Benjamin Kuipers

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Benjamin Kuipers is affiliated with the following schools: University of Texas at Austin, Tufts University, Swarthmore College, University of Michigan, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Kuipers is an American computer scientist at the University of Michigan, known for his research in qualitative simulation. Biography Kuipers graduated from Swarthmore College in 1970 with a B.A. in Mathematics. He then did two years of alternate service as a conscientious objector to military service, working in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. He began his doctoral studies in pure mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He soon discovered the field of Artificial Intelligence, and spent most of his time at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, where his advisor was Marvin Minsky. He received his PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 1977. He spent a post-doctoral year as a research associate at the MIT Division for Study and Research in Education, funded by a DARPA grant to support collaborative research with BBN psychologist Albert Stevens.

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A robot exploration and mapping strategy based on a semantic hierarchy of spatial representations (1991) (1043)
Computer power and human reason (1976) (942)
Qualitative Simulation (1986) (921)
Qualitative reasoning: Modeling and simulation with incomplete knowledge (1994) (907)
Modeling Spatial Knowledge (1978) (892)
The Spatial Semantic Hierarchy (2000) (844)
Commonsense Reasoning about Causality: Deriving Behavior from Structure (1984) (586)
Recognizing human actions by attributes (2011) (583)
A Description of Think Aloud Method and Protocol Analysis (1993) (569)
Navigation and Mapping in Large Scale Space (1988) (386)
Walk the Talk: Connecting Language, Knowledge, and Action in Route Instructions (2006) (383)
The "Map in the Head" Metaphor (1982) (323)
Cross-view action recognition via view knowledge transfer (2011) (282)
Model-Based Monitoring of Dynamic Systems (1989) (272)
Causal Reasoning in Medicine: Analysis of a Protocol (1984) (261)
Local metrical and global topological maps in the hybrid spatial semantic hierarchy (2004) (254)
Towards a general theory of topological maps (2004) (237)
Map Learning with Uninterpreted Sensors and Effectors (1995) (233)
Using Incomplete Quantitative Knowledge In Qualitative Reasoning (1988) (205)
Towards Autonomous Topological Place Detection Using the Extended Voronoi Graph (2005) (195)
Integrating Topological and Metric Maps for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Statistical Approach (1998) (181)
A Robust, Qualitative Method for Robot Spatial Learning (1988) (178)
The Skeleton In The Cognitive Map (2003) (154)
The Cognitive Map: Could It Have Been Any Other Way? (1983) (151)
Bootstrap learning for place recognition (2002) (144)
Critical Decisions under Uncertainty: Representation and Structure (1990) (142)
Modelling spatial knowledge (1977) (140)
The Limits of Qualitative Simulation (1985) (137)
Dealing with uncertainty, risks, and tradeoffs in clinical decisions. A cognitive science approach. (1988) (135)
Qualitative and Quantitative Simulation: Bridging the Gap (1997) (131)
Abstraction by Time-Scale in Qualitative Simulation (1987) (131)
Factoring the Mapping Problem: Mobile Robot Map-building in the Hybrid Spatial Semantic Hierarchy (2010) (129)
Toward a theory of clinical expertise. (1982) (128)
The composition and validation of heterogeneous control laws (1994) (119)
QPC: A Compiler from Physical Models into Qualitative Differential Equations (1990) (115)
Qualitative Simulation as Causal Explanation (1987) (115)
Process monitoring and diagnosis: a model-based approach (1991) (111)
Numerical Behavior Envelopes for Qualitative Models (1993) (101)
Autonomous Learning of High-Level States and Actions in Continuous Environments (2012) (99)
Taming Intractible Branching in Qualitative Simulation (1987) (98)
Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence Courses (2017) (98)
A FRAME FOR FRAMES: Representing Knowledge for Recognition (1975) (97)
Representing Knowledge of Large-scale Space (1977) (97)
High performance control for graceful motion of an intelligent wheelchair (2008) (94)
Bootstrap learning for object discovery (2004) (85)
Non-Intersection of Trajectories in Qualitative Phase Space: A Global Constraint for Qualitative Simulation (1988) (85)
A Hierarchy of Qualitative Representations for Space (1998) (79)
Reasoning with Qualitative Models (1993) (78)
Proving Properties of Continuous Systems: Qualitative Simulation and Temporal Logic (1997) (76)
Automatic Abduction of Qualitative Models (1992) (75)
Real-time indoor scene understanding using Bayesian filtering with motion cues (2011) (73)
Structured Recurrent Temporal Restricted Boltzmann Machines (2014) (72)
Bootstrap learning of foundational representations (2006) (72)
The Semantic Hierarchy in Robot Learning (1992) (72)
Learning to Explore and Build Maps (1994) (71)
The initial development of object knowledge by a learning robot (2008) (71)
How to Discover a Knowledge Representation for Causal Reasoning by Studying an Expert Physician (1983) (70)
The constructivist learning architecture: a model of cognitive development for robust autonomous robots (2004) (68)
A smooth control law for graceful motion of differential wheeled mobile robots in 2D environment (2011) (68)
Using the topological skeleton for scalable global metrical map-building (2004) (68)
Negation and Proof by Contradiction in Access-Limited Logic (1991) (66)
Developing navigation behavior through self-organizing distinctive-state abstraction (2006) (64)
Autonomous Development of a Grounded Object Ontology by a Learning Robot (2007) (62)
An Intellectual History of the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy (2008) (62)
A Robust, Qualitative Approach To A Spatial Learning Mobile Robot (1989) (62)
Loop-closing and planarity in topological map-building (2004) (61)
Integrating Multiple Representations of Spatial Knowledge for Mapping, Navigation, and Communication (2007) (57)
Reasoning about energy in qualitative simulation (1992) (57)
Robot navigation with model predictive equilibrium point control (2012) (56)
Designing safe, profitable automated stock trading agents using evolutionary algorithms (2006) (56)
Qualitative Simulation: Then and Now (1993) (55)
Integrating Vision and Spatial Reasoning for Assistive Navigation (1998) (53)
Detecting obstacles and drop-offs using stereo and motion cues for safe local motion (2008) (52)
Higher Order Derivative Constraints in Qualitative Simulation (1991) (51)
Towards a Theory of Access-Limited Logic for Knowledge Representation (1989) (50)
Autonomously Learning an Action Hierarchy Using a Learned Qualitative State Representation (2009) (49)
Algernon—a tractable system for knowledge-representation (1991) (48)
Common-Sense Knowledge of Space: Learning from Experience (1979) (47)
Semi-quantitative system identification (2000) (46)
CML: A Compositional Modeling Language (1994) (45)
Qualitative simulation in medical physiology : a progress report (1985) (42)
Building Local Safety Maps for a Wheelchair Robot using Vision and Lasers (2006) (42)
A framework for planning comfortable and customizable motion of an assistive mobile robot (2009) (42)
A Compositional Modeling Language (1996) (40)
How can we trust a robot? (2018) (40)
Qualitative modeling and simulation of dynamic systems (1988) (40)
Modeling Human Knowledge of Routes: Partial Knowledge and Individual Variation (1983) (39)
A stereo vision based mapping algorithm for detecting inclines, drop-offs, and obstacles for safe local navigation (2009) (39)
Model Decomposition and Simulation: A Component Based Qualitative Simulation Algorithm (1997) (38)
ON REPRESENTING COMMONSENSE KNOWLEDGE (1979) (38)
Parameter learning from stochastic teachers and stochastic compulsive liars (2006) (37)
Drinking from the firehose of experience (2008) (36)
VisAGGE: Visible angle grid for glass environments (2013) (35)
Knowledge Acquisition by Analysis of Verbatim Protocols (1987) (34)
Refining imprecise models and their behaviors (1996) (32)
Getting the Envisionment Right (1982) (31)
The skeleton in the cognitive map: a computational hypothesis (2001) (30)
Weakly Supervised Learning of Mid-Level Features with Beta-Bernoulli Process Restricted Boltzmann Machines (2013) (30)
A Logical Account of Causal and Topological Maps (2001) (30)
Qualitative-numeric simulation with Q3 (1993) (29)
From pixels to policies: A bootstrapping agent (2008) (28)
Spatial semantic hierarchy for a physical mobile robot (1996) (28)
Dynamic visual understanding of the local environment for an indoor navigating robot (2012) (27)
Feedback motion planning via non-holonomic RRT* for mobile robots (2015) (26)
Consciousness: Drinking from the Firehose of Experience (2005) (26)
Adapting proposal distributions for accurate, efficient mobile robot localization (2006) (25)
Comprehending Complex Behavior Graphs through Abstraction (1996) (25)
Formalizing Regions in the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy: An AH-Graphs Implementation Approach (1999) (25)
A Qualitative Method to Construct Phase Portraits (1993) (25)
Qualitative Hybrid Control of Dynamic Bipedal Walking (2006) (24)
Socially-Aware Navigation Using Topological Maps and Social Norm Learning (2018) (24)
Reasoning in Logic about Continuous Systems (1994) (24)
Qualitative Simulation as a Temporally-extended Constraint Satisfaction Problem (1998) (23)
Learning hill-climbing functions as a strategy for generating behaviors in a mobile robot (1991) (22)
Learning to predict the effects of actions: Synergy between rules and landmarks (2007) (22)
Qualitative spatial reasoning about objects in motion: application to physics problem solving (1994) (22)
Trajectory generation for dynamic bipedal walking through qualitative model based manifold learning (2008) (21)
Static and Dynamic Abstraction Solves the Problem of Chatter in Qualitative Simulation (1997) (20)
Shakey: From Conception to History (2017) (20)
Autonomous person pacing and following with Model Predictive Equilibrium Point Control (2013) (19)
Qualitative simulation of mechanisms (1985) (19)
Self-Organizing Perceptual and Temporal Abstraction for Robot Reinforcement Learning (2004) (19)
Qualitative simulation using time-scale abstraction (1988) (19)
Autonomous shape model learning for object localization and recognition (2006) (18)
Learning Distinctions and Rules in a Continuous World through Active Exploration (2007) (18)
Qualitative Modeling and Heterogeneous Control of Global System Behavior (2002) (18)
Solving complexity and ambiguity problems within qualitative simulation (1997) (18)
Towards the Application of Reinforcement Learning to Undirected Developmental Learning (2007) (17)
Following natural language route instructions (2007) (17)
An Assessment of Current Qualitative Simulation Techniques (1990) (17)
Human-Like Morality and Ethics for Robots (2016) (17)
3D pose estimation for planes (2009) (17)
The Composition of Heterogeneous Control Laws (1991) (16)
Sensor Map Discovery for Developing Robots (2009) (16)
The Map-Learning Critter (1985) (15)
Learning geometry from sensorimotor experience (2011) (15)
New Reasoning Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (1987) (15)
Qualitative Heterogeneous Control of Higher Order Systems (2003) (15)
Creating and utilizing symbolic representations of spatial knowledge using mobile robots (2008) (14)
A Tale of Two Architectures: A Dual-Citizenship Integration of Natural Language and the Cognitive Map (2017) (13)
Comparative analysis and qualitative integral representations (1993) (13)
The qualitative calculus is sound but incomplete: A reply to Peter Struss (1988) (13)
Model Decomposition and Simulation (2004) (12)
Autonomous qualitative learning of distinctions and actions in a developing agent (2010) (12)
Object Detection Using Principal Contour Fragments (2011) (12)
Monitoring Piecewise Continuous Behaviors by Refining Semi-Quantative Trackers (1999) (12)
An Ontological Hierarchy for Spatial Knowledge (1994) (11)
Robot Navigation with MPEPC in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments : From Theory to Practice (2012) (11)
Towards a Safe, Low-Cost, Intelligent Wheelchair (2009) (11)
Building and Evaluating an Intelligent Wheelchair (2006) (11)
The figure understander: a system for integrating text and diagram input to a knowledge base (1994) (10)
A Bayesian generative model for learning semantic hierarchies (2014) (10)
Interpreting Robot Pointing Behavior (2013) (10)
Towards the Object Semantic Hierarchy (2010) (10)
Learning the sensorimotor structure of the foveated retina (2009) (10)
Where Do Actions Come From? Autonomous Robot Learning of Objects and Actions (2007) (10)
A Continuous Approach To Robot Motion Planning With Many Degrees Of Freedom (1992) (9)
Motion Segmentation by Learning Homography Matrices from Motor Signals (2011) (9)
Efficient search for correct and useful topological maps (2012) (9)
Combined Qualitative and Numerical Simulation with Q 3 ° ' (2003) (9)
QSIM: The Program and Its Use (1990) (9)
Reinforcement learning in high-diameter, continuous environments (2007) (9)
Continuous-domain reinforcement learning using a learned qualitative state representation (2008) (9)
Sneaking Up on the Hard Problem of Consciousness (2007) (8)
Learning and Acting in Peripersonal Space: Moving, Reaching, and Grasping (2018) (8)
A Smooth Integration of Incomplete Quantitative Knowledge into QualitativeSimulation (1990) (8)
Automatic analysis of Monte-Carlo simulations of dynamic chemical plants (1996) (8)
Skeletonisation as mobile robot navigation (2004) (8)
Learning to reach by building a representation of peri-personal space (2016) (8)
Using CAD drawings for robot navigation (2001) (7)
An Hypothesis-Driven Recognition System for the Blocks World (1974) (7)
Toward Morality and Ethics for Robots (2016) (7)
Bridging the Gap from Qualitative to Numerical Simulation (1991) (7)
Building safety maps using vision for safe local mobile robot navigation (2009) (7)
Moving Object Segmentation Using Motor Signals (2012) (6)
A comparison of strategies for developmental action acquisition in QLAP (2009) (6)
Self-Organizing Distinctive-State Abstraction For Learning Robot Navigation ∗ (2004) (6)
Perspectives on Ethics of AI : Computer Science ∗ (2019) (6)
Toward Learning the Causal Layer of the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy using SOMs (2001) (6)
Towards Bootstrap Learning for Object Discovery ∗ (2004) (6)
Directing human attention with pointing (2014) (6)
Aggregating Behaviors and Tractable Simulation (1992) (6)
The AAAI-2002 Robot Challenge (2003) (5)
Expert Causal Reasoning and Explanation. (1985) (5)
A Robust Qualitative Method for Robot Exploration and Map-Learning (1988) (5)
A Nonlinear Constrained Optimization Framework for Comfortable and Customizable Motion Planning of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots - Part II (2013) (4)
Learning to Grasp by Extending the Peri-Personal Space Graph (2018) (4)
Taming intractable branching in qualitive simulation (1989) (4)
Boundary Region Relations (1998) (4)
An existing, ecologically-successful genus of collectively intelligent artificial creatures (2012) (4)
On How to Learn from a Stochastic Teacher or a Stochastic Compulsive Liar of Unknown Identity (2003) (4)
Semantic Visual Understanding of Indoor Environments: From Structures to Opportunities for Action (2014) (4)
Qualitative Simulation for Expert Systems (1990) (4)
Using qualitative reasoning (1997) (4)
Artificial Intelligence: A New Approach to Modeling and Control (1988) (4)
Behavior Abstraction for 'D-actableSimulation (1993) (4)
Dynamic Chatter Abstraction : A scalable technique for avoiding irrelevant distinctions during qualitative simulation (1997) (4)
Discrete-time dynamic modeling and calibration of differential-drive mobile robots with friction (2017) (4)
Cognitive Maps for Planetary Rovers (2001) (4)
Robot developmental learning of an object ontology grounded in sensorimotor experience (2007) (4)
Toward Bootstrap Learning for Place Recognition (2001) (4)
Algernon for Expert Systems (1993) (3)
VisAGGE : Visible Angle Grid for Glass Environments * LIDAR mapping for glass , metal , mirrors , and other non-diffuse surfaces (2013) (3)
Ethics, Safety, and Autonomous Vehicles (2021) (3)
Use of qualitative simulation in support of model-based reasoning (1990) (3)
Abstraction by Time-Scale in Qualitative Simulation for Biomedical Modeling (1988) (3)
Robust structure-based autonomous color learning on a mobile robot (2007) (3)
Autonomous Representation Learning in a Developing Agent (2013) (3)
Qualitative Modeling of Physical Systems (1988) (3)
AI education matters: a first introduction to modeling and learning using the data science workflow (2019) (3)
Path Planning for Highly Redundant Manipulators Using a Continuous Model (1991) (3)
The Use of Qualitative and Causal Reasoning in Analytical Review Procedures (1993) (3)
Reasoning by simulation in artificial intelligence systems (1989) (2)
Ray-based Color Image Segmentation (2008) (2)
Developments Towards Constraining Qualitative Simulation * (1987) (2)
Object Manipulation Learning by Imitation (2016) (2)
Focusing Attention on Visual Features that Matter (2013) (2)
Task encoding, motion planning and intelligent control using qualitative models (2007) (2)
Why and How Should Robots Behave Ethically? (2016) (2)
Preface: Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems (2007) (2)
Skill Reuse in Lifelong Developmental Learning (2009) (2)
Towards a Formalization of Access Limited Logic (1990) (2)
The cognitive map must be a separate module (1982) (2)
Announcement: artificial intelligence genealogy project (2006) (1)
Perspectives on Ethics of AI (2020) (1)
An Assessment of Current Qualitative Simulation Techniquest (2003) (1)
Understanding Psychological Development in Biological and Artificial Agents: Report on the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2010) (2011) (1)
Monitoring Piecewise Continuous Behaviors by Re ning Trackers and their Models (1999) (1)
GUARANTEED COVERAGE VERSUS INTELLIGENT SAMPLING: A REPLY TO SACKS AND DOYLE 1 (1992) (1)
Multiple ontologies for spatial exploration and mapping (2010) (1)
Control of the physical world by intelligent agents : papers from the 1994 AAAI Fall Symposium, November 4-6, New Orleans, Louisiana (1995) (1)
Cognitive development in humans and developmental robots (2011) (1)
Handling perceptual clutter for robot vision with partial model-based interpretations (2014) (1)
PC : A Compiler from Physical Models into Qualit at ive Different ial Equations * (1999) (1)
Obstacle Avoidance of the Swan''s Neck Manipulator (1990) (1)
Learning from Uninterpreted Experience in the SSH (2001) (1)
A Scalable Distributed Approach to Mobile Robot Vision (1997) (1)
Time in Qualitative Simulation (2005) (1)
Learning Tabletop Object Manipulation by Imitation (2016) (1)
Consciousness : Drinking from the Firehose of Experience ∗ ( revised and expanded ) (2005) (1)
The cognitive map overlaps the environmental frame, the situation, and the real-world formulary (1985) (1)
Remembering Marvin Minsky (2016) (1)
Modeling chemical processes with unknown parameters (1988) (1)
Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive / Intelligent Systems, Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium, Technical Report SS-07-01, Stanford, California, USA, March 26-28, 2007 (2007) (0)
The hybrid future of qualitative reasoning (1997) (0)
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Spatial information theory (2007) (0)
Static and dynamic abstraction s es the problem of chatter i gualit at ive s (1997) (0)
Robust Method For Robotic Mapping (1992) (0)
Exciting and Provocative Book, Starting with Chapter Two (2011) (0)
A Nonlinear Constrained (2013) (0)
Is this a theory of competence or performance? (1985) (0)
ACM SIGAI activity report (2017) (0)
Qualitativereasoningaboutphysicalsystemshasbecome one ofthemost excitingand productiveareasinArtificial Intelligence . Researchinthisareaisacompactmicrocosmrangingovermany ofthefundamentalissues andcontroversies inAI: from experimentalimplementationsof smart programs,to theoretical analysisofknowled (1991) (0)
Special Track on Continuous Planning (2012) (0)
System monitoring and diagnosis with qualitative models (1991) (0)
2010 IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL-2010 - Technical Conference Program: Letter from the conference chairs (2010) (0)
AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium Series Reports (2007) (0)
The Semantic Hierarchy Approach to Robot Learning * (2001) (0)
In Proceedings of 16th Fall Workshop on Computational and Combinatorial Geometry (2006) (0)
Finding your way: The cognitive science of navigation (2011) (0)
Self-calibrating models for dynamic monitoring and diagnosis (1994) (0)
”Human-robot collaboration: Interpreting robot pointing behavior” (2012) (0)
Palo Alto,CA94304 (2003) (0)
Autonomous Robot Learning of Foundational Representations (2007) (0)
Path Planning for using a Continuous (1991) (0)
Merge-in-transit H. A. C. Runhaar (2001) (0)
Qualitative simulation & casual models (1988) (0)
Book reviewAn Approach to the Frame Problem, and Its Implementation E. Sandewall (1974) (0)
Recent talks at Stanford University on AIM (1984) (0)
ACM SIGAI activity report (2018) (0)
Autonomic Modeling for System Management (0)
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05491 Report of the Session: The Role of Spatial Cognition for Robotics (2005) (0)
ALL: Formalizing Access-Limited Reasoning (1991) (0)
A Scalable Distributed Approach to Mobile (1997) (0)
Toward Bootstrap Learning of the Foundations of Commonsense Knowledge (2009) (0)
Monitoring with Trackers Based on Semi-Quantitative Models (1997) (0)
AAAI Workshop - Technical Report: Preface (2013) (0)
Process Monhorina and Diagnosis (1991) (0)
1st AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society: a retrospective (2018) (0)
ACM SIGAI activity report (2019) (0)
Algorithms for the analysis of whole genomes (2004) (0)
Review of Qualitative Reasoning (2007) (0)
Abstraction by Time-Scale in ua~itati~e Sedation (1987) (0)
Learning Hierarchical Linguistic Descriptions of Visual Datasets (2013) (0)
Control of the Physical World by Intelligent Agents : Putting the Pieces Together (1995) (0)
Cognitive Robot Mapping: An Introduction (2008) (0)
Representing Conceptual Graphs in Algernon : Working Note 9 (2007) (0)
A Formalization of Access-limited Logic for Knowledge Representation (1996) (0)
Optimal Control and Learning II Methods for determining optimal control policies for dynamic walking Chris Atkeson 11 : 00 a Theory and principles of locomotion (2006) (0)
Stability Guaranteed MPC for Mobile Robot Navigation ( Extended Abstract ) (2015) (0)
What do eidetic images tell us about vision? (1982) (0)
merical Be S * (0)

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