 84, No. 4, November, 2018
Automated Design of Manipulators for In-Hand Tasks
Christopher Hazard, Nancy Pollard, and Stelian Coros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids '18), November, 2018
Control of Tendon-Driven Soft Foam Robot Hands
Cornelia Schlagenhauf, Dominik Bauer, Kai-Hung Chang, Jonathan King, Daniele Moro, Stelian Coros, and Nancy Pollard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids '18), November, 2018
Design, Fabrication, and Evaluation of Tendon-Driven Multi-Fingered Foam Hands
Jonathan P. King, Dominik Bauer, Cornelia Schlagenhauf, Kai-Hung Chang, Daniele Moro, Nancy Pollard, and Stelian Coros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS 18th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids '18), November, 2018
Addressing multiple time around (MTA) ambiguities, particularly for lidar systems, and particularly for autonomous aircraft
Stambler A, Chamberlain LJ, and Scherer S
Miscellaneous, November, 2018
A call to alarms: Current state and future directions in the battle against alarm fatigue
Marilyn T. Hravnak, Tiffany Pellathy, Lujie Chen, Artur W. Dubrawski, Anthony Wertz, Gilles Clermont, and Michael R. Pinsky
Journal Article, Journal of Electrocardiology, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. S44 - S48, November, 2018
Fast and agile vision-based flight with teleoperation and collision avoidance on a multirotor
A. E. Spitzer, X. Yang, J. W. Yao, A. Dhawale, K. Goel, M. Dabhi, M. Collins, C. Boirum, and N. Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '18), pp. 524 - 535, November, 2018
Improved deep learning-based macromolecules structure classification from electron cryo-tomograms
Chengqian Che, Ruogu Lin, Xiangrui Zeng, Karim Elmaaroufi, John Galeotti, and Min Xu
Journal Article, Machine Vision and Applications: Special Issue on Learning and Understanding of Biomedical Big Data, Vol. 29, No. 8, pp. 1227 - 1236, November, 2018
Multi-view reconstruction of wires using a catenary model
R. Madaan, M. Kaess, and S. Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of in Intl. Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2018), submitted, November, 2018
Planning with verbal communication for human-robot collaboration
Stefanos Nikolaidis, Minae Kwon, Jodi Forlizzi, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Vol. 7, No. 3, November, 2018
Search-based Planning Library (SBPL) including a collection of graph searches and planners that utilize these graph searches
Maxim Likhachev
Miscellaneous, software - open-source and is available under http://www.sbpl.net (under software tab), November, 2018
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