Benjamin Kuipers

Jonathan Mugan, Benjamin Kuipers: Autonomous Learning of High-Level States and Actions in Continuous Environments. IEEE T. Autonomous Mental Development 4(1): 70-86 (2012)

Changhai Xu, Jingen Liu, Benjamin Kuipers: Moving Object Segmentation Using Motor Signals. ECCV (5) 2012: 676-689

Grace Tsai, Benjamin Kuipers: Dynamic visual understanding of the local environment for an indoor navigating robot. IROS 2012: 4695-4701

Jong Jin Park, Collin Johnson, Benjamin Kuipers: Robot navigation with model predictive equilibrium point control. IROS 2012: 4945-4952

Collin Johnson, Benjamin Kuipers: Efficient search for correct and useful topological maps. IROS 2012: 5277-5282

Benjamin Kuipers: An existing, ecologically-successful genus of collectively intelligent artificial creatures. CoRR abs/1204.4116 (2012)

R. Shultz, Benjamin Kuipers: Understanding Psychological Development in Biological and Artificial Agents: Report on the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2010). IEEE T. Autonomous Mental Development 3(1): 4-5 (2011)

Changhai Xu, Jingen Liu, Benjamin Kuipers: Motion Segmentation by Learning Homography Matrices from Motor Signals. CRV 2011: 316-323

Changhai Xu, Benjamin Kuipers: Object Detection Using Principal Contour Fragments. CRV 2011: 363-370

Jingen Liu, Mubarak Shah, Benjamin Kuipers, Silvio Savarese: Cross-view action recognition via view knowledge transfer. CVPR 2011: 3209-3216

Jingen Liu, Benjamin Kuipers, Silvio Savarese: Recognizing human actions by attributes. CVPR 2011: 3337-3344

Grace Tsai, Changhai Xu, Jingen Liu, Benjamin Kuipers: Real-time indoor scene understanding using Bayesian filtering with motion cues. ICCV 2011: 121-128

Jong Jin Park, Benjamin Kuipers: A smooth control law for graceful motion of differential wheeled mobile robots in 2D environment. ICRA 2011: 4896-4902

Patrick Beeson, Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers: Factoring the Mapping Problem: Mobile Robot Map-building in the Hybrid Spatial Semantic Hierarchy. I. J. Robotic Res. 29(4): 428-459 (2010)

Benjamin Kuipers: Multiple ontologies for spatial exploration and mapping. ISA 2010: 24

Jonathan Mugan, Benjamin Kuipers: Autonomously Learning an Action Hierarchy Using a Learned Qualitative State Representation. IJCAI 2009: 1175-1180

Aniket Murarka, Benjamin Kuipers: A stereo vision based mapping algorithm for detecting inclines, drop-offs, and obstacles for safe local navigation. IROS 2009: 1646-1653

Shilpa Gulati, Chetan Jhurani, Benjamin Kuipers, Raul G. Longoria: A framework for planning comfortable and customizable motion of an assistive mobile robot. IROS 2009: 4253-4260

Benjamin Kuipers: Drinking from the firehose of experience. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 44(2): 155-170 (2008)

Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers: The initial development of object knowledge by a learning robot. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 56(11): 879-890 (2008)

Changhai Xu, Yong Jae Lee, Benjamin Kuipers: Ray-based Color Image Segmentation. CRV 2008: 79-86

Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Benjamin Kuipers: Trajectory generation for dynamic bipedal walking through qualitative model based manifold learning. ICRA 2008: 359-366

Shilpa Gulati, Benjamin Kuipers: High performance control for graceful motion of an intelligent wheelchair. ICRA 2008: 3932-3938

Aniket Murarka, Mohan Sridharan, Benjamin Kuipers: Detecting obstacles and drop-offs using stereo and motion cues for safe local motion. IROS 2008: 702-708

Benjamin Kuipers: Cognitive Robot Mapping: An Introduction. Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping 2008: 239-242

Benjamin Kuipers: An Intellectual History of the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy. Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping 2008: 243-264

Thomas Barkowsky, Peter Bruza, Zachary Dodds, Oren Etzioni, George Ferguson, Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Bernhard Hommel, Benjamin Kuipers, Rob Miller, Leora Morgenstern, Simon Parsons, Holger Schultheis, Adriana Tapus, Neil Yorke-Smith: AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium Series Reports. AI Magazine 28(3): 94-101 (2007)

Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers: Autonomous Development of a Grounded Object Ontology by a Learning Robot. AAAI 2007: 1095-1101

Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Joseph Modayil, Aniket Murarka, Benjamin Kuipers, Brian Stankiewicz: Integrating Multiple Representations of Spatial Knowledge for Mapping, Navigation, and Communication. AAAI Spring Symposium: Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants 2007: 1-9

Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers: Where Do Actions Come From? Autonomous Robot Learning of Objects and Actions. AAAI Spring Symposium: Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems 2007: 41-46

Holger Schultheis, Thomas Barkowsky, Benjamin Kuipers, Bernhard Hommel: Preface: Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems. AAAI Spring Symposium: Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems 2007

Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Joseph Modayil, Aniket Murarka, Benjamin Kuipers, Brian Stankiewicz: Integrating Multiple Representations of Spatial Knowledge for Mapping, Navigation, and Communication. Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants 2007: 1-9

Stephan Winter, Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik, Benjamin Kuipers (Eds.): Spatial Information Theory, 8th International Conference, COSIT 2007, Melbourne, Australia, September 19-23, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4736, Springer 2007, isbn 978-3-540-74786-4

Benjamin Kuipers, Patrick Beeson, Joseph Modayil, Jefferson Provost: Bootstrap learning of foundational representations. Connect. Sci. 18(2): 145-158 (2006)

Jefferson Provost, Benjamin Kuipers, Risto Miikkulainen: Developing navigation behavior through self-organizing distinctive-state abstraction. Connect. Sci. 18(2): 159-172 (2006)

Matt MacMahon, Brian Stankiewicz, Benjamin Kuipers: Walk the Talk: Connecting Language, Knowledge, and Action in Route Instructions. AAAI 2006: 1475-1482

Aniket Murarka, Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers: Building Local Safety Maps for a Wheelchair Robot using Vision and Lasers. CRV 2006: 25

Harish Subramanian, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Peter Stone, Benjamin Kuipers: Designing safe, profitable automated stock trading agents using evolutionary algorithms. GECCO 2006: 1777-1784

Patrick Beeson, Aniket Murarka, Benjamin Kuipers: Adapting Proposal Distributions for Accurate, Efficient Mobile Robot Localization. ICRA 2006: 49-55

Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers: Autonomous Shape Model Learning for Object Localization and Recognition. ICRA 2006: 2991-2996

Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Benjamin Kuipers: Qualitative Hybrid Control of Dynamic Bipedal Walking. Robotics: Science and Systems 2006

Benjamin Kuipers: Consciousness: Drinking from the Firehose of Experience. AAAI 2005: 1298-1305

Benjamin Kuipers: 05491 Report of the Session: The Role of Spatial Cognition for Robotics. Spatial Cognition: Specialization and Integration 2005

Benjamin Kuipers, Alex X. Liu, Aashin Gautam, Mohamed G. Gouda: Zmail: Zero-Sum Free Market Control of Spam. ICDCS Workshops 2005: 20-26

Patrick Beeson, Nicholas K. Jong, Benjamin Kuipers: Towards Autonomous Topological Place Detection Using the Extended Voronoi Graph. ICRA 2005: 4373-4379

Emilio Remolina, Benjamin Kuipers: Towards a general theory of topological maps. Artif. Intell. 152(1): 47-104 (2004)

Benjamin Kuipers, Joseph Modayil, Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Francesco Savelli: Local Metrical and Global Topological Maps in the Hybrid Spatial Semantic Hierarchy. ICRA 2004: 4845-4851

Joseph Modayil, Benjamin Kuipers: Bootstrap learning for object discovery. IROS 2004: 742-747

Francesco Savelli, Benjamin Kuipers: Loop-closing and planarity in topological map-building. IROS 2004: 1511-1517

Joseph Modayil, Patrick Beeson, Benjamin Kuipers: Using the topological skeleton for scalable global metrical map-building. IROS 2004: 1530-1536

Benjamin Kuipers, Ashley W. Stroupe: The AAAI-2002 Robot Challenge. AI Magazine 24(1): 65-71 (2003)

B. John Oommen, Govindachari Raghunath, Benjamin Kuipers: On How to Learn from a Stochastic Teacher or a Stochastic Compulsive Liar of Unknown Identity. Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2003: 24-40

Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Benjamin Kuipers: Qualitative Heterogeneous Control of Higher Order Systems. HSCC 2003: 417-434

Benjamin Kuipers, Patrick Beeson: Bootstrap Learning for Place Recognition. AAAI/IAAI 2002: 174-180

Benjamin Kuipers, Subramanian Ramamoorthy: Qualitative Modeling and Heterogeneous Control of Global System Behavior. HSCC 2002: 294-307

Benjamin Kuipers: Cognitive Maps for Planetary Rovers. Auton. Robots 11(3): 325-331 (2001)

Emilio Remolina, Benjamin Kuipers: A Logical Account of Causal and Topological Maps. IJCAI 2001: 5-11

Herbert Kay, Bernhard Rinner, Benjamin Kuipers: Semi-quantitative system identification. Artif. Intell. 119(1-2): 103-140 (2000)

Benjamin Kuipers: The Spatial Semantic Hierarchy. Artif. Intell. 119(1-2): 191-233 (2000)

Emilio Remolina, Juan A. Fernandez, Benjamin Kuipers, Javier Gonzalez: Formalizing Regions in the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy: An AH-Graphs Implementation Approach. COSIT 1999: 109-124

Bernhard Rinner, Benjamin Kuipers: Monitoring Piecewise Continuous Behaviors by Refining Semi-Quantative Trackers. IJCAI 1999: 1080-1086

Daniel J. Clancy, Benjamin Kuipers: Qualitative Simulation as a Temporally-extended Constraint Satisfaction Problem. AAAI/IAAI 1998: 240-247

Sebastian Thrun, Jens-Steffen Gutmann, Dieter Fox, Wolfram Burgard, Benjamin Kuipers: Integrating Topological and Metric Maps for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Statistical Approach. AAAI/IAAI 1998: 989-995

William S. Gribble, Robert L. Browning, Micheal Hewett, Emilio Remolina, Benjamin Kuipers: Integrating Vision and Spatial Reasoning for Assistive Navigation. Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence 1998: 179-193

Benjamin Kuipers: A Hierarchy of Qualitative Representations for Space. Spatial Cognition 1998: 337-350

Benjamin Shults, Benjamin Kuipers: Proving Properties of Continuous Systems: Qualitative Simulation and Temporal Logic. Artif. Intell. 92(1-2): 91-129 (1997)

David Pierce, Benjamin Kuipers: Map Learning with Uninterpreted Sensors and Effectors. Artif. Intell. 92(1-2): 169-227 (1997)

Daniel Berleant, Benjamin Kuipers: Qualitative and Quantitative Simulation: Bridging the Gap. Artif. Intell. 95(2): 215-255 (1997)

Daniel J. Clancy, Benjamin Kuipers: Model Decomposition and Simulation: A Component Based Qualitative Simulation Algorithm. AAAI/IAAI 1997: 118-124

Daniel J. Clancy, Benjamin Kuipers: Static and Dynamic Abstraction Solves the Problem of Chatter in Qualitative Simulation. AAAI/IAAI 1997: 125-131

Benjamin Kuipers, Bonnie L. Webber (Eds.): Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Ninth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI 97, IAAI 97, July 27-31, 1997, Providence, Rhode Island. AAAI Press / The MIT Press 1997, isbn 0-262-51095-2

Benjamin Kuipers: Qualitative reasoning - modeling and simulation with incomplete knowledge. MIT Press 1994, isbn 978-0-262-11190-4, pp. I-XXIX, 1-418

Benjamin Kuipers, Karl Åström: The composition and validation of heterogeneous control laws. Automatica 30(2): 233-249 (1994)

David Pierce, Benjamin Kuipers: Learning to Explore and Build Maps. AAAI 1994: 1264-1271

Raman Rajagopalan, Benjamin Kuipers: The Figure Understander: A System for Integrating Text and Diagram Input to a Knowledge Base. IEA/AIE 1994: 211-220

Benjamin Kuipers, Benjamin Shults: Reasoning in Logic about Continuous Systems. KR 1994: 391-402

Benjamin Kuipers: Reasoning with Qualitative Models. Artif. Intell. 59(1-2): 125-132 (1993)

Benjamin Kuipers: Qualitative Simulation: Then and Now. Artif. Intell. 59(1-2): 133-140 (1993)

Herbert Kay, Benjamin Kuipers: Numerical Behavior Envelopes for Qualitative Models. AAAI 1993: 606-613

Wood W. Lee, Benjamin Kuipers: A Qualitative Method to Construct Phase Portraits. AAAI 1993: 614-619

Benjamin Kuipers, James M. Crawford: Guaranteed Coverage Versus Intelligent Sampling: A Reply to Sacks and Doyle. Computational Intelligence 8: 289-294 (1992)

Pierre Fouché, Benjamin Kuipers: Reasoning about energy in qualitative simulation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 22(1): 47-63 (1992)

Bradley L. Richards, Ina Kraan, Benjamin Kuipers: Automatic Abduction of Qualitative Models. AAAI 1992: 723-728

Benjamin Kuipers, Charles Chiu, David T. Dalle Molle, D. R. Throop: Higher Order Derivative Constraints in Qualitative Simulation. Artif. Intell. 51(1-3): 343-379 (1991)

Daniel Dvorak, Benjamin Kuipers: Process Monitoring and Diagnosis: A Model-Based Approach. IEEE Expert 6(3): 67-74 (1991)

Benjamin Kuipers, Yung-Tai Byun: A robot exploration and mapping strategy based on a semantic hierarchy of spatial representations. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 8(1-2): 47-63 (1991)

James M. Crawford, Benjamin Kuipers: Algernon - A Tractable System for Knowledge-Representation. SIGART Bulletin 2(3): 35-44 (1991)

Akira Hayashi, Benjamin Kuipers: Path Planning for Highly Redundant Manipulators Using a Continuous Model. AAAI 1991: 666-672

James M. Crawford, Benjamin Kuipers: Negation and Proof by Contradiction in Access-Limited Logic. AAAI 1991: 897-903

James M. Crawford, Adam Farquhar, Benjamin Kuipers: QPC: A Compiler from Physical Models into Qualitative Differential Equations. AAAI 1990: 365-372

Benjamin Kuipers: Qualitative reasoning: Modeling and simulation with incomplete knowledge. Automatica 25(4): 571-585 (1989)

Daniel Dvorak, Benjamin Kuipers: Model-Based Monitoring of Dynamic Systems. IJCAI 1989: 1238-1243

James M. Crawford, Benjamin Kuipers: Towards a Theory of Access-Limited Logic for Knowledge Representation. KR 1989: 67-78

Benjamin Kuipers: The qualitative calculus is sound but incomplete: A reply to Peter Struss. AI in Engineering 3(3): 170-173 (1988)

Benjamin Kuipers: Qualitative simulation using time-scale abstraction. AI in Engineering 3(4): 185-191 (1988)

Tod S. Levitt, Benjamin Kuipers: Navigation and Mapping in Large Scale Space. AI Magazine 9(2): 25-43 (1988)

Benjamin Kuipers, Alan J. Moskowitz, Jerome P. Kassirer: Critical Decisions under Uncertainty: Representation and Structure. Cognitive Science 12(2): 177-210 (1988)

Wood W. Lee, Benjamin Kuipers: Non-Intersection of Trajectories in Qualitative Phase Space: A Global Constraint for Qualitative Simulation. AAAI 1988: 286-290

Benjamin Kuipers, Daniel Berleant: Using Incomplete Quantitative Knowledge In Qualitative Reasoning. AAAI 1988: 324-329

Benjamin Kuipers, Yung-Tai Byun: A Robust, Qualitative Method for Robot Spatial Learning. AAAI 1988: 774-779

Benjamin Kuipers: New Reasoning Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 26(6): 707-718 (1987)

Benjamin Kuipers: Abstraction by Time-Scale in Qualitative Simulation. AAAI 1987: 621-625

Benjamin Kuipers, Charles Chiu: Taming Intractible Branching in Qualitative Simulation. IJCAI 1987: 1079-1085

Benjamin Kuipers: Qualitative Simulation. Artif. Intell. 29(3): 289-338 (1986)

Benjamin Kuipers: The Limits of Qualitative Simulation. IJCAI 1985: 128-136

Benjamin Kuipers: Commonsense Reasoning about Causality: Deriving Behavior from Structure. Artif. Intell. 24(1-3): 169-203 (1984)

Benjamin Kuipers, Jerome P. Kassirer: Causal Reasoning in Medicine: Analysis of a Protocol. Cognitive Science 8(4): 363-385 (1984)

Benjamin Kuipers: Modeling Human Knowledge of Routes: Partial Knowledge and Individual Variation. AAAI 1983: 216-219

Benjamin Kuipers, Jerome P. Kassirer: How to Discover a Knowledge Representation for Causal Reasoning by Studying an Expert Physician. IJCAI 1983: 49-56

Benjamin Kuipers: Getting the Envisionment Right. AAAI 1982: 209-212

Benjamin Kuipers: Common-Sense Knowledge of Space: Learning from Experience. IJCAI 1979: 499-501

Benjamin Kuipers: Modeling Spatial Knowledge. Cognitive Science 2(2): 129-153 (1978)

Benjamin Kuipers: Modeling Spatial Knowledge. IJCAI 1977: 292-298