Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

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

Path Planning and Control for AERCam, a Free-flying Inspection Robot in Space

Howie Choset and D. Kortenkamp

Journal Article, ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 74 - 81, April, 1999

Patterned Search Planning and Testing for the Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search

Kimberly Shillcutt, Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, and William (Red) L. Whittaker

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ANS 8th International Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, pp. 25 - 29, April, 1999

Randomized Stopping Times and American Option Pricing with Transaction Costs

Prasad Chalasani and Somesh Jha

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th Annual Derivative Securities Conference, April, 1999

RoboCon: Operator Interface for Robotic and Remote Applications

Hagen Schempf, Colin Piepgras, John Warwick, Robert Fuchs, and Brian Chemel

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

Separating hippocampal maps

A. D. Redish and David S. Touretzky

Book Section/Chapter, The Hippocampal and Parietal Foundations of Spatial Cognition, pp. 203 - 219, April, 1999

The Demeter System for Automated Harvesting

Thomas Pilarski, Michael Happold, Henning Pangels, Mark Ollis, Kerien Fitzpatrick, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz

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

A distributed system for control and management of teams of mobile robots

A. Chmielniak, A. Dubrawski, and B. Siemiatkowska

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Automation Conference (Automation '99), March, 1999

A monte carlo algorithm for multi-robot localization

Dieter Fox, W. Burgard, H. Kruppa, and Sebastian Thrun

Tech. Report, CMU-CS-99-120, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1999

Autonomous Rovers for Mars Exploration

Richard Washington, Keith Golden, John Bresina, David E. Smith, Corin Anderson, and Trey Smith

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 237 - 251, March, 1999

Autonomous Science Decisions for Mars Sample Return

T. L. Roush, V. Gulick, R. Morris, P. Gazis, G. Benedix, C. Glymour, J. Ramsey, Liam Pedersen, M. Ruzon, W. Buntine, and J. Oliver

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '99), March, 1999

Building Domain-Specific Search Engines with Machine Learning Techniques

Andrew McCallum, Kamal Nigam, Jason Rennie, and Kristie Seymore

Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '99 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace, March, 1999

Experiments with Desktop Mobile Manipulators

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

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '99), pp. 37 - 46, March, 1999

On-line Algorithms for Combining Language Models

Adam Kalai, Stan Chen, Avrim Blum, and Roni Rosenfeld

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '99), Vol. 2, pp. 745 - 748, March, 1999

Robotic Rock Classification Using Visible Light Reflectance Spectroscopy: Preliminary results from the Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search program

Liam Pedersen, Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, William (Red) L. Whittaker, W. Cassidy, P. Lee, and T. Roush

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '99), March, 1999

Search for Meteorites at Martin Hills and Pirrit Hills, Antarctica

P. Lee, W. A. Cassidy, Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, D. Bassi, L. Bravo, H. Cifuentes, Matthew Deans, Alex Foessel, Stewart Moorehead, Michael Parris, C. Puebla, Liam Pedersen, Mark Sibenac, F. Valdes, Nicolas Vandapel, and William (Red) L. Whittaker

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 30th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC '99), March, 1999

A Functional Economical Analysis of an Ongoing Telemedicine Project

V. L. Kudryk and Mitra A. Rocca

Journal Article, Telemedicine Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, March, 1999

Animating Sand, Mud, and Snow

Robert Sumner, James F. O'Brien, and Jessica K. Hodgins

Journal Article, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 17 - 26, March, 1999

Collaborative Control: A Robot-Centric Model for Vehicle Teleoperation

Terrence W. Fong, Chuck Thorpe, and C. Baur

Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '99 Spring Symposium on Agents with Adjustable Autonomy, March, 1999

Continuous Probabilistic Mapping by Autonomous Robots

Jesus Salido-Tercero, Chris Paredis, and Pradeep Khosla

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '99), pp. 275 - 286, March, 1999

Dynamic Service Matchmaking Among Agents in Open Information Environments

Katia Sycara, Matthias Klusch, Seth Widoff, and Jianguo Lu

Journal Article, ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 47 - 53, March, 1999

Experimental Comparison of Skid Steering Vs. Explicit Steering for a Wheeled Mobile Robot

Benjamin Shamah

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-99-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1999

Learning Situation-Dependent Rules: Improving Task Planning for an Incompletely Modelled Domain

Karen Zita Haigh and Manuela Veloso

Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '99 Spring Symposium on Search Techniques for Problem Solving under Uncertainty and Incomplete Information, pp. 30 - 35, March, 1999

Matchmaking among Heterogeneous Agents on the Internet

Katia Sycara, Jianguo Lu, Matthias Klusch, and Seth Widoff

Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '99 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace, pp. 152 - 163, March, 1999

Models for Automated Earthmoving

Howard Cannon and Sanjiv Singh

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '99), pp. 163 - 172, March, 1999

Mosaicing a Large Number of Widely Dispersed, Noisy, and Distorted Images: A Bayesian Approach

Frank Dellaert, Sebastian Thrun, and Chuck Thorpe

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-99-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1999

Name-It: naming and detecting faces in news videos

S. Satoh, Y. Nakamura, and Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, IEEE Multimedia, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 22 - 35, March, 1999

Optimizing Symbolic Model Checking for Constraint-Rich Models

B. Yang, Reid Simmons, R. Bryant, and D. O'Hallaron

Tech. Report, CMU-CS-99-118, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1999

Photometric modeling for mixed reality

Katsushi Ikeuchi, Yoichi Sato, K. Nishino, and I. Sato

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Mixed Reality '99, pp. 147 - 163, March, 1999

Preliminary Results on the use of Stereo, Color Cameras and Laser Sensors in Antarctica

Nicolas Vandapel, Stewart Moorehead, William (Red) L. Whittaker, Raja Chatila, and Raphael Murrieta-Cid

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER '99), pp. 59 - 68, March, 1999