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Manuela Veloso
Professor, CS

Associated center: CFR

Email address: veloso@cs.cmu.edu

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

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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Research interest keywords

artificial intelligence, planning, and robot soccer

Current Labs & Groups

Human-Robot Interaction Group - We are interested in many aspects of human-robot interaction related to how humans and robots can work safely and effectively together.	MultiRobot Lab - We are interested in the challenges of building teams of intelligent agents -- simulated agents and mobile robots -- that cooperate, observe the world, reason, act, and learn!
TechBridgeWorld - TechBridgeWorld innovates and implements technology solutions to meet sustainable development needs around the world.

Current Projects [Past projects]

Mobile Autonomous Robot Software - Develop complete, effective and scalable software for autonomous robot teams. Demonstrate robot teams with integrated action, perception, reasoning, communication and cooperative strategies that solve complex multiagent tasks.	Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning - The focus of the RADAR project is to build a cognitive assistant that embodies machine learning technology that is able to function without requiring expert tuning or specially trained users.
Robotic Soccer - The RoboSoccer project develops collaboration among multiple autonomous agents.	Treasure Hunt: Pickup Teams - We are developing a single heterogeneous human-robot team capable of effectively locating objects of interest (treasure) spread over a complex, previously unknown environment.

Recent publications [View all 87 publications]

• Sliding Autonomy for Peer-To-Peer Human-Robot Teams
  M.B. Dias, B. Kannan, B. Browning, E. Jones, B. Argall, M.F. Dias, M.B. Zinck, M. Veloso, and A. Stentz
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2926 KB] copyrighted

• Oracular Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes: A Very Special Case
  N. Armstrong-Crews and M. Veloso
  Proceedings of ICRA 2007, April, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [178 KB] copyrighted

• Interactive Robot Task Training through Dialog and Demonstration
  P. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, and M. Veloso
  2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [500 KB] copyrighted

• A Team of Humanoid Game Commentators
  M. Veloso, N. Armstrong-Crews, S. Chernova, E. Crawford, C. McMillen, M. Roth, and D. Vail
  Proceedings of Humanoids 2006, December, 2006.
  Download: pdf [307 KB] copyrighted

• Automatic Clustering of Faces in Meetings
  C. Vallespi-Gonzalez, F. De la Torre Frade, M. Veloso, and T. Kanade
  ICIP 2006, October, 2006, pp. 1841-1844. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [455 KB], ps.gz [4076 KB] copyrighted

• CMAssist: A RoboCup@Home Team
  P. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, and M. Veloso
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2573 KB] copyrighted

• Dynamically Formed Heterogeneous Robot Teams Performing Tightly-Coordinated Tasks
  E. Jones, B. Browning, M.B. Dias, B. Argall, M. Veloso, and A. Stentz
  International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2006, pp. 570 - 575. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [421 KB] copyrighted

• Handling Diverse Information Sources: Prioritized Multi-Hypothesis World Modeling
  P. Rybski and M. Veloso
  tech. report CMU-CS-06-182, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2096 KB] copyrighted

• FOCUS: A Generalized Method for Object Discovery for Robots that Observe and Interact with Humans
  M. Veloso, P. Rybski, and F. von Hundelshausen
  Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1699 KB] copyrighted

• Learning Visual Object Definitions by Observing Human Activities
  M. Veloso, F. von Hundelshausen, and P. Rybski
  Proceedings of 2005 5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2006, pp. 148-153. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [484 KB] copyrighted