RSS 2008

40 papers

Super-Flexible Skin Sensors Embedded on the Whole Body, Self-Organizing Based on Haptic Interactions

Tomoyuki Noda, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita

Distributed Localization of Modular Robot Ensembles

Funiak Stanislav, Padmanabhan Pillai, Michael Ashley-Rollman, Jason Campbell, Seth Goldstein

CPG-based Control of a Turtle-like Underwater Vehicle

Keehong Seo, Soon-Jo Chung, Jean-Jacques Slotine

Model Based Vehicle Tracking for Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments

Anna Petrovskaya, Sebastian Thrun

Laser and Vision Based Outdoor Object Mapping

Bertrand Douillard, Dieter Fox, Fabio Ramos

Fast Probabilistic Labeling of City Maps

Ingmar Posner, Mark Cummins, Paul Newman

Planning Long Dynamically-Feasible Maneuvers For Autonomous Vehicles

Maxim Likhachev, Dave Ferguson

Metastable Walking on Stochastically Rough Terrain

Katie Byl, Russ Tedrake

Controlling Shapes of Ensembles of Robots of Finite Size with Nonholonomic Constraints

Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar

Structural Improvement Filtering Strategy for PRM

Roger Pearce, Marco Morales, Nancy Amato

Abstractions and Algorithms for Cooperative Multiple Robot Planar Manipulation

Peng CHENG, Jonathan Fink, Vijay Kumar

HyPE: Hybrid Particle-Element Approach for Recursive Bayesian Searching and Tracking

Benjamin Lavis, Tomonari Furukawa

High Performance Outdoor Navigation from Overhead Data using Imitation Learning

David Silver, James Bagnell, Anthony Stentz

Probabilistic Models of Object Geometry for Grasp Planning

Jared Glover, Daniela Rus, Nicholas Roy

Bearing-Only Control Laws For Balanced Circular Formations of Ground Robots

Nima Moshtagh, Nathan Michael, Ali Jadbabaie, Kostas Daniilidis

Stochastic Recruitment: A Limited-Feedback Control Policy for Large Ensemble Systems

Lael Odhner, Harry Asada

Dynamic Modeling of Stick Slip Motion in an Untethered Magnetic Micro-Robot

Steven Floyd, Chytra Pawashe, Metin Sitti

Proofs and Experiments in Scalable, Near-Optimal Search by Multiple Robots

Geoffrey Hollinger, Sanjiv Singh

Multi-Sensor Lane Finding in Urban Road Networks

Albert Huang, David Moore, Matthew Antone, Edwin Olson, Seth Teller

Hybrid Motion Planning Using Minkowski Sums

Jyh-Ming Lien

SARSOP: Efficient Point-Based POMDP Planning by Approximating Optimally Reachable Belief Spaces

Hanna Kurniawati, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee

fMRI-Compatible Robotic Interfaces with Fluidic Actuation

Ningbo Yu, Christoph Hollnagel, Armin Blickenstorfer, Spyros Kollias, Robert Riener

Classifying Dynamic Objects: An Unsupervised Learning Approach

Matthias Luber, Kai Arras, Christian Plagemann, Wolfram Burgard

BiSpace Planning: Concurrent Multi-Space Exploration

Rosen Diankov, Nathan Ratliff, Dave Ferguson, Siddhartha Srinivasa, James Kuffner

Learning to Manipulate Articulated Objects in Unstructured Environments Using a Grounded Relational Representation

Dov Katz, Yuri Pyuro, Oliver Brock

Adaptive Body Scheme Models for Robust Robotic Manipulation

Juergen Sturm, Christian Plagemann, Wolfram Burgard

Improving Localization Robustness in Monocular SLAM Using a High-Speed Camera

Peter Gemeiner, Andrew Davison, Markus Vincze

Approximation Schemes for Two-Player Pursuit Evasion Games with Visibility Constraints

Sourabh Bhattacharya, Seth Hutchinson

Detection of Principle Directions in Unknown Environments for Autonomous Navigation

Dmitri Dolgov, Sebastian Thrun

Friction-Induced Velocity Fields for Point Parts Sliding on a Rigid Oscillated Plate

Thomas Vose, Paul Umbanhowar, Kevin Lynch

A Local Collision Avoidance Method for Non-strictly Convex Polyhedra

Fumio Kanehiro, Florent Lamiraux, Oussama Kanoun, Eiichi Yoshida, Jean-Paul Laumond

Target Enumeration via Integration over Planar Sensor Networks

Robert Ghrist, Yuliy Baryshnikov

NanoNewton Force Sensing and Control in Microrobotic Cell Manipulation

Xinyu Liu, Keekyoung Kim, Yong Zhang, Yu Sun

Prior Data and Kernel Conditional Random Fields for Obstacle Detection

Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez, Tony Stentz

Gas Distribution Modeling using Sparse Gaussian Process Mixture Models

Cyrill Stachniss, Christian Plagemann, Achim Lilienthal, Wolfram Burgard

Simplex-Tree Based Kinematics of Foldable Objects as Multi-body Systems Involving Loops

Li Han, Lee Rudolph

Using Recognition to Guide a Robot's Attention

Alexander Thomas, Vittorio Ferrari, Bastian Leibe, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc Van Gool

A Numerically Robust LCP Solver for Simulating Articulated Rigid Bodies in Contact

Katsu Yamane, Yoshihiko Nakamura

Clustering Sensor Data for Terrain Identification using a Windowless Algorithm

Philippe Giguère, Gregory Dudek

Bridging the Gap of Abstraction for Probabilistic Decision Making on a Multi-Modal Service Robot

Sven Schmidt-Rohr, Steffen Knoop, Martin Lösch, Rüdiger Dillmann