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Selected 1999 Publications

  1. D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun, 1999. Markov Localization and Applications. In "Modeling and Planning for Sensor-Based Intelligent Robot Systems," Springer Verlag.
  2. S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Haehnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, and D. Schulz, 1999. MINERVA: A second generation mobile tour-guide robot. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99).
  3. N. Roy and S. Thrun, 1999. Online Self-Calibration For Mobile Robots.ICRA-99. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99).
  4. F. Dellaert, D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun, 1999. Monte Carlo Localization For Mobile Robots. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99).
  5. N. Roy, W. Burgard, D. Fox, and S. Thrun, 1999. Coastal Navigation: Robot Navigation under Uncertainty in Dynamic Environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99).
  6. J. Schulte, C. Rosenberg, and S. Thrun, 1999. Spontaneous Short-term Interaction with Mobile Robots in Public Places. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'99).
  7. F. Dellaert, W. Burgard, D. Fox and S. Thrun, 1999. Using the Condensation Algorithm for Robust, Vision-based Mobile Robot Localization. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'99) June 1999, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Selected 1998 Publications

Navigation

  1. S. Thrun, 1998. Learning Maps for Indoor Mobile Robot Navigation. Artificial Intelligence 99(1), 21--71.
  2. S. Thrun, 1998. Bayesian Landmark Learning for Mobile Robot Localization. Machine Learning 33(1), 41-76.
  3. S. Thrun, D. Fox, and W. Burgard, 1998. A Probabilistic Approach to Concurrent Mapping and Localization for Mobile Robots. Machine Learning 31, 29--53 and Autonomous Robots 5, 253--271, (joint issue).
  4. W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Haehnel, G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, S. Thrun, 1998. Experiences with an Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot. Technical Report CMU-CS-98-139. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
  5. S. Thrun, A. Buecken, W. Burgard, D. Fox, T. Froehlinghaus, D. Henning, T. Hofmann, M. Krell, and T. Schmidt, 1998. Map Learning and High-Speed Navigation in RHINO. In AI-based Mobile Robots: Case Studies of Successful Robot Systems. Kortenkamp, D. and Bonasso, R.P. and Murphy, R. (eds.), MIT Press.
  6. D. Fox, W. Burgard and S. Thrun, 1998. Active Markov Localization for Mobile Robots. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. To appear.
  7. S. Thrun, S. Gutmann, D.Fox, W. Burgard, and B. Kuipers, 1998. Integrating Topological and Metric Maps for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Statistical Approach. In Proceedings of the AAAI Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  8. D. Fox, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, and S. Thrun, 1998. Position Estimation for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments. In Proceedings of the AAAI Thirteenth National Con ference on Artificial Intelligence.
  9. S. Thrun, 1998. Finding Landmarks for Mobile Robot Navigation. To appear in the Pro ceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  10. S. Thrun, D. Fox, and W. Burgard, 1998. Probabilistic Mapping of an Environment by a Mobile Robot. To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  11. D. Fox, W. Burgard, and S. Thrun, 1998. A Hybrid Collision Avoidance Method For Mobile Robots. To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  12. H. Choset, K. Nagatani, and S. Thrun, 1998. Towards Exact Localization without Explicit Localization: The Topological Voronoi Graph. To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  13. N. Roy and S. Thrun, 1998. Online Self-Calibration For Mobile Robots. Internal Report.
Learning to Learn
  1. S. Thrun and L. Pratt (eds.), 1998. Learning To Learn. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  2. S. Thrun and J. O'Sullivan, 1998. Clustering Learning Tasks and the Selective Cross-Transfer of Knowledge. In S. Thrun and L. Pratt (eds.), Learning To Learn. Kluwer Aca demic Publishers
  3. S. Thrun, 1998. Lifelong Learning Algorithms. In S. Thrun and L. Pratt (eds.), Learning To Learn. Kluwer Academic Publishers
  4. S. Thrun, L. Pratt, 1998. Learning to learn: Introduction and Overview. In S. Thrun and L. Pratt (eds.), Learning To Learn. Kluwer Academic Publishers
Human Robot Interaction
  1. S. Waldherr, S. Thrun, R. and Romero, 1998. A Gesture-Based Interface for Human-Robot Interaction. Submitted to Autonomous Robots.
  2. S. Thrun, 1998. When Robots Meet People: Research Directions In Mobile Robotics. IEEE Intelligent Systems. To appear.
  3. S. Waldherr, S. Thrun, R. Romero, and D. Margaritis, 1998. Template-Based Recognition of Pose and Motion Gestures On a Mobile Robot. In Proceedings of the AAAI Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  4. W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Haehnel, G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, S. Thrun, 1998. The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot. In Proceedings of the AAAI Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Outstanding Paper Award.
  5. W.Burgard, D. Fox, G. Lakemeyer, D. Haehnel, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, S. Thrun, and A. Cremers, 1998. Real Robots for the Real World --- The RHINO Museum Tour-guide Project. Proceedings of the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium.
Learning and Decision Making
  1. K. Haigh, 1998. Situation-Dependent Learning for Interleaved Planning and Robot Execution. CMU Ph.D. Thesis, February 1998.
Robot and Learning Architectures
  1. S. Thrun, 1998. A Framework for Programming Embedded Systems: Initial Design and Results. Technical Report CMU-CS-98-142. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
  2. Simmons, R. and Thrun, S., 1998. Languages and Tools for Task-Level Robotics Integration. Proceedings of the 1998 AAAI Spring Symposium.
  3. L.M. Saksida, S.M. Raymond, and D.S. Touretzky (1998) Shaping robot behavior using principles from instrumental conditioning. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 22(3/4):231-249.
Learning in Computer Vision
  1. D. Margaritis and S. Thrun, 1998. Learning To Locate An Object in 3D Space from A Sequence Of Camera Images. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-98).
  2. F. Dellaert, C. Thorpe, and S. Thrun, 1998. Super-Resolved Texture Tracking of Planar Surface Patches. Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROS-98.
  3. F. Dellaert, S. Thrun and C. Thorpe. Jacobian Images of Super-Resolved Texture Maps for Model-Based Motion Estimation and Tracking. Proceedings of the IEEE Work shop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV-98).

Selected Publications from 1994 - 1997

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  1. D.S. Touretzky and L.M. Saksida (1997) Operant conditioning in Skinnerbots. Adaptive Behavior 5(3/4):219-247.
  2. Saksida, L.M. and Touretzky, D.S. (1997). Application of a model of instrumental conditioning to mobile robot control. In: Paul S. Schenker and Gerard T. McKee (Eds.) Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Autonomous Robotic Systems. SPIE vol. 3209. pp. 55-66.
  3. D.S. Touretzky and L.M. Saksida (1996) Skinnerbots. In P. Maes, M. Mataric, J.-A. Meyer, J. Pollack, and S. W. Wilson (eds.), From Animals to Animats 4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pp. 285-294. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  4. S. Koenig. Goal-Directed Acting with Incomplete Information. CMU Ph.D. Thesis, December 1997.
  5. R Simmons, R. Goodwin, K. Haigh, S. Koenig, J. O'Sullivan, M. Veloso. "Xavier: Experience with a Layered Robot Architecture". In "Intelligence", edited by Manuela M. Veloso, 1997.
  6. J. O'Sullivan.Transfer of Learned Knowledge in Life-Long Learning Agents. CMU Ph.D. Thesis Proposal, February 1997.
  7. R. Simmons, R. Goodwin, K. Haigh, S. Koenig, J. O'Sullivan.A Modular Architecture for Office Delivery Robots. In Autonomous Agents 1997, February 1997.
  8. J. O'Sullivan, T. Mitchell and S. Thrun. Explanation-Based Learning from Mobile Robot Perception. In Symbolic Visual Learning, Editors: K. Ikeuchi & M. Veloso. Oxford University Press. 1997.
  9. S. Thrun. To Know or Not To Know: On the Utility of Models in Mobile Robotics. AI Magazine, 18:1, AAAI, Spring 1997.
  10. R. Goodwin. Meta-Level Control for Decision-Theoretic Planners. CMU Ph.D. Thesis, December 1996.
  11. S. Thrun and J. O'Sullivan. Learning More from Less Data: Experiments with Lifelong Robot Learning. London, 1996.
  12. S. Thrun and T. Mitchell. Lifelong Robot Learning. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 15:25--46, 1995.
  13. T. Mitchell, J. O'Sullivan and S. Thrun. ``Explanation-Based Learning for Mobile Robot Perception''. In Proceedings of the MLC-Colt '94 Workshop on Robot Learning . Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, July 9, 1994.
  14. J. O'Sullivan. Towards a Robot Learning Architecture. In Learning Action Models - Papers from the 1993 AAAI Workshop, Technical Report WS-93-06, AAAI Press 1993, ed. Wei-Min Shen, pages 47-51.

Selected Publications Prior to 1994

  1. L. Lin. Reinforcement Learning for Robots Using Neural Networks. PhD Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 1993. (Also appears as CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-93-103).
  2. T. Mitchell, S. Thrun. Explanation-based Neural Network Learning for Robot Control. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 5, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1993.
  3. T. Mitchell. Becoming increasingly reactive. In Proceedings of the Eight National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 1051-1059, AAAI Press/MIT Press, 1990.
  4. M. Tan. Cost-Sensitive Robot Learning. PhD Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992. (Also appears as CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-91-134).
  5. S. Thrun. Exploration and Model Building in Mobile Robot Domains. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks . IEEE Press, March, 1993.
  6. S. Thrun. Efficient Exploration in Reinforcement Learning. Technical Report CMU-CS-92-102. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992
  7. A. Christiansen. Automatic Acquisition of Task Theories for Robotic Manipulation. PhD Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, March 1992. (Also appears as CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-92-111).
  8. J. Blythe and T. Mitchell. On Becoming Reactive. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Machine Learning Workshop, pages 255-259, Morgan Kaufmann, June 1989.

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