Paul Edmund Rybski

Publications

• P. E. Rybski, J. Stolarz, K. Yoon, M. Veloso, "Using Dialog and Human Observations to Dictate Tasks to a Learning Robot Assistant," in Journal of Intelligent Service Robots (accepted in 2007, to appear in 2008).

• P. E. Rybski, S. Roumeliotis, M. Gini, N. Papanikopoulos, "Appearance-Based Mapping using Minimalistic Sensor Models", in Autonomous Robots (accepted in 2007, to appear in 2008).

• P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, H. Veeraraghavan, M. LaPoint, M. Gini, "Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Robot Search and Retrieval System: Experiences with MinDART," in International Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2005.

• J. L. Pearce, B. Powers, C. Hess, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Using Virtual Pheromones for Dispersing a Team of Multiple Miniature Robots," in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2005.

• B. Browning, J. Searock, P. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Turning Segway RMPs into Soccer Playing Robots," in Industrial Robot, vol. 32(2), pp. 149--156, 2005.

• C. P. McMillen, K. Stubbs, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Resource Scheduling and Load Balancing in Distributed Robotic Control Systems," in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 44(3-4), pp. 251-259, 2003.

• P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Performance of a Distributed Robotic System Using Shared Communications Channels," IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, special issue on Multi-Robot systems, vol. 18(5), pp. 713-727, October, 2002.

• S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, K. Stubbs, C. P. McMillen, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A robot team for surveillance tasks: design and architecture," Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 40/2-3, pp. 173-183, September 2002.

• D. F. Hougen, P. E. Rybski, M. Gini, "Repeatability of Real World Training Experiments: A Case Study," Autonomous Robots Volume 6, Number 3, pp. 281-292, 1999.

• P. E. Rybski, F. Zacharias, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Using Visual Features for Building and Localizing within Topological Maps of Indoor Environments," in Innovations in Machine Intelligence and Robot Perception, S. Patnaik, L. C. Jain, S. G. Tzafestas (eds), Springer-Verlag, pp. 251-271, 2005.

• C. McMillen, P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Levels of Multi-robot Coordination for Dynamic Environments," in Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Volume III, 2005.

• P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Programming and Controlling the Operations of a Team of Miniature Robots," in Alan C. Schultz and Lynne E. Parker (eds.), Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, pp. 65-72, Washington, DC, March, 2002.

• A. Drenner, I. Burt, B. Chapeau, T. Dahlin, B. Kratochvil, C. P. McMillen, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, K. Stubbs, D. Waletzko, K. B. Yesin, "Design of the UMN Multi-Robot System," in Alan C. Schultz and Lynne E. Parker (eds.), Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, pp. 141-148, Washington, DC, March, 2002.

• P. E. Rybski, J. Forbes, D. Burhans, Z. Dodds, P. Oh, M. Scheutz, and B. Avanzato, "The AAAI 2006 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition," in AI Magazine, v28, n2, pp. 101­114, Summer 2007.

• P. E. Rybski, S. Tejada, D. Blank, A. Stroupe, M. Bugajska, and L. Greenwald, "The AAAI 2005 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition, in AI Magazine," v27, n3, pp. 85­102, Fall, 2006.

• M. M. Veloso, P. E. Rybski, S. Lenser, S. Chernova, D. Vail, "CMRoboBits: Creating an Intelligent AIBO Robot," in AI Magazine, v27, n1, pp. 67­82, Spring, 2006.

• C. Dos Santos, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Panoramic Imaging for Miniature Robots," in Robotics and Automation Magazine, special issue on Panoramic Robotics, v11, n4, pp. 62-68, December 2004.

• P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, N. Papanikolopoulos, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, D. G. Krantz, F. Nageotte, "Sharing Control: Presenting a Framework for the Operation and Coordination of Multiple Miniature Robots," in Robotics and Automation Magazine, v9, n4, pp. 41-48, December 2002.

• P. E. Rybski, N. Papanikolopoulos, S. A. Stoeter, D. G. Krantz, K. B. Yesin, M. Gini, R. Voyles, D. F. Hougen, B. Nelson, M. D. Erickson, "Enlisting Rangers and Scouts for Reconnaissance and Surveillance," in Robotics and Automation Magazine, pp. 14-24, December 2000.

• K. Yoon, P. E. Rybski, "Teaching procedural flow through dialog and demonstration," in Proceedings of IROS'07, the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 807­814, San Diego, CA, Oct­Nov, 2007.

• P. E. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, M. Veloso, "Interactive Robot Task Training through Dialog and Demonstration," in Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Washington DC, March, 2007.

• M. Veloso, P. E. Rybski, F. von Hundelshausen, "FOCUS: a generalized method for object discovery for robots that observe and interact with humans," in Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Salt Lake City, UT, March, 2006.

• M. Veloso, F. von Hundelshausen, P. E. Rybski, "Learning Visual Object Definitions by Observing Human Activities," in Proceedings of Humanoids 2005, Japan, December, 2005.

• P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso. "Robust Real-Time Human Activity Recognition from Tracked Face Displacements," in Proceedings of the 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2005, Covilha, Portugal, December, 2005, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3808 (LNAI Springer), Progress in Artificial Intelligence, C. Bento, A. Cardoso and G. Dias (eds), pp 87-98, Issn 0302-9743.

• J. Fasola, P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Fast Goal Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance using a Dynamic Local Visual Model," in Proceedings of SBAI'05, The VII Brazilian Symposium of Artificial Intelligence, Sao Luiz, Brazil, September, 2005.

• F. D. L. Torre, C. Vallespi, P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, T. Kanade, "Learning to Track Multiple People in Omnidirectional Video," in the Proceedings of ICRA'05, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April, 2005.

• R. Patil, P. E. Rybski, T. Kanade, M. Veloso, "People Detection and Tracking in High Resolution Panoramic Video Mosaic," in Proceedings of IROS'04, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1323-1328, Sendai, Japan, September/October, 2004.

• P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, H. Veeraraghavan, M. LaPoint, M. Gini, "Communication Strategies in Multi-Robot Search and Retrieval," in Proceedings of DARS'04, the 7th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, pp. 301-310, Toulouse, France, June, 2004.

• P. E. Rybski, S. I. Roumeliotis, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Comparison of Maximum Likelihood Methods for Appearance-Based Minimalistic SLAM," in Proceedings of ICRA'04, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1777-1782, New Orleans, LA, April/May, 2004.

• P. E. Rybski, F. de la Torre, R. Patil, C. Vallespi, M. Veloso, B. Browning, "CAMEO: Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer," in Proceedings of ICRA'04, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1777-1782, New Orleans, LA, April/May, 2004.

• B. Browning, P. E. Rybski, J. Searock, M. Veloso, "Development of a Soccer-Playing Dynamically-Balancing Mobile Robot," in Proceedings of ICRA'04, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1752-1757, New Orleans, LA, April/May, 2004.

• P. E. Rybski, S. I. Roumeliotis, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Appearance-Based Minimalistic Metric SLAM," in Proceedings of IROS'03, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 194-199, Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 2003.

• P. E. Rybski, F. Zacharias, J. F. Lett, O. Masoud, M. Gini and N. Papanikolopoulos, "Using Visual Features to Build Topological Maps of Indoor Environments," in Proceedings of ICRA'03, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 850-855, Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2003.

• J. L. Pearce, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Dispersion Behaviors for a Team of Miniature Robots," in Proceedings of ICRA'03, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1158-1163, Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2003.

• S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Autonomous Stair-Hopping with Scout Robots," in Proceedings of IROS'02, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 721-726, Lausanne, Switzerland, September/October, 2002.

• P. Rößler, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Visual Servoing of a Miniature Robot Toward a Marked Target," in Proceedings of DSP'02, the 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, July 2002.

• A. Drenner, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, B. Kratochvil, C. P. McMillen, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, K. Stubbs, D. Waletzko, K. B. Yesin, "Mobility Enhancements to the Scout Robot Platform," in Proceedings of ICRA'02, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1069-1074, Washington, DC, May 2002.

• P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, A. Schoolcraft, S. Osentoski and M. Gini, "Evaluation of Control Strategies for Multi-Robot Search and Retrieval,"in Proceedings of IAS-7, the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp. 281-288, Marina del Rey, CA, March 2002.

• C. P. McMillen, K. Stubbs, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Resource Scheduling and Load Balancing in Distributed Robotic Control Systems," in Proceedings of IAS-7, the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp. 223-230, Marina del Rey, CA, March 2002.

• P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Effects of Limited Bandwidth Communications Channels of the Control of Multiple Robots," in Proceedings of ICRA'01, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 369-374, Maui, HI, October 2001.

• P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Performance of a Distributed Robotic System Using Shared Communications Channels," in Proceedings of SPIE Photonics Boston, Newton, Massachusetts, pp. 84-95, October 2001.

• P. E. Rybski, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, D. G. Krantz, F. Nageotte, N. Papanikolopoulos, S. A. Stoeter, "System Architecture for Versatile Autonomous and Teleoperated Control of Multiple Miniature Robots," in Proceedings of ICRA'01, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2917-2922, Seoul, Korea, May 2001.

• S. Stoeter, P. Rybski, M. Gini, D. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Verteilte Steuerung heterogener mobiler Roboter," in Proceedings of Autonome Mobile Systeme, Karlsruhe, Germany, pp. 270-277, November 2000.

• D. F. Hougen, M. D. Erickson, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Autonomous Mobile Robots and Distributed Exploratory Missions," in Proceedings of DARS'00, the 5th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Knoxville, pp. 221-230, TN, October 2000.

• D. F. Hougen, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. D. Erickson, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Behavioral Decomposition of Robotic Exploratory Missions," in International Conference for Smart Systems and Robotics for Medicine and Space Applications, Houston, Texas, September 2000.

• S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. D. Erickson, M. Wyman, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Robot Team for Exploration and Surveillance: Design and Architecture," in Proceedings of IAS-6, the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, pp. 767-774, Venice, Italy, July 2000.

• N. Papanikolopoulos, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, M. Erickson, "Experiments with a Team of Miniature Robots," in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control \& Automation, Rio, Greece, July 2000.

• P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. D. Erickson, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Team of Robotic Agents for Surveillance," in Proceedings of Agents'00, the Fourth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 9-16, Barcelona, Spain, June 2000.

• D. F. Hougen, S. Benjaafar, J. C. Bonney, J. R. Budenske, M. Dvorak, M. Gini, H. French, D. G. Krantz, P. Y. Li, F. Malver, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, R. Voyles and K. B. Yesin, "A Miniature Robotic System for Reconnaissance and Surveillance," in Proceedings of ICRA'00, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 501-507, San Francisco, CA, April 2000.

• D. F. Hougen, J. Bonney, J. Budenske, M. Dvorak, M. Gini, D. Krantz, F. Malver, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. Rybski, S. Stoeter, R. Voyles, and K. B. Yesin, "Reconfigurable robots for distributed robotics," in Government Microcircuit Applications Conference, Anaheim, CA, March 2000.

• P. E. Rybski, R. M. Voyles, "Interactive Task Training of a Mobile Robot through Human Gesture Recognition and Imitation," in Proceedings of ICRA'99, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 664-669, Detroit, MI, May 1999.

• A. Rudnicky, P. E. Rybski, S. Banerjee, M. Veloso, "Intelligently Integrating Information from Speech and Vision Processing to Perform Light-weight Meeting Understanding," in Proceedings of ICMI'05, the International Conference on Multi-modal Interfaces, International Workshop on Multimodal Multiparty Meeting Processing, Trento, Italy, October, 2005.

• F. de la Torre, C. Vallespi, P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, T. Kanade, "Multiple Face Recognition from Omnidirectional Video," in the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Learning in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2005.

• S. Banerjee, J. Cohen, T. Quisel, A. Chan, Y. Patodia, Z. Al-Bawab, R. Zhang, A. Black, R. Stern, R. Rosenfeld, A. Rudnicky, P. Rybski and M. Veloso, "Creating Multi-Modal, User-Centric Records of Meetings with the Carnegie Mellon Meeting Recorder Architecture," in Proceedings of ICASSP'04, the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Meeting Recognition Workshop, Montreal, Canada, May, 2004.

• P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Using Sparse Visual Data to Model Human Activities in Meetings," in the Modeling Other Agents from Observations workshop at AAMAS'04, the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems, New York, New York, 2004.

• M. Veloso, S. Lenser, D. Vail, P. Rybski, N. Aiwazian, and S. Chernova, "CMRoboBits: Creating an Intelligent AIBO Robot," in the AAAI Spring Symposium on Accessible, Hands-on AI and Robotics Education, Palo Alto, CA, 2004.

• S. A. Stoeter, N. P. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, D. G. Krantz, K. B. Yesin, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, F. Nageotte, B. Nelson, "User Interfaces for a Robotic Distributed System," in Proceedings of the Second Biomorphic Explorers Workshop: Bio-Inspired Engineering of Exploration Systems, Los Angeles, CA, December 2000.

• P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, M. Lindahl, M. Gini, "Performance Evaluation of Multiple Robots in a Search and Retrieval Task," in Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing: State of the Art and State of Practice, pp. 153-160, AAAI Press, Albuquerque, NM, August 1998.

• P. Rybski, S. Banerjee, F. Torre, C. Vallespi, A. Rudnicky, and M. Veloso, "Segmentation and Classification of Meetings using Multiple Information Streams", in Proceedings of ICMI'04, the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, pp. 335-336, State College, PA, October 2004.

• P. E. Rybski, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, S. A. Stoeter, and N. Papanikolopoulos, "A Distributed Surveillance Task using Multiple Miniature Robots," in Proceedings of AAMAS'02, the 1st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pp. 1393-1394, Bologna, Italy, July 2002.

• P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, and N. Papanikolopoulos, "Dynamic Scheduling of a Fixed Bandwidth Communications Channel for Controlling Multiple Robots," in Proceedings of Agents'01, the 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 153-154, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2001.

• P. Rybski, S. Stoeter, C. Wyman, M. Gini, "A Cooperative Multi-Robot Approach to the Mapping and Exploration of Mars," in Proceedings of AAAI'97, the 14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 798-799, Providence, RI, 1997.

• J. Fischer, P. E. Rybski, D. Edmonds, M. Gini, "Doing Tasks with Multiple Mini-Robots," in Proceedings of AAAI'96, the 13th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1353, Portland, OR, 1996.

• B. Kratochvil, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, A. Drenner, M. Gini, D. Hougen, C. P. McMillen, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, K. Stubbs, D. Waletzko, K. B. Yesin, "A New Generation of Scout Robots with Multiple Mobility Modes," in Video Proceedings of ICRA'02, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington, D.C., May 2002.

• B. Kratochvil, I. Burt, T. Dahlin, A. Drenner, M. Gini, D. Hougen, C. P. McMillen, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, K. Stubbs, D. Waletzko, K. B. Yesin, "A New Generation of Scout Robots with Enhanced Sensing and Mobility," in Video Proceedings of the SPIE International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Orlando, FL, April 2002.

• P. E. Rybski, D. F. Hougen, S. Benjaafar, J. C. Bonney, J. R. Budenske, M. Dvorak, M. Gini, H. French, D. G. Krantz, P. Y. Li, F. Malver, B. Nelson, N. Papanikolopoulos, S. A. Stoeter, R. Voyles, K. B. Yesin, "A Robotic Reconnaissance and Surveillance Team," (Quicktime 10MB) in Video Proceedings of ICRA'00, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, CA, April 2000.Recipient: Best Video Award.

• D. F. Hougen, P. Rybski, M. Gini, J. Slagle, "TBMin2: Trailer Backing Mini-Robot 2," in Video Proceedings of AAAI'98, the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Robot Exhibition, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998.

• P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, M. Lindahl, M. Gini, "MinDART: Minnesota Distributed Autonomous Robotic Team," in Video Proceedings of AAAI'98, the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Robot Exhibition, Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998.

• P. E. Rybski, A. Efros, "Overview of the 2007 Semantic Robot Vision Challenge Competition," in Proceedings of the AAAI'07 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, July, 2007.

• P. E. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, M. Veloso, "CMAssist: A RoboCup@Home Team", In Procedings of the AAAI'06 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston, MA, USA, July, 2006.

• P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "From CMDash'05 to CMRoboBits : Transitioning Multi-Agent Research with AIBOs to the Classroom", In Procedings of the AAAI'05 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, July, 2005.

• P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, H. Metcalf, D. Skyllingstad, H. Veeraraghavan and M. Gini, "MinDART : A Multi-Robot Search & Retrieval System," n Proceedings of the AAAI'02 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 2002.

• P. E. Rybski, I. Burt, A. Drenner, B. Kratochvil, C. P. McMillen, S. Stoeter, K. Stubbs, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Evaluation of the Scout Robot for Urban Search and Rescue," in Proceedings of the AAAI'01 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, August 2001.

• P. E. Rybski, D. F. Hougen, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Control of Multiple Small Surveillance Robots at AAAI 2000," in Proceedings of the AAAI'00 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Austin, TX, August 2000.

• J. Stolarz, P. E. Rybski, "An Architecture for the Rapid Development of Robot Behaviors," Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-07-16, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, May 2007.

• K. Yoon, P. E. Rybski, "Teaching Task Flow Through Dialog and Observation," Technical Report CMU-RI-TR-07-18, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, May 2007.

• P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Handling Diverse Information Sources: Prioritized Multi-Hypothesis World Modeling", Technical Report CMU-CS-06-182, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December, 2006.

• P. E. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, M. Veloso, "CMAssist'06: A RoboCup@Home Team", Technical Report TR-06-47, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, October, 2006.

• P. E. Rybski, M. Veloso, "Generating and Executing Multi-agent Plans for Simulating Human Interactions in Meetings", Technical Report TR-06-23, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May, 2006.

• Y. Jeon, P. E. Rybski, "Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Clustering Algorithm for Counting People in a Meeting", Technical Report TR-06-04, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, January, 2006.

• P.E. Rybski, F. De la Torre Frade, R. Patil, C. Vallespi, M. Veloso, and B. Browning, "CAMEO: The Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer," Technical Report TR-04-07, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2004.

• P. E. Rybski, A. Larson, H. Veeraraghavan, M. LaPoint, M. Gini,"Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Robot Search & Retrieval System: Experiences with MinDART," Technical Report 03-011, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN, February 2003.

• P. Rößler, S. A. Stoeter, P. E. Rybski, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Visual Servoing of a Miniature Robot Toward a Marked Target," Technical Report 02-005, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN, January 2002.

• P. E. Rybski, S. A. Stoeter, M. Gini, D. F. Hougen, N. Papanikolopoulos, "Performance of a Distributed Robotic System Using Shared Communications Channels," Technical Report 01-031, University of Minnesota Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, MN, July 2001.

Invited Presentations

"The 2007 Tartan Racing Perception System: How Boss Sees the World," National Robotics Engineering Center Seminar, NREC, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December, 2007.

"High-Level Sensor and Actuation Modeling for State Estimation," National Robotics Engineering Center Seminar, NREC, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December, 2006.

"Robust state estimation for intelligent physically-embodied systems," invited presentation at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, Feb, 2006.

"Robust Spatial Reasoning for Intelligent Physically-Embodied Systems," interview talk at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May, 2005.

"Robust Spatial Reasoning for Intelligent Physically-Embodied Systems," interview talk at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT, Cambridge, MA, April, 2005.

"Robust Spatial Reasoning for Intelligent Systems," Field Robotics Center Seminar, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, March, 2005.

"Distributed Sensing and Action for Robot Teams," Draper Labs, Cambridge, MA, January, 2005.

"Spatial Reasoning and Coordination of Teams of Miniature Robots," interview talk at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, May 2003.

"Spatial Reasoning and Coordination of Teams of Miniature Robots," interview talk at Honeywell Technology Center, Minneapolis, MN, April 2003.

"Spatial Reasoning and Coordination of Teams of Miniature Robots," interview talk at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI, April 2003.

"Spatial Reasoning and Coordination of Teams of Miniature Robots," interview talk at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, April 2003.

"Spatial Reasoning and Coordination of Teams of Miniature Robots," interview talk at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, April 2003.

"Introduction to the Pioneer 1 Mobile Robots with SICK LMS," Invited class lecture to "Sensing and Estimation in Robotics," Prof. Stergios Roumeliotis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, March 2003.

"A Physics-Based Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Robotic Map Building," University of Minnesota Robotics seminar, Minneapolis, MN, November 2002.

"Introduction to the Handyboard," Invited class lecture to "Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems," Prof. Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 2002.

"A Team of Robotic Agents for Surveillance," Invited class lecture to "Intro to Artificial Intelligence," Prof. Susan Fox, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, November 2000.

"LEGO Robotics," Invited class lecture to "Software Engineering in Factory Automation (Robotics)," Prof. Bonnie Bennett, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, March 2000.

"LEGO Robotics," Edina Youth Scientist Forum, Edina, MN, November, 1999.

"LEGO Robots: Engineering the Modular Way," Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, May 1995.

"Isaac Asimov, Robots and LEGOs," University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI, March 1995.