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Publications, Sebastian Thrun

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

• Simultaneous Localization, Mapping and Moving Object Tracking
  C. Wang, C. Thorpe, M. Hebert, S. Thrun, and H. Durrant-Whyte
  The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 26, No. 6, June, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3854 KB] copyrighted

• Stanley: The Robot that Won the DARPA Grand Challenge
  S. Thrun, M. Montemerlo, H. Dahlkamp, D. Stavens, A. Aron, J. Diebel, P. Fong, J. Gale, M. Halpenny, G. Hoffmann, K. Lau, C. Oakley, M. Palatucci, V. Pratt, P. Stang, S. Strohband, C. Dupont, L. Jendrossek, C. Koelen, C. Markey, C. Rummel, J. van Niekerk, E. Jensen, P. Alessandrini, G. Bradski, B. Davies, S. Ettinger, A. Kaehler, A. Nefian, and P. Mahoney
  Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 23, No. 9, June, 2006, pp. 661-692. [Abstract]

• 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

• Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations
  H. Choset, K.M. Lynch, S. Hutchinson, G.A. Kantor, W. Burgard, L.E. Kavraki, and S. Thrun
  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, June, 2005, p. 603. [Abstract]

• 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

• Autonomous exploration and mapping of abandoned mines
  S. Thrun, S. Thayer, W. Whittaker, C. Baker, W. Burgard, D. Ferguson, D. Haehnel, M. Montemerlo, A.C. Morris, Z. Omohundro, C. Reverte, and W.L. Whittaker
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 4, December, 2004, pp. 79-91. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2982 KB] copyrighted

• Real-time fault diagnosis [robot fault diagnosis]
  V. Verma, G. Gordon, R. Simmons, and S. Thrun
  Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 2, June, 2004, pp. 56 - 66. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [610 KB] copyrighted

• A Campaign in Autonomous Mine Mapping
  C. Baker, A.C. Morris, D. Ferguson, S. Thayer, C. Whittaker, Z. Omohundro, C. Reverte, W.L. Whittaker, D. Haehnel, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vol. 2, April, 2004, pp. 2004 - 2009. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1335 KB] copyrighted

• PAO* for Planning with Hidden State
  D. Ferguson, A. Stentz, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, April, 2004, pp. 2840 - 2847. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [369 KB] copyrighted

• Planning with Pinch Points
  D. Ferguson, A. Stentz, and S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [267 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

• A System for Volumetric Robotic Mapping of Abandoned Mines
  S. Thrun, D. Haehnel, D. Ferguson, M. Montemerlo, R. Triebel, W. Burgard, C. Baker, Z. Omohundro, S. Thayer, and W.L. Whittaker
  Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '03), Vol. 3, May, 2003, pp. 4270 - 4275. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1567 KB], ps.gz [5646 KB] copyrighted

• Online Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects: Theory and Results from a Ground Vehicle in Crowded Urban Areas
  C. Wang, C. Thorpe, and S. Thrun
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2005 KB] copyrighted

• Robotic Walker that Provides Guidance
  A.C. Morris, R.R. Donamukkala, A. Kapuria, A. Steinfeld, J. Matthews, J. Dunbar-Jacobs, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '03), May, 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [525 KB] copyrighted

• An Autonomous Robotic System for Mapping Abandoned Mines
  D. Ferguson, A.C. Morris, D. Haehnel, C. Baker, Z. Omohundro, C. Reverte, S. Thayer, W.L. Whittaker, C. Whittaker, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 03), 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1851 KB] copyrighted

• Applying Metric-Trees to Belief-Point POMDPs
  J. Pineau, G. Gordon, and S. Thrun
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2003. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [129 KB], ps.gz [510 KB] copyrighted

• Towards robotic assistants in nursing homes: Challenges and results
  J. Pineau, M. Montemerlo, M. Pollack, N. Roy, and S. Thrun
  Special issue on Socially Interactive Robots, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 42, No. 3 - 4, 2003, pp. 271 - 281. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [391 KB] copyrighted

• Probabilistic control of human robot interaction: Experiments with a robotic assistant for Nursing Homes
  J. Pineau, M. Montemerlo, M. Pollack, N. Roy, and S. Thrun
  The second IARP/IEEE/RAS Joint Workshop on Technical Challenges for Robots in Human Environments (DRHE), October, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [461 KB], ps.gz [594 KB] copyrighted

• An integrated approach to hierarchy and abstraction for POMDPs
  J. Pineau and S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-02-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [578 KB], ps.gz [591 KB] copyrighted

• Experiences with a Mobile Robotic Elderly Guide for the Elderly
  M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, N. Roy, S. Thrun, and V. Verma
  National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, August, 2002. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [459 KB], ps.gz [823 KB] copyrighted

• Pearl: A Mobile Robotic Assistant for the Elderly
  M. Pollack, S. Engberg, J.T. Matthews, S. Thrun, L. Brown, D. Colbry, C. Orosz, B. Peintner, S. Ramakrishnan, J. Dunbar-Jacob, C. McCarthy, M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, and N. Roy
  Workshop on Automation as Caregiver: the Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care (AAAI), August, 2002.

• Risk Sensitive Particle Filters
  S. Thrun, J. Langford, and V. Verma
  Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), December, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [179 KB], ps.gz [778 KB] copyrighted

• Color constancy using KL-divergence
  C. Rosenberg, M. Hebert, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV '01), Vol. 1, July, 2001, pp. 239 - 246. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [143 KB], ps.gz [770 KB] copyrighted

• A Hierarchical Approach to POMDP Planning and Execution
  J. Pineau, N. Roy, and S. Thrun
  Workshop on Hierarchy and Memory in Reinforcement Learning (ICML), June, 2001.
  Download: pdf [211 KB], ps.gz [84 KB] copyrighted

• Feature Correspondence: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach
  F. Dellaert, S. Seitz, C. Thorpe, and S. Thrun
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13 (NIPS 2000), 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [191 KB], ps.gz [109 KB] copyrighted

• Robust Monte Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots
  S. Thrun, D. Fox, W. Burgard, and F. Dellaert
  Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3705 KB], ps.gz [1198 KB] copyrighted

• Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva
  S. Thrun, M. Beetz, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Creemers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Hahnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, and D. Schulz
  International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 19, No. 11, November, 2000, pp. 972-999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1307 KB], ps.gz [2992 KB] copyrighted

• Spoken Dialog Management for Robots
  N. Roy, J. Pineau, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the ACL 2000, October, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [120 KB], ps.gz [116 KB] copyrighted

• Structure from Motion without Correspondence
  F. Dellaert, S. Seitz, C. Thorpe, and S. Thrun
  IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ( CVPR'00 ), June, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [514 KB], ps.gz [1003 KB] copyrighted

• Probabilistic Algorithms in Robotics
  S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-CS-00-126, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3370 KB], ps.gz [2134 KB] copyrighted

• Web interfaces for mobile robots in public places
  D. Schulz, W. Burgard, D. Fox, S. Thrun, and A.B. Creemers
  IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 1, March, 2000, pp. 48 - 56. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [450 KB] copyrighted

• Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly
  N. Roy, G. Baltus, D. Fox, F. Gemperle, J. Goetz, T. Hirsch, D. Margaritis, M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, J. Schulte, and S. Thrun
  Workshop on Interactive Robots and Entertainment (WIRE 2000, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [351 KB], ps.gz [677 KB] copyrighted

• Structure from Motion without Correspondence
  F. Dellaert, S. Seitz, C. Thorpe, and S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-99-44, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1013 KB], ps.gz [1458 KB] copyrighted

• Experiences with two deployed interactive tour-guide robots
  S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Haehnel, G. Lakemeyer, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, D. Schulz, and W. Steiner
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR'99), Pittsburgh, PA, August, 1999.

• Monte Carlo Localization: Efficient Position Estimation for Mobile Robots
  D. Fox, W. Burgard, F. Dellaert, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'99)., July, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3453 KB], ps.gz [1121 KB] copyrighted

• Using the Condensation Algorithm for Robust, Vision-based Mobile Robot Localization
  F. Dellaert, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun
  IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ( CVPR'99 ), June, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [387 KB], ps.gz [1184 KB] copyrighted

• Coastal Navigation -- Mobile Robot Navigation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Environments
  N. Roy, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun
  Proc. IEEE Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [213 KB], ps.gz [243 KB] copyrighted

• Monte Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots
  F. Dellaert, D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA99), May, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3386 KB], ps.gz [897 KB] copyrighted

• Mosaicing a Large Number of Widely Dispersed, Noisy, and Distorted Images: A Bayesian Approach
  F. Dellaert, S. Thrun, and C. Thorpe
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-99-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [178 KB], ps.gz [764 KB] copyrighted

• A monte carlo algorithm for multi-robot localization
  D. Fox, W. Burgard, H. Kruppa, and S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-CS-99-120, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3616 KB], ps.gz [1604 KB] copyrighted

• Coastal Navigation with Mobile Robots
  N. Roy and S. Thrun
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS '99), 1999.
  Download: pdf [154 KB], ps.gz [203 KB] copyrighted

• Collaborative Multi-Robot Localization
  D. Fox, W. Burgard, H. Kruppa, and S. Thrun
  Proc. of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI), 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [6071 KB], ps.gz [5428 KB] copyrighted

• Experiences with an Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot
  W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Haehnel, G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, and S. Thrun
  Artificial Intelligence, 1999.
  Download: pdf [2811 KB], ps.gz [4438 KB] copyrighted

• Markov Localization for Reliable Robot Navigation and People Detection
  D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun
  Proc. of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Modelling and Planning for Sensor-Based Intelligent Robot Systems, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1589 KB], ps.gz [2391 KB] copyrighted

• MINERVA: A second generation mobile tour-guide robot
  S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Haehnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, and D. Schulz
  Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99), 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [668 KB], ps.gz [1718 KB] copyrighted

• Monte Carlo Hidden Markov Models: Learning Non-Parametric Models of Partially Observable Stochastic Processes
  S. Thrun, J. Langford, and D. Fox
  Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'99), 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [158 KB], ps.gz [154 KB] copyrighted

• Online Self-Calibration For Mobile Robots
  N. Roy and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [258 KB], ps.gz [308 KB] copyrighted

• Probabilistic Methods for Mobile Robot Mapping
  D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun
  Proc. of the IJCAI-99 Workshop on Adaptive Spatial Representations of Dynamic Environments, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [581 KB], ps.gz [1265 KB] copyrighted

• Sonar-based mapping of large-scale mobile robot environments using EM
  W. Burgard, D. Fox, H. Jans, C. Matenar, and S. Thrun
  Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML '99), 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [488 KB], ps.gz [464 KB] copyrighted

• Spontaneous Short-term Interaction with Mobile Robots in Public Places
  J. Schulte, C. Rosenberg, and S. Thrun
  1999.
  Download: pdf [232 KB], ps.gz [303 KB] copyrighted

• Text Classification from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents using EM
  K. Nigam, A. McCallum, S. Thrun, and T. Mitchell
  Machine Learning, 1999.
  Download: pdf [391 KB], ps.gz [156 KB] copyrighted

• A neural-network based approach for recognition of pose and motion gestures on a mobile robot
  S. Waldherr, S. Thrun, and R. Romero
  Proceedings of the 5th Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks, December, 1998, pp. 79 - 84. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [702 KB] copyrighted

• Jacobian Images of Super-Resolved Texture Maps for Model-Based Motion Estimation and Tracking
  F. Dellaert, S. Thrun, and C. Thorpe
  IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'98), IEEE Computer Society, Princeton, NJ, October, 1998, pp. 2-7. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [262 KB], ps.gz [798 KB] copyrighted

• Super-Resolved Texture Tracking of Planar Surface Patches
  F. Dellaert, C. Thorpe, and S. Thrun
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotic Systems, October, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [482 KB], ps.gz [1283 KB] copyrighted

• Towards Exact Localization without Explicit Localization with the Generalized Voronoi Graph
  K. Nagatani, H. Choset, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of ICRA '99, Vol. 1, May, 1998, pp. 342 - 348. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [184 KB], ps.gz [83 KB] copyrighted

• Towards Exact Location without Explicit Localization
  K. Nagatani, H. Choset, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '98), May, 1998.
  Download: pdf [702 KB] copyrighted

• A Framework for Programming Embedded Systems: Initial Design and Results
  S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-CS-98-142, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1569 KB], ps.gz [1066 KB] copyrighted

• A Hybrid Collision Avoidance Method For Mobile Robots
  D. Fox, W. Burgard, S. Thrun, and A.B. Cremers
  Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation '98, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [307 KB], ps.gz [1066 KB] copyrighted

• A Probabilistic Approach to Concurrent Mapping and Localization for Mobile Robots
  S. Thrun, D. Fox, and W. Burgard
  Machine Learning 31, 29 - 53 and Autonomous Robots 5, 253 - 271, (joint issue), 1998.
  Download: pdf [973 KB], ps.gz [2243 KB] copyrighted

• Active Markov Localization for Mobile Robots
  D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 1998.
  Download: pdf [709 KB], ps.gz [291 KB] copyrighted

• Automated Learning and Discovery: State-Of-The-Art and Research Topics in a Rapidly Growing Field
  S. Thrun, C. Faloutsos, T. Mitchell, and L. Wasserman
  tech. report CMU-CALD-98-100, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998.
  Download: pdf [119 KB], ps.gz [51 KB] copyrighted

• Bayesian Landmark Learning for Mobile Robot Localization
  S. Thrun
  Machine Learning, 1998.
  Download: pdf [415 KB], ps.gz [408 KB] copyrighted

• Clustering Learning Tasks and the Selective Cross-Transfer of Knowledge
  S. Thrun and J. O'Sullivan
  Learning To Learn, S. Thrun and L. Pratt, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

• Experiences with an Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot
  W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, and S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-CS-98-139, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2798 KB], ps.gz [4454 KB] copyrighted

• Integrating Learning for Robust Development
  S. Thrun and N. Roy
  Proceedings of the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium, 1998.

• Integrating topological and metric maps for mobile robot navigation: A statistical approach
  S. Thrun, J. Gutmann, D. Fox, W. Burgard, and B. Kuipers
  Proc. of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1998.
  Download: pdf [190 KB], ps.gz [311 KB] copyrighted

• Languages and Tools for Task-Level Robotics Integration
  R. Simmons and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium, 1998.

• Learning Metric-Topological Maps Maps for Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation
  S. Thrun
  Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 99, No. 1, 1998, pp. 21-71.
  Download: pdf [5731 KB], ps.gz [2602 KB] copyrighted

• Learning to Learn: Introduction and Overview
  S. Thrun and L. Pratt
  Learning To Learn, S. Thrun and L. Pratt, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

• Lifelong Learning Algorithms
  S. Thrun
  Learning To Learn, S. Thrun and L. Pratt, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

• Map Learning and High-Speed Navigation in RHINO
  S. Thrun, A. Buecken, W. Burgard, D. Fox, T. Froehlinghaus, D. Henning, T. Hofmann, M. Krell, and T. Schmidt
  AI-based Mobile Robots: Case Studies of Successful Robot Systems, Kortenkamp, D. and Bonasso, R.P. and Murphy, R., ed., MIT Press, 1998.
  Download: pdf [505 KB], ps.gz [817 KB] copyrighted

• Monte Carlo Hidden Markov Models
  S. Thrun and J. Langford
  tech. report CMU-CS-98-179, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [272 KB], ps.gz [235 KB] copyrighted

• Position Estimation for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments
  D. Fox, W. Burgard, S. Thrun, and A.B. Cremers
  Proc. of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2756 KB], ps.gz [1064 KB] copyrighted

• Real Robots for the Real World --- The RHINO Museum Tour-guide Project
  W. Burgard, D. Fox, G. Lakemeyer, D. Haehnel, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, S. Thrun, and A. Cremers
  Proceedings of the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium, 1998.

• The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot
  W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, and S. Thrun
  Proc. of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [693 KB], ps.gz [2211 KB] copyrighted

• When Robots Meet People: Research Directions In Mobile Robotics
  S. Thrun
  IEEE Intelligent Systems, 1998.
  Download: pdf [195 KB], ps.gz [1692 KB] copyrighted

• Learning To Learn
  S. Thrun and L. Pratt
  Kluwer Academic Publishers, November, 1997.

• A Probabilistic Approach for Concurrent Map Acquisition and Localization for Mobile Robots
  S. Thrun, D. Fox, and W. Burgard
  tech. report CMU-CS-97-183, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997.
  Download: pdf [954 KB], ps.gz [2239 KB] copyrighted

• Active Mobile Robot Localization
  W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
  Download: pdf [309 KB], ps.gz [192 KB] copyrighted

• Active Mobile Robot Localization by Entropy Minimization.
  W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the 2nd Euromicro Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots, IEEE/CS., 1997.

• BeeSoft User's Guide and Software Reference
  W. Christiansen, J. Kurien, G. More, T. Sawyer, B. Smart, and S. Thrun
  Real World Interface, Inc., 1997.

• Data Mining at CALD-CMU: Tools, Experiences and Research Directions.
  C. Faloutsos, G. Gibson, T. Mitchell, A. Moore, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the AFCEA International's First Federal Data Mining Symposium, 1997.
  Download: pdf [159 KB], ps.gz [48 KB] copyrighted

• Discovering Landmarks and Learning Models for Mobile Robot Navigation
  S. Thrun
  Proceedings of AAAI Fall Symposium, Workshop on "Model-directed Autonomous Systems", 1997.

• Explanation-Based Learning for Mobile Robot Perception
  J. O'Sullivan, T. Mitchell, and S. Thrun
  Symbolic Visual Learning, K. Ikeuchi and M. Veloso, ed., Oxford University Press, 1997.
  Download: pdf [646 KB], ps.gz [693 KB] copyrighted

• Probabilistic State Estimation in Robotics
  S. Thrun, D. Fox, and W. Burgard
  Proceedings of the Workshop on "Self-Organization of Adaptive Behavior", VDI-Verlag., 1997.
  Download: pdf [995 KB], ps.gz [870 KB] copyrighted

• The Dynamic Window Approach to Collision Avoidance.
  D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun
  IEEE Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1997.
  Download: pdf [519 KB], ps.gz [446 KB] copyrighted

• The Museum Tourguide Project: Experiences with a Deployed Service Robot
  S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 1997.

• To Know or not to Know, 1997: The Role of Models in Mobile Robotics
  S. Thrun
  AI Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1997.
  Download: pdf [951 KB], ps.gz [1836 KB] copyrighted

• A Bayesian Approach to Landmark Discovery and Active Perception for Mobile Robot Navigation
  S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-CS-96-122, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996.
  Download: pdf [998 KB], ps.gz [1485 KB], ps.z [2794 KB] copyrighted

• Amelia
  R. Simmons, S. Thrun, G. Armstrong, R. Goodwin, K. Haigh, S. Koenig, S. Mahamud, D. Nikovski, and J. O'Sullivan
  Proceedings of the AAAI Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1996.

• An Approach to Learning Mobile Robot Navigation
  S. Thrun
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 15, 1996, pp. 301-319.
  Download: pdf [522 KB], ps.gz [491 KB] copyrighted

• Controlling Synchro-drive Robots with the Dynamic Window Approach to Collision Avoidance
  D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1996.
  Download: pdf [251 KB], ps.gz [344 KB] copyrighted

• Discovering Structure in Multiple Learning Tasks: The TC Algorithm
  S. Thrun and J. O'Sullivan
  In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Machine Learning, Morgen Kaufmann, 1996.
  Download: pdf [227 KB], ps.gz [378 KB] copyrighted

• Explanation-Based Neural Network Learning - A Lifelong Learning Approach
  S. Thrun
  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1996.

• Integrating Grid-Based and Topological Maps for Mobile Robot Navigation
  S. Thrun and A. Buecken
  Proceedings of the AAAI Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1996.
  Download: pdf [389 KB], ps.gz [750 KB] copyrighted

• Is Learning the n-th Thing any Easier Than Learning The First?
  S. Thrun
  In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8, MIT Press., 1996.
  Download: pdf [110 KB], ps.gz [109 KB] copyrighted

• Learning Analytically and Inductively
  T. Mitchell and S. Thrun
  Mind Matters: A Tribute to Allen Newell, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers., 1996.
  Download: pdf [196 KB], ps.gz [278 KB] copyrighted

• Learning Maps for Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation
  S. Thrun and A. Buecken
  tech. report CMU-CS-96-121, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996.
  Download: pdf [676 KB], ps.gz [868 KB], ps.z [1227 KB] copyrighted

• Learning More From Less Data: Experiment in Lifelong Learning
  S. Thrun and J. O'Sullivan
  Seminar Digest, 1996.
  Download: pdf [72 KB], ps.gz [111 KB] copyrighted

• Learning Topological Maps: An Alternative Approach
  A. Buecken and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the AAAI Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1996.

• The Role of Transfer in Learning
  S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1996.
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• A Lifelong Learning Perspective for Mobile Robot Control
  S. Thrun
  Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1995.
  Download: pdf [352 KB], ps.gz [403 KB] copyrighted

• Clustering Tasks and the Selective Cross-Transfer of Knowledge
  S. Thrun and J. O'Sullivan
  tech. report CMU-CS-95-209, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995.
  Download: pdf [334 KB], ps.gz [504 KB], ps.z [1145 KB] copyrighted

• Exploration in Active Learning
  S. Thrun
  Handbook of Brain and Cognitive Science, M. Arbib, ed., MIT Press, 1995.
  Download: pdf [273 KB], ps.gz [210 KB] copyrighted

• Extracting Rules from Networks with Distributed Representations
  S. Thrun
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, MIT Press., 1995.
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• Finding Structure in Reinforcement Learning
  S. Thrun and A. Schwartz
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, MIT Press., 1995.
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• Komplexe Lernende Systeme: der mobile Roboter RHINO
  A.B. Cremers, J. Buhmann, and S. Thrun
  Kuenstliche Intelligenz, 1995.

• Learning One More Thing
  S. Thrun and T. Mitchell
  Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.
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• Learning to Play the Game of Chess
  S. Thrun
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7, MIT Press., 1995.
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• Lifelong Learning: A Case Study
  S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-CS-95-208, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995.
  Download: pdf [258 KB], ps.gz [256 KB], ps.z [405 KB] copyrighted

• Lifelong Robot Learning
  S. Thrun and T. Mitchell
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 15, 1995, pp. 25--46.
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• The Mobile Robot RHINO
  J. Buhmann, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, T. Hofmann, F. Schneider, J. Strikos, and S. Thrun
  AI Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1995.
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• Learning One More Thing
  S. Thrun and T. Mitchell
  tech. report CMU-CS-94-184, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 1994.
  Download: pdf [181 KB], ps.gz [198 KB] copyrighted

• A Lifelong Learning Perspective for Mobile Robot Navigation
  S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ/GI Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1994.
  Download: pdf [352 KB], ps.gz [403 KB] copyrighted

• Explanation-Based Learning for Mobile Robot Perception
  T. Mitchell, J. O'Sullivan, and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the Robot Learning Workshop at the Eleventh Conference in Machine Learning, 1994.
  Download: pdf [265 KB], ps.gz [428 KB] copyrighted

• From AI Technology Research to Applications
  A.B. Cremers, S. Thrun, and W. Burgard
  Proceedings of the IFIP Congress, Elsevier Science B.V.Publishers, Vol. 3, 1994.
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• Explanation-Based Learning: A Comparison of Symbolic and Neural Network Approaches.
  T. Mitchell and S. Thrun
  Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Machine Learning, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
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• Explanation-based Neural Network Learning for Robot Control
  T. Mitchell and S. Thrun
  In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
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• Exploration and Model Building in Mobile Robot Domains
  S. Thrun
  In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, 1993.
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• Integrating Inductive Neural Network Learning and Explanation-Based Learning
  S. Thrun and T. Mitchell
  Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
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• Issues in Using Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning
  S. Thrun and A. Schwartz
  Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School, Erlbaum Associates, 1993.
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• Learning Slopes with Neural Networks.
  R. Masuoka, S. Thrun, and T. Mitchell
  1993.

• Active Exploration in Dynamic Environments
  S. Thrun and K. Moeller
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4, Morgan Kaufmann, 1992.
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• Efficient Exploration In Reinforcement Learning.
  S. Thrun
  tech. report CMU-CS-92-102, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992.
  Download: pdf [383 KB], ps.gz [174 KB] copyrighted

• ODYSSEUS: An Autonomous Mobile Robot
  R. Simmons, S. Thrun, C. Athanassiou, J. Cheng, L. Chrisman, R. Goodwin, G. Hsu, and H. Wan
  AI Magazine, 1992.
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• The Role of Exploration in Learning Control
  S. Thrun
  Handbook for Intelligent Control: Neural, Fuzzy and Adaptive Approaches, Van Nostrand Reinhold, Florence, Kentucky, 1992.
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• ARC: Adaptive Roboterkontrolle mit kuenstlichen Neu ronalen Netzen
  K. Moeller and S. Thrun
  Journal on "Wirtschaftsinformatik.", 1991.

• Learning by Error-driven Decomposition
  D. Fox, V. Heinze, K. Moeller, S. Thrun, and G. Veenker
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks, Elsevier., 1991.
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• Planning with an Adaptive World Model
  S. Thrun, K. Moeller, and A. Linden
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 3, Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.
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• The MONK's Problems: A Performance Comparison of Different Learning Algorithms
  S. Thrun, J. Bala, E. Bloedorn, I. Bratko, B. Cestnik, J. Cheng, K.D. Jong, S. Dzeroski, R. Hamann, K. Kaufman, S. Keller, I. Kononenko, J. Kreuziger, R.S. Michalski, T. Mitchell, P. Pachowicz, B. Roger, H. Vafaie, W.V. de Velde, W. Wenzel, J. Wnek, and J. Zhang
  tech. report CMU-CS-91-197, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1991.

• Adaptive Look-Ahead Planning
  S. Thrun, K. Moeller, and A. Linden
  Proceedings Neuro-Nimes, 1990.

• Inversion in Time
  S. Thrun and A. Linden
  Proceedings of the EURASIP Workshop on Neural Networks, Springer Scientific Publishers., 1990.
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• Task Modularization by Network Modulation
  K. Moeller and S. Thrun
  Proceedings Neuro-Nimes, 1990.