Publications




The Feasible Transition Graph: Encoding Topology and Manipulation Constraints for Multirobot Push-Planning
Laura Lindzey, Ross Alan Knepper, Howie Choset, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Workshop Paper, 11th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '14), pp. 301 - 318, August, 2014
Towards a model for mid-level feature representation of scenes
Mariya Toneva, Elissa Aminoff, Abhinav Gupta, and Michael Tarr
Journal Article, Journal of Vision, Vol. 14, No. 10, August, 2014
When robots engage humans
John-John Cabibihan, Mary-Anne Williams, and Reid Simmons
Journal Article, International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 311 - 313, August, 2014
An Exploration of Social Grouping in Robots: Effects of Behavioral Mimicry, Appearance, and Eye Gaze
Ahsan I. Nawroj, Mariya Toneva, Henny Admoni, and Brian Scassellati
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci '14), Vol. 36, pp. 1060 - 1065, July, 2014
Speech and gaze conflicts in collaborative human-robot interactions
Henny Admoni, Christopher Datsikas, and Brian Scassellati
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci '14), Vol. 36, pp. 104 - 109, July, 2014
3D motion planning for steerable needles using path sets
S. Sanan, Y. Chen, C. A. Lehocky, C. Gong, C. N. Riviere, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, pp. 79 - 80, July, 2014
Active Reward Learning
Christian Daniel, Malte Viering, Jan Metz, Oliver Kroemer, and Jan Peters
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '14), July, 2014
AverageExplorer: Interactive Exploration and Alignment of Visual Data Collections
Jun-Yan Zhu, Yong Jae Lee, and Alexei A. Efros
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 33, No. 4, July, 2014
ChaCra: An Interactive Design System for Rapid Character Crafting
Vittorio Megaro, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Eitan Grinspun, Stelian Coros, and Markus Gross
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '14), pp. 123 - 130, July, 2014
Concurrent Optimization of Mechanical Design and Locomotion Control of a Legged Robot
K. M. Digumarti, C. Gehring, Stelian Coros, J. Hwangbo, and R. Siegwart
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR '14), July, 2014
Detection and tracking of boundary of unmarked roads
Young-Woo Seo and Ragunathan Rajkumar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '14), July, 2014
Efficient Optimization for Autonomous Robotic Manipulation of Natural Objects
Abdeslam Boularias, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '14), pp. 2520 - 2526, July, 2014
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms based on n-gram Statistics for Sequencing and Optimization
C-Y. Chuang and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '14), pp. 53 - 54, July, 2014
Fully Decentralized Task Swaps with Optimized Local Searching
L. Liu, Nathan Michael, and D. A. Shell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '14), July, 2014
Incremental distributed robust inference from arbitrary robot poses via EM and model selection
V. Indelman, Nathan Michael, and Frank Dellaert
Workshop Paper, RSS '14 Workshop on Distributed Control and Estimation for Robotic Vehicle Networks, July, 2014
Interactive Design of Modular Tensegrity Characters
Damien Gauge, Stelian Coros, Sandro Mani, and Bernhard Thomaszewski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '14), pp. 131 - 138, July, 2014
Learning from Point Sets with Observational Bias
Liang Xiong and Jeff Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '14), pp. 898 - 906, July, 2014
Learning Manipulation by Sequencing Motor Primitives with a Two-Armed Robot
Rudolf Lioutikov, Oliver Kroemer, Guilherme Maeda, and Jan Peters
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '14), pp. 1601 - 1611, July, 2014
Multi-Vehicle Adaptive Planning with Online Estimated Cost due to Disturbance Forces
Vishnu Desaraju, L. Liu, and Nathan Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '14), pp. 321 - 334, July, 2014
Multiple Instance Learning via Gaussian Processes
M. Kim and F. De la Torre
Journal Article, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 1078 - 1106, July, 2014
Optical Kinematics of Dual Mirror Laser Rangefinders
A. Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '14), pp. 763 - 780, July, 2014
Productive Lightweight Robotic Excavation for the Moon and Mars
K. Skonieczny, M. Delaney, D. Wettergreen, and W. L. Whittaker
Journal Article, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 27, No. 4, July, 2014
Scaling Sensor Networks for Scheduling Irrigations in a Commercial Pot-in-Pot Nursery
Bruk E. Belayneh, David Kohanbash, and John D. Lea-Cox
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 111th American Society for Horticultural Science Annual Conference (ASHS '14), July, 2014
Vision-based Landing Site Evaluation and Trajectory Generation Toward Rooftop Landing
Vishnu Desaraju, Nathan Michael, M. Humenberger, R. Brockers, S. Weiss, and L. Matthies
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '14), July, 2014
3D mapping, localisation and object retrieval using low cost robotic platforms: A robotic search engine for the real-world
Thomas Whelan, Michael Kaess, Ross Finman, Maurice Fallon, Hordur Johannsson, John J. Leonard, and John McDonald
Workshop Paper, RSS '14 Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras, July, 2014
3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models
Natasha Kholgade, Tomas Simon, Alexei Efros, and Yaser Sheikh
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 33, No. 4, July, 2014
An Analysis of Deceptive Robot Motion
Anca Dragan, Rachel Holladay, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '14), July, 2014
Automatic editing of footage from multiple social cameras
Ido Arev, Hyun Soo Park, Yaser Sheikh, Jessica Hodgins, and Ariel Shamir
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 33, No. 4, July, 2014
Combining 3D Shape, Color, and Motion for Robust Anytime Tracking
David Held, Jesse Levinson, Sebastian Thrun, and Silvio Savarese
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '14), July, 2014
Computational Design of Linkage-Based Characters
Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Damien Gauge, Vittorio Megaro, Eitan Grinspun, and Markus Gross
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 33, No. 4, July, 2014
Conditioned Basis Array Factorization: An Approach to Gait Pattern Extraction
Chaohui Gong, Matthew J. Travers, Henry C. Astley, Lu Li, Joseph Mendelson, David Hu, Daniel I. Goldman, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '14), pp. 55 - 63, July, 2014
Enhanced 3D Kinematic Modeling of Wheeled Mobile Robots
Neal Seegmiller and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '14), July, 2014
Gleaning Knowledge from Data in the ICU
Michael R. Pinsky and Artur Dubrawski
Journal Article, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 190, No. 6, pp. 606 - 610, July, 2014
Legible Robot Pointing
Rachel Holladay, Anca Dragan, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '14), pp. 217 - 223, July, 2014
LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time
Ji Zhang and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '14), July, 2014
Mapping Orchards for Autonomous Navigation
Ji Zhang, Silvio Mano Maeta, Marcel Bergerman, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASABE and CSBE/SCGAB Annual International Meeting, July, 2014
Observing Optically Challenging Objects with Structured Light
Christoph Mertz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Imaging and Applied Optics: Applied Industrial Optics: Spectroscopy, Imaging and Metrology (IAO '14), July, 2014
On-Road Trajectory Planning for General Autonomous Driving with Enhanced Tunability
Tianyu Gu, John M. Dolan, and Jin-Woo Lee
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '14), pp. 247 - 261, July, 2014
Planning Single-arm Manipulations with n-Arm Robots
Benjamin Cohen, Mike Phillips, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '14), July, 2014
Polarity Related Influence Maximization in Signed Social Networks
Dong Li, Zhi-Ming Xu, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Anika Gupta, Katia Sycara, and Quansheng Liang
Journal Article, PLoS ONE, Vol. 9, No. 7, July, 2014
Pre- and Post-Contact Policy Decomposition for Planar Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty
Michael Koval, Nancy Pollard, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '14), July, 2014
Subspace Clothing Simulation Using Adaptive Bases
Fabian Hahn, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Robert W. Sumner, Forrester Cole, Mark Meyer, Tony DeRose, and Markus Gross
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 33, No. 4, July, 2014
Temporal Frequency Probing for 5D Transient Analysis of Global Light Transport
Matthew O'Toole, Felix Heide, Lei Xiao, Matthias B. Hullin, Wolfgang Heidrich, and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 33, No. 6, July, 2014
Toward a user-guided manipulation framework for high-DOF robots with limited communication
Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Nicholas Alunni, Halit Bener Suay, Jim Mainprice, Daniel Lofaro, Dmitry Berenson, Sonia Chernova, Robert W. Lindeman, and Paul Oh
Journal Article, Intelligent Service Robotics, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 121 - 131, July, 2014
Translucent Radiosity: Efficiently combining diffuse inter-reflections and subsurface scattering
Y. Sheng, Y. Shi, L. Wang, and S. G. Narasimhan
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 1009 - 1021, July, 2014
Visual Odometry in Smoke Occluded Environments
Aditya Agarwal, Daniel Maturana, and Sebastian Scherer
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-07, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2014
Clustering via Determinantal Point Processes
Paul Vernaza, Jiaji Zhou, Kris Kitani, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Miscellaneous, Technical Report, June, 2014
An Introduction to the 3rd Workshop on Egocentric (First-Person) Vision
Steve Mann, Kris M. Kitani, Yong Jae Lee, M. S. Ryoo, and Alireza Fathi
Workshop Paper, CVPR '14 Workshops, pp. 827 - 832, June, 2014
Demo: Toward a data-driven generative behavior model for human-robot interaction
Henny Admoni
Workshop Paper, MARS '14 Workshop on Mobile augmented reality and robotic technology-based systems, pp. 19 - 20, June, 2014
Parallel A* for Planning with Time-consuming State Expansions
Mike Phillips, Sven Koenig, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '14), June, 2014