Professor Dr. Oliver Brock

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oussama Khatib, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, Bob Holmberg, and Alan Bowling.. Dancing with Juliet.. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Video, 1999.

Oussama Khatib, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, Diego Ruspini, Luis Sentis, and Sriram Viji. Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic Simulation. Proceedings of the International Symposium of Robotics Research, pp. 01-10, 2001.

Oussama Khatib, Kazu Yokoi, Oliver Brock, Kyong-Sok Chang, and Arancha Casal. Robots in Human Environments. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Robot Motion Control RoMoCo, pp. 213-221, 1999.

Robert Platt, Oliver Brock, Andrew H. Fagg, Deepak Karupiah, Michael Rosenstein, Jefferson Coelho, Manfred Huber, Justus Piater, David Wheeler, and Roderic A. Grupen. A Framework for Humanoid Control and Intelligence. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 01-20, 2003.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oussama Khatib, Oliver Brock, Kwang-chih Chang, Diego Ruspini, Luis Sentis, and Srinivasan Viji. Human-Centered Robotics and Interactive Haptic. Robotics Research 6:239-253, 2003.

Yuandong Yang, Oliver Brock, and Roderic A. Grupen. Exploiting redundancy to implement multi-objective behavior. Internationale Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3385-3390, 2003.

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

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.

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.

TJ Brunette, and Oliver Brock. Model-Based Search to Determine Minima in Molecular Energy Landscapes. Technical Report TR-04-48, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2004.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.