Publications




Interactive Light Field Painting
James Tompkin, Samuel Muff, Stanislav Jakuschevskij, James McCann, Jan Kautz, Marc Alexa, and Wojciech Matusik
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies (SIGGRAPH '12), August, 2012
Lifelong Robotic Object Perception
Alvaro Collet Romea
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-22, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2012
Multirobot Coordination With Periodic Connectivity: Theory and Experiments
Geoffrey A. Hollinger and Sanjiv Singh
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 967 - 973, August, 2012
Recognizing activities and poses: lessons from computer vision
Lavanya Sharan, Leonid Sigal, and Jessica Hodgins
Journal Article, Journal of Vision, Vol. 12, No. 9, August, 2012
Robust Indoor Localization on a Commercial Smart Phone
Nisarg Kothari, Balajee Kannan, and M. Bernardine Dias
Journal Article, Carnegie Mellon University, Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 10, pp. 1114 - 1120, August, 2012
Trajectory Design and Control for Aggressive Formation Flight with Quadrotors
M. Turpin, Nathan Michael, and V. Kumar
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 143 - 156, August, 2012
Virtual Cane Creation for Glassblowers
A. Winslow, K. Baldauf, J. McCann, E. D. Demaine, M. L. Demaine, and P. Houk
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Talk at SIGGRAPH '12, Software available from http://virtualglass.org, August, 2012
Scheduling Safe Movement of Traffic in Crowded Air Spaces
D. W. Hildum and S. F. Smith
Journal Article, Knowledge Engineering Review, Special issue on Constraint Programming for Air Traffic Management, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 309 - 331, July, 2012
Heuristic search comes of age
Nathan R. Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Maxim Likhachev, and Wheeler Ruml
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '12), pp. 2186 - 2191, July, 2012
Search-based Path Planning with Homotopy Class Constraints in 3D
Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Maxim Likhachev, and Vijay Kumar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '12), pp. 2097 - 2099, July, 2012
What makes Paris look like Paris?
Carl Doersch, Saurabh Singh, Abhinav Gupta, Josef Sivic, and Alexei Efros
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 31, No. 4, July, 2012
Development of a testbed for robotic neuromuscular controllers
Alexander Schepelmann, Michael D. Taylor, and Hartmut Geyer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '12), pp. 385 - 392, July, 2012
Autonomous Robot for Small Scale NFT Systems
Dhruv Agrawal, Guoming Alex Long, Niels Tanke, David Kohanbash, and George A. Kantor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Annual Meeting, July, 2012
Collaborative Mapping of an Earthquake Damaged Building via Ground and Aerial Robots
Nathan Michael, S. Shen, K. Mohta, V. Kumar, K. Nagatani, Y. Okada, S. Kiribayashi, K. Otake, K. Yoshida, K. Ohno, E. Takeuchi, and S. Tadokoro
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '12), pp. 33 - 47, July, 2012
Colour-Consistent Structure-from-Motion Models using Underwater Imagery
Mitch Bryson, M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, and Stefan Williams
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '12), July, 2012
Contextual Sequence Optimization with Application to Control Library Optimization
Debadeepta Dey, Tommy Liu, Martial Hebert, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '12), pp. 49 - 56, July, 2012
Efficient Simulation of Example-Based Materials
Christian Schumacher, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Stelian Coros, Sebastian Martin, Robert Sumner, and Markus Gross
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '12), July, 2012
FFT-based Terrain Segmentation for Underwater Mapping
Bertrand Douillard, Navid Nourani-Vatani, M. Johnson-Roberson, Stefan Williams, Chris Roman, Oscar Pizarro, Ian Vaughn, and Gabrielle Inglis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '12), July, 2012
Geometric mechanics for sand-swimming
R. L. Hatton, Y. Ding, D. I. Goldman, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR '12), pp. 705 - 712, July, 2012
Image-Directed Sampling for Geometric Modeling of Lunar Terrain
Uland Wong, Ben Garney, Warren Whittaker, and Red Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference of Field and Service Robotics (FSR '12), pp. 465 - 478, July, 2012
Lightweight Laser Scan Registration in Underground Mines with Band-based Downsampling Method
J. S. Lee, D. Wettergreen, and G. Kantor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '12), pp. 555 - 567, July, 2012
Multi-linear Data-Driven Dynamic Hair Model with Efficient Hair-Body Collision Handling
Peng Guan, Leonid Sigal, Valeria Reznitskaya, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '12), pp. 295 - 304, July, 2012
Real-Time Adaptive Traffic Signal Control for Urban Road Networks: The East Liberty Pilot Test
S. F. Smith, G. J. Barlow, X-F. Xie, and Z. B. Rubinstein
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2012
Repeatable Robotic Surveying of Marine Benthic Habitats for Monitoring Long-term Change
Mitch Bryson, M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, and Stefan Williams
Workshop Paper, RSS '12 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring, July, 2012
Robust Monocular Visual Odometry for a Ground Vehicle in Undulating Terrain
Ji Zhang, Sanjiv Singh, and George A. Kantor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robots (FSR '12), pp. 311 - 326, July, 2012
Using group history to identify character-directed utterances in multi-child interactions
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Jill F. Lehman, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL '12), pp. 207 - 216, July, 2012
E-Graphs: Bootstrapping Planning with Experience Graphs
Mike Phillips, Benjamin Cohen, Sachin Chitta, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '12), July, 2012
Globally Optimal Estimation of Non-rigid Image Distortion
Y. Tian and S. G. Narasimhan
Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 98, No. 3, pp. 279 - 302, July, 2012
Smoke Sheets for Graph-Structured Vortex Filaments
Alfred Barnat and Nancy S. Pollard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '12), pp. 77 - 86, July, 2012
A Safety Architecture for Autonomous Agricultural Vehicles
David Kohanbash, Marcel Bergerman, Karen M. Lewis, and Stewart J. Moorehead
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Annual Meeting, July, 2012
A Vector Algebra Formulation of Mobile Robot Velocity Kinematics
Alonzo Kelly and Neal Seegmiller
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '12), pp. 613 - 627, July, 2012
Automated Crop Yield Estimation for Apple Orchards
Qi Wang, Stephen T. Nuske, Marcel Bergerman, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '12), pp. 745 - 758, July, 2012
Automation of Hydroponic Installations using a Robot with Position Based Visual Feedback
Niels Tanke, Guoming Alex Long, Dhruv Agrawal, Abhinav Valada, and George A. Kantor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR '12), July, 2012
Base Station Design and Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks
David Kohanbash, Abhinav Valada, and George A. Kantor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR '12), July, 2012
Being Tough Doesn’t Always Pay Off: The Culture of Honor vs Dignity in Negotiation
Zhaleh Semnani-Azad, Wendi Adair, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th Annual International Association of Conflict Management Conference (IACM '12), pp. 1 - 28, July, 2012
Complementary Flyover and Rover Sensing for Superior Modeling of Planetary Features
Heather Jones, Uland Wong, Kevin Peterson, Jason Koenig, Aashish Sheshadri, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '12), pp. 415 - 429, July, 2012
Concurrent Filtering and Smoothing
Michael Kaess, Stephen Williams, Vadim Indelman, Richard Roberts, John J. Leonard, and Frank Dellaert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '12), pp. 1300 - 1307, July, 2012
Continuous Vehicle Slip Model Identification on Changing Terrains
Forrest Rogers-Marcovitz, Neal Seegmiller, and Alonzo Kelly
Workshop Paper, RSS '12 Workshop on Long-term Operation of Autonomous Robotic Systems in Changing Environments, July, 2012
Coordinates Matter: Virtual Chassis and Minimum Perturbation Coordinate Representations
David Rollinson, Ross Hatton, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR '12), July, 2012
Deformable Objects Alive!
Stelian Coros, Sebastian Martin, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Christian Schumacher, Robert Sumner, and Markus Gross
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 31, No. 4, July, 2012
Development of a Low Cost Multi-Robot Autonomous Marine Surface Platform
Abhinav Valada, Prasanna Velagapudi, Balajee Kannan, Christopher Tomaszewski, George A. Kantor, and Paul Scerri
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '12), pp. 643 - 658, July, 2012
Efficient Optimization of Control Libraries
Debadeepta Dey, Tommy Liu, Boris Sofman, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '12), July, 2012
Efficiently finding optimal winding-constrained loops in the plane
Paul Vernaza, Venkatraman Narayanan, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '12), July, 2012
Environmentally adaptive control policies for expensive systems
Matthew Tesch, Jeff Schneider, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR '12), July, 2012
Factor Graph Based Incremental Smoothing in Inertial Navigation Systems
Vadim Indelman, Stephen Williams, Michael Kaess, and Frank Dellaert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '12), pp. 2154 - 2161, July, 2012
Fast and Graceful Balancing Mobile Robots
Umashankar Nagarajan
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2012
Formalizing Assistive Teleoperation
Anca Dragan and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '12), July, 2012
HERB 2.0: Lessons Learned from Developing a Mobile Manipulator for the Home
Siddhartha Srinivasa, Dmitry Berenson, Maya Cakmak, Alvaro Collet Romea, Mehmet Dogar, Anca Dragan, Ross Alan Knepper, Tim D. Niemueller, Kyle Strabala, J. Michael Vande Weghe, and Julius Ziegler
Journal Article, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 100, No. 8, pp. 2410 - 2428, July, 2012
Incremental Management of Oversubscribed Vehicle Schedules in Dynamic Dial-A-Ride Problems
Zack Rubinstein, Stephen Smith, and Laura Barbulescu
Conference Paper, Proceedings 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '12), pp. 1809 - 1815, July, 2012
Irrigation Control Methods for Wireless Sensor Network
David Kohanbash, Abhinav Valada, and George A. Kantor
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Annual Meeting, July, 2012