Journal Articles

• (13) C. Mertz, L. E. Navarro-Serment, D. Duggins, J. Gowdy, R. MacLachlan, P. E. Rybski, A. Steinfeld, A. Suppe, C. Urmson, N. Vandapel, M. Hebert, and C. Thorpe, Moving object detection with laser scanners," in Journal of Field Robotics, 30(1), pp 17-43, Jan, 2013. (CMU link)



• (12) M. Darms, P. E. Rybski, C. Baker, C. Urmson, "Obstacle Detection and Tracking for the Urban Challenge," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 10(3), pp 475-485, Sept, 2009. (CMU link)



• (11) P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Prioritized Multi-Hypothesis Tracking by a Robot with Limited Sensing," in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing Advances in Robots and Autonomy, vol. 2009, Article ID 284525, 17 pages, 2009. (CMU link)



• (10) P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, H. Veeraraghavan, M. LaPoint, M. Gini, "Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Robot Search and Retrieval System: Experiences with MinDART," in International Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 52(3-4), pp 363-387, August, 2008.



• (9) C. Urmson, J. Anhalt, H. Bae, J. Bagnell, C. Baker, R. E. Bittner, T. Brown, M. N. Clark, M. Darms, D. Demitrish, J. Dolan, D. Duggins, D. Ferguson, T. Galatali, C. M. Geyer, M. Gittleman, S. Harbaugh, M. Hebert, T. Howard, S. Kolski, M. Likhachev, B. Litkouhi, A. Kelly, M. McNaughton, N. Miller, J. Nickolaou, K. Peterson, B. Pilnick, R. Rajkumar, P. E. Rybski, V. Sadekar, B. Salesky, Y.W. Seo, S. Singh, J. M. Snider, J. C. Struble, A. Stentz, M. Taylor, W. L. Whittaker, Z. Wolkowicki, W. Zhang, and J. Ziglar. "Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge," Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, Part I, 25(8), pp. 425-466, June, 2008. (CMU link)



• (8) P. E. Rybski, J. Stolarz, K. Yoon, M. Veloso, "Using Dialog and Human Observations to Dictate Tasks to a Learning Robot Assistant," in Journal of Intelligent Service Robots, Special Issue on Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics, 1(2), pp. 159-167, April, 2008. (CMU link)



• (7) P. E. Rybski, S. Roumeliotis, M. Gini, N. Papanikopoulos, "Appearance-Based Mapping using Minimalistic Sensor Models", in Autonomous Robots 24(3), pp. 159--167, April 2008.



• (6) J. L. Pearce, B. Powers, C. Hess, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Using Virtual Pheromones for Dispersing a Team of Multiple Miniature Robots," in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 45(4), pp. 307--321, April, 2006.



• (5) B. Browning, J. Searock, P. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Turning Segways into Soccer Robots," in Industrial Robot, vol. 32(2), pp. 149--156, 2005. (CMU link)



• (4) C. P. McMillen, K. Stubbs, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Resource Scheduling and Load Balancing in Distributed Robotic Control Systems," in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 44(3-4), pp. 251-259, 2003.



• (3) P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Performance of a Distributed Robotic System Using Shared Communications Channels," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, special issue on Multi-Robot systems, vol. 18(5), pp. 713-727, October, 2002.



• (2) S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, K. Stubbs, C. P. McMillen, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A robot team for surveillance tasks: design and architecture," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 40/2-3, pp. 173-183, September 2002.



• (1) D. F. Hougen, P. E. Rybski, M. Gini, "Repeatability of Real World Training Experiments: A Case Study," Autonomous Robots Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 281-292, 1999.

Book Chapters

• (4) P. E. Rybski, F. Zacharias, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Using Visual Features for Building and Localizing within Topological Maps of Indoor Environments," in Innovations in Machine Intelligence and Robot Perception, S. Patnaik, L. C. Jain, S. G. Tzafestas (eds), Springer-Verlag, pp. 251-271, 2005.



• (3) C. McMillen, P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Levels of Multi-robot Coordination for Dynamic Environments," in Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume III, pp. 53-64, 2005. (CMU link)



• (2) P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Programming and Controlling the Operations of a Team of Miniature Robots," in Alan C. Schultz and Lynne E. Parker (eds.), Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, pp. 65-72, Washington, DC, March, 2002.



• (1) A. Drenner, I. Burt, B. Chapeau, T. Dahlin, B. Kratochvil, C. P. McMillen, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, K. Stubbs, D. Waletzko, K. B. Yesin, "Design of the UMN Multi-Robot System," in Alan C. Schultz and Lynne E. Parker (eds.), Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, pp. 141-148, Washington, DC, March, 2002.

Magazine Articles

• (7) C. Urmson, C. Baker, J. Dolan, P. E. Rybski, B. Salesky, W. Whittaker, D. Ferguson, M. Darms, "Autonomous Driving in Traffic: Boss and the Urban Challenge," in AI Magazine, v30, n2, pp. 17-29, June 2009. (CMU link)



• (6) P. E. Rybski, J. Forbes, D. Burhans, Z. Dodds, P. Oh, M. Scheutz, and B. Avanzato, "The AAAI 2006 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition," in AI Magazine, v28, n2, pp. 101­114, Summer 2007.



• (5) P. E. Rybski, S. Tejada, D. Blank, A. Stroupe, M. Bugajska, and L. Greenwald, "The AAAI 2005 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition," in AI Magazine, v27, n3, pp. 85­102, Fall, 2006.



• (4) M. M. Veloso, P. E. Rybski, S. Lenser, S. Chernova, D. Vail, "CMRoboBits: Creating an Intelligent AIBO Robot," in AI Magazine, v27, n1, pp. 67­82, Spring, 2006. (CMU link)



• (3) C. Dos Santos, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Panoramic Imaging for Miniature Robots," in Robotics and Automation Magazine, special issue on Panoramic Robotics, v11, n4, pp. 62-68, December 2004.



• (2) P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, N. Papanikolopoulos, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, D. G. Krantz, F. Nageotte, "Sharing Control: Presenting a Framework for the Operation and Coordination of Multiple Miniature Robots," in Robotics and Automation Magazine, v9, n4, pp. 41-48, December 2002.



• (1) P. E. Rybski, N. Papanikolopoulos, S. A. Stoeter, D. G. Krantz, K. B. Yesin, M. Gini, R. Voyles, D. F. Hougen, B. Nelson, M. D. Erickson, "Enlisting Rangers and Scouts for Reconnaissance and Surveillance," in Robotics and Automation Magazine, pp. 14-24, December 2000.

Conference Papers

• (48) P. E. Rybski, P. Anderson-Sprecher, D. Huber, C. Niessl, R. Simmons, "Sensor Fusion for Human Safety in Industrial Workcells," in proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2012. (CMU link)



• (47) H. Cho, P. E. Rybski, A. Bar-Hillel, W. Zhang, "Real-time Pedestrian Detection with Deformable Part Models," in proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, June 2012. (CMU link)



• (46) M. K. Lee, S. Kiesler, J. Forlizzi, P. E. Rybski, "Ripple Effects of an Embedded Social Agent: A Field Study of a Social Robot in the Workplace," in proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2012. (CMU link)



• (45) M. K. Lee, J. Forlizzi, S. Kiesler, P. E. Rybski, J. Antanitis, S. Savetsila, "Personalization in HRI: A longitudinal field experiment," in proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2012. (CMU link)



• (44) H. Cho, P. E. Rybski, and W. Zhang, "Vision-based 3D Bicycle Tracking using Deformable Part Model and Interacting Multiple Model Filter," in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2011. (CMU link)



• (43) H. Cho, P. E. Rybski, W. Zhang, "Vision-based Bicycle Detection and Tracking using a Deformable Part Model and an EKF Algorithm," in proceedings of the 13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, September, 2010. (CMU link)



• (42) M. Zwinderman, P. E. Rybski, G. Kootstra, A Human-Assisted Approach for a Mobile Robot to Learn 3D Object Models using Active Vision," in proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication, September, 2010. (CMU link)



• (41) H. Cho, P. E. Rybski, W. Zhang, "Vision-based Bicyclist Detection and Tracking for Intelligent Vehicles," in proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, June 2010. (CMU link)



• (40) P. E. Rybski, D. Huber, D. Morris, R. Hoffman, "Visual Classification of Coarse Vehicle Orientation using Histogram of Oriented Gradients Features," in proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, June 2010. (CMU link)



• (39) M. K. Lee, S, Kiesler, J. Forlizzi, S. Srinivasa, and P. E. Rybski, "Gracefully Mitigating Breakdowns in Robotic Services," in proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '10), Osaka, Japan, March 2010. Recipient: best paper award (CMU link)



• (38) M. K. Lee, J. Forlizzi, P. E. Rybski, F. Crabbe, W. Chung, J. Finkle, E. Glaser, and S. Kiesler, "The Snackbot: Documenting the design of a robot for long-term Human-Robot Interaction," in proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI' 09), San Diego, CA., March 2009.(CMU link)



• (37) M. Darms, P. E. Rybski, and C. Urmson, "A Multisensor Multiobject Tracking System for an Autonomous Vehicle Driving in an Urban Environment", in proceedings of AVEC 2008 - 9th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control, September, 2008. (CMU link)



• (36) K. Peterson, J. Ziglar, and P. E. Rybski, "Fast Feature Detection and Stochastic Parameter Estimation of Road Shape using Multiple LIDAR," in proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, September, 2008. Finalist: Best Paper Award. (CMU link)



• (35) M. Darms, P. E. Rybski, and C. Urmson, "Classification and tracking of dynamic objects with multiple sensors for autonomous driving in urban environments," in proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, pp. 1197­1202, June, 2008.Recipient: Best Poster Award. (CMU link)



• (34) M. Darms, P. E. Rybski, and C. Urmson, "An adaptive model switching approach for a multisensor tracking system used for autonomous driving in an urban environment," in proceedings of AUTOREG 2008, Steuerung und Regelung von Fahrzeugen und Motoren: Fachtagung, pp. 521­530, February, 2008. (CMU link)



• (33) M. Darms, C. Baker, P. E. Rybski, and C. Urmson, "Vehicle detection and tracking for the Urban Challenge," in Workshop ahrerassistenzsysteme, M. Maurer & C. Stiller, ed., Freundeskreis Messund Regelungstechnik Karlsruhe e.V. (FMRT), pp. 57­67, Karlsruhe, 2008. (CMU link)



• (32) K. Yoon, P. E. Rybski, "Teaching procedural flow through dialog and demonstration," in Proceedings of IROS'07, the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 807­814, San Diego, CA, Oct­Nov, 2007. (CMU link)



• (31) P. E. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, M. Veloso, "Interactive Robot Task Training through Dialog and Demonstration," in Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Washington DC, March, 2007.(CMU link)



• (30) M. Veloso, P. E. Rybski, F. von Hundelshausen, "FOCUS: a generalized method for object discovery for robots that observe and interact with humans," in Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Salt Lake City, UT, March, 2006. (CMU link)



• (29) M. Veloso, F. von Hundelshausen, P. E. Rybski, "Learning Visual Object Definitions by Observing Human Activities," in Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2005, Japan, December, 2005. (CMU link)



• (28) P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso. "Robust Real-Time Human Activity Recognition from Tracked Face Displacements," in Proceedings of the 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2005, Covilha, Portugal, December, 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3808 (LNAI Springer), Progress in Artificial Intelligence, C. Bento, A. Cardoso and G. Dias (eds), pp 87-98, Issn 0302-9743. (CMU link)



• (27) J. Fasola, P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Fast Goal Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance using a Dynamic Local Visual Model," in Proceedings of SBAI'05, The VII Brazilian Symposium of Artificial Intelligence, Sao Luiz, Brazil, September, 2005. (CMU link)



• (26) F. D. L. Torre, C. Vallespi, P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, T. Kanade, "Learning to Track Multiple People in Omnidirectional Video," in the Proceedings of ICRA'05, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April, 2005. (CMU link)



• (25) R. Patil, P. E. Rybski, T. Kanade, M. Veloso, "People Detection and Tracking in High Resolution Panoramic Video Mosaic," in Proceedings of IROS'04, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1323-1328, Sendai, Japan, September/October, 2004. (CMU link)



• (24) P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, H. Veeraraghavan, M. LaPoint, M. Gini, "Communication Strategies in Multi-Robot Search and Retrieval," in Proceedings of DARS'04, the 7th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, pp. 301-310, Toulouse, France, June, 2004.



• (23) P. E. Rybski, S. I. Roumeliotis, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Comparison of Maximum Likelihood Methods for Appearance-Based Minimalistic SLAM," in Proceedings of ICRA'04, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1777-1782, New Orleans, LA, April/May, 2004.



• (22) P. E. Rybski, F. de la Torre, R. Patil, C. Vallespi, M. Veloso, B. Browning, "CAMEO: Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer," in Proceedings of ICRA'04, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1777-1782, New Orleans, LA, April/May, 2004. (CMU link)



• (21) B. Browning, P. E. Rybski, J. Searock, M. Veloso, "Development of a Soccer-Playing Dynamically-Balancing Mobile Robot," in Proceedings of ICRA'04, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1752-1757, New Orleans, LA, April/May, 2004. (CMU link)



• (20) P. E. Rybski, S. I. Roumeliotis, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Appearance-Based Minimalistic Metric SLAM," in Proceedings of IROS'03, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 194-199, Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 2003.



• (19) P. E. Rybski, F. Zacharias, J. F. Lett, O. Masoud, M. Gini and N. Papanikolopoulos, "Using Visual Features to Build Topological Maps of Indoor Environments," in Proceedings of ICRA'03, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 850-855, Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2003.



• (18) J. L. Pearce, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Dispersion Behaviors for a Team of Miniature Robots," in Proceedings of ICRA'03, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1158-1163, Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2003.



• (17) S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Autonomous Stair-Hopping with Scout Robots," in Proceedings of IROS'02, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 721-726, Lausanne, Switzerland, September/October, 2002.



• (16) P. Rößler, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Visual Servoing of a Miniature Robot Toward a Marked Target," in Proceedings of DSP'02, the 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, July 2002.



• (15) A. Drenner, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, B. Kratochvil, C. P. McMillen, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, K. Stubbs, D. Waletzko, K. B. Yesin, "Mobility Enhancements to the Scout Robot Platform," in Proceedings of ICRA'02, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1069-1074, Washington, DC, May 2002.



• (14) P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, A. Schoolcraft, S. Osentoski and M. Gini, "Evaluation of Control Strategies for Multi-Robot Search and Retrieval,"in Proceedings of IAS-7, the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp. 281-288, Marina del Rey, CA, March 2002.



• (13) C. P. McMillen, K. Stubbs, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Resource Scheduling and Load Balancing in Distributed Robotic Control Systems," in Proceedings of IAS-7, the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp. 223-230, Marina del Rey, CA, March 2002.



• (12) P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Effects of Limited Bandwidth Communications Channels of the Control of Multiple Robots," in Proceedings of ICRA'01, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 369-374, Maui, HI, October 2001.



• (11) P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Performance of a Distributed Robotic System Using Shared Communications Channels," in Proceedings of SPIE Photonics Boston, Newton, Massachusetts, pp. 84-95, October 2001.



• (10) P. E. Rybski, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, D. G. Krantz, F. Nageotte, N. Papanikolopoulos, S. A. Stoeter, "System Architecture for Versatile Autonomous and Teleoperated Control of Multiple Miniature Robots," in Proceedings of ICRA'01, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2917-2922, Seoul, Korea, May 2001.



• (9) S. Stoeter, P. Rybski, M. Gini, D. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Verteilte Steuerung heterogener mobiler Roboter," in Proceedings of Autonome Mobile Systeme, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 270-277, November 2000.



• (8) D. F. Hougen, M. D. Erickson, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Autonomous Mobile Robots and Distributed Exploratory Missions," in Proceedings of DARS'00, the 5th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Knoxville, pp. 221-230, TN, October 2000.



• (7) D. F. Hougen, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. D. Erickson, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Behavioral Decomposition of Robotic Exploratory Missions," in International Conference for Smart Systems and Robotics for Medicine and Space Applications, Houston, Texas, September 2000.



• (6) S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. D. Erickson, M. Wyman, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Robot Team for Exploration and Surveillance: Design and Architecture," in Proceedings of IAS-6, the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp. 767-774, Venice, Italy, July 2000.



• (5) N. Papanikolopoulos, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, M. Erickson, "Experiments with a Team of Miniature Robots," in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation, Rio, Greece, July 2000.



• (4) P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. D. Erickson, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Team of Robotic Agents for Surveillance," in Proceedings of Agents'00, the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 9-16, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000.



• (3) D. F. Hougen, S. Benjaafar, J. C. Bonney, J. R. Budenske, M. Dvorak, M. Gini, H. French, D. G. Krantz, P. Y. Li, F. Malver, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, R. Voyles and K. B. Yesin, "A Miniature Robotic System for Reconnaissance and Surveillance," in Proceedings of ICRA'00, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 501-507, San Francisco, CA, April 2000. (IEEE link)



• (2) D. F. Hougen, J. Bonney, J. Budenske, M. Dvorak, M. Gini, D. Krantz, F. Malver, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. Rybski, S. Stoeter, R. Voyles, and K. B. Yesin, "Reconfigurable robots for distributed robotics," in Government Microcircuit Applications Conference, Anaheim, CA, March 2000.



• (1) P. E. Rybski, R. M. Voyles, "Interactive Task Training of a Mobile Robot through Human Gesture Recognition and Imitation," in Proceedings of ICRA'99, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 664-669, Detroit, MI, May 1999.

Workshop Papers

• (7) A. Rudnicky, P. E. Rybski, S. Banerjee, M. Veloso, "Intelligently Integrating Information from Speech and Vision Processing to Perform Light-weight Meeting Understanding," in Proceedings of ICMI'05, the International Conference on Multi-modal Interfaces, International Workshop on Multimodal Multiparty Meeting Processing, Trento, Italy, October, 2005. (CMU link)



• (6) F. de la Torre, C. Vallespi, P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, T. Kanade, "Multiple Face Recognition from Omnidirectional Video," in the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2005. (CMU link)



• (5) S. Banerjee, J. Cohen, T. Quisel, A. Chan, Y. Patodia, Z. Al-Bawab, R. Zhang, A. Black, R. Stern, R. Rosenfeld, A. Rudnicky, P. Rybski and M. Veloso, "Creating Multi-Modal, User-Centric Records of Meetings with the Carnegie Mellon Meeting Recorder Architecture," in Proceedings of ICASSP'04, the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Meeting Recognition Workshop, Montreal, Canada, May, 2004. (CMU link)



• (4) P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Using Sparse Visual Data to Model Human Activities in Meetings," in the AAMAS'04 workshop on Modeling Other Agents from Observations, the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems, New York, New York, 2004.



• (3) M. Veloso, S. Lenser, D. Vail, P. Rybski, N. Aiwazian, and S. Chernova, "CMRoboBits: Creating an Intelligent AIBO Robot," in the AAAI Spring Symposium on Accessible, Hands-on AI and Robotics Education, Palo Alto, CA, 2004. (CMU link)



• (2) S. A. Stoeter, N. P. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, D. G. Krantz, K. B. Yesin, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, F. Nageotte, B. Nelson, "User Interfaces for a Robotic Distributed System," in Proceedings of the Second Biomorphic Explorers Workshop: Bio-Inspired Engineering of Exploration Systems, Los Angeles, CA, December 2000.



• (1) P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, M. Lindahl, M. Gini, "Performance Evaluation of Multiple Robots in a Search and Retrieval Task," in Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing: State of the Art and State of Practice, pp. 153-160, AAAI Press, Albuquerque, NM, August 1998.




Posters with Conference Abstracts

• (3) P. Rybski, S. Banerjee, F. Torre, C. Vallespi, A. Rudnicky, and M. Veloso, "Segmentation and Classification of Meetings using Multiple Information Streams", in Proceedings of ICMI'04, the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, pp. 335-336, State College, PA, October 2004.



• (2) P. E. Rybski, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, S. A. Stoeter, and N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Distributed Surveillance Task using Multiple Miniature Robots," in Proceedings of AAMAS'02, the 1st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 1393-1394, Bologna, Italy, July 2002.



• (1) P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, and N. Papanikolopoulos, "Dynamic Scheduling of a Fixed Bandwidth Communications Channel for Controlling Multiple Robots," in Proceedings of Agents'01, the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 153-154, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2001.

Conference Abstracts

• (3) P. Rybski, S. Banerjee, F. Torre, C. Vallespi, A. Rudnicky, M. Veloso, "Segmentation and Classification of Meetings using Multiple Information Streams," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, October, 2004.



• (2) P. Rybski, S. Stoeter, C. Wyman, M. Gini, "A Cooperative Multi-Robot Approach to the Mapping and Exploration of Mars," in Proceedings of AAAI'97, the 14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 798-799, Providence, RI, 1997.



• (1) J. Fischer, P. E. Rybski, D. Edmonds, M. Gini, "Doing Tasks with Multiple Mini-Robots," in Proceedings of AAAI'96, the 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1353, Portland, OR, 1996.




Videos (in refereed video collections)

• (5) B. Kratochvil, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, A. Drenner, M. Gini, D. Hougen, C. P. McMillen, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, K. Stubbs, D. Waletzko, K. B. Yesin, "A New Generation of Scout Robots with Multiple Mobility Modes," in Video Proceedings of ICRA'02, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington, D.C., May 2002.



• (4) B. Kratochvil, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, A. Drenner, M. Gini, D. Hougen, C. P. McMillen, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, K. Stubbs, D. Waletzko, K. B. Yesin, "A New Generation of Scout Robots with Enhanced Sensing and Mobility," in Video Proceedings of the SPIE International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, FL, April 2002.



• (3) P. E. Rybski, D. F. Hougen, S. Benjaafar, J. C. Bonney, J. R. Budenske, M. Dvorak, M. Gini, H. French, D. G. Krantz, P. Y. Li, F. Malver, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, S. A. Stoeter, R. Voyles, K. B. Yesin, "A Robotic Reconnaissance and Surveillance Team," in Video Proceedings of ICRA'00, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, CA, April 2000. Recipient: Best Video Award.



• (2) D. F. Hougen, P. Rybski, M. Gini, J. Slagle, "TBMin2: Trailer Backing Mini-Robot 2," in Video Proceedings of AAAI'98, the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Robot Exhibition, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998.



• (1) P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, M. Lindahl, M. Gini, "MinDART: Minnesota Distributed Autonomous Robotic Team," in Video Proceedings of AAAI'98, the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Robot Exhibition, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998.




Unrefereed Workshop Papers

• (6) P. E. Rybski, A. Efros, "Overview of the 2007 Semantic Robot Vision Challenge Competition," in Proceedings of the AAAI'07 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July, 2007.



• (5) P. E. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, M. Veloso, "CMAssist: A RoboCup@Home Team", In Procedings of the AAAI'06 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston, MA, USA, July, 2006.



• (4) P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "From CMDash'05 to CMRoboBits : Transitioning Multi-Agent Research with AIBOs to the Classroom", In Procedings of the AAAI'05 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July, 2005.



• (3) P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, H. Metcalf, D. Skyllingstad, H. Veeraraghavan and M. Gini, "MinDART : A Multi-Robot Search & Retrieval System," n Proceedings of the AAAI'02 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 2002.



• (2) P. E. Rybski, I. Burt, A. Drenner, B. Kratochvil, C. P. McMillen, S. Stoeter, K. Stubbs, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Evaluation of the Scout Robot for Urban Search and Rescue," in Proceedings of the AAAI'01 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, August 2001.



• (1) P. E. Rybski, D. F. Hougen, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Control of Multiple Small Surveillance Robots at AAAI 2000," in Proceedings of the AAAI'00 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Austin, TX, August 2000.

Technical Reports

• (10) H. Cho, P. E. Rybski, W. Zhang, "Vision-based Bicyclist Detection and Tracking for Intelligent Vehicles," Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-10-11, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, Jan 2010. (CMU link)



• (9) J. Stolarz, P. E. Rybski, "An Architecture for the Rapid Development of Robot Behaviors," Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-07-16, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, May 2007. (CMU link)



• (8) K. Yoon, P. E. Rybski, "Teaching Task Flow Through Dialog and Observation," Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-07-18, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, May 2007. (CMU link)



• (7) P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Handling Diverse Information Sources: Prioritized Multi-Hypothesis World Modeling", Technical Report CMU-CS-06-182, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December, 2006. (CMU link)



• (6) P. E. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, M. Veloso, "CMAssist'06: A RoboCup@Home Team", Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-06-47, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 2006. (CMU link)



• (5) Y. Jeon, P. E. Rybski, "Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Clustering Algorithm for Counting People in a Meeting", Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-06-04, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, January, 2006. (CMU link)



• (4) P.E. Rybski, F. De la Torre Frade, R. Patil, C. Vallespi, M. Veloso, and B. Browning, "CAMEO: The Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer," Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-04-07, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2004. (CMU link)



• (3) P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, H. Veeraraghavan, M. LaPoint, M. Gini, "Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Robot Search & Retrieval System: Experiences with MinDART," Technical Report 03-011, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN, February 2003. (UMN link)



• (2) P. Rößler, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Visual Servoing of a Miniature Robot Toward a Marked Target," Technical Report 02-005, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN, January 2002. (UMN link)



• (1) P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Performance of a Distributed Robotic System Using Shared Communications Channels," Technical Report 01-031, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, , University of Minnesota, MN, July 2001. (UMN link)

PhD Dissertation

• P. E. Rybski, "Building Topological Maps with Minimalistic Sensor Models," PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN, July 2003.

Patents

• (6) P. R. Friend, P. E. Rybski, System and method for tracking position of cable attached to a machine, U.S Patent 9,773,175, Issued September 26, 2017. (Google patent entry.)



• (5) Q. Wang, P. E. Rybski, 3D terrain mapping system and method , U.S Patent 9,721,158, Issued August 1, 2017. (Google patent entry.)



• (4) E. A. Reiners, P. E. Rybski, Synthetic colorization of real-time immersive environments , U.S Patent 9,639,958, Issued May 2, 2017. (Google patent entry.)



• (3) P. E. Rybski, Sensor calibration system, U.S Patent 9,541,633, Issued January 10, 2017. (Google patent entry.)



• (2) P. Friend, M. Brandt, R. Hamann, P. E. Rybski, M. M. Smith, Control system for a rotating machine, U.S Patent 9,454,147, Issued September 27, 2016. (Google patent entry.)



• (1) N. P. Papanikolopoulos, D. G. Krantz, R. M. Voyles, J. A. Bushey, A. N. Johnson, B. J. Nelson, P. E. Rybski, K. A. Griggs, E. C. Urban, II, Miniature robotic vehicles and methods of controlling same , U.S Patent 6,548,982, Issued April 15, 2003. (Google patent entry.)

Commercial Software

• Activmedia Color Tracking System (ACTS) Originally developed in 1999