RSS 2005

48 papers

σMCL: Monte-Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots with Stereo Vision

Pantelis Elinas, James J. Little

Data Structure for Efficient Processing in 3-D

Jean-Francois Lalonde, Nicolas Vandapel, Martial Hebert

Model-Based Error Correction for Flexible Robotic Surgical Instruments

Ryan A. Beasley, Robert D. Howe

Shape, Motion, and Parameter Estimation of Flexible Space Structures using Laser Rangefinders

Matthew D. Lichter, Steven Dubowsky, Hiroshi Ueno, Shinji Mitani

Auction-Based Multi-Robot Routing

Michail G. Lagoudakis, Evangelos Markakis, David Kempe, Pinar Keskinocak, Anton Kleywegt

Blind Swarms for Coverage in 2-D

Vin de Silva, Robert Ghrist, Abubakr Muhammad

Micro and Nanorobotic Assembly Using Dielectrophoresis

Arunkumar Subramanian, Barmeshwar Vikramaditya, Lixin Dong, Dominik Bell, Bradley J. Nelson

Biologically Inspired Miniature Water Strider Robot

Steve H. Suhr, Yun Seong Song, Sang Jun Lee, Metin Sitti

Optimal design of robots

Jean-Pierre Merlet

The Stability of Point-mass Hoppers with Varying Morphology and Minimal Feedback

Justin Seipel

Time Complexity of Sensor-Based Vehicle Routing

Vikrant Sharma, Michael Savchenko, Emilio Frazzoli, Petros G. Voulgaris

Discriminative Training of Kalman Filters

Pieter Abbeel, Adam Coates, Michael Montemerlo, Andrew Y. Ng, Sebastian Thrun

Optimal Sensing Strategies for Mobile Robot Formations: Resource-Constrained Localization

Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I. Roumeliotis

Adaptive Road Following using Self-Supervised Learning and Reverse Optical Flow

David Lieb, Andrew Lookingbill, Sebastian Thrun

Single-Cluster Spectral Graph Partitioning for Robotics Applications

Edwin Olson, Matthew Walter, Seth Teller, John Leonard

Roadmap Based Pursuit-Evasion and Collision Avoidance

Volkan Isler, Dengfeng Sun, Shankar Sastry

An RRT-Based Algorithm for Testing and Validating Multi-Robot Controllers

Jongwoo Kim, Joel M. Esposito, Vijay Kumar

BioCD : An efficient algorithm for self-collision and distance computation between highly articulated molecular models

Vicente Ruiz de Angulo, Juan Cortés, Thierry Simeon

Motion Planning in the Presence of Drift, Underactuation and Discrete System Changes

Andrew M. Ladd, Lydia E. Kavraki

Path Planning for Deformable Robots in Complex Environments

Russell Gayle, Paul Segars, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha

Robot Planning in Partially Observable Continuous Domains

Josep M. Porta, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Nikos Vlassis

Data driven MCMC for Appearance-based Topological Mapping

Ananth Ranganathan, Frank Dellaert

Multi-robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Particle Filters

Andrew Howard

Scaling hard vertical surfaces with compliant microspine arrays

Alan T. Asbeck, Sangbae Kim, William R. Provancher, Michele Lanzetta

Topological Mapping with Multiple Visual Manifolds

Greg Grudic, Jane Mulligan

Square Root SAM

Frank Dellaert

On Correlating Sonar Images

Richard J. Rikoski, J. Tory Cobb, Daniel C. Brown

Three Dimensional Stochastic Reconfiguration of Modular Robots

Paul White, Victor Zykov, Josh Bongard, Hod Lipson

Modeling Complex Contacts Involving Deformable Objects for Haptic and Graphic Rendering

Qi Luo, Jing Xiao

Single Actuator Control Analysis of a Planar 3DOF Hopping Robot

Nicholas Cherouvim, Evangelos Papadopoulos

Microrobotic Streak Seeding For Protein Crystal Growth

Atanas Georgiev, Peter K. Allen, Ting Song, Andrew Laine, William Edstrom

Dynamic Task Assignment in Robot Swarms

James McLurkin, Daniel Yamins

A Two-Point Boundary-Value Approach for Planning Manipulation Tasks

Peng Song, Vijay Kumar, Jong-Shi Pang

Natural Gait Generation Techniques for Principally Kinematic Mechanical Systems

Elie Shammas, Howie Choset, Alfred Rizzi

Toward Optimal Configuration Space Sampling

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock

Effcient Motion Planning Based on Disassembly

Yuandong Yang, Oliver Brock

A polynomial-time algorithm to design push plans for sensorless parts sorting

Mark de Berg, Xavier Goaoc, A. Frank van der Stappen

Efficient Exploration With Latent Structure

Bethany R. Leffler, Michael L. Littman, Alexander L. Strehl, Thomas J. Walsh

Performance Bounds for Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM)

Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I. Roumeliotis

Information Gain-based Exploration Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters

Cyrill Stachniss, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard

Visually Navigating the RMS Titanic with SLAM Information Filters

Ryan Eustice, Hanumant Singh, John Leonard, Matthew Walter, Robert Ballard

Formation Stabilization of Multiple Agents Using Decentralized Navigation Functions

Herbert G. Tanner, Amit Kumar

Vision-based Distributed Coordination and Flocking of Multi-agent Systems

Nima Moshtagh, Ali Jadbabaie, Kostas Daniilidis

Complete Path Planning for Planar Closed Chains Among Point Obstacles

G.F. Liu, J.C. Trinkle

Star-shaped Roadmaps - A Deterministic Sampling Approach for Complete Motion Planning

Gokul Varadhan, Dinesh Manocha

Dynamic Maps for Long-Term Operation of Mobile Service Robots

Peter Biber, Tom Duckett

Active Learning For Outdoor Obstacle Detection

Cristian Dima, Martial Hebert

Interacting Markov Random Fields for Simultaneous Terrain Modeling and Obstacle Detection

Carl Wellington, Aaron Courville, Anthony Stentz