Alex Stoytchev's Publications

• Stoytchev, A., "Robot Tool Behavior: A Developmental Approach to Autonomous Tool Use", Ph.D. Dissertation, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, August 2007.


• Stoytchev, A., "Learning the Affordances of Tools using a Behavior-Grounded Approach", In "Affordance-Based Robot Control," Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 4760, E. Rome et al. (Eds.), pp. 140-158, 2008. (also available here).


• Sinapov, J. and Stoytchev, A., "Detecting the Functional Similarities Between Tools Using a Hierarchical Representation of Outcomes,", In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Monterey, CA, Aug. 9-12, 2008.


• Miller, M. and Stoytchev, A., "Hierarchical Voting Experts: An Unsupervised Algorithm for Hierarchical Sequence Segmentation,", In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Monterey, CA, Aug. 9-12, 2008. (Best Paper Award, ICDL 2008)


• Griffith, S., Sinapov, J. and Stoytchev, A., "Toward Learning to Detect and Use Containers,", Poster abstract 7th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Monterey, CA, Aug. 9-12, 2008.


• Sinapov, J. and Stoytchev, A., "Toward Autonomous Learning of an Ontology of Tool Affordances by a Robot," In Proceedings of the 23rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Chicago, IL, July 13-17, 2008.


• Miller, M. and Stoytchev, A., "Hierarchical Voting Experts: An Unsupervised Algorithm for Segmenting Hierarchically Structured Sequences," In Proceedings of the 23rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Chicago, IL, July 13-17, 2008.


• Sinapov, J., Wiemer, M., and Stoytchev, A., "Interactive Learning of the Acoustic Properties of Objects", In Proceedings of the RSS 2008 Workshop - Robot Manipulation: Intelligence in Human Environments, Zurch, Switzerland, June 28, 2008.


• Stoytchev, A., "Toward Video-Guided Robot Behaviors", In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob), pp. 165-172, Rutgers University, NJ, Nov 5-7, 2007.


• Sinapov, J. and Stoytchev, A., "Learning and Generalization of Behavior-Grounded Tool Affordances", In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Imperial College, London, 11-13 July, 2007.


• Sinapov, J. and Stoytchev, A., "Learning Behavior-Grounded Tool Affordances with Generalization Across Different Tools", In Proceedings of the RSS 2007 Manipulation Workshop: Sensing and Adapting to the Real World, Atlanta, GA, June 30, 2007.


• Stoytchev, A., "Five Basic Principles of Developmental Robotics", NIPS 2006 Workshop on Grounding Perception, Knowledge and Cognition in Sensori-Motor Experience, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, Dec. 8, 2006.


• Stoytchev, A., "Autonomous Learning of Tool Affordances by a Robot", In Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 9-13, 2005.


• Stoytchev, A., "Behavior-Grounded Representation of Tool Affordances", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 3071-3076, Barcelona, Spain, April 18-22, 2005.


• Stoytchev, A., "Toward Learning the Binding Affordances of Objects: A Behavior-Grounded Approach", In proceedings of AAAI Symposium on Developmental Robotics, Stanford University, pp. 17-22, Mar 21-23, 2005.


• Stoytchev, A., "Toward a Behavior-Grounded Representation of Tool Affordances", In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob), pp. 153-154, Genoa, Italy, Aug. 25-27, 2004.


• Stoytchev, A. and Arkin, R., "Incorporating Motivation in a Hybrid Robot Architecture", Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 269-274, May 2004.


• Stoytchev, A., "Computational Model for an Extendable Robot Body Schema", Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing Technical Report GIT-CC-03-44, Oct. 21, 2003.


• Stoytchev, A., "Development and Extension of the Robot Body Schema", In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob), pp. 179-180, Boston, MA, Aug. 4-5, 2003.


• Martinson, E., Stoytchev, A., Arkin, R. "Robot Behavioral Selection Using Q-learning", In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), EPFL, Switzerland, Sep. 30 - Oct. 4, 2002.


• Martinson, E., Stoytchev, A., Arkin, R. "Robot Behavioral Selection Using Q-learning", Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing Technical Report GIT-CC-01-19, 2001


• Diaz, J., Stoytchev, A., and Arkin, R., "Exploring Unknown Structured Environments", In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS-2001). Pages 145-149. Key West, Florida. 21-23 May 2001.


• Stoytchev, A. and Arkin, R., "Combining Deliberation, Reactivity and Motivation in the Context of a Behavior-Based Robot Architecture", In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (IEEE CIRA 2001), Baniff, Canada, July 29 - August 1, 2001.


• Endo, Y., MacKenzie, D., Stoytchev, A., Haliburton, W., Ali, K., Balch, T., Cameron, J., and Chen, Z. "User Manual for MissionLab version 4.0", August 2000.


• Tanawongsuwan, R., Stoytchev, A., and Essa, I., "Robust Tracking of People by a Mobile Robotic Agent", Technical Report GIT-GVU-99-19.


• Stoytchev, A., Tanawongsuwan, R. "Pepe: PErsonal PEt", Video Proceedings of the AAAI-98 Mobile Robot Exhibition, Madision, WI, July, 1998.


• Wu J., Rankov V., and Stoytchev A., "Parallel Computations on LAN-connected Workstations", Proceedings of IASTED'96 Eighth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Chicago, USA, Oct. 1996.

Last Modified: Aug 8, 2007 by Alexander Stoytchev