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Publications, James Kuffner

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

• BiSpace Planning: Concurrent Multi-Space Exploration
  R. Diankov, N. Ratliff, D. Ferguson, S. Srinivasa, and J. Kuffner
  Robotics: Science and Systems, June, 2008. [Abstract]
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• Adaptive Workspace Biasing for Sampling Based Planners
  M. Zucker, J. Kuffner, and J. Bagnell
  Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May, 2008. [Abstract]
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• An Optimization Approach to Planning for Mobile Manipulation
  D. Berenson, H. Choset, and J. Kuffner
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2008, May, 2008, pp. 1187-1192. [Abstract]
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• Grasp Planning in Complex Scenes
  D. Berenson, R. Diankov, K. Nishiwaki, S. Kagami, and J. Kuffner
  IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids07), December, 2007. [Abstract]
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• GPU-accelerated Real-Time 3D Tracking for Humanoid Locomotion and Stair Climbing
  P. Michel, J. Chestnutt, S. Kagami, K. Nishiwaki, J. Kuffner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'07), October, 2007, pp. 463-469. [Abstract]
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• Planning for Robust Execution of Humanoid Motions using Future Perceptive Capability
  P. Michel, C. Scheurer, J. Kuffner, N. Vahrenkamp, and R. Dillmann
  Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'07), October, 2007, pp. 3223-3228. [Abstract]
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• Randomized Statistical Path Planning
  R. Diankov and J. Kuffner
  Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ 2007 International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS07), October, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Multipartite RRTs for Rapid Replanning in Dynamic Environments
  M. Zucker, J. Kuffner, and M. Branicky
  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, April, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Planning and Executing Navigation Among Movable Obstacles
  M. Stilman, K. Nishiwaki, S. Kagami, and J. Kuffner
  IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. On Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 06), October, 2006, pp. 820 - 826. [Abstract]
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• Planning Among Movable Obstacles with Artificial Constraints
  M. Stilman and J. Kuffner
  Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, July, 2006. [Abstract]
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• An Integrated Approach to Inverse Kinematics and Path Planning for Redundant Manipulators
  D. Bertram, J. Kuffner, R. Dillmann, and T. Asfour
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, May, 2006, pp. 1874-1879. [Abstract]
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• An Intelligent Joystick for Biped Control
  J. Chestnutt, P. Michel, K. Nishiwaki, J. Kuffner, and S. Kagami
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2006, pp. 860 - 865. [Abstract]
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• Anytime Path Planning and Replanning in Dynamic Environments
  J. van den Berg, D. Ferguson, and J. Kuffner
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, 2006, pp. 2366 - 2371. [Abstract]
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• Online Environment Reconstruction for Biped Navigation
  P. Michel, J. Chestnutt, S. Kagami, K. Nishiwaki, J. Kuffner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'06), May, 2006, pp. 3089 - 3094. [Abstract]
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• Hierarchical Motion Planning for Self-reconfigurable Modular Robots
  P. Srinivas Bhat, J. Kuffner, S. Goldstein, and S. Srinivasa
  IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006, pp. 886 - 891. [Abstract]
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• Precomputed Search Trees: Planning for Interactive Goal-Driven Animation
  M. Lau and J. Kuffner
  ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2006. [Abstract]
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• Navigation Among Movable Obstacles: Real-Time Reasoning in Complex Environments
  M. Stilman and J. Kuffner
  International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 2, No. 4, December, 2005, pp. 479-504. [Abstract]
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• Vision-Guided Humanoid Footstep Planning for Dynamic Environments
  P. Michel, J. Chestnutt, J. Kuffner, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids'05), December, 2005, pp. 13 - 18. [Abstract]
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• Augmented Reality for Robot Development and Experimentation
  M. Stilman, P. Michel, J. Chestnutt, K. Nishiwaki, S. Kagami, and J. Kuffner
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-05-55, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2005. [Abstract]
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• Behavior Planning for Character Animation
  M. Lau and J. Kuffner
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, August, 2005. [Abstract]
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• Dynamic Programming in Reduced Dimensional Spaces: Dynamic Planning For Robust Biped Locomotion
  M. Stilman, C. Atkeson, J. Kuffner, and G. Zeglin
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'05), April, 2005, pp. 2399 - 2404. [Abstract]
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• Footstep Planning for the Honda ASIMO Humanoid
  J. Chestnutt, M. Lau, K.M. Cheung, J. Kuffner, J.K. Hodgins, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April, 2005. [Abstract]
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• Planning 3-D Path Networks in Unstructured Environments
  N. Vandapel, J. Kuffner, and O. Amidi
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), April, 2005, pp. 4624 - 4629. [Abstract]
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• Navigation Among Movable Obstacles: Real-time Reasoning in Complex Environments
  M. Stilman and J. Kuffner
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids'04), Vol. 1, December, 2004, pp. 322 - 341. [Abstract]
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• A Tiered Planning Strategy for Biped Navigation
  J. Chestnutt and J. Kuffner
  Proceedings of the IEEE - RAS / RSJ Conference on Humanoid Robots, November, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Efficient Optimal Search of Euclidean-Cost Grids and Lattices
  J. Kuffner
  Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'04), IEEE, September, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Autonomous Behaviors for Interactive Vehicle Animations
  J. Go, T. Vu, and J. Kuffner
  Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA 2004), ACM, August, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Synthesizing Animations of Human Manipulation Tasks
  K. Yamane, J. Kuffner, and J.K. Hodgins
  ACM Trans. on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH 2004), August, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Effective Sampling and Distance Metrics for 3D Rigid Body Path Planning
  J. Kuffner
  Proc. 2004 IEEE Int’l Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2004), IEEE, May, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots
  J. Kuffner, K. Nishiwaki, S. Kagami, M. Inaba, and H. Inoue
  Proc. 11th Int’l Symp. of Robotics Research (ISRR 2003), November, 2003. [Abstract]
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• Planning Biped Navigation Strategies in Complex Environments
  J. Chestnutt, J. Kuffner, K. Nishiwaki, and S. Kagami
  Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Humanoid Robots, October, 2003. [Abstract]
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• Online Footstep Planning for Humanoid Robots
  J. Kuffner, K. Nishiwaki, S. Kagami, Y. Kuniyoshi, M. Inaba, and H. Inoue
  IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'2003), IEEE, September, 2003. [Abstract]
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• Fast Synthetic Vision, Memory, and Learning Models for Virtual Humans
  J. Kuffner and J. Latombe
  Proceedings of Computer Animation '99, May, 1999.

• Planning Motions with Intentions
  Y. Koga, K. Kondo, J. Kuffner, and J. Latombe
  In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 94, July, 1994, pp. 395 - 408. [Abstract]
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