My accepted publications are listed below. For a full list of submitted and in preparation publications as well, please take a look at my CV.
Published in International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2020
Recommended citation: Janelle Blankenburg, Mariya Zagainova, Stephen Michael Simmons, Gabrielle Talavera, Monica Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer. "Human-Robot Collaboration and Dialogue for Fault Recovery on Hierarchical Tasks." In International Conference on Social Robotics, Golden, Colorado, Nov 2020.
Published in 17th International Conference on Information Technology–New Generations (ITNG 2020), 2020
This work proposes a GPU-accelerated sampling based path planning algorithm which can be used as a global planner in autonomous navigation tasks.
Recommended citation: Janelle Blankenburg, Richard Kelley, David Feil-Seifer, Rui Wu, Lee Barford, Fredrick C Harris, Jr. "Towards GPU-Accelerated PRM for Autonomous Navigation." In International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2020. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-43020-7_74
Published in IMAC-XXXVIII Conference and Exposition, 2020
Recommended citation: Elif E. Bas, Mohamed Moustafa, David Feil-Seifer, Janelle Blankenburg. "Using a Machine Learning Approach for Computational Substructure in Real-Time Hybrid Simulation." In IMAC-XXXVIII Conference and Exposition, Houston, TX, Feb 2020. Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)
Published in International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2019
This paper addresses the problem of human-robot collaborative task execution for hierarchical task plans. Best Paper Award Finalist
Recommended citation: Bashira A. Anima, Janelle Blankenburg, Mariya Zagainova, Seyed (Pourya) Hoseini, Muhammed Tawfiq Chowdhury, David Feil-Seifer, Monica Nicolescu, and Mircea Nicolescu. "Collaborative Human-Robot Hierarchical Task Execution with an Activation Spreading Architecture." In International Conference on Social Robotics, Madrid, Spain, Nov 2019. https://rrl.cse.unr.edu/media/documents/2019/ONR_2019_ICSR_Collaborative_Human_Robot_Task.pdf
Published in In International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2019
Recommended citation: S. Pourya Hoseini A., Janelle Blankenburg, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "An Active Robotic Vision System with a Pair of Moving and Stationary Cameras." In International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Lake Tahoe, USA, Oct 2019. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-33723-0_15
Published in 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), 2019
This study evaluated how a robot demonstrating a Theory of Mind (ToM) influenced human perception of social intelligence and animacy in a human-robot interaction.
Recommended citation: Stephanie Sturgeon, Andrew Palmer, Janelle Blankenburg, David Feil-Seifer. "Perception of Social Intelligence in Robots Performing False-Belief Tasks." In International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), New Delhi, India, Oct 2019. https://rrl.cse.unr.edu/media/documents/2019/Stephanie_REU_Perceived_Intelligence_and_Animacy_in_Robots_1.pdf
Published in IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2019
This paper presents a novel approach to robottask learning from language-based instructions, which focuseson increasing the complexity of task representations that canbe taught through verbal instruction.
Recommended citation: Monica Nicolescu, Natalie Arnold, Janelle Blankenburg, David Feil-Seifer, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Mircea Nicolescu, Andrew Palmer, Thor Monteverde. "Learning of Complex-Structured Tasks from Verbal Instruction." In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Toronto, Canada, Oct 2019 https://rrl.cse.unr.edu/media/documents/2019/ICHR19_0064_MS.pdf
Published in Computers, 2019
In this paper, a robotic vision system is proposed that constantly uses a 3D camera, while actively switching to make use of a second RGB camera in cases where it is necessary. Article chosen as issue cover.
Recommended citation: S. Pourya Hoseini A., Janelle Blankenburg, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer. "Active Eye-in-Hand Data Management to Improve the Robotic Object." Computers, 2019. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/8/4/71/htm
Published in Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), 2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on, 2017
This paper addresses the problem of task allocation for multi-robot systems that perform tasks with complex, hierarchical representations which contain different types of ordering constraints and multiple paths of execution.
Recommended citation: Janelle Blankenburg, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Seyed P. Hoseini, Luke Fraser, David Feil-Seifer, Monica Nicolescu, and Mircea Nicolescu. "A Distributed Control Architecture for Collaborative Multi-Robot Task Allocation." In International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Birmingham, UK, Nov 2017. doi: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2017.8246931. https://rrl.cse.unr.edu/media/documents/2018/humanoids_1.pdf
Published in Proceedings of the NASA EPSCoR and Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting, 2015
Rapid increase in the use of Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS) has caused the safety of these platforms to become a high priority. One main safety issue with UAS platforms is motor failure. In order to increase the safety of these platforms in the event of such a failure, a failsafe mechanism can be used to stabilize and control the UAS platform.
Recommended citation: Janelle Blankenburg, Richard Kelley, and David Feil-Seifer. "Failsafe Algorithms for Stabilization and Control of UAS Platforms," Poster Paper in Proceedings of the NASA EPSCoR and Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. April, 2015. https://rrl.cse.unr.edu/media/documents/2015/failsafe-poster_1.pdf