Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 32

Volume 32, Number 1, January 2015

Special issue on Alternative Sensing Techniques for Robot Perception

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  Thierry Peynot, Sildomar T. Monteiro, Alonzo Kelly, Michel Devy:
  Editorial: Special issue on Alternative Sensing Techniques for Robot Perception. 1-2
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  Graham M. Brooker, David Johnson, James Patrick Underwood, Javier Martinez, Lu Xuan:
  Using the Polarization of Millimeter-wave Radar as a Navigation Aid. 3-19
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  Annalisa Milella, Giulio Reina, James Patrick Underwood:
  A Self-learning Framework for Statistical Ground Classification using Radar and Monocular Vision. 20-41
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  Angel Santamaria-Navarro, Ernesto Homar Teniente Avilés, Marti Morta, Juan Andrade-Cetto:
  Terrain Classification in Complex Three-dimensional Outdoor Environments. 42-60
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  Kaipeng Sun, Robin Heß, Zhihao Xu, Klaus Schilling:
  Real-time Robust Six Degrees of Freedom Object Pose Estimation with a Time-of-flight Camera and a Color Camera. 61-84
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  Adam Jacobson, Zetao Chen, Michael Milford:
  Autonomous Multisensor Calibration and Closed-loop Fusion for SLAM. 85-122
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  Natàlia Hurtós, David Ribas, Xavier Cufí, Yvan R. Petillot, Joaquim Salvi:
  Fourier-based Registration for Robust Forward-looking Sonar Mosaicing in Low-visibility Underwater Environments. 123-151
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  Claire D'Este, Brett Seton, John McCulloch, Daniel V. Smith, Chris Sharman:
  Avoiding Marine Vehicles with Passive Acoustics. 152-166
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  Achint Aggarwal, Peter Kampmann, Johannes Lemburg, Frank Kirchner:
  Haptic Object Recognition in Underwater and Deep-sea Environments. 167-185

Volume 32, Number 2, March 2015

Special issue on DARPA Grand Challenge (DRC)

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  Karl Iagnemma, Jim Overholt:
  Introduction. 187-188
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  Robin R. Murphy:
  Meta-analysis of Autonomy at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. 189-191
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  Matthew Johnson, Brandon Shrewsbury, Sylvain Bertrand, Tingfan Wu, Daniel Duran, Marshall Floyd, Peter Abeles, Douglas Stephen, Nathan Mertins, Alex Lesman, John Carff, William Rifenburgh, Pushyami Kaveti, Wessel Straatman, Jesper Smith, Maarten Griffioen, Brooke Layton, Tomas de Boer, Twan Koolen, Peter D. Neuhaus, Jerry E. Pratt:
  Team IHMC's Lessons Learned from the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. 192-208
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  Anthony Stentz, Herman Herman, Alonzo Kelly, Eric Meyhofer, G. Clark Haynes, David Stager, Brian Zajac, J. Andrew Bagnell, Jordan Brindza, Christopher M. Dellin, Michael David George, Jose Gonzalez-Mora, Sean Hyde, Morgan Jones, Michel Laverne, Maxim Likhachev, Levi Lister, Matthew Powers, Oscar E. Ramos, Justin Ray, David Rice, Justin Scheifflee, Raumi Sidki, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Kyle Strabala, Jean-Philippe Tardif, Jean-Sebastien Valois, Michael Vande Weghe, Michael Wagner, Carl Wellington:
  CHIMP, the CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform. 209-228
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  Maurice F. Fallon, Scott Kuindersma, Sisir Karumanchi, Matthew E. Antone, Toby Schneider, Hongkai Dai, Claudia Pérez-D'Arpino, Robin Deits, Matt DiCicco, Dehann Fourie, Twan Koolen, Pat Marion, Michael Posa, Andres Valenzuela, Kuan-Ting Yu, Julie A. Shah, Karl Iagnemma, Russ Tedrake, Seth J. Teller:
  An Architecture for Online Affordance-based Perception and Whole-body Planning. 229-254
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  Paul Hebert, Max Bajracharya, Jeremy Ma, Nicolas Hudson, Alper Aydemir, Jason I. Reid, Charles Bergh, James Borders, Matthew A. Frost, Michael Hagman, John Leichty, Paul Backes, Brett Kennedy, Paul Karplus, Brian W. Satzinger, Katie Byl, Krishna Shankar, Joel W. Burdick:
  Mobile Manipulation and Mobility as Manipulation - Design and Algorithms of RoboSimian. 255-274
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  Mathew DeDonato, Velin D. Dimitrov, Ruixiang Du, Ryan Giovacchini, Kevin Knoedler, Xianchao Long, Felipe Polido, Michael A. Gennert, Taskin Padir, Siyuan Feng, Hirotaka Moriguchi, Eric C. Whitman, X. Xinjilefu, Christopher G. Atkeson:
  Human-in-the-loop Control of a Humanoid Robot for Disaster Response: A Report from the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. 275-292
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  Siyuan Feng, Eric C. Whitman, X. Xinjilefu, Christopher G. Atkeson:
  Optimization-based Full Body Control for the DARPA Robotics Challenge. 293-312

Volume 32, Number 3, May 2015

Special issue on DARPA Grand Challenge (DRC)
Introduction

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  Karl Iagnemma, Jim Overholt:
  Introduction. 313-314

Regular Articles

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  Seung-Joon Yi, Stephen G. McGill, Larry Vadakedathu, Qin He, Inyong Ha, Jeakweon Han, Hyunjong Song, Michael Rouleau, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Dennis W. Hong, Mark Yim, Daniel D. Lee:
  Team THOR's Entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials 2013. 315-335
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  Matt Zucker, Sungmoon Joo, Michael X. Grey, Christopher Rasmussen, Eric Huang, Michael Stilman, Aaron F. Bobick:
  A General-purpose System for Teleoperation of the DRC-HUBO Humanoid Robot. 336-351

Systems Articles

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  Stefan Kohlbrecher, Alberto Romay, Alexander Stumpf, Anant Gupta, Oskar von Stryk, Felipe Bacim, Doug A. Bowman, Alex K. Goins, Ravi Balasubramanian, David C. Conner:
  Human-robot Teaming for Rescue Missions: Team ViGIR's Approach to the 2013 DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. 352-377

Regular Articles

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  Nicholas Paine, Joshua S. Mehling, James Holley, Nicolaus A. Radford, Gwendolyn Johnson, Chien-Liang Fok, Luis Sentis:
  Actuator Control for the NASA-JSC Valkyrie Humanoid Robot: A Decoupled Dynamics Approach for Torque Control of Series Elastic Robots. 378-396

Systems Articles

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  Nicolaus A. Radford, Philip Strawser, Kimberly A. Hambuchen, Joshua S. Mehling, William K. Verdeyen, A. Stuart Donnan, James Holley, Jairo Sanchez, Vienny Nguyen, Lyndon B. Bridgwater, Reginald Berka, Robert O. Ambrose, Mason Myles Markee, N. J. Fraser-Chanpong, Christopher McQuin, John D. Yamokoski, Stephen Hart, Raymond Guo, Adam Parsons, Brian Wightman, Paul Dinh, Barrett Ames, Charles Blakely, Courtney Edmondson, Brett Sommers, Rochelle Rea, Chad Tobler, Heather Bibby, Brice Howard, Lei Niu, Andrew Lee, Michael Conover, Lily Truong, Ryan Reed, David Chesney, Robert Platt Jr., Gwendolyn Johnson, Chien-Liang Fok, Nicholas Paine, Luis Sentis, Eric A. Cousineau, Ryan W. Sinnet, Jordan Lack, Matthew J. Powell, Benjamin Morris, Aaron D. Ames, Jide Akinyode:
  Valkyrie: NASA's First Bipedal Humanoid Robot. 397-419

Regular Articles

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  Holly A. Yanco, Adam Norton, Willard Ober, David Shane, Anna Skinner, Jack Maxwell Vice:
  Analysis of Human-robot Interaction at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. 420-444

Volume 32, Number 4, June 2015

Ground Robots Operating in Dynamic, Unstructured and Large-Scale Outdoor Environments
Regular Articles

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  Vladimir Kubelka, Lorenz Oswald, François Pomerleau, Francis Colas, Tomás Svoboda, Michal Reinstein:
  Robust Data Fusion of Multimodal Sensory Information for Mobile Robots. 447-473
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  Maxime Meilland, Andrew I. Comport, Patrick Rives:
  Dense Omnidirectional RGB-D Mapping of Large-scale Outdoor Environments for Real-time Localization and Autonomous Navigation. 474-503
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  Marek Ososinski, Frédéric Labrosse:
  Automatic Driving on Ill-defined Roads: An Adaptive, Shape-constrained, Color-based Method. 504-533
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  Philipp Krüsi, Bastian Bücheler, François Pomerleau, Ulrich Schwesinger, Roland Siegwart, Paul Timothy Furgale:
  Lighting-invariant Adaptive Route Following Using Iterative Closest Point Matching. 534-564
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  Rainer Kümmerle, Michael Ruhnke, Bastian Steder, Cyrill Stachniss, Wolfram Burgard:
  Autonomous Robot Navigation in Highly Populated Pedestrian Zones. 565-589
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  Matthew R. Walter, Matthew E. Antone, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich, Andrew Correa, Randall Davis, Luke Fletcher, Emilio Frazzoli, Yuli Friedman, James R. Glass, Jonathan P. How, Jeong hwan Jeon, Sertac Karaman, Brandon Luders, Nicholas Roy, Stefanie Tellex, Seth J. Teller:
  A Situationally Aware Voice-commandable Robotic Forklift Working Alongside People in Unstructured Outdoor Environments. 590-628

Volume 32, Number 5, August 2015

Calibration for Field Robotics
Editorial

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  Paul Timothy Furgale, Cédric Pradalier, Timothy D. Barfoot:
  Editorial: Special Issue on Calibration for Field Robotics. 629-631

Regular Articles

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  M. Jordan Stanway, James C. Kinsey:
  Rotation Identification in Geometric Algebra: Theory and Application to the Navigation of Underwater Robots in the Field. 632-654
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  Giancarlo Troni, Louis L. Whitcomb:
  Advances in In Situ Alignment Calibration of Doppler and High/Low-end Attitude Sensors for Underwater Vehicle Navigation: Theory and Experimental Evaluation. 655-674
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  Zachary Taylor, Juan I. Nieto, David Johnson:
  Multi-Modal Sensor Calibration Using a Gradient Orientation Measure. 675-695
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  Gaurav Pandey, James R. McBride, Silvio Savarese, Ryan M. Eustice:
  Automatic Extrinsic Calibration of Vision and Lidar by Maximizing Mutual Information. 696-722
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  Hatem Alismail, Brett Browning:
  Automatic Calibration of Spinning Actuated Lidar Internal Parameters. 723-747
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  Tyson Govan Phillips, Matthew E. Green, P. Ross McAree:
  An Adaptive Structure Filter for Sensor Registration from Unstructured Terrain. 748-774
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  Lionel Heng, Paul Timothy Furgale, Marc Pollefeys:
  Leveraging Image-based Localization for Infrastructure-based Calibration of a Multi-camera Rig. 775-802
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  Jacek Zienkiewicz, Andrew J. Davison:
  Extrinsics Autocalibration for Dense Planar Visual Odometry. 803-825

Volume 32, Number 6, September 2015

Regular Articles

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  Liang Ding, Zongquan Deng, Haibo Gao, Jianguo Tao, Karl D. Iagnemma, Guangjun Liu:
  Interaction Mechanics Model for Rigid Driving Wheels of Planetary Rovers Moving on Sandy Terrain with Consideration of Multiple Physical Effects. 827-859
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  Liam Pedersen, Trey Smith, Susan Y. Lee, Nathalie Cabrol:
  Planetary LakeLander - A Robotic Sentinel to Monitor Remote Lakes. 860-879
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  Genya Ishigami, Karl Iagnemma, Jim Overholt, Gregory R. Hudas:
  Design, Development, and Mobility Evaluation of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot for Rough Terrain. 880-896
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  Brent E. Tweddle, Alvar Saenz-Otero, John J. Leonard, David W. Miller:
  Factor Graph Modeling of Rigid-body Dynamics for Localization, Mapping, and Parameter Estimation of a Spinning Object in Space. 897-933

Volume 32, Number 7, October 2015

Regular Articles

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  Brian Claus, Ralf Bachmayer:
  Terrain-aided Navigation for an Underwater Glider. 935-951
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  Enric Galceran, Ricard Campos, Narcís Palomeras, David Ribas, Marc Carreras, Pere Ridao:
  Coverage Path Planning with Real-time Replanning and Surface Reconstruction for Inspection of Three-dimensional Underwater Structures using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. 952-983
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  Ping Li, Matthew A. Garratt, Andrew J. Lambert:
  Monocular Snapshot-based Sensing and Control of Hover, Takeoff, and Landing for a Low-cost Quadrotor. 984-1003
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  Young-Woo Seo, Myung Hwangbo:
  A Computer Vision System for Lateral Localization. 1004-1014
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  András L. Majdik, Damiano Verda, Yves Albers-Schoenberg, Davide Scaramuzza:
  Air-ground Matching: Appearance-based GPS-denied Urban Localization of Micro Aerial Vehicles. 1015-1039

Volume 32, Number 8, December 2015

Field and Service Robotics
Editorial

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  Luis Mejías Alvarez, Jonathan M. Roberts, Peter Corke:
  Editorial: Special Issue on Field and Service Robotics. 1041-1042

Regular Articles

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  Ji Zhang, Sanjiv Singh:
  Visual-Inertial Combined Odometry System for Aerial Vehicles. 1043-1055
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  James Patrick Underwood, Gustav Jagbrant, Juan I. Nieto, Salah Sukkarieh:
  Lidar-Based Tree Recognition and Platform Localization in Orchards. 1056-1074
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  Suchet Bargoti, James Patrick Underwood, Juan I. Nieto, Salah Sukkarieh:
  A Pipeline for Trunk Detection in Trellis Structured Apple Orchards. 1075-1094
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  John-Paul Ore, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Amy Burgin, Carrick Detweiler:
  Autonomous Aerial Water Sampling. 1095-1113
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  Michael Warren, Luis Mejías Alvarez, Jonathan Kok, Xilin Yang, Luis Felipe Gonzalez, Ben Upcroft:
  An Automated Emergency Landing System for Fixed-Wing Aircraft: Planning and Control. 1114-1140
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  Stephen Nuske, Sanjiban Choudhury, Sezal Jain, Andrew Chambers, Luke Yoder, Sebastian A. Scherer, Lyle Chamberlain, Hugh Cover, Sanjiv Singh:
  Autonomous Exploration and Motion Planning for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Navigating Rivers. 1141-1162