Publications

Refereed Journals

  • Adriana Tapus, Cristian Tapus and Maja J Mataric' (2008) "User-Robot Personality Matching and Robot Behavior Adaptation for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy", Intelligent Service Robotics Journal, Special Issue on Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics, 1(2):169-183, April 2008 [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Roland Siegwart (2008) "Topological Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with Fingerprints of Places", Autonomous Robots (under review).
  • Adriana Tapus, Maja J Mataric' and Brian Scassellati (2007) "The Grand Challenges in Socially Assistive Robotics", IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), Special Issue on Grand Challenges in Robotics , 14(1), March 2007. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Maja J Mataric' (2006) "Towards Socially Assistive Robotics", International Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan (JRSJ) , 24(5), pp. 576-578, July, 2006. [PDF]

    Refereed Book Chapters

  • Maja J Mataric', Adriana Tapus, Carolee Winstein and Jon Eriksson (2008) "Socially Assistive Robotics for Stroke and Mild TBI Rehailitation", In Innovation in Rehabilitation, IOS, 2008. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Roland Siegwart (2008) "Topological SLAM using Fingerprints of Places", In Pierre Bessiere, Roland Siegwart and Christian Laugier, editors, Bayesian sensory-motor models and programs, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
  • Adriana Tapus and Maja J Mataric' (2008) "User Personality Matching with Hands-Off Robot for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy", Experimental Robotics, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 39, 165-175, 2008.
  • David Bellot, Roland Siegwart, Pierre Bessiere, Adriana Tapus, Christophe Coue and Julien Diard (2004) "Bayesian Reasoning for Real World Robotics: Basics, Scaling and Example". In Fumiya Iida and Rolf Pfeifer and Luc Steels and Vasuo Kuniyoshi, editors, Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 3139, pages 186-201, Springer-Verlag, 2004.[PDF]

    Refereed Conference Proceedings

  • Arnau Ramisa., Adriana Tapus,  Lopez de Mantaras R., and Toledo R. (2008) “Mobile Robot Localization using Panoramic Vision and Combinations of Local Feature Region Detectors”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, CA, USA, April 2008. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus, Cristian Tapus and Maja J Mataric' (2007) "Hands-Off Therapist Robot Behavior Adaptation to User Personality for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Roma, Italy, April 2007. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Maja J Mataric' (2006) "User Personality Matching with Hands-Off Robot for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy", In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2006. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Roland Siegwart (2006), "A Cognitive Modeling of Space using Fingerprints of Places for Mobile Robot Navigation" In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, U.S.A., May 2006. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus, Francesco Battaglia, and Roland Siegwart (2006), "The Hippocampal Place Cells and Fingerprints of Places: Spatial Representation Animals, Animats and Robots." In Proceedings of IAS-9, March 2006, Tokyo, Japan. [PDF]
  • Guy Ramel, Adriana Tapus, Francois Aspert and Roland Siegwart (2006), "Simple Form Recognition using Bayesian Programming." In Proceedings of IAS-9, March 2006, Tokyo, Japan. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Roland Siegwart (2005), "Incremental Robot Mapping with Fingerprints of Places" In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Edmonton, Canada, August 2005.[PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus, Shrihari Vasudevan and Roland Siegwart (2005), "Toward a Multilevel Cognitive Probabilistic Representation of Space." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X, part of the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging 2005, San Jose, CA, USA, 16-20 January 2005. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus, Guy Ramel, Luc Dobler and Roland Siegwart (2004), "Topology Learning and Place Recognition using Bayesian Programming for Mobile Robot Navigation." In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Sendai, Japan, September 2004.[PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus, Nicola Tomatis and Roland Siegwart (2004), "Topological Global Localization and Mapping with Fingerprint and Uncertainty." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Singapore, June 2004.[PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus, Stefan Heinzer and Roland Siegwart (2004), "Bayesian Programming for Topological Global Localization with Fingerprints" In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), New Orleans, U.S.A., April 2004.[PDF]
  • Agostino Martinelli, Adriana Tapus, Kai O. Arras and Roland Siegwart (2003), "Multi-resolution SLAM for Real World Navigation" In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR), Siena, Italy, October 2003.[PDF]
  • Agostino Martinelli, Nicola Tomatis, Adriana Tapus and Roland Siegwart (2003) "Simultaneous Localization and Odometry Calibration for Mobile Robot." In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, U.S.A., October 2003, vol.2, 1499 - 1504.[PDF]
  • Pierre Lamon, Adriana Tapus, Etienne Glauser, Nicola Tomatis and Roland Siegwart (2003) "Environmental Modeling with Fingerprint Sequences for Topological Global Localization." In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, U.S.A., October 2003, vol.3, 3781 - 3786.[PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Olivier Aycard (2003) "Searching a Target with a Mobile Robot." In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania, July 2003.[PDF]

    Refereed Conference Posters

  • Adriana Tapus, Eric Wade, and Maja Mataric' (2008) "Using a Socially Assistive Robot in Gait Recovery and Training for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments", In Proceedings of AAAI Fall Symposium AI in Eldercare: New Solutions to Old Problem, Washington, DC, USA, November 7-9, 2008.[PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Maja Mataric' (2007) "Towards Active Learning for Socially Assistive Robots", In Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2007 Workshop: Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning, Vancouver, Canada, December 2007.[PDF]
  • Alexandre Bur, Adriana Tapus, Nabil Ouerhani, Heinz Hugli and Roland Siegwart (2006), "Robot Navigation by Panoramic Vision and Attention Guided Features", In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition(ICPR) , Hong Kong, China, August 2006.
  • Adriana Tapus and Roland Siegwart (2006), "Fingerprints of Places: A Model of Hippocampal Place Cells", In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, U.S.A., May 2006.[PDF]

    Refereed Workshop and Symposia Papers

  • Adriana Tapus (2008) "Long-term learning and adaptation in intelligent personal robotics", In Machine Learning: Theory, Applications, Experiences Workshop for Women in Machine Learning , Vancouver, Canada, December 2008. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Maja J Mataric' (2008) "Socially Assistive Robotic Music Therapist for Maintaining Attention of Older Adults with Cognitive Impairments", In Proceedings of AAAI Fall Symposium AI in Eldercare: New Solutions to Old Problem , Washington, DC, USA, November 7-9, 2008. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Maja J Mataric' (2008) "Active Learning for Socially Assistive Robotics for Stroke Rehabilitation and Dementia Care", In Interactive Robot Learning Workshop, Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, June, 2008. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus, Juan Fasola, and Maja Mataric' (2008) “Cognitive Assistance and Physical Therapy for Dementia Patients Using Socially Assistive Robots”, In Social Interaction with Intelligent Inddor Robots (SI3R) Workshop, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, CA, USA, May, 2008. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus, Juan Fasola, and Maja Mataric' (2008) “Socially Assistive Robots for Individuals Suffering From Dementia”, In Robotic Helpers: User Interaction, Interfaces and Companions in Assistive and Therapy Robotics Workshop, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March, 2008. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus, and Maja Mataric' (2008) “Socially Assistive Robots: The Link between Personality, Empathy, Physiological Signals, and Task Performance”, AAAI Spring Symposium, Palo Alto, Stanford, USA, March, 2008. [PDF]
  • Maja Mataric', Adriana Tapus, and David Feil-Seifer (2007) “Personalized Socially Assistive Robotics”, Workshop on Intelligent Systems for Assisted Cognition, Rochester, New York, USA, October, 2007.
  • Adriana Tapus (2007) "Emulating Empathy in Socially Assistive Robotics", In AAAI Spring Symposium on Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics, Palo Alto, Stanford, U.S.A., March 2007. [PDF]
  • Adriana Tapus and Maja J Mataric' (2006) "Hands-Off Robot Behavior Adaptation for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy", In Machine Learning: Theory, Applications, Experiences Workshop for Women in Machine Learning, San Diego, U.S.A., October 2006.
  • Maja J Mataric' and Adriana Tapus (2006) “The Promises and Challenges of Socially Assistive Robotics”, 50th Anniversary AI Summit , Monte Verita, Switzerland, July 2006. [PDF]
  • Roland Siegwart, Shrihari Vasudevan, and Adriana Tapus (2004) “From Geometric to Cognitive Maps – A Key Element for Personal Robots”, 18th IFIP World Computer Congress, Toulouse, France, August 2004, pp. 755-760.

    Invited Workshop and Symposia Papers

  • Adriana Tapus (2007) “Socially Assistive Robotics: Active Learning for User Task Performance Improvement”, In Assistive Technologies: Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics Workshop, Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, CA, USA, October, 2007.
  • Adriana Tapus (2007) “The Future of Therapy and Personal Care Robots: Towards Socially Assistive Robotics”, In Robotic Technology for Rehabilitation Workshop, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Roma, Italy, April 2007.
  • Adriana Tapus and Maja J Mataric' (2006) "User-Robot Personality Matching for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy", In Socially Assistive Robotics Workshop, Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., August 2006.
  • Adriana Tapus and Roland Siegwart (2006), "From Human-like Robot Navigation to Human-Robot Interaction" In Cognitive Robots and Systems Workshop, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, U.S.A., May 2006.

    PhD Thesis

  • Adriana Tapus (2005) "Topological SLAM - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Fingerprints of Places" PhD Dissertation, Computer Science and Systems Engineering Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, October 2005. [PDF]

    Technical Reports

  • Adriana Tapus (2002) "Markov Decision Processes Use for Mobile Robot Actions Planning and Execution" Master's Thesis in Computer Science, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, July 2002.