Publications




Control and Design of Snake Robots
David Rollinson
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-14-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2014
Design and Open-Loop Control of the ParkourBot, a Dynamic Climbing Robot
Amir Degani, Andrew W. Long, Siyuan Feng, H. Benjamin Brown, Robert D. Gregg, Howie Choset, Matthew T. Mason, and Kevin M. Lynch
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 705 - 718, June, 2014
Generating Omni-Directional View of Neighboring Objects for Ensuring Safe Urban Driving
Young-Woo Seo
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-14-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2014
Guided Manipulation Planning at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials
Christopher Dellin, Kyle Strabala, Galen Clark Haynes, David Stager, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '14), pp. 149 - 163, June, 2014
Identifying and Cultivating Diverse STEM Talent through Creative Robotics
Jennifer Cross and Emily Hamner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition (ASEE '14), June, 2014
Inferring Maps and Behaviors from Natural Language Instructions
Felix Duvallet, Matthew Walter, Thomas Howard, Sachithra Hemachandra, Jean Hyaejin Oh, Seth Teller, Nicholas Roy, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '14), pp. 373 - 388, June, 2014
Object Modeling and Recognition from Sparse, Noisy Data via Voxel Depth Carving
Matthew Klingensmith, Martin Hermann, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '14), pp. 697 - 714, June, 2014
Robust Multi-Sensor Fusion for Micro Aerial Vehicle Navigation in GPS-Degraded/Denied Environments
Andrew D. Chambers, Sebastian Scherer, Luke Yoder, Sezal Jain, Stephen T. Nuske, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '14), pp. 1892 - 1899, June, 2014
Time-Dependent Planning for Resource Prospecting
Christopher Cunningham, Heather Jones, Jacqueline Kay, Kevin Peterson, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '14), June, 2014
Time-Mapping Using Space-Time Saliency
Feng Zhou, Sing Bing Kang, and Michael F. Cohen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 3358 - 3365, June, 2014
Toward Human-like Motion Planning in Urban Environments
Tianyu Gu and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '14), pp. 350 - 355, June, 2014
Towards the development of an Inter-Cultural Scale to Measure Trust in Automation
Shih-Yi Chien, Zhaleh Semnani-Azad, Michael Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Cross Cultural Design (CCD '14), pp. 35 - 46, June, 2014
Understanding How Camera Configuration and Environmental Conditions Affect Appearance-based Localization
Aayush Bansal, Hernan Badino, and Daniel Huber
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '14), pp. 800 - 807, June, 2014
Wayfinding and Navigation for People with Disabilities Using Social Navigation Networks
Hassan Karimi, M. Bernardine Dias, Jonathan Pearlman, and George Zimmerman
Journal Article, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing, Vol. 1, No. 2, June, 2014
Compact nonlinear springs with user defined torque-deflection profiles for series elastic actuators
Alexander Schepelmann, Kathryn Geberth, and Hartmut Geyer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3411 - 3416, May, 2014
Coordinated Commencement of Pre-Planned Routes for Fixed-Wing UAS Starting from Arbitrary Locations - a Near Real-Time Solution
James Keller, Dinesh Thakur, Vladimir Dobrokhodov, Kevin Jones, Maxim Likhachev, Jean Gallier, Isaac Kaminer, and Vijay Kumar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, (ICUAS '14), pp. 552 - 561, May, 2014
Motion Planning for Smooth Pickup of Moving Objects
Arjun Menon, Benjamin Cohen, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 453 - 460, May, 2014
Visual Sensing for Developing Autonomous Behavior in Snake Robots
H. Ponte, M. Queenan, C. Mertz, M. Travers, F. Enner, M. Hebert, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2779 - 2784, May, 2014
A Logic Based Benders' Approach to the Concrete Delivery Problem
Joris Kinable and M. Trick
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, AI, and Operations Research (CPAIOR '14), pp. 176 - 192, May, 2014
A multi-sensor fusion system for moving object detection and tracking in urban driving environments
Hyunggi Cho, Young-Woo Seo, BVK Vijaya Kumar, and Ragunathan Raj Rajkumar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1836 - 1843, May, 2014
A passively safe and gravity-counterbalanced anthropomorphic robot arm
John P. Whitney and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6168 - 6173, May, 2014
Constrained scheduling of robot exploration tasks
Max Korein, Brian Coltin, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS '14), pp. 429 - 436, May, 2014
Crowdsourced Saliency for Mining Robotically Gathered 3D Maps Using Multitouch Interaction on Smartphones and Tablets
Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Mitch Bryson, Bertrand Douillard, Oscar Pizarro, and Stefan B. Williams
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6032 - 6039, May, 2014
DARPA robotics challenge: Towards a user-guided manipulation framework for high-DOF robots
Nicholas Alunni, Halit Bener Suay, Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Jim Mainprice, Dmitry Berenson, Sonia Chernova, Robert W. Lindeman, Daniel Lofaro, and Paul Oh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2088, May, 2014
Demand Side Energy Management via Multiagent Coordination in Consumer Cooperatives
Andreas Veit, Ying Xu, Ronghuo Zheng, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia P. Sycara
Journal Article, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 885 - 922, May, 2014
Deployable epicardial manipulator for heart failure gene therapy delivery
C. Riviere, N. Wood, M. Passineau, and T. Yoshizumi
Journal Article, European Journal of Heart Failure, Vol. 16, pp. 220, May, 2014
Efficient Incremental Map Segmentation in Dense RGB-D Maps
Ross Finman, Thomas Whelan, Michael Kaess, and John J. Leonard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5488 - 5494, May, 2014
Energy-Aware Aerial Robot Deployment via Bipartite Graph Matching
L. Liu and Nathan Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS '14), pp. 189 - 194, May, 2014
Episodic Non-Markov Localization: Reasoning About Short-Term and Long-Term Features
Joydeep Biswas and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3969 - 3974, May, 2014
Explicit vs. Tacit Leadership in Influencing the Behavior of Swarms
Saman Amirpour Amraii, Phillip Walker, Michael Lewis, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2209 - 2214, May, 2014
Finding Gaps in Data to Guide Development of a Radiation Threat Adjudication System
N. Gisolfi, M. Fiterau, A. Dubrawski, S. Ray, S. Labov, and K. Nelson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications (SORMA '14), May, 2014
Focused optimization for online detection of anomalous regions
Juan Pablo Mendoza, Manuela Veloso, and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3358 - 3363, May, 2014
Head-Orientation for a Sidewinding Snake Robot using Modal Decomposition
E. A. Cappo, M. Travers, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Unmanned Systems Technology XVI, May, 2014
Hierarchical Adaptive Planning in Environments with Uncertain, Spatially-Varying Disturbance Forces
Vishnu Desaraju and Nathan Michael
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5171 - 5176, May, 2014
Improved Suppression of Background Radiation for Detecting Sources from Large Libraries of Known Threat
P. Huggins, A. Dubrawski, P. Tandon, S. Labov, and K. Nelson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications (SORMA '14), May, 2014
Interaction Primitives for Human-Robot Cooperation Tasks
Heni Ben Amor, Gerhard Neumann, Sanket Kamthe, Oliver Kroemer, and Jan Peters
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2831 - 2837, May, 2014
Learning to Predict Phases of Manipulation Tasks as Hidden States
Oliver Kroemer, Herke van Hoof, Gerhard Neumann, and Jan Peters
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4009 - 4014, May, 2014
Motion Planning under Uncertainty for On-Road Autonomous Driving
Wenda Xu, Jiantao Pan, Junqing Wei, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2507 - 2512, May, 2014
Multi-Robot Pose Graph Localization and Data Association from Unknown Initial Relative Poses via Expectation Maximization
V. Indelman, Erik Nelson, Nathan Michael, and Frank Dellaert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 593 - 600, May, 2014
Multi-Sensor Fusion for Robust Autonomous Flight in Indoor and Outdoor Environments with a Rotorcraft MAV
S. Shen, Y. Mulgaonkar, Nathan Michael, and V. Kumar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4974 - 4981, May, 2014
Neglect Benevolence in Human Control of Robotic Swarms
Sasanka Nagavalli, Lingzhi Luo, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6047 - 6053, May, 2014
New Techniques for Fine-scale Mapping of Intertidal Environments using Kite Aerial Photography
M. Bryson, R. Murphy, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping (GEOHAB '14), May, 2014
Opponent-Driven Planning and Execution for Pass, Attack, and Defense in a Multi-Robot Soccer Team
Joydeep Biswas, Juan Pablo Mendoza, Danny Zhu, Benjamin Choi, Steven Klee, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '14), pp. 493 - 500, May, 2014
Regrasping objects using extrinsic dexterity
Nikhil Chavan Dafle, Alberto Rodriguez, Robert Paolini, Bowei Tang, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Michael Erdmann, Matthew T. Mason, Ivan Lundberg, Harald Staab, and Thomas Fuhlbrigge
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2560 - 2566, May, 2014
Sequential Allocation of Sampling Budgets in Unknown Environments
P. M. Furlong and D. Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 157 - 162, May, 2014
Toward hybrid position/force control for an active handheld micromanipulator
T. S. Wells, R. A. MacLachlan, and C. N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 772 - 777, May, 2014
Towards Automatic Discovery of Agile Gaits for Quadrupedal Robots
Christian Gehring, Stelian Coros, Marco Hutter, Michael Bloesch, Peter Fankhauser, Mark Hoepflinger, and Roland Siegwart
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4243 - 4248, May, 2014
Towards Consistent Visual-Inertial Navigation
Guoquan Huang, Michael Kaess, and John J. Leonard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4926 - 4933, May, 2014
Using cognitive architectures to study issues in team cognition in a complex task environment
Paul R. Smart, Katia P. Sycara, and Yuqing Tang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Next-Generation Analyst II, Vol. 9122, May, 2014
A Principled Approach to Enable Safe and High Performance Maneuvers for Autonomous Rotorcraft
Sankalp Arora, Sanjiban Choudhury, Sebastian Scherer, and Daniel Althoff
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AHS 70th Annual Forum, May, 2014