Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

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

Articulated Robot Motion for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (ARM-SLAM)

Matthew Klingensmith, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Michael Kaess

Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1156 - 1163, July, 2016

Automatically Tracking and Calibrating Robot Arms using SLAM Techniques

Matthew Klingensmith

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2016

Autonomous inspection of nuclear reactor pressure vessels via a remotely operated vehicle

T. E. Lee, N. Michael, and L. J. Petrosky

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ANS Decommissioning and Remote Systems Conference (D&RS '16), July, 2016

Convergent Planning

Aaron M. Johnson, Jennifer King, and Siddhartha Srinivasa

Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1044 - 1051, July, 2016

Distributed Decoupling of Multiagent Simple Temporal Problems

J. K. Mogali, S. F. Smith, and Z. B. Rubinstein

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '16), pp. 408 - 415, July, 2016

Distributed decoupling of multiagent simple temporal problems

Jayanth Krishna Mogali

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2016

Distributed Dynamic Priority Assignment and Motion Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots with Kinodynamic Constraints

Wenhao Luo, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara

Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '16), pp. 148 - 154, July, 2016

Functional Gradient Motion Planning in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces

Zita Alexandra Magalhaes Marinho, Anca Dragan, Arunkumar Byravan, Byron Boots, Geoffrey Gordon, and Siddhartha Srinivasa

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '16), July, 2016

Hand-picking dynamic analysis for undersensed robotic apple harvesting

Joseph Davidson, Abhisesh Silwal, Manoj Karkee, Changki Mo, and Qin Zhang

Journal Article, Transactions of the ASABE, Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 745 - 758, July, 2016

Inference Machines for Nonparametric Filter Learning

Arun Venkatraman, Wen Sun, Martial Hebert, Byron Boots, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '16), pp. 2074 - 2081, July, 2016

Kinodynamic Motion Planning on Vector Fields using RRT*

Guilherme Augusto Silva Pereira, Sanjiban Choudhury, and Sebastian Scherer

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-35, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2016

Parallel force/position control of an epicardial parallel wire robot

Adam D. Costanza, Macauley S. Breault, Nathan A. Wood, Michael J. Passineau, Robert J. Moraca, and Cameron N. Riviere

Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1186 - 1191, July, 2016

Path Planning in Dynamic Environments with Adaptive Dimensionality

Anirudh Vemula, Katharina Muelling, and Jean Hyaejin Oh

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS '16), pp. 107 - 116, July, 2016

Predicting Moves-on-Stills for Comic Art Using Viewer Gaze Data

Eakta Jain, Yaser Sheikh, and Jessica Hodgins

Journal Article, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 34 - 45, July, 2016

Recursive Constraint Manifold Subsearch for Multirobot Path Planning with Cooperative Tasks

Peter Karkus, Glenn Wagner, and Howie Choset

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS '16), pp. 54 - 62, July, 2016

Road Detection and Semantic Segmentation without Strong Human Supervision

Ankit Laddha

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-37, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2016