Publications




Derivative-Free Trajectory Optimization with Unscented Dynamic Programming
Zac Manchester and Scott Kuindersma
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '16), pp. 3642 - 3647, December, 2016
Identification of Sufferers of Rare Diseases Using Medical Claims Data
Jieshi Chen and Artur Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Annual Conference of the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS '16), December, 2016
Joint Embeddings of Hierarchical Categories and Entities
Yuezhang Li, Ronghuo Zheng, Tian Tian, Zhiting Hu, Rahul Iyer, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING '16), pp. 2678 - 2688, December, 2016
Large Scale Deep Learning for Robotically Gathered Imagery for Science
Katherine Skinner, Jie Li, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Abstracts, December, 2016
Using latent variable autoregression to monitor the health of individuals with congestive heart failure
Robert Fisher, Asim Smailagic, Reid Simmons, and Kimitake Mizobe
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA '16), pp. 1016 - 1019, December, 2016
A Computational Model Based on Human Performance for Fluid Management in Critical Care
Anqi Li, Michael Lewis, Christian Lebiere, Katia Sycara, Shehzaman Salim Khatib, Yuqing Tang, Matthew Siedsma, and Don Morrison
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI '16), December, 2016
A dynamical systems approach to obstacle navigation for a series-elastic hexapod robot
M. Travers, A. Ansari, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '16), pp. 5152 - 5157, December, 2016
A Physical Parameter-Based Skidding Model for the Snakeboard
H. Salman, T. Dear, S. Babikian, E. Shammas, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '16), pp. 7555 - 7560, December, 2016
Calibration and Characterization of Low-Cost Fine Particulate Monitors and their Effect on Individual Empowerment
Michael D. Taylor
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-61, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2016
Configuration Lattices for Planar Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty
Michael Koval, David Hsu, Nancy Pollard, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Workshop Paper, 12th Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '16), pp. 768 - 783, December, 2016
Detection of Subtle Context-Dependent Model Inaccuracies in High-Dimensional Robot Domains
Juan Pablo Mendoza, Reid Simmons, and Manuela Veloso
Journal Article, Journal of Big Data, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 269 - 285, December, 2016
Evaluation of Coded Aperture Radiation Detectors using a Bayesian Approach
Keith Edwin Miller, P. Huggins, A. Dubrawski, Simon Labov, and Kelly Nelson
Journal Article, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 839, pp. 29 - 38, December, 2016
Learning from Small Sample Sets by Combining Unsupervised Meta-Training with CNNs
Yuxiong Wang and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 244 - 252, December, 2016
Locomotive analysis of a single-input three-link snake robot
T. Dear, S. D. Kelly, M. Travers, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '16), pp. 7542 - 7547, December, 2016
Machine learning can pre-identify patients at risk for cardiorespiratory instability before a medical emergency team call
Marilyn Hravnak, Lujie Chen, Artur Dubrawski, Gilles Clermont, and Michael Pinsky
Journal Article, Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 44, No. 12, pp. 102, December, 2016
Multiple Start Branch and Prune Filtering Algorithm for Nonconvex Optimization
Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad and Howie Choset
Workshop Paper, 12th Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '16), pp. 1 - 16, December, 2016
PalmSight: an assistive technology helping the blind to locate and grasp objects
Zhixuan Yu, Samantha J. Horvath, Alexandra Delazio, Jihang Wang, Rebeka Almasi, Roberta Klatzky, John Galeotti, and George D. Stetten
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-59, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2016
Rapid Fabrication of Soft, Multilayered Electronics for Wearable Biomonitoring
Eric Markvicka, Michael D. Bartlett, and Carmel Majidi
Journal Article, Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 26, No. 46, pp. 8496 - 8504, December, 2016
Real Alerts and Artifact Classification in Archived Multi-signal Vital Sign Monitoring Data—Implications for Mining Big Data
Marilyn Hravnak, Lujie Chen, Artur W. Dubrawski, Eliezer Bose, Gilles Clermont, and Michael R. Pinsky
Journal Article, Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 875 - 888, December, 2016
Robust Planar Dynamic Pivoting by Regulating Inertial and Grip Forces
Yifan Hou, Zhenzhong Jia, Aaron M. Johnson, and Matthew T. Mason
Workshop Paper, 12th Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '16), pp. 464 - 479, December, 2016
Rover Localization in Sparsely-Featured Environments
Samuel Yim
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2016
Shape-based compliant control with variable coordination centralization on a snake robot
J. Whitman, F. Ruscelli, M. Travers, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '16), pp. 5165 - 5170, December, 2016
Continuous Supervised Descent Method for Facial Landmark Localisation
Ciprian Corneanu, Marc Oliu, Sergio Escalera, Laszlo A. Jeni, Jeffrey F. Cohn, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV '16), pp. 121 - 135, November, 2016
Long-Term Activity Forecasting using First-Person Vision
Syed Zahir Bokhari and Kris M. Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV '16), pp. 346 - 360, November, 2016
Predicting user intent through eye gaze for shared autonomy
Henny Admoni and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '16 Fall Symposium on Shared Autonomy in Research and Practice, pp. 298 - 303, November, 2016
A Framework for Visual Tracking of Risk and its Drivers in Monitoring Patients Susceptible for Cardiorespiratory Instability
Lujie Chen, Gilles Clermont, Marilyn Hravnak, Michael R. Pinsky, and Artur Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA '16), November, 2016
Camera-Only Kinematics for Small Lunar Rovers
E. Fang, S. Suresh, and W. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG '16), November, 2016
Learning Spatial Preconditions of Manipulation Skills using Random Forests
Oliver Kroemer and Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '16), pp. 676 - 683, November, 2016
A Review on Locomotion Robophysics: The Study of Movement at the Intersection of Robotics, Soft Matter and Dynamical Systems
J. Aguilar, T. Zhang, F. Qian, M. Kingsbury, B. McInroe, N. Mazouchova, C. Li, R. Maladen, C. Gong, M. Travers, R. L. Hatton, H. Choset, P. B. Umbanhowar, and D. I. Goldman
Journal Article, Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 79, No. 11, November, 2016
Annotation of utterances for conversational nonverbal behaviors
Allison Funkhouser and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR '16), November, 2016
Automated Multilateral Negotiation on Multiple Issues with Private Information
Ronghuo Zheng, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Tinglong Dai, and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 612 - 628, November, 2016
Bid-based Signal Control with All Passive Players
Isaac Isukapati, George List, and Mark Kamlet
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC '16), pp. 602 - 607, November, 2016
Comparing Actuated and Bid-based Control Strategies
Isaac Isukapati and George List
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC '16), pp. 1516 - 1521, November, 2016
Deep Supervised Hashing with Triplet Labels
Xiaofang Wang, Yi Shi, and Kris M. Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV '16), pp. 70 - 84, November, 2016
Detecting cars in aerial photographs with a hierarchy of deconvolution nets
Satyaki Chakraborty, Daniel Maturana, and Sebastian Scherer
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-60, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2016
Gender, interest, and prior experience shape opportunities to learn programming in robotics competitions
Eben B. Witherspoon, Christian D. Schunn, Ross M. Higashi, and Emily C. Baehr
Journal Article, International Journal of STEM Education, Vol. 3, No. 1, November, 2016
Robust coordinated aerial deployments for theatrical applications given online user interaction via behavior composition
E. A. Cappo, A. Desai, and N. Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS '16), pp. 665 - 678, November, 2016
Semi-Supervised Learning of Sequence Models with Method of Moments
Zita Alexandra Magalhaes Marinho, Andre F. T. Martins, Shay B. Cohen, and Noah A. Smit
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP '16), November, 2016
Synthesizing Route Travel Time Distributions Considering Spatial Dependencies
Isaac Isukapati and George List
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC '16), pp. 2143 - 2149, November, 2016
Using Travel Time Reliability Measures With Individual Vehicle Data
Isaac Isukapati and George List
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC '16), pp. 2131 - 2136, November, 2016
Toward Balance Recovery with Active Leg Prostheses Using Neuromuscular Model Control
Hartmut Geyer, Nitish Thatte, and Helei Duan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR '16): Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II, pp. 649 - 652, October, 2016
Training teachers to integrate engineering into non-technical middle school curriculum
Emily Hamner, Jennifer Cross, Lauren Zito, Debra Bernstein, and Karen Mutch-Jones
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE '16), October, 2016
Utilizing engineering to teach non-technical disciplines: Case studies of robotics within middle school English and health classes
Emily Hamner, Lauren Zito, Jennifer Cross, Brett Slezak, Sue Mellon, Heather Harapko, and Michelle Welter
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE '16), October, 2016
An Uncertain Future: Forecasting from Static Images using Variational Autoencoders
Jacob Walker, Carl Doersch, Abhinav Gupta, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 835 - 851, October, 2016
VizMap: Accessible Visual Information Through Crowdsourced Map Reconstruction
Cole Gleason, Anhong Guo, Gierad Laput, Kris M. Kitani, and Jeffrey P. Bigham
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16), pp. 273 - 274, October, 2016
Human-Robot Shared Workspace Collaboration via Hindsight Optimization
Stefania Pellegrinelli, Henny Admoni, Shervin Javdani, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 831 - 838, October, 2016
A 3D Printer for Interactive Electromagnetic Devices
Huaishu Peng, Francois Guimbretiere, James McCann, and Scott E. Hudson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '16), pp. 553 - 562, October, 2016
“What happens if . . . ” Learning to Predict the Effect of Forces in Images
Roozbeh Mottaghi, Mohammad Rastegari, Abhinav Gupta, and Ali Farhadi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 269 - 285, October, 2016
Activity-Aware Video Stabilization for BallCam
Ryohei Funakoshi, Vishnu Naresh Boddeti, Kris Kitani, and Hideki Koike
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 29th Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '16), pp. 197 - 198, October, 2016
An Evaluation of Computational Imaging Techniques for Heterogeneous Inverse Scattering
Ioannis Gkioulekas, Anat Levin, and Todd E. Zickler
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 685 - 701, October, 2016