Publications




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
Kintinuous: Spatially Extended KinectFusion
Thomas Whelan, John McDonald, Michael Kaess, Maurice Fallon, Hordur Johannsson, and John J. Leonard
Workshop Paper, RSS '12 Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras, July, 2012
Mapping the MIT Stata Center: Large-scale Integrated Visual and RGB-D SLAM
Maurice F. Fallon, Hordur Johannsson, Michael Kaess, David M. Rosen, Elias Muggler, and John J. Leonard
Workshop Paper, RSS '12 Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras, July, 2012
Modeling and Calibration Visual Yield Estimates in Vineyards
Stephen T. Nuske, Kamal Gupta, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '12), pp. 343 - 356, July, 2012
Optimization of Temporal Dynamics for Adaptive Human-Robot Interaction in Assembly Manufacturing
Ronald Wilcox, Stefanos Nikolaidis, and Julie Shah
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '12), July, 2012
Physics-Based Grasp Planning Through Clutter
Mehmet Dogar, Kaijen Hsiao, Matei Ciocarlie, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '12), July, 2012
Plowing for Rover Control on Extreme Slopes
David Kohanbash, Scott Jared Moreland, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '12), pp. 399 - 413, July, 2012
Predicting and Classifying Pedestrian Behavior Using an Integrated Cognitive Architecture
Unmesh Kurup, Christian Lebiere, Anthony (Tony) Stentz, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st Annual Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling Simulation (BRiMS '12), pp. 86 - 92, July, 2012
Primal-Dual Coding to Probe Light Transport
Matthew O'Toole, Ramesh Raskar, and Kiriakos N. Kutulakos
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 31, No. 4, July, 2012
Rig-Space Physics
Fabian Hahn, Sebastian Martin, Bernhard Thomaszewski, Robert Sumner, Stelian Coros, and Markus Gross
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 31, No. 4, July, 2012
Robust Object Grasping using Force Compliant Motion Primitives
Moslem Kazemi, Jean-Sebastien Valois, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Nancy Pollard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '12), July, 2012
Scheduling safe movement of air traffic in crowded air spaces
David W. Hildum and Stephen 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
Subdimensional Expansion and Optimal Task Reassignment
Glenn Wagner, Howie Choset, and Nora Ayanian
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS '12), July, 2012
Temporally Scalable Visual SLAM using a Reduced Pose Graph
Hordur Johannsson, Michael Kaess, Maurice Fallon, and John J. Leonard
Workshop Paper, RSS '12 Workshop on Long-term Operation of Autonomous Robotic Systems in Changing Environments, July, 2012
Using Expectations to Drive Cognitive Behavior
Unmesh Kurup, Christian Lebiere, Anthony (Tony) Stentz, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '12), pp. 221 - 227, July, 2012
Video-based 3D motion capture through biped control
Marek Vondrak, Leonid Sigal, Jessica Hodgins, and Odest Jenkins
Journal Article, ACM Transactions On Graphics (TOG), Vol. 31, No. 4, July, 2012
A clutched parallel elastic actuator concept: towards energy efficient powered legs in prosthetics and robotics
Daniel Häufle, Michael Taylor, Syn Schmitt, and Hartmut Geyer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob '12), pp. 1614 - 1619, June, 2012
Linear Time-Varying Impulse Optimization for Data Association
M. Travers, T. Murphey, and L. Pao
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '12), pp. 1047 - 1052, June, 2012
Coupling Eye-Motion and Ego-Motion Features for First-Person Activity Recognition
K. Ogaki, Kris M. Kitani, Y. Sugano, and Y. Sato
Workshop Paper, CVPR '12 Workshop on Egocentric Vision, June, 2012
A least-squares framework for component analysis
F. De la Torre
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 1041 - 1055, June, 2012
Agnostic System Identification for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Stephane Ross and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 1905 - 1912, June, 2012
Asynchronous Displays for Multi-UV Search Tasks
Michael Lewis, Huadong Wang, Andreas Kolling, Katia Sycara, Nathan Brooks, and Paul Scerri
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, June, 2012
Cooperative Multi-Robot Estimation and Control for Radio Source Localization
B. Charrow, Nathan Michael, and V. Kumar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '12), pp. 337 - 351, June, 2012
Coordinated Look-ahead Scheduling for Real-time Traffic Signal Control
Xiao-Feng Xie, Stephen F. Smith, and Gregory J. Barlow
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '12), pp. 1271 - 1272, June, 2012
Decomposing Global Light Transport using Time of Flight Imaging
Di Wu, Matthew O'Toole, Andreas Velten, Amit Agrawal, and Ramesh Raskar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 366 - 373, June, 2012
Experimental Validation of Operator Aids for High Speed Vehicle Teleoperation
Alonzo Kelly, Nicholas Chan, Herman Herman, and Randy Warner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '12), pp. 951 - 962, June, 2012
Face Detection, Pose Estimation, and Landmark Localization in the Wild
X. Zhu and D. Ramanan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 2879 - 2886, June, 2012
Fixed-Rank Representation for Unsupervised Visual Learning
R. Liu, Z. Lin, F. De la Torre, and Z. Su
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 598 - 605, June, 2012
General Trajectory Prior for Non-Rigid Reconstruction
Jack L. Valmadre and Simon Lucey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 1394 - 1401, June, 2012
Generating diagnostic multiple choice comprehension cloze questions
Jack Mostow and Hyeju Jang
Workshop Paper, 7th Workshop on Building Educational Applications Using NLP (NAACL HLT '12), pp. 136 - 146, June, 2012