RSS 2014

57 papers

Efficient Visual-Inertial Navigation using a Rolling-Shutter Camera with Inaccurate Timestamps

Chao Guo, Dimitrios Kottas, Ryan DuToit, Ahmed Ahmed, Ruipeng Li

Multi-Heuristic A*

Sandip Aine, Siddharth Swaminathan, Venkatraman Narayanan, Victor Hwang, Maxim Likhachev

Conditioned Basis Array Factorization: An Approach to Gait Pattern Extraction

Chaohui Gong, Matthew Travers, Henry Astley, Lu Li, Joseph Mendelson

Multiscale Topological Trajectory Classification with Persistent Homology

Florian T. Pokorny, Majd Hawasly, Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Dynamically Feasible Motion Planning through Partial Differential Flatness.

Suresh Ramasamy, Guofan Wu, Koushil Sreenath

Combining the benefits of function approximation and trajectory optimization

Igor Mordatch, Emo Todorov

Simultaneous Compliance and Registration Estimation for Robotic Surgery

Siddharth Sanan, Stephen Tully, Andrea Bajo, Nabil Simaan, Howie Choset

Learning Articulated Motions From Visual Demonstration

Sudeep Pillai, Matthew Walter, Seth Teller

Robust Policies via Meshing for Metastable Rough Terrain Walking

Cenk Oguz Saglam, Katie Byl

Robot Programming by Demonstration with Interactive Action Visualizations

Sonya Alexandrova, Maya Cakmak, Kaijen Hsiao, Leila Takayama

Sky segmentation with ultraviolet images can be used for navigation

Thomas Stone, Michael Mangan, Paul Ardin, Barbara Webb

Decision-Making Authority, Team Efficiency and Human Worker Satisfaction in Mixed Human-Robot Teams

Matthew Gombolay, Reymundo Gutierrez, Giancarlo Sturla, Julie Shah

An Automata-Theoretic Approach to the Vehicle Routing Problem

Cristian Vasile, Calin Belta

Vision-based Landing Site Evaluation and Trajectory Generation Toward Rooftop Landing

Vishnu Desaraju, Nathan Michael, Martin Humenberger, roland Brockers, Stephan Weiss

Semantic Localization Via the Matrix Permanent

Nikolay Atanasov, Menglong Zhu, Kostas Daniilidis, George Pappas

Cogging Torque Ripple Minimization via Position Based Characterization

Matthew Piccoli, Mark Yim

Open-vocabulary Object Retrieval

Sergio Guadarrama, Erik Rodner, Kate Saenko, Ning Zhang, Ryan Farrell

Nonlinear Graph Sparsification for SLAM

Mladen Mazuran, Tipaldi Gian Diego, Spinello Luciano, Wolfram Burgard

Probably Approximately Correct MDP Learning and Control With Temporal Logic Constraints

Jie Fu, Ufuk Topcu

Persistent Monitoring of Stochastic Spatio-temporal Phenomena with a Small Team of Robots

Sahil Garg, Nora Ayanian

5-DOF Manipulation of an Untethered Magnetic Device in Fluid using a Single Permanent Magnet

Arthur Mahoney, Abbott Jake

An Online Sparsity-Cognizant Loop-Closure Algorithm for Visual Navigation

Yasir Latif, Guoquan Huang, John Leonard, José Neira

Learning to locate from demonstrated searches

Paul Vernaza, Anthony Stentz

Pre- and Post-Contact Policy Decomposition for Planar Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty

Michael Koval, Nancy Pollard, Siddhartha Srinivasa

Planning Single-arm Manipulations with n-Arm Robots

Benjamin Cohen, Mike Phillips, Maxim Likhachev

Stiction Compensation in Agonist-Antagonist Variable Stiffness Actuators

Luca Fiorio, Francesco Romano, Alberto Parmiggiani, Giulio Sandini, Francesco Nori

Active Reward Learning

Christian Daniel, Malte Viering, Jan Metz, Oliver Kroemer, Jan Peters

DART: Dense Articulated Real-Time Tracking

Tanner Schmidt, Richard Newcombe, Dieter Fox

Appearance-based Active, Monocular, Dense Reconstruction for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Christian Forster, Matia Pizzoli, Davide Scaramuzza

Robust and Agile 3D Biped Walking With Steering Capability Using a Footstep Predictive Approach

Salman Faraji, Soha Pouya, Auke Ijspeert

Bio-Artificial Synergies for Grasp Posture Control of Supernumerary Robotic Fingers

Faye Wu, Harry Asada

Control of Robotic Mobility-On-Demand Systems: a Queueing-Theoretical Perspective

Rick Zhang, Marco Pavone

Modeling and Controlling Friendliness for An Interactive Museum Robot

Chien-Ming Huang, Takamasa Iio, Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda

Asking for Help Using Inverse Semantics

Stefanie Tellex, Ross Knepper, Adrian Li, Daniela Rus, Nicholas Roy

Scene Signatures: Localised and Point-less Features for Localisation

Colin McManus, Ben Upcroft, Paul Newmann

Modeling robot discrete movements with state-varying stiffness and damping: A framework for integrated motion generation and impedance control

Mohammad Khansari, Klas Kronander, Aude Billard

Fully Decentralized Task Swaps with Optimized Local Searching

Lantao Liu, Nathan Michael, Dylan Shell

Enhanced 3D Kinematic Modeling of Wheeled Mobile Robots

Neal Seegmiller, Alonzo Kelly

State Representation Learning in Robotics: Using Prior Knowledge about Physical Interaction

Rico Jonschkowski, Oliver Brock

A Novel Type of Compliant, Underactuated Robotic Hand for Dexterous Grasping

Raphael Deimel, Oliver Brock

The Multi-Agent Navigation Transformation: Tuning-Free Multi-Robot Navigation

Savvas Loizou

Manhattan and Piecewise-Planar Constraints for Dense Monocular Mapping

Alejo Concha, Wajahat Hussain, Luis Montano, Javier Civera

Modeling High-Dimensional Humans for Activity Anticipation using Gaussian Process Latent CRFs

Yun Jiang, Ashutosh Saxena

Combining 3D Shape, Color, and Motion for Robust Anytime Tracking

David Held, Jesse Levinson, Sebastian Thrun, Silvio Savarese

Six-Degrees-of-Freedom Remote Actuation of Magnetic Microrobots

Eric Diller, Joshua Giltinan, Guo Zhan Lum, Zhou Ye, Metin Sitti

Correct High-level Robot Behavior in Environments with Unexpected Events

Kai Weng Wong, Rüdiger Ehlers, Hadas Kress-Gazit

Online Trajectory Planning in Dynamic Environments for Surgical Task Automation

Takayuki Osa, Naohiko Sugita, Mamoru Mitsuishi

An Analysis of Deceptive Robot Motion

Anca Dragan, Rachel Holladay, Siddhartha Srinivasa

Articulated Pose Estimation via Over-parametrization and Noise Projection

Jonathan Brookshire, Seth Teller

Self-Calibration and Visual SLAM with a Multi-Camera System on a Micro Aerial Vehicle

Lionel Heng, Gim Hee Lee, Marc Pollefeys

LOAM: Lidar Odometry and Mapping in Real-time

Ji Zhang, Sanjiv Singh

Hierarchical Semantic Labeling for Task-Relevant RGB-D Perception

Chenxia Wu, Ian Lenz, Ashutosh Saxena

Tell Me Dave: Context-Sensitive Grounding of Natural Language to Manipulation Instructions

Dipendra Kumar Misra, Jaeyong Sung, Kevin Lee, Ashutosh Saxena

Automatic generation of reduced CPG control networks for locomotion of arbitrary modular robot structures

Stéphane Bonardi, Massimo Vespignani, Rico Moeckel, Jesse Van den Kieboom, Soha Pouya

Learning to Recognize Human Activities from Soft Labeled Data

Ninghang Hu, Zhongyu Lou, Gwenn Englebienne, Ben Kröse

Effective Task Training Strategies for Instructional Robots

Allison Sauppe, Bilge Mutlu

Batch Continuous-Time Trajectory Estimation as Exactly Sparse Gaussian Process Regression

Tim Barfoot, Chi Hay Tong, Simo Särkkä