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Contact Information: Lindley Hall, Office 310F, Ph: (812) 856-7496,
Fax: (812) 855-4829, Email hauserk (at) indiana.edu

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

School of Informatics and Computing

Indiana University at Bloomington

Bio

Kris Hauser received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008, advised by Jean-Claude Latombe, and received bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2003. He also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, in the Automation Lab under Ken Goldberg. He has held his current position as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University since August 2009. More...

Research

Research interests include robot motion planning and control, semiautonomous robots, and integrating perception and planning. Past applications of this research have included automated vehicle collision avoidance, robotic manipulation, robot-assisted medicine, and legged locomotion. More...

Teaching

Fall 2011: B553 Optimization and Learning Algorithms
Fall 2011: B551 Elements of Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2011: B659 Principles of Intelligent Robot Motion

Selected Publications

Y. Zhang, J. Luo, and K. Hauser. Sampling-based Motion Planning With Dynamic Intermediate State Objectives: Application to Throwing. To appear in IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. pdf link

J. Luo and K. Hauser. Interactive Generation of Dynamically Feasible Robot Trajectories from Sketches Using Temporal Mimicking. To appear in IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. pdf link

J. Johnson and K. Hauser. Optimal Acceleration-Bounded Trajectory Planning in Dynamic Environments Along a Specified Path. To appear in IEEE Int'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012. pdf link

K. Hauser. On Responsiveness, Safety, and Completeness in Real-Time Motion Planning. Autonomous Robots, 32(1):35-48, 2012. pdf link

E. You and K. Hauser. Assisted Teleoperation Strategies for Aggressively Controlling a Robot Arm with 2D Input. In Robotics: Science and Systems, Los Angeles, July 2011. pdf

K. Hauser and V. Ng-Thow-Hing. Randomized Multi-Modal Motion Planning for a Humanoid Robot Manipulation Task. In International Journal of Robotics Research, 30(6):678-698, 2011. doi: 10.1177/0278364910386985. pdf link

K. Hauser. Randomized Belief-Space Replanning in Partially-Observable Continuous Spaces. In Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, Singapore, Dec. 2010. pdf

K. Hauser, R. Alterovitz, N. Chentanez, A. Okamura, and K. Goldberg, Feedback Control for Steering Needles Through 3D Deformable Tissue Using Helical Paths. In Robotics: Science and Systems, Seattle, WA, 2009. pdf

B. Morisset, R.B. Rusu, A. Sundaresan, K. Hauser, M. Agrawal, J.-C. Latombe, and M. Beetz, Leaving Flatland. Toward Real-Time 3D Navigation. In proceedings of IEEE Intl. Conf. of Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009. pdf Example video (wmv, 1.7mb)

K. Hauser, Motion Planning for Legged and Humanoid Robots. Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, September 2008. pdf (8.9mb, single sided)

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