Publications




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
Visual Utility - A Framework for Focusing Computer Vision Algorithms
Mark Desnoyer
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2015
VoxNet: A 3D Convolutional Neural Network for Real-Time Object Recognition
Daniel Maturana and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 922 - 928, September, 2015
Robot Assisted Stapedotomy ex vivo with an Active Handheld Instrument
Tobia Vendrametto, Jacob S. McAfee, Barry E. Hirsch, Cameron N. Riviere, Giancarlo Ferrigno, and Elena De Momi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '15), pp. 4879 - 4882, August, 2015
Toward hybrid force/position control for the Cerberus epicardial robot
Macauley S. Breault, Adam D. Costanza, Nathan A. Wood, Michael J. Passineau, and Cameron N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '15), pp. 7776 - 7779, August, 2015
A Global Study on the Pace of River Planform Change
A. B. Bryk, W. E. Dietrich, N. Gorelick, R. Sargent, and C. A. Braudrick
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, August, 2015
A two-phase gripper to reorient and grasp
Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, Matthew T. Mason, Harald Staab, Greg Rossano, and Alberto Rodriguez
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 11th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE '15), pp. 1249 - 1255, August, 2015
Asynchronous Distributed Information Leader Selection in Robotic Swarms
Wenhao Luo, Shehzaman Salim Khatib, Sasanka Nagavalli, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 11th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE '15), pp. 606 - 611, August, 2015
Automatic Calibration of Spinning Actuated Lidar Internal Parameters
Hatem Said Alismail and Brett Browning
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue: Calibration for Field Robotics, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 723 - 747, August, 2015
Brain-Machine Interface Control of a Robotic Arm for Object Grasping is Improved With Computer-Vision Based Shared Control
Elizabeth C. Tyler-Kabara, John Downey, Jeffrey Weiss, Katharina Muelling, Arun Venkatraman, Jean-Sebastien Valois, Shervin Javdani, Martial Hebert, J. Andrew Bagnell, Andrew Schwartz, and Jennifer Collinger
Journal Article, Neurosurgery, Vol. 62, pp. 233, August, 2015
Driver Gaze Tracking and Eyes Off the Road Detection System
F. Vicente, Z. Huang, X. Xiong, F. De la Torre, W. Zhang, and D. Levi
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 2014 - 2027, August, 2015
Homogeneous Codes for Energy Efficient Illumination and Imaging
M. O'Toole, S. Achar, S. G. Narasimhan, and K. N. Kutulakos
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 34, No. 4, August, 2015
Open Challenges in Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis of Human Behaviour in Human-Human and Human-Machine Interactions
Alessandro Vinciarelli, Anna Esposito, Elisabeth André, Francesca Bonin, Mohamed Chetouani, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Marco Cristani, Ferdinand Fuhrmann, Emer Gilmartin, Zakia Hammal, Dirk Heylen, Rene Kaiser, Maria Koutsombogera, Alexandros Potamianos, Steve Renals, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Albert Ali Salah
Journal Article, Cognitive Computation, Vol. 7, pp. 397 - 413, August, 2015
Perceived Robot Capability
Elizabeth Cha, Anca Dragan, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Human-Robot Communication, August, 2015
Pre- and post-contact policy decomposition for planar contact manipulation under uncertainty
Michael Koval, Nancy Pollard, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Journal Article, Carnegie Mellon University, International Journal of Robotics Research, August, 2015
Predicting Sets and Lists: Theory and Practice
Debadeepta Dey
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2015
State Estimation for Humanoid Robots
Ben Xinjilefu
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2015
Taking candy from a robot: Speed features and candy accessibility predict human response
Heather Knight, Manuela Veloso, and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '15), pp. 355 - 362, August, 2015
White matter tract-following with flexible needles for targeting subcortical structures
C. A. Lehocky, J. A. Engh, and C. N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '15), August, 2015
Active Search and Bandits on Graphs using Sigma-Optimality
Y. Ma, T. Huang, and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 31st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '15), pp. 542 - 551, July, 2015
Generalization Bounds for Transfer Learning under Model Shift
X. Wang and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 31st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '15), pp. 922 - 931, July, 2015
On the Error of Random Fourier Features
D. Sutherland and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 31st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '15), pp. 862 - 871, July, 2015
CoBots: Robust Symbiotic Autonomous Mobile Service Robots
Manuela M. Veloso, Joydeep Biswas, Brian Coltin, and Stephanie Rosenthal
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '15), pp. 4423 - 4429, July, 2015
Crowdsourcing for Search of Disaster Victims: A Preliminary Study for Search System Design
Alex Burnap, Charlie Barto, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Max Yi Ren, Richard Gonzalez, and Panos Y. Papalambros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED '15), Vol. 10, pp. 103 - 114, July, 2015
Reinforcement learning from demonstration through shaping
Tim Brys, Anna Harutyunyan, Halit Bener Suay, Sonia Chernova, Matthew E. Taylor, and Ann Nowé
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '15), pp. 3352 - 3358, July, 2015
Six-stator spherical induction motor for balancing mobile robots
Ankit Bhatia, Masaaki Kumagai, and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), July, 2015
A Crowdfunding Model for Green Energy Investment
Ronghuo Zheng, Ying Xu, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '15), pp. 2669 - 2675, July, 2015
A perceptual control space for garment simulation
Leonid Sigal, Moshe Mahler, Spencer Diaz, Kyna McIntosh, Elizabeth Carter, Timothy Richards, and Jessica Hodgins
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 34, No. 4, July, 2015
A Simple Model of Skill Acquisition in a Dynamic Balance Task
Ruta Desai and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Dynamic Walking '15, July, 2015
Apriltags Library
Michael Kaess
Miscellaneous, Apriltags Library, 2012-2015, http://people.csail.mit.edu/kaess/apriltags/, July, 2015
Autonomy Infused Teleoperation with Application to BCI Manipulation
Katharina Muelling, Arun Venkatraman, Jean-Sebastien Valois, John Downey, Jeffrey Weiss, Shervin Javdani, Martial Hebert, Andrew B. Schwartz, Jennifer L. Collinger, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '15), July, 2015