Iowa State University

Iowa State UniversityIowa State University
Jivko Sinapov
Developmental Robotics Laboratory

Department of Computer Science

Robotics:

Journal Papers:

  • Sinapov, J., Bergquist, T., Schenck, C., Ohiri, U., Griffith, S., and Stoytchev, A.
    Interactive Object Recognition Using Proprioceptive and Auditory Feedback
     International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 30, No. 10, pp. 1250-1262, September 2011. [Link] [PDF]


  • Griffith, S., Sinapov, J., Sukhoy, V., and Stoytchev, A.
    A Behavior-Grounded Approach to Forming Object Categories: Separating Containers from Non-Containers
     IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, August 2011 (to appear)
    [Link] [PDF]


  • Sinapov, J., Sukhoy, V., Sahai, R., and Stoytchev, A. (2011).
    Vibrotactile Recognition and Categorization of Surfaces by a Humanoid Robot
     IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 488-497, June 2011.
    [Link] [PDF]


Refereed Conference Papers:
  • Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2011).
    Object Category Recognition by a Humanoid Robot Using Behavior-Grounded Relational Learning
     Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, May 9-13, 2011. [PDF]

  • Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2010).
    The Odd-One-Out Task: Towards an Intelligence Test for Robots
     In proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL),Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 18-21, pp. 126-131, 2010.
    (Best Student Paper Award)     [PDF] [Link]


  • Sukhoy, V., Sinapov, J., Wu, L., and Stoytchev, A. (2010).
    Learning to Press Doorbell Buttons
     In proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL),Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 18-21, pp. 132-138, 2010. [PDF]


  • Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2010).
    The Boosting Effect of Exploratory Behaviors
     In Proceedings of the 24-th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Atlanta, GA, July 11-15, pp. 1613-1618, 2010. [PDF] [Link]


  • Griffith, S., Sinapov, J., Sukhoy, V., and Stoytchev, A. (2010).
    How to Separate Containers from Non-Containers? A Behavior-Grounded Approached to Acoustic Object Categorization
     In proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). [PDF]


  • Sinapov, J., Wiemer, M., and Stoytchev, A. (2009).
    Interactive Learning of the Acoustic Properties of Household Objects
     In proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). [PDF] [Link]


  • Griffith, S., Sinapov, J., Miller, M., and Stoytchev, A. (2009).
    Toward Interactive Learning of Object Categories by a Robot: A case study with container and non-container objects
     In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2009) [PDF] [Link]


  • Sinapov, J., Stoytchev, A. (2008).
    Detecting the Functional Similarities Between Tools Using a Hierarchical Representation of Outcomes
     In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2008) [PDF] [Link]


  • Sinapov, J., Stoytchev, A. (2007).
    Learning and Generalization of Behavior-Grounded Tool Affordances
     In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007) [PDF] [Link]


Refereed Workshop Papers:

  • Sukhoy, V., Sahai, R., Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2009).
    Vibrotactile Recognition of Surface Textures by a Humanoid Robot
     In proceedings of the 2009 Humanoids Workshop: Tactile Sensing in Humanoids Tactile Sensors and Beyond [PDF]


  • Bergquist, T., Schenck, C., Ohiri, U., Sinapov, J., Griffith, S., and Stoytchev, A. (2009).
    Interactive Object Recognition Using Proprioceptive Feedback
     In proceedings of the 2009 IROS Workshop: Semantic Perception for Mobile Manipulation [PDF]


  • Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2009).
    From Acoustic Object Recognition to Object Categorization by a Humanoid Robot
     In proceedings of the "Mobile Manipulation" workshop held at the Robotics Science and System Conference, 2009. [PDF]


  • Sinapov, J., Wiemer, M., and Stoytchev, A. (2008).
    Interactive Learning of the Acoustic Properties of Objects by a Robot
     In proceedings of the "Robot Manipulation: Intelligence in Human Environments" workshop held at the Robotics Science and System Conference, 2008. [PDF]


Posters and Short Papers:

  • Griffith, S., Sinapov, J., Stoytchev, A. (2008).
    Toward Learning to Detect and Use Containers
     Presented at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2008)

  • Sinapov, J., Stoytchev, A. (2008).
    Toward Autonomous Learning of an Ontology of Tool Affordances by a Robot
     Presented at the Student Abstract/Poster Session at AAAI, 2008 [Abstract]

  • Sinapov, J., Stoytchev, A. (2007).
    Learning Behavior-Grounded Tool Affordances with Generalization Accross Different Tools
     Presented at the Workshop on Robot Manipulation at the Robotics Science and Systems Conference (RSS 2007). [Abstract] [Poster] [WWW]

  • Sinapov, J., Miller, M., Wong, P., Martinez, M., Stoytchev, A., Weiner, E., Myers, M. (2007). Tool Tracking for Complex Manufacturing Tasks
     Presented at the annual Iowa State University John Deere Day Symposium, 2007

Videos:
  • Sinapov, J. (2010), Learning Proprioceptive Properties for Object Weight Classification
     Willow Garage Intern Video [Blog] [Video]


Bioinformatics:

Journal Papers:
  • Caragea, C., Sinapov, J., Dobbs, D., Honavar, V. (2009).
    Mixture of experts models to exploit global sequence similarity on biomolecular sequence labeling
     BMC Bioinformatics, 2009 10:S4 [Link]


  • Caragea, C., Sinapov, J., Silvescu, A., Dobbs, D., Honavar, V. (2007).
    Glycosylation Site Prediction Using Ensembles of Support Vector Machine Classifiers
     BMC Bioinformatics, 2007 8:438 [Link] [Server]


Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers:
  • Caragea, C., Sinapov, J., Dobbs, D., Honavar, V. (2008).
    Using Global Sequence Similarity to Enhance Biological Sequence Labeling
     In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2008) [PDF soon]


  • Caragea, C., Sinapov, J., Dobbs, D., Honavar, V. (2007).
    Assessing the Performance of Biological Sequence-Based Predictors
     In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2007) [PDF]


Posters and Short Papers:

  • Sinapov, J., Caragea, C., Dobbs, D., Honavar, V. (2008).
    Using Global Sequence Similarity Improves Biological Site-Specific Classifiers.
     Presented at the 16th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2008)


  • Caragea, C., Sinapov, J., Silvescu, A., Dobbs, D., Honavar, V. (2006).
    Prediction of Glycosylation Sites using Machine Learning Approaches.
     Presented at the Eleventh Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2007) [Abstract] [Poster]