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Paul Rybski
Systems Scientist

Associated center: FRC

Email address: prybski+web@cs.cmu.edu
Office: EDSH 217
Phone: (412) 268-7417
Fax: 412-268-7350

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
Smith Hall 217
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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Research interests

Some of my research interests include:

• Human/robot interaction
• Human-centered activity recognition and world modeling
• Probabilistic algorithms for exploration and spatial reasoning
• Distributed control of robot teams

Research interest keywords

artificial intelligence, field robotics, human-robot interaction, mobile robots, multirobot systems, robot soccer, and sensor fusion

Current Labs & Groups

Human-Robot Interaction Group - We are interested in many aspects of human-robot interaction related to how humans and robots can work safely and effectively together.

MultiRobot Lab - We are interested in the challenges of building teams of intelligent agents -- simulated agents and mobile robots -- that cooperate, observe the world, reason, act, and learn!

Current Projects [Past projects]

Mobile Autonomous Robot Software - Develop complete, effective and scalable software for autonomous robot teams. Demonstrate robot teams with integrated action, perception, reasoning, communication and cooperative strategies that solve complex multiagent tasks.	Robotic Soccer - The RoboSoccer project develops collaboration among multiple autonomous agents.
Tartan Racing - Carnegie Mellon University is teaming with General Motors to compete in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.	Urban Challenge

Recent publications [View all 18 publications]

• Teaching Procedural Flow through Dialog and Demonstration
  K. Yoon and P. Rybski
  Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 2007, pp. 807-­814. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [932 KB] copyrighted

• An Architecture for the Rapid Development of Robot Behaviors
  J. Stolarz and P. Rybski
  master's thesis, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [950 KB] copyrighted

• Teaching Task Flow Through Dialog and Observation
  K. Yoon and P. Rybski
  master's thesis, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1029 KB] copyrighted

• Interactive Robot Task Training through Dialog and Demonstration
  P. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, and M. Veloso
  2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [500 KB] copyrighted

• CMAssist: A RoboCup@Home Team
  P. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, and M. Veloso
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2573 KB] copyrighted

• Handling Diverse Information Sources: Prioritized Multi-Hypothesis World Modeling
  P. Rybski and M. Veloso
  tech. report CMU-CS-06-182, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2096 KB] copyrighted

• FOCUS: A Generalized Method for Object Discovery for Robots that Observe and Interact with Humans
  M. Veloso, P. Rybski, and F. von Hundelshausen
  Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1699 KB] copyrighted

• Analysis of a Spatio-Temporal Clustering Algorithm for Counting People in a Meeting
  Y. Jeon and P. Rybski
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-06-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1134 KB] copyrighted

• Learning Visual Object Definitions by Observing Human Activities
  M. Veloso, F. von Hundelshausen, and P. Rybski
  Proceedings of 2005 5th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2006, pp. 148-153. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [484 KB] copyrighted

• Robust Real-Time Human Activity Recognition from Tracked Face Displacements
  P. Rybski and M. Veloso
  Proceedings of the 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3808, LNAI Springer, December, 2005, pp. 87-98. [Abstract]
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