Publications

Publications from 2004 and earlier

  • R. Sim, G. Dudek and N. Roy. "Online Control Policy Optimization for Minimizing Map Uncertainty during Exploration". Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2004). New Orleans, April 2004. pp. 1758 - 1763.
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  • M. Montemerlo, N. Roy and and S. Thrun. "Perspectives on Standardization in Mobile Robot Programming : The Carnegie Mellon Navigation (CARMEN) Toolkit". Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2003). Las Vegas, October, 2003. Vol. 3, pp 2436-2441.
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  • N. Roy and G. Gordon and S. Thrun. "Planning under Uncertainty for Reliable Health Care Robotics". Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR). Lake Yamanaka, Japan. July, 2003.
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  • N. Roy and G. Gordon. "Exponential Family PCA for Belief Compression in POMDPs". Advances in Neural Information Processing (15) NIPS, Vancouver, BC. Dec. 2002.
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  • N. Roy and S. Thrun. "Motion Planning through Policy Search". Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2002). Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 2002
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  • J. Matthews, S. Engberg, M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, N. Roy, J. Rogers, S. Thrun, S. Handler, T. Starrett, D. Ting, and R. Travis. "The Nursebot project: Results of preliminary field studies during development of a personal robotic assistant for older adults". In Proceedings of the Greater Pittsburgh 14th Annual Nursing Research Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002.
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  • J. Matthews, S. Engberg, M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, N. Roy, J. Rogers, and S. Thrun. "Robotic assistance during ambulation by older adults". In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association, San Antonio, TX, 2002.
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  • M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, N. Roy, S. Thrun and V. Varma. "Experiences with a Mobile Robotic Guide for the Elderly". Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2002). Edmonton, Jul. 2002
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  • N. Roy and A. McCallum. "Toward Optimal Active Learning through Monte Carlo Estimation of Error Reduction". Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2001). Williamstown, Jun. 2001
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  • N. Roy, J. Pineau and S. Thrun. "Spoken Dialog Management for Robots". Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2000). Hong Kong, Oct. 2000
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  • N. Roy and S. Thrun. "Coastal Navigation with Mobile Robots". Advances in Neural Information Processing 12 (NIPS). Colorado, Dec. 1999
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  • S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Haehnel, G. Lakemeyer, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, D. Schulz, and W. Steiner. "Experiences with two deployed interactive tour-guide robots". Proceedings of the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR'99), Pittsburgh, PA, August, 1999.
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  • N. Roy and S. Thrun. "Online Self-Calibration for Mobile Robots". IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Detroit, May 1999.
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  • N. Roy, W. Burgard, D. Fox and S. Thrun. "Coastal Navigation -- Mobile Robot Navigation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Environments". IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Detroit, May 1999.
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  • S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Haehnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte and D. Schulz. "MINERVA: A Second-Generation Museum Tour-Guide Robot". IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Detroit, May 1999.
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  • N. Roy, G. Dudek and P. Freedman. "Surface Sensing and Classification for Efficient Mobile Robot Navigation". Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Minneapolis, 1996.
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