Publications




Scaling Up Neural Datasets: A public fMRI dataset of 5000 scenes
Nai Chen Chang, Elissa M. Aminoff, John A. Pyles, Michael J. Tarr, and Abhinav Gupta
Journal Article, Journal of Vision, Vol. 18, No. 10, September, 2018
Shape-Based Coordination in Locomotion Control
M. Travers, J. Whitman, and H. Choset
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research: Special Issue on RSS '16, Vol. 37, No. 10, pp. 1253 - 1268, September, 2018
Social-Affiliation Networks: Patterns and the SOAR Model
Dhivya Eswaran, Reihaneh Rabbany, Artur W. Dubrawski, and Christos Faloutsos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD '18), pp. 105 - 121, September, 2018
Viewpoint-consistent 3D Face Alignment
Sergely Tulyakov, Laszlo A. Jeni, Jeffrey F. Cohn, and Nicu Sebe
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 40, No. 9, pp. 2250 - 2264, September, 2018
Vision Augmented Robot Feeding
Alexandre Candeias, Travers Rhodes, Manuel Marques, Joao P. Costeira, and Manuela Veloso
Workshop Paper, ECCV '18 Workshops, pp. 50 - 65, September, 2018
Designing Interactive Systems for Community Citizen Science
Yen-Chia Hsu
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-29, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
A Computational Framework for Integrating Task Planning and Norm Aware Reasoning for Social Robots
Vigneshram Krishnamoorthy, Wenhao Luo, Michael Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '18), pp. 282 - 287, August, 2018
Laser-visual-inertial Odometry and Mapping with High Robustness and Low Drift
Ji Zhang and Sanjiv Singh
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 35, No. 8, pp. 1242 - 1264, August, 2018
Exploration with Expert Policy Advice
Ashwin Khadke, Arpit Agarwal, Anahita Mohseni Kabir, and Devin Schwab
Miscellaneous, August, 2018
Experimental Evaluation of Robust Swing-Leg Placement Controls in Robotic Limb Testbeds
Alexander Schepelmann, Yin Zhong, Jessica Austin, Kathryn A. Geberth, and Hartmut Geyer
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-62, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Provably Optimal Design of a Brain-Computer Interface
Yin Zhang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-63, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Integrating Model-based Planning with Skill Learning for Mobile Manipulation
Kalyan Vasudev Alwala
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-55, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
Failure Is an Option: How the Severity of Robot Errors Affects Human-Robot Interaction
Cecilia Gabriela Morales Garza
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-59, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2018
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