Book Chapters

Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
Interactive Perception of Articulated Objects
In Experimental Robotics (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics), Volume 79
Oussama Khatib, Vijay Kumer and Gaurav Sukhatme (editors), Springer, February 2013
Robert Gaschler, Dov Katz, Martin Grund, Peter A. Frensch and Oliver Brock
Intelligent Object Exploration
In Human Machine Interaction - Getting Closer
ISBN: 978-953-307-890-8, January 2012
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
A Factorization Approach to Manipulation in Unstructured Environments
In Robotics Research  (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)
Cedric Pradlier, Roland Siegwart and Gerhard Hirzinger (editors), Springer, June 2011
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception
In From Features to Actions: Unifying Perspectives In Computational and Robot Vision
Danica Kragic, Ville Kyrki (editors), Springer Verlag, June 2008

Refereed Journals

Dov Katz, Arun Venkatraman, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell, Anthony Stentz
Perceiving, learning and exploiting object affordances for autonomous pile manipulation
Autonomous Robots 37(4): 369-382 (2014)

Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
Learning to Manipulate Planar Articulated Objects
In IEEE Transactions on Robotics (under review)
Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell, Oliver Brock and Anthony Stentz
Three-Dimensional Interactive Perception
In IEEE Transactions on Robotics (under review)
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
A Critical Look at Mobile Manipulation
In Foundations and Trends in Robotics
Oliver Brock, Dov Katz and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Mobile Manipulation (From the Guest Editors)
In IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 19(2):18-19, 2012

Refereed Conferences

Dov Katz, Arun Venkatraman, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
Perceiving, Learning, and Exploiting Object Affordances for Autonomous Pile Manipulation
In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Berlin, Germany, June 2013

Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
Interactive Segmentation, Tracking, and Kinematic Modeling of Unknown 3D Articulated Objects
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013
Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
Semi-Autonomous Manipulation of Natural Objects in Clutter
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013
Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
Autonomous Pile Clearing using Interactive Perception
In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013
Dov Katz, Oliver Brock and Andreas Orthey
Interactive Perception of Articulated Objects
In the 12th International Symposium of Experimental Robotics (ISER), India, December 2010
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
A Factorization Approach to Manipulation in Unstructured Environments
In the14th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) 2009
Dov Katz, Yuri Pyuro and Oliver Brock
Learning to Manipulate Articulated Objects in Unstructured Environments Using a Grounded Relational Representation
In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2008
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
Manipulating Articulated Objects With Interactive Perception
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, May 2008
(Best Manipulation Paper finalist)
David G. Cooper, Dov Katz and Hava T. Siegelmann
Emotional Robotics: Tug of War
In the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium on Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior, 2008

Refereed Workshops

Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
Interactive Segmentation of Articulated Objects in 3D
In Workshop on Mobile Manipulation: Integrating Perception and Manipulation
at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2011, Shanghai, China, May 2011
Dov Katz, Jacqueline Kenney and Oliver Brock
How Can Robots Succeed in Unstructured Environments?
In Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Intelligence in Human Environments
at Robotics: Science and Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2008
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive Perception
In Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Sensing and Adapting to the Real World
at Robotics: Science and Systems, Atlanta, USA, June 2007
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
Interactive Perception: Closing the Gap Between Action and Perception
In Workshop: From features to actions: unifying perspectives in computational and robot vision
at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy, April 2007
Dov Katz, Emily Horrell, Yuandong Yang, Brendan Burns, Thomas Buckley, Anna Grishkan, Volodymyr Zhylkovskyy,
Oliver Brock, and Erik Learned-Miller
The UMass Mobile Manipulator UMan: An Experimental Platform for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation
In Workshop on Manipulation in Human Environments at Robotics: Science and Systems, Philadelphia, USA, August 2006

Technical Reports

Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
Interactive Segmentation, Tracking, and Kinematic Modeling of Unknown Articulated Objects
Tech report CMU-RI-TR-12-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March 2012

Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
Semi-Autonomous Manipulation of Natural Objects
Tech report CMU-RI-TR-12-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November 2012
Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
Clearing a Pile of Unknown Objects using Interactive Perception
Tech report CMU-RI-TR-12-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, November 2012

Refereed Posters

Dov Katz and J. Andrew Bagnell
Life-long Learning of Manipulation Expertise
Intel’s University Collaboration Office Showcase, Santa Clara, CA, June 2012
Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz
Interactive Segmentation, Tracking, and Kinematic Modeling of Unknown Articulated Objects
International Workshop on Point Cloud Processing
at IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), RI, June 2012
Dov Katz and Oliver Brock
Learning to Model Articulated Objects in Unstructured Environments
In Workshop on Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning II
at IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, September 2008