RSS 2011

45 papers

Assisted Teleoperation Strategies for Aggressively Controlling a Robot Arm with 2D Input

Erkang You, Kris Hauser

Lying Pose Recognition for Elderly Fall Detection

Simin Wang, Salim Zabir, Bastian Leibe

Sliding Manipulation of Rigid Bodies on a Controlled 6-DoF Plate

Tom Vose, Paul Umbanhowar, Kevin Lynch

Tracking-Based Semi-Supervised Learning

Alex Teichman, Sebastian Thrun

Finite-Time Regional Verification of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems

Jacob Steinhardt, Russ Tedrake

Coupled Dynamical System Based Hand-Arm Grasp Planning under Real-Time Perturbations

Ashwini Shukla, Aude Billard

Spatial Formation Model for Initiating Conversation

Chao Shi, Michihiro Shimada, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita

An Analytic Motion Planning Solution for the Snakeboard

Elie Shammas, Mauricio de Oliveira

From Caging to Grasping

Alberto Rodriguez, Matt Mason, Steve Ferry

Fast Trajectory Correction for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots using Affine Transformations

Quang-Cuong Pham

TERMES: An Autonomous Robotic System for Three-Dimensional Collective Construction

Kirstin Petersen, Radhika Nagpal, Justin Werfel

Load Balancing for Mobility-on-Demand Systems

Marco Pavone, Stephen Smith, Emilio Frazzoli, Daniela Rus

Motion Planning Under Uncertainty In Highly Deformable Environments

Sachin Patil, Jur van den Berg, Ron Alterovitz

Collision-Free and Curvature-Continuous Path Smoothing In Cluttered Environments

Jia Pan, Liangjun Zhang, Dinesh Manocha

Operational Space Control of Constrained and Underactuated Systems

Michael Mistry, Ludovic Righetti

Visual Segmentation of Simple Objects for Robots

Ajay Mishra, Yiannis Aloimonos

A Serial Approach to Handling High-Dimensional Measurements in the Sigma-Point Kalman Filter

Colin McManus, Timothy Barfoot

Distributed Robot Ensemble Control for Deployment to Multiple Sites

T. William Mather, M. Ani Hsieh

Comparing Heads-up, Hands-free Operation of Ground Robots to Teleoperation

Matthew Marge, Aaron Powers, Jonathan Brookshire, Trevor Jay, Odest Jenkins

Multi-Level Partitioning and Distribution of the Assignment Problem for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Task Allocation

Lantao Liu, Dylan Shell

Construction of Cubic Structures with Quadrotor Teams

Quentin Lindsey, Daniel Mellinger, Vijay Kumar

Designing Petri Net Supervisors from LTL Specifications

Bruno Lacerda, Pedro Lima

Global Motion Planning under Uncertain Motion, Sensing, and Environment Map

Hanna Kurniawati, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Nicholas Patrikalakis

Cross-Entropy Randomized Motion Planning

Marin Kobilarov

Real-time prioritized kinematic control under inequality constraints for redundant manipulators

Oussama Kanoun

Probabilistic Analysis of Correctness of High-Level Robot Behavior with Sensor Error

Benjamin Johnson, Hadas Kress-Gazit

Understanding Slip Perception of Soft Fingertips by Modeling and Simulating Stick-Slip Phenomenon

Van Ho, Shinichi Hirai

Friendly Patrolling: A Model of Natural Encounters

Kotaro Hayashi, Masahiro Shiomi, Takayuki Kanda, Norihiro Hagita

Kinematic Cartography for Locomotion at Low Reynolds Numbers

Ross Hatton, Howie Choset

Model-Based Proprioceptive State Estimation for Spring-Mass Running

Ozlem Gur, Uluc Saranli

Monte Carlo Pose Estimation with Quaternion Kernels and the Bingham Distribution

Jared Glover, Radu Rusu, Gary Bradski

An Interaction Design Framework for Social Robots

Dylan Glas, Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda, Norihiro Hagita

Bilateral Teleoperation of Groups of UAVs with Decentralized Connectivity Maintenance

Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Antonio Franchi, Cristian Secchi, Heinrich B&uumllthoff

Global Optimization of Robotic Grasps

Carlos Rosales Gallegos, Josep Porta, Lluis Ros

An Art Gallery Approach to Ensuring that Landmarks are Distinguishable

Lawrence Erickson, Steven LaValle

Infinite-Horizon Model Predictive Control for Periodic Tasks with Contacts

Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, Emanuel Todorov

A Framework for Push-Grasping in Clutter

Mehmet Dogar, Siddhartha Srinivasa

Learning to Control a Low-Cost Manipulator using Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning

Marc Deisenroth, Carl Rasmussen, Dieter Fox

The Motion Grammar: Linguistic Perception, Planning, and Control

Neil Dantam, Mike Stilman

A Linear Approximation for Graph-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Luca Carlone, Rosario Aragues, Jose Castellanos, Basilio Bona

Automatic Calibration of Multiple Coplanar Sensors

Jonathan Brookshire, Seth Teller

Exploiting Variable Stiffness in Explosive Movement Tasks

David Braun, Matthew Howard, Sethu Vijayakumar

Controlling Wild Bodies Using Linear Temporal Logic

Leonardo Bobadilla, Oscar Sanchez, Justin Czarnowski, Katrina Gossman, Steven LaValle

Identification and Representation of Homotopy Classes of Trajectories for Search-based Path Planning in 3D

Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Maxim Likhachev, Vijay Kumar

Unmanned Aircraft Collision Avoidance using Continuous-State POMDPs

Haoyu Bai, David Hsu, Mykel Kochenderfer, Wee Sun Lee