Publications




A Novel Highly Articulated Robotic Surgical System for Cardiac Ablation
T. Ota, A. Degani, D. Schwartzman, B. Zubiate, J. McGarvey, H. Choset, and M. A. Zenati
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '08), pp. 250 - 253, August, 2008
Continuation Methods for Adapting Simulated Skills
KangKang Yin, Stelian Coros, Philippe Beaudoin, and Michiel van de Panne
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 27, No. 3, August, 2008
Highly Articulated Robotic Probe for Minimally Invasive Surgery
A. Degani, H. Choset, M. A. Zenati, T. Ota, and B. Zubiate
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '08), pp. 3273 - 3276, August, 2008
Potential scaling effects for asynchronous video in multirobot search
Prasanna Velagapudi, Wang-Hsuan Lee, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Workshop Paper, 8th Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS ’08), pp. 35 - 42, August, 2008
A Graph Search Algorithm for Indoor Pursuit / Evasion
Athanasios Kehagias, Geoffrey Hollinger, and Sanjiv Singh
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Anomaly Pattern Detection in Categorical Datasets
K. Das, J. Schneider, and D. Neill
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '08), pp. 169 - 176, August, 2008
Anytime Guaranteed Search using Spanning Trees
Geoffrey Hollinger, Athanasios Kehagias, Sanjiv Singh, David Ferguson, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Autoregressive Modeling of Physiological Tremor under Microsurgical Conditions
Brian Becker, Harsha Tummala, and Cameron Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC '08), pp. 1948 - 1951, August, 2008
Coordinated Control and Range Imaging for Mobile Manipulation
Dean Anderson, Thomas Howard, David Apfelbaum, Herman Herman, and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '08), pp. 547 - 556, August, 2008
Estimating displacement of periodic motion with inertial sensors
U-Xuan Tan, Kalyana C. Veluvolu, Win Tun Latt, Cheng Yap Shee, Cameron Riviere, and Wei-Tech Ang
Journal Article, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 8, No. 8, pp. 1385 - 1388, August, 2008
Frontiers of research and future directions in information and communication technology
Angel Jordan
Journal Article, Technology in Society, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 388 - 396, August, 2008
Intelligent Mapping for Autonomous Robotic Survey
David R. Thompson
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Measurement of 3D Foot Shape Deformation in Motion
Makoto Kimura, Masaaki Mochimaru, and Takeo Kanade
Workshop Paper, 5th ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Projector camera systems (PROCAMS '08), August, 2008
Psychophysics of Virtual Texture Perception
Bertram Unger
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-45, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Tactile Tissue Characterization by Piezoelectric Systems
R. Stroop, D. Oliva Uribe, M. Orta Martinez, M. Brakelmann, T. Hemsel, and J. Wallasheck
Journal Article, Journal of Electroceramics, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 237 - 241, August, 2008
The Role and Implementation of Compliance in Legged Locomotion
Jonathan W. Hurst
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-48, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Unsupervised Learning of Human Activity Grammars from Noisy Input Sequences
Kris M. Kitani, Yoichi Sato, and Akihiro Sugimoto
Journal Article, IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Image Media, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 86 - 99, July, 2008
Unsupervised Action Category Discovery Using Visual Context
Kris M. Kitani, Takahiro Okabe, Yoichi Sato, and Akihiro Sugimoto
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU '08), July, 2008
Using the Co-occurrence of Multiple Categories for Object Recognition
Takahiro Okabe, Yuhi Kondo, Kris M. Kitani, and Yoichi Sato
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU '08), July, 2008
Hypothesis Pruning and Ranking for Large Plan Recognition Problems
Gita Sukthankar and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial intelligence (AAAI '08), pp. 998 - 1003, July, 2008
IMOS AUV Facility
S. B. Williams, O. Pizarro, I. Mahon, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Australian Marine Science Association Conference (AMSA '08), July, 2008
Kinematic characteristics of athetoid movement during target acquisition
S. Sibenaller, D. Ding, B. Dicianno, R. A. Cooper, and C. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Rehabilitation Engineering Conference (RESNA '08), July, 2008
LADAR-Based Vehicle Tracking and Trajectory Estimation for Urban Driving
Daniel D. Morris, Paul Haley, William Zachar, and Steve McLean
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Unmanned Systems North America Conference (AUVSI '08), July, 2008
Motion-Motif Graphs
Philippe Beaudoin, Michiel van de Panne, Pierre Poulin, and Stelian Coros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '08), pp. 117 - 126, July, 2008
New Techniques for Algorithm Portfolio Design
M. J. Streeter and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '08), pp. 519 - 527, July, 2008
Wearable Control and Communications System for use with UAVs, UGVs and UGSs
Hagen Schempf
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Unmanned Systems North America Conference (AUVSI '08), July, 2008
A Decentralized Model for Automated Multi-attribute Negotiations with Incomplete Information and General Utility Functions
Guoming Lai, Katia Sycara, and Cuihong Li
Journal Article, Journal of Multi Agent and Grid Systems, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 45 - 65, July, 2008
A Preliminary Examination of Science Backroom Roles and Activities for Robotic Lunar Surface Science
Terrence W. Fong, Matthew Deans, Trey Smith, Pascal Lee, Jennifer Heldmann, Estrellina Pacis, Debra Schreckenghost, Rob Landis, John Osborn, David Kring, Essam Heggy, Andrew Mishkin, Kelly Snook, and Carol Stoker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of NLSI Lunar Science Conference, July, 2008
A Robust Method of Localization and Mapping Using Only Range
Joseph Djugash and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '08), pp. 341 - 351, July, 2008
Actively Learning Level-Sets of Composite Functions
B. Bryan and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 80 - 87, July, 2008
Agent Organized Networks Redux
Robin Glinton, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial intelligence (AAAI '08), pp. 83 - 88, July, 2008
Camera parameters estimation from hand-labelled sun positions in image sequences
Jean-Francois Lalonde, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, and Alexei A. Efros
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2008
DEPTHX Autonomy Software: Design and Field Results
Nathaniel Fairfield, George A. Kantor, Dominic Jonak, and David Wettergreen
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-09, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2008
Discovering a Semantic Basis of Neural Activity Using Simultaneous Sparse Approximation
Mark Palatucci, Tom Mitchell, and Han Liu
Workshop Paper, ICML '08 Sparse Optimization and Variable Selection Workshop, July, 2008
Empirical Sampling of Path Sets for Local Area Motion Planning
Ross Alan Knepper and Matthew T. Mason
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '08), pp. 451 - 462, July, 2008
Evolving Cooperative Control on Sparsely Distributed Tasks for UAV Teams Without Global Communication
Gregory Barlow, Choong Oh, and Stephen Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO '08), pp. 177 - 184, July, 2008
EXOMOON - A Discovery and Scout Mission Capabilities Expansion Concept
Richard Elphic, Jonathan Weinberg, Richard Dissly, John Evanyo, Dana Crider, Greg Delory, David Lawrence, Paul Lucey, Terrence W. Fong, Jennifer Heldmann, Richard Vondrak, Kris Zacny, and Irene Yachbes
Conference Paper, Proceedings of NLSI Lunar Science Conference, July, 2008
Image Processing for Artist Identification - Computerized Analysis of Vincent van Gogh's Painting Brushstrokes
C. Richard Johnson, Ella Hendriks, Igor Berezhnoy, Eugene Brevdo, Shannon Hughes, Ingrid Daubechies, Jia Li, Eric Postma, and James Z. Wang
Journal Article, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 37 - 48, July, 2008
Improved Motion Planning Speed and Safety using Regions of Inevitable Collision
Nicholas Chan, James Kuffner, and Matthew Zucker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Robot Design, Dynamics, and Control (RoManSy '08), July, 2008
Integrating Perception and Planning for Humanoid Autonomy
Philipp Michel
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-35, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2008
Learning Outbreak Regions in Bayesian Spatial Scan Statistics
Maxim Makatchev and Daniel Bertrand Neill
Workshop Paper, ICML '08 Workshop on Machine Learning for Health Care Applications, July, 2008
Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Brian D. Ziebart, Andrew Maas, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anind Dey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '08), pp. 1433 - 1438, July, 2008
Method for determining kinematic parameters of the in vivo thumb carpometacarpal joint
Lillian Y. Chang and Nancy Pollard
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 1897 - 1906, July, 2008
On the Chance Accuracies of Large Collections of Classifiers
Mark Palatucci and Andrew Carlson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 744 - 751, July, 2008
OpenRAVE: A Planning Architecture for Autonomous Robotics
Rosen Diankov and James Kuffner
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2008
Percussive Dynamic Cone Penetrometer for Geotechnical Surface Assessment with a Planetary Rover
Kris Zacny, Terrence W. Fong, Jack Wilson, Susan Y. Lee, Linda Kobayashi, Matthew Deans, Arthur Ashley, and Chris Santoro
Conference Paper, Proceedings of NLSI Lunar Science Conference, No. 2138, July, 2008
Planning for Human-Robot Interaction using Time-State Aggregated POMDPs
Frank Broz, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, and Reid G. Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial intelligence (AAAI '08), Vol. 3, pp. 1339 - 1344, July, 2008
R* Search
Maxim Likhachev and Anthony Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '08), Vol. 1, pp. 344 - 350, July, 2008
RADAR: A Personal Assistant that Learns to Reduce Email Overload
Michael Freed, Jaime Carbonell, Geoffrey Gordon, Jordan Hayes, Brad A. Myers, Daniel Siewiorek, Stephen Smith, Aaron Steinfeld, and Anthony Tomasic
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '08), Vol. 3, pp. 1287 - 1293, July, 2008
Robust Mission Execution for Autonomous Urban Driving
Christopher R. Baker, David Ferguson, and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS '08), pp. 155 - 163, July, 2008