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Publications, CREATE: Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment

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• Robot Diaries: Broadening Participation in the Computer Science Pipeline through Social Technical Exploration
  E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, I. Nourbakhsh, and C.F. DiSalvo
  AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, March, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [293 KB] copyrighted

• CMUcam3: An Open Programmable Embedded Vision Sensor
  A. Rowe, A.G. Goode, D. Goel, and I. Nourbakhsh
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [275 KB] copyrighted

• TeRK: A Flexible Tool for Science and Technology Education
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, C.F. DiSalvo, and D. Bernstein
  Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues: Resources for AI Education, March, 2007. [Abstract]
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• A Roadmap for Technology Literacy and a Vehicle for Getting There: Educational Robotics and the TeRK Project
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, and C.F. DiSalvo
  Proceedings of IEEE RO-MAN 2006, September, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [171 KB] copyrighted

• Educational Results of the Personal Exploration Rover Museum Exhibit
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, B. Dunlavey, D. Bernstein, and K. Crowley
  Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05), April, 2005, pp. 4278 - 4283. [Abstract]
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• The Design of a Highly Reliable Robot for Unmediated Museum Interaction
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, E. Porter, B. Dunlavey, E.M. Ayoob, T. Hsiu, M. Lotter, and S. Shelly
  Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05), April, 2005, pp. 3225 - 3231. [Abstract]
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• Interaction Challenges in Human-Robot Space Exploration
  T.W. Fong and I. Nourbakhsh
  Interactions, Vol. 12, No. 2, March, 2005, pp. 42-45. [Abstract]
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• Up Close and Personal from Mars
  E. Hamner, M. Lotter, I. Nourbakhsh, and S. Shelly
  interactions, Vol. 12, No. 2, March, 2005, pp. 30 - 36.
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• The Personal Exploration Rover: The Ground-up Design, Deployment and Educational Evaluation of an Educational Robot for Unmediated Informal Learning Sites
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, D. Bernstein, K. Crowley, E. Porter, T. Hsiu, B. Dunlavey, E.M. Ayoob, M. Lotter, S. Shelly, A. Parikh, and D. Clancy
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Formal measures of learning in a secondary school mobile robotics course
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, K. Crowley, and K. Wilkinson
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04), Vol. 2, April, 2004, pp. 1831 - 1836. [Abstract]
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• The Personal Rover Project: The comprehensive design of a domestic personal robot
  E. Hamner, R. Gockley, E. Porter, and I. Nourbakhsh
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Special Issue on Socially Interactive Robots, Vol. 42, No. 3 - 4, March, 2003, pp. 245 - 258. [Abstract]
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• A Low Cost Embedded Color Vision System
  A. Rowe, C. Rosenberg, and I. Nourbakhsh
  Proceedings of IROS 2002, 2002. [Abstract]
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• The Personal Rover
  E. Hamner, R. Gockley, E. Porter, and I. Nourbakhsh
  2002 AAAI Conference Workshop Proceedings, 2002. [Abstract]
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• The Personal Rover Project
  I. Nourbakhsh
  2002 IROS Workshop on Social Robotics, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [387 KB] copyrighted

• A Simple Low Cost Color Vision System
  A. Rowe, C. Rosenberg, and I. Nourbakhsh
  Tech sketch paper presented at CVPR 2001, October, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [120 KB] copyrighted

• The history of the Mobot museum robot series: An Evolutionary Study
  T. Willeke, C. Kunz, and I. Nourbakhsh
  Proceedings of FLAIRS 2001, May, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [171 KB], ps.gz [295 KB] copyrighted

• First Jumps of the 3D Bow Leg Hopper
  J. Zufferey
  Diploma Project Report, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University and Micro-engineering, EPFL, Switzerland., February, 2001. [Abstract]
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• Control of the Gyrover: a single-wheel gyroscopically stabilized robot
  E. Ferreira, S. Tsai, C. Paredis, and H. Brown
  Advanced Robotics, Vol. 14, No. 6, June, 2000, pp. 459 - 475.

• Appearance-Based Place Recognition for Topological Localization
  I. Ulrich and I. Nourbakhsh
  Proceedings of ICRA 2000, Vol. 2, April, 2000, pp. 1023 - 1029. [Abstract]
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• Appearance-Based Obstacle Detection with Monocular Color Vision
  I. Ulrich and I. Nourbakhsh
  Proceedings of AAAI 2000, 2000.
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• An Affective Mobile Educator with a Full-time Job
  I. Nourbakhsh, J. Bobenage, S. Grange, R. Lutz, R. Meyer, and A. Soto
  Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 114, No. 1 - 2, October, 1999, pp. 95 - 124.
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• Control of the Gyrover: A Single-Wheel Gyroscopically Stabilized Robot
  S. Tsai, E. Ferreira, and C. Paredis
  Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'99), Vol. 1, October, 1999, pp. 179 - 184. [Abstract]
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• Decoupled dynamics and stabilization of single wheel robot
  K.W. Au and Y. Xu
  Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE / RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '99), Vol. 1, October, 1999, pp. 197 - 203. [Abstract]
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• Modeling human strategy in controlling a dynamically stabilized robot
  Y. Xu, W. Yu, and K.W. Au
  Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE / RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '99), Vol. 1, October, 1999, pp. 507 - 512. [Abstract]
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• The Bow Leg Hopping Robot
  G. Zeglin
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-99-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 1999. [Abstract]
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• Topological Localization by Training a Vision-based Transition Detector
  D. Radhakrishnan and I. Nourbakhsh
  Proceedings of IROS 1999, Vol. 1, October, 1999, pp. 468 - 473. [Abstract]
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• Dynamic mobility with single-wheel configuration
  Y. Xu, H. Brown, and K.W. Au
  International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 18, No. 7, July, 1999, pp. 728 - 738. [Abstract]
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• Analysis of actuation and dynamic balancing for a single-wheel robot
  Y. Xu, K.W. Au, G.C. Nandy, and H. Brown
  Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, October, 1998, pp. 1789 -1794. [Abstract]
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• Control of a Bow Leg Hopping Robot
  G. Zeglin and H. Brown
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Leuven, Belgium, May, 1998. [Abstract]
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• Dynamic model of a gyroscopic wheel
  G.C. Nandy and Y. Xu
  Proc. 1998 IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '98), Vol. 3, May, 1998, pp. 2683 - 2688. [Abstract]
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• The bow leg hopping robot
  H. Brown and G. Zeglin
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Leuven, Belgium, May, 1998. [Abstract]
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• A single-wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot
  H. Brown and Y. Xu
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3, September, 1997, pp. 39-44. [Abstract]
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• A single wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot
  H. Brown and Y. Xu
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, April, 1996, pp. 3658-3663. [Abstract]
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