Robotics: Science and Systems I

Table of Contents

Interacting Markov Random Fields for Simultaneous Terrain Modeling and Obstacle Detection
Carl Wellington, Aaron Courville, Anthony Stentz
 
Active Learning For Outdoor Obstacle Detection
Cristian Dima, Martial Hebert
 
Dynamic Maps for Long-Term Operation of Mobile Service Robots
Peter Biber, Tom Duckett
 
Star-shaped Roadmaps - A Deterministic Sampling Approach for Complete Motion Planning
Gokul Varadhan, Dinesh Manocha
 
Complete Path Planning for Planar Closed Chains Among Point Obstacles
G.F. Liu, J.C. Trinkle
 
Vision-based Distributed Coordination and Flocking of Multi-agent Systems
Nima Moshtagh, Ali Jadbabaie, Kostas Daniilidis
 
Formation Stabilization of Multiple Agents Using Decentralized Navigation Functions
Herbert G. Tanner, Amit Kumar
 
Visually Navigating the RMS Titanic with SLAM Information Filters
Ryan Eustice, Hanumant Singh, John Leonard, Matthew Walter, Robert Ballard
 
Information Gain-based Exploration Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters
Cyrill Stachniss, Giorgio Grisetti, Wolfram Burgard
 
Performance Bounds for Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM)
Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
 
Efficient Exploration With Latent Structure
Bethany R. Leffler, Michael L. Littman, Alexander L. Strehl, Thomas J. Walsh
 
A polynomial-time algorithm to design push plans for sensorless parts sorting
Mark de Berg, Xavier Goaoc, A. Frank van der Stappen
 
Effcient Motion Planning Based on Disassembly
Yuandong Yang, Oliver Brock
 
Toward Optimal Configuration Space Sampling
Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock
 
Natural Gait Generation Techniques for Principally Kinematic Mechanical Systems
Elie Shammas, Howie Choset, Alfred Rizzi
 
A Two-Point Boundary-Value Approach for Planning Manipulation Tasks
Peng Song, Vijay Kumar, Jong-Shi Pang
 
Dynamic Task Assignment in Robot Swarms
James McLurkin, Daniel Yamins
 
Microrobotic Streak Seeding For Protein Crystal Growth
Atanas Georgiev, Peter K. Allen, Ting Song, Andrew Laine, William Edstrom, John Hunt
 
Single Actuator Control Analysis of a Planar 3DOF Hopping Robot
Nicholas Cherouvim, Evangelos Papadopoulos
 
Modeling Complex Contacts Involving Deformable Objects for Haptic and Graphic Rendering
Qi Luo, Jing Xiao
 
Three Dimensional Stochastic Reconfiguration of Modular Robots
Paul White, Victor Zykov, Josh Bongard, Hod Lipson
 
On Correlating Sonar Images
Richard J. Rikoski, J. Tory Cobb, Daniel C. Brown
 
Square Root SAM
Frank Dellaert
 
Topological Mapping with Multiple Visual Manifolds
Greg Grudic, Jane Mulligan
 
Scaling hard vertical surfaces with compliant microspine arrays
Alan T. Asbeck, Sangbae Kim, William R. Provancher, Michele Lanzetta
 
Multi-robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Particle Filters
Andrew Howard
 
Data driven MCMC for Appearance-based Topological Mapping
Ananth Ranganathan, Frank Dellaert
 
Robot Planning in Partially Observable Continuous Domains
Josep M. Porta, Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Nikos Vlassis
 
Path Planning for Deformable Robots in Complex Environments
Russell Gayle, Paul Segars, Ming C. Lin, Dinesh Manocha
 
Motion Planning in the Presence of Drift, Underactuation and Discrete System Changes
Andrew M. Ladd, Lydia E. Kavraki
 
BioCD : An efficient algorithm for self-collision and distance computation between highly articulated molecular models
Vicente Ruiz de Angulo, Juan Cortés, Thierry Siméon
 
An RRT-Based Algorithm for Testing and Validating Multi-Robot Controllers
Jongwoo Kim, Joel M. Esposito, Vijay Kumar
 
Roadmap Based Pursuit-Evasion and Collision Avoidance
Volkan Isler, Dengfeng Sun, Shankar Sastry
 
Single-Cluster Spectral Graph Partitioning for Robotics Applications
Edwin Olson, Matthew Walter, Seth Teller, John Leonard
 
Adaptive Road Following using Self-Supervised Learning and Reverse Optical Flow
David Lieb, Andrew Lookingbill, Sebastian Thrun
 
Optimal Sensing Strategies for Mobile Robot Formations: Resource-Constrained Localization
Anastasios I. Mourikis, Stergios I. Roumeliotis
 
Discriminative Training of Kalman Filters
Pieter Abbeel, Adam Coates, Michael Montemerlo, Andrew Y. Ng, Sebastian Thrun
 
Time Complexity of Sensor-Based Vehicle Routing
Vikrant Sharma, Michael Savchenko, Emilio Frazzoli, Petros G. Voulgaris
 
The Stability of Point-mass Hoppers with Varying Morphology and Minimal Feedback
Justin Seipel
 
Optimal design of robots
Jean-Pierre Merlet
 
Biologically Inspired Miniature Water Strider Robot
Steve H. Suhr, Yun Seong Song, Sang Jun Lee, Metin Sitti
 
Micro and Nanorobotic Assembly Using Dielectrophoresis
Arunkumar Subramanian, Barmeshwar Vikramaditya, Lixin Dong, Dominik Bell, Bradley J. Nelson
 
Blind Swarms for Coverage in 2-D
Vin de Silva, Robert Ghrist, Abubakr Muhammad
 
Auction-Based Multi-Robot Routing
Michail G. Lagoudakis, Evangelos Markakis, David Kempe, Pinar Keskinocak, Anton Kleywegt, Sven Koenig, Craig Tovey, Adam Meyerson, Sonal Jain
 
Shape, Motion, and Parameter Estimation of Flexible Space Structures using Laser Rangefinders
Matthew D. Lichter, Steven Dubowsky, Hiroshi Ueno, Shinji Mitani
 
Model-Based Error Correction for Flexible Robotic Surgical Instruments
Ryan A. Beasley, Robert D. Howe
 
Data Structure for Efficient Processing in 3-D
Jean-François Lalonde, Nicolas Vandapel, Martial Hebert
 
σMCL: Monte-Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots with Stereo Vision
Pantelis Elinas, James J. Little