Publications




Autonomous Semantic Exploration Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Sankalp Arora, Geetesh Dubey, Sezal Jain, Daniel Maturana, Song Yu, Stephen Nuske, and Sebastian Scherer
Workshop Paper, IROS '15 Workshop on Vision-based Control and Navigation of Small, Lightweight UAVs, October, 2015
Autonomous soil analysis by the Mars Micro-beam Raman Spectrometer (MMRS) on-board a rover in the Atacama Desert: a terrestrial test for planetary exploration
J. Wei, A. Wang, J. L. Lambert, D. Wettergreen, N. Cabrol, K. Warren-Rhodes, and K. Zacny
Journal Article, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Vol. 46, No. 10, pp. 810 - 821, October, 2015
Communication constrained task allocation with optimized local task swaps
L. Liu, N. Michael, and D. A. Shell
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 429 - 444, October, 2015
Deceptive Robot Motion: Synthesis, Analysis and Experiments
Anca Dragan, Rachel Holladay, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots: Special Issue on RSS '14, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 331 - 345, October, 2015
Handheld Automated Microsurgical Instrumentation for Intraocular Laser Surgery
Sungwook Yang, Louis A. Lobes, Jr., Joseph N. Martel, and Cameron N. Riviere
Journal Article, Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, Vol. 47, No. 8, pp. 658 - 668, October, 2015
Head Movement Dynamics During Play and Perturbed Mother-Infant Interaction
Z. Hammal, J. F. Cohn, and D. S. Messinger
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 361 - 370, October, 2015
Learning-Based Algal Bloom Event Recognition for Oceanographic Decision Support System Using Remote Sensing Data
Weilong Song, John M. Dolan, Danelle Cline, and Guangming Xiong
Journal Article, Remote Sensing, Vol. 7, No. 10, pp. 13564 - 13585, October, 2015
List prediction for motion planning: Case studies
Abhijeet Tallavajhula and Sanjiban Choudhury
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2015
Low Cost Perception of Dense Moving Crowd Clusters for Appropriate Navigation
Ishani Chatterjee and Aaron Steinfeld
Workshop Paper, IROS '15 Workshop on Social Norms in Robotics and HRI, October, 2015
Modularity for Maximum Mobility and Manipulation: Control of a Reconfigurable Legged Robot with Series-Elastic Actuators
Simon Kalouche, David Rollinson, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR '15), October, 2015
Multi-Scale Convolutional Architecture for Semantic Segmentation
Aman Raj, Daniel Maturana, and Sebastian Scherer
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, pp. 14, October, 2015
Recasting brain-machine interface design from a physical control system perspective
Yin Zhang and Steven Michael Chase
Journal Article, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 107 - 118, October, 2015
Theory and Practice of Hierarchical Data-driven Descent for Optimal Deformation Estimation
Y. Tian and S. G. Narasimhan
Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision: Special Marr Prize Issue, Vol. 115, No. 1, pp. 44 - 67, October, 2015
Vision-based landing site evaluation and informed optimal trajectory generation toward autonomous rooftop landing
V. R. Desaraju, N. Michael, M. Humenberger, R. Brockers, S. Weiss, J. Nash, and L. Matthies
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 445 - 463, October, 2015
Control and evaluation of series elastic actuators with nonlinear rubber springs
Jessica Austin, Alexander Schepelmann, and Hartmut Geyer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 6563 - 6568, September, 2015
Evaluation of decentralized reactive swing-leg control on a powered robotic leg
Alexander Schepelmann, Jessica Austin, and Hartmut Geyer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 381 - 386, September, 2015
Parametric covariance prediction for heteroscedastic noise
Humphrey Hu and George Kantor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3052 - 3057, September, 2015
Toward a virtual neuromuscular control for robust walking in bipedal robots
Zachary Batts, Seungmoon Song, and Hartmut Geyer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 6318 - 6323, September, 2015
Highly stretchable optical sensors for pressure, strain, and curvature measurement
Celeste To, Tess Hellebrekers, and Yong-lae Park
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5898 - 5903, September, 2015
3-D Exploration with an Air-Ground Robotic System
Jonathan Butzke, Andrew Dornbush, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3241 - 3248, September, 2015
Path Planning for a Tethered Robot Using Multi-Heuristic A* with Topology-Based Heuristics
Soonkyum Kim and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4656 - 4663, September, 2015
Agent Based Framework for Modeling Operations at Isolated Signalized Intersections
Isaac K. Isukapati and George F. List
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 18th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC '15), pp. 2900 - 2906, September, 2015
Financialized Methods for Market-based Multi-sensor Fusion
Jacob Abernethy and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 900 - 907, September, 2015
Hyperspectral classification via learnt features
Yazhou Liu, Guo Cao, Quansen Sun, and Mel Siegel
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '15), pp. 2591 - 2595, September, 2015
Inferring door locations from a teammate's trajectory in stealth human-robot team operations
Jean Hyaejin Oh, Luis Ernesto Navarro-Serment, Arne Suppe, Anthony (Tony) Stentz, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5315 - 5320, September, 2015
Information-theoretic occupancy grid compression for high-speed information-based exploration
E. Nelson and N. Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4976 - 4982, September, 2015
Leader tracking for a walking logistics robot
Michal Perdoch, David M. Bradley, Jonathan K. Chang, Herman Herman, Peter Rander, and Anthony Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2994 - 3001, September, 2015
Learning product set models of fault triggers in high-dimensional software interfaces
Paul Vernaza, David Guttendorf, Michael Wagner, and Philip Koopman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3506 - 3511, September, 2015
Recognition of Human Group Activity for Video Analytics
Jaeyong Ju, Cheoljong Yang, Sebastian Scherer, and Hanseok Ko
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM '15), pp. 161 - 169, September, 2015
Scene understanding for a high-mobility walking robot
David M. Bradley, Jonathan K. Chang, David Silver, Matthew Powers, Herman Herman, Peter Rander, and Anthony Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1144 - 1151, September, 2015
Using a Cognitive Architecture to Control the Behavior of Virtual Agents
P. Smart and K. Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science (EAPCogSci '15), pp. 447 - 452, September, 2015
What Can Head and Facial Movements Convey about Positive and Negative Affect?
Zakia Hammal, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Carrie L Heike, and Matthew L. Speltz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII '15), pp. 281 - 287, September, 2015
A Needs Assessment Study of the Educational Technology Needs of English Literacy Students and Teachers in Qatar and the U.S.
Nada Soudy, Ermine A. Teves, Mary Beatrice Dias, Silvia Pessoa, and M. Bernardine Dias
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2015
A Novel Nonlinear Compliant Link on Simple Grippers
Zhiwei Zhang, Alberto Rodriguez, and Matthew T. Mason
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2923 - 2928, September, 2015
Bayesian Aggregation of Evidence For Detection and Characterization of Patterns in Multiple Noisy Observations
Prateek Tandon
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-23, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2015
Benchmarking in Manipulation Research: The YCB Object and Model Setand Benchmarking Protocols
Berk Calli, Aaron Walsman, Arjun Singh, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Pieter Abbeel, and Aaron Dollar
Magazine Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (IEEE RAM), Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 36 - 52, September, 2015
Bridging Text Spotting and SLAM with Junction Features
Hsueh-Cheng Wang, Chelsea Finn, Liam Paull, Michael Kaess, Ruth Rosenholtz, Seth Teller, and John Leonard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3701 - 3708, September, 2015
COLREGS-Compliant Target Following for an Unmanned Surface Vehicle in Dynamic Environments
Pranay Agrawal and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1065 - 1070, September, 2015
Force-based puncture detection and active position holding for assisted retinal vein cannulation
Berk Gonenc, Nhat Tran, Cameron N. Riviere, Peter Gehlbach, Russell H. Taylor, and Iulian Iordachita
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI '15), pp. 322 - 327, September, 2015
Hand Parsing for Fine-Grained Recognition of Human Grasps in Monocular Images
Akanksha Saran, Damien Teney, and Kris M. Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5052 - 5058, September, 2015
Multi-robot Persistent Coverage with Stochastic Task Costs
Derek Mitchell, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Katia Sycara, and Nathan Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3401 - 3406, September, 2015
Online Safety Verification of Trajectories for Unmanned Flight with Offline Computed Robust Invariant Sets
Daniel Althoff, Matthias Althoff, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3470 - 3477, September, 2015
Parallel Detection of Conversational Groups of Free-Standing People and Tracking of their Lower-Body Orientation
Marynel Vazquez, Aaron Steinfeld, and Scott E. Hudson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3010 - 3017, September, 2015
Recognizing Hand-Object Interactions in Wearable Camera Videos
Tatsuya Ishihara, Kris M. Kitani, Wei-Chiu Ma, Hironobu Takagi, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '15), pp. 1349 - 1353, September, 2015
Robust Trajectory Selection for Rearrangement Planning as a Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
Michael Koval, Jennifer King, Nancy Pollard, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2678 - 2685, September, 2015
Scene-Space Encoding within the Functional Scene-Selective Network
Elissa Aminoff, Mariya Toneva, Abhinav Gupta, and Michael Tarr
Journal Article, Journal of Vision, Vol. 15, No. 12, September, 2015
Simulating Adaptive Control Strategies in Large Urban Networks
Isaac Isukapati, Achal Arvind, Gregory Barlow, Pranav Shah, Stephen Smith, and Zack Rubinstein
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2015
Supervised Descent Method
Xuehan Xiong
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2015
Towards Acoustic Structure from Motion for Imaging Sonar
Tiffany Huang and Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 758 - 765, September, 2015
Tunable and Stable Real-Time Trajectory Planning for Urban Autonomous Driving
Tianyu Gu, Jason Atwood, Chiyu Dong, John M. Dolan, and Jin-Woo Lee
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 250 - 256, September, 2015