Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Pat Hanrahan and Paul Heckbert

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering and Computer Graphics, pp. 286 - 289, August, 1984

Navigation for an Intelligent Mobile Robot

James L. Crowley

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1984

The Mechanical Manipulation of Randomly Oriented Parts

B. K. P. Horn and Katsushi Ikeuchi

Magazine Article, Scientific American, Vol. 251, No. 2, pp. 100 - 109, August, 1984

Three Degrees for a Mobile Robot

Hans Moravec

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASME International Computers-in-Engineering Conference and Exhibit, August, 1984

Beam Tracing Polygonal Objects

Paul Heckbert and Pat Hanrahan

Journal Article, ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 119 - 127, July, 1984

Generalized Image Matching by the Method of Differences

Bruce D. Lucas

Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 1984

ISIS: A Knowledge-Based System for Factory Scheduling

Mark S. Fox and Stephen Smith

Journal Article, Expert Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 25 - 49, July, 1984

State Dependent Priority Rules for Scheduling

Ari P. J. Vepsalainen

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-19, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 1984

A Computational Paradigm for Three Dimensional Scene Analysis

James L. Crowley

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1984

Determining Object Orientation from a Single Image Using Multiple Information Sources

Nigel J. Foster and Arthur C. Sanderson

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1984

Experiments in Balance With a 3D One-Legged Hopping Machine

M. H. Raibert, M. A. Chepponis, and H. Benjamin Brown

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 75 - 92, June, 1984

Heuristics for Empirical Discovery

Pat Langley, Herbert A. Simon, and Gary L. Bradshaw

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1984

Precision Flexible Machining Cells Within a Manufacturing System (revised version)

Mark R. Cutkosky, Paul S. Fussell, and Robert Milligan Jr.

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 1984

Pulse-Width Modulation Control of Brushless DC Motors for Robotic Applications

Patrick Muir and C. P. Neuman

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 27th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS '84), June, 1984

A Machine Learning Approach to Student Modeling

Pat Langley, Stellan Ohlsson, and Stephanie Sage

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-07, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1984

A Modeless Convex Hull Algorithm for Simple Polygons

M. A. Peshkin and Arthur C. Sanderson

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-85-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1984

An Algorithm for Seam Tracking Applications

Pradeep Khosla, C. P. Neuman, and Fritz B. Prinz

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1984

RAPIDbus: Design of an Extensible Multiprocessor Structure

John C. Willis and Arthur C. Sanderson

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1984

Symbolic Knowledge Processing for he Acquisition of Expert Behavior: A Study in Medicine

Alain Rappaport and Jean-Marie C. Chauvet

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 1984

The use of computer vision for inspection in a flexible manufacturing cell

P. K. Wright, M. Goldstein, and D. A. Bourne

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 12th North American Manufacturing Research Conference, pp. 408 - 413, May, 1984

A Functional Vehicle for Autonomous Mobile Robot Research

Gregg Podnar, Kevin Dowling, and Mike Blackwell

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1984

Design of an Optical Proximity Sensor Using Multiple Cones of Light for Measuring Surface Shape

Michael Fuhrman and Takeo Kanade

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1984

Digital Servo Controller Design for Brushless DC Motors

Patrick Muir

Miscellaneous, Master's Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1984

Dynamic Visual Servo Control of Robots: An Adaptive Image-Based Approach

Lee Weiss

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1984

Path Relaxation: Path Planning for a Mobile Robot

Chuck Thorpe

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1984

Robotic Seam Tracking

Fritz B. Prinz and K. T. Gunnarsson

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1984

Automatic Planning of Fine Motions: Correctness and Completeness

Matthew T. Mason

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 492 - 503, March, 1984

Automatic Synthesis of Fine-Motion Strategies for Robots

Tomas Lozano-Perez, Matthew T. Mason, and Russell H. Taylor

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 3 - 24, March, 1984

Experiments in Balance With a 2D One-Legged Hopping Machine

M. H. Raibert and H. Benjamin Brown

Journal Article, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, Vol. 106, No. 1, pp. 75 - 81, March, 1984

Impacts of Robotic and Flexible Manufacturing Technologies on Manufacturing Costs and Employment

Steven M. Miller

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-23, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1984

Parts entropy methods for robotic assembly system design

Arthur C. Sanderson

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 600 - 608, March, 1984

Robotic Sensing Devices

David J. Hall

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1984

Tabular Control of Balance in a Dynamic Legged System

M. Raibert and Frank C. Wimberly

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 334 - 339, March, 1984

Testing and Control of a Compliant Wrist

Mark R. Cutkosky, John M. Jourdain, and Paul K. Wright

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1984

A High Speed Processor for Binary Images

Robert W. Berger

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1984

Investigating the Implementation of Robotics

Linda Argote and Paul S. Goodman

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-09, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1984

A design of a controller as a component of a robotic manufacturing system

Paul S. Fussell, P. K. Wright, and David Bourne

Journal Article, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1 - 11, January, 1984

Autonomous Scene Descriptions with Range Imagery

D. Smith and Takeo Kanade

Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '84), pp. 282 - 290, 1984

Machine Vision: Three Generations of Commercial Systems

James L. Crowley

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-84-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1984

Shape from Regular Patterns

Katsushi Ikeuchi

Journal Article, Artificial Intelligence, No. 22, pp. 49 - 75, 1984

The 3D MOSAIC Scene Understanding System: Incremental Reconstruction of 3D Scenes from Complex Images

T. Herman and Takeo Kanade

Tech. Report, 1984

An Analysis of Interest Operators for FIDO

Chuck Thorpe

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-19, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1983

Automatic Planning of Fine Motions: Correctness and Completeness

Matthew T. Mason

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1983

Constraint-Directed Search: A Case Study of Job-Shop Scheduling

Mark S. Fox

Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, CMU-RI-TR-83-22, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1983

Dynamically Stable Legged Locomotion Progress Report: October 1982 - October 1983

Marc H. Raibert, H. Benjamin Brown, Michael Chepponis, Eugene Hastings, Jeff Koechling, Karl N. Murphy, Seshashayee S. Murthy, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1983

Knowledge-Based Support Systems for Long Range Planning

Donald W. Kosy and Vasant Dhar

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1983

Mapping Image Properties into Shape Constraints: Skewed Symmetry, Affine-Transformable Patterns, and the Shape-from-Texture Paradigm

Takeo Kanade and J. R. Kender

Book Section/Chapter, Human and Machine Vision, pp. 237 - 257, December, 1983

Recursive Lagrangian Dynamics of Flexible Manipulator Arms via Transformation Matrices

Wayne J. Book

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-23, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1983

Solution of Dynamic Optimization Problems by Successive Quadratic Programming and Orthogonal Collocation

Lorenz T. Biegler

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-83-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1983

Computer Vision: the Challenge of Imperfect Inputs

Takeo Kanade and Raj Reddy

Journal Article, IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 20, No. 11, pp. 88 - 91, November, 1983