Publications




Construction and Validation of a High Fidelity Simulator for a Planar Range Sensor
Abhijeet Tallavajhula and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6261 - 6266, May, 2015
Data-Driven Model for Spontaneous Smiles
Laura C. Trutoiu, Nancy Pollard, Jeffrey F. Cohn, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA '15), May, 2015
Dense 3D Face Alignment from 2D Videos in Real-Time
Laszlo A. Jeni, Jeffrey F. Cohn, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG '15), May, 2015
Distributed constraint optimization for teams of mobile sensing agents
Roi Zivan, H. Yeditsion, Steven Okamoto, Robin Glinton, and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 495 - 536, May, 2015
Dynamic Multi-Heuristic A*
Fahad Islam, Venkatraman Narayanan, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2376 - 2382, May, 2015
Efficient high-quality motion planning by fast all-pairs r-nearest-neighbors
Michal Kleinbort, Oren Salzman, and Dan Halperin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2985 - 2990, May, 2015
Emergency Maneuver Library – Ensuring Safe Navigation in Partially Known Environments
Sankalp Arora, Sanjiban Choudhury, Daniel Althoff, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6431 - 6438, May, 2015
Environment Model Adaptation for Autonomous Exploration
Erik Nelson
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2015
Experience Graphs: Leveraging Experience in Planning
Michael Phillips
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2015
Fast Function to Function Regression
J. Oliva, W. Neiswanger, B. Poczos, E. Xing, and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '15), Vol. 38, pp. 717 - 725, May, 2015
Grounding Spatial Relations for Outdoor Robot Navigation
Abdeslam Boularias, Felix Duvallet, Jean Hyaejin Oh, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1976 - 1982, May, 2015
Handheld Micromanipulator for Robot-Assisted Microsurgery
Sungwook Yang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2015
How much training data for facial action unit detection?
Jeffrey M. Girard, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Laszlo A. Jeni, Simon Lucey, and Fernando De la Torre
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG '15), May, 2015
Improving regrasp algorithms to analyze the utility of work surfaces in a workcell
Weiwei Wan, Matthew T. Mason, R. Fukui, and Y. Kuniyoshi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4326 - 4333, May, 2015
IntraFace
Fernando De la Torre Frade, Wen-Sheng Chu, Xuehan Xiong, Francisco Vicente Carrasco, Xiaoyu Ding, and Jeffrey Cohn
Workshop Paper, FG '15 Workshops, May, 2015
Kinodynamic Randomized Rearrangement Planning via Dynamic Transitions Between Statically Stable States
Joshua Haustein, Jennifer King, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Tamim Asfour
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3075 - 3082, May, 2015
Measurement of Shear and Slip with a GelSight Tactile Sensor
Wenzhen Yuan, Rui Li, Mandayam A. Srinivasan, and Edward H. Adelson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 304 - 311, May, 2015
Mobile Manufacturing of Large Structures
David Bourne, Howie Choset, Humphrey Hu, George A. Kantor, Christopher Niessl, Zack Rubinstein, Reid Simmons, and Stephen Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1565 - 1572, May, 2015
Movement Primitives via Optimization
Anca Dragan, Katharina Muelling, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2339 - 2346, May, 2015
Multi-robot long-term persistent coverage with fuel constrained robots.
Derek Mitchell, Micah Corah, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Katia Sycara, and Nathan Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1093 - 1099, May, 2015
Nonprehensile Whole Arm Rearrangement Planning on Physics Manifolds
Jennifer King, Joshua Haustein, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Tamim Asfour
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2508 - 2515, May, 2015
Optimal motion planning for a tethered robot: Efficient preprocessing for fast shortest paths queries
Oren Salzman and Dan Halperin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4161 - 4166, May, 2015
PASP: Policy Based Approach for Sensor Planning
Sankalp Arora and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3479 - 3486, May, 2015
Psychophysical Evaluation of Haptic Perception Under Augmentation by a Handheld Device
Bing Wu, Roberta Klatzky, Randy Lee, Vikas Revanna Shivaprabhu, John Galeotti, Mel Siegel, Joel Schuman, Ralph Hollis, and George D. Stetten
Journal Article, Human Factors, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 523 - 537, May, 2015
Quadratic Encoding for Hand Pose Reconstruction from Multi-Touch Input
Se-Joon Chung, Junggon Kim, Shangchen Han, and Nancy S. Pollard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 36th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics '15), pp. 13 - 16, May, 2015
RCTA Semantic Navigation Video Channel. https://youtu.be/ID0WlHeHwuU
J. Oh and et al.
Miscellaneous, Video Production, May, 2015
Real-time Onboard 6DoF Localization of an Indoor MAV in Degraded Visual Environments Using a RGB-D Camera
Zheng Fang and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5253 - 5259, May, 2015
Robotics Community Experiences: Leveraging Informal Design and Learning Experiences to Motivate Urban Youth in STEM
Kimberley Gomez, Debra Bernstein, Jolene Zywica, Emily Hamner, Ung-Sang Lee, and Jahneille Cunningham
Book Section/Chapter, Handbook of Research on Advancements in Robotics and Mechatronics, pp. 929 - 957, May, 2015
Semi-Dense Visual Odometry for Monocular Navigation in Cluttered Environment
Shreyansh Daftry, Debadeepta Dey, Harsimrat Sandhawalia, Sam Zeng, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Martial Hebert
Workshop Paper, ICRA '15 Workshop on Recent Advances in Sensing and Actuation for Bioinspired Agile Flight, May, 2015
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Infinite Planes
Michael Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4605 - 4611, May, 2015
Task-Oriented Planning for Manipulating Articulated Mechanisms Under Model Uncertainty
Venkatraman Narayanan and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3095 - 3101, May, 2015
Terrain Traversability Prediction by Imaging Thermal Transients
Christopher Cunningham, Issa Nesnas, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3947 - 3952, May, 2015
The Dynamics Projection Filter (DPF) - Real-Time Nonlinear Trajectory Optimization Using Projection Operators
Sanjiban Choudhury and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 644 - 649, May, 2015
The Planner Ensemble: Motion Planning by Executing Diverse Algorithms
Sanjiban Choudhury, Sankalp Arora, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2389 - 2395, May, 2015
Visual Chunking: A List Prediction Framework for Region-Based Object Detection
Nicholas Rhinehart, Jiaji Zhou, Martial Hebert, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5448 - 5454, May, 2015
Visual-lidar Odometry and Mapping: Low-drift, Robust, and Fast
Ji Zhang and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2174 - 2181, May, 2015
Auto-calibration for a planar epicardial wire robot
Macauley S. Breault, Adam D. Costanza, Nathan A. Wood, Michael J. Passineau, and Cameron N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 41st Annual Northeast Biomedical Engineering Conference (NEBEC '15), April, 2015
A neural circuitry that emphasizes spinal feedbacks generates diverse behaviors of human locomotion
Seungmoon Song and Hartmut Geyer
Journal Article, Journal of Physiology, Vol. 593, No. 16, pp. 3493 - 3511, April, 2015
Three-dimensional printer with an inverted cutting surface and a movable platform for creating layered objects
J. McCann, H. Peng, S. Hudson, and J. Mankoff
Miscellaneous, U. S. Patent US10160165B2, April, 2015
A machine learning approach for dynamical mass measurements of galaxy clusters
M. Ntampaka, H. Trac, D. Sutherland, N. Battaglia, B. Poczos, and J. Schneider
Journal Article, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 803, No. 2, pp. 50, April, 2015
Abstraction of Analytical Models from Cognitive Models of Human Control of Robotic Swarms
Katia Sycara, Christian Lebiere, Yulong Pei, Donald Morrison, and Michael Lewis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM '15), pp. 13 - 18, April, 2015
Designing Autism Research for Maximum Impact
Elizabeth J. Carter and Jennifer Hyde
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15), pp. 2801 - 2804, April, 2015
Performance Characterization of Reactive Visual Systems
S. Dutta, A. Chugh, R. Tamburo, A. Rowe, and S. G. Narasimhan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICCP) IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, April, 2015
Recognition of Highway Workzones for Reliable Autonomous Driving
Y-W Seo, J. Lee, W. Zhang, and D. Wettergreen
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 708 - 718, April, 2015
Using an Interactive Avatar's Facial Expressiveness to Increase Persuasiveness and Socialness
Jennifer Hyde, Elizabeth J. Carter, Sara Kiesler, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15), pp. 1719 - 1728, April, 2015
A Layered Fabric 3D Printer for Soft Interactive Objects
Huaishu Peng, Jennifer Mankoff, Scott E. Hudson, and James McCann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15), pp. 1789 - 1798, April, 2015
3D Printing Pneumatic Device Controls with Variable Activation Force Capabilities
Marynel Vazquez, Eric Brockmeyer, Ruta Desai, Chris Harrison, and Scott E. Hudson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15), pp. 1295-1304, April, 2015
Finding a Needle in an Exponential Haystack: Discrete RRT for Exploration of Implicit Roadmaps in Multi-robot Motion Planning
Kiril Solovey, Oren Salzman, and Dan Halperin
Workshop Paper, 11th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '15), pp. 591 - 607, April, 2015
Leveraging Publicly Available Data to Discern Patterns of Human Trafficking Activity
Artur Dubrawski, Kyle Miller, Matthew Barnes, Benedikt Boecking, and Emily J. Kennedy
Journal Article, Journal of Human Trafficking, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 65 - 85, April, 2015
Manipulator design and operation of a six-degree-of-freedom handheld tremor-cancelling microsurgical instrument
Sungwook Yang, Robert MacLachlan, and Cameron Riviere
Journal Article, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 761 - 772, April, 2015