Professor Dr. Oliver Brock

Raphael Deimel and Oliver Brock. A Compliant Hand Based on a Novel Pneumatic Actuator. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 01-07, 2013.

Robert Gaschler, Dov Katz, Martin Grund, Peter A. Frensch, and Oliver Brock. Intelligent Object Exploration. In: Human Machine Interaction-Getting Closer, Edited by Maurtua Inaki. InTech, chap. 12, pp. 236-260, 2012.

Clemens Eppner, Georg Bartels, and Oliver Brock. A Compliance-centric View of Grasping. Technical Report , Department of Computer Engineering and Microelectronics, Technical University Berlin, 2012.

Oliver Brock, Dov Katz, and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa. Mobile Manipulation ( From the Guest Editors). IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 19(2):18-19, 2012.

Oliver Brock (Editor). Berlin Summit on Robotics. Conference Report, 2011.

Oliver Brock, and Charles Kemp. Guest editorial: special issue on autonomous mobile manipulation. Autonomous Robots 28(1):1-3, 2010.

Yuandong Yang, and Oliver Brock. Elastic roadmaps - motion generation for autonomous mobile manipulation. Autonomous Robots 28(1):113-130, 2010.

Dov Katz, Andreas Orthey, and Oliver Brock. Interactive Perception of Articulated Objects. 12th International Symposium of Experimental Robotics, pp. 01-15, 2010.

Jacqueline Kenney, Thomas Buckley, and Oliver Brock. Interactive Segmentation for Manipulation in Unstructured Environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. IEEE Press, pp. 1343-1348, 2009.

Dov Katz, and Oliver Brock. A Factorization Approach to Manipulation in Unstructured Environments. 14th International Symposium of Robotics Research. Springer Verlag, pp. 1-16, 2009.

Dov Katz, and Oliver Brock. Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception. In Unifying Perspectives In Computational and Robot Vision (8):11-23, 2008.

Dov Katz, and Oliver Brock. Manipulating Articulated Objects with Interactive Perception. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2008.

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, and Brian N. Levine. MORA routing and capacity building in disruption-tolerant networks. Ad Hoc Networks, pp. 600-620, 2008.

TJ Brunette, and Oliver Brock Guiding conformation space search with an all-atom energy potential. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics 73(4):958-972, 2008.

Dov Katz, Jacqueline Kenney, and Oliver Brock. How Can Robots Succed in Unstructured Environments. Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Intelligence in Human Environments at Robotics, pp. 01-06, 2008.

Dov Katz, Yuri Pyuro, and Oliver Brock. Learning to Manipulate Articulated Objects in Unstructured Environments Using a Grounded Relational Representation. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems IV, pp. 254-261, 2008.

Markus Rickert, Oliver Brock, and Alois Knoll. Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Motion Planning. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2812-2817, 2008.

Filip Jagodzinski, and Oliver Brock. Using a Mechanistic Perspective to Simulate Protein Backbone Motion. Poster presentation at Annual Symposium of the Protein Society 510, 2007.

Avi Herscovici, and Oliver Brock. Improved Search for Structure Learning of Large Bayesian Networks. TR-07-38, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007.

Filip Jagodzinski, and Oliver Brock. Towards a Mechanistic View of Protein Motion. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 4557-4562, 2007.

Brendan Burns, and Oliver Brock. Sampling-Based Motion Planning with Sensing Uncertainty. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007.

Brendan Burns, and Oliver Brock. Single-Query Motion Planning with Utility-Guided Random Trees. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007.

TJ Brunette, and Oliver Brock. Search Improvements Lead to Improved Accuracy in Protein Structure Prediction. Poster presentation at Annual Symposium of the Protein Society , 2007.

Dov Katz, and Oliver Brock. Interactive Perception: Closing the Gap Between Action and Perception. Workshop: From features to actions - Unifying perspectives in computational and robot vision at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1-9, 2007.

Dov Katz, and Oliver Brock. Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception. Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Sensing and Adapting to the Real World at Robotics: Science and Systems, pp. 01-06, 2007.

Brendan Burns, and Oliver Brock. Utility-Guided Random Trees. Technical Report TR-06-29, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006.

Brendan Burns, and Oliver Brock. Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Uncertain Knowledge. Technical Report TR-06-30, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006.

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, and Brian Neil Levine. Autonomous Enhancement of Disruption Tolerant Networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2006.

Dov Katz, Emily Horrell, Yuandong Yang, Brendan Burns, Thomas Buckley, Anna Grishkan, Volodymyr Zhylkovsky, Oliver Brock, and Erik Learned-Miller. The UMass Mobile Manipulator UMan: An Experimental Platform for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation. Workshop on Manipulation in Human Environments at Robotics: Science and Systems, pp. 01-08, 2006.

Robert Platt, Robert Burridge, Myron Diftler, Jodi Graf, Mike Goza, Eric Huber, and Oliver Brock. Humanoid Mobile Manipulation Using Controller Refinement. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 94-101, 2006.

Avi Herscovici, and Oliver Brock. Improving High-Dimensional Bayesian Network Structure Learning by Exploiting Search Space Information. Technical Report TR-06-49, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006.

Audrey Lee, Oliver Brock, and Ileana Streinau. A Methodology for Efficiently Sampling the Conformation Space of Molecular Structures. Technical Report TR-05-40, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

Oliver Brock and Roderic Grupen. NSF/NASA Workshop on Autonomous Mobile Manipulation (AMM). Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock, and Brian Neil Levine. MV Routing and Autonomous Capacity Building in Disruption Tolerant Networks. Proceedings of the Conference of the IEEE Communications Society (INFOCOM), pp. 1-11, 2005.

Brendan Burns, and Oliver Brock. Single-Query Entropy-Guided Path Planning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, pp. 2124-2129, 2005.

Brendan Burns, and Oliver Brock. Toward Optimal Configuration Space Sampling. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, pp. 105-112, 2005.

Brendan Burns, and Oliver Brock. Sampling-Based Motion Planning Using Predictive Models. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, pp. 3120-3125, 2005.

Oliver Brock, Andrew Fagg, Roderic Grupen, Robert Platt, Michael Rosenstein, and John Sweeney A Framework for Learning and Control in Intelligent Humanoid Robots. International Journal of Humanoid Robots 2(3):301-336, 2005.

Oliver Brock and Roderic Grupen. Final Report for the NSF/NASA Workshop on Autonomous Mobile Manipulation (AMM). Technical Report , Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

Yuandong Yang, and Oliver Brock. Efficient Motion Planning Based on Disassembly. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Cambridge, pp. 01-08, 2005.

Oliver Brock, and TJ Brunette. Predicting Protein Structure with Guided Conformation Space Search. Technical Report TR-05-63, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2005.

Audry Lee, Ileana Streinu und Oliver Brock. A methodology for efficiently sampling the conformation space of molecular structures. Physical Biology 2(4):108-115, 2005.

Brendan Burns, Oliver Brock and Brian Neil Levine. \textitMV Routing and Autonomous Capacity Building in Disruption Tolerant Networks. TR-04-68, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.

Brendan Burns, and Oliver Brock. Model-Based Motion Planning. TR-04-32, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.

Brendan Burns, and Oliver Brock. Single-Query Entropy-Guided Motion Planning. Technical Report TR-04-76, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.

Oliver Brock, and Roderic Grupen.. Integrating Manual Dexterity with Mobility for Human-Scale Service Robotics-The Case for Concentrated Research into Science and Technology Supporting Next-Generation Robotic Assistants. , 2004.

Oussama Khatib, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, Diego Ruspini, Luis Sentis, and Sriram Viji Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic Simulation. International Journal of Robotics Research 23(2):167-178, 2004.

Mike Rosenstein, Robert Platt, Patrick Deegan, John Sweeney, Oliver Brock, Andrew Fagg, and Roderic Grupen. Haptic Coupling of Dexterous Manipulation and Dynamic Mobility. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Video, 2004.

Bryan Thibodeau, Stephen W. Hart, Deepak R. Karuppiah, John D. Sweeney, and Oliver Brock. A Cascaded Filter Approach to Multi-objective Control. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, pp. 3877-3882, 2004.

Yuandong Yang, and Oliver Brock. Viewing Motion Planning as Disassembly: A Decomposition-Based Approach for Non-Stationary Robots. Technical Report TR-04-108, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.