Publications




Demand Side Energy Management via Multiagent Coordination in Consumer Cooperatives
Andreas Veit, Ying Xu, Ronghuo Zheng, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-13-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2013
Design and Characterization of A Soft Multi-Axis Force Sensor Using Embedded Microfluidic Channels
Daniel Vogt, Yong-Lae Park, and Robert J. Wood
Journal Article, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 13, No. 10, pp. 4056 - 4064, October, 2013
Geodesics in Heat: A New Approach to Computing Distance Based on Heat Flow
Keenan Crane, Clarisse Weischedel, and Max Wardetzky
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 32, No. 5, October, 2013
Human Control of Leader-Based Swarms
Phillip Walker, Saman Amirpour Amraii, Michael Lewis, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '13), pp. 2712 - 2717, October, 2013
Kernel-Based Traffic Sign Tracking to Improve Highway Workzone Recognition for Reliable Autonomous Driving
Jong Ho Lee, Young-Woo Seo, Wende Zhang, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC '13), pp. 1131 - 1136, October, 2013
Learning temporal rules to forecast instability in intensive care patients
M. Guillame-Bert, Artur W. Dubrawski, Lujie Chen, M. Hravnak, Michael R. Pinsky, and G. C. Clermont
Journal Article, Intensive Care Medicine, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 470, October, 2013
Multi-observation sensor resetting localization with ambiguous landmarks
Brian Coltin and Manuela Veloso
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 221 - 237, October, 2013
Real-time 6-DOF Multi-session Visual SLAM over Large Scale Environments
J. B. McDonald, Michael Kaess, C. Cadena, J. Neira, and J. J. Leonard
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 61, No. 10, pp. 1144 - 1158, October, 2013
Robocopters to the Rescue
Lyle Chamberlain and Sebastian Scherer
Magazine Article, IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 28 - 33, October, 2013
Robotics for computer scientists: What's the big idea?
David S. Touretzky
Journal Article, Computer Science Education, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 349 - 367, October, 2013
Stories in the Rock: A Design Case of an Explorable Image Viewer in a Natural History Museum
Marti Louw, Ahmed Ansari, Christopher Bartley, and Camellia Sanford
Journal Article, International Journal of Designs for Learning, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 56 - 71, October, 2013
The physical basis of perceived roughness in virtual sinusoidal textures
Bertram Unger, Roberta Klatzky, and Ralph Hollis
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 496 - 505, October, 2013
Understanding the Role of Phase Function in Translucent Appearance
Ioannis Gkioulekas, Bei Xiao, Shuang Zhao, Edward H. Adelson, Todd E. Zickler, and Kavita Bala
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 32, No. 5, October, 2013
Using Coverage for Measuring the Effect of Haptic Feedback in Human Robotic Swarm Interaction
Steven Nunnally, Phillip Walker, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Michael Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '13), pp. 516 - 521, October, 2013
Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Strategy Extraction
Muelling, K., Boularias, A., Mohler, B., Schoelkopf, B., and Peters, J.
Workshop Paper, ECML'13 Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, September, 2013
Towards Robot Skill Learning: From Simple Skills to Table Tennis
J. Peters, J. Kober, K. Muelling, O. Kroemer, and G. Neumann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD '13), Nectar Track, pp. 627 - 631, September, 2013
Characteristics of elderly user behavior on mobile multi-touch devices
Susumu Harada, Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '13), pp. 323 - 341, September, 2013
Lessons learned from crowd accessibility services
Hironobu Takagi, Susumu Harada, Daisuke Sato, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '13), pp. 587 - 604, September, 2013
Levels of Automation for Human Influence of Robot Swarms
Phillip Walker, Steven Nunnally, Michael Lewis, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 57th Annual Meeting (HFES '13), pp. 429 - 433, September, 2013
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics: A Survey
J. Kober, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and J. Peters
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 32, No. 11, pp. 1238 - 1274, September, 2013
Using Haptic Feedback in Human Robotic Swarms Interaction
Steven Nunnally, Phillip Walker, Michael Lewis, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 57th Annual Meeting (HFES '13), pp. 1047 - 1051, September, 2013
Visual Object Detection with Deformable Part Models
Pedro Felzenszwalb, Ross Girshick, David McAllester, and Deva Ramanan
Journal Article, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 97 - 105, September, 2013
Effects of magnification on depth perception and visually-guided reaching
B. Wu, R. Klatzky, and J. Galeotti
Journal Article, Journal of Vision, Vol. 13, No. 9, pp. 220, September, 2013
Very-High-Resolution Time-Lapse Photography for Plant and Ecosystems Research
Mary H. Nichols, Janet C. Steven, Randy Sargent, Paul Dille, and Joshua Schapiro
Journal Article, Applications in Plant Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 9, September, 2013
A metaheuristic for the school bus routing problem with bus stop selection
P. Schittekat, Joris Kinable, K. Sorensen, M. Sevaux, F. Spieksma, and J. Springael
Journal Article, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 229, No. 2, pp. 518 - 528, September, 2013
A Soft Strain Sensor Based on Ionic and Metal Liquids
Jean-Baptiste Chossat, Yong-Lae Park, Robert J. Wood, and Vincent Duchaine
Journal Article, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 13, No. 9, pp. 3405 - 3414, September, 2013
Accelerometer Based Absolute Positioning for a Miniature In-Vivo Surgical Robot
Joseph Bartels, Thomas Frederick, Eric Markvicka, Kearney Lackas, Shane Farritor, and Dmitry Oleynikov
Journal Article, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 2013
Consistent Sparsification for Graph Optimization
Guoquan Huang, Michael Kaess, and John J. Leonard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR '13), pp. 150 - 157, September, 2013
Coordination of Multiple Dynamic Programming Policies for Control of Bipedal Walking
Eric Whitman
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-13-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2013
Development of a Low-Cost Inspection Arm to Map the Available Workspace Within the Abdominal Cavity
Walter Bircher, Eric Markvicka, Jack Mondry, Tom Frederick, Joe Bartels, Shane Farritor, and Dmitry Oleynikov
Journal Article, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 2013
Facing Imbalanced Data--Recommendations for the Use of Performance Metrics
Laszlo A. Jeni, Jeffrey F. Cohn, and Fernando De la Torre
Workshop Paper, ACII '13 Workshops, pp. 245 - 251, September, 2013
Flexible and User-Centric Camera Calibration using Planar Fiducial Markers
Shreyansh Daftry, Michael Maurer, Andreas Wendel, and Horst Bischof
Conference Paper, Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC '13), September, 2013
Gross positioning system for in vivo surgical devices
Eric Markvicka, Kearney Lackas, Tom Frederick, Joe Bartels, Shane Farritor, and Dmitry Oleynikov
Journal Article, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 2013
Haptic Sensing for Use in Miniature In-Vivo Robotic Grasping Tasks
Tom Frederick, Eric Markvicka, Joe Bartels, Kearney Lackas, Shane Farritor, and Dmitry Oleynikov
Journal Article, Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 7, No. 3, September, 2013
Head Movement Dynamics During Normal and Perturbed Parent-Infant Interaction
Zakia Hammal, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Daniel S. Messinger, Whitney I. Mattson, and Mohammad H. Mahoor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Humaine Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII '13), pp. 276 - 282, September, 2013
Kite Aerial Photography for Low-Cost, Ultra-high Spatial Resolution Multi-Spectral Mapping of Intertidal Landscapes
Mitch Bryson, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Richard J. Murphy, and Daniel Bongiorno
Journal Article, PLoS ONE, Vol. 8, No. 9, September, 2013
Mapping Submerged Archaeological Sites using Stereo-Vision Photogrammetry
Jon Henderson, Oscar Pizarro, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, and Ian Mahon
Journal Article, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 243 - 256, September, 2013
Planning Efficient Paths through Dynamic Flow Fields in Real World Domains
Christopher Tomaszewski, Abhinav Valada, and Paul Scerri
Conference Paper, Proceedings of OCEANS '13 MTS/IEEE, September, 2013
Shape space planner for shape-accelerated balancing mobile robots
Umashankar Nagarajan and Ralph Hollis
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 32, No. 11, pp. 1323 - 1341, September, 2013
Theory and Practice of Globally Optimal Deformation Estimation
Yuandong Tian
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-13-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2013
Toward Lifelong Object Segmentation from Change Detection in Dense RGB-D Maps
Ross Finman, Thomas Whelan, Michael Kaess, and John J. Leonard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR '13), pp. 178 - 185, September, 2013
Unscented iSAM: A Consistent Incremental Solution to Cooperative Localization and Target Tracking
Guoquan Huang, Robert Truax, Michael Kaess, and John J. Leonard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR '13), pp. 150 - 157, September, 2013
Active Learning and Search on Low-Rank Matrices
D. Sutherland, B. Poczos, and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '13), pp. 212 - 220, August, 2013
Active Search on Graphs
X. Wang, R. Garnett, and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '13), pp. 731 - 738, August, 2013
Exploring Friends’ Influence in Cultures in Twitter
Anika Gupta, Katia P. Sycara, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Ahmed Hefny
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM '13), pp. 584 - 591, August, 2013
Integrated motion planning and control for graceful balancing mobile robots
Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, and Ralph Hollis
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 32, No. 9, pp. 1005 - 1029, August, 2013
KickSat: A Crowd-Funded Mission to Demonstrate the World's Smallest Spacecraft
Zac Manchester, Mason Peck, and Andrew Filo
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, August, 2013
Multi-quadrant surgical robot for single incision laparoscopic colectomy
Eric Markvicka, R. L. McCormick, T. P. Frederick, Joseph Bartels, Shane M. Farritor, and Dmitry Oleynikov
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (DETC '13), August, 2013
Unpleasantness of animated characters corresponds to increased viewer attention to faces
Elizabeth J. Carter, Moshe Mahler, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP '13), pp. 35 - 40, August, 2013
A First Look at Creating Mock Catalogs with Machine Learning Techniques
Xiaoying Xu, Shirley Ho, Hy Trac, Jeff Schneider, Barnabas Poczos, and Michelle Ntampaka
Journal Article, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 772, No. 2, pp. 147, August, 2013