STAIR: STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot

Selected papers:

• High-Accuracy 3D Sensing for Mobile Manipulation: Improving Object Detection and Door Opening., Morgan Quigley, Siddarth Batra, Stephen Gould, Ellen Klingbeil, Quoc Le, Ashley Wellman, Andrew Y. Ng. To appear in International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009. [PDF]
• Learning 3-D Object Orientation from Images, Ashutosh Saxena, Justin Driemeyer, Andrew Y Ng. To appear in International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009. [PDF]
  (Preliminary version previously presentd in the NIPS workshop on Robotic Challenges for Machine Learning, 2007.)
• Reactive Grasping using Optical Proximity Sensors, Kaijen Hsiao, Paul Nangeroni, Manfred Huber, Ashutosh Saxena, Andrew Y Ng. To appear in International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009. [pdf, More]
• Learning grasp strategies with partial shape information, Ashutosh Saxena, Lawson Wong, and Andrew Y. Ng. In AAAI, 2008. [PDF, More]
• A Fast Data Collection and Augmentation Procedure for Object Recognition, Benjamin Sapp, Ashutosh Saxena, and Andrew Y. Ng. In AAAI, 2008. [PDF, More]
• Robotic Grasping of Novel Objects using Vision, Ashutosh Saxena, Justin Driemeyer, and Andrew Y. Ng. International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 157-173, Feb 2008. [PDF]
• A Vision-based System for Grasping Novel Objects in Cluttered Environments, Ashutosh Saxena, Lawson Wong, Morgan Quigley, and Andrew Y. Ng. In International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), 2007. [PDF]
• Robotic Grasping of Novel Objects, Ashutosh Saxena, Justin Driemeyer, Justin Kearns, and Andrew Y. Ng. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 19), 2007. [PDF, More]
• Peripheral-Foveal Vision for Real-time Object Recognition and Tracking in Video, Stephen Gould, Joakim Arfvidsson, Adrian Kaehler, Benjamin Sapp, Marius Meissner, Gary Bradski, Paul Baumstarch, Sukwon Chung and Andrew Y. Ng. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), 2007. [PDF]
• Probabilistic Mobile Manipulation in Dynamic Environments, with Application to Opening Doors, Anya Petrovskaya and Andrew Y. Ng. Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), 2007. [PDF]
• Depth Estimation Using Monocular and Stereo Cues, Ashutosh Saxena, Jamie Schulte and Andrew Y. Ng. Proceedings on the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-07), 2007. [PDF]
• Learning to grasp novel objects using vision, Ashutosh Saxena, Justin Driemeyer, Justin Kearns, Chioma Osondu, and Andrew Y. Ng. International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2006. [PDF]
• Bayesian estimation for autonomous object manipulation based on tactile sensors, Anya Petrovskaya, Oussama Khatib, Sebastian Thrun, and Andrew Y. Ng. Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2006. [PDF]
• Have we met? MDP based speaker ID for robot dialogue, Filip Krsmanovic, Curtis Spencer, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (InterSpeech--ICSLP), 2006. [PDF]

Workshop papers:

• ROS: an open-source Robot Operating System, Morgan Quigley, Brian Gerkey, Ken Conley, Josh Faust, Tully Foote, Jeremy Leibs, Eric Berger, Rob Wheeler, Andrew Y. Ng. To Appear in Open-source software workshop of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009.
• Integrating Visual and Range Data for Robotic Object Detection, Stephen Gould, Paul Baumstarck, Morgan Quigley, Andrew Y. Ng, Daphne Koller. Presented in Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications workshop, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2008.
• Learning to Open New Doors, Ellen Klingbeil, Ashutosh Saxena, Andrew Y. Ng. In RSS Workshop on Robot Manipulation, 2008. [PDF, More]
• Learning to Open New Doors, Ellen Klingbeil, Ashutosh Saxena, Andrew Y. Ng. Presented in AAAI 17th Annual Robot Workshop and Exhibition, 2008.
• STAIR: The STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot project, Andrew Y. Ng, Stephen Gould, Morgan Quigley, Ashutosh Saxena, Eric Berger. Snowbird, 2008.
• STAIR: Hardware and Software Architecture, Andrew Y. Ng, Stephen Gould, Morgan Quigley, Ashutosh Saxena and Eric Berger. Presented in AAAI 2007 Robotics Workshop, 2007. [PDF]
• Learning to grasp novel objects using vision, Ashutosh Saxena, Justin Driemeyer, Justin Kearns and Andrew Y. Ng. Presented in RSS workshop on Robotic Manipulation, 2006.