Publications




The Role of Robotics Teams’ Collaboration Quality on Team Performance in a Robotics Tournament
Muhsin Menekse, Ross Higashi, Christian D. Schunn, and Emily Baehr
Journal Article, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 106, No. 4, pp. 564 - 584, October, 2017
Dynamic Texture Mapping of 3D models for Stiffness Map Visualization
Kartik Patath, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Nico Zevallos, and Howie Choset
Workshop Paper, IROS '17 Workshop on Medical Imaging Robotics, September, 2017
Natural Language Based Multimodal Interface for UAV Mission Planning
Meghan Chandarana, Erica L. Meszaros, Anna Trujillo, and B. Danette Allen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 61st Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Meeting (HFES '17), No. 1, pp. 68 - 72, September, 2017
Policy Transfer via Modularity and Reward Guiding
Ignasi Clavera, David Held, and Pieter Abbeel
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1537 - 1544, September, 2017
Development of an Inexpensive Tri-axial Force Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Lu Li, Bocheng Yu, Chen Yang, Prasad Vagdargi, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 906 - 913, September, 2017
Lane-Change Social Behavior Generator for Autonomous Driving Car by Non-parametric Regression in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
Chiyu Dong, Yihuan Zhang, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4489 - 4494, September, 2017
DROAN - Disparity-space Representation for Obstacle AvoidaNce
Geetesh Dubey, Sankalp Arora, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1324 - 1330, September, 2017
Looking Forward: A Semantic Mapping System for Scouting with Micro-Aerial Vehicles
Daniel Maturana, Sankalp Arora, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 6691 - 6698, September, 2017
Learning to fly by crashing
Dhiraj Gandhi, Lerrel Pinto, and Abhinav Gupta
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3948 - 3955, September, 2017
Maturing Microspine Grippers for Space Applications through Test Campaigns
Aaron Parness, Thomas Evans, William Raff, Jonathan King, Kalind Carpenter, Andrew Willig, Jesse Grimes-York, Andrew Berg, Edward Fouad, and Nicholas Wiltsie
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition, September, 2017
State Estimation and Localization for ROV-Based Reactor Pressure Vessel Inspection
Timothy E. Lee and Nathan Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 699 - 715, September, 2017
Field Experiments in Robotic Subsurface Science with Long Duration Autonomy
Srinivasan Vijayarangan, David Kohanbash, Greydon Foil, Kris Zacny, Nathalie Cabrol, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 515 - 529, September, 2017
Strategic Autonomy for Reducing Risk of Sun-Synchronous Lunar Polar Exploration
Nathan Otten, David Wettergreen, and William Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 465 - 479, September, 2017
Aerial and Ground-based Collaborative Mapping: An Experimental Study
Ji Zhang and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 397 - 412, September, 2017
Real-time Semantic Mapping for Autonomous Off-Road Navigation
Daniel Maturana, Po-Wei Chou, Masashi Uenoyama, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 335 - 350, September, 2017
Season-Invariant Semantic Segmentation with A Deep Multimodal Network
Dong-Ki Kim, Daniel Maturana, Masashi Uenoyama, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 255 - 270, September, 2017
Deformed State Lattice Planning
Zhongqiang Ren, Chaohui Gong, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 6307 - 6312, September, 2017
Ergodic Coverage in Constrained Environments Using Stochastic Trajectory Optimization
E. Ayvali, H. Salman, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5204 - 5210, September, 2017
Generating Gaits for Simultaneous Locomotion and Manipulation
Julian Whitman, Shuang Su, Stelian Coros, Alex Ansari, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2723 - 2729, September, 2017
Improved GelSight Tactile Sensor for Measuring Geometry and Slip
Siyuan Dong, Wenzhen Yuan, and Edward Adelson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 137 - 144, September, 2017
A framework for enhanced localization of marine mammals using auto-detected video and wearable sensor data fusion
Joaquin Gabaldon, Ding Zhang, Kira Barton, M. Johnson-Roberson, and Alex Shorter
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2505 - 2510, September, 2017
A multimodal execution monitor with anomaly classification for robot-assisted feeding
Daehyung Park, Hokeun Kim, Yuuna Hoshi, Zackory Erickson, Ariel Kapusta, and Charles C. Kemp
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5406 - 5413, September, 2017
A Probabilistic Framework for Intrinsic Image Decomposition from RGB-D Streams
Wonhui Kim and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 6498 - 6505, September, 2017
An Entity Resolution Approach to Isolate Instances of Human Trafficking Online
Chirag Nagpal, Kyle Miller, Benedikt Boecking, and Artur Dubrawski
Workshop Paper, EMNLP '17 3rd Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, pp. 77 - 84, September, 2017
Constrained Unscented Dynamic Programming
Brian Plancher, Zachary Manchester, and Scott Kuindersma
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5674 - 5680, September, 2017
Cross-Domain Forensic Shoeprint Matching
B. Kong, J. Supancic, D. Ramanan, and C. Fowlkes
Conference Paper, Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC '17), September, 2017
Data-driven generation of synthetic behavioral feature vectors modeling children with autism spectrum disorders
Kim Baraka, Francisco S. Melo, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob '17), pp. 202 - 208, September, 2017
Hybrid control trajectory optimization under uncertainty
Joni Pajarinen, Ville Kyrki, Michael Koval, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Jan Peters, and Gerhard Neumann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5694 - 5701, September, 2017
Incorporating qualitative information into quantitative estimation via Sequentially Constrained Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling
Daqing Yi, Shushman Choudhury, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4648 - 4655, September, 2017
Intra-robot replanning to enable team plan conditions
Philip Cooksey and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1113 - 1118, September, 2017
Joint perception and planning for efficient obstacle avoidance using stereo vision
Sourish Ghosh and Joydeep Biswas
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1026 - 1031, September, 2017
Learning to navigate cloth using haptics
Alexander Clegg, Wenhao Yu, Zackory Erickson, Jie Tan, C. Karen Liu, and Greg Turk
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2799 - 2805, September, 2017
Multi-view 3D Reconstruction in Underwater Environments: Evaluation and Benchmark
Eduardo Iscar, Katherine A. Skinner, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE/MTS Oceans: Anchorage (OCEANS '17), September, 2017
Sensor fusion for fiducial tags: Highly robust pose estimation from single frame RGBD
Pengju Jin, Pyry K. Matikainen, and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5770 - 5776, September, 2017
StalkNet: A Deep Learning Pipeline for High-Throughput Measurement of Plant Stalk Count and Stalk Width
Harjatin Singh Baweja, Tanvir Parhar, Omeed Mirbod, and Stephen Nuske
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 271 - 284, September, 2017
Structured light-based hazard detection for planetary surface navigation
Ara Nefian, Uland Y. Wong, Michael Dille, Xavier Bouyssounouse, Laurence Edwards, Vinh To, Matthew Deans, and Terry Fong
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2665 - 2671, September, 2017
The Datum Particle Filter: Localization for objects with coupled geometric datums
Shiyuan Chen, Brad Saund, and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3325 - 3332, September, 2017
Anticipating degradation in state estimation accuracy via online nonlinear observability analysis
Z. Rong, S. Zhong, and N. Michael
Journal Article, Journal of the Beijing Institute of Technology, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 388 - 395, September, 2017
Deep multitask learning for gait-based biometrics
M. Marin-Jimnez, F. Castro, N. Guil, F. De la Torre, and R. Medina-Carnicer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '17), pp. 106 - 110, September, 2017
Design, integration, and field evaluation of a robotic apple harvester
Abhisesh Silwal, Joseph R. Davidson, Manoj Karkee, Changki Mo, Qin Zhang, and Karen Lewis
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on Agricultural Robotics, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 1140 - 1159, September, 2017
GravityFusion: Real-time Dense mapping without Pose Graph using Deformation and Orientation
Puneet Puri, Daoyuan Jia, and Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 6506 - 6513, September, 2017
High-throughput Robotic Phenotyping of Energy Sorghum Crops
Srinivasan Vijayarangan, Paloma Sodhi, Prathamesh Kini, James Bourne, Simon Du, Hanqi Sun, Barnabas Poczos, Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '17), pp. 99 - 113, September, 2017
In-field Segmentation and Identification of Plant Structures using 3D Imaging
Paloma Sodhi, Srinivasan Vijayarangan, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5180 - 5187, September, 2017
Learning of skid-steered kinematic and dynamic models for motion planning
C. Ordonez, N. Gupta, B. Reese, N. Seegmiller, A. Kelly, and E. G. Collins
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 95, pp. 207 - 221, September, 2017
Learning to Synthesize and Manipulate Natural Images
Jun-Yan Zhu
Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Engineering - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, September, 2017
Motion analysis of two-link nonholonomic swimmers
Salah Bazzi, Elie Shammas, Daniel Asmar, and Matthew T. Mason
Journal Article, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 2739 - 2751, September, 2017
Planetary Robotic Exploration Driven by Science Hypotheses for Geologic Mapping
Alberto Candela, David Thompson, Eldar Noe Dobrea, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3811 - 3818, September, 2017
Robust Image-based Crack Detection in Concrete Structures Images using Multi-Scale Enhancement and Visual Features
Xiangzeng Liu, Yunfeng Ai, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '17), pp. 2304 - 2308, September, 2017
Science-Aware Exploration Using Entropy-Based Planning
Shivam Gautam, Bishwamoy Sinha Roy, Alberto Candela, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3819 - 3825, September, 2017
Semantic 3D Occupancy Mapping through Efficient High Order CRFs
Shichao Yang, Yulan Huang, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 590 - 597, September, 2017