Publications




Soft multifunctional composites and emulsions with liquid metals
Navid Kazem, Tess Hellebrekers, and Carmel Majidi
Journal Article, Advanced Materials, Vol. 29, No. 27, July, 2017
Soft-Margin Mixture of Regressions
D. Huang, L. Han, and F. De la Torre
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 4058 - 4066, July, 2017
The Geometry of First-Returning Photons for Non-Line-of-Sight-Imaging
C.-Y. Tsai, K. Kutulakos, S. G. Narasimhan, and A. Sankaranarayanan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 2336 - 2344, July, 2017
The Theory of Tetrapod Locomotion on Granular Substrates
Yasemin Ozkan Aydin, Baxi Chong, Chaohui Gong, Jennifer M. Rieser, Jeffery W. Rankin, Krijn Miche, Alfredo G. Nicieza, John Hutchinson, Howie Choset, and Daniel I. Goldman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Living Systems Conference, July, 2017
Underwater Image Dehazing with a Light Field Camera
Katherine A. Skinner and M. Johnson-Roberson
Workshop Paper, CVPR '17 Workshop on Light Fields for Computer Vision, pp. 1775 - 1782, July, 2017
Using Locally Corresponding CAD Models for Dense 3D Reconstructions from a Single Image
C. Kong, C. Lin, and S. Lucey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 5603 - 5611, July, 2017
Weakly-supervised learning for Parkinson’s Disease tremor detection
A. Zhang, A. Cebulla, S. Panev, F. De la Torre, and J. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '17), pp. 143 - 147, July, 2017
The Beta Policy for Continuous Control Reinforcement Learning
Po-Wei Chou
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2017
Coping with Large Traffic Volumes in Schedule-Driven Traffic Signal Control
Hsu-Chieh Hu and Stephen Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '17), pp. 154 - 162, June, 2017
Toward Safer Neurosurgery with an Active Handheld Instrument
Francesca Prudente, Sara Moccia, Alessandro Perin, Raymond F. Sekula, Leonardo S. de Mattos, Jeffrey R. Balzer, Wendy Fellows-Mayle, Elena De Momi, and Cameron N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, pp. 15 - 16, June, 2017
Anticipatory Action Selection for Human-Robot Table Tennis
Wang, Z., Boularias, A., Muelling, K., Schoelkopf, B., and Peters, J.
Journal Article, Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 247, pp. 399 - 414, June, 2017
Plan-Time Multi-Model Switching for Motion Planning
Breelyn Kane Styler and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '17), pp. 558 - 566, June, 2017
RFID Light Bulb: Enabling Ubiquitous Deployment of Interactive RFID Systems
Jeremy Gummeson, James McCann, Chouchang Yang, Damith Chinthana Ranasinghe, Scott E. Hudson, and Alanson P. Sample
Journal Article, ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Vol. 1, No. 2, June, 2017
A Study of Agnostic Hyper-heuristics based on Sampling Solution Chains
C-Y. Chuang and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC '17), pp. 271 - 278, June, 2017
Investigating the Effects of Interactive Features for Preschool Television Programming
Elizabeth J. Carter, Jennifer Hyde, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '17), pp. 97 - 106, June, 2017
Low cost underwater acoustic localization
Eduardo Alexander Iscar Ruland, Atulya Shree, Nicholas Goumas, and Matthew Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 173rd Meeting of Acoustical Society of America and 8th Forum Acusticum (Acoustics '17), Vol. 30, No. 1, June, 2017
Modeling Human Adaptation in Repeated Collaborative Tasks
Stefanos Nikolaidis and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA '17), pp. 246 - 247, June, 2017
Reconstructing Transient Images from Single-Photon Sensors
Matthew O'Toole, Felix Heide, David B. Lindell, Kai Zang, Steven Diamond, and Gordon Wetzstein
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 2289 - 2297, June, 2017
Robust Dynamic Vehicle Routing for On-Demand Systems under Light Load
Hyongju Park, M. Johnson-Roberson, and Ram Vasudevan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (ENOC '17), June, 2017
Search Reduction through Conservative Abstract-Space Based Heuristic
Ishani Chatterjee, Maxim Likhachev, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS '17), pp. 161 - 162, June, 2017
Tackling Large-scale Home Health Care Delivery Problem with Uncertainty
C. Chen, Z. B. Rubinstein, S. F. Smith, and H. C. Lau
Conference Paper, Proceedings 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '17), pp. 358 - 366, June, 2017
Accommodating High Value-of-Time Drives in Market-Driven Traffic Signal Control
Isaac Isukapati and Stephen Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '17), pp. 1280 - 1286, June, 2017
Analysis of a Gesture-based Interface for UAV Flight Path Generation
Meghan Chandarana, Erica L. Meszaros, Anna Trujillo, and B. Danette Allen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS '17), pp. 36 - 45, June, 2017
Beyond Assortativity: Proclivity Index for Attributed Networks (ProNe)
Reihaneh Rabbany, Dhivya Eswaran, Artur W. Dubrawski, and Christos Faloutsos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD '17), pp. 225 - 237, June, 2017
Efficient L-Shape Fitting for Vehicle Detection Using Laser Scanners
Xiao Zhang, Wenda Xu, Chiyu Dong, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '17), pp. 54 - 59, June, 2017
Heuristic Search on Graphs with Existence Priors for Expensive-to-Evaluate Edges
Venkatraman Narayanan and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '17), pp. 522 - 530, June, 2017
High Dimensional Planning and Learning for Off-Road Driving
Guan-Horng Liu
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-37, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2017
High-resolution Underwater Robotic Vision-based Mapping and 3D Reconstruction for Archaeology
Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Mitch Bryson, Ariell Friedman, Oscar Pizarro, Giancarlo Troni, Paul Ozog, and Jon C. Henderson
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 625 - 643, June, 2017
Human-robot mutual adaptation in collaborative tasks: Models and experiments
Stefanos Nikolaidis, David Hsu, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Journal Article, The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 618 - 634, June, 2017
Intention Estimation For Ramp Merging Control In Autonomous Driving
Chiyu Dong, John M. Dolan, and Bakhtiar Litkouhi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '17), pp. 1584 - 1589, June, 2017
Kinematic Cartography and the Efficiency of Viscous Swimming
Ross L. Hatton, Tony Dear, and Howie Choset
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 523 - 535, June, 2017
Learning to Avoid Local Minima in Planning for Static Environments
Shivam Vats, Venkatraman Narayanan, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '17), pp. 572 - 576, June, 2017
Online detection of state estimator performance degradation via efficient numerical observability analysis
Z. Rong, S. Zhong, and N. Michael
Journal Article, Journal of the Beijing Institute of Technology, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 259 - 266, June, 2017
Open Source, Modular, Customizable, 3-D Printed Kinesthetic Haptic Devices
M. Orta Martinez, J. Campion, T. Gholami, M. K. Rittikaidachar, A. C. Barron, and A. M. Okamura
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC '17), pp. 142 - 147, June, 2017
Optimal combinations and variable departure intervals for micro bus system
Jiaoyang Li, Jianming Hu, and Yi Zhang
Journal Article, Tsinghua Science and Technology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 282 - 292, June, 2017
Planetary Mission Preplanning with Heading-Specific Slope and Distance from Shadow
Myles Blodnick
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-23, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2017
Robust Distributed 3D Mapping With Communication Constraints
Vibhav Nagaraj Ganesh
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2017
Soft-Matter Printed Circuit Board with UV Laser Micropatterning
Tong Lu, Eric Markvicka, Yichu Jin,, and Carmel Majidi
Journal Article, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 9, No. 26, pp. 22055 - 22062, June, 2017
Speech-based Natural Language Interface for UAV Trajectory Generation
Erica L. Meszaros, Meghan Chandarana, Anna Trujillo, and B. Danette Allen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS '17), June, 2017
The Haptic Bridge: Towards a Theory of Haptic-Supported Learning
R. L. Davis, M. Orta Martinez, O. Schneider, K. MacLean, A. Okamura, and P. Bilkstein
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '17), pp. 51 - 60, June, 2017
The Robotanist: A ground-based agricultural robot for high-throughput crop phenotyping
Tim Mueller-Sim, Merritt Jenkins, Justin Abel, and George Kantor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3634 - 3639, May, 2017
A muscle-driven approach to restore stepping with an exoskeleton for individuals with paraplegia
Sarah R. Chang, Mark J. Nandor, Lu Li, Rudi Kobetic, Kevin M. Foglyano, John R. Schnellenberger, Musa L. Audu, Gilles Pinault, Roger D. Quinn, and Ronald J. Triolo
Journal Article, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 14, No. 48, May, 2017
Enabling Aggressive Motion Estimation at Low-drift and Accurate Mapping in Real-time
Ji Zhang and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5051 - 5058, May, 2017
Parts Assembly Planning under Uncertainty with Simulation-Aided Physical Reasoning
Sung Kyun Kim and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4074 - 4081, May, 2017
Creative Robotic Systems for Talent-Based Learning
Jennifer Cross
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-30, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Sculpted Waveforms with no or reduced unforced response
W. C. Westerman, M. Orta Martinez, D. Kerr, Z. Gu, and P. Kessler
Miscellaneous, US Patent filed August 8, 2013, application granted May 16, 2017, active April 13, 2020, May, 2017
Community-Empowered Air Quality Monitoring System
Yen-Chia Hsu, Paul Dille, Jennifer Cross, Beatrice Dias, Randy Sargent, and Illah Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17), pp. 1607 - 1619, May, 2017
Direct Monocular Odometry Using Points and Lines
Shichao Yang and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3871 - 3877, May, 2017
FERA 2017 - Addressing Head Pose in the Third Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis Challenge
Michel F. Valstar, Enrique Sánchez-Lozano, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Laszlo A. Jeni, Jeffrey M. Girard, Zheng Zhang, Lijun Yin, and Maja Pantic
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG '17), pp. 839 - 847, May, 2017
Learning to Push by Grasping: Using multiple tasks for effective learning
Lerrel Pinto and Abhinav Gupta
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2161 - 2168, May, 2017