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Nicholas Melchior
PhD Student

Associated center: FRC

Email address: nmelchio@andrew.cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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• Autonomous Mobile Assembly - The ACE project is concerned with autonomous mobile assembly.

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

• BlindAid: An Electronic Travel Aid for the Blind
  S. Mau, N. Melchior, M. Makatchev, and A. Steinfeld
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-39, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1272 KB] copyrighted

• Human-Robot Teams for Large-Scale Assembly
  R. Simmons, S. Singh, F. Heger, L.M. Hiatt, S.C. Koterba, N. Melchior, and B.P. Sellner
  Proceedings of the NASA Science Technology Conference 2007 (NSTC-07), May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [411 KB] copyrighted

• Particle RRT for Path Planning in Very Rough Terrain
  N. Melchior, J. Kwak, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the NASA Science Technology Conference 2007 (NSTC-07), May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1019 KB], ps.gz [2299 KB] copyrighted

• Socially Distributed Perception: GRACE plays Social Tag at AAAI 2005
  M.P. Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, C.F. DiSalvo, D. Busquets Font, L.M. Hiatt, N. Melchior, and R. Simmons
  Autonomous Robots, Vol. 22, No. 4, May, 2007, pp. 385-397. [Abstract]

• Particle RRT for Path Planning with Uncertainty
  N. Melchior and R. Simmons
  2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April, 2007, pp. 1617-1624. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [866 KB], ps.gz [2095 KB] copyrighted

• Socially Distributed Perception
  M.P. Michalowski, C.F. DiSalvo, S. Sabanovic, D. Busquets Font, L.M. Hiatt, N. Melchior, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2006), ACM, March, 2006, pp. 349-350. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [136 KB] copyrighted

• Social Tag: Finding the Person with the Pink Hat
  C.F. DiSalvo, D. Busquets Font, L. Hiatt, N. Melchior, M.P. Michalowski, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005), AAAI, July, 2005, pp. 1726-1727.
  Download: pdf [109 KB] copyrighted

• Social Tag: Finding the Person with the Pink Hat
  M.P. Michalowski, D. Busquets Font, C.F. DiSalvo, L. Hiatt, N. Melchior, R. Simmons, and S. Sabanovic
  AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition: Papers from the 2005 AAAI Workshop, Technical Report WS-05-11, AAAI, 2005, pp. 40-44. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [535 KB] copyrighted

• Framework for robust mobile robot systems
  N. Melchior and W.D. Smart
  Proceedings of the SPIE: Mobile Robots XVII, Vol. 5609, October, 2004, pp. 145-154. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [137 KB], ps.gz [118 KB] copyrighted