====== Robotics Reading Group ======

===== Organizational details =====
  * When: Every Wednesday, 12:00 - 14:00
  * Where: TAB building (ECO5), 1st floor, room 1.58 (Museum) 

===== Intention =====
The robotics reading group is intended to give us all a chance to keep up-to-date with current interesting publications in the community. You can choose to present an interesting external paper which you always wanted to read or which you think others in the group should also be aware of. Alternatively, you can also use the reading group to present your own paper to practise a talk prior to a conference presentation.

===== Upcoming Schedule =====

^ data ^ presenter ^ topic ^ links ^
| 28/10/15 | Georg | "DeepMPC: Learning Deep Latent Features for Model Predictive Control" | http://www.cs.stanford.edu/people/asaxena/papers/deepmpc_rss2015.pdf |
| 04/11/15 | Mihai | "Using Abstraction for Generalized Planning" | http://rbr.cs.umass.edu/papers/SIZicaps07ws.pdf |
| 02/12/15 | Mihai | ? | ? |
| 09/12/15 | Gaya | "Tell me Dave: context-sensitive grounding of natural language to manipulation instructions" | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/11/12/0278364915602060.full.pdf |
| ?/?/15 | Georg | "Learning grounded finite-state representations from unstructured demonstrations"  | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/34/2/131?etoc |


===== Paper Pool =====

Place for interesting papers which you want to suggest for future presentation:
^ paper ^ link ^
| AfRob: The Affordance Network Ontology for Robots | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=06386232&tag=1 |
| Results of the EU GeRT project (planning manipulation tasks) | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6651555 http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICAPS/ICAPS13/paper/viewFile/6056/6163| 
| Autonomous learning of grounded symbols | http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2540337 http://ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/mlr/marc/publications/13-jetchev-ICRAws.pdf |
| Constraint satisfaction, SAT solver etc? | |
| Acting under Uncertainty: Discrete Bayesian Models for Mobile-Robot Navigation | ftp://128.148.32.111/pub/techreports/96/cs96-17.pdf |
| Automatic Grasp Planning in the Presence of Uncertainty | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/7/1/3.full.pdf |
| Motion planning under uncertainty for robotic tasks with long time horizons | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/30/3/308.full.pdf |
| Task Networks for Controlling Continuous Processes | http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AIPS/1994/AIPS94-009.pdf |
| Operational Space Control: A Theoretical and Empirical Comparison | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/27/6/737.full.pdf |
| Reinforcement learning in robotics: A survey | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/32/11/1238 |
| (PO)MDP algorithms | Starting point: http://www.tokic.com/www/tokicm/publikationen/papers/KI2011.pdf |
| Distributed assembly with online workload balancing and visual error detection and correction | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/33/4/534?etoc |


===== Past Presentations =====

^ data ^ presenter ^ topic ^ links ^
| 21/10/15 | Gheorghe | The Automation of Science | [[http://openwetware.org/images/0/0b/The_Automation_of_Science.pdf|link]] |
| 15/07/15 | Sebastian | Automatic knowledge extraction from documents | [[http://brenocon.com/watson_special_issue/05%20automatic%20knowledge%20extration.pdf|link]] |
| 24/06/15 | Fereshta | Architectural Mechanisms for Handling Human Instructions for Open-World Mixed-Initiative Team Tasks and Goals | not published yet |
| 10/06/15 | Feroz | Introductory talk of our colleague: His previous work  |  |
| 13/05/15 | Mihai | Why the Data Train Needs Semantic Rails | http://geog.ucsb.edu/~jano/s4bd_intro_article.pdf |
| 06/05/15 | RoboHow | review | |
| 22/04/15 | Benjamin | Prospection in Cognition: The Case for Joint Episodic-Procedural Memory | to be published |
| 08/04/15 | Mihai | "Autonomous Transport Vehicles: Where We Are and What Is Missing"  | ?? |
| 01/04/15 | Fereshta | "A Logical Programming Infrastructure for the Semantic Web"  | http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/content/cliopatria-logical-programming-infrastructure-semantic-web |
| 25/03/15 | Gaya | Simulation as an engine of physical scene understanding | http://www.pnas.org/content/110/45/18327 |
| 18/03/15 | Georg | Paper review: A case study | no link |
| 18/02/15 | Mihai | Autonomous learning of high-level states and actions in continuous environments | http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1739&context=isr |
| 11/02/15 | Thiemo | "Robot Learning Manipulation Action Plans by “Watching” Unconstrained Videos from the World Wide Web" | http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~yzyang/paper/YouCookMani_CameraReady.pdf |
| 05/02/15 | Jan-Hendrik | Experiences and results from exchange to FORTH | ? |
| 28/01/15 | Daniel Beßler | KnowRob: A knowledge processing infrastructure for cognition-enabled robots | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/32/5/566.full.pdf |
| 14/01/15 | Alexis | Grasp Planning for Constricted Parts of Objects Approximated with Quadric Surfaces | http://robotics.ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~kurazume/papers/IROS14.pdf |
| 07/01/15 | Georg | dynamic urdf management | https://github.com/code-iai/iai_control_pkgs/tree/master/urdf_management_tutorial |
| 17/12/14 | Gaya | Integrated task and motion planning in belief space | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/12/0278364913484072.full.pdf+html |
| 10/12/14 | Mihai | ? | ? |
| 03/12/14 | Ferenc | Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Descriptions | http://googleresearch.blogspot.de/2014/09/building-deeper-understanding-of-images.html#uds-search-results |
| 19/11/14 | Mihai | Extracting Kinematic Background Knowledge from Interactions Using Task-Sensitive Relational Learning | http://www.robotics.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/fg170/Publikationen_pdf/hoefer_extracting_2014.pdf |
| 12/11/14 | Yuen | Automatic Segmentation and Recognition of Human Activities from Observation based on Semantic Reasoning | http://web.ics.ei.tum.de/~karinne/Pdfs/14_iros_sem-RamirezK.pdf |
| 05/11/14 | Gheorghe | TCA Task Control Architecture | [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~TCA/tca.orig.html | website]]\\ [[http://autsys.aalto.fi/fsr/attach/Material/Prassler_TCA.pdf | presentation ]]\\ [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/TCA/www/ipc/ipc.html | IPC ]]\\ [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tdl| TDL ]]|
| 29/10/14 | Andrei | Background and brain-storming on eye tracking devices | no paper |
| 22/10/14 | Georg | Executing assembly tasks specified by manipulation primitive nets | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1163/156855305323383811 |
| 15/10/14 | Gheorghe | The semantic smart laboratory: a system for supporting the chemical eScientist | http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2004/OB/B410075A |
| 08/10/14 | Georg | Modular state-based behavior control for safe human-robot interaction: A lightweight control architecture for a lightweight robot | http://www.researchgate.net/publication/224252890_Modular_state-based_behavior_control_for_safe_human-robot_interaction_A_lightweight_control_architecture_for_a_lightweight_robot/file/79e4150bcb9f9469ef.pdf |
| 10/09/14 | Gheorghe | Structured Reactive Controllers | http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023/A:1010014712513.pdf |
| 01/09/14 | Moritz | Knowledge-based Instruction of Manipulation Tasks for Industrial Robotics | ask Georg or Moritz for the pdf |
| 30/07/2014 | Georg | Robot Programming by Demonstration with Interactive Action Visualizations | http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss10/p48.html |
| 23/07/14 | Moritz | Tell Me Dave: Context-Sensitive Grounding of Natural Language to Manipulation Instructions | http://tellmedave.cs.cornell.edu |
| 09/07/14 | Stefan | BDDs strike back in IPC 2014 | http://helios.hud.ac.uk/scommv/IPC-14/repository/slides.pdf http://ipc.icaps-conference.org http://icaps12.icaps-conference.org |
| 02/07/14 | Thomas Münder | Four-dimensional guidance and control of movement using time-to-contact: Application to automated docking and landing of unmanned rotorcraft systems | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/12/17/0278364913509496.full.pdf |
| 18/06/14 | Andy Traumüller | Results of the DARPA ARM projects (grasping and tool use) | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6385888 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6225101 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10514-013-9355-y |
| 28/05/14 | Jan | Task Networks for Controlling Continous Processes | http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AIPS/1994/AIPS94-009.pdf |
| 21/05/14 | Gaya | Robot executives \\ (follow up on Hartmut's classical planning: \\ what about reactive planning) | [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1087032&tag=1|Subsumption Architecture]] \\ [[http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1987/AAAI87-036.pdf|Reactive Action Packages (RAP)]] \\ [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=503571|Procedural Reasoning System (PRS)]] \\ [[http://flownet.com/ron/papers/tla.pdf|3T Architecture]] (main overview paper) \\ [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5980058|Smach]] |
| 14/05/14 | Hartmut | Follow up on Georg's Constraint removal:\\ Who Said we Need to Relax All Variables? | [[http://fai.cs.uni-saarland.de/hoffmann/papers/icaps13a.pdf|Who Said we Need to Relax All Variables?]] \\ [[http://fai.cs.uni-saarland.de/hoffmann/papers/ki11.pdf|More basis stuff on constraint removal and planning]] |
| 30/04/14 | Gheorghe | ACT-R | [[http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/about | ACT-R @ CMU]]\\ [[http://www.vernon.eu/euCognition/cognition_briefing_ACT-R.htm | A Cognition Briefing]] \\ [[http://iccm-conference.org/2013-proceedings/papers/0048/paper0048.pdf | Cognitive Architectures on Robots]] |
| 23/04/14 | Georg | Singularity-robust task-priority redundancy resolution for real-time kinematic control of robot manipulators | [[http://personalrobotics.ri.cmu.edu/courses/papers/Chiaverini97-taskpriority.pdf]]|
| 12/03/14 | Yuen | Control strategies in object manipulation tasks | [[http://psyc.queensu.ca/~flanagan/papers/FlaBowJoh_CON_06.pdf]] |
| 05/03/14 | Georg | Rapid application development of constrained-based task modelling and execution using Domain Specific Languages  | [[https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/417427/2/itasc_dsl_iros2013.pdf]]  |
| 26/02/14 | Jan | Extending Cognitive Architecture with Episodic Memory | http://faculty.up.edu/nuxoll/pubs/AAAI2007_NuxollLaird_ver14%28final%29.pdf |
| 19/02/14 | Moritz | robotics assembly applications | [[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jhuckaby/papers/iros2013_planning.pdf|huckaby13planning]], [[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~jhuckaby/papers/icml2013ws_transferlearning.pdf|huckaby13baufix]], [[http://people.csail.mit.edu/rak/www/sites/default/files/pubs/KneEtal13.pdf|knepper13ikeabot]] |
| 18/12/13 | Georg | The minimum constraint removal problem with three robotics applications | http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/33/1/5.full.pdf |
| 03/12/13 | Stefan | PTSP | "Monte Carlo Tree Search with macro-actions and heuristic route planning for the Multiobjective Physical Travelling Salesman Problem" [[http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/cig/cig2013.html#PowleyWC13a]] |
| 27/11/13 | Ferenc | Group Induction | http://cs.stanford.edu/people/teichman/papers/iros2013-group_induction.pdf |
| 20/11/13 | Moritz | The RACE project | [[http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/publikationen/pub-neumann/AAAI-WS-13.pdf]] [[http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/publikationen/pub-hotz/RoboInteraction.pdf]] |
| 13/11/13 | Georg | An integrated system for real-time Model Predictive Control of humanoid robots | http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~todorov/papers/ErezHumanoids13.pdf |