Publications




Generative Point Cloud Modeling with Gaussian Mixture Models for Multi-Robot Exploration
Cormac O'Meadhra
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-45, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Improving Imitation Learning through Efficient Expert Querying
Matthew Hanczor
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-56, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
In-Field Robotic Leaf Grasping and Automated Crop Spectroscopy
Justin Abel
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-51, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Integrating Structure with Deep Reinforcement and Imitation Learning
Arjun Sharma
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-60, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Learning Reactive Flight Control Policies: From LIDAR Measurements to Actions
Sam Zeng
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-58, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Mapping Gamma Sources and Their Flux Fields Using Non-directional Flux Measurements
Jack Buffington
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Robust and Efficient State Estimation for Micro Aerial Vehicles
Logan Ellis
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-57, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Soft-matter Artificial Muscle by Electrochemical Surface Oxidation of Liquid Metal
Jiahe Liao
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-54, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Toward Invariant Visual-Inertial State Estimation using Information Sparsification
Shih-Chieh (Jerry) Hsiung
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-50, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Transparency in Deep Reinforcement Learning Networks
Ramitha Sundar
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-48, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Virtual Occupancy Grid Map with Applications to Autonomous 3D Reconstruction in Underwater Unstructured Scenes
Bing-Jui Ho
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-49, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Wire Detection, Reconstruction, and Avoidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Ratnesh Madaan
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-61, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Learning Neural Parsers with Deterministic Differentiable Imitation Learning
Tanmay Shankar
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-44, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Radiation Source Localization using a Gamma-ray Camera
Michael Lee
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-53, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Mapping Gamma Sources and Their Flux Fields Using Non-directional Flux Measurements
Jack Buffington
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-32, August, 2018
Robot safe interaction system for intelligent industrial co-robots
Changliu Liu and Masayoshi Tomizuka
Miscellaneous, August, 2018
Skaterbots: Optimization-based Design and Motion Synthesis for Robotic Creatures with Legs and Wheels
Moritz Geilinger, Roi Poranne, Ruta Desai, Bernhard Thomaszewski, and Stelian Coros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, Vol. 37, August, 2018
Geometric Approaches to Motion Planning for Two Classes of Low Reynolds Number Swimmers
Jaskaran Singh Grover
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-37, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes
V. Narayanan, L. Albaugh, J. Hodgins, S. Coros, and J. McCann
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Special Issue On Production Rendering, Vol. 37, No. 3, August, 2018
Dynamic bipedal locomotion over stochastic discrete terrain
Q. Nguyen, A. Agrawal, W. Martin, H. Geyer, and K. Sreenath
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 37, No. 13, pp. 1537 - 1553, August, 2018
Developability of triangle meshes
Oded Stein, Eitan Grinspun, and Keenan Crane
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 37, No. 4, August, 2018
Mind Your Language: Learning Visually Grounded Dialog in a Multi-Agent Setting
Akshat Agarwal, Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Vasu Sharma, and Katia Sycara
Workshop Paper, FAIM '18 Adaptive Learning Agents Workshop, August, 2018
Möbius Registration
Alex Baden, Keenan Crane, and Misha Kazhdan
Journal Article, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 211 - 220, August, 2018
Optimal cone singularities for conformal flattening
Yousuf Soliman, Dejan Slepčev, and Keenan Crane
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 37, No. 4, August, 2018
Putting Image Manipulations in Context: Robustness Testing for Safe Perception
Zachary Pezzementi, Trenton Tabor, Samuel Yim, Jonathan K. Chang, Bill Drozd, David Guttendorf, Michael Wagner, and Philip Koopman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR '18), August, 2018
Rapid deployment of curved surfaces via programmable auxetics
Mina Konaković-Luković, Julian Panetta, Keenan Crane, and Mark Pauly
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 37, No. 4, August, 2018
Snake Robot Urban Search After the 2017 Mexico City Earthquake
Julian Whitman, Nico Zevallos, Matt Travers, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR '18), August, 2018
The Effects of Eye Design on the Perception of Social Robots
Michal Luria, Jodi Forlizzi, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '18), pp. 1032 - 1037, August, 2018
Variational surface cutting
Nicholas Sharp and Keenan Crane
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 37, No. 4, August, 2018
Visual Learning with Minimal Human Supervision
Ishan Misra
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Abstract Animations for the Communication and Assessment of Pain in Adults: Cross-Sectional Feasibility Study
Charles R. Jonassaint, Nema Rao, Alex Sciuto, Galen E. Switzer, Laura De Castro, Gregory J. Kato, Jude C. Jonassaint, Zakia Hammal, Nirmish Shah, and Ajay D. Wasan
Journal Article, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol. 20, No. 8, August, 2018
Beating-Heart Registration for Organ-Mounted Robots
Nathan A. Wood, David Schwartzman, Michael J. Passineau, Robert J. Moraca, Marco A. Zenati, and Cameron N. Riviere
Journal Article, International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. e1905, August, 2018
Haptic interaction for human-robot communication using a spherical robot
Xiang Zhi Tan and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '18), pp. 732 - 739, August, 2018
Automated Design of Manipulators For In-Hand Tasks
Christopher Hazard
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2018
The convex feasible set algorithm for real time optimization in motion planning
Changliu Liu, Chung-Yen Lin, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
Journal Article, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 2712 - 2733, July, 2018
Techniques for robot-aided intraocular surgery using monocular vision
Sungwook Yang, Joseph N. Martel, Louis A. Lobes, Jr., and Cameron N. Riviere
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 37, No. 8, pp. 931 - 952, July, 2018
Semantic Segmentation for Terrain Roughness Estimation Using Data Autolabeled with a Custom Roughness Metric
Shastri Ram
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2018
Computational Design of Transformables
Ye Yuan, Changxi Zheng, and Stelian Coros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '18), pp. 103 - 113, July, 2018
Exploiting Asynchrony in Multi-agent Consensus to Change the Agreement Point
Sasanka Nagavalli, Ramitha Sundar, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '18), pp. 2201 - 2203, July, 2018
State Estimation for Aerial Vehicles Using Multi-Sensor Fusion
Sebastian Scherer, Stephen Nuske, and Yu Song
Miscellaneous, U.S. Patent Application 15/664,073, July, 2018
Bi-Directional Information Exchange in Decentralized Schedule-Driven Traffic Control
Hsu-Chieh Hu and Stephen Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '18), pp. 1962 - 1964, July, 2018
Towards a Robust Interactive and Learning Social Robot
Michiel de Jong, Kevin Zhang, Aaron Roth, Travers Rhodes, Robin Schmucker, Chenghui Zhou, Sofia Ferreira, Joao Cartucho, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '18), pp. 883 - 891, July, 2018
Transformation Autoregressive Networks
J. Oliva, A. Dubey, M. Zaheer, B. Poczos, R. Salakhutdinov, E. Xing, and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 3898 - 3907, July, 2018
A Neuro-musculo-skeletal model of human standing combining muscle-reflex control and virtual model control
Y. Suzuki and H. Geyer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '18), pp. 5590 - 5593, July, 2018
Bayesian Active Edge Evaluation on Expensive Graphs
Sanjiban Choudhury, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '18), pp. 4890 - 4897, July, 2018
Computer Vision to Improve Navigation with Retinal Implants
James Weiland, Aminat Adebiyi, Nii Tete Mante, Hojun Hojun Son, Kai Ho Edgar Cheung, and Matthew Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '18), July, 2018
Crosswalk Guidance System for the Blind
Hojun Hojun Son, Kai Ho Edgar Cheung, Yooree Chung, Harleen Shergill, M. Johnson-Roberson, and James Weiland
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '18), July, 2018
CyCADA: Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Domain Adaptation
Judy Hoffman, Eric Tzeng, Taesung Park, Jun-Yan Zhu, Phillip Isola, Kate Saenko, Alexei Efros, and Trevor Darrell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 1994 - 2003, July, 2018
Generating Adversarial Examples with Adversarial Networks
Chaowei Xiao, Bo Li, Jun-Yan Zhu, Warren He, Mingyan Liu, and Dawn Song
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '18), pp. 3905 - 3911, July, 2018
Human-Interactive Subgoal Supervision for Efficient Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Xinlei Pan, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Nicholas Rhinehart, Yan Xu, Yilin Shen, and Kris M. Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, (AAMAS '18), pp. 1380 - 1387, July, 2018