Publications




SURTRAC: Scalable Urban Traffic Control
Stephen Smith, Gregory Barlow, Xiao-Feng Xie, and Zack Rubinstein
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers, 2013
Experience Graph-based Planning with Learning
Maxim Likhachev
Miscellaneous, software - open-source and is available under http://www.sbpl.net (under software tab), December, 2012
Planner for dual-arm manipulation by PR2 (ROS package)
Maxim Likhachev and Michael Kaess
Miscellaneous, software - open-source and is available under http://www.sbpl.net (under software tab), December, 2012
An Impact Criterion for Active Graph Search
X. Wang, R. Garnett, and J. Schneider
Workshop Paper, NeurIPS '12 Workshop on Bayesian Optimization and Decision Making, December, 2012
3d social saliency from head-mounted cameras
Hyun S. Park, Eakta Jain, and Yaser Sheikh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 422 - 430, December, 2012
A Distributed Algorithm for Constrained Multi-Robot Task Assignment for Grouped Tasks
Lingzhi Luo, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-35, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2012
A Mechanism Design Model in Multi-Robot Service Queues with Strategic Operators and Asymmetric Information
Ying Xu, Tinglong Dai, Katia Sycara, and Michael Lewis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '12), pp. 6113 - 6119, December, 2012
Algorithms for Learning Markov Field Policies
Abdeslam Boularias, Oliver Kroemer, and Jan Peters
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 2177 - 2185, December, 2012
Analyzing 3D Objects in Cluttered Images
Mohsen Hejrati and Deva Ramanan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 593 - 601, December, 2012
Autonomous landing at unprepared sites by a full-scale helicopter
Sebastian Scherer, Lyle J. Chamberlain, and Sanjiv Singh
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 60, No. 12, pp. 1545 - 1562, December, 2012
Design and control considerations for safe needle steering in brain tissue
C. A. Lehocky, X. Li, and C. N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Communications, Computing and Control Applications (CCCA '12), December, 2012
Effect of bucket-wheel scale on excavation forces and soil motion
G. F. D. Lankenau, K. Skonieczny, W. L. Whittaker, and D. Wettergreen
Journal Article, Journal of Terramechanics, Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 341 - 348, December, 2012
Expensive Multiobjective Optimization and Validation with a Robotics Application
Matthew Tesch, Jeff Schneider, and Howie Choset
Workshop Paper, NeurIPS '12 Workshop on Bayesian Optimization and Decision Making, December, 2012
Extension and customization of self-stability control in compliant legged systems
M. Ernst, Hartmut Geyer, and R. Blickhan
Journal Article, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, Vol. 7, No. 4, December, 2012
Image-based tree pruning
W. Liu, G. Kantor, F. De la Torre, and N. Zheng
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO '12), pp. 2072 - 2077, December, 2012
Model Recommendation for Action Recognition and Other Applications
Pyry K. Matikainen
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2012
Multi-scale Measures of Rugosity, Slope and Aspect from Benthic Stereo Image Reconstructions
Ariell Friedman, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan Bernard Williams, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Journal Article, PLoS ONE, Vol. 7, No. 12, December, 2012
Object Instance Discovery from Scenes of Daily Living
Hongwen Kang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-37, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2012
Projection Retrieval for Classification
Madalina Fiterau and Artur Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 3023 - 3031, December, 2012
Realtime Alternate Routes Planning:The RRT*-AR Algorithm
Sanjiban Choudhury, Sebastian Scherer, and Sanjiv Singh
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2012
Robust Swing Leg Placement under Large Disturbances
Ruta Desai and Hartmut Geyer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO '12), pp. 265 - 270, December, 2012
Service Design at Diagnostic Service Centers
X. Wang, L. Debo, A. Scheller-Wolf, and S. F. Smith
Journal Article, Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 59, No. 8, pp. 613 - 628, December, 2012
Simultaneous localization and mapping in marine environments
M. Fallon, H. Johannsson, M. Kaess, J. Folkesson, H. McClelland, B. Englot, F. Hover, and J. J. Leonard
Book Section/Chapter, Marine Robot Autonomy, pp. 329 - 372, December, 2012
Smart Scribbles for Sketch Segmentation
Gioacchino Noris, Daniel Sykora, A. Shamir, Stelian Coros, Brian Whited, Maryann Simmons, Alexander Hornung, Markus H. Gross, and Robert W. Sumner
Journal Article, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 31, No. 8, pp. 2516 - 2527, December, 2012
Anytime Search-based Footstep Planning with Suboptimality Bounds
Armin Hornung, Andrew Dornbush, Maxim Likhachev, and Maren Bennewitz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '12), pp. 674 - 679, November, 2012
Anchored Deformable Face Ensemble Alignment
Xin Cheng, Sridha Sridharan, Jason Saraghi, and Simon Lucey
Workshop Paper, ECCV '12 5th Workshop on Non-Rigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment (NORDIA '12), pp. 133 - 142, November, 2012
Camera-less Articulated Trajectory Reconstruction
Yingying Zhu, Jack L. Valmadre, and Simon Lucey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR '12), pp. 841 - 844, November, 2012
Data-driven finger motion synthesis for gesturing characters
Sophie Jörg, Jessica Hodgins, and Alla Safonova
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 31, No. 6, November, 2012
Diagnosing Machine Learning Based Nuclear Evaluation System
Artur Dubrawski, Saswati Ray, Peter Huggins, Simon Labov, and Karl Nelson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, November, 2012
Dog and snake marsupial cooperation for urban search and rescue deployment
Alexander Ferworn, Cornell Wright, Jimmy Tran, Chao Li, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR '12), November, 2012
Point Cloud Completion Using Extrusions
Oliver Kroemer, Heni Ben Amor, Marco Ewerton, and Jan Peters
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '12), pp. 680 - 685, November, 2012
Proposal of EARLI for a Snake Robot Obstacle-Aided Locomotion
Tetsushi Kamegawa, Ryoma Kuroki, Matthew Travers, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR '12), November, 2012
Suppressing Background Radiation Using Poisson Principal Component Analysis
Prateek Tandon, Peter Huggins, Artur Dubrawski, Simon Labov, and Karl Nelson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, November, 2012
Assistive Teleoperation: A New Domain for Interactive Learning
Anca Dragan and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '12 Fall Symposium on Robots Learning Interactively from Human Teachers, November, 2012
Bio-Inspired Design of Soft Robotic Assistive Devices: The Interface of Physics, Biology, and Behavior
Eugene C. Goldfield, Yong-Lae Park, Bor-Rong Chen, Wen-Hao Hsu, Diana Young, Michael Wehner, Damian G. Kelty-Stephen, Leia Stirling, Marc Weinberg, Dava Newman, Radhika Nagpal, Elliot Saltzman, Kenneth G. Holt, Conor Walsh, and Robert J. Wood
Journal Article, Ecological Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 300 - 327, November, 2012
Clearing a Pile of Unknown Objects using Interactive Perception
Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2012
Dexterous TeleManipulation with a Multi-Touch Interface
Yue Peng Toh, Shan Huang, Joy Lin, Maria Bajzek, Garth Zeglin, and Nancy S. Pollard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS 12th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids '12), pp. 270 - 277, November, 2012
Exploiting Publicly Available Cartographic Resources for Aerial Image Analysis
Young-Woo Seo, Christopher Urmson, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL '12), pp. 109 - 118, November, 2012
Influence of cross-sectional geometry on the sensitivity and hysteresis of liquid-phase electronic pressure sensors
Yong-Lae Park, Daniel Tepayotl-Ramirez, Robert J. Wood, and Carmel Majidi
Journal Article, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 101, No. 19, November, 2012
Irrigation Scheduling Software Development
David Kohanbash and George A. Kantor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Irrigation Association, November, 2012
Learning How to Program via Robot Simulation
Jesse Flot, Chris Schunn, Allison Lui, and Robin Shoop
Magazine Article, Robot Magazine, No. 37, pp. 68 - 70, November, 2012
Next-Generation Monitoring and Control Hardware Development
George A. Kantor, David Kohanbash, and Todd Martin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Irrigation Association, November, 2012
Ortho-Image Analysis for Producing Lane-Level Highway Maps
Young-Woo Seo, Christopher Urmson, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL '12), pp. 506 - 509, November, 2012
Policy Feedback for the Refinement of Learned Motion Control on a Mobile Robot
Brenna Argall, Brett Browning, and Manuela Veloso
Journal Article, International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 383 - 395, November, 2012
Semi-Autonomous Manipulation of Natural Objects
Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2012
Using Kinesthetic Input to Overcome Obstacles with Snake Robots
Matthew Tesch, Alexander O'Neill, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR '12), November, 2012
Learning to Select and Generalize Striking Movements in Robot Table Tennis
K. Muelling, J. Kober, O. Kroemer, and J. Peters
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '12 Fall Symposium on Robots that Learn Interactively from Human Teachers, pp. 38 - 45, October, 2012
Topological Constraints in Search-based Robot Path Planning
Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Maxim Likhachev, and Vijay Kumar
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 273 - 290, October, 2012
Classifier Ensemble Recommendation
Pyry K. Matikainen, Rahul Sukthankar, and Martial Hebert
Workshop Paper, ECCV '12 Workshop on Web-Scale Vision and Social Media, pp. 209 - 218, October, 2012
Cobots: Collaborative robots servicing multi-floor buildings
Manuela Veloso, Joydeep Biswas, Brian Coltin, Stephanie Rosenthal, Tom Kollar, Cetin Mericli, Mehdi Samadi, Susana Brandao, and Rodrigo Ventura
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5446 - 5447, October, 2012