Robotics: Science and Systems IX

Table of Contents

Multi-Hypothesis Social Grouping and Tracking for Mobile Robots
Matthias Luber, Kai Arras
 
Audio-based Relative Positioning System for Multiple Micro Air Vehicle Systems
Meysam Basiri, Felix Schill, Dario Floreano, Pedro Lima
 
High Altitude Stereo Visual Odometry
Michael Warren, Ben Upcroft
 
Learning Semantic Maps from Natural Language Descriptions
Matt Walter, Sachithra Hemachandra, Bianca Homberg, Stefanie Tellex, Seth Teller
 
Toward Interactive Grounded Language Acqusition
Thomas Kollar, Jayant Krishnamurthy, Grant Strimel
 
Anticipating Human Activities using Object Affordances for Reactive Robotic Response
Hema Koppula, Ashutosh Saxena
 
Online Coverage by a Tethered Autonomous Mobile Robot in Planar Unknown Environments
Iddo Shnaps, Elon Rimon
 
Quantitative Evaluation of Standing Stabilization Using Stiff and Compliant Actuators
Jorhabib Eljaik, Zhibin Li, Marco Randazzo, Alberto Parmiggiani, Giorgio Metta, Nikos Tsagarakis, Francesco Nori
 
Metastability for High-Dimensional Walking Systems on Stochastically Rough Terrain
Mehdi Benallegue, Jean-Paul Laumond
 
An Exact Decentralized Cooperative Navigation Algorithm for Acoustically Networked Underwater Vehicles with Robustness to Faulty Communication: Theory and Experiment
Jeffrey Walls, Ryan Eustice
 
Dynamics, Control and Planning for Cooperative Manipulation of Payloads Suspended by Cables from Multiple Quadrotor Robots
Koushil Sreenath, Vijay Kumar
 
Deep Learning for Detecting Robotic Grasps
Ian Lenz, Honglak Lee, Ashutosh Saxena
 
Receding Horizon Control in Dynamic Environments from Temporal Logic Specifications
Alphan Ulusoy, Michael Marrazzo, Calin Belta
 
On Provably Safe Obstacle Avoidance for Autonomous Robotic Ground Vehicles
Stefan Mitsch, Khalil Ghorbal, Andre Platzer
 
Pregrasp Manipulation as Trajectory Optimization
Jennifer King, Matthew Klingensmith, Christopher Dellin, Mehmet Dogar, Prasanna Velagapudi, Nancy Pollard, Siddhartha Srinivasa
 
The Influence of Motion Path and Assembly Sequence on Stability of Assemblies
Sourav Rakshit, Srinivas Akella
 
Minimum Constraint Displacement Motion Planning
Kris Hauser
 
Integrated Perception and Planning in the Continuous Space: A POMDP Approach
Haoyu Bai, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee
 
Active Bayesian Perception for Simultaneous Object Localization and Identification
Nathan Lepora, Uriel Martinez-Hernandez, Tony Prescott
 
Gaussian Process-Based Decentralized Data Fusion and Active Sensing for Mobility-on-Demand System
Jie Chen, Kian Hsiang Low, Colin Keng-Yan Tan
 
Exploiting Urban Scenes for Vision-aided Inertial Navigation
Dimitrios Kottas, Stergios Roumeliotis
 
Fast Interpolation and Time-Optimization on Implicit Contact Submanifolds
Kris Hauser
 
Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Do That: Explaining Unachievable Robot Tasks Using Natural Language
Vasumathi Raman, Constantine Lignos, Cameron Finucane, Kenton C. T. Lee, Mitch Marcus, Hadas Kress-Gazit
 
Generating Legible Motion
Anca Dragan, Siddhartha Srinivasa
 
Bayesian Fusion for Multi-Modal Aerial Images
Alistair Reid, Fabio Ramos, Salah Sukkarieh
 
Modeling and Evaluating Narrative Gestures for Humanlike Robots
Chien-Ming Huang, Bilge Mutlu
 
Unsupervised Intrinsic Calibration of Depth Sensors via SLAM
Alex Teichman, Stephen Miller, Sebastian Thrun
 
Motion Planning for 6-D Manipulation with Aerial Towed-cable Systems
Montserrat Manubens, Didier Devaurs, Lluis Ros, Juan Cortés
 
Automatic Online Calibration of Cameras and Lasers
Jesse Levinson, Sebastian Thrun
 
Goal Assignment and Trajectory Planning for Large Teams of Aerial Robots
Matthew Turpin, Kartik Mohta, Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar
 
Finding Locally Optimal, Collision-Free Trajectories with Sequential Convex Optimization
John Schulman, Jonathan Ho, Alex Lee, Ibrahim Awwal, Henry Bradlow, Pieter Abbeel
 
Vision-Based State Estimation and Trajectory Control Towards High-Speed Flight with a Quadrotor
Shaojie Shen, Yash Mulgaonkar, Nathan Michael, Vijay Kumar
 
Optimal Market-based Multi-Robot Task Allocation via Strategic Pricing
Lantao Liu, Dylan Shell
 
Infinite Latent Conditional Random Fields for Modeling Environments through Humans
Yun Jiang, Ashutosh Saxena
 
Real-Time Camera Tracking and 3D Reconstruction Using Signed Distance Functions
Erik Bylow, Jürgen Sturm, Christian Kerl, Fredrik Kahl, Daniel Cremers
 
Grasp Moduli Spaces
Florian T. Pokorny, Kaiyu Hang, Danica Kragic
 
Keyframe-Based Visual-Inertial SLAM using Nonlinear Optimization
Stefan Leutenegger, Paul Furgale, Vincent Rabaud, Margarita Chli, Kurt Konolige, Roland Siegwart
 
Maximum Mean Discrepancy Imitation Learning
Beomjoon Kim, Joelle Pineau
 
Perceiving, Learning, and Exploiting Object Affordances for Autonomous Pile Manipulation
Dov Katz, Arun Venkatraman, Moslem Kazemi, Drew Bagnell, Anthony Stentz
 
Correct Software Synthesis for Stable Speed-Controlled Robotic Walking
Neil Dantam, Ayonga Hereid, Aaron Ames, Mike Stilman
 
Toward a Platform of Human-Like Fingertip Model in Haptic Environment for Studying Sliding Tactile Mechanism
Anh-Van Ho, Shinichi Hirai
 
Incremental Block Cholesky Factorization for Nonlinear Least Squares in Robotics
Lukas Polok, Viorela Ila, Marek Solony, Pavel Smrz, Pavel Zemcik
 
Convex Optimization of Nonlinear Feedback Controllers via Occupation Measures
Anirudha Majumdar, Ram Vasudevan, Mark Tobenkin, Russ Tedrake
 
Realtime Registration-Based Tracking via Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search
Travis Dick, Camilo Perez, Martin Jagersand, Azad Shademan
 
A Control Framework for Tactile Servoing
Qiang Li, Carsten Schürmann, Robert Haschke, Helge Ritter
 
A Topological Approach to Using Cables to Separate and Manipulate Sets of Objects
Soonkyum Kim, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Hordur Heidarsson, Gaurav Sukhatme, Vijay Kumar
 
Learning to Plan for Constrained Manipulation from Demonstrations
Phillips Mike, Victor Hwang, Sachin Chitta, Maxim Likhachev
 
Incremental Semantically Grounded Learning from Demonstration
Scott Niekum, Sachin Chitta, Andrew Barto, Bhaskara Marthi, Sarah Osentoski
 
Fast Scheduling of Multi-Robot Teams with Temporospatial Constraints
Matthew Gombolay, Ronald Wilcox, Julie Shah
 
Adaptive Estimation of Measurement Bias in Three-Dimensional Field Sensors with Angular Rate Sensors: Theory and Comparative Experimental Evaluation
Giancarlo Troni, Louis Whitcomb
 
Sampling-based Motion Planning for Robotic Information Gathering
Geoffrey Hollinger, Gaurav Sukhatme
 
Kinodynamic Planning in the Configuration Space via Admissible Velocity Propagation
Quang-Cuong Pham, Stéphane Caron, Yoshihiko Nakamura
 
Approximate Representations for Multi-Robot Control Policies that Maximize Mutual Information
Benjamin Charrow, Vijay Kumar, Nathan Michael
 
Real-Time EMG Driven Lower Limb Actuated Orthosis for Assistance As Needed Movement Strategy
Walid Hassani, Samer Mohammed, Yacine Amirat
 
A Model of Distributional Handing Interaction for a Mobile Robot
Chao Shi, Masahiro Shiomi, Christian Smith, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro