Publications




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
Bayesian Active Learning for Posterior Estimation
K. Kandasamy, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '15), pp. 3605 - 3611, July, 2015
Beyond Perspective Dual Photography with Illumination Masks
S. J. Koppal and S. G. Narasimhan
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 24, No. 7, pp. 2083 - 2097, July, 2015
Chisel: Real Time Large Scale 3D Reconstruction Onboard a Mobile Device
Matthew Klingensmith, Ivan Dryanovski, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Jizhong Xiao
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '15), July, 2015
Consistent Unscented Incremental Smoothing for Multi-robot Cooperative Target Tracking
Guoquan Huang, Michael Kaess, and John J. Leonard
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 69, pp. 52 - 67, July, 2015
Distributed Algorithms for Multirobot Task Assignment With Task Deadline Constraints
Lingzhi Luo, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering: Special Issue on Networked Cooperative Autonomous Systems, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 876 - 888, July, 2015
Efficient Search with an Ensemble of Heuristics
Michael Phillips, Venkatraman Narayanan, Sandip Aine, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '15), pp. 784 - 791, July, 2015
Finding galaxies in the shadows of quasars with Gaussian processes
R. Garnett, S. Ho, and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, Vol. 37, pp. 1025 - 1033, July, 2015
GTSAM Library
Michael Kaess
Miscellaneous, GTSAM Library, 2011-2015, https://collab.cc.gatech.edu/borg, July, 2015
High Dimensional Bayesian Optimisation and Bandits via Additive Models
K. Kandasamy, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, Vol. 37, pp. 295 - 304, July, 2015
iSAM Incremental Smoothing and Mapping Library
Michael Kaess
Miscellaneous, iSAM Incremental Smoothing and Mapping Library, 2010-2015, http://people.csail.mit.edu/kaess/isam/, July, 2015
Micron-scale Light Transport Decomposition Using Interferometry
Ioannis Gkioulekas, Anat Levin, Frédo Durand, and Todd E. Zickler
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 34, No. 4, July, 2015
Nonnegative Matrix Tri-factorization with Graph Regularization for Community Detection in Social Networks
Yulong Pei, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '15), pp. 2083 - 2089, July, 2015
Numerical Nonlinear Robust Control with Applications to Humanoid Robots
Jiuguang Wang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2015
Online Bellman Residual Algorithms with Predictive Error Guarantees
Wen Sun and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 31st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '15), pp. 852 - 861, July, 2015
Place Recognition and Topological Map Learning in a Virtual Cognitive Robot
Paul R. Smart and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI '15), July, 2015
Preparing Engineers for a Global Future through Guided Opportunities to Innovate for Underserved Communities
M. Bernardine Dias, Ermine A. Teves, and Mary Beatrice Dias
Journal Article, Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 26 - 37, July, 2015
Shared Autonomy via Hindsight Optimization
Shervin Javdani, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '15), July, 2015