Publications




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
Vision-based robot localization across seasons and in remote locations
Anirudh Viswanathan, Bernardo R. Pires, and Daniel Huber
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4815 - 4821, May, 2016
Supersizing Self-supervision: Learning to Grasp from 50K Tries and 700 Robot Hours
Lerrel Pinto and Abhinav Gupta
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3406 - 3413, May, 2016
Bayesian Nonparametric Kernel-Learning
J. Oliva, A. Dubey, A. Wilson, B. Poczos, J. Schneider, and E. Xing
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '16), Vol. 41, pp. 1078 - 1086, May, 2016
Fast Localization and Tracking Using Event Sensors
Wenzhen Yuan and Srikumar Ramalingam
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4564 - 4571, May, 2016
High Dimensional Bayesian Optimization via Restricted Projection Pursuit Models
C. Li, K. Kandasamy, B. Poczos, and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '16), Vol. 51, pp. 884 - 892, May, 2016
Modeling communicative behaviors for object references in human-robot interaction
Henny Admoni, Thomas Weng, and Brian Scassellati
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3352 - 3359, May, 2016
Stochastic Neural Networks with Monotonic Activation Functions
S. Ravanbakhsh, B. Poczos, J. Schneider, D. Schuurmans, and R. Greiner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '16), Vol. 51, pp. 809 - 818, May, 2016
An MDP-based approximation method for goal constrained multi-mav planning under action uncertainty
L. Liu and N. Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 56 - 62, May, 2016
Fast nonlinear model predictive control via partial enumeration
V. R. Desaraju and N. Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1243 - 1248, May, 2016
Planning for a Ground-Air Robotic System with Collaborative Localization
Jonathan Butzke, Kalin Gochev, Benjamin Holden, Eui-Jung Jung, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 284 - 291, May, 2016
RapID: A Framework for Fabricating Low-Latency Interactive Objects with RFID Tags
Andrew Spielberg, Alanson P. Sample, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, and James McCann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16), pp. 5897 - 5908, May, 2016
Threadsteading: Playful Interaction for Textile Fabrication Devices
Lea Albaugh, April Grow, Chenxi Liu, James McCann, Jennifer Mankoff, and Gillian Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '16), pp. 285 - 288, May, 2016
A Convex Polynomial Force-Motion Model for Planar Sliding: Identification and Application
Jiaji Zhou, Robert Paolini, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Matthew T. Mason
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 372 - 377, May, 2016
A Game-Theoretic Approach to Multi-Pedestrian Activity Forecasting
Wei-Chiu Ma
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
A reservoir balancing constraint with applications to bike-sharing
Joris Kinable
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, AI, and Operations Research (CPAIOR '16), pp. 216 – 228, May, 2016
A*-Connect: Bounded Suboptimal Bidirectional Heuristic Search
Fahad Islam, Venkatraman Narayanan, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2752 - 2758, May, 2016
Acoustic Structure from Motion
Tiffany Huang
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Adaptive Kalman Filtering Methods for Low-Cost GPS/INS Localization for Autonomous Vehicles
Adam Werries and John M. Dolan
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Annotation of Utterances for Conversational Nonverbal Behaviors
Allison Funkhouser
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Complementary Model Update: A Method for Simultaneous Registration and Stiffness Mapping in Flexible Environments
Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Elif Ayvali, Long Wang, Rajarshi Roy, Nabil Simaan, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 924 - 930, May, 2016
Connecting Run-Time Metrics to Outcome Performance of Team Attack and Defense
Jason Blum
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Constrained CHOMP using Dual Projected Newton Method
Sanjiban Choudhury and Sebastian Scherer
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Convolutional Pose Machines: A Deep Architecture for Estimating Articulated Poses
Shih-En Wei
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-22, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Design and Analysis of a Biped Leg to Survive High-Impact Falls
Roberto Shu
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Design and Development of a Knee Prosthesis Emulator System
James C. Gabriel and Steve Collins
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Distributed Knowledge Leader Selection for Multi-Robot Environmental Sampling
Wenhao Luo
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Effective Non-Verbal Communication for Mobile Robots using Expressive Lights
Kim Baraka
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Enhancing Direct Camera Tracking with Dense Feature Descriptors
Hatem Said Alismail, Brett Browning, and Simon Lucey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV '16), pp. 535 - 551, May, 2016
Evaluation and Optimization of Dozing Operations for Small-Scale Wheeled Vehicles with Simulation and Validation Using a Reference Platform
Gregory Colvin
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016
Evaluation of a Decentralized Stance-Leg Controller on a Powered Robotic Leg
Yin Zhong
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2016