Alonzo Kelly's Publications

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Books

  1. Kelly, A, Introduction to Mobile Robots: Mathematics, Models, and Methods. Available in draft form at https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/course/16-761/Documentation/. Available only to those with a CMU andrew account.

Refereed Journal Articles - Published

  1. Kelly, A., et al., “Toward Reliable Off-Road Autonomous Vehicles Operating in Challenging Environments”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 25, No. 5–6, pp. 449-483, June 2006..[.pdf]
  2. Diaz-Calderon, A., and Kelly, A., “On-line Stability Margin and Attitude Estimation for Dynamic Articulating Mobile Robots”, The International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 24, No. 10, 845-866 (2005).[.pdf]
  3. Kelly, A, "Linearized Error Propagation in Odometry", International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol 23, No 2, Feb 2004, pp 179-218.[.pdf]
  4. Kelly, A., Nagy, B. "Reactive Nonholonomic Trajectory Generation via Parametric Optimal Control", to appear International Journal of Robotics Research", International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol (No), 2002..[.pdf]
  5. Kelly, A., "Mobile Robot Localization from Large Scale Appearance Mosaics", International Journal of Robotics Research, 19 (11), 2000..[.pdf]
  6. Kelly, A., Stentz, A., "Rough Terrain Autonomous Mobility - Part 1: A Theoretical Analysis of Requirements", Autonomous Robots, 5, 129-161, 1998.[.pdf]
  7. Kelly, A., Stentz, A. "Rough Terrain Autonomous Mobility - Part 2: An Active Vision, Predictive Control Approach ", Autonomous Robots, 5, 163-198, 1998.[.pdf

Refereed Journal Articles - Accepted

  1. Howard, T., Kelly, A.,  “Optimal Rough Terrain Trajectory Generation for Wheeled Mobile Robots”, to appear The International Journal of Robotics Research, Spring 2007.[.pdf]

Refereed Conference/Workshop Proceedings 

  1. Howard, T., Kelly, A., “Continuous Control Motion Splines for All Wheel Steer Mobile Robots”,  International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2006, Beijing, China.[.pdf]
  2. [Knepper, R., Kelly, A., “High Performance State Lattice Planning Using Heuristic Look-Up Tables”, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2006, Beijing, China.[.pdf]
  3. Howard, T., Kelly, A., “Constrained Optimization Path Following of Wheeled Robots in Rough Terrain”, submitted to International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2006), Rio De Janero, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2006.[.pdf]
  4. Anderson, D., Herman H., Kelly, A., “Experimental Characterization of Commercial Flash Ladar Devices”, International Conference on Sensing Technologies”, November 21-23, 2005 Palmerston North, New Zealand[.pdf]
  5. Pitvoraiko, M., Kelly, A., “Efficient Constrained Path Planning via Search in State Lattices”, 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation I-SAIRAS, September 5-9, 2005, Munich, Germany.[.pdf]
  6. Howard, T., and Kelly, A., “Terrain-Adpative Generation of Optimal Continuous Trajectories for Mobile Robots”, 8th International symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation I-SAIRAS, September 5-9, 2005, Munich, Germany.[.pdf]
  7. Pitvoraiko, M., Kelly, A., “Generating Near Minimal Spanning Control Sets for Constrained Motion Planning in Discrete State Spaces”, Proceedings IROS 2005, Edmonton Alberta, Canada, August 2005.[.pdf]
  8. Pitvoraiko, M., Kelly, A, “Constrained Motion Planning in Discrete State Spaces.” Field and Service Robots, Ocober 2005, Port Douglas, Australia.[.pdf]
  9. Howard, T., and Kelly, A., “Trajectory Generation on Rough Terrain Considering Actuator Dynamics”, Field and Service Robots, October, 2005, Port Douglas, Australia.[.pdf]
  10. Pitvoraiko, M., Kelly, A, and Rander R., “Efficient Braking Model for Off-Road Mobile Robots.” Field and Service Robots, Ocober 2005, Port Douglas, Australia.[.pdf]
  11. Kelly, A., “Fast and Easy Systematic and Stochastic Odometry Calibration”. IROS, Sendai Japan, September 2004.[.pdf]
  12. Kelly, A., et al., “Toward Reliable Off-Road Autonomous Vehicle Operating in Challenging Environments”, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, June, 2004, Singapore.[.pdf]
  13. Kelly, A., “Precision Dilution in Triangulation-Based Mobile Robot Position Estimation”, Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Amsterdam, 2003.[.pdf]
  14. Kelly, A. Unnikrishnan, R., “Efficient Construction of Optimal and Consistent Ladar Maps using Pose Network Topology and Nonlinear Programming, 11th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR'2003), Sienna, Italy, November 2003.[.pdf]
  15. Stentz, T., Kelly, A., Herman, H., Rander, P., Mandelbaum R., “New Results for Integrated Air/Ground Vehicle System for Semi-Autonomous Off-Road Navigation”, in Proceedings of AUVSI’s Symposium on Unmanned Systems 2003, July, 2003
  16. Diaz, A., Kelly, A., “Development of a Terrain Adaptive Stability Prediction System for Mass Articulating Mobile Robots ”, Field and Service Robots 2003, Tsukuba Japan, 2003.[.pdf]
  17. Kelly A., “Efficient Parametric Synthesis of Optimal Mobile Robot Trajectories”, 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, July 2002, Coimbra, Portugal.[.pdf]
  18. Unnikrishnan, R., Kelly, A., "A Constrained Optimization Approach to Globally Consistent Mapping", International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 02), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002.[.pdf]
  19. Kelly, A., "General Solution for Linearized Stochastic Error Propagation in Vehicle Odometry", Proceedings of 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, Barcelona, Spain, July 2002.[.pdf]
  20. Unnikrishnan, R., Kelly, A., "Mosaicing Large Cyclic Environments for Visual Navigation in Autonomous Vehicles", in Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA02), Washington, DC., May 2002.[.pdf]
  21. Kelly, A., "General Solution for Linearized Error Propagation in Vehicle Odometry", Proceedings of 10th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR'2001), Lorne, Victoria, Australia, November 2001[.pdf]
  22. Kelly, A., "Model-Based Object Pose Refinement For Terrestrial and Space Autonomy", 6th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (ISAIRAS 01), Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 18,2001.[.pdf]
  23. Kelly, A., "General Solution for Linearized Systematic Error Propagation in Vehicle Odometry", International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 01), Maui, Hawaii, Nov 2001.[.pdf]
  24. Nagy, B., Kelly, A., "Trajectory Generation for Car-Like Robots Using Cubic Curvature Polynomials", Field and Service Robots 2001 (FSR 01), Helsinki, Finland - June 11, 2001.[.pdf]
  25. Kelly, A., "Pose Tracking For Mobile Robot Localization From Large Scale Appearance Mosaics", International Symposium on Robotics and Automation (ISRA 00), Monterrey, N.L., Mexico - November 2000.[.pdf]
  26. Rowe, P., Kelly, A., "Map Construction for Mosaic-Based Vehicle Position Estimation", International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS6), Venice, Italy, July 25, 2000.[.pdf]
  27. Kelly, A., "Contemporary Feasibility of Image Mosaic Based Vehicle Position Est", in Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Applications (IASTED99), Santa Barbara, CA - October 28-30, 1999.[.pdf]
  28. Kelly, A., Stentz, A. "Stereo Vision Enhancements for Low-Cost Outdoor Autonomous Vehicles", in International Conference on Robotics and Automation [Workshop WS-7, Navigation of Outdoor Autonomous Vehicles ], (ICRA98), Leuven, Belgium, May 1998.[.pdf]
  29. Kelly, A., Stentz, A. "Minimum Throughput Adaptive Perception for High Speed Mobility", IROS 1997.[.pdf]
  30. Kelly, A., Stentz, A. "Computational Complexity of Terrain Mapping Perception in Autonomous Mobility", ICRA 1997.[.pdf]
  31. Kelly, A., Stentz, A. "Analysis of Requirements for High Speed Rough Terrain Mobility: Part 1 - Throughput and Response", ICRA 1997.[.pdf]
  32. Kelly, A., Stentz, A. "Analysis of Requirements for High Speed Rough Terrain Mobility: Part 2 - Resolution and Accuracy", ICRA 1997.[.pdf]
  33. Kelly, A., Stentz, A. "An Approach to Rough Terrain Autonomous Mobility", International Conference on Mobile Planetary Robots, Santa Monica, January 1997.[.pdf]
  34. Singh, S. and Kelly, A., Robot Planning in the Space of Feasible Actions: Two Examples, In Proc. Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 1996, Minneapolis.
  35. I. Davis, A. Kelly, A. Stentz, L. Matthies, "Terrain Typing for Real Robots", IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles, Detroit, 1995.
  36. L. Matthies, A. Kelly, T. Litwin, G. Tharp, "Obstacle Detection for Unmanned Ground Vehicles: A Progress Report", 7th International Symposium on Robotics Research, October 21-24, 1995, Munich, Germany.
  37. Motazed, B., Patukas, D., Kelly, A., Pomerleau, D., Jochem, T., "Demonstration of an Autonomous Convoying Concept", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of IVHS America, March 15-17, 1995, Washington, DC.
  38. Brumitt B., Coulter R., Kelly A., Stentz A., " A System for Autonomous Cross Country Navigation", IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Components and Instruments for Control Applications, May 20-22, Malaga, Spain, 1992.
  39. Kelly, A., Stentz, A., Hebert M., "Terrain Map Building for Fast Navigation on Rugged Outdoor Terrain", proceedings of SPIE Mobile Robots VII, Boston, MA, 1992.
  40. Stentz, A., Brumitt, B.L., Coulter, R.C., Kelly, A. J. "An Autonomous System for Cross Country Navigation" proceedings of SPIE Mobile Robots VII, Boston, MA, 1992.

Un-Refereed Conference/Workshop Proceedings

  1. Kelly, A., ICRA 06, “Vehicle Modelling and Precision Motion Generation in Complex Environments", workshop on “Sensor-Based Motion for Complex Robots in Complex Environments”,  Orlando, Florida, May 2006
  2. Kelly, A., "General Solution for Linearized Stochastic Error Propagation in Vehicle Odometry", Proceedings of 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, Barcelona, Spain, July 2002.
  3. Kelly, A., “Stereo Vision Enhancements for Low Cost Outdoor Autonomous Mobility”, Int'l Confer­ence on Robotics and Automation, Leuven, Belgium - May 1998.

CMU Tech Reports

  1. Optimal Sampling In the Space of Paths [.pdf]
  2. Propagation of Error in Vehicle Odometry[.pdf]
  3. Robot Localization from Appearance Mosaics[.pdf]
  4. Analysis of High Speed Autonomous Navigation[.pdf]
  5. A Feedforward Control Approach to High Speed Autonomous Navigation[.pdf]
  6. A State Space Navigation Kalman Filter[.pdf]
  7. Kinematic Transforms for Mobile Robots[.pdf]
  8. Modern Inertial and Satellite Navigation Systems[.pdf]
  9. Adaptive Perception for Autonomous Vehicles[.pdf]
  10. Concept Design of a Laser Rangefinder For Autonomous Vehicles[.pdf]
  11. An Intelligent Predictive Controller for Autonomous Vehicles[.pdf]

Thesis 

  1. Kelly, A., "An Intelligent Predictive Control Approach to the High Speed Cross Country Autonomous Navigation Problem" [.pdf] 

  2. Kelly, A., "A Kinematic and Dynamic Model for the IBM 7565 Robot", B.A. Sc. thesis, University of Toronto.

Last-Modified: Jan 2007
Alonzo Kelly <alonzo@cmu.edu>