Benjamin Kuipers

Affiliations:
  • University of Michigan, USA
  • University of Texas at Austin, USA (former)


According to our database1, Benjamin Kuipers authored at least 162 papers between 1976 and 2023.

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IEEE Fellow 1999, "For contributions to qualitative reasoning and representation.".

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2023
AI and Society: Ethics, Trust, and Cooperation.
Commun. ACM, August, 2023

The Reflectance Field Map: Mapping Glass and Specular Surfaces in Dynamic Environments.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

2022
Trust and Cooperation.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2022

2021
Ethics, Safety, and Autonomous Vehicles.
Computer, 2021

2019
Learning and Acting in Peripersonal Space: Moving, Reaching, and Grasping.
Frontiers Neurorobotics, 2019

ACM SIGAI activity report.
AI Matters, 2019

2018
How can we trust a robot?
Commun. ACM, 2018

1st AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society: a retrospective.
AI Matters, 2018

ACM SIGAI activity report.
AI Matters, 2018

Learning to Grasp by Extending the Peri-Personal Space Graph.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

Socially-Aware Navigation Using Topological Maps and Social Norm Learning.
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2018

2017
ACM SIGAI activity report.
AI Matters, 2017

Shakey: From Conception to History.
AI Mag., 2017

Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence Courses.
AI Mag., 2017

Discrete-time dynamic modeling and calibration of differential-drive mobile robots with friction.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

A Tale of Two Architectures: A Dual-Citizenship Integration of Natural Language and the Cognitive Map.
Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2017

2016
Learning Tabletop Object Manipulation by Imitation.
CoRR, 2016

Remembering Marvin Minsky.
AI Mag., 2016

Why and How Should Robots Behave Ethically?
Proceedings of the What Social Robots Can and Should Do, 2016

Learning to reach by building a representation of peri-personal space.
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2016

Toward Morality and Ethics for Robots.
Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Spring Symposia, 2016

Human-Like Morality and Ethics for Robots.
Proceedings of the AI, 2016

2015
Feedback motion planning via non-holonomic RRT* for mobile robots.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2015

2014
Directing human attention with pointing.
Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014

Handling perceptual clutter for robot vision with partial model-based interpretations.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

Structured Recurrent Temporal Restricted Boltzmann Machines.
Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2014

Semantic Visual Understanding of Indoor Environments: From Structures to Opportunities for Action.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2014

2013
A Nonlinear Constrained Optimization Framework for Comfortable and Customizable Motion Planning of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots - Part II.
CoRR, 2013

A Nonlinear Constrained Optimization Framework for Comfortable and Customizable Motion Planning of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots - Part I.
CoRR, 2013

Interpreting Robot Pointing Behavior.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 5th International Conference, 2013

Autonomous person pacing and following with Model Predictive Equilibrium Point Control.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

VisAGGE: Visible angle grid for glass environments.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Weakly Supervised Learning of Mid-Level Features with Beta-Bernoulli Process Restricted Boltzmann Machines.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2013

Focusing Attention on Visual Features that Matter.
Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, 2013

Preface.
Proceedings of the Learning Rich Representations from Low-Level Sensors, 2013

Autonomous Representation Learning in a Developing Agent.
Proceedings of the Computational and Robotic Models of the Hierarchical Organization of Behavior, 2013

2012
Autonomous Learning of High-Level States and Actions in Continuous Environments.
IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev., 2012

An existing, ecologically-successful genus of collectively intelligent artificial creatures
CoRR, 2012

Dynamic visual understanding of the local environment for an indoor navigating robot.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012

Robot navigation with model predictive equilibrium point control.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012

Efficient search for correct and useful topological maps.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012

Moving Object Segmentation Using Motor Signals.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2012, 2012

2011
Understanding Psychological Development in Biological and Artificial Agents: Report on the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2010).
IEEE Trans. Auton. Ment. Dev., 2011

A smooth control law for graceful motion of differential wheeled mobile robots in 2D environment.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011

Learning geometry from sensorimotor experience.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, 2011

Real-time indoor scene understanding using Bayesian filtering with motion cues.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2011

Cross-view action recognition via view knowledge transfer.
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011

Recognizing human actions by attributes.
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2011

Motion Segmentation by Learning Homography Matrices from Motor Signals.
Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2011

Object Detection Using Principal Contour Fragments.
Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2011

Finding your way: The cognitive science of navigation.
Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

2010
Factoring the Mapping Problem: Mobile Robot Map-building in the Hybrid Spatial Semantic Hierarchy.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2010

Towards the Object Semantic Hierarchy.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning, 2010

Multiple ontologies for spatial exploration and mapping.
Proceedings of the Indoor Spatial Awareness, 2010

2009
A stereo vision based mapping algorithm for detecting inclines, drop-offs, and obstacles for safe local navigation.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009

A framework for planning comfortable and customizable motion of an assistive mobile robot.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009

Autonomously Learning an Action Hierarchy Using a Learned Qualitative State Representation.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2009, 2009

3D pose estimation for planes.
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2009

Learning the sensorimotor structure of the foveated retina.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob 2009), 2009

A comparison of strategies for developmental action acquisition in QLAP.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob 2009), 2009

Sensor Map Discovery for Developing Robots.
Proceedings of the Manifold Learning and Its Applications, 2009

Toward Bootstrap Learning of the Foundations of Commonsense Knowledge.
Proceedings of the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 2009

2008
An Intellectual History of the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy.
Proceedings of the Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping, 2008

Cognitive Robot Mapping: An Introduction.
Proceedings of the Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping, 2008

The initial development of object knowledge by a learning robot.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2008

Drinking from the firehose of experience.
Artif. Intell. Medicine, 2008

Detecting obstacles and drop-offs using stereo and motion cues for safe local motion.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008

Trajectory generation for dynamic bipedal walking through qualitative model based manifold learning.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008

High performance control for graceful motion of an intelligent wheelchair.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008

Ray-based Color Image Segmentation.
Proceedings of the Fifth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2008

2007
AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium Series Reports.
AI Mag., 2007

Integrating Multiple Representations of Spatial Knowledge for Mapping, Navigation, and Communication.
Proceedings of the Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants, 2007

Preface: Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems.
Proceedings of the Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems, 2007

Where Do Actions Come From? Autonomous Robot Learning of Objects and Actions.
Proceedings of the Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems, 2007

Autonomous Robot Learning of Foundational Representations.
Proceedings of the Computational Approaches to Representation Change during Learning and Development, 2007

Sneaking Up on the Hard Problem of Consciousness.
Proceedings of the AI and Consciousness: Theoretical Foundations and Current Approaches, 2007

Autonomous Development of a Grounded Object Ontology by a Learning Robot.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007

2006
Parameter learning from stochastic teachers and stochastic compulsive liars.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part B, 2006

Developing navigation behavior through self-organizing distinctive-state abstraction.
Connect. Sci., 2006

Bootstrap learning of foundational representations.
Connect. Sci., 2006

Qualitative Hybrid Control of Dynamic Bipedal Walking.
Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems II, 2006

Autonomous Shape Model Learning for Object Localization and Recognition.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006

Adapting Proposal Distributions for Accurate, Efficient Mobile Robot Localization.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006

Designing safe, profitable automated stock trading agents using evolutionary algorithms.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2006

Building Local Safety Maps for a Wheelchair Robot using Vision and Lasers.
Proceedings of the Third Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2006), 2006

Walk the Talk: Connecting Language, Knowledge, and Action in Route Instructions.
Proceedings of the Proceedings, 2006

2005
Time in Qualitative Simulation.
Proceedings of the Handbook of Temporal Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence, 2005

Towards Autonomous Topological Place Detection Using the Extended Voronoi Graph.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

Zmail: Zero-Sum Free Market Control of Spam.
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCS 2005 Workshops), 2005

05491 Report of the Session: The Role of Spatial Cognition for Robotics.
Proceedings of the Spatial Cognition: Specialization and Integration, 04.12. - 09.12.2005, 2005

Consciousness: Drinking from the Firehose of Experience.
Proceedings of the Proceedings, 2005

2004
Towards a general theory of topological maps.
Artif. Intell., 2004

Loop-closing and planarity in topological map-building.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, September 28, 2004

Bootstrap learning for object discovery.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, September 28, 2004

Using the topological skeleton for scalable global metrical map-building.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, September 28, 2004

Local Metrical and Global Topological Maps in the Hybrid Spatial Semantic Hierarchy.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004

2003
The AAAI-2002 Robot Challenge.
AI Mag., 2003

Qualitative Heterogeneous Control of Higher Order Systems.
Proceedings of the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 2003

On How to Learn from a Stochastic Teacher or a Stochastic Compulsive Liar of Unknown Identity.
Proceedings of the AI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2003

2002
Qualitative Modeling and Heterogeneous Control of Global System Behavior.
Proceedings of the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, 5th International Workshop, 2002

Bootstrap Learning for Place Recognition.
Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Fourteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, July 28, 2002

2001
Cognitive Maps for Planetary Rovers.
Auton. Robots, 2001

Using CAD drawings for robot navigation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2001

A Logical Account of Causal and Topological Maps.
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001

2000
The Spatial Semantic Hierarchy.
Artif. Intell., 2000

Semi-quantitative system identification.
Artif. Intell., 2000

1999
Monitoring Piecewise Continuous Behaviors by Refining Semi-Quantative Trackers.
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1999

Formalizing Regions in the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy: An AH-Graphs Implementation Approach.
Proceedings of the Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science, 1999

1998
A Hierarchy of Qualitative Representations for Space.
Proceedings of the Spatial Cognition, 1998

Integrating Vision and Spatial Reasoning for Assistive Navigation.
Proceedings of the Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence, 1998

Integrating Topological and Metric Maps for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Statistical Approach.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Tenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, 1998

Qualitative Simulation as a Temporally-extended Constraint Satisfaction Problem.
Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Tenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, 1998

1997
Proving Properties of Continuous Systems: Qualitative Simulation and Temporal Logic.
Artif. Intell., 1997

Map Learning with Uninterpreted Sensors and Effectors.
Artif. Intell., 1997

Qualitative and Quantitative Simulation: Bridging the Gap.
Artif. Intell., 1997

Static and Dynamic Abstraction Solves the Problem of Chatter in Qualitative Simulation.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Ninth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, 1997

Model Decomposition and Simulation: A Component Based Qualitative Simulation Algorithm.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Ninth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, 1997

1994
The composition and validation of heterogeneous control laws.
Autom., 1994

Reasoning in Logic about Continuous Systems.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'94). Bonn, 1994

The Figure Understander: A System for Integrating Text and Diagram Input to a Knowledge Base.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, 1994

Learning to Explore and Build Maps.
Proceedings of the 12th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, WA, USA, July 31, 1994

Qualitative reasoning - modeling and simulation with incomplete knowledge.
MIT Press, ISBN: 978-0-262-11190-4, 1994

1993
Qualitative Simulation: Then and Now.
Artif. Intell., 1993

Reasoning with Qualitative Models.
Artif. Intell., 1993

A Qualitative Method to Construct Phase Portraits.
Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Washington, 1993

Numerical Behavior Envelopes for Qualitative Models.
Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Washington, 1993

1992
Reasoning about energy in qualitative simulation.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., 1992

Guaranteed Coverage Versus Intelligent Sampling: A Reply to Sacks and Doyle.
Comput. Intell., 1992

A Continuous Approach To Robot Motion Planning With Many Degrees Of Freedom.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1992

Automatic Abduction of Qualitative Models.
Proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1992

1991
Algernon - A Tractable System for Knowledge-Representation.
SIGART Bull., 1991

A robot exploration and mapping strategy based on a semantic hierarchy of spatial representations.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 1991

Process Monitoring and Diagnosis: A Model-Based Approach.
IEEE Expert, 1991

Higher Order Derivative Constraints in Qualitative Simulation.
Artif. Intell., 1991

Path Planning for Highly Redundant Manipulators Using a Continuous Model.
Proceedings of the 9th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1991

Negation and Proof by Contradiction in Access-Limited Logic.
Proceedings of the 9th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1991

ALL: Formalizing Access-Limited Reasoning.
Proceedings of the Principles of Semantic Networks, 1991

1990
QPC: A Compiler from Physical Models into Qualitative Differential Equations.
Proceedings of the 8th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 29, 1990

1989
Qualitative reasoning: Modeling and simulation with incomplete knowledge.
Autom., 1989

Towards a Theory of Access-Limited Logic for Knowledge Representation.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'89). Toronto, 1989

Model-Based Monitoring of Dynamic Systems.
Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Detroit, 1989

1988
Critical Decisions under Uncertainty: Representation and Structure.
Cogn. Sci., 1988

Navigation and Mapping in Large Scale Space.
AI Mag., 1988

Qualitative simulation using time-scale abstraction.
Artif. Intell. Eng., 1988

The qualitative calculus is sound but incomplete: A reply to Peter Struss.
Artif. Intell. Eng., 1988

Non-Intersection of Trajectories in Qualitative Phase Space: A Global Constraint for Qualitative Simulation.
Proceedings of the 7th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1988

A Robust, Qualitative Method for Robot Spatial Learning.
Proceedings of the 7th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1988

Using Incomplete Quantitative Knowledge In Qualitative Reasoning.
Proceedings of the 7th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1988

1987
Qualitative Simulation as Causal Explanation.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., 1987

New Reasoning Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
Int. J. Man Mach. Stud., 1987

Taming Intractible Branching in Qualitative Simulation.
Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Milan, 1987

Abstraction by Time-Scale in Qualitative Simulation.
Proceedings of the 6th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Seattle, 1987

1986
Qualitative Simulation.
Artif. Intell., 1986

1985
The Limits of Qualitative Simulation.
Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Los Angeles, 1985

1984
Causal Reasoning in Medicine: Analysis of a Protocol.
Cogn. Sci., 1984

Commonsense Reasoning about Causality: Deriving Behavior from Structure.
Artif. Intell., 1984

1983
How to Discover a Knowledge Representation for Causal Reasoning by Studying an Expert Physician.
Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Karlsruhe, 1983

Modeling Human Knowledge of Routes: Partial Knowledge and Individual Variation.
Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983

1982
Getting the Envisionment Right.
Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1982

1979
Common-Sense Knowledge of Space: Learning from Experience.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1979

1978
Modeling Spatial Knowledge.
Cogn. Sci., 1978

1976
Computer power and human reason.
SIGART Newsl., 1976


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