Publications




Robust Manipulation via Contact Sensing
Michael Koval
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-54, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2016
The Optical Coherence Tomography Microsurgical Augmented Reality System (OCT-MARS): A Novel Device for Microsurgeries
Samantha J. Horvath
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-56, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2016
True Color Correction of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Imagery
Mitch Bryson, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, and Stefan B. Williams
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 853 - 874, September, 2016
Velocity-Limiting Control of an Active Handheld Micromanipulator
Shohin Mukherjee, Robert MacLachlan, and Cameron Riviere
Journal Article, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 10, No. 3, September, 2016
Enhancing human understanding of a mobile robot's state and actions using expressive lights
Kim Baraka, Stephanie Rosenthal, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '16), pp. 652 - 657, August, 2016
A stimulation-driven exoskeleton for walking after paraplegia
Sarah R. Chang, Mark J. Nandor, Lu Li, Kevin M. Foglyano, John R. Schnellenberger, Rudi Kobetic, Roger D. Quinn, and Ronald J. Triolo
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '16), pp. 6369 - 6372, August, 2016
A Framework for Inverse Scattering
Ioannis Gkioulekas
Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Harvard University, August, 2016
Prior behavior impacts human mimicry of robots
Apurv Suman, Rebecca Marvin, Elena Corina Grigore, Henny Admoni, and Brian Scassellati
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '16), pp. 1057 - 1062, August, 2016
Visibility optimization in manipulation tasks for a wheelchair-mounted robot arm
Rachel M. Holladay, Laura Herlant, Henny Admoni, and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Workshop Paper, RO-MAN '16 2nd Workshop on Human-Oriented Approaches for Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics (HUMORARR '16), August, 2016
Method for mapping an environment
John Joseph Leonard, Michael Kaess, John McDonald, and Thomas John Whelan
Miscellaneous, US Patent 9,412,173, August, 2016
Design of a bio-inspired pneumatic artificial muscle with self-contained sensing
Onder Erin, Nishant Pol, Luis E. Valle, and Yong-Lae Park
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '16), pp. 2115 - 2119, August, 2016
Do We Need More Training Data?
X. Zhu, C. Vondrick, C. Fowlkes, and D. Ramanan
Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 119, No. 1, pp. 76 - 92, August, 2016
Imitating human movement with teleoperated robotic head
Priyanshu Agarwal, Samer Al Moubayed, Alexander Alspach, Joohyung Kim, Elizabeth J. Carter, Jill Fain Lehman, and Katsu Yamane
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '16), pp. 630 - 637, August, 2016
Learning to Switch between Sensorimotor Primitives using Multimodal Haptic Signals
Zhe Su, Oliver Kroemer, Gerald E. Loeb, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Stefan Schaal
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB '16): From Animals to Animats 14, pp. 170 - 182, August, 2016
Performance of a low-cost, human-inspired perception approach for dense moving crowd navigation
Ishani Chatterjee and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '16), pp. 578 - 585, August, 2016
A Low-Cost, Human-Inspired Perception Approach for Dense Moving Crowd Navigation
Ishani Chatterjee
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Advantages of Continuous Excavation in Lightweight Planetary Robotic Operations
K. Skonieczny, D. Wettergreen, and W. Whittaker
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 1121 - 1139, August, 2016
Analysis of Angle of Attack for Efficient Slope Ascent by Rovers
Hiroaki Inotsume
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-22, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Architecture for Industry 4.0-based Manufacturing Systems
Achal Arvind
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Attention-based multimodal neural machine translation
P.-Y. Huang, F. Liu, S.-R. Shiang, J. Oh, and C. Dyer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st Conference on Machine Translation (WMT '16), Vol. 2, pp. 639 - 645, August, 2016
Automated Assessment and Mapping of Grape Quality through Image-based Color Analysis
Zania Pothen and Stephen T. Nuske
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 49, No. 16, pp. 72 - 78, August, 2016
Automated Measurement of Berry Size in Images
Omeed Mirbod, Luke Yoder, and Stephen T. Nuske
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 49, No. 16, pp. 79 - 84, August, 2016
Autonomous Flight and Navigation in Air-Ground Systems
Benjamin Holden
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-42, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Building and Leveraging Category Hierarchies for Large-scale Image Classification
Hao Zhang
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Design for 3D Agility and Virtual Compliance using Proprioceptive Force Control in Dynamic Legged Robots
Simon Kalouche
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-39, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Design, Construction, and Evaluation of a Ballbot Driven with a Spherical Induction Motor
Greg Seyfarth
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-44, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Direct Pose Estimation and Refinement
Hatem Said Alismail
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-50, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Expressive Motion for Low Degree-of-Freedom Robots
Heather Knight
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-51, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Field phenotyping system for the assessment of potato late blight resistance using RGB imagery from an unmanned aerial vehicle
Ryo Sugiura, Shogo Tsuda, Seiji Tamiya, Atsushi Itoh, Kentaro Nishiwaki, Noriyuki Murakami, Yukinori Shibuya, Masayuki Hirafuji, and Stephen Nuske
Journal Article, Biosystems Engineering, Vol. 148, pp. 1 -10, August, 2016
Guaranteed Parameter Estimation of Discrete Energy Minimization for 3D Scene Parsing
Mengtian Li
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-49, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Joint Patch and Multi-label Learning for Facial Action Unit and Holistic Expression Recognition
Kaili Zhao, Wen-Sheng Chu, Fernando De la Torre Frade, Jeffrey Cohn, and Honggang Zhang
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 25, No. 8, pp. 3931 - 3946, August, 2016
Maintaining Awareness of the Focus of Attention of a Conversation: A Robot-Centric Reinforcement Learning Approach
Marynel Vazquez, Aaron Steinfeld, and Scott E. Hudson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '16), pp. 36 - 43, August, 2016
Modeling and Control of Coaxial UAV with Swashplate Controlled Lower Propeller
Richard Lee, Koushil Sreenath, and Sebastian Scherer
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-52, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Multi-task Value of Information Planning for Sequential Multi-task Bandits
Rika Antonova
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-41, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Sample Efficient Bayesian Optimization for Policy Search: Case Studies in Robotics and Education
Rika Antonova
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
Spatial references and perspective in natural language instructions for collaborative manipulation
Shen Li, Rosario Scalise, Henny Admoni, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Stephanie Rosenthal
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '16), pp. 44 - 51, August, 2016
Spatio-Temporal Matching for Human Pose Estimation in Video
F. Zhou and F. De la Torre
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 38, No. 8, pp. 1492 - 1504, August, 2016
Vision-Enhanced Lidar Odometry and Mapping
Daniel Lu
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2016
A Compiler for 3D Machine Knitting
James McCann, Lea Albaugh, Vidya Narayanan, April Grow, Wojciech Matusik, Jennifer Mankoff, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 35, No. 4, July, 2016
A Natural Interaction Interface for UAVs Using Intuitive Gesture Recognition
Meghan Chandarana, Anna Trujillo, Kenji Shimada, and B. Danette Allen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Robots and Unmanned Systems, pp. 387 - 398, July, 2016
Leprosy Lesion Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Harjatin Singh Baweja and Tanvir Parhar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC '16), pp. 141 - 145, July, 2016
Learning Qualitative Spatial Relations for Robotic Navigation
Abdeslam Boularias, Felix Duvallet, Jean Hyaejin Oh, and Anthony Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '16), pp. 4130 - 4134, July, 2016
Nonparametric risk and stability analysis for multi-task learning problems
X. Wang, J. Oliva, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '16), pp. 2146 - 2152, July, 2016
Robot Planning in the Real World: Research Challenges and Opportunities
Ron Alterovitz, Sven Koenig, and Maxim Likhachev
Magazine Article, Artificial Intelligence Magazine, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 76 - 84, July, 2016
A control-theoretic approach to brain-computer interface design
Yin Zhang and Steven Michael Chase
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '16, pp. 5765 - 5771, July, 2016
Beyond developable: computational design and fabrication with auxetic materials
Mina Konaković, Keenan Crane, Bailin Deng, Sofien Bouaziz, Daniel Piker, and Mark Pauly
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 35, No. 4, July, 2016
Effort towards robotic apple harvesting in Washington State
Abhisesh Silwal, Joe Davidson, Manoj Karkee, Changki Mo, Qin Zhang, and Karen Lewis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting (ASABE '16), July, 2016
Online Bellman Residual and Temporal Difference Algorithms with Predictive Error Guarantees
Wen Sun and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '16), pp. 4213 - 4217, July, 2016
VIPR: An Interactive Tool for Meaningful Visualization of High-Dimensional Data
D. Wang, M. Fiterau, and A. Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '16), pp. 4274 - 4275, July, 2016
3D Shape and Indirect Appearance by Structured Light Transport
Matthew O'Toole, John Mather, and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 38, No. 7, pp. 1298 - 1312, July, 2016