Publications

• Paul Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, and Lorenzo Natale. Towards Long-Lived Robot Genes. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 56(1), pp. 29-45, Elsevier (2007). (penultimate draft pdf)

• Paul Fitzpatrick, Amy Needham, Lorenzo Natale, and Giorgio Metta. Shared challenges in object perception for robots and infants. Journal of Infant and Child Development, Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 7-24, Wiley (2008). (penultimate draft pdf)

• Giorgio Metta, Paul Fitzpatrick, and Lorenzo Natale. YARP: Yet Another Robot Platform. International Journal on Advanced Robotics Systems, 3(1):43-48, 2006. (draft pdf, html)

• Artur Arsenio and Paul Fitzpatrick. Exploiting amodal cues for robot perception. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2:2, pp. 125-143, 2005. (draft pdf, html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick, Artur Arsenio, and Eduardo R. Torres-Jara. Reinforcing robot perception of multi-modal events through repetition and redundancy and repetition and redundancy. Interaction Studies Journal, due for publication in 2005. (draft pdf, html)

• Rodney Brooks, Lijin Aryananda, Aaron Edsinger, Paul Fitzpatrick, Charles Kemp, Una-May O'Reilly, Eduardo Torres-Jara, Paulina Varshavskaya, and Jeff Weber. Sensing and manipulating built-for-human environments. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 1:1, pp. 1-28, 2004. (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick and Giorgio Metta. Grounding vision through experimental manipulation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, 361:1811, pp. 2165-2185. (penultimate draft pdf, rough html)

• Giorgio Metta and Paul Fitzpatrick. Early integration of vision and manipulation. Adaptive Behavior, 11:2, pp. 109-128, June 2003. (penultimate draft pdf, rough html)

• Cynthia Breazeal, Aaron Edsinger, Paul Fitzpatrick, and Brian Scassellati. Active vision for sociable robots. In K. Dautenhahn (ed.), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, A, 31:5, pp. 443-453, September 2001. (pdf)

• Cynthia Breazeal, Aaron Edsinger, Paul Fitzpatrick, Brian Scassellati, and Paulina Varachavskaia. Social constraints on animate vision. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 15:4, pp. 32-37, July/August 2000. (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick and Eduardo Torres-Jara. The power of the dark side: using cast shadows for visually-guided reaching. Proceedings of the International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, 2004. (draft: pdf, rough html)

• Artur Arsenio and Paul Fitzpatrick. Exploiting cross-modal rhythm for robot perception of objects. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, Singapore, December 15 - 18, 2003. (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick. Object Lesson: discovering and learning to recognize objects. Proceedings of the 3rd International IEEE/RAS Conference on Humanoid Robots, Karlsruhe, Germany, October, 2003. (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick. First Contact: an active vision approach to segmentation. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vagas, Nevada, October 27 - 31, 2003. (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick. Perception and perspective in robotics. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, 2003. (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale, Sajit Rao, Giulio Sandini. Learning about objects through action - initial steps towards artificial cognition. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Taipei, Taiwan, May 12 - 17, 2003. (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick and Giorgio Metta. Towards manipulation-driven vision, In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 30 - October 4, 2002 EPFL, Switzerland. (pdf, rough html)

• Paulina Varchavskaia, Paul Fitzpatrick and Cynthia Breazeal. Characterizing and processing robot-directed speech. Proceedings of the IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2001, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 22-24, 2001. (pdf, rough html)

• Cynthia Breazeal, Aaron Edsinger, Paul Fitzpatrick, and Brian Scassellati. Social constraints on animate vision. Proceedings of the First IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Humanoid Robotics, September, 2000. (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick and Colin Flanagan. A new approach to control architectures for the control of robots. Proceedings of Expersys97 (Ed. P. Smith), Sunderland, UK, October 1997. (early draft pdf, rough html)

• Tikhanoff, V., Fitzpatrick, P., Nori, F., Natale, L., Metta G. and Cangelosi, A. The iCub Humanoid Robot Simulator. IROS Workshop on Robot Simulators, September 22, Nice, France, 2008. (pdf)

• Tikhanoff, V., Fitzpatrick, P., Metta, G., Natale, L., Nori , F, and Cangelosi, A. An Open Source Simulator for Cognitive Robotics Research: The Prototype of the iCub Humanoid Robot Simulator. Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington DC, USA, August 19-21, 2008. (pdf)

• Eduardo Torres-Jara, Lorenzo Natale, and Paul Fitzpatrick. Tapping into touch. The Fifth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Osaka, 2005 (draft pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick and Artur Arsenio. Feel the beat: using cross-modal rhythm to integrate perception of objects, others, and self. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, pp. 59-66, Genoa, August, 2004 (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick. The DayOne project: how far can a robot develop in 24 hours?. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, pp. 115-118, Genoa, August, 2004. Early draft version (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick and Charles Kemp. Shoes as a platform for vision. Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp. 231-234, White Plains, New York, October 2003. (pdf, rough html)

• Artur Arsenio, Paul Fitzpatrick, Charles Kemp, Giorgio Metta. The whole world in your hand: active and interactive segmentation. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, Boston, August 2003. (pdf, rough html)

• Giorgio Metta and Paul Fitzpatrick. Better vision through experimental manipulation. In EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop. Biologically-Inspired Robotics: The Legacy of W. Grey Walter. August 14-16, 2002, Bristol, UK. (pdf, rough html)

• Giorgio Metta and Paul Fitzpatrick. Better vision through manipulation. In Second International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. August 10-11, 2002 Edinburgh, Scotland. (pdf, rough html)

• Cynthia Breazeal and Paul Fitzpatrick. That Certain Look: social amplification of animate vision. Proceedings AAAI Fall Symposium, Socially Intelligent Agents - The Human in the Loop, 3-5 November 2000, North Falmouth, MA, USA. (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick. From First Contact to Close Encounters: A developmentally deep perceptual system for a humanoid robot. PhD thesis at MIT, 2003. (pdf, rough html)

  Also available as an AI Lab tech report, AITR-2003-008. (pdf formatted for unusually small paper size)

  Also available as individual (pdf) chapters:
  

  the preamble	introduction (chapter 1)	robot platforms (2)
  active segmentation (3)	empirical orientation detection (4)	open object recognition (5)
  manipulator recognition (6)	affordance recognition (7)	space perception (8)
  open speech recognition (9)	interpersonal perception (10)	brief conclusions (11)
  and bibliography		(original proposal)

• Paul Fitzpatrick. A novel behaviour-based robot architecture and its application to building an autonomous robot sentry. Masters Thesis, University of Limerick, Ireland, 1997. (pdf, rough html)

• Paul Fitzpatrick. Open object recognition for humanoid robots. SPIE Robotics and Machine Perception newsletter, 12(2), pp. 9, September 2003 (pdf, rough html)

The MIT AI Laboratory (now merged with CSAIL) collects and publishes abstracts of research carried out at the laboratory each year (an online version of the abstract book is available).

• Exploiting cross-modal rhythm for robot perception of objects, with Artur Arsenio (2004) (pdf)

• Shoes as a platform for vision, with Charlie Kemp (2004) (pdf)

• Pre-attentive filtering for robot perception of patterned activity (2004) (pdf)

• Detecting object boundaries using focus, zoom, shadows, and active probing, with Eduardo Torres-Jara (2004) (pdf)

• Active segmentation (2002) (pdf)

• Development of imitation in a humanoid robot, with Giorgio Metta (2002) (pdf)

• Role transfer for robot tasking (2001) (pdf)

• Characterizing and processing robot directed speech, with Paulina Varchavskaia (2001) (pdf)

• An active vision system for a social robot, with Cynthia Breazeal and Brian Scassellati (2000) (pdf)

• Instructing an attentive robot (1999) (pdf)

• Integrating vergence with smooth pursuit and saccadic camera movements for controlling an active vision head, with Una-May O'Reilly and Brian Scassellati (1998) (pdf)

• Paul Fitzpatrick. How Bees Do It. Annals of Improbable Research, Special Animal Behavior Issue, Volume 4, Issue 4 July/August 1998. (html draft version)

• Paul Fitzpatrick. Disguise the Limit.. Racconti Ireland '96: Short Stories from Ireland, Italy, and France. ISBN 0951422995 (html)

A set of presentations and posters are available here. There are also videos, and a summary of my research.