Publications




Automated End-to-End Workflow for Precise and Geo-Accurate Reconstructions using Fiducial Markers
Markus Rumpler, Shreyansh Daftry, Alexander Tscharf, Rudolf Prettenthaler, Christof Hoppe, Gerhard Mayer, and Horst Bischof
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Photogrammetric Computer Vision (PCV '14), pp. 135 - 142, September, 2014
Automated Visual Yield Estimation in Vineyards
Stephen T. Nuske, Stephen Kyle Wilshusen, Supreeth Achar, Luke Yoder, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, and Sanjiv Singh
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on Field and Service Robotics, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 837 - 860, September, 2014
City-Wide Road Distress Monitoring with Smartphones
Christoph Mertz, Srivatsan Varadharajan, Sobhagya Jose, Karan Sharma, Lars Wander, and Jina Wang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ITS World Congress, September, 2014
Evolving Mixtures of n-gram Models for Sequencing and Schedule Optimization
Chung-Yao Chuang and Stephen Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings 13th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN '14), pp. 312 - 321, September, 2014
Experimental Study of Odometry Estimation Methods using RGB-D Cameras
Zheng Fang and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 680 - 687, September, 2014
Guided Locomotion in 3D for Snake Robots Based on Contact Force Optimization
H. Ponte, M. Travers, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2482 - 2487, September, 2014
HERB’s Sure Thing: a rapid drama system for rehearsing and performing live robot theater
Garth Zeglin, Aaron Walsman, Laura Herlant, Zhaodong Zheng, Yuyang Guo, Michael Koval, Kevin Lenzo, Hui Jun Tay, Prasanna Velagapudi, Katie Correll, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Workshop Paper, IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, pp. 129 - 136, September, 2014
Human Control of Robot Swarms with Dynamic Leaders
Phillip Walker, Saman Amirpour Amraii, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Michael Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1108 - 1113, September, 2014
Informed RRT*: Optimal Sampling-based Path Planning Focused via Direct Sampling of an Admissible Ellipsoidal Heuristic
Jonathan Gammell, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Timothy Barfoot
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2997 - 3004, September, 2014
Multi-tier ground truth elicitation framework with application to artifact classification for predicting patient instability
Donghan Wang, Lujie Chen, Madalina Fiterau, Artur Dubrawski, Marilyn Hravnak, Eliezer Bose, David Wallace, Murat Kaynar, Gilles Clermont, and Michael R. Pinsky
Journal Article, Intensive Care Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 289, September, 2014
NavPal: Technology Solutions for Enhancing Urban Navigation
M. Bernardine Dias
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-14-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2014
Occlusion Reasoning for Object Detection under Arbitrary Viewpoint
Edward Hsiao and Martial Hebert
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 36, No. 9, pp. 1803 - 1815, September, 2014
Parameterized Controller Generation for Multiple Mode Behavior
Chaohui Gong, Matthew Travers, Hsien-Tang Kao, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3655 - 3660, September, 2014
Pre-operative prognosis of predisposition for bleeding-induced crash
A. Dubrawski, L. Chen, F. Liu, G. Clermont, and M. R. Pinsky
Journal Article, Intensive Care Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 288, September, 2014
Real-time Depth Enhanced Monocular Odometry
Ji Zhang, Michael Kaess, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4973 - 4980, September, 2014
Recursive Dynamics and Feedback Linearizing Control of Serial-Chain Manipulators
M. Travers and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2440 - 2446, September, 2014
Robotic Handwriting: Multi-contact Manipulation based on Reactional Internal Contact Hypothesis
Sung Kyun Kim, Joonhee Jo, Yonghwan Oh, Sang-Rok Oh, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 877 - 884, September, 2014
Self-explanatory Sparse Representation for Image Classification
Bao-Di Liu, Yuxiong Wang, Bin Shen, Yu-Jin Zhang, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 600 - 616, September, 2014
Simultaneous On-line Discovery and Improvement of Robotic Skill Options
Freek Stulp, Laura Herlant, Antoine Hoarau, and Gennaro Raiola
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1408 - 1413, September, 2014
Slope Descent using Plowing to Minimize Slip for Planetary Rovers
Daniel Loret de Mola Lemus, David Kohanbash, Scott Jared Moreland, and David Wettergreen
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on Field and Service Robotics, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 803 - 819, September, 2014
Spatial, Temporal and Spatio-temporal Correspondence for Computer Vision Problems
Feng Zhou
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-14-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2014
Spatio-temporal Matching for Human Detection in Video
Feng Zhou and Fernando De la Torre Frade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 62 - 77, September, 2014
Supervised Machine learning can classify artifact in multi-signal vital sign monitoring data from Step-Down Unit (SDU) Patients
Marilyn Hravnak, Lujie Chen, Artur Dubrawski, Gilles Clermont, Eliezer Bose, Madalina Fiterau, Mathieu Guillame-Bert, and Michael R. Pinsky
Journal Article, Intensive Care Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 29, September, 2014
Topometric Localization on a Road Network
Danfei Xu, Hernan Badino, and Daniel Huber
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3448 - 3455, September, 2014
Using Lie algebra for shape estimation of medical snake robots
Arun Rangaprasad, Matthew Travers, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3483 - 3488, September, 2014
Utility of empirical models of hemorrhage in detecting and quantifying bleeding
M. Guillame-Bert, A. Dubrawski, L. Chen, A. Holder, M. R. Pinsky, and G. Clermont
Journal Article, Intensive Care Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 287, September, 2014
Visual place recognition using HMM sequence matching
Peter Hansen and Brett Browning
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4549 - 4555, September, 2014
Visualizing and Analyzing Machine-soil Interactions using Computer Vision
Krzysztof Skonieczny, Scott Jared Moreland, Vivake Asnani, Colin Creager, Hiroaki Inotsume, and David Wettergreen
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on Field and Service Robotics, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 820 - 836, September, 2014
Robust swing leg controller under large disturbances
Ruta Desai and Hartmut Geyer
Miscellaneous, US Patent 9,603,724, August, 2014
Prioritized Computation for Numerical Sound Propagation
John Drake, Maxim Likhachev, and Alla Safonova
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx '14), pp. 13 - 18, August, 2014
A parallel wire robot for epicardial interventions
A. D. Costanza, N. A. Wood, M. J. Passineau, R. J. Moraca, S. H. Bailey, T. Yoshizumi, and C. N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '14), pp. 6155 - 6158, August, 2014
Active control strategies for localizing a large number of devices with range-only sensors
B. Charrow, Nathan Michael, and V. Kumar
Workshop Paper, 11th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '14), pp. 55 - 71, August, 2014
An Approximation Algorithm for Time Optimal Multi-Robot Routing
M. Turpin, Nathan Michael, and V. Kumar
Workshop Paper, 11th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '14), pp. 627 - 640, August, 2014
Assessing naturalness and emotional intensity: A perceptual study of animated facial motion
Jennifer Hyde, Elizabeth J. Carter, Sara Kiesler, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP '14), pp. 15 - 22, August, 2014
Expressive motion with x, y and theta: Laban Effort Features for mobile robots
Heather Knight and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '14), pp. 267 - 273, August, 2014
Hyper- and viscoelastic modeling of needle and brain tissue interaction
C. A. Lehocky, Y. Shi, and C. N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '14), pp. 6530 - 6533, August, 2014
Multi-Heuristic A*
Sandip Aine, Siddharth Swaminathan, Venkatraman Narayanan, Victor Hwang, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS '14), pp. 207 - 208, August, 2014
Playing catch with robots: Incorporating social gestures into physical interactions
Elizabeth J. Carter, Michael N. Mistry, G. P. K. Carr, Brooke A. Kelly, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '14), pp. 231 - 236, August, 2014
Socially-appropriate approach paths using human data
Eleanor Avrunin and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '14), pp. 1037 - 1042, August, 2014
Anytime Tree-Restoring Weighted A* Graph Search
Kalin Gochev, Alla Safonova, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS '14), pp. 80 - 88, August, 2014
Design and Control of a Flapping Flight Micro Aerial Vehicle
Lindsey Hines
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-14-19, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2014
Distributed Algorithm Design for Constrained Multi-robot Task Assignment
Lingzhi Luo
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-14-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2014
Energy Considerations for Wheeled Mobile Robots Operating on a Single Battery Discharge
Xuesu Xiao and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-14-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2014
Explorable Visual Analytics, Knowledge Discovery in Large and High-Dimensional Data
Saman Amirpour Amraii, Randy Sargent, and Illah Reza Nourbakhsh
Workshop Paper, KDD '14 Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA '14), pp. 26 - 34, August, 2014
Human-Inspired Force Compliant Grasping Primitives
Moslem Kazemi, Jean-Sebastien Valois, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Nancy Pollard
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 209 - 225, August, 2014
Learning Motion Planning Assumptions
Anirudh Vemula, Sanjiban Choudhury, and Sebastian Scherer
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-14-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2014
Online Verification of Automated Road Vehicles Using Reachability Analysis
Matthias Althoff and John M. Dolan
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 903 - 918, August, 2014
Perceptually Valid Dynamics for Smiles and Blinks
Laura Trutoiu
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-14-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2014
Support vector clustering of time series data with alignment kernels
Benedikt Boecking, Stephan K. Chalup, Detlef Seese, and Aaron S. W. Wong
Journal Article, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 45, pp. 129 - 135, August, 2014
The Concrete Delivery Problem
Joris Kinable, T. Wauters, and G. Vanden Berghe
Journal Article, Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 48, pp. 53 - 68, August, 2014