Publications




Constrained Filtering with Contact Detection Data for the Localization and Registration of Continuum Robots in Flexible Environments
Stephen T. Tully, Andrea Bajo, George A. Kantor, Howie Choset, and Nabil Simaan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3388 - 3394, May, 2012
Depth Camera Based Indoor Mobile Robot Localization and Navigation
Joydeep Biswas and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1697 - 1702, May, 2012
Design and architecture of the unified modular snake robot
Cornell Wright III, Austin Buchan, H. Benjamin Brown, Jason Geist, Michael Schwerin, David Rollinson, Matthew Tesch, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4347 - 4354, May, 2012
Dynamics of Helping Behavior and Cooperation Across Culture
Zhaleh Semnani-Azad and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS '12), pp. 525 - 530, May, 2012
Effects of Shape and Color on the Perception of Translucency
Bei Xiao, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Asher Dunn, Shuang Zhao, Edward Adelson, Todd Zickler, and Kavita Bala
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, May, 2012
Feasibility and Definition of a Lunar Polar Volatiles Prospecting Mission
Jennifer Heldmann, Richard Elphic, Anthony Colaprete, Terrence W. Fong, Liam Pedersen, Ross Beyer, and James Cockrell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Global Space Exploration Conference, May, 2012
First Results in Autonomous Landing and Obstacle Avoidance by a Full-Scale Helicopter
Sebastian Scherer, Lyle J. Chamberlain, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 951 - 956, May, 2012
Global pose estimation with limited gps and long range visual odometry
Joern Rehder, Kamal Gupta, Stephen T. Nuske, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 627 - 633, May, 2012
Integrated Planning and Control for Graceful Navigation of Shape-Accelerated Underactuated Balancing Mobile Robots
Umashankar Nagarajan, George A. Kantor, and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 136 - 141, May, 2012
ISS Crew Control of Surface Telerobots
Maria Bualat, Matthew Deans, Terrence W. Fong, Chris Provencher, Debra Schreckenghost, and Ernest Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Global Space Exploration Conference, May, 2012
Manufacturing Layered Attenuators for Multiple Prescribed Shadow Images
Ilya Baran, Philipp Keller, Derek Bradley, Stelian Coros, Wojciech Jarosz, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, and Markus Gross
Journal Article, Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics), Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 603 - 610, May, 2012
Multi-Agent Deterministic Graph Mapping via Robot Rendezvous
Stephen T. Tully, George A. Kantor, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1278 - 1283, May, 2012
Multirobot Pushing --- How Many Robots are Sufficient?
Laura Lindzey, Howie Choset, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Ross Alan Knepper
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2012
Online Calibration of Vehicle Powertrain and Pose Estimation Parameters using Integrated Dynamics
Neal Seegmiller, Forrest Rogers-Marcovitz, and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3969 - 3974, May, 2012
Orientation Only Loop-closing with Closed-form Trajectory Bending
Gijs Dubbelman, Peter Hansen, Brett Browning, and M. Bernardine Dias
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 815 - 821, May, 2012
Physically-based Grasp Quality Evaluation under Uncertainty
Junggon Kim, Kunihiro Iwamoto, James Kuffner, Yasuhiro Ota, and Nancy Pollard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3258 - 3263, May, 2012
Planning in High-dimensional Shape Space for a Single-wheeled Balancing Mobile Robot with Arms
Umashankar Nagarajan, Byungjun Kim, and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 130 - 135, May, 2012
Probabilistic path planning for multiple robots with subdimensional expansion
Glenn Wagner, Minsu Kang, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2886 - 2892, May, 2012
Real-Time Registration of Video with Ultrasound using Stereo Disparity
Jihang Wang
Miscellaneous, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2012
Real-Time Topometric Localization
Hernan Badino, Daniel Huber, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1635 - 1642, May, 2012
Results with Autonomous Vehicles Operating in Specialty Crops
Marcel Bergerman, Sanjiv Singh, and Bradley Hamner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1829 - 1835, May, 2012
Ripple Effects of an Embedded Social Agent : A Field Study of a Social Robot in the Workplace
Min Kyung Lee, Sara Kiesler, Jodi Forlizzi, and Paul Rybski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '12), pp. 695 - 704, May, 2012
River mapping from a flying robot: state estimation, river detection, and obstacle mapping
Sebastian Scherer, Joern Rehder, Supreeth Achar, Hugh Cover, Andrew D. Chambers, Stephen T. Nuske, and Sanjiv Singh
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 189 - 214, May, 2012
Soft Stacking
James McCann and Nancy Pollard
Journal Article, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 469 - 478, May, 2012
The Human Exploration Telerobotics Project
Terrence W. Fong, Reginald Berka, Maria Bualat, Myron Diftler, Mark Micire, David Mittman, Vytas SunSpiral, and Chris Provencher
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Global Space Exploration Conference, May, 2012
Transfer Function Compensation in Gyroscope-free Inertial Measurement Units for Accurate Angular Motion Sensing
W. T. Latt, U-X. Tan, Cameron N. Riviere, and Wei-Tech Ang
Journal Article, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 1207 - 1208, May, 2012
Using Robots Before and After Humans to Improve Space Exploration
Matthew Deans, Terrence W. Fong, Maria Bualat, Essam Heggy, Mark Helper, Kip Hodges, Pascal Lee, and Kris Zacny
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Global Space Exploration Conference, May, 2012
Using Sound to Classify Vehicle-Terrain Interactions in Outdoor Environments
Jacqueline Libby and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3559 - 3566, May, 2012
Voxel-Based Motion Bounding and Workspace Estimation for Robotic Manipulators
Peter Anderson-Sprecher and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2141 - 2146, May, 2012
xBots: An Approach to Generating and Executing Optimal Multi-Robot Plans with Cross-Schedule Dependencies
G. Ayorkor Korsah, Balajee Kannan, Brett Browning, Anthony (Tony) Stentz, and M. Bernardine Dias
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 115 - 122, May, 2012
Fast Reactive Control for Illumination through Rain and Snow
R. De Charette, R. Tamburo, P. Barnum, A. Rowe, T. Kanade, and S. G. Narasimhan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICCP) IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, April, 2012
Inferring selectional preferences from part-of-speech n-grams
Hyeju Jang and Jack Mostow
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL '12), pp. 377 - 386, April, 2012
Maximum Margin Temporal Clustering
M. Hoai and F. De la Torre
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '12), pp. 520 - 528, April, 2012
Simple UAV Environment (SUAVE): A viewpoint motion control evaluation
Shafiq Abedin, Michael Lewis, Nathan Brooks, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS '12), pp. 124 - 128, April, 2012
A Composite Likelihood View for Multi-Label Classification
Y. Zhang and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '12), pp. 1407 - 1415, April, 2012
Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Information and Divergences
B. Poczos and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '12), pp. 914 - 923, April, 2012
Pain Monitoring: A Dynamic and Context-sensitive System
Z. Hammal and M. Kunz
Journal Article, Pattern Recognition, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 1265 - 1280, April, 2012
Augmenting Cartographic Resources and Assessing Roadway State for Vehicle Navigation
Young-Woo Seo
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2012
Autonomous Manipulation with a General-Purpose Simple Hand
Matthew T. Mason, Alberto Rodriguez, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Andres S. Vazquez
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 688 - 703, April, 2012
Benefit of "Push-pull" Locomotion for Planetary Rover Mobility
Colin Creager, Scott Jared Moreland, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Kyle Johnson, Vivake Asnani, and Ryan Gilligan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Earth and Space Conference, April, 2012
Bilinear spatiotemporal basis models
Ijaz Akhter, Tomas Simon, Sohaib Khan, Iain Matthews, and Yaser Sheikh
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 31, No. 2, April, 2012
Human Exploration of Asteroids, the Moon and Mars Using Robotic Arm-Equipped Pressurized Vehicles
Pascal Lee, Sean Dougherty, Tom McCarthy, Terrence W. Fong, Steve Hoffman, Ed Hodgson, Kira Lorber, Robert Mueller, John Schutt, Jesse Weaver, and Luis Alvarez
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Earth and Space Conference, April, 2012
Lumenhancement: Exploiting Appearance for Planetary Modeling
Uland Wong
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2012
Motion-aided network SLAM with range
Joseph Djugash and Sanjiv Singh
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 603 - 625, April, 2012
Novel Experimental Technique for Visualizing and Analyzing Robot-Soil Interactions
Krzysztof Skonieczny, Scott Jared Moreland, Colin Creager, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Earth and Space Conference, pp. 495 - 504, April, 2012
OWL-POLAR: A Framework for Semantic Policy Representation and Reasoning
Murat Sensoy, Timothy J. Norman, Wamberto W. Vasconcelos, and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, Journal of Web Semantics, Special Issue on Reasoning with Context in the Semantic Web, Vol. 12, pp. 148 - 160, April, 2012
Rover mobility on granular soil: Marrying multi-scale modeling and high fidelity experiments to infer soil stresses under the moving wheel
Ivan Vlahinic, Jose Andrade, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Scott Jared Moreland, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Earth and Space Conference, pp. 250 - 255, April, 2012
SpeedBoost: Anytime Prediction with Uniform Near-Optimality
Alexander Grubb and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '12), pp. 458 - 466, April, 2012
Using Percussive, Dynamic, and Static Soil Penetrometers to Assess Geotechnical Properties and the Depth to Ground Ice of the Mars and Lunar Analog Terrains on the Devon Island, Canadian Arctic
Kris Zacny, Maria Bualat, Pascal Lee, Luis Alvarez, Terrence W. Fong, Matthew Deans, Lee VanGundy, and David Lees
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Earth and Space Conference, April, 2012
Templates for Pre-Grasp Sliding Interaction
Daniel Kappler, Lillian Y. Chang, Nancy S. Pollard, Tamim Asfour, and Rüdiger Dillmann
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 411 - 423, March, 2012