Publications

2014
W. Talbott and Movellan, J., “A Computational Framework for Visual Perception of Inertial Affordances”, The Affordance Network (AfNet), 2014.
Y. Tassa, Mansard, N., and Todorov, E., “Control-Limited Differential Dynamic Programming”, in IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
E. Todorov, “Convex and analytically-invertible dynamics with contacts and constraints: Theory and implementation in MuJoCo”, in IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
J. Whitehill, Serpell, Z., Lin, Y. - C., Foster, A., and Movellan, J., “The Faces of Engagement: Automatic Recognition of Student Engagement from Facial Expressions”, in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2014.
J. Movellan, Malmir, M., and Forster, D., “HRI as a Tool to Monitor Socio-Emotional Development in Early Childhood Education”, in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2014.
T. Erez, Kolev, S., and Todorov, E., “Receding-horizon online optimization for dexterous object manipulation”, in IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
2013
J. Whitehill, Bartlett, M., and Movellan, J., “Automatic Facial Expression Recognition”, in Social Emotions in Nature and Artifact, J. Gratch and Marsella, S., Eds. Oxford University Press, 2013.
W. Talbott, Wu, T., and Movellan, J., “Estimating dynamic properties of objects from appearance”, in IEEE Joint International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL), 2013.
V. Kumar, Xu, Z., and Todorov, E., “Fast, strong and compliant pneumatic actuation for dexterous tendon-driven hands”, in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013.
M. Malmir, Forster, D., Youngstrom, K., Morrison, L., and Movellan, J., “Home Alone: Social Robots for Digital Ethnography of Toddler Behavior”, in IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), 2013.
Y. Tassa, .Wu, T., Movellan, J., and Todorov, E., ““Modeling and Identification of Pneumatic Actuators”, in IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2013.
T. Wu, Tassa, Y., Kumar, V., Movellan, J., and Todorov, E., “STAC: Simultaneous Tracking and Calibration”, in IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2013.
2012
P. Ruvolo, Wu, T., and Movellan, J., “Control by Gradient Collocation: Applications to Optimal Obstacle Avoidance and Minimum Torque Control”, in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
I. Mordatch, Todorov, E., and Popovic, Z., “Discovery of complex behaviors through contact-invariant optimization”, in ACM SIGGRAPH, 2012.
J. Movellan, “Minimum Angular Acceleration Control of Articulated Body Dynamics”, in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
E. Todorov, Erez, T., and Tassa, Y., “MuJoCo: A physics engine for model-based control”, in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
T. Wu and Movellan, J., “Semi-Parametric Gaussian Process for Robot System Identification”, in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012.
T. Wu and Movellan, J., “Simultaneous motor and sensory learning for imitation”, in IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL), 2012.
D. Krishnamurthi and Todorov, E., “A unifying framework for linearly solvable control”, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
2011
G. Littlewort, Whitehill, J., Wu, T., Fasel, I., Frank, M., Movellan, J., and Bartlett, M., “The computer expression recognition toolbox (CERT)”, in IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition and Workshops (FG), 2011.
E. Todorov, “A convex, smooth and invertible contact model for trajectory optimization”, in IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011.
W. Talbott, Fasel, I., Molina, J., de Sa, V., and Movellan, J., “Coordinating Touch and Vision to Learn What Objects Look Like”, in Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011.
Z. Xu, Todorov, E., Dellon, B., and Matsuoka, Y., “Design and analysis of an artificial finger joint for anthropomorphic robotic hands”, in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011.
E. Todorov, “Finding the most likely trajectories of optimally-controlled stochastic systems”, in IFA, 2011.
P. Kulchenko and Todorov, E., “First-exit model predictive control of fast discontinuous dynamics: Application to ball bouncing”, in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011.
2010
E. Todorov, Hu, C., Simpkins, A., and Movellan, J., “Identification and control of a pneumatic robot”, in IEEE/RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2010.
N. Butko and Movellan, J., “Infomax Control of Eye Movements”, in IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 2010.
P. Ruvolo, Fasel, I., and Movellan, J., “A Learning Approach to Hierarchical Feature Selection and Aggregation”, Pattern Recognition Letters, 2010.
A. Simpkins and Todorov, E., “Position estimation and control of compact BLDC motors based on analog linear Hall effect sensors”, in American Control Conference (ACC), 2010.
Y. Tassa and Todorov, E., “Stochastic Complementarity for Local Control of Discontinuous Dynamics”, in Robotics Science and Systems Conference (RSS), 2010.
T. Marks, Hershey, J., and Movellan, J., “Tracking Motion, Deformation, and Texture Using Conditionally Gaussian Processes”, in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2010.
J. Movellan, “Warning: The author of this document may have no mental states. Read at your own risk”, Interaction Studies, 2010.
2009
A. Meltzoff, Kuhl, P., Movellan, J., and Sejnowski, T., “Foundations for a new science of learning”, Science, vol. 325, 2009.
Y. Wang, Wu, T., Orchard, G., Dudek, P., Rucci, M., and Shi, B. E., “Hebbian learning of visually directed reaching by a robot arm”, in Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2009.
T. Wu, Butko, N., Ruvulo, P., Bartlett, M., and Movellan, J., “Learning to Make Facial Expressions”, in IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, 2009.
N. Butko and Movellan, J., “Optimal scanning for faster object detection”, in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2009.