STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: June-August, 2006

May 31st (Stairmasters: Tomas, Sarah, Kaijen):

K.Y. Goldberg and M.T. Mason
Bayesian grasping.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1990

Shun-Feng Su and C.S.G. Lee
Manipulation and propagation of uncertainty and verification of applicability of actions in assembly tasks.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1992

Chih-Han Yu, Jason Chuang, Brian Gerkey, Geoffrey Gordon, Andrew Ng
Open Loop Plans in Multi-Robot POMDPs.
Technical Report, Stanford CS Department, 2005

B. Tovar, A. Yershova, J.M. O'Kane, S.M. LaValle
Information Spaces for Mobile Robots.
Fifth International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control, 2005.
June 7th (Stairmasters: Tomas, Sarah, Charlie):

Shun-Feng Su and C.S.G. Lee
Manipulation and propagation of uncertainty and verification of applicability of actions in assembly tasks.
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1992
(Finishing from last week.)

M. Saha and P. Isto.
Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects.
To appear in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, FL, 2006.
June 28th (Stairmasters: Russ and Katie):

Russ Tedrake, Katie Byl, and Jerry Pratt.
Probabilistic Stability in Legged Systems: Metastability and the Mean First Passage Time (MFPT) Stability Margin.
To be submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2006.
July 5th (Stairmaster: Leslie)

Jean-Michel Renders, Eric Gaussier, Cyril Goutte, Francois Pacull, Gabriela Csurka.
Categorization in Multiple Category Systems.
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-06).
July 26th (Stairmaster: Natalia)

Norman Francis Ferns, Pablo Samuel Castro, Doina Precup, and Prakash Panangaden.
Methods for computing state similarity in Markov decision processes.
In Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Uncertainty in AI (UAI-06).
August 2nd (Stairmaster: Emma)

Nir Friedman.
Learning belief networks in the presence of missing values and hidden variables.
In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-97).
August 9th (Stairmaster: Kaijen)

R.A. Grupen and J.A. Coelho, Jr.
Acquiring state from control dynamics to learn grasping policies for robot hands.
In Advanced Robotics, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp.427-443 (2002).
August 16th (Stairmaster: Emma)

Naftali Tishby, Fernando Pereira, and William Bialek.
The Information Bottleneck Method.
Invited paper to The 37th annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, September 1999.
August 23rd (Stairmaster: Meg)

Feng Han and Song-Chun Zhu.
Bottom-up/top-down image parsing by attribute graph grammar.
In Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV-05).