Publications




Cross-stitch Networks for Multi-task Learning
Ishan Misra, Abhinav Shrivastava, Abhinav Gupta, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 3994 - 4003, June, 2016
Designing Animated Characters for Children of Different Ages
Elizabeth J. Carter, Moshe Mahler, Maryyann Landlord, Kyna McIntosh, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '16), pp. 421 - 427, June, 2016
Discriminatively-guided Deliberative Perception for Pose Estimation of Multiple 3D Object Instances
Venkatraman Narayanan and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '16), June, 2016
Estimating cosmological parameters from the dark matter distribution
S. Ravanbakhsh, J. Oliva, S. Fromenteau, L. Price, S. Ho, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, Vol. 48, pp. 2407 - 2416, June, 2016
Estimating SE(3) elements using a dual quaternion based linear Kalman filter
Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Gillian T. Rosen, Feroze Naina Mohamed Dheen Mohamed Ismail, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '16), June, 2016
Experience-driven predictive control
V. R. Desaraju and N. Michael
Workshop Paper, RSS '16 Workshop on Robot Learning and Planning, June, 2016
Factoring Scenes into 3D Structure and Style
David Fouhey
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-45, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2016
Finding Routes for Efficient and Successful Slope Ascent for Exploration Rovers
Hiroaki Inotsume, Colin Creager, David Wettergreen, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '16), June, 2016
From Autonomy to Cooperative Traded Control of Humanoid Manipulation Tasks with Unreliable Communication
Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Halit Bener Suay, Jim Mainprice, Nicholas Alunni, Daniel Lofaro, Dmitry Berenson, Sonia Chernova, Robert W. Lindeman, and Paul Oh
Journal Article, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol. 82, No. 3, pp. 341 - 361, June, 2016
Hierarchical Relative Entropy Policy Search
Christian Daniel, Gerhard Neumann, Oliver Kroemer, and Jan Peters
Journal Article, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 17, No. 93, pp. 1 - 50, June, 2016
How Do You Fly to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years? Ride a Laser Beam
Zac Manchester
Magazine Article, IEEE Spectrum, June, 2016
Human-like Planning of Swerve Maneuvers for Autonomous Vehicles
Tianyu Gu, John M. Dolan, and Jin-Woo Lee
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '16), pp. 716 - 721, June, 2016
Interactive online choreography for a multiquadrotor system
E. A. Cappo, A. Desai, N. Dehghani, A. Momeni, and N. Michael
Workshop Paper, RSS '16 Workshop on Human Robot Interaction for Small and Personal Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, June, 2016
iSTEP 2012: Waste Monitoring and Water Monitoring and Management at Ashesi University College in Ghana
Scott Andes, Corinne Clinch, Julie Mallis, Sandeep Reddy Munnangi, Ronnell Perry, Sarah M. Belousov, Mary Beatrice Dias, Malcolm Frederick Dias, Balajee Kannan, Ermine A. Teves, Yonina Cooper, and M. Bernardine Dias
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-29, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2016
iSTEP 2013: Development and Assessment of Assistive Technology for a School for the Blind in India
Madeleine Clute, Madelyn Gioffre, Poornima Kaniarasu, Aditya Kodkany, Vivek Nair, Shree Lakshmi Rao, Aveed Sheikh, Avia Weinstein, Ermine A. Teves, Mary Beatrice Dias, and M. Bernardine Dias
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-30, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2016
iSTEP 2013: Exploring the Feasibility and Suitability of Assistive Technology at the Mathru Center for Differently-Abled
Shree Lakshmi Rao, Aveed Sheikh, Avia Weinstein, Aditya Kodkany, Madeleine Clute, Madelyn Gioffre, Poornima Kaniarasu, Vivek Nair, Ermine A. Teves, Mary Beatrice Dias, and M. Bernardine Dias
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-31, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2016
iSTEP 2015: Cross-Cultural Technology Development Toward Language Access for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Maya Lassiter, Amal Nanavati, Erik Pintar, Minnar Xie, Ermine A. Teves, and M. Bernardine Dias
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2016
Learning to Filter with Predictive State Inference Machines
Wen Sun, Arun Venkatraman, Byron Boots, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 1197 - 1205, June, 2016
Learning to Smooth with Bidirectional Predictive State Inference Machines
Wen Sun, Roberto Capobianco, Geoffrey Gordon, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Byron Boots
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 32nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '16), pp. 706 - 715, June, 2016
Multiobjective Waypoint Sequencing for Planetary Rovers with Time-Dependent Energy Constraints
Christopher Cunningham, Jonathan Joo, Heather Jones, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '16), June, 2016
New perspective on sampling-based motion planning via random geometric graphs
Kiril Solovey, Oren Salzman, and Dan Halperin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '16), June, 2016
Person-independent 3D Gaze Estimation using Face Frontalization
Laszlo A. Jeni and Jeffrey F. Cohn
Workshop Paper, CVPR '16 Workshops, pp. 792 - 800, June, 2016
Reflections on the BodyTrack Project
Anne Wright
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-46, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2016
Runtime-Bounded Tunable Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving
Tianyu Gu, John M. Dolan, and Jin-Woo Lee
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '16), pp. 1301 - 1306, June, 2016
Search Portfolio with Sharing
Sandip Aine and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '16), pp. 11 - 19, June, 2016
Shape-Based Compliance in Locomotion
M. Travers, J. Whitman, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '16), pp. 20 - 28, June, 2016
Simultaneous Estimation of Near IR BRDF and Fine scale Surface Geometry
G. Choe, S. G. Narasimhan, and I-S. Kweon
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 2452 - 2460, June, 2016
Simultaneous Registration and Stiffness mapping of a Flexible Environment using Stiffness and Geometric Prior
Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Long Wang, Elif Ayvali, Nabil Simaan, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, June, 2016
Spatiotemporal Bundle Adjustment for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction
M. P. Vo, Y. Sheikh, and S. G. Narasimhan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 1710 - 1718, June, 2016
The Conditional Lucas-Kanade Algorithm
Chen-Hsuan Lin
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2016
The Multi-Mode Resource-Constrained Multi-Project Scheduling Problem: The MISTA 2013 challenge
T. Wauters, Joris Kinable, P. Smet, W. Vancroonenburg, G. Vanden Berghe, and J. Verstichel
Journal Article, Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 271 - 283, June, 2016
Understanding Hand-Object Manipulation with Grasp Types and Object Attributes
Minjie Cai, Kris M. Kitani, and Yoichi Sato
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '16), June, 2016
Initial Results for a Ballbot Driven with a Spherical Induction Motor
Greg Seyfarth, Ankit Bhatia, Olaf Sassnick, Michael Shomin, Masaaki Kumagai, and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3771 - 3776, May, 2016
Learning Relevant Features for Manipulation Skills using Meta-Level Priors
Oliver Kroemer and Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Tech. Report, University of Southern California, May, 2016
Nonverbal Communication in Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interaction
Henny Admoni
Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Yale University, May, 2016
Perception for safe autonomous helicopter flight and landing
Sanjiv Singh, Hugh Cover, Adam Stambler, Benjamin Grocholsky, Spencer Spiker, Jeff Mishler, Bradley Hamner, Kyle Strabala, Gary Sherwin, Marcel Bergerman, Michael Kaess, and Garrett Hemann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 72nd Annual American Helicopter Society Forum and Technology Display (AHS '16), May, 2016
Towards local reflexive control of a powered transfemoral prosthesis for robust amputee push and trip recovery
N. Thatte and H. Geyer
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering: Special Section on Modeling and Design in Neurorehabilitation and Augmentation Technologies, Vol. 63, No. 5, pp. 904 - 913, May, 2016
Investigating the Influence of Avatar Facial Characteristics on the Social Behaviors of Children with Autism
Elizabeth J. Carter, Jennifer Hyde, Diane L. Williams, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16), pp. 140 - 151, May, 2016
Laban head-motions convey robot state: A call for robot body language
Heather Knight and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2881 - 2888, May, 2016
Learning from demonstration for shaping through inverse reinforcement learning
Halit Bener Suay, Tim Brys, Matthew E. Taylor, and Sonia Chernova
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '16), pp. 429 - 437, May, 2016
Learning object models from few examples
Ishan Misra, Yuxiong Wang, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Unmanned Systems Technology XVIII, Vol. 9837, May, 2016
Multimodal execution monitoring for anomaly detection during robot manipulation
Daehyung Park, Zackory Erickson, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, and Charles C. Kemp
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 407 - 414, May, 2016
Multiscale time abstractions for long-range planning under uncertainty
Roykrong Sukkerd, Javier Cámara, David Garlan, and Reid Simmons
Workshop Paper, IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (SEsCPS '16), pp. 15 - 21, May, 2016
PaperID: A Technique for Drawing Functional Battery-Free Wireless Interfaces on Paper
Hanchuan Li, Eric Brockmeyer, Elizabeth J. Carter, Josh Fromm, Scott E. Hudson, Shwetak N. Patel, and Alanson Sample
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16), pp. 5885 - 5896, May, 2016
Radiological Threat Detection by Canonical Correlation Analysis
E. Lei, J. K. Miller, P. Huggins, and A. Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications (SORMA West '16), May, 2016
Real-time scalable 6DOF pose estimation for textureless objects
Zhe Cao, Yaser Sheikh, and Natasha Kholgade Banerjee
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2441 - 2448, May, 2016
Safeguarding a lunar rover with Wald's sequential probability ratio test
P. Michael Furlong, Michael Dille, Uland Wong, and Ara Nefian
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5411 - 5418, May, 2016
Slip-aware Model Predictive Optimal Control for Path Following
Venkat Rajagopalan, Cetin Mericli, and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4585 - 4590, May, 2016
Towards Assistive Feeding with a General-Purpose Mobile Manipulator
Daehyung Park, You Keun Kim, Zackory M. Erickson, and Charles C. Kemp
Workshop Paper, ICRA '16 Workshop on Human-Robot Interfaces for Enhanced Physical Interactions, May, 2016
Using Bayesian Optimization to Guide Probing of a Flexible Environment for Simultaneous Registration and Stiffness Mapping
E. Ayvali, R. A. Srivatsan, L. Wang, R. Roy, N. Simaan, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 931 - 936, May, 2016