2024

Journal Papers

Electrostatic brakes enable individual joint control of underactuated, highly articulated robots.
P. Lancaster, C. Mavrogiannis, S. Srinivasa, and J. Smith.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2024.

Lazy Incremental Search for Efficient Replanning with Bounded Suboptimality Guarantees.
J. Lim, M. Ghanei, C. Lawson, S. Srinivasa, and P. Tsiotras.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2024.

Conference Papers

Data Efficient Behavior Cloning for Fine Manipulation via Continuity-based Corrective Labels.
A. Deshpande, K. Liyiming, Q. Pfeifer, A. Gupta, and S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2024.

Demonstrating HOUND: A Low-cost Research Platform for High-speed Off-road Underactuated Nonholonomic Driving.
S. Talia, M. Schmittle, A. Lambert, A. Spitzer, C. Mavrogiannis, and S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2024.

Multi-Sample Long Range Path Planning under Sensing Uncertainty for Off-Road Autonomous Driving.
M. Schmittle, R. Baijal, B. Hou, S. Srinivasa, and B. Boots.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2024.

CCIL: Continuity-based Data Augmentation for Corrective Imitation Learning.
L. Ke*, Y. Zhang*, A. Deshpande, A. Gupta, and S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Learning Representations. 2024.

Other Papers

Multiple Ways of Working with Users to Develop Physically Assistive Robots.
A. Nanavati*, M. Pascher*, V. Ranganeni, E.K. Gordon, T.A.K. Faulkner, S.S. Srinivasa, M. Cakmak, P. Alves-Oliveira, and J. Gerken.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2024.
Workshop on Assistive Applications, Accessibility, and Disability Ethics

An Adaptable, Safe, and Portable Robot-Assisted Feeding System.
E.K. Gordon*, R.K. Jenamani*, A. Nanavati*, Z. Liu, H. Bolotski, R. Karim, D. Stabile, A. Kashyap, B. Zhu, X. Dai, T. Schrenk, J. Ko, T.A.K. Faulkner, T. Bhattacharjee, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2024.
Best Demo Award Winner


2023

Journal Papers

Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control.
C. Mavrogiannis, J. DeCastro, and S. Srinivasa.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2023.

Winding Through: Crowd Navigation via Topological Invariance.
C. Mavrogiannis, K. Balasubramanian, S. Poddar, A. Gandra, and S. Srinivasa.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(1), 2023.

Conference Papers

Git Re-Basin: Merging models modulo permutation symmetries.
S. Ainsworth, J. Hayase, and S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Learning Representations. 2023.
Top 5 Percent Paper

NEWTON: Are Large Language Models Capable of Physical Reasoning?
YR. Wang, J. Duan, D. Fox, and S. Srinivasa.
In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2023.

Towards General Single-Utensil Food Acquisition with Human-Informed Actions.
E.K. Gordon*, A. Nanavati*, R. Challa, B. Zhu, T. Kessler Faulkner, and S. Srinivasa.
In Conference on Robot Learning. 2023.

From Crowd Motion Prediction to Robot Navigation in Crowds.
S. Poddar, C. Mavrogiannis, and S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2023.

PuSHR: A Multirobot System for Nonprehensile Rearrangement.
S. Talia, A. Thareja, C. Mavrogiannis, and S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2023.

Cherry Picking with Reinforcement Learning.
Y. Zhang*, L. Ke*, A. Deshpande, A. Gupta, and S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2023.

GuILD: Guided Incremental Local Densification for Accelerated Sampling-Based Motion Planning.
R. Scalise, A. Mandalika, B. Hou, S. Choudhury, and S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2023.

Real World Offline Reinforcement Learning with Realistic Data Source.
G. Zhou, L. Ke, S. Srinivasa, A. Gupta, A. Rajeswaran, and V. Kumar.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2023.

Design Principles for Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts.
A. Nanavati*, P. Alves-Oliveira*, T. Schrenk, E.K. Gordon, M. Cakmak, and S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2023.
Best Design Paper Award Winner

Other Papers

Unintended Failures of Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts.
A. Nanavati, P. Alves-Oliveira, T. Schrenk, E.K. Gordon, M. Cakmak, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2023.
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Investigating the Levels of Autonomy for Personalization in Assistive Robotics.
R. Karim, A. Nanavati, T.A.K. Faulkner, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2023.


2022

Journal Papers

Human-Scale Mobile Manipulation Using RoMan.
C. Kessens, M. Kaplan, T. Rocks, P.R. Osteen, J. Rogers, E. Stump, A. Hurwitz, J. Fink, L. Quang, M. Gonzalez, J. Patel, M. DiBlasi, S. Patel, M. Weiker, D. Patel, J. Bowkett, R. Detry, S. Karumanchi, L. Matthies, J. Burdick, Y. Oza, A. Agarwal, A. Dornbush, D. Saxena, M. Likhachev, K. Schmeckpeper, K. Daniilidis, A. Kamat, S. Choudhury, A. Mandalika, and S.S. Srinivasa.
Journal of Field Robotics, 2, 2022.

Benchmarking Structured Policies and Policy Optimization for Real-World Dexterous Object Manipulation.
N. Funk, C. Schaff, R. Madan, T. Yoneda, J. De Jesus, J. Watson, E. Gordon, F. Widmaier, S. Bauer, S. Srinivasa, T. Bhattacharjee, M. Walter, and J. Peters.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(1), 2022.

Expert Intervention Learning: An online framework for robot learning from explicit and implicit human feedback.
J. Spencer, S. Choudhury, M. Barnes, M. Schmittle, M. Chiang, P. Ramadge, and S.S. Srinivasa.
Autonomous Robots, 46, 2022.

Conference Papers

Dynamic Replanning with Posterior Sampling.
B. Hou and S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2022.

Optical Proximity Sensing for Pose Estimation During In-Hand Manipulation.
P. Lancaster, P. Gyawali, C. Mavrogiannis, S. Srinivasa, and J. Smith.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2022.

Implicit Multiagent Coordination at Uncontrolled Intersections via Topological Braids.
C. Mavrogiannis, J. DeCastro, and S. Srinivasa.
In Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. 2022.

Stein Variational Probabilistic Roadmaps.
A. Lambert, B. Hou, R. Scalise, S. Srinivasa, and B. Boots.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2022.

Balancing Efficiency and Comfort in Robot-Assisted Bite Transfer.
S. Belkhale, E.K. Gordon, Y. Chen, S. Srinivasa, T. Bhattacharjee, and D. Sadigh.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2022.

Analyzing Multiagent Interactions in Traffic Scenes via Topological Braids.
C. Mavrogiannis, J. DeCastro, and S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2022.

Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Localization-Free System for In-the-Wild Mobile Robot Deployments.
A. Nanavati*, N. Walker*, L. Taber, C. Mavrogiannis, L. Takayama, M. Cakmak, and S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2022.

Other Papers

Complexity Bounds of Iterative Linear Quadratic Optimization Algorithms for Discrete Time Nonlinear Control.
V. Roulet, S.S. Srinivasa, M. Fazel, and Z. Harchaoui.
2204.02322.

Iterative Linear Quadratic Optimization for Nonlinear Control: Differentiable Programming Algorithmic Templates.
V. Roulet, S.S. Srinivasa, M. Fazel, and Z. Harchaoui.
2207.06362.

HARMONIC: A Multimodal Dataset of Assistive Human-Robot Collaboration.
B.A. Newman, R.M. Aronson, S.S. Srinivasa, K. Kitani, and H. Admoni.
The International Journal of Robotics Research (Data Paper), 41(1), 2022.


2021

Journal Papers

Leveraging Experience in Lazy Search.
M. Bhardwaj, S. Choudhury, B. Boots, and S. Srinivasa.
Autonomous Robots, 45(7), 2021.

Conference Papers

Grasping with Chopsticks: Combating Covariate Shift in Model-free Imitation Learning for Fine Manipulation.
L. Ke, J. Wang, T. Bhattacharjee, B. Boots, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2021.

Influencing Behavioral Attributions to Robot Motion During Task Execution.
N. Walker, C. Mavrogiannis, S. Srinivasa, and M. Cakmak.
In Conference on Robot Learning. 2021.

Bayesian Residual Policy Optimization: Scalable Bayesian Reinforcement Learning with Clairvoyant Experts.
G. Lee, B. Hou, S. Choudhury, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2021.

Modeling Human Helpfulness with Individual and Contextual Factors for Robot Planning.
A. Nanavati, C. Mavrogiannis, K. Weatherwax, L. Takayama, M. Cakmak, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2021.

Leveraging Post Hoc Context for Faster Learning in Bandit Settings with Applications in Robot-Assisted Feeding.
E.K. Gordon, S. Roychowdhury, T. Bhattacharjee, K. Jamieson, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2021.

Faster Policy Learning with Continuous-Time Gradients.
S. Ainsworth, K. Lowrey, J. Thickstun, Z. Harchaoui, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Learning for Dynamics and Control. 2021.


2020

Journal Papers

Benchmarking Robot Manipulation with the Rubik's Cube.
B. Yang, P.E. Lancaster, S.S. Srinivasa, and J.R. Smith.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020.

Batch Informed Trees (BIT*): Informed asymptotically optimal anytime search.
J.G. Gammell, T. Barfoot, and S.S. Srinivasa.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2020.

Conference Papers

Toward fieldable human-scale mobile manipulation using RoMan.
C. Kessens, J. Fink, A. Hurwitz, M. Kaplan, P.R. Osteen, T. Rocks, J. Rogers, E. Stump, L. Quang, M. DiBlasi, M. Gonzalez, D. Patel, J. Patel, S. Patel, M. Weiker, J. Bowkett, R. Detry, S. Karumanchi, J. Burdick, L. Matthies, Y. Oza, A. Agarwal, A. Dornbush, M. Likhachev, K. Schmeckpeper, K. Daniilidis, A. Kamat, S. Choudhury, A. Mandalika, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Proceedings of SPIE Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications II. 2020.

Learning from interventions: Human-robot interaction as both explicit and implicit feedback.
J. Spencer, S. Choudhury, M. Barnes, M. Schmittle, M. Chiang, P. Ramadge, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2020.

Amodal 3D Reconstruction for Robotic Manipulation via Stability and Connectivity.
W. Agnew, C. Xie, A. Walsman, O. Murad, C. Wang, P. Domingos, and S. Srinivasa.
In Conference on Robot Learning. 2020.

Multimodal Trajectory Prediction via Topological Invariance for Navigation at Uncontrolled Intersections.
J. Roh*, C. Mavrogiannis*, R. Madan*, D. Fox, and S. Srinivasa.
In Conference on Robot Learning. 2020.

Telemanipulation with Chopsticks: Analyzing Human Factors in User Demonstrations.
L. Ke, A. Kamat, J. Wang, T. Bhattacharjee, C. Mavrogiannis, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2020.

Adaptive Robot-Assisted Feeding: An Online Learning Framework for Acquiring Previously-Unseen Food Items.
E.K. Gordon, X. Meng, T. Bhattacharjee, M. Barnes, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2020.

Lyceum: An Efficient and Scalable Ecosystem for Robot Learning.
C. Summers, K. Lowrey, A. Rajeswaran, S.S. Srinivasa, and E. Todorov.
In Learning for Dynamics and Control. 2020.

Imitation Learning as f-Divergence Minimization.
L. Ke, S. Choudhury, M. Barnes, W. Sun, G. Lee, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. 2020.

Posterior Sampling for Anytime Motion Planning on Graphs with Expensive-to-Evaluate Edges.
B. Hou, S. Choudhury, G. Lee, A. Mandalika, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2020.

On the Convergence of the Iterative Linear Exponential Quadratic Gaussian Algorithm to Stationary Points.
V. Roulet, M. Fazel, S.S. Srinivasa, and Z. Harchaoui.
In American Controls Conference. 2020.

Is More Autonomy Always Better? Exploring Preferences of Users with Mobility Impairments in Robot-assisted Feeding.
T. Bhattacharjee, E.K. Gordon, R. Scalise, M.E. Cabrera, A. Caspi, M. Cakmak, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2020.


2019

Journal Papers

Trust-Aware Decision Making for Human-Robot Collaboration: Model Learning and Planning.
M. Chen, S. Nikolaidis, H. Soh, D. Hsu, and S.S. Srinivasa.
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 2019.

Minimizing Task-Space Fréchet Error via Efficient Incremental Graph Search.
R. Holladay, O. Salzman, and S.S. Srinivasa.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019.

Towards Robotic Feeding: Role of Haptics in Fork-based Food Manipulation.
T. Bhattacharjee, G. Lee, H. Song, and S.S. Srinivasa.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2019.

Conference Papers

Mo States Mo Problems: Emergency Stop Mechanisms from Observation.
S. Ainsworth, M. Barnes, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2019.

Improving Robot Success Detection using Static Object Data.
R. Scalise, J. Thomason, Y. Bisk, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2019.

Talking With Hands 16.2M: A Large-Scale Dataset of Synchronized Body-Finger Motion and Audio for Conversational Motion Analysis and Synthesis.
G. Lee, Z. Deng, S. Ma, T. Shiratori, S.S. Srinivasa, and Y. Sheikh.
In International Conference on Computer Vision. 2019.

The Blindfolded Robot : A Bayesian Approach to Planning with Contact Feedback.
B. Saund, S. Choudhury, S.S. Srinivasa, and D. Berenson.
In International Symposium on Robotics Research. 2019.

Robot-Assisted Feeding: Generalizing Skewering Strategies across Food Items on a Plate.
R. Feng, Y. Kim, G. Lee, E.K. Gordon, M. Schmittle, S. Kumar, T. Bhattacharjee, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Symposium on Robotics Research. 2019.

A Community-Centered Design Framework for Robot-Assisted Feeding Systems.
T. Bhattacharjee, M.E. Cabrera, A. Caspi, M. Cakmak, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. 2019.

Desk Organization: Effect of Multimodal Inputs on Spatial Relational Learning.
R. Rowe, S. Singhal, D. Yi, T. Bhattacharjee, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. 2019.

LEGO: Leveraging Experience in Roadmap Generation for Sampling-Based Planning.
R. Kumar, A. Mandalika, S. Choudhury, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2019.

Optimizing Motion-Planning Problem Setup via Bounded Evaluation with Application to Following Surgical Trajectories.
S. Niyaz, A. Kuntz, O. Salzman, R. Alterovitz, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2019.

Leveraging Experience in Lazy Search.
M. Bhardwaj, S. Choudhury, B. Boots, and S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2019.

Iterative Linearized Control: Stable Algorithms and Complexity Guarantees.
V. Roulet, S.S. Srinivasa, D. Drusvyatskiy, and Z. Harchaoui.
In International Conference on Machine Learning. 2019.

Generalized Lazy Search for Robot Motion Planning: Interleaving Search and Edge Evaluation via Event-based Toggles.
A. Mandalika, S. Choudhury, O. Salzman, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 2019.
Best Student Paper Award Winner

Tactical Rewind: Self-Correction via Backtracking in Vision-and-Language Navigation.
L. Ke, X. Li, Y. Bisk, A. Holtzman, Z. Gan, J. Liu, J. Gao, Y. Choi, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2019.
Oral

Transfer depends on Acquisition: Analyzing Manipulation Strategies for Robotic Feeding.
D. Gallenberger, T. Bhattacharjee, Y. Kim, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2019.
Best Paper Award Winner for Technical Advances in HRI

The Assistive Multi-Armed Bandit.
L. Chan, D. Hadfield-Menell, S.S. Srinivasa, and A.D. Dragan.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2019.

Improved Proximity, Contact, and Force Sensing via Optimization of Elastomer-Air Interface Geometry.
P. Lancaster, J.R. Smith, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2019.

Sensing Shear Forces During Food Manipulation: Resolving the Trade-Off Between Range and Sensitivity.
H. Song, T. Bhattacharjee, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2019.

Robot Object Referencing through Situated Legible Projections.
T. Weng, L. Perlmutter, S. Nikolaidis, S.S. Srinivasa, and M. Cakmak.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2019.

Bayesian Policy Optimization for Model Uncertainty.
G. Lee, B. Hou, A. Mandalika, J. Lee, S. Choudhury, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Learning Representations. 2019.

Other Papers

Towards Effective Human-AI Teams: The Case of Collaborative Packing.
G. Lee, C. Mavrogiannis, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction. 2019.

MuSHR: A Low-Cost, Open-Source Robotic Racecar for Education and Research.
S. Srinivasa, P. Lancaster, J. Michalove, M. Schmittle, C. Summers, M. Rockett, J. Smith, S. Choudhury, C. Mavrogiannis, and F. Sadeghi.
CoRR, abs/1908.08031, 2019.


2018

Journal Papers

Planning with Verbal Communication for Human-Robot Collaboration.
S. Nikolaidis, M. Kwon, J. Forlizzi, and S.S. Srinivasa.
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 7(3), 2018.

DART: Dynamic Animation and Robotics Toolkit.
J. Lee, M. Grey, S. Ha, T. Kunz, S. Jain, Y. Ye, S. Srinivasa, M. Stilman, and C. Liu.
The Journal of Open Source Software, 3(22), 2018.

Shared Autonomy via Hindsight Optimization for Teleoperation and Teaming.
S. Javdani, H. Admoni, S. Pellegrinelli, S.S. Srinivasa, and J.A. Bagnell.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 37(7), 2018.

Informed Sampling for Asymptotically Optimal Path Planning.
J.G. Gammell, T. Barfoot, and S.S. Srinivasa.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 34(4), 2018.

Conference Papers

Sampling of Pareto-Optimal Trajectories using Progressive Objective Evaluation in Multi-Objective Motion Planning.
J. Lee, D. Yi, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2018.

Recurrent Predictive State Policy Networks.
A. Hefny, Z. Marinho, W. Sun, S.S. Srinivasa, and G. Gordon.
In International Conference on Machine Learning. 2018.

Bayesian Active Edge Evaluation on Expensive Graphs.
S. Choudhury, S.S. Srinivasa, and S. Scherer.
In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2018.

Generalizing Informed Sampling for Asymptotically-Optimal Sampling-based Kinodynamic Planning via Markov Chain Monte Carlo.
D. Yi, R. Thakker, C. Gulino, O. Salzman, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2018.

Eye-Hand Behavior in Human-Robot Shared Manipulation.
R. Aronson, T. Santini, T. Kübler, E. Kasneci, S.S. Srinivasa, and H. Admoni.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2018.

Planning with Trust for Human-Robot Collaboration.
M. Chen*, S. Nikolaidis*, H. Soh, D. Hsu, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2018.
Best Conference Paper Award Finalist

The Provable Virtue of Laziness in Motion Planning.
N. Haghtalab, S. Mackenzie, A.D. Procaccia, O. Salzman, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 2018.
Best Conference Paper Award Winner

Lazy Receding Horizon A* for Efficient Path Planning in Graphs with Expensive-to-Evaluate Edges.
A. Mandalika, O. Salzman, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 2018.

A Study of Reaching Motions for Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction.
S. Sheikholeslami, G. Lee, J.W. Hart, S.S. Srinivasa, and E.A. Croft.
In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. 2018.

Following Surgical Trajectories with Concentric Tube Robots via Nearest-Neighbor Graphs.
S. Niyaz, A. Kuntz, O. Salzman, R. Alterovitz, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. 2018.

Other Papers

Autonomous robot feeding for upper-extremity mobility impaired people: Integrating sensing, perception, learning, motion planning, and robot control.
T. Bhattacharjee, D. Gallenberger, D. Dubois, L. L'Écuyer-Lapiere, Y. Kim, A. Mandalika, R. Scalise, R. Qu, H. Song, E. Gordon, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. 2018.
Best Demo Award Winner


2017

Journal Papers

Human-robot mutual adaptation in collaborative tasks: Models and experiments.
S. Nikolaidis, D. Hsu, and S.S. Srinivasa.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 36(5-7), 2017.

Large-scale, real-time 3D scene reconstruction on a mobile device.
I. Dryanovski, M.K. Klingensmith, S.S. Srinivasa, and J. Xiao.
Autonomous Robots, 41(6), 2017.

YCB Benchmarking Project: Object Set, Data Set and Their Applications.
B. Calli, A. Singh, J. Bruce, W. W. Aaron, K. Konolige, S.S. Srinivasa, P. Abbeel, and A.M. Dollar.
Journal of The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, 56(10), 2017.

A Decision-Theoretic Approach for the Collaborative Control of a Smart Wheelchair.
M. Ghorbel, J. Pineau, R. Gourdeau, S. Javdani, and S.S. Srinivasa.
International Journal of Social Robotics, 2017.

Conference Papers

A Bayesian Active Learning Approach to Adaptive Motion Planning.
S. Choudhury and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Symposium on Robotics Research. 2017.

Near-optimal edge evaluation in explicit generalized binomial graphs.
S. Choudhury, S. Javdani, S.S. Srinivasa, and S. Scherer.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2017.

Predictive State Models for Prediction and Control in Partially Observable Environments.
A. Hefny, Z. Marinho, C. Downey, W. Sun, S.S. Srinivasa, and G. Gordon.
In Conference on Robot Learning. 2017.

Sensor Fusion for Fiducial Tags: Highly Robust Pose Estimation from Single Frame RGBD.
P. Jin, P. Matikainen, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2017.

Hybrid control trajectory optimization under uncertainty.
J. Pajarinen, V. Kyrki, M. Koval, S.S. Srinivasa, J. Peters, and G. Neumann.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2017.

Incorporating Qualitative Information into Quantitative Estimation Via Sequentially Constrained Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Sampling.
D. Yi, S. Choudhury, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2017.

Modeling Human Adaptation in Repeated Collaborative Tasks.
S. Nikolaidis and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. 2017.

Efficient Motion Planning for Problems Lacking Optimal Substructure.
O. Salzman, B. Hou, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 2017.

Densification Strategies for Anytime Motion Planning over Large Dense Roadmaps.
S. Choudhury, O. Salzman, S. Choudhury, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2017.

Unobservable Monte Carlo planning for nonprehensile rearrangement tasks.
J. King, V. Ranganeni, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2017.

The Manifold Particle Filter for State Estimation on High-dimensional Implicit Manifolds.
M. Klingensmith, M. Koval, S.S. Srinivasa, N. Pollard, and M. Kaess.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2017.

Game-Theoretic Modeling of Human Adaptation in Human-Robot Collaboration.
S. Nikolaidis, S. Nath, A. Procaccia, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2017.

Human-Robot Mutual Adaptation in Shared Autonomy.
S. Nikolaidis, Zhu. Y., D. Hsu, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2017.

Other Papers

Yale-CMU-Berkeley dataset for robotic manipulation research.
B. Calli, A. Singh, J. Bruce, W. W. Aaron, K. Konolige, S.S. Srinivasa, P. Abbeel, and A.M. Dollar.
The International Journal of Robotics Research (Data Paper), 36(3), 2017.


2016

Journal Papers

Convergent Planning.
A. Johnson, J. King, and S.S. Srinivasa.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2016.

Articulated Robot Manipulator Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (ARM-SLAM).
M. Klingensmith, S.S. Srinivasa, and M. Kaess.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2016.

Pre- and post-contact policy decomposition for planar contact manipulation under uncertainty.
M.C. Koval, N.S. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 35(1–3), 2016.

Conference Papers

A System for Multi-Step Mobile Manipulation: Architecture, Algorithms, and Experiments.
S.S. Srinivasa, A. Johnson, G. Lee, M. Koval, S. Choudhury, J. King, C. Dellin, M. Harding, D. Butterworth, P. Velagapudi, and A. Thackston.
In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. 2016.

Distance Metrics and Algorithms for Task Space Path Optimization.
R. Holladay and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2016.

Human-Robot Shared Workspace Collaboration via Hindsight Optimization.
S. Pellegrinelli, H. Admoni, S. Javdani, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2016.

Pareto-Optimal Search over Configuration Space Beliefs for Anytime Motion Planning.
S. Choudhury, C. Dellin, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2016.

A Unifying Formalism for Shortest Path Problems with Expensive Edge Evaluations via Lazy Best-First Search over Paths with Edge Selectors.
C. Dellin and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 2016.

Configuration Lattices for Planar Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty.
M. Koval, D. Hsu, N.S. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. 2016.

A Linear-Time Variational Integrator for Multibody Systems.
J.S. Lee, K.C. Liu, F.C. Park, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. 2016.

Spatial references and perspective in natural language instructions for collaborative manipulation.
S. Li, Scalise. R., H. Admoni, S.S. Srinivasa, and Rosenthal. S.
In IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. 2016.

Articulated Robot Manipulator Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (ARM-SLAM).
M. Klingensmith, S.S. Srinivasa, and M. Kaess.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2016.
Best Vision Paper Award Finalist

Convergent Planning.
A. Johnson, J. King, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2016.

Rearrangement planning using object-centric and robot-centric action spaces.
J. King, M. Cognetti, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2016.

Regionally Accelerated Batch Informed Trees (RABIT*): A Framework to Integrate Local Information into Optimal Path Planning.
S. Choudhury, J. Gammell, T. Barfoot, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2016.

Functional Gradient Motion Planning in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
Z. Marinho, B. Boots, A. Dragan, A. Byravan, G. Gordon, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2016.

Assistive Teleoperation of Robot Arms via Automatic Time-Optimal Mode Switching.
L. Herlant, R. Holladay, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2016.

Formalizing Human-Robot Mutual Adaptation via a Bounded Memory Based Model.
S. Nikolaidis, D. Hsu, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2016.

Viewpoint-Based Legibility Optimization.
S. Nikolaidis, A.D. Dragan, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2016.

Other Papers

Report from Dagstuhl Seminar 15411: Multimodal Manipulation Under Uncertainty.
J. Peters, J. Piater, R. Platt, and S.S. Srinivasa.
Dagstuhl Reports, 5(10), 2016.

RoGuE: Robot Gesture Engine.
R. Holladay and S.S. Srinivasa.
In AAAI Spring Symposium on Enabling Computing Research in Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction: A Community-Driven Modular Research Platform. 2016.


2015

Journal Papers

Deceptive robot motion: synthesis, analysis and experiments.
A.D. Dragan, R. Holladay, and S.S. Srinivasa.
Autonomous Robots, 39(3), 2015.

Benchmarking in Manipulation Research: Using the Yale-CMU-Berkeley Object and Model Set.
B. Calli, A. Walsman, A. Singh, S.S. Srinivasa, P. Abbeel, and A.M. Dollar.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 22(3), 2015.

CHIMP, the CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform.
A. Stentz, H. Herman, A. Kelly, E. Meyhofer, G.C. Haynes, D. Stager, B. Zajac, J.A. Bagnell, J. Brindza, C. Dellin, M. George, J. Gonzalez-Mora, S. Hyde, M. Jones, M. Laverne, M. Likhachev, L. Lister, M.D. Powers, O. Ramos, J. Ray, D.P. Rice, J. Scheifflee, R. Sidki, S.S. Srinivasa, K. Strabala, J.P. Tardif, J. Valois, J.M. Vandeweghe, M.D. Wagner, and C. Wellington.
Journal of Field Robotics, 32(2), 2015.

Pose Estimation for Planar Contact Manipulation with Manifold Particle Filters.
M.C. Koval, N.S. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 34(7), 2015.

HerbDisc: Towards Lifelong Robotic Object Discovery.
A. Collet, B. Xiong, C. Gurau, M. Hebert, and S.S. Srinivasa.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 34(1), 2015.

Conference Papers

Perceived Robot Capability.
E. Cha, A.D. Dragan, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. 2015.

Robust Trajectory Selection for Rearrangement Planning as a Multi-Armed Bandit Problem.
M. Koval, J. King, N.S. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2015.

Shared Autonomy via Hindsight Optimization.
S. Javdani, S.S. Srinivasa, and J.A. Bagnell.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2015.

CHISEL: Real Time Large Scale 3D Reconstruction Onboard a Mobile Device.
M. Klingensmith, I. Dryanovski, S.S. Srinivasa, and J. Xiao.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2015.
Best Systems Paper Award Finalist

Lazy Validation of Experience Graphs.
V. Hwang, M. Phillips, S.S. Srinivasa, and M. Likhachev.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2015.

A General Technique for Fast Comprehensive Multi-Root Planning on Graphs by Coloring Vertices and Deferring Edges.
C. Dellin and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2015.

Batch Informed Trees (BIT*): Sampling-based Optimal Planning via the Heuristically Guided Search of Implicit Random Geometric Graphs.
J.D. Gammell, S.S. Srinivasa, and T. Barfoot.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2015.

Movement Primitives via Optimization.
A.D. Dragan, K. Muelling, J.A. Bagnell, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2015.
Best Conference Paper Award Finalist

Kinodynamic Randomized Rearrangement Planning via Dynamic Transitions between Statically Stable Configurations.
J.A. Haustein, J. King, S.S. Srinivasa, and T. Asfour.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2015.

Nonprehensile Whole Arm Rearrangement Planning with Physics Manifolds.
J. King, J.A. Haustein, S.S. Srinivasa, and T. Asfour.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2015.

Effects of Robot Motion on Human-Robot Collaboration.
A.D. Dragan, S. Bauman, J. Forlizzi, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2015.

Robots in the Home: Qualitative and Quantitative Insights into Kitchen Organization.
E. Cha, J. Forlizzi, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2015.

Submodular Surrogates for Value of Information.
Y. Chen, S. Javdani, A. Karbasi, J.A. Bagnell, S.S. Srinivasa, and A. Krause.
In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2015.


2014

Journal Papers

Integrating human observer inferences into robot motion planning.
A.D. Dragan and S.S. Srinivasa.
Autonomous Robots, 37(4), 2014.

A data-driven statistical framework for post-grasp manipulation.
R. Paolini, A. Rodriguez, S.S. Srinivasa, and M.T. Mason.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 33(4), 2014.

Conference Papers

Informed RRT*: Optimal Sampling-based Path Planning Focused via Direct Sampling of an Admissible Ellipsoidal Heuristic.
J. Gammell, S.S. Srinivasa, and T. Barfoot.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2014.

Robotic Handwriting: Multi-contact Manipulation based on Reactional Internal Contact Hypothesis.
S.K. Kim, J. Jo, Y. Oh, S.R. Oh, S.S. Srinivasa, and M. Likhachev.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2014.

The Feasible Transition Graph: Encoding Topology and Manipulation Constraints for Multirobot Push-Planning.
L. Lindzey, R.A. Knepper, H. Choset, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. 2014.

Legible Robot Pointing.
R. Holladay, A.D. Dragan, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. 2014.

An Analysis of Deceptive Robot Motion.
A.D. Dragan, R. Holladay, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2014.

Pre- and Post-Contact Policy Decomposition for Planar Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty.
M. Koval, N.S. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2014.

Guided Manipulation Planning at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials.
C. Dellin, K. Strabala, G.C. Haynes, D. Stager, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. 2014.

Object Modeling and Recognition from Sparse, Noisy Data via Voxel Depth Carving.
M. Klingensmith, M. Herrmann, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. 2014.

Extrinsic Dexterity: In-Hand Manipulation with External Forces.
N. Chavan-Dafle, A. Rodriguez, R. Paolini, B. Tang, S.S. Srinivasa, M. Erdmann, M.T. Mason, I. Lundberg, H. Staab, and T. Fuhlbrigge.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2014.
Best Video Award Finalist

Space-Time Functional Gradient Optimization for Motion Planning.
A. Byravan, B. Boots, S.S. Srinivasa, and D. Fox.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2014.

Near Optimal Bayesian Active Learning for Decision Making.
S. Javdani, Y. Chen, A. Karbasi, A. Krause, J.A. Bagnell, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 2014.

Familiarization to Robot Motion.
A.D. Dragan and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2014.

Deliberate Delays During Robot-to-Human Handovers Improve Compliance with Gaze Communication.
H. Admoni, A.D. Dragan, S.S. Srinivasa, and B. Scassellati.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2014.

Other Papers

HERB's Sure Thing: a rapid drama system for rehearsing and performing live robot theater.
G. Zeglin, A. Walsman, L. Herlant, Z. Zheng, Y. Guo, M.K. Koval, K. Lenzo, H. Tay, P. Velagapudi, K. Correll, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts. 2014.

Effects of Speech on Perceived Capability.
E. Cha, A.D. Dragan, J. Forlizzi, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Late Breaking Report. 2014.

Pre-school Childrens' First Encounter with a Robot.
E. Cha, A.D. Dragan, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Late Breaking Report. 2014.


2013

Journal Papers

Teleoperation with intelligent and customizable interfaces.
A.D. Dragan, K.T. Lee, and S.S. Srinivasa.
Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 1(3), 2013.

A Policy-Blending Formalism for Shared Control.
A.D. Dragan and S.S. Srinivasa.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(7), 2013.
(Conference version was Best Conference Paper Award Finalist, RSS 2012)

CHOMP: Covariant Hamiltonian Optimization for Motion Planning.
M. Zucker, R. Ratliff, A.D. Dragan, M. Pivtoraiko, M. Klingensmith, C. Dellin, J.A. Bagnell, and S.S. Srinivasa.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 32(9–10), 2013.

Towards Seamless Human-Robot Handovers.
K. Strabala, M.K. Lee, A.D. Dragan, J. Forlizzi, S.S. Srinivasa, M. Cakmak, and V. Micelli.
Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 2(1), 2013.

Physics-Based Manipulation in Human Environments.
M.R. Dogar and S.S. Srinivasa.
Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, 31(4), 2013.

Object search by manipulation.
M.R. Dogar, M.C. Koval, A. Tallavajhula, and S.S. Srinivasa.
Autonomous Robots, 36(1–2), 2013.

Conference Papers

Legibility and predictability of robot motion.
A.D. Dragan, K.T. Lee, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2013.

Efficient Touch Based Localization through Submodularity.
S. Javdani, M. Klingensmith, J.A. Bagnell, N.S. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2013.
Best Manipulation Paper Award Finalist

Exploiting Domain Knowledge for Object Discovery.
A. Collet, B. Xiong, C. Gurau, M. Hebert, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2013.

Object Search by Manipulation.
M.R. Dogar, M.C. Koval, A. Tallavajhula, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2013.

Pose Estimation for Contact Manipulation with Manifold Particle Filters.
M.C. Koval, M.R. Dogar, N.S. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2013.

Manifold Representations for State Estimation in Contact Manipulation.
M.C. Koval, M.R. Dogar, N.S. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Symposium on Robotics Research. 2013.

Generating Legible Motion.
A.D. Dragan and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2013.
Best Conference Paper Award Finalist

Pregrasp Manipulation as Trajectory Optimization.
J. King, M. Klingensmith, C. Dellin, M. Dogar, P. Velagapudi, N. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2013.

Other Papers

Legible User Input for Intent Prediction.
K.T. Lee, A.D. Dragan, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Late Breaking Report. 2013.

Effects of Robot Capability on User Acceptance.
E. Cha, A.D. Dragan, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Late Breaking Report. 2013.


2012

Journal Papers

Toward a Deeper Understanding of Motion Alternatives via an Equivalence Relation on Local Paths.
R.A. Knepper, S.S. Srinivasa, and M.T. Mason.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 31(2), 2012.

Autonomous Manipulation with a General-Purpose Simple Hand.
M.T. Mason, A. Rodriguez, S.S. Srinivasa, and A.S. Vazquez.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 31(5), 2012.

A Planning Framework for Non-Prehensile Manipulation under Clutter and Uncertainty.
M.R. Dogar and S.S. Srinivasa.
Autonomous Robots, 33(3), 2012.
(Conference version was Best Conference Paper Award Finalist, IEEE IROS 2010)

HERB 2.0: Lessons Learned From Developing a Mobile Manipulator for the Home.
S.S. Srinivasa, D. Berenson, M. Cakmak, A. Collet, M.R. Dogar, A.D. Dragan, R.A. Knepper, T. Niemueller, K. Strabala, M. Vandeweghe, and J. Ziegler.
Proceedings of the IEEE, 100(8), 2012.

Conference Papers

Physics-Based Grasp Planning Through Clutter.
M. Dogar, K. Hsiao, M. Ciocarlie, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2012.

A Framework for Extreme Locomotion Planning.
C.M. Dellin and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2012.

Constellation - An algorithm for finding robot configurations that satisfy multiple constraints.
P. Kaiser, D. Berenson, N. Vahrenkamp, T. Asfour, R. Dillmann, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2012.

Formalizing Assistive Teleoperation.
A.D. Dragan and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2012.
Best Conference Paper Award Finalist

Online Customization of Teleoperation Interfaces.
A.D. Dragan and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. 2012.
Best Conference Paper Award Finalist

A Generic Robot Database and its Application in Fault Analysis and Performance Evaluation.
T. Niemueller, G. Lakemeyer, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2012.

A Data-Driven Statistical Framework for Post-Grasp Manipulation.
R. Paolini, A. Rodriguez, S.S. Srinivasa, and M.T. Mason.
In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. 2012.

Learning the Communication of Intent Prior to Physical Collaboration.
K. Strabala, M.K. Lee, A. Dragan, J. Forlizzi, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. 2012.

Other Papers

Multirobot Pushing — How Many Robots are Sufficient?
L. Lindzey, H. Choset, S.S. Srinivasa, and R.A. Knepper.
Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-12-15, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012.

Assistive Teleoperation: A New Domain for Interactive Learning.
A.D. Dragan and S.S. Srinivasa.
In AAAI Fall Symposium on Robots Learning Interactively from Human Teachers. 2012.

Efficient Touch Based Localization through Submodularity.
S. Javdani, M. Klingensmith, D. Bagnell, N. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-12-25, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012.

Assistive Teleoperation for Manipulation Tasks.
A.D. Dragan and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Late Breaking Report. 2012.


2011

Journal Papers

Task Space Regions: A Framework for Pose-Constrained Manipulation Planning.
D. Berenson, S.S. Srinivasa, and J. Kuffner.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 30(12), 2011.

The MOPED framework: Object recognition and pose estimation for manipulation.
A. Collet, M. Martinez, and S.S. Srinivasa.
The International Journal of Robotics Research, 30(10), 2011.
(Conference version was Best Vision Paper Award Finalist, IEEE ICRA 2009)

Conference Papers

Generality and simple hands.
M. Mason, S.S. Srinivasa, and A. Vazquez.
In International Symposium on Robotics Research. 2011.

Addressing cost-space chasms in manipulation planning.
D. Berenson, T. Siméon, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2011.

A framework for push-grasping in clutter.
M. Dogar and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2011.

Manipulation planning with goal sets using constrained trajectory optimization.
A.D. Dragan, N.D. Ratliff, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2011.

An equivalence relation for local path sets.
R. Knepper, S.S. Srinivasa, and M. Mason.
In Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. 2011.

Human preferences for robot-human hand-over configurations.
M. Cakmak, S.S. Srinivasa, M.K. Lee, J. Forlizzi, and S. Kiesler.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2011.

Abort and retry in grasping.
A. Rodriguez, M.T. Mason, S.S. Srinivasa, M. Bernstein, and A. Zirbel.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2011.

Learning from Experience in Manipulation Planning: Setting the Right Goals.
A.D. Dragan, G.J. Gordon, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Symposium on Robotics Research. 2011.

Using Spatial and Temporal Contrast for Fluent Robot-human Hand-overs.
M. Cakmak, S.S. Srinivasa, M.K. Lee, S. Kiesler, and J. Forlizzi.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2011.

Structure discovery in multi-modal data: A region-based approach.
A. Collet, S.S. Srinivasa, and M. Hebert.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2011.

Other Papers

Predictability or Adaptivity?: Designing Robot Handoffs Modeled from Trained Dogs and People.
M.K. Lee, J. Forlizzi, S. Kiesler, M. Cakmak, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Late Breaking Report. 2011.

Learning to Provide Better Examples for Our Robots.
A. Dragan and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Pioneers Workshop,ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2011.

Perception and Control Challenges for Effective Human-Robot Handoffs.
V. Micelli, K. Strabala, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras, Robotics: Science and Systems. 2011.


2010

Journal Papers

HERB: A Home Exploring Robotic Butler.
S.S. Srinivasa, D. Ferguson, C.J. Helfrich, D. Berenson, A. Collet, R. Diankov, G. Gallagher, G. Hollinger, J. Kuffner, and M.V. Weghe.
Autonomous Robots, 28(1), 2010.

Decentralized estimation and control of graph connectivity for mobile sensor networks.
P. Yang, R.A. Freeman, G.J. Gordon, K.M. Lynch, S.S. Srinivasa, and R. Sukthankar.
Automatica, 46(2), 2010.

Conference Papers

Probabilistically Complete Planning with End-Effector Pose Constraints.
D. Berenson and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2010.

Push-grasping with dexterous hands: Mechanics and a method.
M.R. Dogar and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2010.
Best Conference Paper Award Finalist

MOPED: A scalable and low latency object recognition and pose estimation system.
M. Martinez, A. Collet, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2010.

Gracefully mitigating breakdowns in robotic services.
M.K. Lee, S. Kiesler, J. Forlizzi, S.S. Srinivasa, and P. Rybski.
In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2010.
Best Conference Paper Award Winner

Efficient multi-view object recognition and full pose estimation.
A. Collet and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2010.

Hierarchical planning architectures for mobile manipulation tasks in indoor environments.
R.A. Knepper, S.S. Srinivasa, and M.T. Mason.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2010.

People helping robots helping people: Crowdsourcing for grasping novel objects.
A. Sorokin, D. Berenson, S.S. Srinivasa, and M. Hebert.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2010.

Manipulation capabilities with simple hands.
A. Rodriguez, M.T. Mason, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. 2010.

Planning pre-grasp manipulation for transport tasks.
L.Y. Chang, S.S. Srinivasa, and N.S. Pollard.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2010.
Best Manipulation Paper Award Finalist

Other Papers

Proprioceptive Localization for Mobile Manipulators.
M. Dogar, V. Hemrajani, D. Leeds, B. Kane, and S.S. Srinivasa.
Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-10-05, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010.

Exploiting Passthrough Information for Multi-view Object Reconstruction with Sparse and Noisy Laser Data.
M. Herrmann and S.S. Srinivasa.
Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-10-07, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2010.


2009

Conference Papers

Object recognition and full pose registration from a single image for robotic manipulation.
A. Collet, D. Berenson, S.S. Srinivasa, and D. Ferguson.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2009.
Best Vision Paper Award Finalist

Manipulation planning with workspace goal regions.
D. Berenson, S.S. Srinivasa, D. Ferguson, A. Collet, and J.J. Kuffner.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2009.

CHOMP: Gradient optimization techniques for efficient motion planning.
N. Ratliff, M. Zucker, J.A. Bagnell, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2009.

Manipulation planning on constraint manifolds.
D. Berenson, S.S. Srinivasa, D. Ferguson, and J.J. Kuffner.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2009.

Planning-based prediction for pedestrians.
B.D. Ziebart, N. Ratliff, G. Gallagher, C. Mertz, K. Peterson, J.A. Bagnell, M. Hebert, A.K. Dey, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2009.

Addressing pose uncertainty in manipulation planning using Task Space Regions.
D. Berenson, S.S. Srinivasa, and J.J. Kuffner.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2009.

Inverse Optimal Heuristic Control for Imitation Learning.
N. Ratliff, B. Ziebart, K. Peterson, J.A. Bagnell, M. Hebert, A.K. Dey, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 2009.

GATMO: a Generalized Approach to Tracking Movable Objects.
G. Gallagher, S.S. Srinivasa, J.A. Bagnell, and D. Ferguson.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2009.

Combining search and action for mobile robots.
G. Hollinger, D. Ferguson, S.S. Srinivasa, and S. Singh.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2009.

Pose-constrained whole-body planning using Task Space Region Chains.
D. Berenson, J. Chestnutt, S.S. Srinivasa, J.J. Kuffner, and S. Kagami.
In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. 2009.


2008

Conference Papers

Bispace planning: Concurrent multi-space exploration.
R. Diankov, N. Ratliff, D. Ferguson, S.S. Srinivasa, and J. Kuffner.
In Robotics: Science and Systems. 2008.

Manipulation planning with caging grasps.
R. Diankov, S.S. Srinivasa, D. Ferguson, and J. Kuffner.
In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. 2008.

The robotic busboy: Steps towards developing a mobile robotic home assistant.
S.S. Srinivasa, D. Ferguson, M.V. Weghe, R. Diankov, D. Berenson, C. Helfrich, and H. Strasdat.
In International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems. 2008.

Grasp synthesis in cluttered environments for dexterous hands.
D. Berenson and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. 2008.

Generalizing metamodules to simplify planning in modular robotic systems.
D.J. Dewey, M.P. Ashley-Rollman, M. De Rosa, S.C. Goldstein, T.C. Mowry, S.S. Srinivasa, P. Pillai, and J. Campbell.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2008.

Other Papers

Anytime guaranteed search using spanning trees.
G. Hollinger, A. Kehagias, S. Singh, D. Ferguson, and S.S. Srinivasa.
Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-08-36, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008.


2007

Conference Papers

Randomized path planning for redundant manipulators without inverse kinematics.
M. Vandeweghe, D. Ferguson, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. 2007.

Imitation learning for locomotion and manipulation.
N. Ratliff, J.A. Bagnell, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. 2007.

Control strategies and design guidelines for planar latch-less metamorphic robots based on analysis of dynamics.
A. Deshpande, S.S. Srinivasa, and P. Pillai.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2007.

Identifying trajectory classes in dynamic tasks.
S.O. Anderson and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Symposium on Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning. 2007.

Planar batting under shape, pose, and impact uncertainty.
J.L. Fu, S.S. Srinivasa, N.S. Pollard, and B.C. Nabbe.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2007.

Other Papers

Declarative programming for modular robots.
M.P. Ashley-Rollman, M. De Rosa, S.S. Srinivasa, P. Pillai, S.C. Goldstein, and J. Campbell.
In Workshop on Self-Reconfigurable Robots/Systems and Applications, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2007.


2006

Conference Papers

Hierarchical motion planning for self-reconfigurable modular robots.
P. Bhat, J. Kuffner, S. Goldstein, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2006.

Physics-based motion retiming.
J. McCann, N.S. Pollard, and S.S. Srinivasa.
In ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation. 2006.

Meet point planning for multirobot coordination.
S.S. Srinivasa and D. Ferguson.
In International Symposium on Robotics and Automation. 2006.


2005

Conference Papers

Control synthesis for dynamic contact manipulation.
S.S. Srinivasa, M.A. Erdmann, and M.T. Mason.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2005.

Using projected dynamics to plan dynamic contact manipulation.
S.S. Srinivasa, M.A. Erdmann, and M.T. Mason.
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2005.

Other Papers

Control Synthesis for Dynamic Contact Manipulation.
S.S. Srinivasa.
PhD thesis, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005.


2003

Conference Papers

Bilateral time-scaling for control of task freedoms of a constrained nonholonomic system.
S.S. Srinivasa, M.A. Erdmann, and M.T. Mason.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2003.


2002

Conference Papers

Towards sensor based coverage with robot teams.
D. Latimer IV, S.S. Srinivasa, V. Lee-Shue, S. Sonne, H. Choset, and A. Hurst.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2002.

Experiments with nonholonomic manipulation.
S.S. Srinivasa, C.R. Baker, E. Sacks, G.B. Reshko, M.T. Mason, and M.A. Erdmann.
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2002.


2001

Other Papers

Experiments with Nonholonomic Manipulation.
S.S. Srinivasa.
Master's thesis, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001.


2000

Journal Papers

Coherent structures in numerically simulated jets with and without off-source heating.
S.S. Siddhartha, R. Narasimha, A.J. Basu, and S.V. Kailas.
Fluid Dynamics Research, 26(2), 2000.


1999

Other Papers

Reverse Engineering using the Structured Lighting Technique.
S.S. Srinivasa.
BTech thesis, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1999.