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Publications

  • 2013:
    • Interactive Segmentation, Tracking, and Kinematic Modeling of
      Unknown 3D Articulated Objects
      Dov Katz,
      Moslem Kazemi, Oliver Brock, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
      (International Journal of Robotics Research, in preparation)
    • Learning to Manipulate Planar Articulated Objects
      Dov Katz
      and Oliver Brock
      (Transactions on Robotics, under review)
    • (under double-blind review)
      Dov Katz,
      Arun Venkatraman, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
      In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Berlin, Germany, June 2013
    • Autonomous Pile Clearing using Interactive Perception
      Dov Katz,
      Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
      Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
      Automation 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013
    • Interactive Segmentation, Tracking, and Kinematic Modeling
      of Unknown 3D Articulated Objects
      Dov Katz,
      Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
      Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
      Automation 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013
  • 2012:
    • Interactive Segmentation, Tracking, and Kinematic Modeling of Unknown Articulated Objects
      Dov Katz,
      Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
      Technical Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2012 (PDF, BibTex)
    • Semi-Autonomous Manipulation of Natural Objects
      Dov Katz,
      Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
      Technical Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2012 (PDF, BibTex)
    • Clearing a Pile of Unknown Objects using Interactive Perception
      Dov Katz,
      Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
      Technical Report, CMU-RI-TR-12-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November, 2012 (PDF, BibTex)
    • Mobile Manipulation (From the Guest Editors)
      Oliver Brock, Dov Katz,
      and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
      IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Volume 19:2, Pages: 18-19, June, 2012
  • 2011:
    • Intelligent Object Exploration
      Robert Gaschler,
      Dov Katz, Martin Grund, Peter A. Frensch and Oliver Brock
      Human Machine Interaction - Getting Closer
      ISBN: 978-953-307-890-8 (PDF, BibTex)
    • Interactive Perception of Articulated Objects for Autonomous Manipulation
      Dov Katz
      PhD Thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, July 2011 (PDF)
    • Interactive Segmentation of Articulated Objects in 3D
      Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
      Workshop on Mobile Manipulation: Integrating Perception and Manipulation at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2011 (PDF, BibTeX) 
  • 2010:
    • Interactive Perception of Articulated Objects
      Dov Katz, Andreas Orthey and Oliver Brock
      12th International Symposium of Experimental Robotics, 2010. (PDF, BibTeX) 
  • 2009:
    • A Factorization Approach to Manipulation in Unstructured Environments
      Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
      14th International Symposium of Robotics Research.
      Springer Verlag 2009 (PDF, BibTeX)
  • 2008:
    • Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception
      Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
      In Unifying Perspectives In Computational and Robot Vision.
      Springer Verlag 2008 (BibTeX)
    • Manipulating Articulated Objects with Interactive Perception
      Dov Katz
      and Oliver Brock
      Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
      Automation 2008 (PDF, BibTeX)
    • Emotional Robotics: Tug of War
      David G. Cooper, Dov Katz and Hava T. Siegelmann
      In the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium on Emotion, Personality, and
      Social Behavior 2008 (PDF, BibTeX)
    • How Can Robots Succeed in Unstructured Environments?
      Dov Katz, Jacqueline Kenney and Oliver Brock
      In Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Intelligence in Human Environments at Robotics: Science and Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2008 (PDF, BibTeX)
    • Learning to Manipulate Articulated Objects in Unstructured Environments Using a Grounded Relational Representation
      Dov Katz,Yuri Pyuro and Oliver Brock
      Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems IV, 254-261. 2008 (PDF, BibTeX)
  • 2007:
    • Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception
      Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
      Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Sensing and Adapting to the Real World at Robotics: Science and Systems 2007 (PDF, BibTeX)
    • Interactive Perception: Closing the Gap Between Action and Perception
      Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
      Workshop: From features to actions - Unifying perspectives in computational and robot vision at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2007 (PDF, BibTeX)
  • 2006:
    • The UMass Mobile Manipulator UMan: An Experimental Platform for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation
      Dov Katz, Emily Horrell, Yuandong Yang, Brendan Burns, Thomas Buckley, Anna Grishkan, Volodymyr Zhylkovskyy, Oliver Brock and Erik Learned-Miller
      Workshop on Manipulation in Human Environments at Robotics: Science
      and Systems 2006 (PDF, BibTeX)