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Joelle Pineau
PhD Student

No longer a member of RI.

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• Robot Learning Lab - Pursuing research on robot learning, mobile robotics, multi-robotics, human robot interaction, and basic machine learning.

• Amelia - An improved Xavier
• Mercator - Cooperative Multi-Robot Mapping and Planning
• Personal Robotic Assistants For The Elderly - Pearl will help researchers explore the ways autonomous mobile robots can help the elderly live independently in their own homes.

• Tractable Planning Under Uncertainty: Exploiting Structure
  J. Pineau
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [971 KB], ps.gz [1093 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

• 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.

• 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