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Robot Learning Lab
This lab is no longer active.

Head: Tom Mitchell
Contact: Greg Armstrong (roboman@andrew.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science Department
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Lab Location:
WEH 5310
Lab Phone:
(142) 268 3837

For more information, see this lab's homepage.

Our research focuses on making robots learn and making learning robots succeed in the real world. Research aspects range from theoretical considerations over algorithmic design to practical implementations and demonstrations.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Greg Armstrong - Senior Research Technician, CS <roboman@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Michael W Bode - Senior Robotics Engineer <bode@rec.ri.cmu.edu>
• [Home] David Cohn - Research Scientist (Adjunct)
• Frank Dellaert - PhD Student, CS
• [Home] David Ferguson - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) <dif@cmu.edu>
• [Home] Dieter Fox - Research Associate, CS <dfox@cs.cmu.edu>
• David Hershberger - PhD Student, RI
• John Langford - PhD Student, CS <jcl3@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Dimitris Margaritis - PhD Student, CS <dm2@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Tom Mitchell - Director-Mld/Fredkin Prof. of Comp.Sci., CS <tom.mitchell@cmu.edu>
• [Home] Michael Montemerlo - PhD Student, RI
• Daniel Nikovski - PhD Student, RI
• Joseph O'Sullivan - PhD Student, CS <jo24@andrew.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Joelle Pineau - PhD Student, RI
• [Home] Chuck Rosenberg - Research Scientist, Google, Inc. <mail2chuck@gmail.com>
• [Home] Nicholas Roy - PhD Student, RI
• Jamieson Schulte - Senior Research Programmer <jschulte@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Reid Simmons - Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair <reids@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Sebastian Thrun - Adjunct Associate Professor, MLD/CSD/RI (Adjunct) <thrun@stanford.edu>
• [Home] David S Touretzky - Research Professor, CS <dst@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Vandi Verma - PhD Student, RI

• Amelia - An improved Xavier
• BORG - Framework for the development of distributed, secure, reliable, robust and scalable systems
• Formal Verification of Autonomous Systems - We are developing tools and techniques to support formal verification of autonomous systems.
• Inter-Process Communication Package - We are developing a high-level support package for connecting and sending data among processes using TCP / IP sockets.
• Mercator - Cooperative Multi-Robot Mapping and Planning
• Minerva - Minerva is an autonomous robot that daily moves through crowds at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
• Personal Robotic Assistants For The Elderly - Pearl will help researchers explore the ways autonomous mobile robots can help the elderly live independently in their own homes.
• Statistical Methods For Learning Maps with Mobile Robots
• Super-Resolved Texture Tracking - Video-stream object motion estimation and tracking.
• The Lifelong Learning Project

• A Latent Cause Model of Classical Conditioning
  A. Courville
  doctoral dissertation, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [26368 KB] copyrighted

• Anytime Dynamic A*: An Anytime, Replanning Algorithm
  M. Likhachev, D. Ferguson, G. Gordon, A. Stentz, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), June, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [4020 KB] copyrighted

• Anytime Dynamic A*: The Proofs
  M. Likhachev, D. Ferguson, G. Gordon, A. Stentz, and S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2005. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [163 KB] copyrighted

• Tractable Planning Under Uncertainty: Exploiting Structure
  J. Pineau
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [971 KB], ps.gz [1093 KB] copyrighted

• Tekkotsu: A Rapid Development Framework for Robotics
  E. Tira-Thompson
  master's thesis, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [4218 KB] copyrighted

• Finding Approximate POMDP solutions Through Belief Compression
  N. Roy
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2148 KB] copyrighted

• Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs
  J. Pineau, G. Gordon, and S. Thrun
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August, 2003, pp. 1025 - 1032. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [171 KB], ps.gz [145 KB] copyrighted

• Policy-contingent abstraction for robust robot control
  J. Pineau, G. Gordon, and S. Thrun
  Conference on Uncertainty in Articifical Intelligence (UAI), August, 2003, pp. 477 - 484. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [279 KB], ps.gz [464 KB] copyrighted

• Variable Resolution Particle Filter
  V. Verma, S. Thrun, and R. Simmons
  In Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, August, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [226 KB], ps.gz [153 KB] copyrighted

• Efficient Monitoring for Planetary Rovers
  V. Verma, G. Gordon, and R. Simmons
  International Symposium on Artificial Intelligenceand Robotics in Space, May, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [210 KB], ps.gz [144 KB] copyrighted