Publications




Robust Allocation of RF Device Capacity for Distributed Spectrum Functions
S. F. Smith, Z. B. Rubinstein, D. Shur, and J. Chapin
Journal Article, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 469 - 492, May, 2017
Touch based localization of parts for high precision manufacturing
Brad Saund, Shiyuan Chen, and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 378 - 385, May, 2017
Unobservable Monte Carlo Planning for Nonprehensile Rearrangement Tasks
Jennifer King, Vinitha Ranganeni, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4681 - 4688, May, 2017
What does the person feel? Learning to infer applied forces during robot-assisted dressing
Zackory Erickson, Alexander Clegg, Wenhao Yu, Greg Turk, C. Karen Liu, and Charles C. Kemp
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6058 - 6065, May, 2017
A Fast & Efficient Mission Planner for Multi-rotor Aerial Vehicles in Large, High-resolution Maps of Cluttered Environments
David Thomas Butterworth
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-07, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
A framework for efficient teleoperation via online adaptation
X. Yang, K. Sreenath, and N. Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5948 - 5953, May, 2017
A KITE in the Wind: Smooth Trajectory Optimization in a Moving Reference Frame
Vishal Dugar, Sanjiban Choudhury, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 109 - 116, May, 2017
Active estimation of mass properties for safe cooperative lifting
M. Corah and N. Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4582 - 4587, May, 2017
Asymptotically-optimal Motion Planning using lower bounds on cost
Oren Salzman and Dan Halperin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4167 - 4172, May, 2017
Automated Sequencing of Swarm Behaviors for Supervisory Control of Robotic Swarms
Sasanka Nagavalli, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2674 - 2681, May, 2017
Automatically Evaluating and Generating Clear Robot Explanations
Shen Li
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-09, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Bioinspired Robots: Examples and the State of the Art
Matt Travers and Howie Choset
Journal Article, Science Robotics, May, 2017
Computational Abstractions for Interactive Design of Robotic Devices
Ruta Desai, Ye Yuan, and Stelian Coros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1196 - 1203, May, 2017
Control and Locomotion of Hydrodynamically Coupled Rigid Spheres
T. Dear, S. D. Kelly, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '17), pp. 4845 - 4850, May, 2017
Decentralized Coordinated Motion for a Large Team of Robots Preserving Connectivity and Avoiding Collisions
Anqi Li, Wenhao Luo, Sasanka Nagavalli, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1505 - 1511, May, 2017
Decentralized Coordinated Motion for Robot Teams Preserving Connectivity and Avoiding Collisions
Anqi Li
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Deep Triplet Supervised Hashing
Xiaofang Wang
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-19, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Defect-Detection Technologies for Low-Observability Aircraft Skin Coatings
Mel Siegel and Cameron Riviere
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-31, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Deliberative Object Pose Estimation in Clutter
Venkatraman Narayanan and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3125 - 3130, May, 2017
Densification Strategies for Anytime Motion Planning over Large Dense Roadmaps
Shushman Choudhury, Oren Salzman, Sanjiban Choudhury, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3770 - 3777, May, 2017
Designing Convolutional Neural Networks for Urban Scene Understanding
Ye Yuan
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Exploiting Robotic Swarm Characteristics for Adversarial Subversion in Coverage Tasks
Navyata Sanghvi, Sasanka Nagavalli, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '17), pp. 511 - 519, May, 2017
Human-Centered Design of Robot Explanations
Rosario Scalise
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Keyframe-based Dense Planar SLAM
Ming Hsiao, Eric Westman, Guofeng Zhang, and Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5110 - 5117, May, 2017
Learning Game Design
Roger Liu and Stephen Chen
Tech. Report, May, 2017
Learning to Gather Information via Imitation
Sanjiban Choudhury, Ashish Kapoor, Gireeja Ranade, and Debadeepta Dey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 908 - 915, May, 2017
Leveraging experience for computationally efficient adaptive nonlinear model predictive control
V. R. Desaraju and N. Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5314 - 5320, May, 2017
Leveraging Inexpensive Supervision Signals for Visual Learning
Senthil Purushwalkam Shiva Prakash
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Object Category Understanding via Eye Fixations on Freehand Sketches
Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, Sudharshan Suresh, and R Venkatesh Babu
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 2508 - 2518, May, 2017
People with Visual Impairment Training Personal Object Recognizers: Feasibility and Challenges
Hernisa Kacorri, Kris M. Kitani, Jeff Bigham, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17), pp. 5839 - 5849, May, 2017
Probabilistically Safe Policy Transfer
David Held, Zoe McCarthy, Michael Zhang, Fred Shentu, and Pieter Abbeel
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5798 - 5805, May, 2017
Randomized Algorithm for Informative Path Planning with Budget Constraints
Sankalp Arora and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4997 - 5004, May, 2017
Revisiting Visual Pattern Mining
Tanmay Batra
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-22, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Robust Localization and Localizability Estimation with a Rotating Laser Scanner
Weikun Zhen, Sam Zeng, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6240 - 6245, May, 2017
Robust Planar Dynamic Pivoting by Regulating Inertial and Grip Forces
Yifan Hou
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Robust Stereo Matching with Surface Normal Prediction
Shuangli Zhang, Weijian Xie, Guofeng Zhang, Hujun Bao, and Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2540 - 2547, May, 2017
Shape-independent Hardness Estimation Using Deep Learning and a GelSight Tactile Sensor
Wenzhen Yuan, Chenzhuo Zhu, Andrew Owens, Mandayam A. Srinivasan, and Edward H. Adelson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 951 - 958, May, 2017
Speech-based Robot Manipulation Demo Video Channel. https://youtu.be/Q1Ni-EYjKUM
B. Hanzra, S. Dong, J. Hu, T-H Kim, T. Chugh, W. Seto, K. Muelling, and J. Oh
Miscellaneous, Video Production, May, 2017
Speech-based Shmoo (Ballbot) Demo Video. https://youtu.be/1N3Il4FxDB4
M. Wilson, R. Shu, R. Hollis, and J. Oh
Miscellaneous, Video Production, May, 2017
Synthesizing Scenes for Instance Detection
Debidatta Dwibedi
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
The Manifold Particle Filter for State Estimation on High-dimensional Implicit Manifolds
Michael C. Koval, Matthew Klingensmith, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Nancy Pollard, and Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4673 - 4680, May, 2017
Touch Based Localization for High-Precision Manufacturing
Shiyuan Chen
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-29, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Toward Monocular Camera-Guided Retinal Vein Cannulation with an Actively Stabilized Handheld Robot
Shohin Mukherjee, Sungwook Yang, Robert A. MacLachlan, Louis A. Lobes Jr., Joseph N. Martel, and Cameron Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2951 - 2956, May, 2017
Towards Vision Guided Retinal Vein Cannulation with an Actively Stabilized Handheld Robot
Shohin Mukherjee
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Virtual overlays for guiding object placement, orientation, and motion
J. Galeotti
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure CMU 2017-191, May, 2017
Vision-Based Navigation and Deep-Learning Explanation for Autonomy
Sandeep Konam
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2017
Multisensory Augmented Reality
M. Mahler, J. Mars, J. McCann, A. Israr, S. Lawson, K. McIntosh, and J. Bedford
Miscellaneous, U. S. Patent US20180315243A1, April, 2017
Regions of Inaccurate Modeling for Robot Anomaly Detection and Model Correction
Juan Pablo Mendoza
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2017
Activity Forecasting: An Invitation to Predictive Perception
Kris M. Kitani, Wei-Chiu Ma, and De-An Huang
Book Section/Chapter, Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision. Chapter 12, pp. 273 - 294, April, 2017
Improving Prediction of Traversability for Planetary Rovers Using Thermal Imaging
Christopher Cunningham
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2017