Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

A Miniature Mobile Parts Feeder: Operating Principles and Simulation Results

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2221 - 2226, May, 1999

A Mobile Manipulator

Matthew T. Mason, Dinesh Pai, Daniela Rus, L. R. Taylor, and Michael Erdmann

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2322 - 2327, May, 1999

A Trinocular Stereo System for Highway Obstacle Detection

Todd Williamson and Chuck Thorpe

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2267 - 2273, May, 1999

Adding Security and Trust to Multi-Agent Systems

Hao Chi Wong and Katia Sycara

Workshop Paper, AGENTS '99 Workshop on Deception, Fraud, and Trust in Agent Societies, pp. 149 - 161, May, 1999

Agent aided aircraft maintenance

Onn Shehory, Katia Sycara, Gita Sukthankar, and Vick Mukherjee

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd Annual Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS '99), pp. 306 - 312, May, 1999

Agent-Based Planning and Control of a Multi-Manipulator Assembly System

J.-C. Fraile, Chris Paredis, Cheng-Hua Wang, and Pradeep Khosla

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1219 - 1225, May, 1999

Agent-Facilitated Real-Time Flexible Supply Chain Structuring

Dajun Zeng and Katia Sycara

Workshop Paper, AGENTS '99 Workshop on Agent Based Decision Support for Managing the Internet Enabled Supply, pp. 21 - 28, May, 1999

An Integrated Interface Tool for the Architecture for Agile Assembly

Jay Gowdy and Zack Butler

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3097 - 3102, May, 1999

Approximate Option Pricing

Prasad Chalasani, Somesh Jha, and I. Saias

Journal Article, Algorithmica, Vol. 25, No. 1, May, 1999

Attribute selection for neural training of a breast cancer diagnosis system

Artur Dubrawski and Dorota Daniecka

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS '99), May, 1999

Big Signal: Information Interaction for Public Telerobotic Exploration

Peter Coppin, Alexi Morrissey, Michael D. Wagner, Matthew Vincent, and Geb Thomas

Workshop Paper, ICRA '99 Workshop on Current Challenges in Internet Robotics, May, 1999

Coastal Navigation -- Mobile Robot Navigation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Environments

Nicholas Roy, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, and Sebastian Thrun

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 35 - 40, May, 1999

Computational Model of DIC Microscopy for Reconstructuring 3-D Specimens: From Observations to Measurements

Farhana Kagalwala, Takeo Kanade, and Frederick Lanni

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference: Session: Optical Microscopy in Medicine and Biology (QELS `99), pp. 35 - 36, May, 1999

Cyclops: miniature robotic reconnaissance system

Brian Chemel, E. Mutschler, and Hagen Schempf

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2298 - 2302, May, 1999

Discrete Actuator Array Vectorfield Design for Distributed Manipulation

Jon Luntz, W. Messner, and Howie Choset

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2235 - 2241, May, 1999

Dynamic Supply Chain Structuring for Electronic Commerce Among Agents

Dajun Zeng and Katia Sycara

Book Section/Chapter, Intelligent Information Agents: Agent-Based Information Discovery and Management on the Internet, pp. 232 - 249, May, 1999

Emergent Cooperative Goal-Satisfaction in Large Scale Automated-Agent Systems

Onn Shehory, Sarit Kraus, and Osher Yadgar

Journal Article, Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 110, No. 1, pp. 1 - 55, May, 1999

Extended Earthmoving with an Autonomous Excavator

Howard Cannon

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-99-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1999

Fast Synthetic Vision, Memory, and Learning Models for Virtual Humans

James Kuffner and Jean-Claude Latombe

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Computer Animation (CA '99), pp. 118 - 127, May, 1999

Fluorescent Dye Based Optical Position Sensing for Planar Linear Motors

Gregory Fries, Alfred Rizzi, and Ralph Hollis

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1614 - 1619, May, 1999

Icebreaker: An Exploration of the Lunar South Pole

Paul Tompkins and Ashley Stroupe

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th SSI Conference on Space Manufacturing, May, 1999

In-Context Information Management Through Adaptive Collaboration of Intelligent Agents

Katia Sycara

Book Section/Chapter, Intelligent Information Agents: Agent-Based Information Discovery and Management on the Internet, pp. 78 - 99, May, 1999

Interaction with a Realtime Dynamic Environment Simulation using a Magnetic Levitation Haptic Interface Device

Peter Berkelman, Ralph Hollis, and David Baraff

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3261 - 3266, May, 1999

MASCOT: An Agent-Based Architecture for Coordinated Mixed-Initiative Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling

Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, David W. Hildum, Dag Kjenstad, and Allen Tseng

Workshop Paper, AGENTS '99 Workshop on Agent-Based Decision Support for Managing the Internet-Enabled Supply Chain, May, 1999

MINERVA: A second generation mobile tour-guide robot

Sebastian Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A. B. Cremers, Frank Dellaert, Dieter Fox, D. Haehnel, Chuck Rosenberg, Nicholas Roy, Jamieson Schulte, and D. Schulz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 1999 - 2005, May, 1999

Monte Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots

Frank Dellaert, Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard, and Sebastian Thrun

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1322 - 1328, May, 1999

Natural gas imports by South Asia; pipelines or pipedreams

Rahul Tongia and V. S. Arunachalam

Journal Article, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 34, No. 18, pp. 1054 - 1064, May, 1999

Neural Network-Based Face Detection

Henry Rowley

Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, CMU-CS-99-117, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1999

Online Self-Calibration For Mobile Robots

Nicholas Roy and Sebastian Thrun

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2292 - 2297, May, 1999

Open Loop Orientability of Objects on Actuator Arrays

Jon Luntz, W. Messner, and Howie Choset

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2242 - 2248, May, 1999

Pandora: autonomous urban robotic reconnaissance system

Hagen Schempf, Edward Mutschler, Colin Piepgras, J. Warwick, Brian Chemel, Scott Boehmke, Robert Fuchs, and J. Guyot

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2315 - 2321, May, 1999

Path planning and control for AERCam, a free-flying inspection robot in space

Howie Choset, Ross Alan Knepper, J. Flasher, S. Walker, A. Alford, D. Jackson, D. Kortenkamp, R. Burridge, and J. Fernandez

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1396 - 1403, May, 1999

Pose and Motion from Contact

Yan-Bin Jia and Michael Erdmann

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 466 - 490, May, 1999

Post Surgical Periodontal Evaluations by Long Distance Teleconferencing: Cost effective Analysis

V. L. Kudryk, Mitra A. Rocca, and C. Kudryk

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Toward an Electronic Patient Record Conference (TEPR '99), Vol. 1, pp. 535 - 542, May, 1999

Programming in the Architecture for Agile Assembly

Jay Gowdy and Alfred Rizzi

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3103 - 3108, May, 1999

Reinforcement Learning Through Gradient Descent

Leemon Baird

Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, CMU-CS-99-132, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1999

Skill-specific spoken dialogs in a reading tutor that listens

Gregory Aist

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '99), pp. 55 - 56, May, 1999

Spontaneous Short-term Interaction with Mobile Robots in Public Places

Jamieson Schulte, Chuck Rosenberg, and Sebastian Thrun

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 658 - 663, May, 1999

System Identification of Small-Size Unmanned Helicopter Dynamics

Bernard Mettler, Mark B. Tischler, and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 55th Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society, Vol. 2, pp. 1706 - 1717, May, 1999

The Arc-Transversal Median Algorithm: an Approach to Increasing Ultrasonic Sensor Accuracy

Howie Choset, Keiji Nagatani, and Nicole Lazar

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 644 - 651, May, 1999

Tool-Based Haptic Interaction with Dynamic Physical Simulations using Lorentz Magnetic Levitation

Peter Berkelman

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-99-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1999

Using spin images for efficient object recognition in cluttered 3D scenes

Andrew Johnson and Martial Hebert

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 433 - 449, May, 1999

A Follow-the-Leader Approach to Serpentine Robot Motion Planning

Howie Choset and W. Henning

Journal Article, ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, April, 1999

A System for Video Surveillance and Monitoring

Robert Collins, Alan Lipton, and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ANS 8th International Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, April, 1999

Adaptive Fuzzy Throttle Control for an All-Terrain Vehicle

Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu and John M. Dolan

Tech. Report, ICES-04-10-99, ICES, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1999

Appearance-Based Virtual View Generation of Temporally-Varying Events from Multi-Camera Images in the 3D Room

Hideo Saito, Shigeyuki Baba, Makoto Kimura, Sundar Vedula, and Takeo Kanade

Tech. Report, CMU-CS-99-127, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1999

ARTISAN: An Integrated Scene Mapping and Object Recognition System

Vince Broz, Owen Carmichael, Scott Thayer, James Osborn, and Martial Hebert

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ANS 8th International Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, April, 1999

Constructing Hydraulic Robot Models using Memory-based Learning

Murali Krishna and John Bares

Journal Article, ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 34 - 42, April, 1999

Distributed Tactical Surveillance with ATVs

John M. Dolan, Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu, Alvaro Soto, and Pradeep Khosla

Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technologies and Applications (AeroSense '99), Vol. 3693, pp. 192 - 199, April, 1999

Handling Sensing Failures in Autonomous Mobile Robots

Robin Murphy and David Hershberger

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 382 - 400, April, 1999