Research interest keywords

manipulation and sensors

Past Labs & Groups

Manipulation Lab - The Manipulation Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University investigates fundamental modes of manipulation under uncertainty.

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Pose and Motion from Contact
  Y. Jia and M. Erdmann
  International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 18, No. 5, May, 1999, pp. 466-490. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [504 KB], ps.gz [317 KB] copyrighted

• Observing Pose and Motion through Contact
  Y. Jia and M. Erdmann
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [131 KB], ps.gz [94 KB] copyrighted

• Local observability of rolling
  Y. Jia and M. Erdmann
  Third International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, March, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [296 KB], ps.gz [102 KB] copyrighted

• Geometric and Dynamic Sensing: Observation of Pose and Motion through Contact
  Y. Jia
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-97-50, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1997. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1078 KB], ps.gz [654 KB] copyrighted

• Geometric Sensing of Known Planar Shapes
  Y. Jia and M. Erdmann
  International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 15, No. 4, August, 1996, pp. 365 - 392. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [528 KB], ps.gz [290 KB] copyrighted

• Pose from Pushing
  Y. Jia and M. Erdmann
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, June, 1996, pp. 165-171. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [122 KB], ps.gz [106 KB] copyrighted

• On computing optimal planar grasps
  Y. Jia
  Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, August, 1995, pp. 427-434. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [240 KB], ps.gz [77 KB] copyrighted

• The complexity of sensing by point sampling
  Y. Jia and M. Erdmann
  Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, Ken Goldberg et al., ed., A. K. Peters, Boston, 1995, pp. 283 - 300. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [385 KB], ps.gz [223 KB] copyrighted

• Geometric Sensing of Known Planar Shapes
  Y. Jia and M. Erdmann
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-94-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 1994. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [909 KB], ps.gz [371 KB] copyrighted

• Sensing Polygon Poses by Inscription
  Y. Jia and M. Erdmann
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 1994, pp. 1642 - 1649. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [125 KB], ps.gz [57 KB] copyrighted