Publications

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Conference publications

  • Preventing and Correcting Mistakes in Lifelong Mapping
    European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)
    September, 2021
    Paper (IEEE Link)

  • View management for lifelong visual maps
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
    November, 2019
    Paper (IEEE Link)

  • Lifelong Mapping using Adaptive Local Maps
    European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)
    September, 2019
    Paper (IEEE Link)

  • Fast Nonlinear Approximation of Pose Graph Node Marginalization
    IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
    May, 2018
    Paper (IEEE Link)

  • Heuristically initialized motion planning in a low cost consumer robot
    17th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots,
    November, 2017
    Paper (IEEE Link)

  • Human Supervised Control of the ATLAS Humanoid Robot for Traversing Doors
    15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots,
    November, 2015
    Paper (IEEE Link)

  • NO FALLS, NO RESETS: Reliable Humanoid Behavior in the DARPA Robotics Challenge
    15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots,
    November, 2015
    Paper (IEEE Link)

  • A Simple Autonomous Robotic Manipulator for playing Chess against any opponent in Real Time
    International Conference on Computational Vision and Robotics,
    August, 2012
    Paper (ICCVR Link)

Journal publications

  • Lifelong Mapping in the Wild: Novel Strategies for Ensuring Map Stability and Accuracy over Time Evaluated on Thousands of Robots
    Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (Elsevier)
    March, 2023
    Article (Elsevier RAS Link)

  • Team WPI-CMU: Achieving Reliable Humanoid Behavior in the DARPA Robotics Challenge
    Journal of Field Robotics, DRC Special Issue (Wiley)
    January, 2017
    Article (Wiley JFR Link)

Book chapters

  • What Happened at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals
    Book Title: The Darpa Robotics Challenge Finals: Humanoid Robots To The Rescue
    Springer International Publishing AG
    April, 2018
    Chapter (Springer Link)

  • Achieving Reliable Humanoid Robot Operations in the DARPA Robotics Challenge: Team WPI-CMU’s Approach
    Book Title: The Darpa Robotics Challenge Finals: Humanoid Robots To The Rescue
    Springer International Publishing AG
    April, 2018
    Chapter (Springer Link)

Poster presentations

  • Lifelong Mapping using Adaptive Local Maps
    Presented at ECMR 2019
    Poster

  • Vision Based Door Detection for the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals Door Task
    Presented at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 2015
    Poster

  • Visibility Planning using the Baxter robot
    Presented at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 2014
    Poster

Thesis

  • Human Supervised Semi-Autonomous Approach for the DARPA Robotics Challenge Door Task
    Advisors: Taskin Padir, Michael Gennert, Gregory Fischer
    Degree: MS in Robotics Engineering
    May, 2015
    Thesis (WPI Link)