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Paul Rybski
Systems Scientist

Associated center: FRC

Email address: prybski+web@cs.cmu.edu
Office: EDSH 217
Phone: (412) 268-7417
Fax: 412-268-7350

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
Smith Hall 217
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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Research interests

Some of my research interests include:

• Human/robot interaction
• Human-centered activity recognition and world modeling
• Probabilistic algorithms for exploration and spatial reasoning
• Distributed control of robot teams

Research interest keywords

artificial intelligence, field robotics, human-robot interaction, mobile robots, multirobot systems, robot soccer, and sensor fusion

Current Labs & Groups

Human-Robot Interaction Group - We are interested in many aspects of human-robot interaction related to how humans and robots can work safely and effectively together.

MultiRobot Lab - We are interested in the challenges of building teams of intelligent agents -- simulated agents and mobile robots -- that cooperate, observe the world, reason, act, and learn!

Current Projects [Past projects]

Mobile Autonomous Robot Software - Develop complete, effective and scalable software for autonomous robot teams. Demonstrate robot teams with integrated action, perception, reasoning, communication and cooperative strategies that solve complex multiagent tasks.	Robotic Soccer - The RoboSoccer project develops collaboration among multiple autonomous agents.
Tartan Racing - Carnegie Mellon University is teaming with General Motors to compete in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.	Urban Challenge

Recent publications [View all 24 publications]

• A Multisensor Multiobject Tracking System for an Autonomous Vehicle Driving in an Urban Environment
  M. Darms, P. Rybski, and C. Urmson
  AVEC 2008 - 9th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control, Kobe, September, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2145 KB] copyrighted

• Fast Feature Detection and Stochastic Parameter Estimation of Road Shape using Multiple LIDAR
  K. Peterson, J. Ziglar, and P. Rybski
  IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, IEEE, September, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1789 KB] copyrighted

• Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge
  C. Urmson, J. Anhalt, H. Bae, J. Bagnell, C. Baker, R.E. Bittner, T. Brown, M.N. Clark, M. Darms, D. Demitrish, J. Dolan, D. Duggins, D. Ferguson, T. Galatali, C.M. Geyer, M. Gittleman, S. Harbaugh, M. Hebert, T. Howard, S. Kolski, M. Likhachev, B. Litkouhi, A. Kelly, M. McNaughton, N. Miller, J. Nickolaou, K. Peterson, B. Pilnick, R. Rajkumar, P. Rybski, V. Sadekar, B. Salesky, Y. Seo, S. Singh, J.M. Snider, J.C. Struble, A. Stentz, M. Taylor, W.L. Whittaker, Z. Wolkowicki, W. Zhang, and J. Ziglar
  Journal of Field Robotics Special Issue on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, Part I, Vol. 25, No. 8, June, 2008, pp. 425-466. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1176 KB] copyrighted

• Classification and tracking of dynamic objects with multiple sensors for autonomous driving in urban environments.
  M. Darms, P. Rybski, and C. Urmson
  Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IEEE, June, 2008, pp. 1197-1202. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [529 KB] copyrighted

• An adaptive model switching approach for a multisensor tracking system used for autonomous driving in an urban environment
  M. Darms, P. Rybski, and C. Urmson
  AUTOREG 2008, Steuerung und Regelung von Fahrzeugen und Motoren: 4. Fachtagung, VDI-Verlag, Duesseldorf, February, 2008, pp. 521-530. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1838 KB] copyrighted

• Vehicle detection and tracking for the Urban Challenge
  M. Darms, C. Baker, P. Rybski, and C. Urmson
  5. Workshop Fahrerassistenzsysteme, M. Maurer & C. Stiller, ed., Freundeskreis Mess- und Regelungstechnik Karlsruhe e.V. (FMRT), Karlsruhe, 2008, pp. 57-67. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [141 KB] copyrighted

• Teaching Procedural Flow through Dialog and Demonstration
  K. Yoon and P. Rybski
  Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October, 2007, pp. 807-­814. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [932 KB] copyrighted

• An Architecture for the Rapid Development of Robot Behaviors
  J. Stolarz and P. Rybski
  master's thesis, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [950 KB] copyrighted

• Teaching Task Flow Through Dialog and Observation
  K. Yoon and P. Rybski
  master's thesis, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-07-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1029 KB] copyrighted

• Interactive Robot Task Training through Dialog and Demonstration
  P. Rybski, K. Yoon, J. Stolarz, and M. Veloso
  2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [500 KB] copyrighted