Publications




Obstacle Avoidance through Deep Networks based Intermediate Perception
Yang S, Konam S, Ma C, Rosenthal S, Veloso M, and Scherer S
Journal Article, arXiv preprint arXiv:1704. 08759, April, 2017
A Comparison of Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models for Multi-Modal Manipulations with Variable Masses
Oliver Kroemer and Jan Peters
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 1101 - 1108, April, 2017
A Framework For Optimal Grasp Contact Planning
Kaiyu Hang, Johannes A. Stork, Nancy Pollard, and Danica Kragic
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 704 - 711, April, 2017
A sample-efficient black-box optimizer to train policies for human-in-the- loop systems with user preferences
Nitish Thatte, Helei Duan, and Hartmut Geyer
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 993 - 1000, April, 2017
Accessible Transportation Technologies Research Initiative (ATTRI): Assessment of Relevant Research
Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Aaron Steinfeld, Ermine Teves, M. Bernardine Dias, and Zachary Rubinstein
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2017
Accessible Transportation Technologies Research Initiative (ATTRI): Innovation Scan
Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Aaron Steinfeld, Ermine Teves, M. Bernardine Dias, and Zachary Rubinstein
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2017
Accessible Transportation Technologies Research Initiative (ATTRI): State of the Practice Scan
Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Aaron Steinfeld, Ermine Teves, M. Bernardine Dias, and Zachary Rubinstein
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2017
Direct Visual Odometry in Low Light using Binary Descriptors
Hatem Alismail, Michael Kaess, Brett Browning, and Simon Lucey
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 444 - 451, April, 2017
Evaluations on Multi-scale Camera Networks for Precise and Geo-accurate Reconstructions from Aerial and Terrestrial Images with User Guidance
Markus Rumpler, Alexander Tscharf, Christian Mostegel, Shreyansh Daftry, Christof Hoppe, Rudolf Prettenthaler, Friedrich Fraundorfer, Gerhard Mayer, and Horst Bischof
Journal Article, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 157, pp. 255 - 273, April, 2017
Experimental evaluation of deadbeat running on the ATRIAS biped
William Martin, Albert Wu, and Hartmut Geyer
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 1085 - 1092, April, 2017
Gradient Boosting on Stochastic Data Streams
Hanzhang Hu, Wen Sun, Arun Venkatraman, Martial Hebert, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '17), pp. 595 - 603, April, 2017
Learning to Extract Actionable Evidence from Medical Insurance Claims Data
Jieshi Chen and Artur Dubrawski
Book Section/Chapter, Actionable Intelligence in Healthcare, April, 2017
Multiobjective Optimization Based on Expensive Robotic Experiments under Heteroscedastic Noise
Ryo Ariizumi, Matthew Tesch, Kenta Kato, Howie Choset, and Fumitoshi Matsuno
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 468 - 483, April, 2017
Planning and Localization Using Contacts
Bradley Saund
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2017
Realtime Multi-Person 2D Pose Estimation using Part Affinity Fields
Zhe Cao, Tomas Simon, Shih-En Wei, and Yaser Ajmal Sheikh
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2017
Risk for Cardiorespiratory Instability Following Transfer to a Monitored Step-Down Unit
Eliezer Bose, Lujie Chen, Gilles Clermont, Artur Dubrawski, Michael R. Pinsky, Dianxu Ren, Leslie A. Hoffman, and Marilyn Hravnak
Journal Article, Respiratory Care, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 415 - 422, April, 2017
Safe, Efficient, and Robust Predictive Control of Constrained Nonlinear Systems
Vishnu R. Desaraju
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2017
The Development, Evaluation and Applications of a Neuromechanical Control Model of Human Locomotion
Seungmoon Song
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2017
Improving Prosody Through Analysis by Synthesis
Kevin A. Lenzo
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2017
Beacon-guided Structure from Motion for Smartphone-based Navigation
Tatsuya Ishihara, Jayakorn Vongkulbhisal, Kris M. Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '17), pp. 769 - 777, March, 2017
Techniques for epicardial mapping and ablation with a miniature robotic walker
Dwight A. Meglan, Wener Lv, Richard J. Cohen, and Cameron N. Riviere
Journal Article, Robotic Surgery Research and Reviews, Vol. 4, pp. 25 - 31, March, 2017
Inference Machines for Supervised Bluetooth Localization
Tatsuya Ishihara, Kris M. Kitani, Chieko Asakawa, and Michitaka Hirose
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP '17), pp. 5950 - 5954, March, 2017
Evaluation of a neuromechanical walking control model using disturbance experiments
Seungmoon Song and Hartmut Geyer
Journal Article, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Vol. 11, March, 2017
Automation Toward Tether-less Robotic Operations in Nuclear Facilities
William Whittaker, Heather Jones, Sebastian Scherer, Joseph Bartels, Warren Whittaker, Matthew Hanczor, Michael Lee, and Weikun Zhen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Waste Management Conference (WM '17), March, 2017
Forecasting Tachycardia In the Intensive Care Unit
L. Mu, L. Chen, J. H. Yoon, G. Clermont, and A. Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 37th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (ISICEM '17), March, 2017
Learning from Learning Curves: Discovery of Interpretable Learning Trajectory Groups
Lujie Chen and Artur Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK '17), pp. 544 - 545, March, 2017
Natural Language Explanations in Human-Collaborative Systems
Rosario Scalise, Stephanie Rosenthal, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17), pp. 377 - 378, March, 2017
Occlusions are Fleeting - Texture is Forever: Moving Past Brightness Constancy
C. Ham, S. Singh, and S. Lucey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '17), pp. 273 - 281, March, 2017
Personal Safety is More Important Than Cost of Damage During Robot Failure
Obehioye Adubor, Rhomni St. John, and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17), pp. 403, March, 2017
Selective Transfer Machine for Personalized Facial Expression Analysis
Wen-Sheng Chu, Fernando De la Torre Frade, and Jeffrey Cohn
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 529 - 545, March, 2017
SLHAP: Simultaneous Learning of Hierarchy and Primitives
Anahita Mohseni-Kabir, Changshuo Li, Victoria Wu, Daniel Miller, Benjamin Hylak, Sonia Chernova, Dmitry Berenson, Candace Sidner, and Charles Rich
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17), pp. 412, March, 2017
Ultrasound tracking using ProbeSight: Camera pose estimation relative to external anatomy by inverse rendering of a prior high-resolution 3D surface map
J. Wang, C. Che, J. Galeotti, S. Horvath, V. Gorantla, and G. Stetten
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '17), pp. 825 - 833, March, 2017
Using robot manipulation to assist navigation by people who are blind or low vision
Xiang Zhi Tan and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17), pp. 379 - 380, March, 2017
“Fly Like This”: Natural Language Interfaces for UAV Mission Planning
Meghan Chandarana, Erica L. Meszaros, Anna Trujillo, and Bonnie Danette Allen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI '17), March, 2017
Deeply AggreVaTeD: Differentiable Imitation Learning for Sequential Prediction
Wen Sun, Arun Venkatraman, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Byron Boots, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2017
Developing a Robust Disaster Response Robot: CHIMP and the Robotics Challenge
G. Clark Haynes, David Stager, Anthony Stentz, Michael Vande Weghe, Brian Zajac, Herman Herman, Alonzo Kelly, Eric Meyhofer, Dean M. Anderson, Dane Bennington, Jordan Brindza, David Butterworth, Christopher M. Dellin, Michael David George, Jose Gonzalez-Mora, Morgan Jones, Prathamesh Kini, Michel Laverne, Nick Letwin, Eric Perko, Chris Pinkston, David Rice, Justin Scheifflee, Kyle Strabala, Mark Waldbaum, and Randy Warner
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 281 - 304, March, 2017
Developing, evaluating, and refining an automatic generator of diagnostic multiple choice cloze questions to assess children's comprehension while reading
Jack Mostow, Yi-Ting Huang, Hyeju Jang, Anders Weinstein, Joe Valeri, and Donna Gates
Journal Article, Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 245 - 294, March, 2017
Dynamic and Personalized Risk Forecast in Step-Down Units: Implications for Monitoring Paradigms
Lujie Chen, Olufunmilayo Ogundele, Gilles Clermont, Marilyn T. Hravnak, Michael R. Pinsky, and Artur W. Dubrawski
Journal Article, Annals of American Thoracic Society, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 384 - 391, March, 2017
Dynamic skin deformation simulation using musculoskeletal model and soft tissue dynamics
Akihiko Murai, Q. Youn Hong, Katsu Yamane, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Journal Article, Computational Visual Media, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 49 - 60, March, 2017
Game-Theoretic Modeling of Human Adaptation in Human-Robot Collaboration
Stefanos Nikolaidis, Swaprava Nath, Ariel Procaccia, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17), pp. 323 - 331, March, 2017
Guaranteed Parameter Estimation for Discrete Energy Minimization
Mengtian Li and Daniel Huber
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '17), pp. 473 - 482, March, 2017
Human-Robot Mutual Adaptation in Shared Autonomy
Stefanos Nikolaidis, Yu Xiang Zhu, David Hsu, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17), pp. 294 - 302, March, 2017
Modular platforms for Advanced Inspection, Locomotion, and Manipulation
Alex R. Ansari, Julian Whitman, Brad Saund, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Waste Management Symposium (WM '17), March, 2017
Multi-Operator Gesture Control of Robotic Swarms Using Wearable Devices
Sasanka Nagavalli, Meghan Chandarana, Michael Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI '17), pp. 25 - 33, March, 2017
Novel serpentine robot combinations for inspection in hard-to-reach areas of damaged or decommissioned structures
Richard Voyles, Praveen Abbaraju, Howie Choset, and Alex R. Ansari
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Waste Management Symposium (WM '17), March, 2017
Online adaptive teleoperation via incremental intent modeling
X. Yang, K. Sreenath, and N. Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion of the ACM / IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'17), March, 2017
Online Lidar and Vision based Ego-motion Estimation and Mapping
Ji Zhang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2017
Probabilistic Movement Primitives for Coordination of Multiple Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks
Guilherme Maeda, Gerhard Neumann, Marco Ewerton, Rudolf Lioutikov, Oliver Kroemer, and Jan Peters
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 593 - 612, March, 2017
Smooth Trajectory Optimization in Wind: First Results on a Full-Scale Helicopter
Vishal Dugar, Sanjiban Choudhury, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AHS 73rd Annual Forum, March, 2017
Stability of a Light Sail Riding on a Laser Beam
Zac Manchester and Abraham Loeb
Journal Article, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 837, No. 2, pp. L20, March, 2017